Devotional Adventures.

as part of our women's choir duties, we are lucky enough to sing in devotional twice or three times per semester. This past tuesday, 11/08/2011, we had this opportunity. This time, in particular, was quite the adventure. Ashley, Myself, and Emily, sat next to each other. the are both about 2 inches taller than me. we were seated in the back row, not expecting to end up on the camera shots. however, in the middle of the song, the screen showed a horizontal pan of the back row. i couldn't tell for sure if it was on the three of us, so i quickly stood up on my tip-toes and sunk back down... an action that only took about 3 seconds. however, the camera was on me, and the simple action of standing up on my tip-toes then coming back down was visible to the entire campus of BYU-Idaho. HA!... oh well..... i was bound to be well known at here at some point! after the song (which was beautiful) was finished we sat down... and then... they turned the lights down on us, so on screen we looked pitch black. the devotional speaker had a mono-tone voice which was all-too relaxing, and because we were seated behind him, all we could hear was an echo. it would take extreme focus and practice to even try to figure out what he was saying. so, being exhausted from the lack of sleep i have been getting, i climbed onto the carpeted riser behind be, stretched out flat, and fell asleep. i was out stone cold. i was so deeply asleep, that the only thing that could possibly wake me up was a loud noise... leave it to emily to cover that. apparently when she silenced her phone, it did not silence the media sounds. being bored, she decided to play a game. upon clicking on the app, the i-center stage began to echo with a song, a simple jungle that a normal game would have, i shot right up like a rocket, she tried to absorb the sound by pressing it into her stomach, which seemed to work for the most part, after the song stopped, she turned her phone off, and threw it under her chair. i lied back down and not even 5 minutes later i was out like a light... again. until the speaker closed and i woke up to sing the closing song, and pray. it was a devotional i will certainly never forget, even though i slept through most of it... but i must say, that stage is much more comfortable than people give it credit for. (:

New Friends, Old Times

i've been so blessed with a bubbly personality, and the ability to make friends. the people i have met in my music classes are all wonderful, musically inclined, well- rounded people, who never cease to make me smile, laugh, or want to sing. we have had some of the best times together while on our journey to completing our identical goal... pass the freshman year of a music education major. from opera-watching parties, to saturday night movie nights, sleigh-riding, wednesday trips to kiwi--loco after music 155 lecture class, concerts, never -ending hours spent practicing, scribing scales, and the like, we have come to love each other, and become one big musical family. i love them to death and am greatly looking forward to spending the rest of my musical college years with them by my side. (:

Hair Hack

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011 i was sitting in women's choir in the afternoon. it was my last class of the day. my sister and i had made hair appointments for that evening. after women's choir, i was to report to her apartment so we could walk together. i had it in my mind that i would only trim my hair, and that was it. i had been growing it our for about 2 years and it was finally at a length i loved! but when we got there erika popped the idea in my head "hey em, why don't you cut it back up to your jawline?" at first, it wasn't even an option, and i pushed the idea to the side of my mind, but as we waited, it grew like a poison inside of me until i convinced myself it was a good idea. so... 45 minutes later, i had lost 9 and 1/2 inches of hair... and i was devastated, i smiled politely at the barber lady, she was so nice to me, and only did what i asked! i could no longer put my hair in a pony tail, i couldn't see it when i flipped my head over, and there were only two styles.... down and curly, or down and straight. it has been 11 days, and i am for sure still trying to get used to it. but i cannot deny the enormous amount of compliments i've been receiving about it. i know that it is going to take some time, but eventually it will grow back... right!?... my hair seems to grow at the average length... not too slow... but not as fast i as i would like it too. so! here is a picture of my extremely short, non-exsistant hair hack.... i miss it... but each day i know i am getting closer and closer, inch by inch, to returning to it to it's normal length. (: