start of something new.

"it's the start of something new / it feels so right to be here with you", sing gabriella and troy in the first high school musical.  well, ladies and gents, they do have a point.  the start of a new school year is just around the corner [school starts tomorrow] and i'm so excited for what this new semester has in store!  


while i legitimately am excited for actual school to start, i'm also excited for my social life.  i am a blossoming butterfly in the school of social-ness.  i really love meeting new people and having a whole semester to make friendships that hopefully last longer than 2 weeks.  i mean, what better way to make friends than bonding over the multiple social attractions rexburg has to offer!?  there's the potato fields... and that's about it.  awkward.


i've meet all of my roommates, and i am happy to report that they are spectacular!  I LOVE MY ROOMMATES.  they are absolutely wonderful and i think we'll get along super well.  scratch that -- i KNOW we will get along super well.  positive reinforcement usually brings good juju, so i'm going to hope for the best. i think the moment i knew i loved them [i know, it's only been a few days and i'm already dropping the L bomb] was when i told them i had tourette's and might swear.  they just laughed, and said "that's fine".  one of them, morgan, said "kay, good, because i swear sometimes too.  and i don't even have tourette's."  so all of the pre-semester jitters are gone!  now i just have to survive my first day at school...


also on another positive note : it's great to be back in my apartment complex with friends i met last year.  one thing that i hate is meeting cool people at the end of the semester, thus not having an adequate amount of time to secure a special place in their heart.  now that i'm back [and cooler than ever] i can rekindle these flames of friendship and hang out with these awesome people even more!  oh my goodness, my excitement can hardly be contained!


and now, a pre-semester prayer.


rexburg, please be good to me this semester.
please allow me to be a drop dead gorgeous bombshell that multiple guys admire.
also help me to do well in my classes.  
i'd like to ask that my stomach act semi-normal and that i don't get too sick.
and please keep the snow away.  far, far away.


amen.  xx ALi

happiness.

happiness means something different to everyone.  this being said, i decided to ask some of the people that matter most to me in this world what happiness means to them.  [there are a lot of people that fit into this category, but i couldn't reach all of you.  i apologize.]


my personal definition of happiness : happiness is trying on size 8 pants [when you thought you were a 10] and having them fitting perfectly.  <-- true story.  i am now a size 8.  thank you very much.


annie adams : "happiness is when you feel like there are little light bugs jumping around in your tummy, heart, and head, and when you feel like you are in control of your life, you like where you are at, and have nothing but bright hopes for your future."


kimberly turlay : happiness.  sushi.  adele.  in n out shakes.


miss hailey sasine, director of camp twitch and shout : "happiness is working towards goals, and making steps in the right direction to achieve them."


stephanie halversen, who i always rely on for blunt, sarcastic humor : "happiness is having someone to tie my shoes when i don't feel like bending over."

i couldn't have said it any better myself.

xx ALi

i am now a woman?

womanhood is attained through different experiences for everyone.  for some, it's by getting their period.  and yes, i did just say the word PERIOD on my blog.  sue me.  for others, it's by getting their bat mitzvah.  most people, recently, have been equating womanhood with receiving their first kiss.  and if this is true, then i am officially a woman.


oh, gahl.  i can't believe i just said that publicly on the internet.  


and let me just say that i wrote this post because multiple people have asked me to.  so i'm not bragging at all - i'm just giving the people what they ask for.


xoxo ALi

awkward.

there are some things in life that are just plain awkward.  like my new favorite t.v. show, awkward, which is about an awkward girl and her awkward life.  but can i just say that if every awkward person had a life like this, i don't think we would complain.  at all.  


some more things that are awkward :
[1] having to explain my tourette's every time i meet a new person/group of people.
[2] sitting across from someone at a dinner party and them introducing themselves after you two have been talking for over an hour.  
[3] that fact that my current tic is saying "what in the f***", with an emphasis on the f***.  great success.  let me remind all y'all that i go back to the mormon school in a week, where swearing is extremely frowned upon.
[4] facebook stalking.  i honestly feel that facebook hurts people more than it helps people.  if you stalk your crush [or whatever my generation calls it nowadays] on facebook then you're learning everything you need to know about them before actually having a legitimate conversation with them.  what's there to talk about if you already know everything about them?  facebook just gives everyone an excuse to be antisocial, which depletes our knowledge of proper social etiquette, which just makes things awkward when you finally DO decide to emerge from your cocoon and attempt to become a social butterfly.
[5] leaving your phone at home for the day and anticipating at least 4 texts when you finally check it that night.  reality?  0 texts.  not cool, friends.
[6] quoting a movie/T.V show to a person who just quoted the exact same movie/T.V. show and them not getting the reference.  
[7] texting someone and them responding 10 hours later.  and then they fall off the face of planet nebuloid and you don't hear from them until they need a favor from you.
[8] my current facial tic is closing my right eye randomly.  basically it looks like i'm winking.  basically i AM winking.  we'll see if that works to or against my advantage up at school.
[9] the fact that my OCD is making me have 10 facts, because 10 is a good, nice number that won't make me crazy.
[10] that fact that i used to look like this vvv

yikes.  

xoxo ALi