FINALMENTE!

my internet works decently! hooray! i still need to upload my sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday pictures, but here are all the pictures [except for sunday and monday] from last week.


tuesday: today we went to watch brenda play basketball. byu-i doesn't have intercollegiate sports, but it does have intramurals. our ward has two teams and they were actually playing against eachother in this picture. win-win-win!


wednesday: so, we have this big rosie the riveter poster in our living room and my friend caleb found this rosie the riveter action figure at a gas station and got it for me! it even comes with "lunchpail and 'riveting action' rivet gun!"
it's awesome.


thursday: i was talking to alyx on the phone on wednesday and i saw "drake passage" which is really funny because her older brother's name is drake. so i emailed the picture to him and it was awesome.


friday: for my latin dance class, we had to get these special latin dance shoes and these are mine! they're REALLY SPARKLY! i didn't know they would look like that! but they're really fun to dance in!


saturday: i moved my desk today. the back of it used to be against the foot of my bed, but i kept kicking things in my sleep and knocking them off my desk, so i changed it! i actually like it a LOT better this way! it makes the room look bigger and now i have a better place to put my guitar! win-win-win!


i'll post sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday, and thursday pictures tomorrow providing the internet is still working!

i haven't forgotten

i haven't forgotten about this. i've been taking pictures every day and they're all on my computer, but the internet at my apartment is absolutely horrendous and i haven't been able to upload any of them. hopefully it will start working soon.

sabado, domingo, lunes

this is my injured leg. you can't see them very well, but i currently have sixteen bruises on this leg. how did it happen?
well, i fell down the stairs in my complex. it's a funny story, actually. my roommates and i were going latin dancing on campus and we were walking down the stairs and lesley was saying how she was scared to fall down the stairs. i was telling her that if she falls, she should just make it look like she meant for it to happen that way. but the second i said the word "fall," i completely biffed it and slid down the flight of stairs with my right leg under me and my left leg extended.
it was hilarious and i'm proud to be a part of our apartment's favorite anecdote.

this is caleb. he's pretty much our sixth roommate. he even has his own food cupboard and totinos party pizzas in the freezer.
oh, and he bakes us cookies and brownies and apple crisp all the time.
and yes, that is the apron mom made for me.
i don't know what it is about guys in rexburg wanting to wear that...

this is where i spend a lot of my time nowadays. i even went there today on my day off [thanks mlk!] because i have more homework this semester than i've ever had in my entire life.

esta nevando

this was taken on my way to the library at around 7:45 am. the snow was falling and it was beautiful.

the following was written during my advanced writing class.

i forget
sometimes how ethereal the snow is when it falls
until i walk through it's pure, sparkly curtain
into another world.
a thick, fragile comforter covers the
sidewalks, cars, trees, rooftops, people
enveloping them in a cold embrace.
it's funny how something so
bright, pure, beautiful
can be thought of as
ugly, ininviting, dreary.
it seems to me that the definition of love
is to feel the flakes float dreamily from the sky,
kissing my nose, eyelashes, cheeks.
it's all for me. it's all for everyone.
sometimes, when i feel the snow all around me,
i wonder how it's possible that
i forget.

miercoles y jueves

these are the "notes" i took during my intro to hispanic literature class. it's a little bird in a nest reminding me of the homework i have in that class [which i have not attempted yet].

this is my latin dance workbook. i almost dropped this class, but i didn't. and i'm really glad because today was awesome! and i ordered cute dance shoes [gold!] and i got to practice a lot today and it was great.
so, things are looking up. the internet here is still horrible [it didn't work AT ALL yesterday], my printer is still broken, and my homework load is seemingly insurmountable, but there's a silver lining on every cloud.

that's the way it goes, it'll all work out

circumstances have worsened since this post.

i've been listening to this song a lot.

el templo

this is the rexburg temple. it is gorgeous when it isn't surrounded by gray clouds and snow. today i got to go on a tour through it and it was absolutely amazing. i felt the spirit so strongly [in spite of the fiftymillion children crying] and it made me feel even more excited for when i someday take out my endowments. i loved being there. i never wanted to leave.


this is a picture of rexburg from the hill the temple is on.
impressive, eh?

this is the field across the street from the temple that will inevitably be dotted with housing developments before too long.

viernes, sabado, domingo

friday: this is my guitar. i've been writing a lot lately.


saturday: this is the poster alyx got me for christmas in 2006. she lost it but then found it right before she got to rexburg this weekend.

sunday: this is caleb and i reenacting two things at once: ET and "god creates adam" of sistine chapel fame.

a reason to be happy

i've had a tough couple of days. my laundry room key won't let me in, my printer is not working at the moment, the internet at my complex is slower than prodigy, and the snow just keeps on coming.
today was a good day in spite of all the bad.

christmas is over

today we took down all of our christmas decorations. it was sad.
and everything is still on the floor.

man bag

this is my friend, nathan, holding the purse i got for christmas.
yes, he's wearing shorts in the snow. we even played catch in the fields by our complex and he didn't even put pants on.
he's crazy.
ps: i tried to get a good rexburg picture, but it will have to wait until tomorrow. or some other day.

dos fotos: la comida

1. this is a vanilla almond crepe filled with sauteed cinnamon and sugar apple slices, whipped cream, powdered sugar, and nutella.
2. this is my delicious lunch. chicken cheese enchilada soup [from a can] and salad with tomatos, cheese, dried blueberries, and raspberry walnut vinaigrette.

delicioso.

bookends

this is a picture of caleb, jill, and nick [old fhe brother, roommate, friend]. when i took this picture i thought of that simon and garfunkel song "old friends." there's a line in it about two friends sitting on a park bench like bookends.
it looks like jill is the book in this picture.

same old lang syne

new years resolutions and i have sort of an on again off again relationship. some years i'm completely against making any because i know i won't follow through [a nice dose of self-deprecation is always a good way of starting the new year, eh?] and most other years i'm overly-ambitious and end up making more resolutions than i can handle/impractical and set lofty goals.
this year, i think i made some achievable resolutions. one of them applies to this blog.
i didn't take any pictures at all last semester [correction: i took about six of myself for facebook/myspace because i was sick of the pictures i had before--oh, the vanity] and so i have resolved to take one picture everyday of 2008.
starting today.
so here is a picture for each day i missed: january 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st.

january 5th:
this is my food cupboard at school filled with the generosity of mom and dad.

i'm really excited to eat those thai instant dinners.

january 4th:
this is a snowflake i cut out when we were decorating our living room.

it's my favorite one.

january 3rd:
this is a gift for my friend, dan: two mix cds.

he said he wants to broaden his musical horizons.

january 2nd:
these are the booklets i made for the cds. i sewed the covers.

i was listening to etta james when i took this picture.

january 1st:
this is my room in rexburg.

the watercolor of the piano kris painted for me that one christmas is on my desk [the one that was mounted on a piece of cardboard with the nice note on the back]. i love it.

well, now i'm caught up. i'm excited to find things everyday i can capture on film [memory card].

in other news:
-i'm back in rexburg [unfortunately]. i'm thinking about transferring [but that doesn't mean much because i think about doing a lot of things i never end up doing].
-i also have found myself listening to jimmy eat world's most recent album chase this light nonstop. the songs on it aren't amazing, but they are extremely catchy and, therefore, addicting. but i will say this: when i first listened to the whole album, it felt like i was hearing from a longlost childhood friend. futures was a pretty bad album. it wasn't really jimmy eat world to me. but this new album is back to the band i know and love.
-i still hate snow.

love kellie