Once Upon a Mattress...

I had the marvelous wonderful amazing opportunity to play the part of Lady Larken in Once Upon a Mattress. Can I just say AWESOME?! Seriously. I've found my calling in life: musical theater. The show was SO much fun, and I met a whole bunch of new people that are now like my bestest buddies. Everyone who wasn't in the show should be jealous. Yeah, you know who you are :) Anyway!! It was such a fun experience. And to the cast: I LOVE YOU ALL!! :D

Utah State's Musical Theater Group

presents

Once Upon a Mattres

April 2 & 3, 2010

Directed by: Karlee Heaps

Minstrel: Bryce Wood

Prologue Prince: Steven Freestone

Prologue Queen: Amber Jensen

Prologue Princess: Erika Keller
Wizard: Eric Brown

Princess No. 12 and Kitchen Wench: Millie Struve

Lady Rowena: Becca Gee

Lady Merrill: Maren Comendant

Lady Lucille: Melanie Kirschbaum

Lady Larken: Lindsay Parkin

Prince Dauntless: Paul Dattage

Queen Aggravain: Susan Ballif

Sir Studley: Jarod Jensen

Sir Wyatt: Adam Earl

Sir Luce: Michael Haycock

King Sextimus the Silent: Michael Phipps

Jester: Ginny Sites

Princess Winnifred: Gwendolyn Dattage

Sir Harry: Jake Knight

Lady Beatrice and Nightingale: Mikelle Memmott

Lady Mabelle: Sarah Knudson

Emily Marbles: Machaela Watson

Delilah Mink: Harmony Byam

Lucy Henley: Caitlin Willey

June Henley: Emily Daniels

Thanks to everyone who made this happen. It was a great show and I loved every minute of it :D

"I told you so"

Two things people told me when I said I was going to Utah State:

"You'll have so much fun!!" and

"You'll freeze."

Both these statements have been proven true.

Logan. Is. COLD. It just is. It probably has to do with the fact that it's an hour north of Bountiful, therefore putting it 80 miles farther away from the Equator. :'( Also! It doesn't have a lake, so there is no lake effect of keeping the air that much warmer in the winter. I see all sorts of winter stuff around campus: sweatshirts, massive or big-buttoned coats, chunky boots, hats, scarves, gloves, and a great plethora of sweat pants. Since I have recently changed my major to interior design, I no longer live in the music building all day every day, so I'm walking from building to building a lot more often. And I freeze. Every time. "I told you so."

Logan. Is. A. BLAST. It just is. Seriously, there's like nothing to do here, but I love it! I had the greatest roommates ever and I've made some super AMAZING friends. We've come up with such things as Tuesday/Wednesday night movie nights, girl's night at IHOP, choir corner, spontaneous fingernail painting, Wally runs, buying a package of cookies and eating the whole thing, and giant skillets full of Ramen. I've been introduced (or re-introduced) to many things, like Val Kilmer in the 80's, David Bowie, Scatman, Cat Jahnke, opera, Vitas, more awkward conversations than I can ever imagine, being in a musical, classes of 150 students or more, no curfew, and the greateness that is Walmart. Overall, it's so far been an absolutely amazing school year! "I told you so."

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY - Go Aggies!!

FRIGHTMARES

Wanna know something pathetic?

I'VE NEVER BEEN TO FRIGHTMARES.

I know, right? I've lived ten minutes from Lagoon my entire life and gone there like a million times, yet I've never experienced the greatness that is Frightmares. But do not worry my dear friends, because that is about to change.

Tonight, when the clock strikes somewhere around 6:03, Garrett, Jake, Chelsie, Harmony, and I will walk into Lagoon and have our nightmares come true! Mwa haha haha (creepy evil laugh... think Vincent Price [he's the guy that talks in "Thriller" for those of you who don't know of his greatness])!! Anyway, I'm really quite excited! Also really afraid cuz haunted houses and such scare the crap out of me but they're also amazingly fun. And Jake better be nice... with his experience working at Lagoon and haunting during Frightmares, he'll know a lot about everything... if he tries to scare me I shall smack him! Not even kidding. Poor Jake gets beat up all the time! But! I will have my cute boy named Garrett to hold on to and hide behind if (or should I say when) necessary! :) <3

After will also be epic... Lindsay + Chelsie + Harmony + sleepover = no sleep + epic sugar + laughing til it hurts!! I is so excited :)

Hooray for the weekend :D

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10/25

It's official.

Frightmares is AMAZING.

