2 Quick Stories

First I'll tell you the sad story so that we can get it over with--

Last Sunday my ward was having ward prayer and then we had some treats after, mingled, etc. Well this kid was there that I didn't recognize, so we started chatting and he told me his name was Ezra and that this was his brother Devon's ward not his and that he just came to our activities every once and a while. ANYWAY so a big group of us were leaving back to our apartment building so we were walking and talking and he asked where I was from and I told him that I was from HomeTown... this is the preceding conversation:

"Hometown?! One of my good buddies from the mission was from there! Do you know KJo?!"

(Kaylen, pulling out the knife he'd just stabbed her with, replied..)

"Ya I do.. You went to _____, Brazil on your mission?"

"Yep! Elder KJo is the best!"

"So you know Elder Harris too? "(Kla's hubby went to the same mission)

"Ya I know Elder Harris!"

(Kaylen replies in tone much less enthusiastic than his)

"Umm ya so you want to hear a sad story?"

"...sure."

"I was engaged to KJo about 2 months ago..."

(Ezra replies semi disgustedly) "That was YOU?"

(Kaylen head down) "Ya."

WELL long story short he got kind of really protective of KJo and kept telling me how great of a guy he was/is (like I don't know that already) and I was like dude it wasn't right! What more do you want from me? I asked him what his last name was and when he told me it I KNEW I'd heard about this kid from KJo before... Anyway I told him not to hate me and that I really had TONS of respect for KJo and didn't have a bad word to say about him, but it was still a little weird for a minute there. I gave him a hug when he left and he seemed cool with it all. I texted Bo about it and he said that KJo had helped him out a lot on the mish with the language or something, so that explains the protective nature I guess, but OF ALL THE PEOLE TO KNOW FROM HOMETOWN! honestly! and it HAD to be this week that it came up... Sad day. I wanted to crawl in a hole.

2nd Story- (which is a much happier I promise :)

Remember when I told you I'd had my palm read in the last post? ha well it was a pretty funny experience-

We were at the dance party/bon fire and this guy had a crowd around him, so we went over to see what was going on--

(the guy in the wife beater in the middle)

He was reading peoples palms lol. How random! So naturally we got in line! I've never believed much in this kind of stuff and still don't really know where I stand with all of it, but one thing that I do know is that this guy was pretty legit lol

He grabbed my hand, looked at it for like 2 seconds and then looked up and said "Food. Really?" ha ha Lakyn got a huge kick out of it because I have been eating so much lately! I get 3rds for like every meal and I've been stressing about it lol so it was WAY funny that he brought it up. Then he told me:

• You like the idea of food in culture and enjoy the thought of travel (TOTALLY TRUE).
• You're a spontaneous kind of person. Your idea of perfect date wouldn't so much be a planned event, but more of a "I don't care what we do-- let's just do something random/spontaneous that we've never done before!". (TRUE)
• You usually first to volunteer for things (TRUE)
• You bit your nails as a product of being too critical of yourself (PROBABLY TRUE)
• Will analyze things to the death (TRUE)
• My creative side comes from my dad (NOT REALLY TRUE because I'm not that creative and neither is my dad.. that's my mom's trait if anything)
• I'm a hopeless romantic (TRUE)

I think he told me more but that's all I really remember.. It was really interesting to hear some of the things he told me about myself! Ha I just figure it's one of those things that's just kind of interesting, but I would never base my life around them. Lakyn actually attempts to defy her palm reading ha ha ha He told her (among many other funny things) that she was stubborn (TRUE ;), so she's been trying EXTRA hard lately NOT to be stubborn lol

Well those are my stories that I thought I'd share. These next weeks are going to be BRUTAL so I dunno when I'll chat next, but have a great week!

Oh the bank...

So quick little story for you..

The other day (I meant to write about this the day it happened, but just haven't had time) I was working and this guy comes up to my window... he was in about his late 20's and deposited some money and then he kept glancing at my name tag and made a bunch of comments about my name.. so yada yada yada I finished the deposit and he looked up at me and:

"So can I ask you a forward question??"

