And thus, the end of a monumental summer.

First a re-cap:
Summer 2006
*Actually graduated!!! (despite finding out the day before that I actually could)
*Went to Euba lake with friends for an amazing senior day
*Got a steady job that kept me busy
*Joined a single's ward that I love (Thank you Bekah!)
*Went Ice Blocking for the first time
*Cried for over 3 hours straight
*River rafted for the first time on a green river trip
*Crashed several wedding receptions and one family reunion, as well as showing up everyone with mad mad dancing skills (Cameron you're amazing!)
*Drove up the canyon in a convertible
*Got my college schedule worked out
*Went to Seattle for a week and fell in love with it
*Dealt with assorted drama
*Was in a movie as a nun

It's amazing how different I feel.  Random simple things give me this overwhelming feeling of contentment, and such occurrences are more frequent than they ever have been in the past.  the levels of understanding and respect between me and my parents are increasing.  I feel artistic fro the first time in so long.  For the most part I am generally happier with who I am and where I'm going, despite the uncertainty that I'm sure to face.  For once I can see a plan for my future ahead of me and I'm content to have it unfold without worrying over it.   
This fall I will be taking 15 credits over at UVSC.  I'll be living at home, working MWF from 10AM to 6PM, and commuting to school on tuesdays and thursdays which are scheduled like so:
8:30-9:45 AM Argumentation
10:00-11:15 Biology
11:30-12:45 Drama
1:00-2:15 Meteorology
2:30-3:45 English
I plan to take 15 more credits next semester, then 10 next summer, at which time, if everything goes well, I will have my associates in Pre-professional with a focus on law.  I will move out next fall, then continue two more years to get my Bachelors in somethingorother.  After that I will be going to BYU's law school for three more years, at which time I will be able to leave school behind to pursue my career.  There are variables of marriage, children, and mission, which have not been fully planned, but which I will meet when they come.

Wow.  The above is mostly for my own reflection.   It somehow makes it even less intimidating to write it all down.  I've really loved seeing so many friends over the summer and I won't leave that off in the school year.  I'm planning on making several visits to USU to visit people there.  you are now forewarned and I expect a couch to be ready at my beck and call ~_^  I really can't wait to grow from real life experience, and giving real life a little taste of me.

cell phone

Yes, I finally caved in and bought one.  I now have a bright shiney t-mobile samsung T309 cell phone.  The number is 801-867-5505, and I have a bunch of texts, so I'll probably be calling/messaging people within the next few days.
Call me!

Memeness

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.	✓ I own lots of books.
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.	× I love to play video games.	× I've tried marijuana.
× I've watched porn movies.	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
✓ I curse sometimes.	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.	× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.

