Babies.

So I got this call from Kris this morning, and she was panting and sounding really stressed. You know why? CJ's water broke. and Krista was going to go down and watch her give birth. sick huh? But also pretty cool. So she drove and drove and drove down to Monroe, and witnessed the birth of CharlyAnne Jill Carter! Such a joyous occasion.

Also, today there was an Earthquake in my motherland. Japan. Thoughts are going out to all the victims.

But the point is.... UGANDA!!! I applied for the Help International Program to Uganda this summer, and I got a call today asking for an interview! I'm so psyched! Man, if I get in... it will be the best adventure of my life to date. I have been wanting this since I was in 9th grade, and it might actually happen this summer!! What the heck?!

John found out that he is jobless in Utah, which makes him happy, because that means he gets to go to Alaska this summer, haha. He said he has never been so happy to hear that he isn't getting hired. He will have a blast catching birds, growing facial hair, and building trails, or whatever the heck he is doing. A whole summer is such a long time to be away from each other!! But I think sometimes distance is an important thing. You get to see if things actually will work out. So I am happy, with reservations.

I am going home. In like... 7 weeks. CRAZY. I get to see my family, and hopefully get a job somewhere cool, and see my family, and maybe take an online class, and see my family, and watch Rachel graduate, and see my family. oh yeah, did I mention I get to see my family?! What's super cool, is my cousins from Missouri are coming down for Rach's grad, and I haven't seen them since I was 6. That's FOURTEEN YEARS, PEOPLE! It's gonna be a party and a half!

And in other news from the past...

On Valentine's day we didn't really have time to do much... John had a test the next morning. So we went to Cafe Rio, and then headed up to campus to study! The weekend before we actually did some fun stuff though... We went up to Payson to ride horses. It was a little snowier than the last time however, and my horse started slipping down the side of the mountain we were riding on, and I fell off, miraculously above the horse, and not below it where I would have gotten trapped under. A couple weekends ago, I went up to Rexburg with John, and three random Asians that didn't speak very good english that we found off of the rideboard in the wilk. what. an. adventure. The weather was nasty and cold, but the experience was great! We stayed at John's brother & sister-in-law's house (Dan & Anne). They are awesome! And so funny! And Anne makes the best food ever! We got there, and she's like, 'how bout some chocolate pizza?' what the heck? haha. OH YEAH and we ate at this taco bus thing... It was like a Mexican restaurant... in a bus. Way weird. but such good food. I got to go to my 11th temple- Rexburg. I did baptisms with my favorite cousin, Ryan, and we chilled at his house for a bit and went to Cocoa Bean Cupcake Cafe, which is super good. We climbed a butte, and Dan told us all these random facts about rocks (He's a geologist), and then I accidentally threw a rock at John's face... and hit him in the head with a tree branch... He wasn't very happy with me haha. And that's... pretty much it. Rexburg is like a ghost town, but it was just fun to get out of p-town. The next weekend, the wildlife club was having an activity up at an Alpaca Farm owned by one of the BYU professors in Moroni. We stayed in wood-stove log cabins, and ate llama burger for breakfast, and john taught me how to drive a stick-shift tractor. Weird, but pretty cool. And we tried to cow-tip in the middle of the night, but the cows had tags on their ears and we thought they were horns so we (John) got freaked out and ran.

Today

• Song of the day: Paperweight by Joshua Radin
• Quote of the day: "I love Mark Ruffalo. He reminds me of my future husband." (Krista Roy). Also, "Buffalo! You know what rhymes with Buffalo? Ruffalo!"
• Bird of the day: Wood duck. they are freakin good looking
• Dessert of the day: donuts topped with oreos or butterfingers
• Tree of the day: Chinese Elm Bonsai. Named Fawkes.
• Boy of the day (and of the day before today... and the day before that... etc): John Hill.
• Roommate of the day: Krista Roy
• Craving of the day: Pirate booty
  
• Favorite Moment of the day: Seeing Krista Roy's face when she saw my face... under her bathroom stall
• Picture of the day:
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• Sandwich of the day: The Satisfier from Sensuous Sandwich
• Sister of the day: Nicole, for saying that she wanted a country for her birthday
• Sticky item of the day: my pantry shelf... somebody spilled their honey all over it...
  
