Out With The Lame, In With The Awesome

Ok, so I have been thinking about how lame my blog is. Also, how lazy I am. I really want to make my blog a fun place, and a little less of a journal. More like a blog. So, I decided to post specific things each day (haha, like I am ever going to blog every day) and hopefully my blog will be a little less of The Diary of Kai and a little more The Super Awesome Blog of Kai. I will try it out this week and see how it goes.

The days will go as followed:

Moment Monday- Whether it's an awkward moment, a funny moment, a sad moment, an awesome moment,  or any other kind of moment, I will write about it. It might not necessarily be from that week, but they will all be true stories from the life of me. (Or a friend, because sometimes my friends do funny things.)

YouTube Tuesday- I am keeping this. I will post a video or two (or three or four or...) I might explain why I chose the video(s) I did, or I might not.

Wearing Wednesday- (Name pending) An outfit post, since I started this blog to be a fashion blog in the first place. I don't have a nice camera, so most of my pictures will be taken in a mirror. I might explain my outfits, or tell a story or something too. I don't know.

Thoughtful Thursday- I will just write whatever's on my mind. This may not happen very often, since I'll probably just skip it...

Five Friday- Five songs I like. Five movies I like. Five books I like. Five random things about me. Five random things about turkey. I don't know, but there will probably be a list of five involved with these posts.

Sewing Saturday- Have I sewn anything cool lately? Or ever, really? Well, I will show you here. 

Sum-Up Sunday- Basically my journal day. I'll tell about my week and stuff. 


So, I don't know if I will keep this up, and I might end up combining days or doing them out of order sometimes. But, hopefully, with these changes, my blog will be less boring. 

Also, hopefully I'll post more pictures.

Monsters, Mission Farewells, Skirts, Letters, Ties....Oh My!

Last week I went to see Monsters University with some friends! It was so much fun and such a cute movie! I loved it! (Maybe not Toy Story 3 loved it, but I definitely did love it!) Afterwards, we went to WalMart and bought cake to eat since it was one of my friend's birthday! I have never seen a cake disappear so quickly! It was a really fun night. 

Over the weekend, my friends and I played assassin one night and watched The House At The End Of The Street the other night. Kourtney stayed at my house Saturday night because her parents went out of town. On Sunday, we went to our friend Spencer's farewell. His ward is my old ward, so it felt a little weird to be sitting there with all these people that I know, but haven't seen in over a year. It was his and another guy's mission farewell and it was pretty cool. I got a little teary eyed. :') I love Missionaries!! 

On Monday, I helped my friend Olivia make skirts for her friend's bridesmaids. (The following contains my very stubborn opinion of wedding party attire. Do not get offended, its an opinion. So, yeah...) I do not think bridesmaids should wear skirts and shirts. They should wear dresses. Also, they should not be made out of plain old normal cotton. And they should not be made by amateur seamstresses. This is a WEDDING, not church, or school, or every-day life. The end of my rant. Anyways, it was fun! Then I babysat. Then I worked out. Woohoo. 

Tuesday I babysat, wrote Jake a letter, and went to work. Super fun. And Kourtney stayed at my house!

Wednesday was flippin' AWESOME! I got my first letter from Jake! (Or should I say Elder Rogers? I don't know.) I danced and sang and jumped for joy and stuff. And I read the letter. It was from before he even went to the MTC, and I had just gotten it. Also, enclosed in the letter was a playing card he had accidentally taken from my house when we played games one night. But anyways, It was a happy day! And Kourtney stayed at my house! 

(I feel like I need to say this: I was not, nor am I currently dating Jake. He is seriously just one of my best friends. I know the way I write about him is probably misleading in that way. I have had other friends leave on missions, but since I am so close to him, it has been hard. Writing about him makes it easier. Oh, also, to clear something else up, I do like him. So that also might be why I talk about him a lot.... I'm sure as time goes on, I will forget all about him. I'll probably be married by the time he gets home anyway.)

Today, I babysat and went to the eye doctor. I got new contacts, even though only one eye barely changed. I also made a tie. Not well, I may add, but not completely horribly. It is definitely recognizable as a tie, and probably people who don't sew or know anything about sewing wouldn't see much wrong with it, but it is definitely not worthy of sending to any of my missionary friends. Luckily, there is enough fabric to make 5 more. :P I am excited to make the rest and send them off! I really hope my friends all like them, because I really do! And Kourtney is staying at my house!

Letter from Jake!

Best. Day. EVER!

Back of the tie I made. The little symbol on the tag is my initials (KB) which looks like a heart! 

Front of the tie! 

I love this fabric so much! With the blue and teal, it is practically perfect!

 I haven't really decided what to do with this tie yet. I might just scrapbook it or something. I dunno. 

