The NEVER Ending Saga of my Life

Okay, I am sure you are wondering how my life could get any more amazing but I have another one for the record books. As you may know I am the President of the Brigham Young University Idaho College Republicans. On Friday April 3, 2009 at 4:30pm I was informed by one of the Vice Presidents of the University that College Republicans and College Democrats had been disbanded. The new policy had been in effect for a month and we were just hearing about it a month later, we had no say in this decision and now we are just supposed to sit back and let them go with it. We have been meeting with our advsior and his wife and we have another meeting tomorrow the 7 of April to furthur discuss the issue. I am not sure what that is going to accomplish since the Universtiy has already made their decision and without input from the students that this is going to affect the most, those who are politically active and care about things that affect them. There is a time and a place to begin to infringe on people right to do things and this is not one of those times. NOW is the time to be hopeing that young people are being educated and learning about the things that will affected them more then they every thought. Apathy is running wild in this country and by forcing students to not be educated and not care and not speak up about things they are passionate about will only increase the apathy in this country and make an even lazier generation.

The Semester is Coming to a Close, and NOT a Moment too Soon!

Oh this semester, how it is been a huge trial, but according to everyone, it is a HUGE learning experience. It is coming quickly to an end, and I can not even express how excited I am for that. Last weekend I went to Jerome with Catherine, to see her parents. We needed a serious break from good old Rexburg. We had a blast, just being us and not worrying about whether or not we were going to be arrested for a crime we did not committ!


Catherine and I being so awesome at life we had
to take it outside!





We met this really sweet Elk adn he wanted to take
a Picture with us, how could we refuse?!




The weekend before that we had a little party at the Nates House. The Nates are my Rexburg parents and they take really good care of me! We played Rock Band 2 for like 4 hours it was so fun!! I even got out a bandana and tied it onto my head like Brett Michaels from Bus of Love, it was awesome!!


Our Band, Team Amazing, getting pumped
for the big show! Ellie was not into our rockin
Band!!!



There really are no words for this one!!!


I have decided that I am going to be going back to CA for the summer. My mom and I talked and we decided that I would have more opportuinites down there. We are working on me maybe going back out to Indaina(I have never been there) for a little bit and the end of the summer, we will see what happens. I am excited to get out of here, it did not even matter where I was going to go!


Oh, I have almost died twice in the last 2 weeks.... I am not making that up in the least. Last week Catherine and I were driving around and we almost got hit by a moose, yes WE almost GOT hit BY the Moose, we did not almost hit the moose. And then last night some idiot was driving on the wring side of the road and almost plowed right into me, good like I have reflexes like a cat and was able to move out of the way. I think it is definantly time for a fresh look at life and a reset button push is in need!

My 21st birthday is coming and I am trying to convince my parents to get me a gun... they do not think I am capable of operating such a machine... oh but they are soooooo wrong!!! I have proof that I can work that gun, own that gun!!




Like Jack Bauer, I shoot to kill!

Oh my crazy life!

Oh my crazy life is slighly an understatment. About a month ago my roommate noticed some cash she kept in her room was missing. She asked us about it and then decided to call the police and file a report over $50. CRAZY I know, but that is not the half of it. I was interviewd by the officer who came to my house very briefly and I gave my statement, then a few hours later I had to come home because the police were coming back to interview us again. I was in with the cop for like 45 mins, I think I was in there the longest of all my roommates. I gave my story and then that was it. My roommate moved out into another apartment and we all thought it was done adn over with... NOPE, we were wrong!! Monday I was minding my own business walking home from class and I get a call from the Rexburg Police Department asking me to come down and talk to a Detective about the "missing" money. I called a lawyer and got some advice and then went down there yesterday and told the Detective exactly the same thing I told the officer the first 2 times... He asked me if I would be willing to take a polygraph to prove I was telling the truth. I said I would but the entire time I was thinking... Are you kidding me a polygraph (that is not admissible in court) over $50 that I am pretty sure NO ONE stole...Okay, if it comes to that I might die of laughter. The Detective had no idea that I trained with Jack Bauer and NOTHING can shake me!!

So other then being in an interrogation room for 30 mins, I am going to the Fremont Republicans Meeting tomorrow night to speak about young activism in the Republican Party and the things that the College Republicans have done in preserving conservative values. I am still loving school as much as possible with everything that is going on. I am going to Jerome Idaho this weekend with my roommate Catherine (that is where she is from) to get away from the drama of Rexburg, I am so excited!!

