Plans for the Weekend.

Today was the birthday of Father Auten and I called him in the early hours to wish his day well. How I love those parents of mine! The activities committee met and had a snowflake making fiesta while listening to some Justin Bieber christmas jams. The best is when the boys decided to change all the lyrics to the songs and it was all kinds of ridiculousness. Last night, I went out with Shellie and crew to deliver gifts for the Angel tree program and it was so fun. I had only wished more people had answered their phones since we only went to one house! We got to see the pictured house in its decked out glory. I'm just loving the season right now! My friday night will be spent going to the temple and then indulging in the 12 days of yumminess at yogurtland. Please have cran rasp tart again. Also on the agenda is an evening of christmas movie watching and craft making with the aid of my dear friend pinterest. Saturday is our ward Christmas breakfast at 9 am! Kill me now for being on the activities committee and having to go early. At least we get to wear our pj's. Even if we weren't supposed to, I would have rocked them anyways. Christmas light looking might be on the agenda too. I love me some christmas lights!

The Season of all Seasons.

Yogurtland 12 days of heaven (basically) discount card. Did I mention they have cran-raspberry AND eggnog froyo? Hello home for the next 12 days?

The holidays are totally underways in my apartment. Christmas decorating is happening. Christmas music is playing all the time even though Mr. Buble is totally rocking my world as of now. All I need is for the holiday baking to begin and it's super official. Can we talk about how I'll be going home to my dear sweet Southern California to spend Christmas! I've been missing it and hopefully I've been missed right back. Disneyland and beach trips and good shopping are so in order! Yay for December finally coming around!

When you wish.

Wish it and then do all you can to make your dreams come true. Nothing comes to those who wait you know!

Low Key.

Halloween this year was probably one of the greatest that I've had since moving away from home. It started Thursday when Sister Glozell came into town and I got to meet her and Flavor Flav and Antoine Dodson. Such a fun afternoon! Friday, I made the most delectable caesar salad dressing and wanted to die partied it up all weekend long. Sunday we had the most amazing ward conference this past Sunday even though I was sick and just wanted to stay in bed all day and I finally made pumpkin bagels. Monday/actual Halloween, I got really sick and stayed in bed until I hung out with mis padres when they came into town for an hour. Even though I had about 5 party invitations, I wanted nothing more than to sit at home and carve my pumpkins while having a movie marathon...lame? Kind of but it rocked. Relaxing on the couch all night is great! I don't think November could have started any better than attending a devotional with my roommate that our dear President Monson spoke at. It's going to be a great month (despite the snow on the way to devo...talk about freezing!) I can feel it!

Can we talk about how cute the spooky face one is? I wanted to die over the crooked smile.
Pumpkins + lights + The Goonies + pjs + blankets + treats = best halloween setup ever!
Toasted seeds and candy pumpkins and the halloween cups.

Hello Sir.

If you want to quit being a Smoky Smokerson and need a wifey, I am totally available for you. B. Davies can be put on hold until I see him next even though we're supposed to be creating a child sometime soon to add to my collection with Mabel Sexsmith...the conversations that I have with Senor Platanos. Homeboy be cray. I would totally marry him too but our children would be far too much for the world to handle. Also homemade anything beats buying it at the market. I have finally triumphed in making homemade rolls so I'm basically marriage ready now. I have a food baby from homemade enchiladas and the always delicious yogurtland and more homemade-ness is happening for dessert. Thank you pinterest for destroying my waistline.

Rainy Nights.

Even though I don't love the cold, I love that nights are chilly enough to throw on a sweater and make a cup of hot cocoa and have it in bed with the window open...heavenly! I wish I had a beignet or ten to eat to but I don't plan on becoming house size anytime soon.

It's baking time somewhere.

Apparently for me, baking time occurs between the late night hours of 10-1 pm. Who cares what time you bake though when pumpkin muffins are the outcome and the entire apartment smells like a fall spice scented heaven. Can we talk about the latest status of DR in which he referred to himself and his man posse as #provotools? Umm #junkpunchtheDBcrew and #douchebagjarfilled? Yikes and yikes again. I think I no longer care for that child. Also EJY liked this status that he was tagged in...sicknast. No more toolbox men please! I weep for their futures.

Hurry up October.

I just want a reasonable excuse to go buy 5 million pumpkins to use as decoration for...myself. Also if the "I'm Ron Burgundy?" quote can get out of my head, that would be fab. Relief Society broadcast was rockstar. Forget me nots and visiting teaching are my current loves. Good games of the weekend went to Sirs Brownie and Dick and to the gorgeous In n Out boy's car. Also EJY can answer Shell's calls so I can stop creeping DR on the facebook and just creep him in real life. Please and thanks. High 5 to myself for making my apt smell like brownies.

