rainy days and mondays.

dear blog,

you know that carpenter's song? rainy days and mondays always get me down. which is not entirely true. i really like the song though. but today is rainy and i am also down. i am trying to be positive though, so here are some positive things from today:

richie drove me to school so i could be on time
i got an A on the test i turned in.
there was a quiz in my class on the half of the reading that i actually did.
i got out of class early.
there was no line at subway and i got a footlong turkey samwich for the $5 footlong price! what?!
then i ran into camille who is going to uruguay where jessica is! i love jessica so much!
i also got to see erik AND caleb!
then in my other class there was no quiz and i thought there would be!
then i visited caleb at work.
plus i had some peanut butter m&m's. is there anything better than that?
and wendy gave me a hug.
plus i will get a free dinner.
and i get to walk down hill instead of up hill today.

i think if i was in a better mood today would have been so fabulous, but i am just down.
here's to a better tomorrow.

love,
rochelle

christmas lights

dear blog,

last night when i got home, the drive way was occupied, so i had to go over to the cul-de-sac and flip a u-turn (i want  to say you-eee, but i technically do not know how to spell that correctly). as i turn in, i look over and my neighbors have their CHRISTMAS LIGHTS UP!!!!

for real?! september is NOT EVEN OVER!

don't get me wrong, i LOVE christmas and i LOVE christmas lights, and i am not one of those grinchy grinches who thinks that you can only listen to christmas music in december because i am definitely for a little early festivities,

HOWEVER,

i am certainly NOT ready for it to be december this year. christmas season this year means a whole lot of transitioning and major life changes. and its not that i'm not excited, or necessarily ready for my life to move on, but i just want to revel in the life that i have now. i want time to stop moving so fast! and i want christmas to take its dear sweet time.

the chances of that actually happening? slim to none.

oh well. que sera sera.

love,
rochelle

i'll say a little prayer for you

dear blog,

today i was grouchier than grouchy.

but isn't it amazing what a couple of laughs, some friendly texts and a prayer will do.

mission papers are ALMOST in... wish me luck! (or say a little prayer)

love,
rochelle

p.s. sorry for the lag in blog posts, i doubt you are surprised, but school is a little (and by a little i mean a whoooole lot) crazy.

p.p.s. richie got his mission call! calgary, canada! wooo hooo!!!

p.p.s. this is what i did this weekend. aren't my friends beautiful?

elbow macaroni

dear blog,

i have a very distinct memory of this one time in high school, this kid michael manos, who always wore a red and black flannel shirt over a t shirt, was only wearing one sleeve of his flannel shirt on his arm, and he left the other side hanging. i thought that this was very odd, and so i asked him "michael, why are you only wearing one of your sleeves?" and he said that "it hurts my elbow when i wear that sleeve."

what?

i used to think that that was the WEIRDEST thing EVER...

until today. i am sitting here at work, and all i can think about is how i really want to take off my right sleeve because my elbow hurts.

love,
rochelle

jitters.

dear blog,

you know that feeling that you get the night before you go to disneyland? you know, when you are just restless, on the edge of your seat. sleeping is hard because you are so excited.  and your tummy is full of butterflies. and you feel like you are 5 years old again?

i absolutely LOVE that feeling.

yesterday was my sibs first day of school. it was richies first day of college. and carly's first day as a "highschoooler" (quotation marks meaning that i do not acknowledge the fact that my baby sister is in highschool).

and monday is my last first day of school.

even though its still a couple days away i totally have the jitters. maybe they are contagious because carly the night before last came into my room about 1,000 times showing me every article of clothing and school supply that she has for school. and even my daddy is getting ready for BYU to start with his ward. and i took richie out to lunch yesterday between classes and it was adorable how guardedly nervous he was.

i just love the nervous feeling. the anticipation. i sometimes think that the excitement of before is more exciting than events themselves (most definitely true with school. am i right, or am i right?)

love,
rochelle

p.s. she & him tonight!
check out this video, i'm in love!

a little lonely

dear blog,

i miss this lady:

and this one..

don't forget this one:

also this woman:

and this one...

this one too...

aaaand...

also:

and this lady too:

also her:

and her... the chica on the left:

and her:

also this woman...

and don't forget...

love,

rochelle

p.s. i know this is kind of pathetic, but i'm lonely...

p.p.s. shout out to levi and caleb for sticking around and not having lives either :)

home again home again jiggety-jig

dear blog,

this will be a debbie-downer blog post, so if you want to think i have no flaws, stop reading right now...

i've been in washington for the last week and half visiting the grishams and the allens and kam's fam (which was AWESOME).

buuuuuuuuuut,
yesterday i woke up before 7 to catch a bus to wenatchee.
and today we woke up before 7 in order to leave AT 7 to come home.

I AM TIRED.

and i thought it would be a relief to be at home, but i got 1 hug from everyone in my family (excluding nickie and richie who are not even here), a half-hearted welcome from my doggies, and a MESSY ROOM (when maddie got home i don't think our room had ever been so clean). we had too-spicy vegetable soup for dinner with left-over crackers from the young men that tasted like man (not in a good way). my graduation gown is too big and i don't have anything to wear tomorrow. also i am pretty much busy all day tomorrow and friday, i have work all day saturday and then we are throwing blair a baby shower, which we still need to buy/prepare decorations, food and games for. also, my bruised leg hurts and i keep hitting it on things by accident.

on a better note, rumor has it that sister missionaries don't have to wear nylons any more... HALLELUJAH!

meh,
rochelle