We will see how things pan out with everything. My dad called last night and called me Inmate 8675309....Oh Dad, stop that!! I am just living my life and loving as much of it as possible. I have great friends and I am making new ones and getting to know lots of new awesome friends. Trying to find the positive in thigns really is the best way to go.

For now, Inmate 8675309 is signing out and will be back after the speech to report how it went!

Holy long awaited Update BATMAN!!!

So, I know I am super lame and have taken some time off from the whole blogging but I decided that I better start updating, so here it is.
The semester is over in about 4 1/2 weeks and a lot of my friends are graduating and becoming real adults... it is a little sad because I will still be here, oh well... my time will come! I am currently the President of the BYU-Idaho College Republicans and I am loving it. We are recovering from a major loss this year but we are trying our best to stay positive and working hard to bring things back! Just a few weeks ago I went to a Lincoln Day Banquet (Lincoln is HUGE in the Republican party!) and I was asked to speak at the Fremont County (the next county over) Monthly Republican meeting on the 19th of this month. I was asked to speak about the young people in the Republican party and all that we have done to promote conservative values across the country with all of our deployments that we go on! I am super excited about it.
I am working at the Admissions Office here at BYU-Idaho and I love it! It is so much fun and all the people here are so great, it is like a family away from home. Classes are super stressful and frustrating but I like most of them. I am loving learning about all the political aspects of so many different areas of the world we live in, me being a political science major and all. I am getting really close to graduating. I have about 3 semesters left so I am winding down my stay here in Rexburg. As much as I have loved living here, I am defiantly ready to go out and see where I bloom! I am not sure what I want to do when I graduate, there are so many options for me and so many things that I am interested in I am not sure where I should go, but we will see!
Rexburg has been its usual self thins winter... COLD and SNOWY, two of my not so favorite things! But now that I have Snowflake the Autobot (My cute little car) things are a little less cold and frustrating! When Magnum the Autobot died things were tough, but then I got Snowflake and she is great!
My roommates are amazing. I currently only have 4 of them, one recently moved out after a scandal occurred within our apartment. I have built an amazing friendship with Catherine, she is one who I lived with last semester. Her and I are planning on taking our show on the road... we are pretty gosh darn funny! We have even thought about putting together and all girls "Queen" tribute band, we are going to call it "King"... just a plan right now but it would be pretty awesome!
Over the summer my parents moved to Ellettsville Indiana, a small town just outside Bloomington, where the University of Indiana is, and they LOVE IT!!! Tanner and Reagan are adjusting very well to the new form of life out there in "Rural America'' but they seem to be liking it just fine.
A few months ago I applied for a Ronald Reagan Student Leader Scholarship and I am still waiting to hear back about that. Getting that Scholarship would be amazing, it would help me out so much. I am also working with someone in my office here to get a scholarship for my grades, and that seems to be headed in the right direction so we will see where things end up.
My life is pretty much the same as ever with a lot more stress that is not really wanted, but it is a part of life. I am still unsure as to what I am going to do this summer. If I can get a well paying job in California then I will most likely end up there, but if I can not get a job in CA, then I am going to go to Indiana and work somewhere out there. It is all about where the jobs are.
For now that is all I have. I am sure there will be something else to report soon! I promise to be better with the updates and postings. I will have new pictures soon too.

Presidential Debate number 1

Here we are, roughly a month away from the most important day in history and we get to see first hand how the candidates act under pressure. I think that McCain won this debate hands down. That has nothing to do with my high dislike of Obama. I can not remember how many time Obama said that McCain was right... I mean shouldn't Obama have his own ideas about what is right?!?! I am just sayin'. McCain wiped Omaba out in this.

When McCain told the story of the soilders braclet that he was asked to wear by the soilder's mother, and then Obama just out of nowhere happens to have a bracelet just like McCain...I am thinking Obama really wants to be just like McCain.

I liked how McCain joked about how he has been called the Sheriff in the Senate and he did not win Miss. Congeniality this year!! I laughed so hard at that.

Obama stuttered like no other in this debate... No Teleaprompter!!!!

I am pleased with McCain and how he handled the questions. He did bring up Vietnam and his service there, which he never does. He truly knows what it takes to be a leader and fight for this country, because he has done it and continues to do it. Obama has done nothing to show his true love for his country.

Watch out Joe Biden... the Hockey Mom is on her way!!!!!!