Garrett, Harmony, Chelsie, Jake, and Caleb, I love your guts! Greatest Lagoon trip ever! If only we could have stayed longer... I'm dumb. We should have gone on Saturday. Oh well. I love Frightmares! I loved the fog that engulfed the whole park... wonderfully epicly creepy :)

What the...?

So... tonight's been weird.

I was at Jake's eating pizza and watching "They Call Me Trinity" and listening to Relient Kcuz we were uber bored. Then Lauren texts me and tells me that FHE is dinner at the bishop's house so I left Jake's and drove over to the Toaster to wait for my FHE family like Lauren told me to. So I get there and there are a few people there, but I don't recognize any of them. Then Ali shows up in her car and we wait around for like 20 minutes while like a whole other ward shows up. Still, no one from our family or even our ward. So... we left. And went home. And on the way to the elevator we walked through another FHE that was being held in the hallway on the first floor. And I stopped to talk to Harland, then another kid, who's in choir and with whom I've wanted to make friends with, talked to me too. His name was Tanner the tenor. So Ali and I went upstairs to 408, where we live. And there was no one home. Lauren had said she was at the doctor's with Makel and Sam, but we had no idea why, and Cortney was just missing in action. Then!! Cortney appears with Frank and Jessica, and ingredients for a numalicious dinner. Then!! Lauren, Makel, and Sam come home proclaiming that the reason they were at the doctor's was that Lauren had an earache. Then Jessica cut her finger with a vegetable peeler and had to go back to her room for a bandaid. And Frank went into my and Cortney's room to play Cortney's cello. And Sam got really excited because she got a letter from Cameron today. And there's a ton of half-cooked chicken (Jessica attempted to un-thaw it in the microwave) on a cutting board on the counter and Frank keeps trying to cut it but is acting like a girl with the raw meat thing. And we're all probably exposed to swine flu. And Makel just told us she was a "healthy oxen," but that she has the strange feeling that she'll get the swine flu. And there are 4 laptops on the counter, 1 of which is doing homework, the other 3 of which are on Facebook, MySpace, etc. AND. We still haven't carved pumpkins.

There's just a weird feeling everywhere... not bad, just off... weird...
I swear we're in the Twilight Zone or something...
Weird things keep happening.
Beware October 19th...

Live for Today

So ya, I decided the title of my blog should be the title of this post. LIVE FOR TODAY. You know how hard that is? But oh my goodness, it makes life so much easier!!! At the beginning of every week, Monday seems to make everyone gloomy. But I try to think of it simply as a new day and I press through it. Before I know it the week is over and the weekend is here! Pick things each night that you are excited for: FHE, movie night, hanging with your roommates or friends, going to a musical, sleeping, the possibilities are endless! If you find things to be excited about every day, life is easier, more fun, and the painful things go by much faster. So as I said, LIVE FOR TODAY!! :D

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. . .

In other words:
Being away from a person or group for too long sucks and you live every day with the agony that they're there and you're here, and you miss them like CRAZY until finally you get to see them again when you will scream and give them hugs or shake hands or kiss them or whatever it is that you do.
Sure, absence makes the heart grow fonder, but all that means is that it's painful. I hate not being able to see my cute boy and all my bestest friendlies from home, U of U, BHS, BYU, BYU-I, BYU-Hawaii, TC, Weber, and SLCC. BUT! This weekend will be incredibly epic. Even though I don't get to see everyone (namely BYU-I, BYU-Hawaii, and TC, and I love you guys!!), BHS, BYU, U of U, SLCC, and Weber people will all be involved! Can I wait NO. Look out super amazingly awesome weekend of reuniting. Here I come!!!

College Saturdays

Saturday To-Do List:
Laundry
Clean Room
Homework
Facebook

It's always the same. I stay out late Friday night, usually until 1 or 2 AM (hooray for no curfew) then get home and don't actually go to bed until three, after I've thrown all the crap that I've dumped on my bed throughout the day into a pile on the floor. This includes my backpack, books, dirty clothes, clothes I was going to wear but decided not to, papers, etc. etc. This creates the laundry and room cleaning chores for Saturday. Homework is a given because Music Theory is evil and wants to eat my soul. And then there's Facebook. Once I've done everything I actually have to do, there's nothing else to do. Life would be so much easier if we had more than 10 TV channels, 5 of which are soap opera channels, 2 of which are in Spanish. So I spend the majority of my Saturday morning/afternoon on Facebook, listening to Relient K, blogging (as you can see), and eating. Dang I'm productive. Someone please give me something to do.

Now! I'm off to do my Saturday To-Do List. Wish me luck and separation from boredom.