Mandatory day off!

Just as I was leaving this morning my friend called to tell me that the road was closed due to a water main break. Since there is only one road to school I had no choice but to go back to bed. As I’m sure you can imagine I was HEARTBROKEN!

So today instead of teaching my plans include:
gym
thai food
shopping
beach
and sadly, lesson plans :(

And I have to give a big shout out to great friends who volunteer to ditch class and join me on my day off!

I am in love

I would like to formally announce my everlasting love for Spring Break! This last week has been amazing!! I got to stay up late, sleep in and go on a new adventure every single day! Words cannot explain how much I needed this week and now I’m really sad it’s over. Tomorrow is Monday and I have to go back to reality with lesson plans, teaching, horribly behaved children, waking up at the butt crack or dawn, and everything else that I have been avoiding for the last week. The good news is that in 2 and a half weeks my mom will be here!!!!!!

Here are a few of the highlights of my spring break!

I also finally gave in and tortured myself by reading the last little bit of Breaking Dawn. I don’t really have a lot to make fun of because to make fun of something it has to make at least a tinny bit of sense and Breaking Dawn most definitely doesn’t!! I am still convinced that anybody who reads this crap and thinks that Jacob’s relationship with a baby is acceptable should be in prison for harboring a pedophile. I’m just glad that I am finished reading the whole series so I can stop having stalking nightmares and horror movie moments constantly. And Alicia and Rachael~ just so you know, I WILL get back at you for making me read all 4 books!!! You two little devils should watch out!

HELP!!!!

I am pretty sure I have some of the greatest friends in the world!! No matter how horrible I am they always stick by me. I’m not sure how I ever lucked out and was blessed to have such great people in my life. Take for example my friend Rachel. She knows how much I was struggling with my desperation to get married so she sent me this link a while ago. I heard of mail order brides before but I had never even considered the possibility of a mail order husband. I’m pretty sure without Rachel’s loving support I might not ever have the courage to change my criminal ways and join the rest of my Mormon twenty-somethings and bind myself to a man forever.

The only problem I have now is who to choose! There are just so many amazing husbands just waiting to be ordered it’s over whelming me!!! I need some help… I’m kinda thinking TJ might be “the one”. He says, “I'm looking for a girl named ‘Julie’.. It’s just easier that way. I got this ‘Julie’ tattoo last year, and would prefer to not deal with it. Or if you want to change your name that's cool.” I never really minded my name until I read TJ’s add and now I spend all day everyday wishing so desperately that my mother had named me Julie. I’m thinking I’ll just go get my name changed. What can I say, I’m a hopeless romantic and I’ll do anything for true love.

Although TJ sounds so great there are a few other guys I really like as well. Take Philip for example. The poor guy is stuck living with his parents in a basement apartment in Wisconsin. He is lonely and is looking for a girl with some money who lives someplace warm and sunny. I can totally give him that! Is there anyplace more warm and sunny then Hawaii? I think not!! I may not have a ton of money but who needs money when you have love?

And I must admit that my heart skipped a beat when I read about Steven! As he says, “I'm definitely a classic romantic. I like a candlelight dinner, some quiet background music, and a couple hits of ether. I prefer a woman that has insurance and a car would be great as I need to make the occasional trip to Mexico to pick up ‘souvenirs’.” A classic romantic is exactly what I need in my life! I love candlelight dinners and some quiet background music. I did have to use Google to find out what ether is but I’m pretty sure my sweet romantic Steven likes ether more because of his love for organic chemistry then anything else. And how perfect is it that I want to live in Sand Diego? It is so close to Mexico, whenever his sweet little heart desires he could just get in my insured vehicle and drive right there for his souvenirs!

I’m not going to lie, the hardest part about ordering a husband is that all of them as so freaking sexy that it’s hard to choose! And as Rachel so lovingly pointed out to me, as least one of them has to be in jail or formerly in jail, which would be more then a dream come true for me! Oh, and I almost forgot to mention, this site is so effective it even has success stories. You have to read Arlina and Mark’s story of love! It’s so sweet and romantic; it brought tears to my eyes. I love this line, “Mark's understanding of English is rough due to his learning disabilities, but they are both fluent in the language of love.” I really can’t wait to be able to speak the language of love with my mail order husband!! Please, Please, PLEASSE help me decide!!