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× I have broken someone's bones.	✓ I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal.	× I hate the rain.
✓ I'm paranoid at times.	✓ I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free. (Of course, I don't know what I'd change. I'd probably change stuff randomly for pretty much no reason.)	× I need/want money right now.
✓ I love sushi.	× I talk really, really fast.	× I have fresh breath in the morning.
× I have long hair.	× I have lost money in Las Vegas.	✓ I have at least one sibling.
× I was born in a country outside of the U.S.	✓ I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.	× I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
✓ I like the way that I look.	✓ I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months.	× I am usually pessimistic.
× I have a lot of mood swings.	× I think prostitution should be legalized.	× I slept with a roommate.
✓ I have a hidden talent.	× I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.	✓ I have a lot of friends.
× I have pecked someone of the same sex.	✓ I enjoy talking on the phone.	× I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
✓ I love to shop and/or window shop.	× I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal.	× I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
✓ I have a mobile phone. (It's in the mail so it does count!)	× I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.	× I've rejected someone before.
✓ I currently like/love someone. (*shakes fist*)	× I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.	✓ I want to have children in the future.
✓ I have changed a diaper before.	× I've called the cops on a friend before.	× I'm not allergic to anything. (Metal, of all things.)
✓ I have a lot to learn.	✓ I am shy around the opposite sex.	× I'm online 24/7, even as an away message. (20/6 is so not 24/7)
✓ I have at least 5 away messages saved.	× I have tried alcohol or drugs before.	✓ I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past.
× I own the "South Park" movie.	✓ I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal. (Newspaper.)	✓ I enjoy some country music.
✓ I would die for my best friends.	✓ I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist.	× I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
✓ I think Halloween is awesome because you get free candy. (You're never too old for free candy.)	× I have dated a close friend's ex.	× I am happy at this moment.
✓ I'm obsessed with guys. (Or rather, one guy.)	× Democrat.	✓ Republican.
✓ I don't even know what I am. (I'm mostly moderate, though I lean more towards the republican/libertarian side of most issues.)	× I am punk rockish.	× I go for older guys/girls, not younger.
✓ I study for tests most of the time. (If you count 10 minutes before class starts as studying.)	× I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.	✓ I can work on a car.
× I love my job(s).	✓ I am comfortable with who I am right now.	× I have more than just my ears pierced.
✓ I walk barefoot wherever I can.	✓ I have jumped off a bridge.	✓ I love sea turtles.
× I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup.	✓ I plan on achieving a major goal/dream.	× I am proficient on a musical instrument.
× I hate office jobs.	× I went to college out of state.	× I am adopted.
✓ I am a pyro.	× I have thrown up from crying too much. (Not that I'm aware of. I usually end up Hyperventilating though.)	✓ I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved.
× I fall for the worst people.	× I adore bright colours.	× I usually like covers better than originals.
× I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays.	✓ I can pick up things with my toes.	× I can't whistle.
✓ I have ridden/owned a horse. (Pony, but same diff)	✓ I still have every journal I've ever written in. (And none of them are full.)	× I talk in my sleep.
✓ I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century.	✓ I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions.	× I wear a toe ring.
× I have a tattoo.	× I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with.	× I am a caffeine junkie.
✓ I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all.	✓ If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder. (It'd take a while. Child molesters/abusers would be first on the list. I also echo Addison on the consequences.)	✓ I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
× I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner.	✓ I'm an artist.	× I am ambidextrous.
× I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.	× If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony.	× I have terrible teeth.
× I hate my toes.	✓ I did this meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me.	× I have more friends on the internet than in real life.
× I have lived in either three different states or countries.	× I am extremely flexible.	✓ I love hugs more than kisses. (I wouldn't say no to either though^^;)
× I want to own my own business.	× I smoke.	✓ I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else.
✓ Nobody has ever said I'm normal.	✓ Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then.	× I am proficient in the use of many types of firearms and combat weapons.
✓ I like the way women look in stylized men's suits. (I even OWN one^^;)	✓ I don't like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me.	✓ I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds.
✓ I have played strip poker with someone else before. (Girl's camp.)	× I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help.	✓ I believe in ghosts and the paranormal.
× I can't stand being alone.	✓ I have at least one obsession at any given time.	× I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again.
✓ I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment.	× I'm a judgmental asshole.	× I'm a HUGE drama-queen.
× I have travelled on more than one continent.	✓ I sometimes wish my father would just disappear. (Rarely though.)	× I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am.
✓ I am a Libertarian.	× I can speak more than one language.	✓ I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be.
✓ I would rather read than watch TV.	× I like reading fact more than fiction.	✓ I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do. (Frequently. In fact, nearly every assignment I was given a month to work on I have pulled an all-nighter for.)
× I have no piercings.	✓ I have spent the night in a train station or other public place.	× I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried.
× I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on which parent was supposed to have me that night.	✓ There have been times when I have wondered "Why was I born?" and may/may not have cried over it.	× I like most animals better than most people.
× I own a collection of retro games consoles.	× The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver.	✓ I have hit someone with a dead fish.
✓ I am compulsively honest.	× I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired.	× I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers.
× I have gone from wishing I was a girl to revelling in being a boy to feeling like a girl again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex.	× I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders.	✓ I sometimes won't sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to. (Mostly in the summer.)
× I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on.	× I dislike milk.	× I obsessively wash my hands.
✓ I always carry something significant around with me.	✓ Sometimes I'd rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair.	✓ I've pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others.
× Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother.	× I hand wrote all the HTML tags in this document.	✓ I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird.
× I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time.	× Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed.	× I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won.
× I do not 'get' most comedy acts.	× I don't think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing.	× I don't like to chew gum.
× I am obsessed with history/historical things and can't wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it.	× I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car.	× I had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years.
✓ I wish people would be more empathic and honest with each other.	× I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly.	✓ I love to sing.
× I want to live in my mother's basement when I grow up. (Eww...)	× I have a custom-built computer.	✓ I want to create a certain someone's babies, even though there's a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it.
× I would be in a relationship with one of my pets if they were human.	× I've gone skinny-dipping.	× I've performed in three plays.
✓ I enjoy burritos.	× I'm Irish and loving it.	✓ I have a thing for redheads.
× I am a twin!	✓ Most of the times, I'd rather do something intellectual instead of doing something generically 'fun'. (I love intelligent people and could spend hours in a conversation with such, rather than just about anything else.)	× Once I set out to finish something, I always stay at it until it is completed before I move on to something else.
✓ I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes.	✓ I sleep more than 12 hours a day. (I can, and like to, but it's not an option most of the time.)	✓ I wish I could be prouder of what I've accomplished, but it's never enough.
× I need more time to myself.	✓ I wish I was more open-minded.	× I hope that I go really prematurely grey.
✓ I download songs from the internet.	× I've just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend.	✓ I say random things to freak people out. (Most of the time it's when I say or imply something of a riskay or innapropriate nature around people who don't know me well.)
× I'm still a little mad about the ending of Death Note.	✓ I love playing Truth or Dare. (Too bad most people won't play it with me.)	× I love listening to slow music, but I hate singing to it. (Love both.)
✓ Music helps me remember that I am not alone.	✓ Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems.	✓ I think this survey is particularly long.
× I prefer my LJ friends to my real-life ones.	× I can only hate someone that I love.	× I've ordered an extra two shots of espresso to an Americano at Starbucks.

cell phone help!

As a few of you know, I need to get a cell phone before I start school. Problem is, I have no idea which one to get or even which services are the best.  And that's where the help part comes in.

I'm looking for a phone that will
1)work for my commute to UVSC without going out of service range/into long distance or roaming
2)have good options for texting, as I will probably text a bunch more than I'll talk
3)I would prefer one with a good camera
4)have a fair amount of minutes
5)any other good options such as unlimited nights and weekends, free long distance and roaming, etc.

If anyone has any ideas please e-mail or message me!