For the rainy sick days in which homework should not be done

Today was the first cold rainy winter day of Rexburg. Not quite snow- but really cold and really wet. That's how it is here a lot of the time. And considering I had just gone through a particularly not-my-favorite weekend and was in a grumpy mood from being sick...the part of my brain that hates doing homework (this part does not win very often mind you) reminded me that Cara was waiting for me to be done with class so we could walk to the library and be responsible. And then it reminded me that Cara can always be counted on to encourage me to sluff (yes, I know that's such a Utah-girl word) homework and do more fun things. So it developed a plan that was only meant to last about an hour but ended up lasting most of the day. And it didn't take any convincing at all to get her to make me go through with it.
That plan started out involving a lunch of cupcakes and hot chocolate for lunch. And it ended up involving caramel apples and the presidential debate for dinner. C'est la vie...

Oh the rainy small town streets of Rexburg.

This note on the glass door to a staircase that led up to a little alley apartment- made. Cara's. day. "I still love you daring. Have a great day!" Such a little glimpse into a life.

 Puddles and pictures of feet slowly getting soaked. But really it wasn't that slowly.

On a random side note- found these cars in a parking lot and took stalker pictures of them because both were beautiful and I would be proud to be a driver of such a car as these.

Happy fall!

"Try and dip your apples while I move this pot in circles."

What a way to start the week. Tomorrow will most likely be more responsible and less fun. 

There's something about the trees

My longing for mountains full of the turning leaves of fall was finally fulfilled. I swear I complained so many times about how the Rexburg trees just didn't quite come up to par with Utah's mountains full of them. So when one of my classes went on a field trip to Salt Lake overnight I was EVER so grateful to be picked up by my dad and driven into the mountains where I stayed the night with my FAMILY (!!!) instead of in the hotel with the rest of the students. I'll tell you, it was just what I needed in the midst of this crazy life. There's nothing like your own family mixed with nature to set you at peace with the future and the present.

And then my camera died. But you get the idea.

And then I came back to Rexburg and it was as if all the trees were trying their very hardest to be beautiful and autumn-y. 

The ones that do fall justice...The few and the proud. 

 There just is something so transcendental about going out in the middle of nature and just listening to it. Being alone and out of the way of worldly things. It certainly clears your head. For me it's a way to meditate and re-boost my connection with God. This is peace. This is what gets me through the times when life gets unreasonable- it's like a filter that shows me that things happen for a reason and that I am not alone.

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature- trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...We need silence to be able to touch souls."

-Mother Teresa

Lately

Sorry that I've been MIA lately. School just gets crazy. My daily routine is this: run (no seriously) to class because I woke up late again, go to classes and work until anywhere from 3-7, stay at the library like a maniac who does homework until like 10 every night, sit in the kitchen and talk to Cara and roommates and such people until midnight, eat dinner (I know that's GOT to be healthy) which is usually some type of leftover that I've been eating ALL week, bed. Wow. My life's interesting right? So that's why I've been absent from this blog of mine, really I've been quite absent from my house and the internet as a whole- which is great, because that means I'm getting over bad habits of wasting a lot of time on the internet. So if you were interested, here are a few of my favorite moments lately. Enjoy it while you can. Because apparently I'm turning into one of those- only writes once and a while- type of people.

This is the funniest girl I'll ever meet. And this may have been one of the first times I met her. I walk around the corner in my kitchen and she's lookin like this. Don't ask questions. Because I have no idea. But the other day she was going to come over (ps she's my roommates friend) and she was all "sorry. I'll be over in a minute. I got held up." and then when she got here and we asked what she got held up with she said "I was eating a whole watermelon." ??? Who does that?

In our house we have this saying called 'Farmer's Market YOLO'. Calm down because I know YOLO is annoying. But it really just means that every time we're at the farmers market- well it's not going to be there all semester so we might as well just go crazy there. It's got the best stuff. 

We decided to be typical and have a cliche girls night. You know...ice cream, take out Chinese  and chick flicks. The works. OOOOOh how I love these girls. 

Egg dropping off the stadium. You wouldn't believe it- but this awful parachute design actually worked.

People have gotten in the habit of putting chairs in the elevator. I mean, you already feel lazy enough if you ever decide to not take the stairs...but then add onto it that you're sitting on a super fancy chair all 4 floors down.

Seriously the most comfortable chair- but I guess it's just not quite tall enough for my desk. So doing homework on it isn't the easiest.

Some little kids have lemonade stands. This girl's excited for Halloween at her's. Plus. A lemonade stand in a college town. Brilliant. Of course all the students who haven't seen another age group besides young adults and teachers in months are going to LOVE to see a cute child in a witch costume. Brilliant. 

Cara has this strange addiction to going to DI to look for giant sweaters. Found this gem of a sweater. Just picture seeing someone wearing it. I dare ya not to laugh.

Cara's class project- be blindfolded for 2 hours. So naturally I had to make her go out in public with me. She already hates the grocery store in case you were wondering. It was seriously one of the funnies things of my life though.

"How am I supposed to know which one broil is?"

While making a quesedilla "so...do I have enough cheese yet?" yeah. I'd say that mountain of cheese was enough.

Late night walks in the nice fall air and walking through gutters of crunchy leaves. 

And if you were wondering- Cara wears those boots every single day. No matter if the red-plaid matches or not.

And to all the baggy favorites that get worn every day. :) And leggings. That's what every day turns into as soon as we get home from school.

Really I should have titled this something along the lines of- the adventures of me and Cara.