"Umm sure!"

"If I gave you my number would you call me?"

"uhh I actually can't discuss anything like that at work, sorry"

"That's what I thought"

(he exits and all the girls kinda giggle at me and I didn't think much more about it until thirty minutes later when I looked up to see an old lady at my station....)

"How can I help you?"

"Have you called my grandson yet??"

"Pardon.."

"My grandson-- have you called him?"

"I'm sorry I'm not sure who your grandson is..."

" 'John Doe' "

"John Doe... Umm I actually just barely met him when he came in a few minutes ago.."

"Oh well perfect! Then that must be why he gave me his phone number to give to you so that you can call him!"

[WHAT THE CRAP] (at this point his MOTHER walks up to the window and grandma explains the situation to mother and they both laugh...)

"Well he is just the best boy in the world. You just need to call him and I promise you it'll be worth your time...

"He's just getting a little older and he just needs to find himself a good nice girl... So write down his number (grandma rambles off his number as I scribble it down)"

"Sorry about this! I promise we're not normally this strange!" (doubtful)
yada yada yada
(Grandma and Mother exit)

So at this point all the other tellers are having quite the hayday with this little situation and one suggests that I just text him with her phone (so that he doesn't have my number) and tell him that I'm going on a mission.. which isn't a lie.. so I do and he texts back and says something like oh good for you. Then I went to lunch and came back and my co-worker pulls out her phone and was like look at this and the text said, "are you sure you're going on a mission?? because that's the second time I've heard that excuse"-- What does he expect me to say back to that??? umm ya sorry I lied I'm not going on a mission and would really like to go out with you..? false. I texted back that I wouldn't lie about something like that and I thought Oh good! It's over!... false

(a couple hours later Mother enters)(please try to imagine the look of astonishment on my face when I look up and realize that she is back AGAIN...)

"I went back to work and I was thinking where do I know you from! and I just couldn't remember and it was just driving me crazy! But you helped with that preschool class a couple years ago didn't you??"

(SIDE STORY: my jr or senior year of high school I did an internship at a preschool and this lady was one of the lady's that helped out with the preschool class)

"ya I did.."

"I knew it! I just couldn't remember but then when I did I thought OH! I just have to go and tell her!"

".... ha ha ya." (super awkward at this point-- not know what to say)

"...I'm sorry if this is kinda weird for you, but you just need to call him and blah blah blah"

(mother exits)(take note that mother has now made a second trip to the bank for a 30 second conversation)

MY ARGUMENT: I had NO clue who this kid was and I don't ever give out my number to random dudes at the bank... If I would've known who his family was before hand then I might've gone, but for all I knew he could've been a rapist! But even AFTER I found out who he was his family was WAY too involved (granted he probably would've died if he knew his mom came back in, but still) and he was lame when he tried to call me out on not going on a mission-- the only thing that was really going for him at that point was the fact that he has some money..(I may or may not have noticed his his balance when helped him earlier ;) opps! But at least I can say that I'm not a gold digger!

Philosophy: "Dear future in-laws: Please be AWESOME!"

We Could Have Been Golden -if it hadn't been so embarrassing-

This weekend Kayla came down and visited me at school. We had a hypnotist come down this weekend and also John Allred came into concert.. it was so much fun! Allred came to my college at the beginning of fall semester and I'd never heard him, but he was really good and I bought his CD, so when I heard that he was coming back I was super excited! And this leads into a bit of an embarrassing story--

So the concert was bomb and after Kayla and I went up and he was talking about how he was releasing a new cd the next night and having a concert up in P-town, so we chatted with him for a bit and Kayla was like let's get a pic with him.. and I was like that is so embarrassing, but she said we'll never see again, so I agreed and we got a pic with him. Because there was nothing to do the next day we decided that we'd make the trip up to his concert, so we get there and it's about an hour before the concert is going to start and we go inside the concert hall and we ask these two guys if we can buy our tickets right now or if we have to wait and they were like (this is a summerized convo)

"Umm, we're not sure... John can these two girls buy their tickets early or do they have to wait?"

at this point me and Kayla are both hoping and praying that they aren't talking to John Allred, but it was him... crap.. so he walks up and Kayla is practically hiding behind me..