Life Since March Part 3- Arizona

Well, since I've been home from California, some pretty significant things have happened.
1- I applied, and applied and applied for jobs. 
2- Out of all the applications I turned in, I had three interviews. Three. That's it.
3- I went to my interviews and....
4- I got a job! I work at Gymboree! Which is great, because I love clothes, and I love kids. 
5- I watched every single episode of How I Met Your Mother that is on Netflix. For the first time ever. I know, I'm behind the times. But I am converted! Haha!
6- My friend introduced me to a family she works with, and they use me for babysitting all the time. It's awesome, I'm making more money from babysitting than I am from working.
7- I have a gym membership. I go about once a week, because I'm lazy, and I only like doing the Zumba-type classes, which are always at night, and I do have a social life....
8- I spend a lot of time with friends. Ok, I spend an adequate amount of time with friends. FINE, I spend a very little amount of time with friends. I would like to spend more time, but people are busy. And sometimes I feel like hanging out with a specific person, and if they can't hang out, I just don't feel like doing anything. It's bad. Especially when the person I feel like hanging out with isn't even in the state.
9- I made a shirt.
10-I want to make a skirt. But I'm really lazy.
11- I did a refashion on a t-shirt I had. It turned out ok, but not great.
12- I have gotten at least 5 Circle K Polar Pops a week. 
13- I am in the single's ward for my area. It's pretty cool. But I do feel like I'm not quite meshing in yet. 
14- I got a calling in the single's ward. I can't say what it is yet, but it's pretty cool.
15- I have learned a few songs on guitar. My favorites to play are Kiss Me (Sixpence None the Richer) and Bluebird (Christina Perri).
16- I've had a few waffle parties. Those are kind of my thing.
17- I tried to teach my friends a game I learned at BYU. Some got it, others were just utterly confused the entire time...
18- I've seen a bunch of movies. Some in theater, some from Redbox, some on Netflix, some from TV that I recorded.
19- I drove with my mommy up to Flagstaff to pick my brother up from EFY. Which I never got to go to. One year, I almost did, but for some reason it would NOT let me sign up. It was so dumb. AND that was the year I was going to room with my friend, and when she got back, she told me that in her company were 2 AUSTRALIAN BOYS. I MISSED THE AUSSIES BECAUSE THE STUPID COMPUTER WOULDN'T LET ME SIGN UP. I'm not bitter...
20- I had to say good bye to one of my best friends. Which you already know. Sorry, I can't stop talking about it. :P

Well, I just hope the rest of my summer is more eventful than it has been. Because it may sound like I've done a lot, but I mostly just sit at home watching TLC. 

Life Since March Part 2- California Baby!

Early Sunday morning, I went and picked up my friend Devery and we took off for Cali. We could not for the life of us figure out how to get the cruise control working on my car, but after like 45 minutes, we got it working somehow. The trip went smoothly, until I got off on an exit by accident and we drove around some random town for 20 minutes before getting the GPS to work again. Well, it ended up being fine, cuz we got to my grandma's house five minutes behind our friends we were meeting there. We went inside, talked to my grandma for a little then set up our sleeping arrangements. Spencer and Tyler were in the downstairs bedroom and Devery, Haley, and I shared a room upstairs. There were enough rooms that us girls didn't have to share, but it is way more fun to share a room!

We then went to Julianne's house for dinner with her family, and it was so fun! Her whole family was funny and nice. Then we went back to my grandma's and went to bed. 

The next morning, Julianne came to my grandma's house and we all went to the beach. It was a pretty nice day for the beach, and the water wasn't too cold. We brought a bunch of snacks with us, so that was our lunch at the beach. We boogie boarded, and walked around and laid in the sun, and buried Dever in the sand.

After a while, we went back to my grandma's house and showered and got dressed and played card games and had dinner! Then we went BACK to the beach, but just to walk down the pier and stuff. We also walked down on the sand, even though the beach was technically closed.

Then Julianne went home and the rest of us went back to my grandma's. That's when I realized I had forgotten my part of me and Haley's secret plans! So we dropped off Spencer and Devery to make our sandwiches for lunch the next day, and Haley, Tyler, and I drove around Seal Beach trying to find a Walmart or somewhere to buy more secret surprises  We got to a Walmart and bought noisemakers and other fun stuff to bring to Disneyland!