School

School has started and I am now starting in the second week of my 3rd year at BYU-Idaho. The first week was super stressful, with all the classes, one that starts at 7:45am three days a week, working 19 hours a week, and the bookstore not being stocked with the books that I needed for my foreign government class... so all in all it was a stellar first week of school.

Other then classes kicking my rear end, I had to move apartments for this semester, even though I was supposed to live in my old apt with my old roommate BobbieJane that did not work out so I moved into a new apartment and got 5 brand spanking new roommates, I knew none of them. So we have Britta, yes like the water purfication system, she is a FRESHIE from Conn. She is so cute and fun. Next we have Ciara... I do not know to much about her but she is a sweethear nonetheless. Now we have Briar, she is from Ohio and is really fun. She is a theater major, which is super neat! Then comes Rebecca... this is the thrid semester I have had a roommate named Rebecca... CRAZY!!! She is from Illnionis and is super cute and fun and way nice. Lastly, but never the least we have Catherine. She is from "Normal Idaho" as she puts it, and is pretty much amazing and makes me laugh like no other!!! We often take trips to the Cocoa Bean to get cupcakes when we really do not need them but just want one to make us feel better!!! I am so glad I was able to meet these girls and get to know them.

Week two has just begun and it looks like it is off to a promising start but we will see!

The Convention

I know this has been a really long time since i have written anything, but now I have a little bit of time to sit down and give a little report from the most amazing trip ever!!!

Day half, this was travel day and get all your identification in order so we could get in to the convention. So we are in this meeting we the ladies who are running the Idaho Delegation getting everything in order, and one of them gave me a pin that I really liked so that was kind of cool!! I was just talking to one of the ladies and guess who walks in… none other then JOHN VOIGHT!!!!! It was so crazy. He just walked in like he knew us all. He talked with us, took pictures with us, and was so down to earth, it was way cool. He was with another actor named Robert Davi, who was the bad guy in the “Goonies”. They are both in a movie coming out in October called “The American Carol”. All in all tonight was pretty freaking cool!!!

So this is the first real day of the trip, and it has been amazing!! This morning we tried to go to church but that did not work out so well because we did not know where it was and then we missed the bus. Sad DayL While we were waiting to go over to the convention center there was a HUGE liberal demonstration that was going on in front of our hotel. They were freaking crazy!!! So this afternoon we went to a reception type thing to welcome all the Delegates to the Convention, and it was FANTASTIC!!!! Lee Greenwood preformed and the entire crowd was going crazy, it was so much fun!! We were also able to screen a movie that is coming out in October called “The American Carol” It is a little bit like “A Christmas Carol” but making fun of liberals, I thought is was really funny. It is stupid humor but it made me laugh. Then we were able to go to a convention and got to do all this crazy fun stuff like taking fun pictures in front of Air Force One, in the Oval Office, We even got sworn in as President of he United States, AMAZING!!!! It has been pretty much an amazing day!!!

Before the convention every day there were different receptions that we could go to. We went to one where Mitt Romney was, I did nto get to meet him though :( There were so many people trying to get to him, and then he was wisked away for another meeting. I was a little disappointed about not meeting Mitt I did get to meet Congressman JC Watts, AMAZING!!!! He was so nice, he talked to me about school and all that, it was really nice to see that he is a normal person.

The convetion it self was awesome! I never thouht i would have the opportuinty to see all this unfold in front of me. I was given the chance to go onto the floor and hear a bunch of speakers. I heard from Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, which I was not really impressed with at all, Rudy Guliani, and The most amazing woman ever Sarah Palin. There are no words to tell how fabulous this was.

I really can say that Sarah Palin is the right person for the job. The final day of the convention I was in the FOXNEWS Stragety Room and was interviewed by Brian Wilson on LIVE TV!!! He asked me what I thought of Sarah Palin and what she is doing for women in politics, I thought I was so cool:)

John McCain spoke and there were a couple of protesters that got in, that was kind of funny to watch them mke fools of them selves, but after the speech I got to go back on to the floor and was on FOXNEWS again behind Jim Angle while he was giving his report of the convention.

I got to be apart of the American Political System and I am still on my high from it. I do not think I have screamed so much in my whole life, and now I think my voice is totally ruined, but it was worth it!!!

I almost forgot this part, We went to a Lee Greewood concert, which was AMAZING!!! and I saw Henry Kissengr, he was about 5 feet away from me, and First Lady Laura Bush came to a breakfast for the people from Idaho, it was great!

Thank you to all who helped me to get there, I can not thank you enough for what you have done for me.