Like sister like sister

So I just got done reading Nora's blog and she put up her quirks...I got tagged by cousin Kristen and I have ignored it for a while. Here goes:

1. I collect change like crazy. I will give the cashier $3 if its only $2.01 and I have a penny in my wallet. Its a way that I save money. And other money saving things too, like my bank this month and next month will give me $10 each month if I use my debit card 10 times each month. I've already used it 10 times this month when I rarely use it and just my credit card.

2. I can't keep secrets about myself to myself. And when a friend tells me something that is private, I have to consciously tell myself that I can't tell anyone or else I might just blurt it out. I'm a pretty open person, don't hide things. But...there is one thing that I won't tell anyone, only my husband when I get one.

3. I really love redheaded cowboys. Yep, any cowboy or guy with red hair, my eyes are glued to them for a few moments, wishing I could have someone that's like that.

4. I love the color red. My "favorite" or I should say assigned color growing up was purple but I decided as I got older that I don't like purple, red is the color for me. I love wearing red clothes, having red purses, red towels...anything.

5. I would rather be in a t-shirt and jeans than dressing up everyday. I'm getting better at dressing up now though.

6. I have 3 formal "prom" dresses...that's kind of a lot.


7. I like to sleep in jeans, I think its comfortable. I don't do it all the time but when I'm at a friends house or something, I would rather sleep in jeans than borrow pj's.

8. I'm pretty moody but I keep it inside. So I'll tell someone that I'm grumpy today and they don't understand why I say I am cause I don't show it.

9. I like to dress up weird, all the institute dances that have themes...I dress weird. And these green and black tights I'm wearing in the pic, I love them and usually incorporate them in my weird dress up costumes whenever I can.


I think that's about it, I don't know how quirky they are, there's some more but I should keep them inside :) haha.

Kite Flying and Monkeys Screaming

Warning: Very long post below, view when you have time and are bored.

Me and two of my roommates at CLUE, an activity at the Stake Center where we had to dress up and play real live clue. We're all wearing another roommates dresses. It was fun. l-r Shelby, me, Kelsey...these are the girls I actually share a room with.

A day when me and my friend Jon were taking random pictures, my purse and backpack are the same thing during school, don't want to have to keep switching stuff from my purse to my backpack.

The beautiful red leaves that are everywhere up here!

Riley (in background), Dad, Danica, and half of Mom when I went home this past weekend for birthdays/general conference.

Danica's eyes look so cool in this picture. We were taking pictures of us and I was letting her push the button so all the shots are really close and cut both of us off. :)

Hello everyone,
It's been quite some time since my last blog. I would have been doing homework right now but you know, Heavenly Father is a powerful being and he made it so my homework isn't due till tomorrow night. Now, I'm not procrastinating. I made a goal this year to not do homework on Sundays, that way it would truly be a day of rest from all my worldly cares and I could concentrate on my spiritual side and even though I have homework that I could do, I just don't think about it because I can't do it on Sunday anyway. I just cast it out of my mind and all my cares and relax. I figure, if God could make the world in 6 days, which is a major task, that's all of the world's daily projects combined into one, plus some, and he still took the Sabbath day off to rest. I can't be that busy that I can't take a day to rest.

And let me tell you, I was not understanding this microeconomics homework that I was doing last night, not one bit and I was getting so frustrated. It was a long day yesterday. I planned to get a lot of homework and studying done, squeeze in a double date, and just get things accomplished. I got one homework assignment done and the rest of the day was a social event. Sheesh, its so hard for me to say no to things that look fun and yesterday was a day I wasn't able to squeak out that word. So I was staying up trying to do this microeconomics homework, closing my eyes for a little nap every so often cause I was tired...and then I climbed into my friends bed cause I didn't have my car at her house and just gave up, decided to finish it tomorrow, Sunday. I wasn't liking this idea but I wasn't making any progress on this homework I didn't understand at all. I was hoping Heavenly Father would forgive me for not making the wisest choices and hoping he would understand my reasons for doing a 103 point assignment that was due tonight, Sunday.