Tuesday morning, we woke up all excited because it was Spencer's birthday! Oh, and because we were going to the Happiest Place on Earth! Because it was off-season, the hours for the park were shorter than normal, so we made plans to make the most of this super fun day! We had a HUGE surprise planned for Devery. We had all gotten matching shirts with an inside joke on them, but didn't tell her about them. So we all put them on and put jackets over (even though we definitely didn't need them) and piled into the car! We blasted Disney music and sang at the top of our lungs to prepare us for the awesomeness that awaited us. We got to Disneyland and met up with Julianne and her dad (who works at Disneyland so he could sign some of us in for free). Julianne was not wearing a jacket over her shirt, so Devery saw it and laughed. Then we all took off our jackets and she saw all of them. I pulled out hers from my bag and she was really excited! Then most people went to go park the car in the parking garage (Julianne's dad had to be there so we could get free parking). Spencer and I walked to go meet them outside of Disneyland since we couldn't all fit into the car. I am not going to tell you the super funny, awkward side-story to this grand adventure, but I might some other time. Maybe. :) When everyone got back from the parking garage, we all went into the park and got out first picture. We then went to get Spencer a birthday button. I had secretly passed out the noisemakers to the group, excluding Spencer, so when the lady at the counter said "happy birthday" to him we pulled them out and blew them! This continued on for the entire day! It was then time to start our Disney adventure. Unfortunately, two of the best rides were closed (Space Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain) but we decided not to let that get us down. We rode rides, and ran around, and went crazy all day long! After being at Disneyland for a while, we headed over to California Adventure to go on the fun stuff there and to see Car's Land. Car's Land was AMAZING! I literally felt like I was in the movie! The lines for the rides at Car's Land were super long, so we only went on one of them right at the end of the night. We took a bunch of crazy pictures and had an absolutely crazy, fun, amazing time!

After the park closed, we took a few more pictures, then went back to the car. Some of us wanted to get In-N-Out and the others didn't. So Spencer, Devery, and I were dropped off at In-N-Out and the others went and bought a frozen pizza (I think?). We then went back to my grandma's house and ate and stayed up talking. Then we went to sleep. The next morning, we all woke up later than we had planned, and we all went to breakfast then it was time to say goodbye. It was hardest to say goodbye to Spencer, since that would be the last time I saw him before his mission, and since I'm living with Haley and Julianne next year, Tyler is going to be going to BYU for Fall semester, and I was going to be driving back to Arizona with Devery. 

It was such a fun trip, and I already miss them all! 

 And now for an overload of pictures. Please notice how abnormal we are. Also, they are in no particular order. Completely random. Ok.

If you read all of that and looked at all of the pictures, comment below and you will receive a surprise. I'm not telling you what it is. But it might be an "Ask a Salmon" business card. But maybe not. You'll just have to figure that out yourself.

Life Since March Part 1- End of Being a Freshman

Well, lets see, some awesome things have happened since I last really posted about my life. There is a lot, though, so I am putting it into parts.

In April, I had finals to study for, and projects to do. Well, a project. A HUGE project. One that pretty much determined my grade in advertising, and could be the making or breaking point for getting into the advertising program. And my advertising group and I were all super procrastinators. Our project was finished at 6 in the morning the night it was due. I wasn't even there when the book was actually being made. I'm just glad that all of the advertisements we made were my idea, or stemmed from my idea. I'm just pretty awesome like that. 
Well, with that on top of studying for finals (Book of Mormon and American Heritage were the ones I was worried about) I was SOO stressed out. And on top of all that, the week before finals, my body decided to have SUPER-PMS. (TMI? Sorry, not sorry. Get over it.) I mean, I normally just get a little emotional and super flirty when I'm PMS-ing, but I think with all the stress I had, my body just went CrAzY. I would seriously be laughing with my friends one minute, and the next, I was on the floor bawling. It was so bad. SO BAD. Ugh. But, I must say, my friends are dang patient with me, and I totally didn't deserve it. I mean I was a huge brat, and they still were so understanding. I don't know how. I would have just left me to cry on the floor if I was them. 
The week before finals, our hall did a clothing swap. Everyone put their unwanted clothes in a huge pile in the basement and then anyone could take whatever they wanted. And can I just say, it was the best thing EVER. Like, free clothes? Yes, please! I put a few of my things out, but I got way too much. I was a little obsessed. It got to the point that I would literally spend everyday studying in the basement just so I would have first dibs on everything that came down. And it was well worth it. I ended the Hall Swap with 3 skirts, 3 pairs of pants, 3 cardigans, 2 jackets, 1 tunic, 1 dress, 2 bracelets, 1 brooch, 1 pair of leggings, 9 shirts, 1 pair of shorts, 1 cami, 1 pair of pants for my mom, 3 shirts for my mom, 1 shirt for a friend, about 5 yards of purple tulle, 1 rock that says "friends" on it, a bag of confetti, and a box of bubbles. Yeah, so there are a few non-clothing things in there. Also, throughout the week we were all leaving the dorms, people would leave boxes of stuff outside their doors that they didn't want, so I got another skirt and a bunch of nail polish. Can I just say, I love free stuff!!
Well, I finally got through that week, and I got all my finals done so quickly. I was done with all my finals by Monday, and I wasn't leaving until Friday. So pretty much I partied with all my peeps who had not left yet. Haley, Julianne, and I went and found out which apartment we were assigned to. It turns out it was one of the ones we had actually walked through! I am so excited to live with those girls! Somehow I got all my stuff packed up, and my dad came to pick me up, and we cleaned my room, checked out, and that was it. I was done with my Freshman year! And I was going home! But only for one evening, because then I was going to CALIFORNIA!!!