Falling for you.

Fall is finally here and I'm so dang excited! I need to acquire some more sweaters and start bundling up at nights when I go out or just lounging at my casa. I love baking and I have a pumpkin bagel recipe with my name on it! I love the fall leaves and I want to drive up the canyon in about a week to snap a million pictures of its splendor. Hopefully fall will have me a little more dedicated to this here blog as well.

Fall Wardrobe Staples.

Hello stripes and plaids. Please cool down soon so I can finally wear you all day errday...kthanksbye. My life be like the bomb. Teacherlyness is the bestest. So we finally got our hot water turned on today and I don't think I've been more grateful for anything in my life. #coldshowersareforcrazies. Can we also mention that one box of my jewelry got lost/accidently donated to DI during the move and I want to cry a little. Goodbye juicy couture earrings that I've worn for half of my life and also most of the rest of my hoop earrings...gross. If you see me and I look totally under accessorized, you now know why and can't judge mkay? Can't it just be Friday already and time for the ward tailgate party? My bishop owns the Harley Davidson dealership around here and he's bringing the Marley's trailer and I thought I was going to cry when that was announced during church on Sunday. #Idieovertheirsliders. I'm so excited to have a steamy hot shower tonight with super hot water. Seriously so grateful for hot water!

FML or LOL?

Still unsure of whether to laugh or cry...help please?

Live Every Week like...

EFY + Shark Week = greatest week of my life.

Dos Mas.

I have been the worst at writing this summer. I barely have a life outside of EFY but the countdown is on. 2 more weeks until I can have a life again. Well I guess after a magical trip to the happiest place on earth.

Crazy Good Times.

I'm still alive. Just having the craziest greatest time at EFY doing my BC thang. If I don't reply to your calls or texts, I still love you but I have next to no time to respond.

Think Happy Thoughts.

Being happy is the best. When you're happier, you can spread the cheer onto someone else. Since this is my last free week (for a few weeks) this is how I will get my happy on:

1. Reading books

2. Cooking/baking

3. Sleeping in/ taking nap

4. Watching cartoons on youtube

5. Hanging out with my amigs

Reasons My Life is Complete.

Nothing says lazy weekend like a stack of new glossy mags.
...and Justin Bieber. I may have died everytime I've seen a J. Biebs commercial and marveled at his teen awesomeness and wishing I could rock purple like him.

Dearest Jingle Bells (aka Jingsy Baby),

Happy mothers day. You're the bestest and even though I'm not making you dinner or massaging your head today, I still love you mucho. Everytime my "little pink baby with the bell" keychain jingles, I think of you. Thanks for picking me. Love you bunches!

Loves from your fav child (at least in my mind)

Just Let Me Live to Tell the Tale.

I've been the worst about writing lately but I have had so much going on right now. Classes are over and finals will be over for me on Tuesday. Wednesday will be spent packing and cleaning. Thursday and Friday are graduation days and party with the fam/spend time with friends before we all get real lives and move away from dear little Provo and Saturday will be spent driving home to dear California where we are homeless for the week...rocking right? I just might die without a kitchen so I've been cooking like nobody's biz instead of studying...whoops. In the past 36 hours I have made the following: spicy chili, strawberry jam, paneer twice (one batch failed and the other was beyond successful), wheat bread, butter paneer on top of a naan cooked pizza style, and strawberry butter. So if you see me around and I've gained 739825902 pounds, you'll know why. I'm so excited to go to California though even though living gypsy style is so not my thing. Hopefully this week goes by faster than ever. School can't end fast enough but apparently college can...post grad life, yikes?!

Food Can Complete Me.

These were some of my most favorite childhood snacks. The days that the madre put Dunkaroos in my school lunch was always a happy day.

I'm pretty sure I almost cried when I discovered my favorite flavored Fuze at the market. I hate all the other flavors and I've only seen this one in South Dakota and I may have busted out a happy dance and loaded my cart full of this sweet nectar of life.

Today was spent schooling and shopping with Vish and eating at smahburger...heaven in a burger! After that I already had a food baby but yogurtland was next dooor so a quick stop to check it out ended with a cup full of divine froyo. Earthfruits is lucky their plain tart is a little bit tarter and they have my popping boba strawberry or else I would have had to end out froyo relationship for the next best thing. I see lots of future dates with all of the mentioned food places and especially my delicious orange mango fuze. I will be sad when Rik, Michelle, Kalel and Vish all move away in 2 weeks. I will miss gathering at their apartment and having birthday parties and talking about old times and cooking together. I love that we tell fat jokes and searching for highly sought after movies at redbox. Tonight Rik almost died when he was let down by a redbox search for Tangled when I said that I had it. He almost cried and was speechless and Mustafa was like "Why have I never gotten a reaction like that in all our years of friendship?"...love them all!

