Emily Mayda visit to utah

So I actually haven't been very busy lately. Which is probably why I haven't written anything, I just assumed I had nothing huge to talk about OR I am just not on the computer blogging all the time. About two weeks ago I was lucky to have Emily Mayda Low in town. I had originally been planning on spending Monday through Friday with her, however plans change. She did not fly in until Tuesday night....late Tuesday night. Luckily Seth was willing to go up with me. I had not realized how long it had been since I had driven on I-15. Everyone should be especially grateful for Seth, without him the crazy driving skills of myself would have been unleashed upon all those driving at 12 at night.
I was so happy to see Emily, it has been so so long, and I won't be able to spend much time with her because she is going on a mission! I am so proud of my best friend! (shout out to all former roommates...you all make me proud too!). Emily was so tired we just went home and slept. The next day I had to work but all* of the girlies from DT the REG and Miller met up for lunch at the coveted Thai Ruby (*Everyone except Becca who scheduled herself into a work meeting for that exact hour...meanie, haha jk Becca). It was delicious...and as soon as I figure out how to post pictures of that wonderful event I will. Afterwords some of the chica's split and Trish, Em, and I went and visited some old miller guy friends..and then the old miller itself. From there Trish, Em, Janae, Leslie, and I went to Color Me Mine. What a quaint little pottery shop. It was so much fun being creative...and not worrying about what it would like...although I could tell that Trish and Em did care because we stayed at that blessed place for two hours. Long enough for treat time. YUM!
I am sure we would have stayed later but Trish had a hot date! So Emily and I went home and slept to catch up on the little sleep that both of us had had the night before and then went to Joe Galloway's birthday party. The next morning I went to work and dropped Em off with Trisha. I was nervous for this work morning, I was teaching for BYU weekly. Although I will admit I shouldn't have been nervous considering I was teaching a stress management course. Surprisingly it went very well. The only part I wasn't expecting was an interview. I probably sounded really dumb, so please do not watch BYU weekly...EVER! thank you.
Directly after that, I went home and packed in a rush, earlier in the week Seth had invited me to Manassa, and yes that is the correct spelling. To Be Continued....

Ta Da

Bloggers, family, and friends, yes this is a new post, SURPRISE!!! No I figure I better post something this summer. I just haven't figured out how to have a cool background without erasing all of my side bars...again. So here is a quick catch up. I am working Part time at the Counseling and Career Center, my more specific office is The Career Center and Academic Success Center. I know, I know, a bunch of fancy words that don't say anything about what we actually do, considering that there is a career center two doors down from us and an academic center right next door to us. In reality we do A LOT more than just sitting at a desk, we are forced to sit at the desk, and get all of our projects done. Of which is impossible because people are constantly coming in for help....help finding the bathroom or some odd place around campus. If we were an Information Commons...we would post Information Commons on our door, above our door, to the side of our door, just as we have posted it for the ever so impressive Career Center and Academic Success Center.....*hold on a sec, gotta catch my breath every time I have to say the whole thing* okay we're good.

My specific assignment is workshops, which is 70% of the reason that we are located where we are. Recently, we have been working on updating the workshops and it has taken a lot of work to push the oldies (or Workshop Masters, as they call themselves) to find a better approach at teaching the material. Even worse, the students that come into this job sometime have NO teaching experience at all. So I don't know about you but.....yeah, that was the most frustrating thing for me. I realize that we need so much help in our center, but I am so thankful for this job. At least I have one, one that I really like doing (teaching) I never would have thought that I would enjoy teaching kids my age...well, actually I am a little older, considering I am a senior in college this year. Which means nothing because I am just barely applying to a new major that I really really hope to get into.

This Fall I am applying to the Communications department with an emphasis in Comms studies. And then in Winter semester for Public Relations. Either emphasis would satisfy me. I am really excited to learn more about Communications. If you are wondering what I am still doing in school here it is. I hope to major in Communications emphasis in Public Relations, I am minoring in history, and I plan to be out of school in a year and a half. Wahoo! BYU has been a lot of fun, but I am excited to get out and start working. However, maybe this year and a half waiting period will be good for our economy and the job market. I can only cross my fingers.

