Halloweenify Day 1

Welcome to Day One of Holiday Halloweenify. Holiday Halloweenify is the beginnging of a blog series that I'm starting. Since Halloween is the beginning of the beginning of the Holiday seasons everyday I'm going to post photos that I edited and "Halloweenified." I'll do some sort of series for Thanksgiving and then for Christmas. I kind of have already started this, if you haven't noticed, but I'm giving it a name and an actual purpose.

Let the Halloweenification Begin! (or simply continue)


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Frighteningly Exciting?

Some people wanted to know the story of my dementor pictures that I put up on facebook, but it's not very exciting to write a story on there. So I decided to wait until I could put them up in my blog around halloween( Or maybe it was procrastination shhhh). So here is the story behind these pictures. P.S. I really don't know how light or how dark these pictures are due to editing them on my laptop)

So the day that we did this. My roommate I were getting to know each other by the things that we liked. If you know any HP fans or you are one yourself you know how excited we got when we heard that we both liked Harry Potter stuff. This set up a whole discussion about quidditch to the point that we "liked" a quidditch Facebook page so that we could attend a game somewhere in Utah.

After a while we decided to go on a walk and explore places on campus and my roommate completely jokingly said we could even act like Harry Potter. I don't go that far into the frenzy.

But obviouslyy I proved that wrong. Old Main Hill was beautiful as we walked through the trees and took pictures of the temple. We discovered the amphitheater and walked down it's steps. It was getting dark at this point and we just kept going. We found some stairs in a garden type area, which I thought were super cool to walk down, but then we stepped around the corner and stopped at what was in front of us..... A tunnel under the road

"It's just like Harry Potter."

We got excited and super giddy and tried to take pictures but people kept walking down the stairs looking at us like we were idiots. Finally we got them. I immediately went to work on them after we got to our apartment.

Long story short, the dementor on the right in both pictures are dementor toy figurines, just so you know.


I thought I would add in this thought as well. If I truly did run across a dementor(or two or three) would I be too scared and in despair to do anything or would I be way too excited that the Harry Potter world existed for it to even have an effect on me?

BEWARE

Well, for some reason Halloween is my favorite holiday. No idea why. I don't like being scared(minus the reason that it makes me laugh a lot to be scared) I don't like gross things, I don't like eating tons and tons of candy anymore and dressing up isn't really that big of a deal either. I've come to the conclusion that I like the old feel that accompanies it. The antique-y decorations and the idea of an old house in the woods is exciting for me. (Maybe it's the closest I can get to Harry Potter)

Well recently, I found picnik.com's halloween features and I got addicted(as well as everyone around me, I'm a picnik vampire of sorts) So I decided to turn a bunch of people into vampires zombies and ghosts with these features. It completely consumes my time.

Keep Checking back to this post. Halloween isn't here yet and until then I will be busy. Muahhahahahaha!

Caller: Hi can I get your farmocology/firmocology department? ( I didn't really know what she was asking for)

Me: One moment *looking through names*...... Wait what department did you want again?

Caller: The pharmacy department...... no wait, not that. The psychology department. *Laughing* Don't mind me.

THE END

Funny, Scary, Just Plain Awesome

That is what describes some of the random (and possibly one not so random) things that I have seen while I've been at Utah State.

(howard david johnson)

#1 and 2 Just last week I was walking up Old Main Hill. This isn't just some small hill. It is pretty steep. I happen to look up as I'm pushing myself up the hill and see something bright yellow pass me. It was a man on a bike. What's so odd about that you might ask? Well he is going full speed on his bike with NO HANDS ON THE BARS. Talk about frightening.

Then just this week there was a guy riding on one of the inner roads on campus and again with no hands on the handle bars he was reading a book! He was doing pretty good balance wise but was constantly weaving all over the place.

#3 This one is just plain awesome. (p.s I colored this picture in paint, one of the funnest things I have done at work)

I walked down the stairs of my apartment complex with another girl just in front of me. We chatted a little bit before we headed up the hill. She was about five feet in front of me. I'm looking at the ground(for some reason, maybe it was interesting) I see something out of the top of my eye(remember i'm looking down), I didn't think anything of it until I hear a small gasp. I look up and the little thing moving in front of me was a little squirrel, just walking right next to this girl! As she took a step, it would hop right along with her. I whispered "that's amazing" and then it ran under a car. According to HeidiAnn, I was walking behind a princess!


# 4 The Scarlet Pimpernel. Although this isn't really random it is just plain awesome. The movie became one of my favorites just this year. So when Heidi invited me to the play I said absolutely. Which was a fabulous answer because I think I love the musical even more. So so so funny and sooooo entertaining. I absolutely adore it! And just this morning as I was walking up the hill there were two guys behind me that were quoting it in the accent of Percy and everything!


#5 I took an exam yesterday. I had studied pretty well and I felt good about it. Once question in particular stuck out to me though. I read it through the first time I looked at it and checked the answer that I believed it to be, thinking that it said "Greek". The second time I looked at it I panicked because I saw "Egypt". I wasn't sure exactly what the answer was anymore. I looked over the options and knew it had to be the one I had chosen previously. Then it hit me. We were supposed to turn in our own multiple choice reading questions from the textbook. This was MY question! And I wasn't sure of my answer! Yep, I'm a genius.


# 6 As I was walking home there was a man running towards my direction at full speed. He was older and as I watched there was a younger kid probably about 9, 10, or 11 jogging after him. The kid was really struggling and the old guy was way far ahead and didn't look phased at all.

Dear Procrastination

.......look what you have with held from me.

When are you going to stop keeping lovely things in life from coming to me?

April to August? Don't you think that's a bit long?

Sincerely, Me

Greatest Gratitude

This past week I had the opportunity to go to Nauvoo with my singles branch. We were gone 8 days. I wasn't really sure before the trip if I really wanted to go but I decided that since it was only $100 I could handle it. Besides, who was I kidding, I love to travel.

Best decision of my life.
Such a beautiful temple.We stopped at a couple sights along the way, such as Liberty Jail, Far West, and Adam-ondi-Ahman. Each place was beautiful in their own ways.

The YSA group was able to wander wherever we wanted to in Nauvoo and do whatever we wanted to do, even if that was to walk to the quarry(if anyone was able to walk that far). There was lots of rain there, that hindered a lot of us from going out and getting an early start on the trip, but we did all venture out and enjoy old Nauvoo. Each of the houses was beautiful and I loved every inch of them and their oldness.

My favorite part of the entire trip however, was Carthage jail where we had constant continuing amazing overwhelming experiences of the spirit.

I watched a King Follet Discourse by the guy in the back and was absolutely stunned. His voice was so good. He was also a great actor. I looked away for a few seconds and looked back and had to look twice because I honestly thought that I was looking at and listening to Joseph Smith for a moment, he was that good at acting. I got to watch the pageant later on and enjoyed it immensely. The ending was so powerful

So powerful that from that moment in the night on I was overcome with overwhelming joy. We walked up to the temple to spend a couple hours sitting in front of it and enjoying the solitude of Nauvoo.

The entire trip I had constant gratitude in my heart for every little thing, despite the heat and humidity and the rain and the bugs, I was always thankful for every breeze, the beautiful trees, the lovely houses, AC, every cloud, cold water, and every other little thing. I'm so thankful even still.