One year older and wiser too!

Well... I will soon be leaving the teens and entering the twenties. That's right the big 20. I am pretty sure my dad is proud and my mom is shocked. I feel old. It feels like just yesterday I was out with my sand box buddies digging in the sand, building castles, and letting my imagination run wild. 2-0 folks ... Next thing I know its going to be 5-0 then 7-0 then 1-0-0!!!

When I look back at the past week it seems like I have accomplished a lot, so looking back at the past twenty years it seems like I have done oodles and oodles. I can't even pick out a few of my favorite memories of my last twenty years of my life because there are so so many, but I can think of some things I am grateful for that have been a part of my life.

First and foremost I am grateful for the gospel. Without it who knows where in the world I would be. I would be a lot like Carmen San Diego or Waldo...LOST!
Second, my wonderful parents. I know its weird that they aren't first, but without them I wouldn't have the gospel in my life. So in a round about way they are first. They are such great examples of hard work, love and my Savior Jesus Christ. I hope to one day be at least a smidgen like them. Of course I am already a smidgen of them ;)
Thirdsies, I am grateful for good people in my life. This list includes teachers, leaders, neighbors, friends, siblings. Pretty much most of the people I have encountered in my life. I have found that everyone has something good to offer. But, there are those people who will always have a very very special place in my heart.
Fourth, I am grateful for experiences. All of them. Easy, hard, fun, painful. ALL of them. It is because of these that I am who I am. They continue to help me grow and strengthen my testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Finally, I am grateful for the gift of life which I have been blessed. It has been so great thus far and I look forward to what the future holds for me.

From this...

To this...

Ralph came for a visit...

Ralph the Night Hair Dresser came for a visit just the other evening, I woke up to find my new Do even better off than when I went to sleep. One of the many benefits of short hair is the awesome bed hair that comes along with it. This picture is an example of one of the reason's my brothers call me mophead.
It is also apparent that my bed hair is a contributing factor to why I AM NOT a morning person at all.

The Do Wa Do's of December...

So, turns out that each month Amy and I make a list of goals we would like to accomplish and work on throughout the month together. Each month we try to come up with a crafty title for our list of goals and this months title is (drum roll please!) "The Do Wa Do's of December" It is a list of goals that either start with "Do" or "Don't"
Well, the point of me telling you this is not because we have reached all of our goals for the month already (no, its only the 13th guys), but because we have fully accomplished one of the goals I wanted to get done most. It was that we " Do sport new do's aka haircuts."
Well, Wednesday afternoon we went in and got our hair cut. It is amazing how good a new hair cut can make you feel, and how different it really can be. Well, I absolutely love love love my hair cut. So I thought I would share it with you, but I also couldn't help but share a bit of Amy's haircut with you also. Let's just say her bangs quite possibly made me snort when I saw them at the hair salon.

36 Reasons Why

Okay, so this semester is already so so great! I love my classes. I love my job. I love my new ward and roommates. Its all around been absolutely wonderful thus far. Here's a few reasons why...

#1 Playing the farm game....kinda like monopoly, but with your own farm. It took a while to play, but I loved it... not to mention I almost won! I am pretty sure that everyone else playing despised it, well except for Josh.

#2 Signs that read "Spu Harvest" when it really should say Spud Harvest.

#3 Sharlee's Apple Pie. Sharlee has become a little homemaker and has definitely come a long way since frozen pizza!

#4 Blading through the streets of Rexburg. Amy Sharlee Michael and I took a wild adventure through the streets of Rexburg and Porter park on our blades. Amy even took the liberty of pulling all three of us on the bike....AWESOME!

#5 Adam's English paper.... if you know Adam at all you will know that there is no explanation needed for this one. Anyone that talks about diarrhea and Dixie cups in an English paper...well they may have problems, but it makes for a good laugh.

#6 Dictionary.com offers a very simple pleasure. Looking up funny words, finding out the definition, discovering new synonyms for the word, and have a robot like voice pronounce the word all at one website. Nerd? YES!

#7 Going to the Frost Top for a burger and milkshake. When saying this I feel like I should be hanging out with Grandma and Grandpa Worthington, but I love going to the small town of Ashton and visiting the quaint diner called the Frostop.... Best Reese's peanut butter cup milkshake ever.... but bathroom goers beware, don't get trapped in the restroom...the door is a doosie.

#8 Yes it is possible for three people to ride my beloved bike, Lucy. One night following library closure Amy, our friend Caleb and I all decided it would be a great idea if we all tried to ride my bike home.... Let's just say good thing its down hill to our apartments. It was ultimately a success.

