I ain't goin' on no airplane!

JK I actually am going on an airplane, tomorrow actually haha. I saw A- Team last night and that was one of my favourite quotes. It was so good and it makes me want to see the original. But it was super funny and I liked it. BA is probably my favourite character EVER and Liam Neeson is just a beast so I enjoyed that movie thoroughly.

So this past week I've heard a lot of these types of comments: Lauren you're the only one who...

- would eat just a cucumber for dinner

- colour codes your closet (EXCEPT I FOUND PEOPLE WHO DO, SO HAH!)

- doesn't drink

- actually reads the duPont Registry, the Ferrari magazine, and magazines about real estate and obsesses over/keeps them all

- likes to eat ginger straight

- writes notes/lists about everything on post it notes

- is a girl and yet refuses to buy women's basketball shoes/shorts so you buy men's instead

And its just funny. They're all silly but its like... haha I don't know! I'm just weird, and this week especially I've been like AHHH because this has been my most clumsy week ever and I've just been... weird. Haha end of story. Okay I'm going kind of crazy right now. Maybe because I'm so excited that I'm leaving for Utah tomorrow morning! Woooh!

Picture caption for today: Shot of the crowd from my first ever American high school basketball game! I think it was the varsity boys and I think we won? Can't member, it was a long time ago. But I went with Jake and Mitch and it was quite the party.

Oh yea one more thing, today I felt like a punk rocker for some reason. It was weird. Anyhooozle, I'm gonna go finish packing. Love youuu.

Wowza.

Oh my heavens. FLICKR. One of my close friends en suisse bought me a pro flickr account as a present. I almost DIED I was that excited. I absolutely love it. Its so great! I've had so much fun. And this picture was the one I was most proud of today. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lauren-dautel/4739419659/lightbox/ I have a couple more from the same shoot on my flickr account of bubby. She is so great to take pictures with. She doesn't even pose, she just naturally takes these amazing pictures.

There's a song I really like that starts like this:

Have you ever loved someone so much, you'd give an arm for?

Not the expression, no, literally give an arm for?

When they know they're your heart
And you know you were their armour

I have no idea why I've been thinking about this so much, but I have. Every time I hear it I think of my little sisters. I'd take a bullet for them any day, but do I act like it all the time? I know I don't, I'm not anywhere near perfect. I need to be better at showing them I love them. I just want them to know for a fact that I would do anything for them, and I mean I'm leaving the nest soon. I want them to absorb everything I've learned in life so they're don't have to go through the stupid little things in middle school and high school, but I know that's not how it works. I guess I just have to show them as much as I can that I love them, then let them learn on their own. Gosh I love them.

By the way, yesterday could have been the most clumsy day of my life. First I fell in a toilet. Then I slipped MEGA freaking bad upstairs and got a huuuuge bruise on my hip. It's cool. And I was bleeding on my leg. I was like SCORE, that's really attractive. Then later I hit myself multiple times in multiple places (not gonna go into that, its just stupid) and tripped a further time spilling water everywhere. Then, I burned myself and had to ice it forever. I'm not normally like that though so that's a comfort. I think I need help.

Does it get anymore awesome? I think not.

Today was a good day. Lets review:

1. I woke up and went walking with mom which is always fun. She's the best of the best.

2. I got ready, and did my drive time where I hit the curb whilst going on a curve ON THE FREEWAY. Yes, it scared the living daylights out of me and yes, my instructor thought I was going to panic and die.

3. I had fun with mom going to pick up the girls from different places. I know it sounds weird but just hanging with mom is like... really fun! Even just talking in the car is fun. She makes me laugh.

4. I made lunch for bubby and I and I learned how not to cook noodles. (first you boil, then you put them in)

5. Then we just chilled around the house and what not and I babysat the girls which consisted of:

- Doing a little shoot with bubby which ended up not being so little. She was dead by the end of it, and I rewarded her with gum. Hahaha.

- Going through all 350 pictures from the shoot and deciding which ones to ditch and which ones to keep. (it takes me SO long to do that because I hate deleting, it makes me anxious)

- Editing the pictures I decided to keep then uploading them on my flickr.

- Blogging/stalking other peoples blogs.

Now I'm going to go write in my 'grateful for' journal (I HAVEN'T MISSED A DAY YET, YEA YEA!) and go to bed. I'll be up early tomorrow just like every other saturday... Haha joy. Naw its fine, I like it. It makes me feel... productive.