"No we aren't selling tickets early... wait, you're the girls from last night aren't you.."

"Ya..."

"Oh well we're not selling tickets, but I guess if you guys want to you can come in and hang out in the cafe that's back here.."

But I didn't have cash on me! freak! I had to go to the ATM..

"Actually we're gonna go and chill before the concert and then just come back..."

"Ok Cool, sounds good"

"Thanks though" (Kaylen and Kayla exit)

FREAK!!!! It was so bad.. I felt like such a stalker! and I dunno the way he was talking it wasn't like he was happy to see us.. not that he was annoyed, but like it was just weird and I wanted to peace out of that awkward situation asap lol.. it was SO AWKWARD! Kayla said that we'd never see him again, but we did ;)

The concert was fantastic! Sam came to the concert with us too and it was good to see him! I think I have a huge crush on Allred tho.. lol he is hott and he sings SO well! If you've never heard him then I would highly recommend looking him up! I have one of his songs on my playlist at the bottom of my blog so have a listen!

The Embarrassing Moment

As you might already know, for Spring Break a bunch of us went to Vegas! I'll post about it later, but here's a quick little embarrassing moment from the trip:

Mother nature came for a visit a couple days before the trip.. no biggy.. but here's where the action comes in! After a long day of walking and sun bathing a couple of us came back to the hotel. There were 8 of us that went.. 5 girls and 3 boys. We got two hotel rooms at Circus Circus and they had the joining door which stayed open most of the day and then closed at night. Well all of the boys were out and about so we used their bathroom to get ready. I was using their bathroom.. did my feminine duty.. and then went to grab my make up from the girl room.

While I was in the other room the boys came home and I heard a yelp from their room and a "WHO USED OUR BATHROOM!" My heart sank and I knew exactly what had happened. The first day we were their I used the girl bathroom and the toilet is long and shallow and the tampon didn't flush... I should've double checked since I was using the boy bathroom, but I was in a hurry and I had left the boys a little bit of a present! YIKES! So everyone was in the boy room & at the moment I was the only person in the girl room. I stood frozen. ashamed. embarassed. humiliated. etc-- What do I do?? Claim it?? Deny it?? Bah! 

"Tom Tom" was the one that found it and he proceeded to question each girl about whether or not they had just used the bathroom. My secret would be discovered eventually, so I did the only thing I could do... I threw back my shoulders, took a deep breath, put on as calm of a face as I could, and walked.

"That was me! Oops, [shrug] sorry you had to see that," said Kaylen as she proceeded into the bathroom and flushed the toilet.*

Everyone stood astonished at how I had reacted. 

Word to the Wise: It's only as big of a deal as you make it.

& because I played it cool that awful moment won't come back to haunt me at some friend reunion 10 years in the future!

*it wasn't SO bad because it was my very last day, so the tampon was completely clean, but those Return Missionaries still about had a fit ;) ha ha ha

Some days I wish I was mean...

In order to fully understand the situation Friday I have to go to the beginning of 1st semester... day one of college to be exact. I met "Stewy" (this is his name because his FAVORITE tv show is family guy... Yucky..) at freshman orientation and he is a looker! At my college on full moon's they have an activity where people kiss over our "spirit" rock (it's a boulder on campus that everyone spray paints) and then you get a t-shirt that proves that you did it. Well after Sporty and I left freshman orientation I turned to her and said that I was determined to kiss him on the full moon friday night. So: 1st day I met him, 2nd day got his number, 3rd day hung out with him, & 4th night kissed him over the rock. I won't lie.. I was freaking proud of myself because he is SO good looking! After that week we probably hung out every single night for about 2 months.. Me, Stewy, and his roommates had SO much fun together! We stayed out until like 3:o0-4:00 every morning for about a month straight doing crazy adventurous things, and it really was so much fun, BUT................