#9 Voyaging out to Monkey rock is extremely fun, the water is frigid cold, but built a little fire to warm us up. "Mallow me!"

#10 Kids meals with Kimberly at Arctic Circle, cupcakes at the cocoa bean, and Little Caesars pizza.

#11 Charmel. One day I was working at the bakery and a nice boy asked me what the different kinds of brownies and cookies were. When he specifically asked what was in the Turtle Brownie all I said was "It's got Charmel." Well what I meant was chocolate and carmel, but that is most definitely not what came out. He proceeded to tease me and use the word charmel as much as possible, and finally decided on getting the "Charmel" brownie.

#12 Bagel Boy. Ok so twice over the past week there has been the same boy who has come into the bakery to get a plain bagel toasted with cream cheese. Well both times he has asked for it I gave him a strange look, grabbed a glazed donut and asked "You want this toasted?" He chuckled to himself and said "No a BAGEL". Not only did I do this once...but twice. And he is the only person I have ever done it to, and its unintentional I swear!

#13 Eastern Idaho State Fair- I can't really say that I have been to a fair that I remember. So Amy Trevor and my's trip to Blackfoot for the Eastern Idaho State fair was a real adventure. Full of foot long corn dogs, the petting zoo and some awesome rednecks! It was a people watchers paradise.

#14 Calebs Candle- Caleb won a black cherry scented candle because of his expertise in dancing. We all enjoyed it while we studied together at the library.

#15 Closing time at the library- "The David O. Mckay library will be cosing in 15 minutes." is something I hear regularly around 11:15 pm. This is followed by the best 15 minutes anyone can spend in the library as they play music such as Footloose over the PA system. The guarantee that they do this is enough to get me to go to the library and study.

#16 Visiting Charlie- Oh Charlie Zollinger.....

#17 Cafe Rio- After making Amy a list of the pros of driving to Idaho Falls to go to Cafe Rio we went.....thouroughly enjoyable.

#18 Pro and Cons lists- Life wouldn't be complete without its pros and cons. So, Amy and I are always listing the pros and cons of everything. Sometimes it gets kinda silly, but its always helpful.

#19 G's Dairy Delights- Do you like hot waffle cones and fresh delicious ice cream? Well I sure do and this is the place to get it! Two scoops please.

#20 Golfing- I can now say that I have experienced "real" golfing. It's kinda a awkward sport, but I'm glad to report I didn't hit myself of anyone else with the golf club.... I actually had maybe 5 good hits! Boo ya!

#21 Baja Canitina- My Mom drinking out of pitcher was a priceless moment not to mention we were the only people in the restaurant. Nothing like eating Mexican food at 10:30 at night.

#22 Homework? I love the feeling after I have worked hard on a good batch of homework and finished up the weeks worth of homework. This doesn't seem to happen much, homework never ends.

#23 Origami from Kim

#24 Stargazing

#25 Beaverdick Fires- especially when you don't bring matches and have to hike to an old couples camp site and ask if you can borrow some.

#26 Rummikub in class- yeah! its true. Brother Magleby let us play games in class, it made my day!

#27 One day I was walking to work and this boy was asking a girl out on a date. After they parted ways he was right in front of me. He proceeded to say "Yes" and do the whole Napoleon Dynamite thing.

#28 Dinner with Caleb and Kimberly

#29 People who come to visit me at work.

#30 Bro. Riggins class.

#31 Basketball class. One time this boy came over and was stretching right in front of me. Kind of like how a girl would do in a chick flick, right in front of the man of her dreams. Yeah he was stretching and jumping up and down and then started talking to me about stuff....Hilarious!

# 32 The power washer sink in my apartments kitchen.

#33 Stealing a Jim Brickman poster from on campus for Amy because I know how much she loves him!

#34 Buying Oreos with Josh- It has now been proven that plastic Walmart bags are not as sturdy as they seem. One, two, three spins over your head and whoops there goes the oreos flying through the parking lot.

#35 Slumber Parties with old roomies.
#36 Classic Movie Night- Nothing beats a night full of movies such as "Arsenic and Old Lace". Bully!

Jazzercise Time!

Holy cow! This is for all you Jazzercise doers from the 80's and 90's.. This one is a classic, especially if you are a multisport althlete.... jazzercise basketball combo!

A slight chuckle...

I took a little cartoon break tonight while doing my homework....I don't know why, but these both were so funny to me! Enjoy....


This is a good one for all you cat haters such as myself.



Sound words of advice!!! HILARIOUS!

What? I'm moving!