Sometimes I Have a Life.

Remember how I haven't posted in half my life? Awesome. Let's change that and since I feel awful, I'll update you on the latest in my cray cray life:

-spending some time with the fam

-hanging out with the foreigns and soaking up our friendship that will be changed drastically when we all relocate in less than 3 weeks!

-deciding I hate 75 percent of the clothing and shoes in my closet and donating/selling them.

-buying a whole new wardrobe

-looking up furniture and home decor for my post college life in my styling bachelorette pad

-making homemade girl scout cookies and a million other creations + trying not to gain 500 pounds in the process

-having a laugh attack in Walmart and having this man look at me like a was a complete freak...slightly true

-eating a huge bag of sour licorice belts and wondering where the heck they went 5 minutes later

-buying 3 new Disney movies and wonder why any other film company even bothers trying to compete with the wonder that is Disney + Disney Pixar

-making a list of all my BYU crushes and lovers and laughing at the boys on it

-wondering why every jeep I see nowadays is yellow...weird

-also why is everyone else's BMW silver too? I thought silver was MY color!

-laughing at the ridiculous that is Justin Bieber EVERYWHERE!

-still being totally obsessed with the Bieber and when my friend was making fun of Justice Bureau, I got all defensive thinking he said Justin Bieber

-laughing at the fact that I had over 15 J. Bieb books + mags at the market

-Having a Bieber face contest from the pics in the magazines

-running into the awkward boy that winked at me when I was shopping a year ago and having him wink again...#awkwardmuch2.0

-going to Magelby's and getting free breadsticks because the boy didn't want to ring me up or because he's secretly into girls that are alone on friday nights and don the sweats in public look.

-working on EFY stuff

-having school kick my buns

-living on green grapes and fresh squeezed orange juice

What Happened to my Weekend?

Well I survived EFY training (free subway, J Dawgs and Cafe Rio might have eased the lengthy-ness of it all). Last night, Kamil Vish and I saw Tangled. Holy crap, I almost died from cuteness overload! I will need to by that when it comes out.

The relationship between the horse and Ryder killed me. Musu and I were laughing throughout the whole movie and crying by the end.

Procrastination Station.

I really should have majored in procrastination. I would totally have my doctorate in that biz already. At least my ECE is paying off by helping me make ridiculously rad rhymes. What is the best way to procrastinate when you have a lesson to work on for tomorrow you ask? Shredding a bowl full of queso at 5 to midnight. I love me some spicy cheddar for the midnight munchies. Can we talk about the fact that I have 14+ hours of EFY training this weekend? Good thing I love EFY.

Better Cheddar.

I like me some good old fashioned mac-ing. Not the computers (I do love these), or the blue box crap. Homemade mac and crack/cheese is the best. I haven't made it in forever and I tried this new recipe...bombtastic! Some of the best ever. Basically El Pollo Loco stat...yumfest.

2 thumbs up for deliciousness.

Sometimes It's Worth It.

Remember how it decided to rain today right before I had to go to mutual?

Awesome, I hate rain.

Remember how after mutual it decided to snow and my car was covered?

Double awesome right? Too bad I hate snow even more.

Remember how I forgot to scrape my window and at the drive-thru, snow came pouring into my car and all over me?

Triple offense I say!

I guess it was worth it though for these little babies...t-t-t-t-t- tasty, tasty!

Hannah Hanna Bo Banna.

Umm, hi. I strongly dislike bananas, aka "nanas". Everything is wrong about them from the texture to the fact that they turn brown 2 seconds after you open them and the taste? Blech. Barf. Gag me. I hates them nanas. On the other hand, very select nana breads? Divine! I made some of the best kind ever tonight (along with the best mashed taters in the history of my world) I'm a strange one somedays...and now, our feature presentation: "nanas"!

Silly face making nanas in a bunch, One's joyous, one's sad and one should be punched.
I need this nana sticker. I'm all about rocking stickers on my bod.

Alright, banana split yo.

Purple Turtle.

I love that my nails look like their naked but they're actually light sparkly purple. I feel J. Biebs would totally approve of my nails. Also I bought out Victoria's Secret yet again and talked to some ridiculously attractive men at Hollister. I really really really want Magelby's cake and breadstick. I totally need to see Tangled and it's going to be in the dollar theater. Weekend date with myself? Yes please.

Do You Wanna?