He was ALWAYS texting (he'd have his left arm around me [while watching a movie] and in his right hand he would be texting and he would text close to his leg so that I couldn't read the texts--interesting), he was in my institute class and he would always tell me that he was going to come but he would never come [p.s. he is a pre-mi aka he's pre-mission], he would get phone calls from his "parents" at like 11:00 at night, he lied to me multiple times, and even though we kissed that first week he never ever kissed me again.. he'd put his arm around me, he held my hand a couple times, he'd flirt with me, etc. It was weird but since he was the very first boy that I had actually truly liked since Brazil left I didn't want to believe what I knew was true-- he had a girl friend at home.. Yikes!

So eventually I got to be really good friends with his roommate Jim (named because of his love for The Office) and Jim let me in on many secrets about Stewy... I found out all about his girl friend. Stewy had been with this girl for about 3 years, she was about an hour away at another college. I also found out that on all the weekends that I went home or out of town she would come down, and if she came down here when I was here, he would tell me that he was going home for the weekend... I could go on and on! ha ha ha so eventually I confronted him about it and he told me all this stuff about how how their relationship was on the rocks and blah blah blah, he basically told me what I wanted to hear, "well we were going to try to make a long distance relationship work, but it's harder than I expected and so now our relationship is on the rocks and I don't think that we'll be together much longer...Blah Blah Blah" (please note: that he is a HOTTY, that we get along really well, he treated me well [to my face] and he's the first boy I've liked in about a year).. at the end of that conversation I told him that as long as he was honest with me then we wouldn't have any problems.... That weekend he told me he was going home, but [thanks to insider information from Jim] really she came to visit..... I know that you're having a hard time believing that anyone would ever lie to me, but it's the truth! lol so I was done with him! It was actually pretty hard on me. I have never dated anyone but Brazil. Brazil was my first kiss, first boyfriend, etc. He treated me like a queen and was pretty whipped ;), so I had never had the experience of being in a crappy situation like this. I know that it wasn't SO terrible because we weren't "together" ( we just hung out everyday, flirted, and snuggled ), but I felt like some dirty mistress of a piece of crap hottie... ANYWAYS!

So it's been a while since that whole situation went down.. I still think that Stewy is hot (I looked through all of my pics and I don't have any pictures that do him justice.. if you saw them you would think that I was retarded for thinking he was gorgeous.. so I'm not even going to give you the option of thinking I'm dumb!), but I don't go over there very much anymore and there is still that awkward tension between us....

Yesterday there was a baseball game and Sporty's B-friend is on the team so we went to support. [keep in mind that Stewy is also on the team] Me, Sporty, and 2 of our friends we sitting watching and guess who's there................................................the girlfriend! She and Sporty had met at one of the other games and she came and asked if she could sit by us -- can you say awkward!

ha ha ha I had no idea what the crap to do. I know that she has no idea who I am, but I felt like a terrible person because I'd kissed her boyfriend. I could have told her tons of stories and completely ruined their relationship, but no I chose to be nice. They played a double header and in between games the players all came out to chat. Did Stewy come anywhere near us.. HECK NO! lol Maybe he is smarter than I gave him credit for! ;) It was an interesting experience because before I would try to think of what she would look like and wonder why I wasn't good enough or pretty enough for him. I know that he wasn't what I was looking for and not someone that I wanted to end up with, but I was jealous of her and after Friday's game I just really felt sorry for her. She has a boyfriend that isn't loyal to her [Since he and I have been over he has made out with other girls on campus.. which poses the question why didn't he ever kiss me? because the thought of his girlfriend didn't really stop him from kissing other girls-- interesting]. She's in a worse situation then I would ever want to be in. I'm not jealous at all! He may be handsome and fun, but he is an unfaithful liar. Brownie Points to Brazil, who never treated me disrespectfully. But once again-- Can You Say Awkward?