Ok, so it turns out not only do I have to move from Apartment 11 to 15, but I guess I am looking for housing elsewhere? Today when I got home from work I logged onto my BYU-Idaho account and email to see what is up, what homework I need to do before school starts, and how much this college thing is going to cost me this semester. I was greeted with about 7 or 8 emails telling me of different housing contracts available around campus and that my ad for housing had been approved for posting... Well if you are still following, good for you, if not you are just as confused as I was at this point.

I remembered that a few days ago I had used my roommates computer to look up some info on my school account, but had not logged out after I was done. After I was done she had proceeded to look for some housing around campus and had posted an ad that she was looking for housing on the west side of campus. She had done all of this under my account not knowing that she was logged in as me, and not as her. So it resulted in me getting various emails of girls offering to sell me their contracts for fall and my very own ad posted on the BYU-I bulletin board. Whooooo!

All of you who know me know that I would be thoroughly entertained by this, and I was. I was laughing so hard and was pleased to find out that so many people are willing to sell me their contracts, although I already have a place to live and have lived here for quite some time. LOVE IT!

This is "My Ad" (actually its Chante's, it just says its mine!)

Gutting a fish...totally under rated!

Last weekend I had the blessed opportunity to take my favorite form of transportation (The Salt Lake Express...AKA Hell on wheels!) home to Utah for a weekend out in the mountainous terrain of the Uintahs. I was more than ready for a break from Rexburg, and the people in Rexburg. I got home to Utah and prepared the trailer for our blessed trip. And let me tell you it takes a lot of work and planning to go out camping, especially when the trailer hasn't been out in about 7 years. (That is about to change though, I hope.)

It was a great trip full of fishing, games, fire, food and plenty of bonding time with the fam. One highlight from the trip was when I caught a whopping 15" fish and I sure was proud! I think that my brothers were jealous, but they weren't the ones gutting the fish. We caught a grand total of 35 fish, but threw most of them back. It was a great trip and I got to do my favorite part of fishing....GUTTING THEM. Most people would think that gutting a fish is the most inhumane and disgusting part of fishing....well ladies and gents, I beg to differ. As morbid and grotesque as this may sound gutting out a fish brings a slight grin (well actually a big grin) to my face. I love fishing, I love camping, but I LOVE gutting out those little aquatic specimen.

ROADTRIP!!!!

This past Tuesday my roommate Kimberly and my newly obtained friend Dustin took a day road trip spanning from Rexburg Idaho to my home town of SoJo, all in one day. Our day included a stop at McDonald's for some breakfast, a visit to Robert's Art and Crafts, and me doing a bunch of homework, getting a whole bunch of new clothes from Aunt Barbara and some Chinese food from momma Linda. It was a short but way fun trip full of hours of singing along with the radio and quizzing Kim on band names (she really didn't like that!). And now I can officially say I have driven the entire distance form Salt Lake to Rexburg as the driver. Whoo Whoo!

Everthing is WONDERFUL now..

Could life be any better? Things here in the city of Rexburg are great. It's finally warming up (and although we don't have AC yet we do have an endless supply of otter pops.) I have been able to sleep on top of my bed every night for the past week and take in some serious UV rays during the day. It's great. All kinds of fun has been rolling my way, with visitors almost every weekend, I don't get bored. It's adventure after adventure...from feeding fish, to picnics in the park, to an spontaneous trip to West Yellowstone. Everyone here is fun especially my roommates. Our evenings are filled with bike rides to the snow cone shack, playing on sport teams, and simply bumming around, it's great.
Life is so great, how could it possibly get better? Well I could have less homework or be able to sleep in until 9 everyday, but really it can't get much better! School in the summer time is a thousand times better than school any other time of the year I have ever gone. It's simply wonderful.
Tonight when we went out visiting teaching I was reminded of how great I really do have it. My roommate shared a message from President Monson's conference address "Be of good cheer". It was so uplifting and great to be reassured of all the blessings I have in my life. We have so much to be grateful for and should truly be of good cheer because there is so much good in the world.

Everything truly is wonderful now... thank you Everclear!

Rainy Days

Last night I left my bedroom window open just a titch. This morning I woke up to the sound of sprinkles falling from the sky. (Raindrops that is!) I love the rain, but do you know what I love more than the rain, after the rain. I love the smell rain leaves behind, when the sun finally peaks around the big dark rainclouds, and floating stick boats down the gutter.

Yeah Rain is great. But is it odd that after the rain, when all the worms come out and skid across the sidewalk, I very carefully try not to step on them? If it is, then so be it. I am not a worm squisher.

