Thursday, November 12, 2009

Home Skillet

Hailey w/ brown hair


Hailey, my roommate is pretty much the shiz. Why? It's cuz she's from Idaho! duh. I actually knew her before I got here to Utah, but we never had planned on living together. It just happened. Turns out, I met her at Girls State. So the first day I moved in I walked into my room and she was like sleeping on her bed, but she woke up and looked at me and was like, "Are you from Idaho?" Thats how cool she is- Idaho is the best!

But there really are actual reasons that I like her so much. First, her brother is hot. :) Second, she is one of my best friends here in Utah. Me and her have very similar personalities. We get along with each other very well, and don't seem to have problems with each other. Third, she doesn't take any of my crap or steal my food. So we are on the same page.

Hailey w/ blond hair


But for real, we are growing together and having a lot of good experiences. For example the other day we learned that you should think before you make quick decisions. We dyed her hair three times in less than ten hours. Let me just say, we would have been better to have never done it. We first started out buying some blond, the same product that I used to turn my hair from red to brown. But her hair is brown and you can't go blond unless you bleach it, so all this die did was to bring out the honey color in her hair. So then we went and bought the lightening creme to bleach her hair. This time it turned out like orangish, yellowish, vomit color. Blah, eewww, gross, was how it looked. Well maybe it wasn't that bad, but it didn't go well with her skin tone. So then we dyed it back to brown. She has a lot of hair and could probably use up to two boxes just to cover her whole head, but we only used one and it didn't get it all, so now she is just a wee bit polka-dotted.

Good times happen though. So I have a permanent retainer on my bottom teeth, but it is really hard to floss them because you are supposed to stick this bluish thing like in between your teeth right next to the gums, but my teeth are really close and tight together so I can't do that. So she being like really cool helped my floss my teeth. It was a great experience. I should have taken pictures.

From her I also learned that if you are getting sick that all you have to do is cough really really really hard. So, I guess she gets strep easily, and the other day she developed this white thing on the back of her throat, so she like freaking coughed/ practically killed herself to get it off. But now she is not sick. So there are ways to prevent getting sick. :)

Having friends in certain times of my life is really good. They can help me to grow, and I can learn a lot from them. Even how to not make irrational decisions, how to floss the bottom portion of my teeth in different ways and how to cough white things off of the back of my throat. College life is the best.

Dear Grandmama

Sunday is the day I call home to talk to family. I usually end up calling them multiple times during the week too, but Sunday is the time when I call everyone. Mainly I call everyone, because I will go over to my brother's house who is also in Provo because we have Sunday dinners together, and then I use his phone, so that I don't have to use my minutes. Smart right! Ya, so this last Sunday after I had talked to pretty much everyone I called up my Grandma Beames to just check in with her and see how she was doing. I haven't talked to her in a while, but when I heared her voice, I realized how much I really missed her.

She is pretty much the best. Some of the first things she asked me after I told her college was good were, "So how are them boys? Are you shortening your skirt just a little bit?" Haha, she is awesome. This lady is like 80 plus years, and has a sense of humor like no other. And to just play along with her I'm like, "and the blouse too." Seriously not, but still it was kind of funny.

My grandpa died when I was a junior in high school. That was an extremely hard time for me. My grandma has also had a stroke before, and has had a lot of health problems since, but she is making it through. I have so many memories of me with my grandma, and I am glad that she is doing well. I really miss her and all that she has taught me. Even her humor, and her amazing cheating skills when it comes to card and board games.

When I grow up and have kids, I want them to know my grandparents. The past is something we can learn from. Especially the older generations... I am scared to death about the generations now days and their values. I don't think they are as strong as our elders. We need to be aware of things in society that are changing and remember the values that others have taught us. So heres to you grandma- I just wanna say thank you. You have been one of my best examples. You have taught me a lot and I want to be a grandma just like you some day. :)