Well, today is a big day for many reasons! First off, it's Thursday. I mean, come on. Who doesn't love Thursday? Second off, I'm going home tonight and we're totes going 2 watch lyke teh best show EVUR . Third off, my buddy Jackie is now 18! HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACKIE! But 4th, and probably most exciting reason for me at least, is that it is December 9th, 2010. Officially one year ahead of December 9th, 2009, and one year behind December 9th, 2011. Why is this important? Well on the day of December 9th, 2009, my best friend entered the MTC as Elder Joshua Brian Rice.
I am waiting for a missionary. That's not exactly a phrase that I like to have tattooed onto my back though. (It's like a tramp stamp, only higher.) I'm going to go into this blog post the same way most people go into their Sacrament meeting talks.
In the dictionary under the word "wait" we read "To remain inactive in a state of response until something expected happens."
Now this is where we drop all Sacrament-meeting-ness.
That's bologna! Yes! Complete and total bologna! I belong to a group of girls called MGs, and we are all waiting for missionaries in one sense or another, and I've got to say, from the ones that I've gotten to be friends with, none of us remain inactive in a state of response.
These two years of existence are big years for Elder Rice. Quite possibly the best years of his life. You'd think that through entropy, that would make these two years the worse of someone else's life, and using Murphy's law, you'd think that would be me. But like I said before. BOLOGNA!
I have done so much with the last year of my life, it has been incredible. I do not think there has been a time of my life that I have done so much, and I really mean that. To prove the point, I have compiled a list of 365 things that I have done in the time that Elder Rice has been gone. So take it or leave it.
Put that in your hot cocoa as you will.
I am waiting for a missionary. That's not exactly a phrase that I like to have tattooed onto my back though. (It's like a tramp stamp, only higher.) I'm going to go into this blog post the same way most people go into their Sacrament meeting talks.
In the dictionary under the word "wait" we read "To remain inactive in a state of response until something expected happens."
Now this is where we drop all Sacrament-meeting-ness.
That's bologna! Yes! Complete and total bologna! I belong to a group of girls called MGs, and we are all waiting for missionaries in one sense or another, and I've got to say, from the ones that I've gotten to be friends with, none of us remain inactive in a state of response.
These two years of existence are big years for Elder Rice. Quite possibly the best years of his life. You'd think that through entropy, that would make these two years the worse of someone else's life, and using Murphy's law, you'd think that would be me. But like I said before. BOLOGNA!
I have done so much with the last year of my life, it has been incredible. I do not think there has been a time of my life that I have done so much, and I really mean that. To prove the point, I have compiled a list of 365 things that I have done in the time that Elder Rice has been gone. So take it or leave it.
- Eat sushi
- Freeze whence camping
- Learn to use busses
- Attend WSU
- Perform in Wind Ensemble
- Play some jazz piano
- Attend Jr. Miss as an audience member this time around
- Play a Steinway
- Learn to love USPS
- Learn to hate USPS
- Learn to appreciate a good mailman who comes on time.
- Discover ways of making juice last forever (almost)
- Burn rice really badly
- Take care of a plant
- Watch that plant take it's dying breath in my arms
- Perfect the art of macaroni
- Learn to never watch Bones and eat macaroni at the same time
- Get a good weekly does of escalator riding
- Try on crazy wedding dresses at the DI
- Take AP Stats
- Pass the AP Stats test
- Be the only one at OHS to pass the AP Stats test
- Skip school just because
- Write my own grocery list several times
- Be called as a visiting teacher
- Be called as a Sunday school teacher
- Attend girl's camp
- Graduate YW
- Apply to BYU
- Apply to the U
- Apply to a billion scholarships
- Get over my fear of auditioning
- Get my own camera
- Discover my favorite pen
- Start a blog!
- Learn how to substitute absurd ingredients
- Learn that it doesn't always work out too well
- Drive a neat car
- Try to learn manual transmission (Note, TRY is the key word.)
- Develop a love of vacuums.
- Develop a hate of 'fake dirt'
- Find the perfect size of milk bottles
- Perform with the best marching band in Utah
- Laugh uncontrolably
- Discover the value of sunscreen
- Realize that not all sunscreen works like it says it will.
- Use a (mini) grill
- Recieve a grenade
- Attend a masquerade
- Dance in the snow
- Learn how to pack (for moving)
- Pack (for vacations)
- Almost finish the Old Testament (I've got just a few pages left!)
- Maintain sanity in reading the book of Numbers
- Go to many sleepovers
- Become an avid blog follower
- Burn 1 batch of cookies
- Burn 2 batches of cookies
- Ruin several boiled eggs (They weren't boiled too well.)