The one night that I was home, I really wanted to see Jake (who is the missionary I keep talking about, btw). But he had this rule where he would not hang out with me alone, which I found both cute and lame at the same time. So I had to come up with something for us to do, and someone to do it with. After thinking of stuff that would not work, I had a stroke of genius! My brother, Jesse, is 16, but because he is autistic and has no interest in dating whatsoever, he had never gone on a date. So we tricked him into going on a double date with us. We just told him we were going to "hang out" and play Just Dance then go get ice cream. So we had him call one of out family friends and ask her to join. We played Just Dance for a while, then ended up playing Rock Band. Then we went and got ice cream, and dropped off Jesse's date. We didn't tell him it was actually a date until later, and he was surprised, but realized that going on dates doesn't have to be romantic, it can just be fun! Well, then Jake and I went to go pick up my younger brother, Devin, up from a stake dance. We went for the last ten minutes and just partied it up. Then Jake went home and I packed for CALI!!

Check back later for my California craziness! :) (Which will include pictures, even though this post doesn't.)

P.S. If you actually read my blog, like read all of the crap I post, you are my favorite person ever. Because I probably wouldn't do the same. I don't like the reading part of blogs, I like pictures and the occasional funny story. Sorry for being a hypocrite.

Youtube Tuesday!

Ok, well. I am addicted to this song. So listen. And enjoy. Or else.

Also, I wrote my very first, hand-written letter to a missionary. (Unless you count those mutual activities where they made us write missionaries I didn't even know. "Dear Elder Blah-blah-blah, Uhm, so how is wherever it is you are? I hope you are having a grand old time. Sincerely, this girl who is in your ward but you don't even know or care about.) He hasn't even gone to the MTC yet, and I'm writing him already. I have friends that have been out for months that I haven't written. (Sorry, neglected friends....) And from this, I have learned how incredibly sucky I am at writing letters. I have friends that literally write five pages front and back to their missionary friends. I wrote one. One stinkin page. So, if you have any tips, let me know.

Also, last night at FHE, I met a guy in my ward who served his mission in Australia. I told him I was obsessed with Australia. He looked at me like I was crazy and said that after living there for two years, he found the accent annoying. I don't believe it is possible for an Australian accent to be annoying.

If you couldn't tell, I'm doing a lot better.

But still, i would very much like to skip to 2015 now.

First (of many) letters written! 

The Best, but Worst Thing Ever

I don't know how long it has been since I last posted. And I don't know how long it will be until I write again. I have been busy and lazy. Mostly lazy. And I will talk about all the fun things that have happened since I last posted, but not today.

Today, I am talking about the best and worst thing ever: missionaries leaving. 
It is the best because you know they are going to serve the Lord. For two years, they are leaving family and friends to selflessly serve the people they were called of God to serve. They are blessing the lives of others and are going to be blessed enormously for it. They are going to teach many about the glory of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. I have a great appreciation for missionaries and all they do. Because of missionaries, my mother joined the church, married my father, and now has a family that can live together forever. Missionaries have to actually leave on their missions for all these wonderful things to happen.

But it can also be the worst thing ever. It is so hard to say goodbye. It is so hard to know that the person you spend so much time with, the person you talk to everyday, the person you can tell anything and everything, the person who, no matter how stupid you are, how low you feel, or how bratty you are, is always nice and always says the right thing, is going to be gone out of your life for two whole years. That last moment you see them, when they are walking away for the last time, and you just break down is the worst feeling in the world. In that moment, you honestly don't know how you are going to survive the next two years, and you have no idea where you will be in two years. For all you know you might never see them again. Ever. And that thought just breaks you down even more. But, even though all these things suck, you know it would suck more if they didn't leave, because of all the good things that wouldn't happen if they didn't go on a mission. You just want to fast-forward the next two years and have nothing change. 

Colorado is getting one of my best friends for two years. They are getting the best missionary ever. He is going to love everyone there, and they'd better love him back, because, for goodness sakes, he is frickin spectacular. I only wish I could be there to see him be the amazing missionary I know he will be.

So, even though I have spent a majority of today in or on the verge of tears (and it will probably continue for the remainder of the two years), I know that he is doing amazing things, and that he will come home a million times greater than he already is. (I don't know how that is going to be possible, because he is already absolutely incredible.) 
These next two years are going to be hard, but from what people say, it only gets easier.

Oh, I sure hope so.

But in the mean time, dark chocolate and Dr. Pepper always makes me feel better. *winkwinknudgenudge*