Oh yea! Picture caption: here is one of bubster that I didn't edit/upload (maybe another time) that I thought was cute. Love her.

GUESS WHAT? I JUST CHECKED MY FLICKR AND I ALREADY HAVE 5 COMMENTS ON THE 3 PICTURES! In less that an hour! Oh my heavens I've never had this many in such a short period of time! HIGH FIVE! Love. my. life.

Today was a good day.

Today was a really good day.

Fry Sauce.

Something that made me laugh today (a story from a friend):

i was making french fries...

and i was like, what kind of sauce should i put with them?

so i google something along the lines: "what sauce to use with my fries?" (very lame i know, but i'm bored)

and then fry sauce is hit like number 3

and everyone was going, "when i was in utah i had this sauce that is from there... i don't know what's in it, what is it????"

so i was like, I KNOW A MORMON AND I CAN ASK!

then i hear a mix of ketchup and mayo.... your people are really not that creative.

I almost died when I heard that. Hahahah.

Okay something I learned today: Whether you want to or not, sometimes you just gotta vent. Letting things bother you inside doesn't work out in the end, and its better to just pour out your heart and soul to someone you can trust like a friend or parent or something. I realized they're not going to laugh at you, or think you're being silly just because you're wanting to talk about something that is important to you. So yea!

Haha funny old picture I found of Soren when we went to the temple in switzerland. Gooood times, hahaha. Oh boy we've both gotten so old. :)

One piece of advice from an old man: "Its better to be funny than pretty."

Its crazy how fast life goes, just 2 years ago this was me and the girls. Gosh I love them, and I love how I love hanging out with them. Its just fun. They're the funniest girls ever.

The reason why I put that as my post title is because I really liked it. Too bad though, looks like I ran out of luck haha. You know what is sad? I look at other people's flickr and blogging pages and all I think is 'wow, I am the biggest failure known to man'. Everyone is so freaking good at this stuff! Another thing, I did so many stupid things today. Including embarrassing myself in front of the guys working on the pool, and tripping multiple times whilst shopping with Jules. JUST DANDY! Ah! Why am I being so crazy weird today?! I don't know. I just don't. Being a teenager is so weird. What is this. I don't know. AH!

I realized something. Making and giving cookies to people feels so much better than making and eating them yourself. I'm going to do it more, yessir I am. If you want cookies call me. :) Oh and I realized another thing. Today I was talking to a friend about what kind of parent I'll be, and I realized I'm super excited for my kids. Except they're going to be like 'what the, we have the most insane mom on the planet!' but they'll get over it and we'll have fun. Oh another thing, sometimes I just wish I could see into the future and see who I'm going to marry. That would be wicked! Except life doesn't work like that really.

Just smile back

I'm coming to a blogger's block... I'm getting really picky about what I write about because I want it to be cool and I feel like I'm so boring sometimes. But I guess I realized, who am I trying to impress? This is my journal.

Speaking of journals, I got an idea from a YW lesson we had about journaling. So I decided to dedicate a little notebook to write down 3 things every day that I'm grateful for. I started yesterday and its funny because I kind of already have a new outlook on life! I'm like 'oh I can write that down, I'm grateful for that!' Its pretty cool.

I HIT ONE THOUSAND VIEWS ON MY FLICKR ACCOUNT YESTERDAY! I was so freaking excited.

So Julia and I were on the third floor talking sunday night, and we went to high five each other about something and we both missed so she hit my face. It was probably the funniest thing ever.

Heavenly Ever After

The Celtics lost the very last game by 4 points. That is a disgrace. But I am no longer spending anymore time on this or else I'll just get depressed. Anyhoozle-

Girls camp was absolutely incredibly phenomenal. It was insane. Brynn and I as YCLs had the best girls ever(FOURTH YEARS BABY!), and I felt like a mother hen. They were amazing and I honestly learned so much from them in the past week. Best part: testimony meeting obviously. Those first years just warmed my soul. Its beautiful how much they learned about themselves in such a short time, and it was crazy to see them spiritually growing so fast. Girls like these are the ones that will change the world, for sure.

Mega funny/amazing highlights:

- Freaking COCKROACH on the wall! We all bonded in screaming and practically crying whilst Jenny took up the courage to try and kill it. Most intense 10 minutes ever.