Well, I get on my computer tonight, do my church calling stuff first so that I can get that out of the way and not procrastinate it, then go onto the website to do my homework and I can't believe my eyes...the teacher changed it to be due tomorrow, on Monday. That's a miracle right there! Someone upstairs sure does love me so I can keep my promise to not do homework on Sunday. I am so glad to have a testimony of this gospel and to live and obey the commandments so I can be blessed from someone who is all powerful and all knowing.

Its been a trialsome time for me lately, with guys I like not working out, truckloads of homework, waking up at 7 AM every morning and not quitting for the day until midnight or later, gaining weight cause I don't have time to exercise, having major huge red mountains all over my face called pimples, just not feeling emotionally well and not being sure of myself. I bore my testimony today about how I was reading in Ether 12, the scripture about you receive no witness until after the trial of your faith. This was comforting and reassuring to read, that I just need to have faith and then once the trial is past, I'll receive the witness I need and the growth that will make me a better person. So I just need to be patient until these trials pass.

Well, let me put some pictures up so that there's more than just words on this post.

Putting the kite together, those wimpy little sweaters we're wearing don't show the magnitude of the coldness. Ammon is wearing Alyce's bucket hat and he looks like an old grandpa in all the pictures.

Hurrah! The kite finally took wind...but...

Run Ammon Run! Mark kept dive bombing it straight at Ammon and he got hit a few times.

And when Mark said I was complaining about all the trees and being a whiner...well, I ripped into him when he got it stuck in the tree like 5 mins after we got it up and going. Boys, they just don't understand why we women nag...its cause we actually think through things.
Alyce and Mark, don't you think they'll be cute together. Poor Alyce didn't bring a very warm jacket, luckily there was a blanket in the car.

My turn with the kite. My knee is actually hurt, been doing some physical therapy, and I didn't realize until after flying the kite that I ran. That made me happy inside cause it didn't hurt too much, I was probably too numb to feel anything.

The potato gun, you have to spray hairspray in the part where the lid goes and somebody screwed the lid on too tight and we couldn't get it off. So we heated it up to try to loosen it. We also tried lighting it on fire...I don't have pictures of that.

We finally got the lid off so here's Mark pushing a potato down into the gun.

Haha, Ammon said I should print this off with the caption, Have trouble dating?...And stick it in the institute...I was actually asking him right here if it would kick when I shot it, he was explaining what would happen.

Twisting the metal thing to spark it and...

KABOOM! This is my reaction after the potato flew...it was fun!!

Haha, Alyce's reaction after her first time shooting the potato gun, she dropped it.

And Ammon smashing a potato into the gun. He was so excited for all of us to try it...he's a character.

Yesterday I went on a double date...it had to be the coldest day this school year, probably not more than 40 degrees, we were all freezing and guess what we decided to do on this cold, windy day...we flew kites, had a picnic and shot a potato gun, all outside. It was fun though. Now, this isn't what you think it is. I was not really asked on a date. I'm trying to hook Alyce, my good friend, up with a guy that's interested in her. She hasn't been asked on any dates I don't think since she moved here in January. So I call this guy up, Mark, he's a cool guy and a good friend, and tell him that I would be willing to offer my services in a double date if he asked Alyce out and found me a date as well. So this date was mostly for them, so they could get to know each other better but not have the awkwardness of a single date. We all had so much fun, laughing the whole time. And the guy I went with, Ammon, called me up, I don't think he knew I suggested this whole date idea, and was acting like Master Ammon's butler in an English/British accent asking if I, Lady Margo, would go on an adventure of flying kites and a flying monkey and shooting potatoes from a potato gun...I can't really describe it to show how funny it was. That's what pictures above are from. The guys did really well with all the rest of the planning. The kite flying was my idea, but they went and bought a kite, bought food for a picnic lunch, they even bought lettuce and tomatoes for the hoagie sandwiches we had. I was impressed actually. Oh and the thing about the flying/screaming monkey, they bought it when they got the kite in Sedona. These guys went to Sedona, 30 mins away to buy a kite cause I couldn't find any kites in Flagstaff. Mark had remembered seeing 2 kite shops when we worked there the night before.