* You don't know me*

Well there is really no real reason for this post, except for ya all to get to know the real me a little better, and fine out things about me that most people don't know.

1- I love greeting cards. I could spend hours in the card isle reading card after card, laughing to myself, and finding complete enjoyment in them. I often get strange looks from other people on the card isle from my random outbursts of laughter.

2- Tetris. I am unhealthily addicted to Tetris. In my yearbook class in High School we would have Tetris tournaments, this is where my addiction began. I absolutely love playing it and have wasted a lot to many hours playing it. I once even told Amy that the reason I enjoy bagging groceries is because it's like Tetris in real life. She told me I am a nerd. (But she knows that's why I am good at bagging!)

3- I hate celery. Everything about it, the taste, the smell, the texture, even the thought of it. About the only good thing it has going for it is its color and the fact that you burn more calories by chewing it than by eating it. These two things are not reason enough for me to actually eat it. The smell of it makes me gag, and the thought of it makes me want to hurl! Some of my friends know how much I hate celery. One time one of them even told me if we got married things wouldn't work out. I asked him why and he said very snidely that when he grows up he is going to be a celery farmer... What a nerd!

4- I love Disney. Disneyland, Disney World, Disney Movies I love it all! #1 Disney movie ever made, (in my opinion of course) Toy Story, hands down. It's my all time favorite movie and I could watch it again and again. I have a secret crush on Woody and don't really know why.

5- I am a sucker.... for Daisies that is! My favorite is the classic daisy with the yellow middle and the white petals. But, I love all daisies and my heart melts every time I see them. Corny, Yes! But anyone who wants to gain a little respect from me, Daisies are the way, I'll be your friend until forever!

6- Nerds. People often make fun of them, but I myself am one when it comes to history. I love history, mostly American history. My dream vacation would be to Washington D.C. for about a month to visit all the historical stuff around. My favorite thing to watch is well made historical documentaries, and I love historical fiction. Nerd? Yes!

7- I'm a very trusting person and usually give people the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes this results in me be taken advantage of because people know I will help them, but I guess that's just how some people are.

8- I have a hard time saying no to people. This usually results in me getting overloaded with stuff then stressing out. People who really know me know I have this problem and are very forgiving.

9- I have an issue with my right ankle. When I was in ninth grade I pretty much broke it during a box-out drill at basketball practice. Now every time I move it, it pops. I use this for personal entertainment by popping it when I am sitting by Amy or Shauna because they think it is so gross.

10- I love singing and dancing like a mad woman. (my family can attest to this.)

11- I am shy. Most people who know me say that this is a lie, but the truth is that when I don't know anyone I am extremely quiet. But, once I get to know people I come out of my shell, it just takes me a time or two to warm up to people.

12- My favorite treat while doing homework is a Popsicle. That's right some good ol' fashioned frozen juice, but I won't attest to a Jamba either.

Well for the time being those are a few things that now you know that you may not have known. Hope you enjoyed a few tidbits of me and look forward to more to come in the future.

Stall Talkers

Well this blog entry has been a long time in the making. And I am finally going to tell the world about a serious issue that is at hand.... no it does not have to do with our down-turning economy, or our recently elected president who is going to fix the world, or the big problem with round-abouts in Rexburg. The issue at hand is stall talkers. I'm sure you all know them (whether you know you do or not), have been confronted by one, or perhaps you are one yourself. (Shauna...MOM!)

For those of you that have absolutely no idea what I am talking about, you soon will from a few stories of stall talking confrontations I have had myself.

A few months ago our family went to a Jazz game down at Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake. Upon our arrival the girls decided we should hurry and visit the facilities before tip off. Each of us was in our own stall taking care of business. All of a sudden the person in the stall next to me began a conversation with me. (I won't mention any names... Shauna!) My reaction= Well I didn't want to be rude and not respond, but I didn't want other people in the public restroom to know that she was talking to me....embarassing. I walked out of the stall over to the sink and washed my hands and informed Shauna that talking while urinating is just awkward. And she asked why, well you see Shauna, It's just plain awkward.

Second scenario. I had recently started my new job in Batch Records at Ultradent. I met up with my mom, who also works there at lunch time. We both went into use the restroom. While we were going she began talking to me. Yet again, awkward. Now she knows I won't respond if she starts talking to me.

Third scenario. I am at work yet again. In the mid afternoon, we'll say at 2:17 I went to use the restroom. This time am I the awkward third party. I walked into the bathroom and what do my wondering ears hear. Two people talking. Two people that is who are in completely different stalls carrying on a full fledged conversation while small tinkling sounds are going on in the background. Do you see something wrong here? I sure do. I was way weirded out plus I had to hear all the office gossip that they were discussing. While sometimes the office gossip is quite entertaining, the bathroom is not the time or place to discuss such things. Ew!

