And the snow continues...

Still stuck in the house...Good news is that my neice is here and she is adorable and always has a surprised look on her face. I know I should post pictures but I am too lazy and she is sleeping right now anyway. I was talking to my friend the other day and I realized that I'm going back to utah in less than a week...and honestly I haven't even been paying attention to how fast the time has gone. In my month of solitude I have been able to reflect on my life a little and make sure that I'm making good decisions and doing the things that I truly care about. Here are some things I've learned:

1. I don't hate Oregon as much as I say I do.
Seriously. It's beautiful here. It's pretty when it's sunny; it's pretty when it rains; it's pretty when it snows. Oh yeah and there's a mountain that's an hour away in one direction, a beach that's an hour away in the other direction, a city that's twenty minutes away, and farmland like five minutes away. I live in the middle of heaven. It is SO green here...even in the middle of winter. Love, love, love.

2. I like what I'm doing with my life.
I get a little embarrassed when I say I'm going to law school because sometimes people make a big deal about it and I just don't really know what to say because I don't think it's that big of a deal...I just think it sounds challenging and it's something I want to do. I've had a lot of time to make sure it's really what I want to do and as I send in my applications I feel even more ready for it. I'm extremely excited to go to Guatemala (Holy crap in like three weeks) and I'm excited to be stranded in a foreign country without knowing the language. Talk about character building. I really hope that I will be able to grow up a little while I'm gone and really figure out what I want from life.

3. I'm really irresponsible.
There I said it. I laugh too much; I love to play; and sometimes I spend my time foolishly...I love video games. And games. Period.

Let it snow, baby.

Heatha, this one is for you. So as I was leaving the good state of Utah a couple of weeks ago I specifically remember congratulating myself for successfully getting away before it started to snow. I was pretty happy with myself. So here I am now in Oregon (for those of you who actually read this blog and may have missed that bit of information) and I wake up yesterday and look out my window...my car is covered in six inches of snow. Ga-reat. Now I have to whip out the mittens and the coat and the snow pants just to feel warm enough to get out of bed.

Actually...besides the fact that my car is covered in snow (I'm not driving it until the snow melts off on its own), it's pretty nice. I like the look of it. And yesterday my dad spent forever piling up the snow in our backyard so that it would be here when my sister and her husband got here. Cute, huh? I tried to get him to come inside after it got dark, but he pretty much shot me down and said he was having too much fun. I guess it doesn't snow that much here or something. Oh yeah and it is SO windy!! Blusters of already fallen snow are blowing past my window as we speak.

Two more weeks until I'm back in the cold land of Utah....and it's like three weeks before I leave for Guatemala!! I'm so excited. I've started speaking Spanish as much as possible...you know, gracias and hola and what not. That's pretty much what I know. I found out that I'm going with some kid from Salt Lake City who is fluent in Spanish. I told him that he could play a bunch of jokes on me but I'm not sure if he knows I'm serious. So far, no jokes. Oh well, I stalked him on facebook and it looks like he might have a personality. We'll see. I got my first set of shots last week and I'm taking pills for typhoid and I get to go back to the doctor on Thursday so he can inject my arm with more poison...oh yeah and the doctor's office is this suspicious little whole in the wall place in downtown Portland. He's probably really injecting my arm with some sort of HIV virus as part of a diabolical experiment that I'm unaware of but at least I'll be spending the last few months of my life in a foreign country. Woo woo. Well that's about all I got for today. Betty's getting antsy and wants me to shower or something...I can't remember the last time I washed my hair.

xoxo...OxOxOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

(Oh yeah thanks to Heather...I was listening to the music from your blog as I was writing all this stuff that doesn't really matter)

Here we are in BO-ring Oregon...

Oregon is one of the most beautiful places in the world. Seriously. I went on a drive with my mom yesterday and we went through some of the most beautiful places. There was this one part in particular where there was a big drop off next to the road we were driving and the valley beneath us was all green and farmland and foggy and gorgeous and I loved it and I love it here.

The only problem is that I have nothing to do but study for the LSAT and read. It's getting pretty boring. I need more stuff to do...like go four-wheeling or bungee jumping or white water rafting. I think winter is boring. I'm going to have to be creative and see if there is anything fun that I can do.

PS I got my facebook back. Yikes.