If not for reals, we can always pack our bags run, away to McDonalds and buy happiness in a box for $2.99.

Me Gusto Voleibol.

So last Friday night, I had one of the greatest evenings in the history of my life. Linds and I were going to the men's volleyball game and we were going to have Brian and Musu come too. I told Musu who of course made some dumb excuse so he probably could sit home and eat Panda and play games online...so lame. I was supposed to text/call Brian but I totally forgot and then it made sense why he didn't show up. Sometimes I'm just brilliant and totally absent minded. Anywho, we started blowing up Brian's phone with our calls and texts (I'm pretty sure a "holy F" was said in my angst) and we decided that if he didn't respond to us or show up by 8 pm, we so weren't going to respond to him until the next day. Good thing he decided to respond and show up by 7:40 (he even ran to the Smith fieldhouse...bless his little soul!) And now presenting parts of the fab evening with photographic evidence:

Linds, Ang, Brian...love, love, love us. Not so much love for the man who decided to photobomb the pic.
Linds and I waiting for Brian to respond to us and making all the people behind us jeals that they weren't taking 5 billion pics too.
Linds wanted a kissing face picture so naturally this happened. Pure joy captured on film.
Brian said that he would only do a kissy face if he caught me doing it out of the peripheral of his vision. Good thing he caught that.
Linds and Brian.

The rest of the evening entailed fighting over who wasn't going to drive (Linds flat out said NO and Brian claimed that he has lost the gift since the mish...seriously, I died) attempts to call Musu (who still didn't answer his phone) attempts to eat at Jason's deli, eating at the always delicious 5 guys, talking about dating with Brian, singing in the car, and Linds forcing Brian and I to hold hands (I think he still may be traumatized by this...whoops). All in all, such a great night with the greatest friends! Repeat soon? Sign me up baby!

Snacks For Dinner.

Sometimes real food isn't as fun too eat as crap food. Sometimes I shouldn't look on foodgawker and find divine recipes from pretzel bites and nutella brownie bites. (Sometimes I eat chocolate now) Sometimes I bake up both things because I can't pick one over the other. Sometimes my stomach overeats this heavenly spread and feels like it's going to explode. Sometimes it is SO worth it...yumfest in my belly.

Pretzel bites are 500 times better at home than at the mall. Who knew that was possible? In case you were concerned, a very light salad accompanied the feast of a snackfest as well.

Dreamlike State.

For the holiday break, I ran away to my parents house in Wyoming. There are huge windows everywhere and when it's snowing (aka-the entire weekend) it looks like you live in a snowglobe. So when I snap out of this blank staring phase, I'll update you on the random happenings of my life. I really should get outside and snap some photos of it's gorgeousness. For now, I'll continue watching old episodes of PA on the tube of you. Nighty night y'all.

And it was Love, Love, Love.

Despite being severely single, I love love. Valentine or not, I love this day. Since most of my loves aren't in Utah, I decided to have a "me" day. I went shopping and ate with me and had the best time delivering treats to people. The highlights would have to be finding a pair of jeans I'm pretty sure the fashion Gods made for my body (easier said than done), having my nephews talk my ears of by reliving our Christmas break in Wyoming, trying sushi for the first time, and taking one of my guy friends to get flowers between his dates. I love this day and I love y'all!

Late Night Snackage.

Celery sticks and spicy ranch. Probably less healthy but it's fine.

J. Biebs

Watched the movie. Loved it. Want to see it again stat. So good. He was the cutest Bieberface as a nino...I died. Go see it and give my love to da Biebs.

Just the Kind of Night.

Where I stay in, make dinner and dessert from scratch and eat it in bed while watching a movie. Loving life right now despite the craziness.

Best Mistake Ever!

Remember how I got a free Starbucks drink for my birthday? Remember how they sent me another card this week? I feel like I won the Starbucks lottery and I didn't even put out money for a ticket. Caramel Apple Spice, let's do breakfast tomorrow at your place mkay? Loving life right now. Remember how I also got a free movie ticket and I have a hot date with the J. Biebs movie Friday morning? Don't be too jeals akay?

Umm...

Please remind me because with this past crazy week (flooded apt) I've totally forgotten.

Step One: Admitting One's Addiction.

Hi, my name is Angela and I'm a chipaholic. Newest drug of choice? These lime chips and their sweet potato friends. At least they're healthier than the hint of lime tostitos which are sex in tortilla chip form. So good. At least I'm giving the cheetos and malt vinegar and sea salt chips a break.

Get Me a Roll Stat.

Let's Roadtrip Yo.

To every place listed on this sign. Hogwarts has been calling my name for years and even though they forgot my acceptance letter, I'm willing to forgive and forget.

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