• overheard conversation of the day (some lady talking on the phone): "Well I'm sorry that I grew up being taught to love other people... I'm sorry I show love to others... I'm sorry that I show emotion... and I'm sorry that you obviously suck at it."
  
• Shoes of the day: gray converse. with purple & yellow socks.
  
• Waste of time of the day: looking up Harry Potter names on babynames.com
• Dumbest video of the day: The Mean Kitty song... as posted by Rachel. oh dear rachel...
• Lie of the day: Brock Solomon saying that he can beat me up... as if... he's only like twice my weight...
  
• Surprise of the day: John bringing me lunch!
  
• Scream of the day: when I tried putting a sweetheart in Krista Roy's mouth and she thought it was a soybean.
• Accomplishment of the day: Applying to a Humanitarian Aid Project in Uganda with Help International
• Motto of the day: "Live (until you die) Laugh (until you cry) Love (Until you hate somebody a lot) (I just made that up... hahahaha dumb. and dumber.)
• Shock of the day: I spent twice as much $ as i should have on groceries last month... heh.
  
• Most beautiful thing of the day: watching the sunset (with Johnny boy)
  
• Best food of the day: Homemade cafe rio sweet pork, rice, and bean burrito. (with my roommates cheese and tortillas)
• Biggest disappointment of the day: discovering that there was blood coming out of my...
• Missionary of the day: Jim White, because I saw his brother, and thought it would probably be a good time to write him before he comes home in 3 months...
• Awkward moment of the day: Went to work. "How are you doing today, Elise?" "Oh, I'm super." "Well that's weird" "Oh... well I'll try to tone it down..... ohhh i guess today's ok I guess...." (Silence...) "Uhh what are you talking about?"
• Best advice of the day: Consulting an online 8-ball, who we asked if the Krispy Kreme light was on. he said "absolutely" and it was.
• Pain of the day: When I went to lay on Brenda's bed on my side seducingly and serenade Kelcey with a song... and i slammed my already bruised shoulder and messed it up even more.
  
• Wish of the day: that it was windy enough to fly a kite.
• Best overall thing about today: The BEAUTIFUL WARM WEATHER!!
  
• Biggest insult: Krista telling me that no one reads my blog except her...
  

Once upon a time...

Once upon a time there was a sophomore at BYU named Elise McAllister. She lived at 760 E 820 N #108 at Regency Apartments in Provo, Utah. (84604, if you were wondering). She got a keyboard for Christmas, and liked it a lot. She got a broken TV the first week of school. But she still liked it a lot. She had 5 roommates. Amber was a BYUSA freshman representative from Arizona who enjoyed boys named Derek, and political science. Kim was a recently returned missionary from Los Angles who was from Colorado Springs, was a mechanical engineer major and loved to run. Brenda was the boisterous and wild one from Renton, Washington majoring in business, and loved to curl her hair. Kelcey was also from Arizona, and loved to make animal noises and call her grandmother a weiner. Krista... well was positively sleepy and bashful and grumpy and happy and doctorate and dopey and sneezed a lot? anyway the point is, she loved to run, even though she had an injured knee. she was a communications major and always had the dream to go to Jerusalem with her precious "sole" mate Elise! And then she had a boyfriend named John. John was a wildlife and wildlands conservation major (whatever that is), who loved to feed roadkill to Elise, tease her about the gigantic age gap between them, clean otter poop, and take her on many wonderful adventures into exciting lands and to see exotic animals. (such as a turkey). but most of all, he LOVED... to eat peanut butter. she also had two strange friends named tristram and dan. Tristram was a registered child molester. as you can clearly see by this picture. He liked to run. and swim. and bike. and dance like a jellyfish. But he was a pretty good bowler. his cousin Dan was quite similar. he had an unfortunate accident as a child... and ever since has been afraid to use a razor, leaving him a hideous growth under his nose on his upper lip. It was a tragedy for all that knew him. Dan liked to dance with walls. it must have been another strange childhood accident, because he danced with walls like they were actually people. weird. anyway, all these people interacted with each other daily, and had lots of fun adventures together. Once, they went to a basketball game for BYU vs. SDSU (which we won). They commandeered a couch from the memorial hall to watch it on. it was quite the event. Also, actually no that's pretty much it. Kris just got mad at me for not posting on my blog recently, so i made up this lame and COMPLETELY untrue story about fictional people. Disclaimer: this is NOT my life. i don't know if there is a person out there that looks somewhat similar to me in any way shape or form who does have this life, but it is certainly not mine. the end.