- During dinner we did an HSM type deal where I stood on my chair singing don't stop believing then one by one the other Lauren, Brynn, Julia, Tiffani, Sarah stood up too and sang together and everyone thought it was epic.

- Watching my little sister go up to bear her testimony for the first time ever and she said she loved me. I cried, she cried, and it was never ending haha. I love her so, so much.

- Watching my mother be hilariously crazy, but what else is new? This envelopes multiple costumes and crazy dancing. She is the best mum I could ever ask for.

- Pulling an all nighter and being absolute freaks. Jana, Tiffani, Brynn (partially), Emilie, Emi, and I were freaking INSANE I tell you, insane.

All in all it was indescribably incredible. I can't wait to be a YC next year!

Redeemed

Okay, the Thursday night game was amazing. I loved it. I made a mental note of things I wanted to say throughout the game:
- Wallace: you are such a thug. Nice job swearing and getting a technical foul. I hate it when players do that because you're basically just throwing your points away. Niiiiiice. But he did make a wicked 3 pointer.
- Rondo: I'm utterly in love with you please marry me.
- Kobe: such a beast. Seriously, he is so amazing its really unbelievable.
- Davis: you won my heart back after the last game, its all good now. Just stop acting so cocky.
- Pierce: you remind me of a black Adam Sandler, I don't know why.

Lately I've been having some crazy dreams. They're really vivid and luckily they include funny people but its just been weird because I don't normally have dreams like that.

SO EXCITED FOR CAMP. Being a YCL is going to rock and I'm pretty sure my girls are going to absolutely love Brynn and I. We've got some pretty sweet things in store for them. Holllaahhhh

One day I"m moving to China. Its official. Just you watch, it'll happen.
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DANCE UP IN KATY TONIGHT YEA YEA!

Hmmmmhmmmhmmm.

Picture explanation: no I wasn't run over. There was a sign that said 'Do not layover at this stop' or something so I decided to be a rebel and 'layover at this stop'. It took me like 10 minutes to decide whether to do it or not, even though there were no cars. Hahah. I just ran right after the silver toyota. It was CRAZY.

So it's been a week and a day since summer started for me. And I'm proud to say I haven't woken up later than 8 15 this whole time. SCORE! Being productive here I come! Maybe...

Lately I've been thinking a lot about what my input to the world is. I just see all of these people who change the world and think 'I'm so lame!' I guess I shouldn't be upset that I can't live up to people like Nelson Mandela because hey, I'm 16. But I'm hoping one day I can do something impressive... really impressive. Something that will change at least a couple of people's lives. I just gotta figure out what that is first.

One more thing: say what you feel. Because people always appreciate it.

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Go listen to: Comes and Goes by Greg Laswell.

DISAPPOINTMENT TO THE MAX.

What the.

Celtics lost.

What is this world coming to.

Can I just say, I was so excited for this game and it was the biggest letdown ever. I didn't lose faith until the last 30 seconds, then I just walked up to my room to change into my PJs because I knew it was the end. No more hope. Wow, I'm going to cry myself to sleep tonight...

Its okay, I still love you Rondo . And kudos to you Derek Fisher. And Davis... you bother me to no end so this relationship is O-V-E-R, OVER! That is all.

ps- Today I had my first dance class at an academy in River Oaks and I loved it. Loved it. I was scared out of my mind because the first part of the routine took me a while and I was nervous but then I got into it and I was like YES I love this instructor. She's great.

Waco (no, not pronounced 'wacko')

SO MUCH FUN, I can't even explain it. Funnest days of ma life right thur. No but seriously, amazing, absolutely amazing. I have not had that much fun in a while and it was such a great bonding type deal. I haven't been this sore in a while but it was SO worth it. I'm uploading my pictures (exactly 2,348 of them) onto Picasa to make a movie from the still shots. Its gonna be B-E-A-S-T. There were 3 girls, 6 guys and I'm pretty sure the three of us owned the boys in everything... yes, everything.

I love my life. It's official. I've decided I honestly am so blessed and I am so happy where I am right now. I'm really glad I've come to realize what my priorities are in life and I think the reason why I'm so happy is that I know everything happens for a reason and that we're given trials on purpose. If we do what we're supposed to, we can work through them. Its all about faith baby.