After these two previous incidents I came to the realization that the epitome of bad stall talking can be found in the work place. Why? Because yet again it is awkward for not only those who are participating in the conversation, but also for the innocent bystander/bystanders.

After all these going ons in the womans restroom I couldn't help but wonder if similar things happen in a men's restroom. I was sitting in my cubicle at work surrounded completely by boys and I asked myself... "Self. do men have this problem?" So I pose this question, is there a such thing as urinal talking? If so, I'm sure most men would agree that it needs to become a thing of the past.

Sorry for the long, possibly boring rant about something that may seem so unimportant and not an issue to most, but as you tell this is something I really feel passionate about. It NEEDS to stop, it must stop!

So world, say good bye.... GOODBYE STALL-TALKING!

ADAM!!!!!!

Well this has been such an interesting week in regards to Adam. So I thought I would share some of my insight with all you readers about him and well me....

First of all, Tuesday. My mom and I are at work when we get a call from my dad. He says he doesn't feel well so my mom leaves work to take him to the doctor and he ends up being checked into the hospital, where he still is at this moment. After work I go home and finish the second season of HEROES. (this is where my story gets juicy, but without much detail) I left my room and went to find out what the younger siblings wanted for dinner. Let's just say that the good child was working on her math homework like a good little chillun' and the other one...well we'll just say that it was awkward. Mac and Cheese! (only a few will understand this!)

Second of all, Wednesday. I come home from work and pull into the driveway to find my younger brother attempting to jump our sweet old truck. I honestly don't know what he wast thinking because he does not know how to drive a manual, and the one person who could teach him how is in the hospital...what an idiot. I love the kid, but come on.
Same day, Wednesday. Heather and I were watching TV in my mom and dad's room when Adam came in, grabbed the cordless phone off the bed, walked to the bathroom, and proceeded to talk on the phone while he....well you get the picture! Yeah.... definitely Cloroxed that phone!

Third of all, we are going to skip right over Thursday and go to Friday. I come home from work at approximately 2:45 to find no Adam and no Heather. I start the search for Heather because she has to go to piano at 3:00. Adam's one simple job was to be there when Heather got home from school and take her to piano. Around 2:50 Adam shows up, I find Heather across the street at the neighbors house. Its turns out Adam left Heather a note that he would be back at 2:45 to take her to piano and she should "just go over to Densley's". Come on Adam take some responsibility. I told him I would take Heather to piano. He peeled out of the driveway and sped off in Ramona, the olds, at about 45 miles and hour... Well that brings up the next subject. One that truly tears my heart out.
Same day, Friday, current moment. Heather and I have been having a splendid day gallivanting around the valley. We have gone almost everywhere, from the dollar store, to Roberts, to Cafe Rio. Well at our final destination, Macey's, I get a call from Adam and he wants me to hurry home. I asked him why he wasn't at the game yet and he tells me that he ripped the car door off. I laughed because the thought of Adam ripping a car door off like the Hulk came to mind. I asked him how and he said he wasn't going to tell me. After a series of conversations I find out that he was backing out of the garage and ripped the car door off... Well this is my theory of anger, I need to step up on my soap box for a second. " ADAM.....you don't' rip a car door off a car unless you are backing out at a high speed...a regular speed of backing out would not rip a car door off. Apparently you are and idiot and have injured my dear sweet Ramona. So Adam, if I was your mother I would ground you for at least 3 months!" Okay I am off the soap box, but where is Adam now you ask? Well of course he is where he wants to be, at the girls basketball game. EWWWWW!!!! If another child broke the garage door, ruined a car, and left their little sister home they would be home all night long!
All I have to say is whatever.... Adam one day karma is going to catch up to you and it won't be pretty.

I am NOT a college drop out!

So... being home ain't all that bad. Except......

No I didn't drop out of college and no I didn't get kicked out of college. Here's an announcement... "World listen up.... I Jenny Worthington am home from BYU-Idaho until April. And then I will return to college and get myself edumacated."

You see world, BYU-Idaho has a track system, summer-fall, fall-winter, winter-summer, you know whatever it may be. And I am on summer fall track. It's true the track system seems weird to most of the world, but I quite like it aside from the fact that everyone seems to think I am a no good young adult that is doing nothing with my life. But the truth is.. I have a plan and am working on it!

So there you have it.... I am not a college drop out!