- Become the best toast maker EVER!
- Attend a Utah-BYU game
- Have my own house
- Do dishes by hand lots
- Realize plain grapefruit juice is acceptable
- Teach Sunday school
- Learn to ask what time it is like a pro
- Learn to ask what time it is in SPANISH like a pro
- Realize the purpose of mouthwash
- Write a LOT of letters
- Give someone a Book of Mormon
- Own a pair of tall tall shoes!
- Become really good at walking in heels.
- Walk to church lots
- Go to ward walk-abouts
- Develop an understanding love of turkey in the right season
- Learn to enjoy skiing
- Fall off a ski lift
- Watch lots of Fringe
- Own my own computer
- Learn to play organ
- Yell at the characters on the thrilling TV series Fringe
- Play organ in sacrament meeting 3 days after learning how to play organ
- Realize the purpose of rainboots
- Learn to not walk up steep slippery icy hills in shoes with no tread
- Learn to not RUN up steep slippery icy hills in shoes with no tread
- Perform in the Youth Spectacular with 3000 youth
- Get really frustrated at early morning rehearsals for the Youth Spectacular
- Learn some sign language
- Realize that sign and sing are made out of the same letters
- Go to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple
- Learn how to spell Oquirrh
- Attempt to find a difference between Paradise Bakery and Zuppas
- Develop a budget
- Fly on an airplane
- Go to Chicago
- Watch my team lose.
- Watch my team lose BADLY.
- Watch my team win.
- Buy my own dish soap
- Have Chicago style deep dish pizza
- Learn that shrimp... it's ok!
- Learn not to force people to eat shrimp that don't like it
- Learn to not look away when forcing people to eat shrimp that don't like it
- Learn to have a camera out and rolling when forcing people to eat shrimp that don't like it
- Go to lots of dances
- Climb a mountain
- Wear socks with sandals
- Look for snow in July when everyone is suffering from heat exhaustion
- Learn that heat exhaust is different from heat stroke
- Learn that people suffering from heat exhaust or heat stroke are like vampires
- Go to improv comedy
- Use Microsoft paint a lot
- Learn to draw stars really well
- Discover my own style
- Become great at writing essays
- Express distress in school
- Meet several crazy people at the store
- Meet even more crazy people on Trax
- Discover the big deal about Pandora
- Befriend someone with the same name as me
- Read political cartoons in politics
- Learn lots about politics
- And actually enjoy it
- Graduate high school
- Become great at making videos
- Learn the value of recording videos
- Learn to speak science
- Learn to speak political science
- Laugh at stupid things
- Attend the only world ranked university in Utah
- Get accepted to BYU
- Turn their chubby face DOWN
- Stare at a wall of butter for a long time trying to find the best deal
- Learn how to hang things on walls without nails
- Skip pretty much everywhere
- Walk on a moving side walk and feel like a friggin model
- Make funny faces in a mirror for hours
- Complete the Hunger Games series
- Fill up an entire journal
- Hide offline for a long time to avoid people
- Learn how to press leaves really well
- Realize that 365 is a big number
- Realize that it's easier to stay awake in church functions when drawing
- Learn the value of organization
- Learn how to text when I can't see what I'm typing
- Learn how to live with a broken phone
- Learn to love that broken phone as if it was my own child
- Do 200-300 pushups every night
- Learn more names than I though possible in a very short amount of time
- Develop a means of talking to people that know everything about me, but I know very little about them
- Meet the President of the University
- Consciously choose mathematics over music
- Spend a reasonable amount of time crying over unreasonable things
- Spend an unreasonable amount of time being really happy over reasonable things
- Spend an unreasonable amount of time trying to spell 'amount'
- Learn some crazy dancing
- Realize that I don't much enjoy dances
- Realize that I really enjoy dancing
- Realize that Jason's Deli is way better than anything they have in Chicago
- Realize that if you want to do something cool in SLC, get a move on it, because stores close soon
- Get my own credit card
- Get my own check book
- Inhabit the most amazing college 'dorm' ever
- Eat a liver detox
- Somewhat enjoy the liver detox
- Realize that the liver detox was meant to be drunk, not eaten
- Stay up really late watching movies on Google
- Go to the movie theaters by myself
- Go to the movie theaters with lots of people
- See Inception
- See Sherlock Holms (Several times)
- Learn lots of cheers
- Perform for the biggest audience of my life
- Be boo-ed by the biggest audience of my life
- Realize that fast Sunday makes my tummy unreasonably small and unreasonable
- Grow my hair out, if even just a few inches
- Experiment with bangs
- Settle on straight across bangs
- Change clothes whenever I get home from school because sweats are more comfortable
- Seriously consider wearing ugly clothes so I can go on What Not To Wear and get lots of money
- Turn the game boggle into a violent game
- Learn that everyone should live for per diem
- Learn that saving per diem is awesome!