After we had frozen our butts off, we went back to Alyce's house, looked at all the pictures we took of our adventures, and then went to another friend's house to meet so we could all go to dinner to give someone a going away dinner. She's moving to Oklahoma...she's a bit of effort to be friendly and nice to but we all try. We went to Cracker Barrel and there was like 13 of us there, pretty crowded. And Ammon paid for my food, so it was a pretty long date even though I didn't sit by him at dinner. Alyce and Mark did! YAY, that makes me happy.

One last side note. It has been bitterly cold up here, with the highs being in the 40s the past few days. Its October for crying out loud, I don't remember it being this cold this soon last year. I remember at Halloween when we went trick or treating it was 30 degrees but that was the first time it was really cold. Right now the low at night is 20 or below. And it was supposed to snow this weekend and last weekend too. I guess the peaks, the mountains, got a little snow and at like 6 AM on Saturday morning it was hailing and snowing for like 20 mins. I was so out of it I didn't wake up to see it. But yeh, just to let everyone know, Margo is freezing already and its not winter yet. We also checked out the furnace today, I suggested we turn it on and my roommates said we could wait cause we have a little space heater that does the trick for now. Then I said, well lets just turn it on to see if it works, so that way when we really need it, and it doesn't, we won't be trying to get it to work when its snowing outside and even colder than it is now. Good thing cause we had to read the instructions to turn it back on and the pilot still won't light. We'll get it fixed soon, sure thing. I can feel that this winter is going to be a harsh one, even more so than the one last year. Hope you enjoyed reading my life update, take care everyone.

I have been tagged

I was tagged quite some time ago and I'm now getting around to it. My roommates were actually really cool about me taking pictures of them. Here goes, this is an example of a college apartment with 5 girls living in it and we've only been moved in for a month.
#1 Fridge

That's 5 girls worth of food in there

#2 Laundry Room
Hm, well I live in an apartment and we don't have a laundry room. Actually, we have a laundromat facility on our complex but I go to my friend Alyce's to do laundry.

#3 Bathroom
I share a room with 2 other girls and there are 3 of us who share one bathroom, that's why its a little crowded, plus its pretty small.


#4 The Closet
Ha, I don't really have a closet. There's a half room that we store mine and Kelsey's dressers in along with a lot of other stuff we have, and then we both share an open closet space that has two rods. I don't really know where Shelby keeps all her clothes, maybe she doesn't have that many.


My clothes are the top rack, I know, I have a lot of clothes.


#5 Kitchen Sink
I think Cari did dishes today so that was really good, a clean sink.


#6 Self portrait
Oh how lovely, I haven't taken a shower today so I put a bandanna on my head for FHE tonight. My hair didn't look too bad but it still wasn't too hot.


#7 Favorite Room
I would pick the bedroom, its a little quieter and not as many people, only 3 instead of 5. And it has my bed which I love to sleep on. I'm still sleeping in my sleeping bag cause I need to wash my pillowcases before I make my bed. Talk about not being put together. So if I am a little crazy, its cause everything's strewn everywhere while I'm still trying to work and go to school.


#8 What are the kids doing?
Well Mom told me to use my roommates and some were in bed, some doing homework, another with a boyfriend...its about 10-11 at night when I took these pics so we're all tuckered out but still trying to push in the hours while the day's still on.
Kelsey is lookin at her iPod I think. She was on her comp before this pic downstairs.
Shelby is in bed, reading.
Whitney is with her boyfriend Jon watching the show that is always playing in this apartment, The Office. ugh :)
And Cari is doing some Chemistry homework in her room.

#9 Dream vacation
It used to be somewhere where it snows but ha, I live where it snows. I would say Iceland, that would be interesting to learn about and see.



