I'm taking a break from packing. Packing was invented by the devil. That's pretty much a fact. Anyways...


While I'm really excited to go back and see everyone, I'm also a little sad. There were MANY times when I wondered what the heck I was doing nine hours away from home in a strange city. There were MANY times throughout the year that I wanted to pack up, call it quits, and go back home to snuggle with Mommy. I never thought I would ever like Lethbridge, and it's definitely not my most favourite city, but it's become my second home.

Here are some of the things I would have missed out on if I hadn't come to Lethbridge:
-Conquering public transit on my own
-Women's Chorus
-Exploring downtown
-Happy notes and mix CDs
-Discovering the antique shop
-Institute Choir
-"Christmas Morning" at the university in front of the big tree
-Secretly mocking Steve during class... and Ian...
-Starbucks
-Truth or Dare until all hours of the night
-Wednesday Adventures
-huge New Years parties where we didn't know 3/4 of the people... and it was at our house...
-learning to do flowers for weddings
-Finding secret staircases at school
-Folding cranes with Yokino
-all-nighters
-Getting white socks!
-learning the Hoedown Throwdown
-ordering my first Ikea catalogue
-witnessing miracles
-dressing up all fancy and attending a cabaret with my friends
-Photoshoots
-Seuss-a-palooza
-learning to make friendship bracelets
-Valentines' Day cards and parties
-Educating my favourite Lethbians about Anti-Valentines
-Learning the official term for a resident of Letbridge is "Lethbian"
-Cooking experiments
-studying with balloons
-Big Bang Theory marathons
-solos
-Attending multiple plays, concerts, and ballets
-Being in multiple concerts
-Being educated about magical slurpees with ice cream in them
-Building a fort out of newspaper in the theatre lobby
-Knocking lots of things off of the Bucket List
-volunteering
-Walking across the city
-puddle jumping
-mocking theatre kids
-Expanding my musical tastes
-Blanket forts
-Getting REALLY good at taking stairs. (The university is in a coulee... It happens.)
-Getting REALLY good at Minesweeper.
-Carving jack-o-lanterns out of vegetables because of a pumpkin shortage
-having a joint surprise party
-TLF Thursdays
-Building a snowman army in the front yard
-Care packages from home
-Bridal showers and weddings
-fangirling over Glee ALL the time
-Getting to know my cousins better
-Culture nights
-U of L Bingo
-Discovering Magic One Dollar Bread
-Making a dress completely out of garbage bags
-trying sushi
-celebrating Beleaster!
-The creation of ABSIT
-Making peanut butter cups... and ratatouille...
-April Fool's Day Waffles
-getting to hear an Apostle speak!
-Balloon launch
-really scary auditions
-growing up a little
-meeting some of the most incredible people in the world :)

Do you know what this is?

People who are around me for very long inevitably end up hearing about the infamous "Momma Froc". My mother knows I talk about her. She's still undecided whether that's a good thing or not haha. 

My birthday is in exactly two weeks. Momma Froc has been asking me what I want for my birthday. I usually don't like to ask people for things, even on such an auspicious occasion as the celebration of my birth and consequential betterment of the planet. However, since she INSISTS I make her a list, I'll just do it here where I can make it as ridiculous as I please. HA!

• The Glee Warblers CD
• bobby pins (Seriously, where do they go?)
• blowtorch
• power drill
• A wardrobe that takes me to Narnia
• a record player
• a Gnome bowling set
• A car! Either this one, this one, or this one.
• A tea party with Oprah, Julie Andrews, Ellen Degeneres, or Mr. Bean. Or all four of them.
• This dress. 
• An Oompa Loompa to clean my room and sing me bedtime songs
• film for my polaroid camera
• chalkboard paint
• nerf gun with extra ammo
• More Disney bandaids
• a new passport
• A year's supply of Orangina
• A projector so I can watch movies outside in the summer on the side of my house
• A TRIP TO IKEA
• a mango tree
• I Love Lucy Seasons 2-6
• A baby penguin

May just sounds happy. May means springtime. It's when everything starts becoming really green again and when it's that perfectly warm temperature with a little breeze to it. (Unless you live in Lethbridge, where a "little breeze" could fly a kite the size of Texas.) May is birthday month to oodles of my favourite people as well as to... ME! Also, for university kids, May means school is done and summer starts!
And of course summer means....

I miss Ellie running to meet us when we pull up in the driveway, and racing the car as we leave.
I miss the smell out in the country. And being able to breathe in deeply outside without worries of second-hand pot smoke inhalation.
I miss hiking through the bush out to The Rock to watch the sunset.
I miss being blinded by the bright yellow kitchen when I stumble into the kitchen in the morning.
I miss Benton taking the go-cart out and killing the battery EVERY time without fail.
I miss being able to see all the stars at night.
I miss loud supper times.
I miss Dad falling asleep five minutes into the movie.
I miss picking up endless amounts of paper off the floor from Sarah's doodles and lists.
I miss biking over to my grandma's house.
I miss being able to sing as loud as I want, whenever I want.
I miss the infamous Ain't No Mountain High Enough and Shoop Shoop Song duets with Mum.
I miss being able to do laundry any day of the week.
I miss not having to cook meals or pay bills.
I miss talking like babies with Logan.
I miss cutting laps around Melfort.
I miss my built-in bookshelf.
I miss listening to Clay practising piano.
I miss having everyone knowing who I am.

I knooooooow. It's late. Whatevs. I only have one class tomorrow and it's at one. I ain't even worried.


Here is my Friday To-Do List:
1. Fold and put away laundry
2. Learn all the lyrics to Beyonce's "Crazy in Love"
3. Start essay. Or at least read the pieces for the essay. Or at least pick the topic.
4. Pick outfit for Wind Orchestra concert
5. Fill out some more job applications
6. Try and find a home for the dozen cupcakes sitting on my table that I randomly baked today.

I think that's all the important stuff....

I've always had big ideas with what I wanted to do with my life.