- Learn how to manipulate people to do what I want them to
- Use prepositions to end sentences with
- Go to Temple Square
- Go on an AWESOME behind the scenes tour of the Conference center
- See Savior of the World
- Get to be pretty much bff with my lil brother
- Get to be pretty much bff with my lil sister
- Wonder why the word sister is so much shorter than the word brother
- Get to be pretty much bff with my momma
- Get to be pretty much bff with my daddy
- Learn how to engage in intelligent conversation with people much older than me
- Recognize a value in studying
- Recognize a value in windex
- Learn how to manipulate light so that it does what I want in pictures
- Learn that the light around my dresser can not be manipulated, and I will never be able to see the clothes in my drawers in a decent light
- Purchase my own vitamins
- Drive ATVs like a mad-woman
- Teach young children to drive ATVs like mad women
- Attempt to make wookie noises and fail
- Sigh at the lack of Disney Land in my life
- Appreciate real pianos as opposed to fake pianos
- Sneak ice cream from my roommates that doesn't need to be snuck, they said I could eat it, but sneak it anyways
- Wish most passionately that snuck is a word
- Carry a tent a very far distance
- Become an administrator of Waiting For A Missionary
- Set goals on restricting computer usage
- Cope with the lack of natural light around winter time
- Be subject to the most brutal and dangerous cold temperatures of my life thus far
- Recruit for my marching band
- Be a member of a marching band with some of the most wonderful people in the world
- Learn how to say "That's what she said" in so many manners
- Become subject to a mock psychology session
- Yell at a man's dog
- Chase rabbits around campus for a while
- Play guitar some
- Think of a billion analogies
- Spend probably half of my life waiting for trax/frontrunner/uta bus
- Perfect the puppy eyes that will get a person to give you a ride
- Realize that it's better walking barefoot in the snow than wearing shoes that are soaked through in the snow
- Leave my window open as I fall asleep to listen to the music of the night (It's really there, I think my neighbor plays music or sings or something.)
- Make lots of lists
- Make hundreds of friends in a short amount of time
- Spell amount right for the first time without using a spell check or even pushing backspace once
- Talk in a British accent for a week and drive my family crazy
- Develop a wicked awesome valley girl accent
- Develop a killer memory
- Write several essays and prepare for several exams/quizes all in one night
- Understand a love in the simplicity of a sandwich
- Realize that going to the grocery store isn't 'all-that'
- Cut my own hair
- Make it an entire year without coloring my hair (That makes 18.5 total!)
- Buy dry ice
- Throw a surprise party that sorta failed
- Be the subject of a surprise party that completely rocked
- Maybe sorta become a Gleek
- Use lots of printer paper, but somehow never run out
- Watch some Asians dance
- Talk to my German foreign exchange students
- Ride a scooter everywhere
- Learn how to brutally humiliate people that make fun of my scooter
- Realize that it's not that brutal
- Wish pretty much every day that my hair was much longer
- Learn how to save jewelry that probably would fall apart otherwise
- Do my own laundry, if rarely
- Do my own dishes lots, and even do my roommates dishes sometimes
- Let my mom do my own dishes and my roommates dishes once
- Become completely inconsolable for laughing
- Expand the range of music that I find entertaining
- Own a Scentsy
- Visit the Rice's lots
- Miss the Rice family more than I miss Elder Rice sometimes
- Have senior pictures taken
- Learn to harmonize pretty wicked well
- Become a magician's assistant
- Perform in a magic show
- Joined a sorority
- Learned the lyrics to so many songs
- Went to General Conference
- Watched people swallow goldfish and then realized I couldn't live with the guilt of doing the same
- Bought a really cool water bottle
- Attended orientation
- Met a guy who's name was spelled Rajfier, but pronounced Rage Fire
- Made people laugh
- Listened to several songs over and over. And over
- Discovered the magic of frozen yogurt
- Discovered the magic of Owl City
- Visited several stores looking for a certain pen
- Became something of an expert in picking out ties
- Learned how to show in the gateway
- Marveled at the fact that my skin does indeed sparkle in the sun
- Smeared my face all over with oatmeal and eggs, and put mayonnaise in my hair.