#10 Favorite pair of shoes
Oops, I forgot to take a picture of my shoes. I don't really have a favorite pair, all of them are getting old, wish I could get new ones that also look good but don't have the money. Or I should say I would rather eat or buy gas than get a new pair of shoes. They would be nice but there are more important things.

School time once again

I am pretty much in the full swing of school and work now, started my 3rd week of school today. I am pretty booked Monday thru Thursday. I work on MW from 8-1 and then go to school from 2-5. I have Financial Accounting and Microeconomics on those days. Then TTH I work from 8-11 and go to school from 11:10-3:30. Those days I have Business Math, Humanities--Humanistic Values in a Technological Society, and Anthropology--Peoples of the World. I also got a new calling this past week and am the IWA secretary (IWA is the Institute Women's Association). Flagstaff is the only institute in AZ to still keep this group alive. Its slowly dying away. It was a little scary getting a call from a Stake Presidency Counselor asking if I could meet with him about a calling. This organization is under YSA (Young Single Adult) and IRC (Institute Religion Council) so its a stake calling. I like all my classes and am liking being a math and accounting class again. I am so glad to have taken accounting in high school cause what we are studying in it now is review for me. I know that if I hadn't taken that class, it would be even more confusing than economics.

This will be a busy semester for me and luckily I have 3 day weekends...well besides teaching tennis to one elementary school on Friday to get a little more income and still keep my hand in tennis. I should look into teaching lessons at the Athletic Club, maybe beginner lessons. I'm going to a USTA (United States Tennis Association) coach/teacher training for this tennis I teach at the elementary school so maybe I can find out if I can get certified or something to be a tennis teacher.

I have also moved into a new apartment, the apartment is still in shambles a little and definitely looks like a college apartment. I haven't wanted to take pictures yet from being tagged from Mom but I guess I could now since most of my roommates are home and who cares what this place looks like. We're all in college, we basically just eat, sleep and do homework here. Once I'm done with this blog I'll do it. I should be doing homework now but I can do that tomorrow. Nothing is due tomorrow so I've got time. And since I've moved into a new place, I'm also in 2nd Ward now instead of 3rd Ward. I miss 3rd Ward terribly and I still visit them often. Like today, I went to their FHE and it was a blast. We had pancakes for dinner. So new changes that are different and I have to suck it up and keep on moving.

Went to Lake Powell for a Regional YSA trip and had lots of fun on the lake. I wanted to try wakeboarding but didn't get to the two times I was on a boat to try cause a storm was coming in. Before that I went tubing behind a boat. I battled my friend Alyce, there were 2 tubes tied to the back of a boat and we stayed on for like 10 mins while the pilot?, whoever steers a boat, was making big wakes to try to throw us off. When we first got on I was only on the tube for like 10 seconds. Then Alyce came off next. Then we switched the position we were on the tubes and he couldn't get us off. The lake is so fun, I definitely want to go more!

I dated a guy for about a month, he's a cowboy, ha, just like the last one and he has red hair too. Those red headed cowboys have a soft spot in my heart. I really started to like him but he wants to go to Westpointe, a prestigious military academy that last year only accepted 10% of its applicants and it demands so much of a student's time that they have to be single/not married for all 4 years they attend. So we are just friends as of last week. Another boy to get over. Story of my life but I'm still young so I can take it. I'm fully single again and can go back to my flirting ways and enjoy the single part of my life. Not much else news. I shouldn't make this blog a chapter like my other posts are. I'll put some pictures up to make up for not having pictures lately.

Melissa and I at the mall playing dress up

Melissa and I again

Sunset at home in Pomerene when home in July

Playing tennis and serving while at home

Playing on the courts I played on in high school

Some buds in Flag, we were downtown listening to a band play

John Dirlam and I, we ran about 2 miles to get downtown
instead of driving

Lone Rock Beach, Lake Powell

On the boat at Lake Powell

Girls I worked with during the summer in the financial aid file room

On a double date with Braun, the cowboy

We rode the ski lift/sky ride up to the top of the San Francisco Peaks

Braun, me, Becky, and Robert, also had a little picnic on the rocks on top of the mountain