Whatta Week

So let me tell ya'll a little story.  It begins with our tortured teenage girl hero person lady thing, Miss Natalie {me}, on Tuesday night.  Laying in that barely comfortable enough to make it uncomfortable dorm room bed.  Tirelessly moving her legs from flamingo to pencil position over and over again while thinking about schooling over the past week.  Missing class.  Failing Physical Science tests...  Sleeping all day and not putting her best shoe forward.  And wearing them without socks mind you, not a good combination.  Finally she looked toward the future as she so often does.  The end of the week looked to be hell.  With a physical science midterm and book of mormon midterm to take, stained glass project to finalize, visiting teaching to do, relief society lesson to teach, ward prayer to organize and buy treats for, on top of mandatory social events including the Harry Potter Premiere, a blasted blind date i was asked on, most likely out of pity, to our housing dance {much like the one put on for Heritage Halls last semester}, and a home cooked Sunday dinner.   The dinner wasn't so much as a chore as it was just another thing on the list to do.  All in three or so short days.  Guys.  I was so incredibly stressed at that moment.  Reading back on this list now seems like nothing.  Nothing hard at least.  Buuuttt being the dramatic {at times} soul that I am I texted my mom, and I quote "I am dropping my classes.  School hates me and I hate it."  Droppin' it like it's hot.  So over it I was!  So finally after muffled curses at the world, as not to wake my dearest Lindsay, I turned around on that bed and said the longest prayer ever to have been uttered from mankind's lips, probably.  The next morning I woke up an hour before my class.  Then I got all my work done, and on it went, finishing task after task until the week was through!  I did it I did it!  Well I didn't do it alone of course.  What appeared to be one of the most dreaded weeks of the semester turned out to be one of the most absolutely fun and incredibly rewarding weeks of the semester!  Funny how life works out, isn't it?

So it began with Harry Potter.

 Over all I was completely overwhelmed.  In love.  I feel like everyone has given their two-cents about their Harry Potter experience, and rightly so, but I will just leave mine with overwhelmed.  In the best of ways of course.

On Friday after taking that wretched Physical Science exam, and slightly improving hallelujah, Linds and I decided to dine at Kneaders.  Home of the best cupcake on earth.  I am dead serious.  People, it is dipped in white chocolate.  Heaven in a mini cake of strawberry goodness!  Now on our walk over to kneaders, we passed some people filming what looked to be a music video.  We smiled, laughed, and it wasn't soon after that thecameraman whose name I still don't know and the star of the show, Phaya himself, invited us over to be in it.  Uhhh what?  Yep, we danced in front of four talented girls for three minutes in broad daylight.  Most.  Awkward.  Thing.  Of.  My.  Life.  White girls we are.  We soon made friends with Phaya, exchanged numbers, and went on our way.  That night, he text us and invited us to be in the other shoots for the video at the bowling alley.  So back we went!  And it seriously was so fun.  We met so many people, I got to stare at the cameraman that much longer, and I learned some ghetto girl dance moves.  That I wish I could perfect...  Blast this white blood in me.

{Linds and I with our new friend Barima [from Ghana!], Phaya [from the Caribbean!] and others.}

After the video shoot we changed from dancing for five + hours and joined our friends up at Squaw Peak.  So beautiful.  Guitar playin', laughing, all that good stuff.

Now time for the dance.  Exceeded all of my expectations!  Made new friends and loved every minute of it, even if the boys didn't pick us up...  I met my date Morgen {who Lauren taught how to surf? wth?}, we ate at Red Robin, shared some lol's, danced the night away, learned about Brad's moves and faces, Scott & Morgan's bromance/LOTR obsession, and even recreated Harry Potter's Puppet Palls while we were at it.

On Sunday Lindsay & I rocked the relief society lesson and looked good doing it.  I got an 82% on my Book of Mormon midterm.  Finally finished my stained glass pattern.  Got treats in time for Ward Prayer.   And got all the other little things done.  Success!!!  Other events include a ferrett, tunnel singing, and lots of rain!  Shout out to mi momma who wouldn't let me drop my classes.

 And Lindsay for helping me wake up every morning.

Now if only the anticipation of easily viewed black mail wasn't to surface youtube within the week...  Oh please oh please mr. film man, spare me from awkward dancing shots!

Master HP

why yes, i am seeing the midnight showing tonight.

 i will also be studying for my physical science exam while waiting for five + hours at the theatre.

while feeling quite accomplished for going to class as of late.

and hopefully wearing HP fandom of some sort.

that is if i can get it in between classes and school work due and such.

and yes, i am counting on my grandchildren sitting on my lap, and flitting along my feet, asking me if i was indeed at the final showing, for the last Potter movie.

for NARNIA!

ulll wait... this is awkward...

