"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance." ~ Dave Barry

Today I was having Wii withdrawals, more specifically Just Dance 2. It is such a fun game (as well as good exercise) and I'm sad that I don't have a Wii in my apartment (we don't even have a t.v. so I guess it makes sense). I also don't know of any neighbors that have one; I really should look into that. Luckily, these days most anything can be found online. Without a Wii and a boob tube (a t.v. just in case you didn't know), I turned to the next best thing...YouTube! Yep, I was able to find my favorite songs from the game on YouTube and dance to them in my room. I couldn't go all out and do the jumps and foot stomps because I wanted to be respectful of the people below, but it was still enjoyable. I think this might turn into a study break ritual.

Well, that was random.

So tonight was just a night of randomness. For FHE we did a kind of get to know you game where each person wrote down two questions and we put them in a pile. One had to be future based and the other could be anything. Then we took turns drawing one and answering. Some of the questions were very random and interesting. One of my questions was: If you were reincarnated as a dinosaur, which would you be and why? A dinosaur? I said a t-rex because that's pretty much the only one I know the name of and I said it's big, so I could see what it would be like to be tall (for once haha).

Afterwards, we ate cupcakes that I made. I made them identical to the ones I made for Janara's birthday. Can I just say how hard it was to make cupcakes away from home? No mixer, no oven timer, no oven window, and no cookie scoop. This made things a little more complicated than I'm used to. I miss the comforts of home. There were still some small clumps in the batter that I couldn't get out no matter how hard I tried. There was no cookie scoop to measure the batter (2 scoops using the one at home is the perfect amount of batter). On top of that, I didn't have two muffin tins. I had one regular one and one with six. Using a measuring cup as a scoop and having to do two rounds of baking, it was hard to get the amount of batter right. Talk about frustrating when they were done and some looked like they could have used a little more batter. They baked funny. On top of that, I hadn't used this oven for baking before so it I didn't know how it compared to the oven at home. Good thing I thought of this and decided to check the cupcakes sooner than usual. They were done almost five minutes sooner! Not that it's not that hard to open the oven and check on the cupcakes, but I really missed having a little window and oven light to watch progress. I'm spoiled from the kitchen at home. I miss all these little luxuries.

Moving past my little rant for the day, the cupcakes were eaten with love and appreciation. I love that! I always love when my cupcakes are well received. When are they not? Continuing on the topic of random...the conversations that went on were interesting to listen to. One of the guys' apartments that is part of our family talked a lot about Kim Jong-Il. Apparently they watched a documentary on him for fun yesterday [great way to spend the Sabbath I must say]. Then I was asked it I had ever played Black Ops but told probably not unless I turned down the graphic violence (glad you were able to answer your own question buddy). I'm a girl. Why would I be playing that kind of game? Then I was told that if you beat this game there is a bonus one where you get to be Kennedy in the white house and kill zombies or something like that. I guess I'm really good at faking an interested look? Yeah, that conversation lasted longer than necessary.

After everyone left, some of us continued talking outside, despite the fact it was FREEZING. Some other guys from an apartment next door came out and presented me with the perfect opportunity to get rid of the rest of the cupcakes because we girls don't need that many lying around. When giving them away, I was asked to play poker and watch the football game. Football is ok, but poker? Why are all these guys asking me about typical guy stuff? Do I look like I play poker or violent zombie killing video games? Needless to say I turned them down. Oh, the best part of the invite was the way I was asked. We have like an iron gate that separates the guy and girl apartment upstairs, not that it does anything because you can just go down and then up the stairs to get to the other side (there's a landing in the middle so you can keep going down or go up to the guys side). Anyway, it's broken right now so there is no gate. The invitation went like this, "Since there's no chastity gate, do you want to play poker?" No thanks! I'll pass.

Basically, it was a fun and interesting Monday night (pretty typical with my FHE family-the guys anyway).

Sunday morning rain is falling...or is it?

This picture is purely for dramatic effect purposes. Feel free to be affected. Dramatically.

You know when we youngsters like to complain (and we do our fair share of it) older people always tell those stories that go something like this:

Well, back in my day, we had to walk 5 miles, uphill both ways, in the snow...etc? Or back in my day, we didn't have fireworks. We tied flashlights to rocks and threw them up in the air (haha, funny mental picture).

Well, going to church today kind of felt like that. Okay, so it really wasn't that bad, but it did take us a little longer than usual. Being Utah, I'm sure you can imagine why or just look at the picture. If you guessed that cold,wet, white stuff that falls from the sky, then you are correct my friend. If not, I suggest you consult a mental health professional. It unknowingly snowed last night/early this morning and we had to defrost and scrape Arianna's truck, Clifford (like the big red dog) before we could leave. Luckily we made it on time.

It being the first Sunday back, it was interesting to scope out the new potential husbands. Just kidding! Nana, don't freak out :) But seriously, a few of the new guys are pretty good lookin'. Out of one apartment that had six guys, four have been replaced. In my opinion, it was was an upgrade. Okay, I'll stop with the guys now.

Coming back from ward prayer (where I had better luck at checking out the new meat), I opened the gate that separates our complex and the next one (which also has some of our ward members). When I did, Leemur (his real name is Lee, but he won't tell you that...I have inside sources) jumped out and scared me. I did what I do best...I screamed. There was one other guy with him. They got their laugh for the evening. It was pretty funny. I should have seen it coming because Arianna and I could hear voices on the other side of the gate, but I thought they were ahead of us heading back instead of coming. Arianna is smarter than me I guess because she figured they were going to do something when she heard voices (so she says).

Anyway, I hope everyone has enjoyed the first week of the new year!