What the...?

What? There's a blog here with my name on it? Random I can't recall making a blog... probably since its been so darn long since i used it... I have to start being better about that... as this is my only form of joural. (the song "genealogy... i am doing it!" is screeching in my head)

So I finished the semester with grades that I am honestly... still angry about. Usually I'm like, "ok i probably deserved this grade... I needed to work harder." This time, I really didn't deserve the grades I got... and grr. I'm mad. Anyway. its over, and I don't have to do it ever again. I think. I decided on my major- family & consumer science education (being a home ec teacher). Yes, it was a hard decision to make, yes i am still embarrassed sometimes because its a very "domestic" "molly mormon" "female" major, yes some people just nod their heads and smile when i tell them what i am doing... and I can't really blame them, yes i've had several doubts about it since the decision was made, but also yes, it is absolutely and undeniably the thing that Heavenly Father wants me to be doing. I have felt what i have felt, and I can't deny it, as much as I want to go back and say, "are you sure?" haha. I started dating this guy named John Hill from Alaska. He's pretty cool, as far as Alaskans are concerned. haha :) We have lots of fun and tease each other about where we are from because apparently, Texas is a crazy place, but so is Alaska in my opinion. Go figure. Maybe someday we'll compromise. I went home for Christmas break, went on a cruise to the bahamas, went to disneyworld and harry potter world in Universal Studios (SO COOL!!), and am now sitting on my couch bed which is nightly littered with popcorn and soda, because there is a tv and xbox in here, and apparently its the cool place to be for all the tweenagers. lame sauce.

Next semester is going to be a very different one... NO TWINS!! :(((((((((((( I have never gone to college without the twins, and I'm not very happy about seeing them go, but in all honestly, they're going to Jerusalem... how can me and Kris compare to that?! It's going to be incredible, and they're going to have a blast... i hope that I can get to go there sometime during my stay here at the Y. It would be quite the adventure. Also leaving the 108 is Katrina, who is getting married in february. It won't be too much of a change, because i only see her a couple times a week anyway. ha. Brenda is stickin around (yay!!), and me and kris will be up to our old shenanigans as usual. I called Kris today, and she said that one of our new roommates' names is Amber. and that she's really nice. and that she lives in the twins room. and that the point is, they slaughter dolphins (disclamer: the last statement is not related to amber in anyway.) I miss Kris! :( she is back in provo working her butt off at her lame job. Speaking of jobs, they only scheduled me for 10 hours... so how i'm going to be able to provide for myself... is a very good question. lame sauce. Schedule is quite time consuming... as one of my classes for my major (intro to sewing or something like that) is a 3 credit class, consisting of 2 lecture hours and 6 lab hours. WHAT?! also, human development (3), interior design (3), family finance (3), and mission preparation from the bottster (2). that should be fun. its a good schedule, just very packed... it'll be fun. i'll make it fun. and i better get good grades this semester or else...... yeah i dont know or else what. it would be really cool to get a scholarship? haha.

christmas! christmas is great! I got a sewing machine, a cover for my snowboard (so i can take it back up to UT), a keyboard, a mug that says "i eat losers for breakfast" and a few other little knickknacks. emily got a baby doll, who she strolls around everywhere, and a princess kitchen set. she fell down the stairs tonight... poor baby. she's way cute though. rach got a new camera, nicole got dad's (i mean santa's *cough*cough*) old guitar, and lauren & brooke got... some random stuff? idk. this is brooke's last year as a believer. kinda sad. but its been cute. we got mom salt & pepper shakers of mickey & minnie on the cruise (she collects salt and pepper shakers- off the top of my head i can name buddah, cowboy boots, teacup, watering can, eggs with duck feet poking out, pumpkins, birds.... ), and dad a book of pictures of walt disney (he loves walt disney). and i got rach a byu sweatshirt for when she COMES TO SCHOOL HERE NEXT FALL!!! so excited! my lil baby sis all grow'in up. one minute she's biting my... you-know-whats and then she's going off to collegegegegegeeee..... presh.

well that's all i have to say about that.

Surgery Time!