{i kid, i kid}

Fly like a 6 Flags

This was me on Thursday:

 Obsessed with HP.  So I guess I have officially submitted to another teen trend. Bloody brilliant.  Some people dressed up at school in honor of the showing. I opened the door for Luna Lovegood.  I saw Dobby walking across the courtyard.  And even snape!  What a wonderful way to cheer everyone up.  As for me, I dressed up as a Muggle.  PS, my vocab test was awesome:  on the matching portion I came to G, and it was number 6.  So in my head, I said G6.  Fly like a G6.  Anyway...

I saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows {Part 1}!  Quinton, Mady, Capri, McKenzie and I watched it in all of it's glory.  It was amazing, creepy, dark, weird?, crazy, intense, sad, hunky {ron}, gorgeous wedding dress, beautiful scenery, idol {hermoine}, rocked.  Made me extremely excited to read it!

After the movie I went home only to finish the book #1 and sleep for about an hour.  Why you ask?  Why because I had to pick up Mady, Jordan, and Brent to head to 6 Flags for our Winter Formal day activity!!!  We lucked out with more room in a suburban rather than the 15 seater van...  Regardless my arm still hurts from sleeping on it funny, for as much as I love Jordan I wasn't so into cuddling with him on the drive so I remained in the fetal position for some light sleeping.  At least I didn't get stuck under a seat in the van for three hours like Mitch...  We ate breakfast at tables outside a Sprouts once we got to Valencia at 9 and got some ponchos to combat the rain.  Yes, rain.  Weather reports predicted heavy storms days before we left, but we lucked out with drizzling rain for only an hour or two!  Which is where we spent waiting in line for X2.  For two hours.  Because they were adding another car to the coaster.  And our feet were soaked and freezing.  Other than that annoying wait we hit all the other open rides and had a blast!  We even made friends with Batman and Robin {my favorite was when they saw us coming back to talk to them later in the day and hid under their capes on a bench}.  The only other disappointing thing about the day was the fact that we kinda split up from the rest of the group because while we went to get in line for X2, they got Jared a wheelchair.  So after we met back up for lunch, they went on X2 and we went on all the other rides.  Switched.  Oh and that I had to buy a locker at every, single, stinkin, ride.  But otherwise it was great! Got home at 2 this morning, which was far sooner than we expected.  Yayy.

 The group!

 The crew for the day.

 Passing time in line flipping umbrella's and such.  We even got to the point where we had to play down by the banks and ninja.

 Tate making something useful of his poncho.

 mah date jordan

we were in line for 2 hours, give us a break.

 mady, jordan, me, tate

 soaked shoesies

X2, oh the things we do for you.

 McKenzie broke out her tattoo skills.  At this point I was sitting down in line.

 Then Mady wanted a lady bug so I drew them for her, and drew Kenzie as water cause that's what she was drawing on...

 Jordan's hand.  Make sense?

 Tater tot got to do the basketball competition!

Kenz and I even made up a song:  "Hop up out the van, turn my swag on, take a look at 6 flags and say whatsup.  Yeahhh, we're gettin' rained, onn."

And that's six flags in a nutshell.

need. to. read. next. harry. potter. book. a. s. a. p.!

oh and write two essays, but those don't matter do they?

Reason #34 I'm excited to go to BYU

I Love Lists

Things are great in Hollywood this week:

~ Carey Mulligan was cast as Daisy Buchanan in the film adaptation of The Great Gatsby with the iconic Leonardio Dicaprio as Jay Gatsby.

~ Gwenyth Paltrow's {only my favorite from her acting in Emma, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Shakespeare in Love} singing career has skyrocketed.  Loved her in Glee, as well as the acapella Teenage Dream.  P.S.  I love acapella, especially BYU's very own Vocal Point.

~ Prince William and Katie Middleton are officially engaged.

~ Rachel Zoe is preggurz!  I. Die.

~  Camilla Belle wore this.

Yeah, no wonder she's my girl crush.

Now to real life, my life:

In honor of the Harry Potter movie premieres, I am in fact reading the series!  Yes, I haven't until now.  Yes, this morning I checked out Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone at the library.  And I love it.  Yes, Nate and I have Harry Potter Day planned for the 21st.  Yes, we know the real day has already passed.  Yes, The Making of Harry Potter was on the Bio Channel tonight.  Am I in wizardry heaven?  YES!  I even wrote our family letter with a hint of British wordage.  I'm doing my extended family a favor if you ask me.  Speaking of family letter {aka family updates}  I have alot of updating to do of my own.  I have also been having a lousy last couple of days.  Lousy entailing throwing up during 6th hour conditioning, feeling rather large again, wanting to throw a rock at something.  Like a brick wall.  Or Aunt Flo.  Today I could have possibly passed as bipolar.  My mood swings were off the charts.

Other Highlights:

~ Tanner being a real man by loving real woman and posting this article.

~ Finally finding my purrfect bedspread

~  Drawing last night

~ Not throwing up today

Goodnight my Muggles!  XOXO.

P.S. this lovely blog via this lovely blog is inspiring a fashion overhaul in me.