- Went to a mission reunion
- Went on lots of dates
- Read the news a lot
- Appeared in the news some
- Appeared on national TV some
- Developed a passion for cupcakes
- Ordered sweatshirts for 14 people
- Shamelessly flirted the heck out of strangers at institute parties and then ran away
- Discovered a love for simplicity in all things
- Graduated Seminary
- Wrote a letter to an Apostle
- Used 1.5 bottles of Retin-A
- Used an entire bottle of multi vitamins and fish oil pills
- Eaten a bottle of peanut butter without eating a single peanut butter sandwich
- Eaten 4 boxes of oreos by myself
- Creeped out the dates of my roommates lots of times
- Lost my favorite stick of chapstick. Dr. Pepper. RIP
- Went shopping with my cousin lots
- Watched Murphy's law in action on a piece of toast. MY piece of toast.
- Saw the real, the actual, Touch Down Jesus
- Learned some martial arts
- Mastered the ability to do the splits, and then lost it
- Successfully switched between talking in the present tense and talking in the past tense all in the course of a single blog post
- Achieved a very straight marching leg, despite having gone ~2 years without marching
- Relinquished my mace to a very able drum major
- Owned my very own can of mace
- Learned how to kill someone with their own knife
- Tried it out. With a rubber knife.
- Discovered the best place to buy jewelry
- Discovered the value in HOME.
- Played my flute in Stake Conference
- Learned how to play the most beautiful song on flute
- Transcribed a song and assisted in getting it copyrighted
- Used a tape recorder
- Hacked multiple people's facebook accounts
- Made bread-based foods without yeast
- Came to understand the value of music in my life
- Worked as a host for a winter line competition
- Avidly followed America's Next Top Model
- Found the most beautiful flute song ever (Chaminade's Concertino for Flute and Piano)
- Become pretty good friends with a professor
- Become pretty petrified of another professors
- Learned how to dance like an Indian (Maybe?)
- Came to to terms with the fact that the only Christmas tree I'll have this year is 6'' tall and is made out of porcelain or something
- Gave a talk in Young Womens
- Became really good friends with my YW teachers from the ward to stake level
- Participated in a brutal school rivalry
- Got stuck in a mosh pit
- Realized that a mosh pit is different than a mish pot.
- Wondered what a mish pot was
- Grew super attractive calves
- Realized that pink nail polish is the best
- Broke up with people I wasn't even dating
- Found out who Calvin and Jake really were
- Rode on a zip line
- Rode on a mechanical bull
- Won $50 at a graduation party
- Had a odd caricature drawn.
- Saw John Bytheway perform live
- Rode Wicked at lagoon
- Played a secret piano in the lunch room
- Watched fireworks on the roof
- Broke into the construction zone at OHS and scaled the side of the building to the top where we climbed through to the inside.
- Saw a drug raid in which dogs messied up the entire hallway
- Heard Rhapsody in Blue performed live and beautiful
- Ate at the cafe in Napolean Dynamite
- Was present in an earthquake (Though I didn't feel it)
- Owned a pair of nerd glasses
- Learned to tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue
- Was someone's first date
- Posed as a poll dancer on the frontrunner
- Ate coconut oil
- Had my license for long enough to drive without an adult present
- Rode my scooter to school wearing super high heels
- Was mistaken for being Mexican by some ward members due to the severity of my tan this summer
- Ate nothing but gummy bears in 24 hours. And was sick
- Ate 26 cotton candies in one night. And was really happy
- Realized my toothpaste was causing problems
- Went an entire week without my retainer. And was sad
- Lost multiple bra sizes and was perfectly fine with that
- Had spontaneous sleepovers
- Made it through graduation without crying
- Left high school with 2 text books I forgot to return, one of which was from Junior year
- Participated in an amazing Testimony meeting in the Tower room, prior to seminary graduation
- Watched a storm roll across a beautiful green valley as I fell asleep, and woke up to ran on my window
- Participated in a reenactment of Nephi's vision.
- Was the musical number at seminary graduation
- Got straight A's my first college semester (this one is kinda my second semester)
- Had a passionate love affair with colored pens
- Helped my brother run for student government
- Learned by experience that the following quote is very true. "When we put God first, all other things fall in place or drop out completely"
Put that in your hot cocoa as you will.
7 comments:
I love this Lara! I think my favorite line was:
"It's like a tramp stamp, only higher." :D
OH my crud girl!!!! That is great!! I love it, You are sooo funny! I could totally relate to some of these! We got this!!! Pretty soon I will be you! ;) 2 1/2 months ;) ISn't that crazy!!! Congrats!~
That was awesome!!! Genius! Inspired!!! lol *goes off to make her own list * ;)
Yay! Thanks for the birthday happiness! And also... "tramp stamp," heh heh heh. I still can't believe that.
I enjoy your blog! This is so cute!! :)
I kinda love the idea of this list. Keep up the awesome attitude! --Cori
I think that next year, I'm going to be super cool and use this list for every day. (With my own twist, of course.)
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