Weekend full of interestingness

This weekend was sort of eventful. Friday night one of my friends Brandt called to see if I wanted to go to dinner with Cole and Chantel, so I said sure! When I walked out into the living room there were 4 people waiting for me. Brandt, Cole, Chantel...and Tracy! Tracy can sometimes be interesting... So I'm giggling to myself because I know that she probably invited herself on the date and that this is going to be an interesting night! We drive to a local restaurant and as we file into the seats at the table, she pulls out the seat to sit next to Cole, and Chantel looks at her and says jokingly, are you stealing my seat? and Tracy replies oh I just didn't want to sit by the wall. At this point my date and I are thoroughly enjoying ourselves because we don't have to be directly involved with the situation, we just get to watch and enjoy it! Then come the menu's... at this certain restaurant there is nothing on the menu for less than $9, so as we're discussing what looks good on the menu, Tracey proceeds to dump out all of the change from her wallet onto the table and begins to count quarters.. she then looks up and says, "I'm poor, but I do have a lot of change!" (like I said... a bit interesting) Cole then offers to pay for her meal like any gentleman would, so as the waitor takes our order what does she order? nothing less than the STEAK! $16.00 later... ha ha ha. Those were the highlights of the meal. Many more stories could be told about that date, but I think I proved my point. What can you do in situations like that?! We just laughed it off! Well moving on.. Saturday night was my college's Scholastic Recognition Night. Basically we invite high school kids with high GPA's to this "honors" night where we tell them they're all sorts of cool, but really we just use it as a recruiting tool. PS I'm an ambassador for my college (i'll blog about it later). I was in charge of the entire thing. We've never done one before, so I named it, planned it, everything. It was scheduled for last night and it went really well. There were about 125 people there... and it has been the source of a lot of my stress for the last 2 months, so I'm glad that it's over with. I think we got some really good recruits out of it! So I was really excited about that, but as for now it's back to life as I know it! (PS these names were changed to hide the identity of all participants... as are the names of all the people in my posts fyi)

Blind Date

Sporty Spice likes Devin. Devin is one of those super amazing guys that is a future prophet or something like that... anyways, so being the good guy that he is he decides to set me up with one of his best friends Jake. I HATE blind dates.. so I already know that it's going to be a bit awkward, but to add to the awkwardness of the situation, Devin pulled up facebook and showed Jake picture of me and then told me how stoked and excited Jake is to meet me... awkward...The thing about blind dates is that you're both supposed to go into the date 'blind' but due to the fact that Jake added me on facebook it wasn't quite so blind anymore. The reason that this is so bad is because there are pics like the one to the right where he looks pretty decent and I'm thinking this is gonna be fun...he's pretty cute... but the on the other hand there are pics of him like the one on the left that make you wonder about him. (he probably took this pic while cutting his hair and decided to cut a mullet for like 2 seconds.. but regardless) So guaranteed we're both looking at each other's pics and making presumptuous judgements about each other. The day of the date arrived (aka yesterday). I woke up, worked out, got in the shower, and then BAM... migraine. YEAH! maybe it was a bit of an omen. So we delay our departure so that I can take a quick nap to help through the pain a little bit. Since Jake lives an hour away Me, Sporty, and Devin made the trip out to his house a little later than planned. Our date had to be in the day time because Jake works at the MTC (missionary training center) from 6-9pm. Now this is a good sign. I learned that he'd been back from his LDS mission since September and I was impressed that he was staying close to those standards and working there at night... anyway so first impressions were decent. He looked pretty good, seemed nice. Everything was good, but as the day went on his lack of maturity came out more and more.. for instance: everything was competitive to the 10th degree-he had to win everything-no matter what we did, he told us stories about how his stomach hurt one day and how he had to go to the hospital and "get his stools tested", etc. It was just strange. When boys initially come home from their missions they can sometimes be weird. Some boys get over it quicker than others, but to me it seemed like he was still a little out of the social loops. It's hard because I look at him and he's good looking, and as a member of the church (LDS church) he's great. He made multiple comments about the mission that he served in Mexico and he's an all around good guy, but at the same time I found that I was laughing more at him than with him... Girls are ruthless, but I just knew that that wasn't what I am looking for in a suitor. So the search continues...