Well the day has finally arrived. (at least it will have arrived in T-110 hours) After four years of sinus infections every few months, 7 sessions of antibiotics, a gazillion nose sprays, 5 CAT Scans, a sinus flush (which happens to be the sickest thing in the world), an MRI, and a partridge in a pear tree, they're finally fixing my stinkin sinuses! The surgery is non-invasive, but painful, they're going up through my nose to remove a mass (cyst, fungal mass or tumor) in my right maxiliary sinus. Pretty gross stuff eh? And all I have to worry about is 6 weeks of cloudy with a chance of headaches, 40% chance of severe bleeding, and .1% chance of brain damage or eye damage. comforting, i know. The bad thing is that I have to miss halloween =/ I'm kinda bummed. When people ask me what I'm gonna be, I'm like "a recovering surgery patient." ("Oh... clever!"). I'll be chillin at Uncle Bruce and Aunt Deb's house, missing some school, and hopefully getting to read some Hunger Games, which I hear is pretty darn good.

I'm about centimeters away from deciding my major... My top three are biology education, elementary education, and Family and Consumer Science Education. And frankly, I'm pretty sure I'd be happy doing all three of these things... I just have to figure out which one I'd be the MOST happy doing. And while the few who read this will be spending much consideration about the thought process I'm going through to pick one, it helps me to right it down, and just sort it through my head.

• Biology ed- I want to work with teenagers more than I want to work with kids. I like being passionate about something, and it definitely appeals to me that biology isn't going to be an elective sluff class like Family & Consumer science might be. I'm not super stoked to take chemistry and physics classes (I really hate both of them...), but I really like biology! It's the longest of the three majors. I also would love love LOVE to get a PhD after my kids are all grown up and be a college professor & be a wildlife biologist on the side. That's pretty much my dream job.
• Elementary Ed- I love kids. a lot. I love the idea of making my classroom all colorful and creative and making little name tags and everything that goes along with being an elementary ed teacher. I would like working with teenagers more than kids though. I love kids, but I can be impatient sometimes. Also, everyone and their mom does elementary education. Kinda want to be different.
  
• Family & consumer science- pretty much, this would be the funnest job ever. I would get to learn about things that are way fun, things I'm going to use in my future home, and work with teenagers. However, when I took this in middle school, all the kids who took it were like the kids who just wanted an easy grade. I want to make kids passionate about what they're learning about, and if I get all the dumb jocks and cheerleaders in the class I might puke.

And that is all I have to say about that.

JDRF

A poem, I wrote to raise money for JDRF:

The time is upon us! The time is at hand!

Send out the word- across all the land!

Tell sisters and brothers- cousins and aunts!

Your great great grandmothers with stretchy old pants!

There are children in need, all over the world.

Whose voices- to everyone- need to be heard!

They ve gotten together with friends and family

For the futures of all, they d like to guarantee.

There are people who re walking. They re marching to say:

We don t like how diabetes treats people this way!

It s monstrous! It s evil! It makes people mad!

It affects lots of families- it makes people sad!

In fact, my dear friend, did you know? Listen here:

Over 15,000 children are diagnosed each year.

That s the US alone! I can tell you firsthand,

It's time to get up! Off your seats! Make a stand!

So today, my dear friend, all I will ask of you

Open your piggy bank, see what you can do

Even if just a dollar- a dollar! my friend,

Every cent helps diabetes come to an end.

Pass this message along, help us to ensure

Diabetes is conquered! Help JDRF find a cure!

Can I just say something?

Ok, just throwin this out there, but isn't it kinda perfect how we have patriarchal blessings, a savior who knows everything we've gone through, a Heavenly Father who knows us and loves us individually and unconditionally, latter-day prophets who can tell us what God wants us to know, and the Holy Ghost to guide us through our lives? Not gonna lie, I am a worry wart. I worry about everything, even when somethings up to 2 years in advance. I've been worrying about pretty much anything and everything there is to worry about in the last 2 weeks... and yet, everything is going to be ok. If we have faith that Heavenly Father will guide us through every trial that we will have in our lives, what have we to worry about? Looking through the eternal perspective is hard for me, but the few times I've been able to take a glimpse into the "big picture", I've been amazed at how trivial everything that I have concerns about on a day-to-day basis is. So this is a wake up call, Elise, stop worrying. Life is beautiful- enjoy the ride.