Mira Elisa came to visit me!

Mira and i have been friends since i was a sophomore in high school! we always talked about her coming to live with me after i moved away from Spain. obviously that didn't happen. the next best thing was her coming to visit me when her family made their trips to the US. this time it wasnt going to happen either- she was goin gto go and visit our other friend Carla. those plans fell through and she came to visit me instead! it was such a blast! we got to have our girl time, she got to meet everyone here in Thatcher, we stocked her up on so much american food. (im not even kidding there was so much food.)
the night before she left we spend all night long trying to get all of her purchases into her suitcases. juggling different weights between her 2 and a half bags was so hard! hahaha it makes me laugh to look back on though- only she could fill two giant bags with food. (:

there were a few highlights to her trip; the car accident, her going shooting, and commando!
the night we played commando things were going great until Mira decided to do a ninja dive for the ground and ripped open her knee! (it was already a huge scab. but there was so much blood.) so Josh picked her up and carried her home. from that point we bandaged her up and played a board game with everyone!

she was so excited at the prospect of shooting a gun! so my friend Dustin took her out one morning while i was in class! she loved it, the brought back pieces of the clay pigeons! everyone was so proud!

- side note-
everyone here loved her to death and they are still always asking me how shes doing. she fit right in here and everyone adopted her as their best friend too. shes just so dang lovable.

and last but not least was the car accident, in Elisa's words- "We ended with a bang"
and that we did. slammed right into the car in front of us. first wreck either of us had been in, i makes me laugh now that we were freaking out so much and poor Mira had almost no idea what was going on. just that i was pissed and scared and now owed a 200 dollar fine.
hahahaha i love Mira! i wish i could just keep her in my pocket. shes a little tall for that though.....

Semester sludge

i'd like to blame my lack of blogging to an ugly little thing i like to call semester sludge. I've hit the point in the semester where work, school, and everything in between has become far less entertaining than it was when i first moved in. like seems to move at a constant pace of dead. don't get me wrong- i still really love where i am and the people i have in my life now. I just feel like my classes have peaked at the level of projects and homework, everyones getting that ancy feeling you get when there is a much needed break in sight.

my days have stared to blur together and day to day isnt as exciting, there is still plenty for me to write about so i will do my best to keep up and fill you in. my mom is continually getting on my case to keep her updated and i guess i kind of owe her at least that much.

so the plan is to go back and fill in some holes and then update from that point on, in order.

thanks for putting up with my lack of will power to post.

Labor day weekend

labor day weekend was full of fun stuff. including: Fry Mesa, our pet snake, and dressing as old people.

Fry Mesa is an area up in the desert mountains, you have to have a truck to get up there because the roads are such crap. but once youre up there its amazing! there are a couple of different spots to go play at, we went to the "Pot holes" and the Dam. the Pot holes are slightly like Sedona's slide rock. the difference is that there are specific slides. and at the bottom of each one is a really really deep pond thing. its only small enough for the one person going down the slide. you slide down so fast and its super scary but the pot holes are sooo deeep you dont even come close to touching the bottom. and each slide connects. you get like 20 people up there and youre constantly sliding because the water rush coming off of one persons slide down pushes the next person down their slide.
The dam is close to some little cliffs. so you walk across the dam to the cliffs, climb up, and jump off the other side into the water. its more than a little terrifying. and i didnt think i could do it until Dustin said it was because i was a girl. then i jumped. and it was amazing. after that i jumped a whole bunch of more times!

on the way home from Fry Mesa we found a giant rock well. it was empty aside from a little snake! so we pulled him out and brought him home with us! he was called Bro-bie. (on the way up to Fry Mesa one of the guys called us "Bro Beans" and Blythe hated it, so Bro-Bie worked perfectly.
when we got him home we game him some water, which he decided to drown himself in. he curled all up and stuck his face in. no one could stop our poor little suicidal snake. so he passed away. thats why our front yard has a dead animal smell coming from it.

the last thing we did was Monday night,  we dressed as old people and got a senior discount at Denny's. it didnt work im sure, the manager even said "yeah they can order off of the senior menu, they can also order off of the childs menu."

whatever. we got the discount!

voice mail.

its been a while since i've written anything so im going to just unload! starting waaay back when my dad freaked the crap out of my room mates.

so i had gone to bed, forgetting that my Dad was planning on calling me about my broken moped (which is still not fixed- ill get to that in a later post)

so im asleep and my phone is on the couch and its ringing and ringing and Blythe decides it must be an important call because whoever this person is, they arent giving up. so she listens to the voice mail to see if its an emergency (in case she needed to wake me up or whatever her thought process was)

the voice mail is my Dad going "LOOOOOOGAAAAANNN. logan.logan.looooooogan,loga-ga-ga-ga-nnnn" over and over and over again with a few of his weird little noises in there. Jazmyn's first reaction is that its some creepy guy and they shouldnt answer, but B says. "what if hes hot?" and answers the phone.
then Dad goes on to say, "uhh, hey is Logan there" and when they told him i was asleep he hung up.

the next morning B told me, dude. some guy called you! he sounded like a total weirdo. then Jaz threw in that she had talked to him. i asked how the voice mail message went and the second B started i knew it was my dad. when i got a chance to listen and confirm what i though Jaz was so surprised- they both thought it was some guy our age that was creepin at wee hours of the morning!

hahahahahahaha. oh Dad. gotta love that old guy

commando, the dot game, ninjas, awesome.

playing commando is the new big thing. our house, the Paine house, and Melissa's boyfriend and his house mates all play!

there is an area on campus where there's tons of trees and bushes and signs for hiding and tagging and such.
its the funnest thing ever! everyone laughs and laughs and its a crazy good workout! we all finish sweaty and sore the next day.

we've been playing it every other night! whoever can be there goes and yeah! its super cool

Gymnastics

i spent most of my life in a gym, in a leo, covered in chalk and sweat, listening to coach after coach after coach.

after i stopped being in the gym almost everyday i didn't want to go back. I went back into a gym a few times to try and see what i could do and i got more and more frustrated that i couldn't do what i saw in my head, or what i knew my body could do underneath the years of sitting around vs. staying at the gym all day everyday.

fast forward. there is a little gym in Thatcher and i decided that i would finally take my moms advice and apply to a gym.

they have amazing hours- they're not open on Mondays or the weekend. and they don't open until the mid morning (most of my classes are over by then)

so i planned on calling them Tuesday morning when they opened- buuuuutttttt she called me (the owner/ head coach)
the day before and offered me a job!

i went in on Thursday night for 2 hours! it was a blast! i got to help throw little kids in the air. i also helped with drills and spotting and vault! i helped a lot with vault! which was my favorite. and i love. vault is the coolest event!
well i have a cool job! hopefully i end up with more hours than just Thursday nights!

possible new room mate

one of my biggest fears is debt, not necessarily debt but being homeless because of debt. i have reason to believe that this fear stems from reading Confessions of a Shopaholic. if you've read it, I'm sure you understand.

anyway! i have a room mate who is in a spot i would never want to be in. She owes our land lady over 500$ and the problems add up from there.

as I've been on my own it's been hard to decide if i want to eat Ramen and buy a cute shirt or however the argument may go at the time.

money moves differently than it did when i was at home, i dont pay for gas anymore and yet it feels like there is always some super expensive necessity that drains my bank account (the latest being textbooks)


okay so back to Melissa, shes moving out. thank goodness. because i was about to burst about her using all my shampoo and food and other such things....
shes moving into the "slut hut" which cracks me up.