Fail-nami

I have a renewed gratefulness for my bed tonight. Along with a huge list of other things I’m grateful for including a fail-namni! What exactly is a “fail-nami”? I’m glad you asked… In the last year I have become an expert on fail-namies. It is when you get dragged out of bed in the middle of the night and have to evacuate to a tinny room on the second floor filled full of girls. You all sit around a laptop and listen to the news casters say over and over again for hours that a tsunami is about to hit until somebody finally admits it’s just a “subtle” tsunami. Of course you still can’t go back home because something could all the sudden happen. So you lie on the floor for another 3 hours hoping to get some sleep, before you go against all advice and go home not caring if a giant wave kills you because you are pretty sure that after being awake for over 26 hours you are already in hell.

I know, I know, I’m being just a little dramatic. I am so grateful that Hawaii is safe and I would take staying in a room full of girls and being awake for much more then 26 hours any day over the devastating tragedy that hit Japan. As I’m sure all of you know I get very emotional when I don’t sleep. I was doing good until I hit the 24 hour mark at 5:30am and then I kind of started to loss it. I must say I didn’t realize I had so many people who would worry about me so much if something happened. I was overwhelmed with messages all night and day with people making sure I was ok. I feel so loved! (And I’m sorry if my phone not working freaked you out. It’s because AT&T sucks in Hawaii and the second anything happens my phone stops working.)

As long as I’m being grateful I have to give a big shout out to spring break! Wasn’t exactly the first day I had planned since I ended up staying up all night and sleeping all day, but I’m still so excited! My goal for spring break is to do all the things I have wanted to do in Hawaii but have been too busy to do. Since I’m leaving soon and don’t know if I’ll ever be back it kinda feels like my last chance to do all the things I wanted to do here.

As I’m sure all of you are I’m praying for everybody who was affected by the earthquake and tsunami. There are a lot of students here from Japan who have been personally affected. My heart goes out to all of them, their family and loved ones. I see stuff like this happen on the news but it almost doesn’t seem real until you can see first hand the devastation it causes. I feel so blessed and I’m thankful for the safety of my friends and family.

That’s all I have for tonight! Peace!

Mel

PS. Strawberries are proof that God loves us! They are so freaking good!! Although, I think they taste better in California…

(And I also wanted to share some of the graduation pictures my friend Eliza took for me! I’m really excited to be graduating soon!!)

Girls are just geniuses!

Where my room is seems to be a very convenient place for girls to congregate and talk about personal matters. You would think that girls would see an open window 2 feet away and not want to discuss their deep dark secrets right there, but it doesn’t seem to bother them at all. I’m not normally the type of person who wants to sit and eavesdrop on people’s conversations but when they are right outside my window I can’t help but hear everything. Although most of the time it is really annoying, other times its just plain hilarious!

I have heard everything from a girl dropping out of school because God told her to become a wedding planner to a girl freaking out because she is pregnant. Tonight I think was the best though. These two girls were talking in detail about how much they can’t wait for their wedding night. It was so funny!! One of the girls went on for a good half an hour about what she was going to wear and how exactly she was going to show herself to her husband. I’m not going to lie; I SO called up one of my friends and put the speaker phone on so I would have somebody to laugh with!!

Maybe I should start an “overheard from my bedroom window” segment on my blog! hahaha!

Not such a good thing...

I am so ridiculously homesick, it’s not even funny. I don’t know where it came from because I have been so busy I haven’t had time to even think about home since Christmas break. Now all I want is to be alone in my room with anything that reminds me of how great I had it back in San Diego.

On a little bit of a better note I have changed my plans for after I graduate. I was going to have to come back to BYUH for a second student teaching for special education. As you all should know I was not happy about this especially because I only had to come back thanks to stupid Obama passing new requirements for SPED teachers. Anyway, I had been putting off signing a housing contract and all of the other things I needed to in order to stay here for another semester even thought that’s very unlike me. The other night right before I went to sleep I figured out a plan so I wouldn’t have to come back. I talked to my professor about it and he thinks it will actually be better. I feel really good about it, even though it will mean I have to live in Utah for a few months. But as far as I’m concerned right now living in Utah where I can have the chance to come home every once in awhile is better then being stuck in Hawaii and super homesick.

For all of you sad people who have asked, NO I have not finished reading the stupid crap you call a book! Breaking Dawn is like the Miley Cyrus of books. It sucks so bad that people should get paid to read it! I only have 150 pages to go and I just can’t make myself touch that book without wanting punch myself in the face. It is the most disturbing thing I could possible imagine. A Bella/Edward spon!! OMG! But then of course a master pedophile is overly obsessed with it! I’m sorry but how is Stephenie Mayer not in prison?

That’s all I have for now, I think I’ll go watch a sappy chick flick that will make a cry and procrastinate writing lesson plans. Peace!
Mel