Other than that, the news you have all been waiting for. Seth has been home since May 23, almost 24 days. We have been dating for almost two weeks. It has been so much fun catching up with and spending time with him! It is so crazy how little he has changed...I mean he has changed, but it has only been for the better. The weirdest thing about him being back is hearing him speak Khmer. It is such a strange language but there is so much more to learn about the Cambodians. We were looking at some of his mission pictures last night and it was amazing how much love he has for the Cambodian people. He also took pictures at the Angkor Watt geeze, places I have only read about in history books and he has gone there! It was really fun I am excited to learn more. I would post pictures but we haven't really taken any. So I will work on that.

I think that pretty much catches everyone up to speed, oh except for the fact that MARY is Engaged! Mary and I thought it would be pretty funny to pull a prank on the family...I would say it was successful but apparently everyone else was like "what announcement could Julie possibly have"....dang, here were Seth and I trying to be awkward and surprising, and all we got was a few rolled eyes from Mom and Dad and Tim asking if I was pregnant, real great! Goll my family has a sense of humor.

Life as it is

So this last week was my birthday and boy was it good! it was a true birthday week! the festivities began last Tuesday where my roommates surprised me with gifts galore counting down the days till I would be the big 21! Saturday was my friend party where we had my friends come over to chat and to have cake. Can I tell you how much pressure is put on the birthday girl to entertain. I loved the party, but gosh sometimes I was afraid that people thought I was boring or something because all I was doing was trying to catch up with people.

After cake which was so generously provided by my loving roommate Trisha, we headed to Classic Skating. Where I immediately came to realize I have not skated in YEARS! I also had not realized how popular it was....there were tonz of people there. By the way we were dressed up because it was disco night. So here are some pics from that, it was definitely a blast!

This is Trisha my roommate and myself

This is Kelsey, Michael, and I trying to show off our awesome skills.

So after that we came back and played games and said good night. It was by far the best party I have had in a long time! It was really good to see old friends and new friends become good friends.

Monday was the family party and can I just tell you how amazing Deborah is! well she is amazing! she made my cake and it was beautiful.... and yes that is fondant. Best Family Birthday EVER!!!!

So then comes my real birthday day...MARCH 3 for those of you who are still unsure as to when I was really born. I didnt do anything too crazy. I went to school and then worked for six hours, I then came home ate left over pizza and chilled on the couch doing "homework" (I fell asleep) after being awakened which is something that my roommates never do because they realize the vengeance of Julie. Trisha, Emily, and Laura then went to 7-11 with me for a weekly ritual of getting hot cocoa. On our way back from visiting a good friend. Anna (my room roommate) had called and was acting kinda weird so we walk in and I go to get some tums *vital when sugar intake has greatly exceeded over a four day period. When Kelsey said, "Julie can I borrow your scriptures..." I was like "okay? what happened to yours?"...then Anna said "Julie I made your bed you should go look at it." By this point I was like what the heck is going on? What did they do to my bed...and I walk in and see my best friends and old roommates Leanne Lecheminant, Becca Snyder, Alex Ahern, and Kelsi Brimhall sitting on my bed!!!!!! oh what a good surprise! I Love my friends!

Thanks to everyone who made this day (or rather week) so special. I cannot thank you all enough!

Time has flown by

Hey, so it has been a while...whats new? I finally have time to blog and it is the week before finals that kinda has me worried. But for now I will just blog and figure the other stuff out later. I have realized that I love looking at others blogs so I should probably update for you guys too. Especially since yesterday Sherie called and said she didn't even know what I looked like, whats that all about? So quick update, I have been crazy busy with school, work, and boys. yet, I havent had this much fun in a long time. Hallelujah for my roommates! speaking of which I am posting some of our roomate + Laura pictures. Laura is included because she is one of our apartments good friends, even though she doesnt live in our apartment. Does she look like anyone you guys know? shes the one in purple. okay so I cant figure out how to organize the pictures so I will just leave the post at this. Let me know what else you guys want to know...now that I have answered Sheries question. haha love ya fam!

People!!!

so, here i am!!! in case all of you were wondering where I went. Have no fear, I was here all along. So quick low down on the life of Julie Call....single, working, and going to school.
I love BYU! It has been quite an experience here so far. It is hard but I think I can handle it.
So I guess I will start with the singleness, yes I am. I have been asked for my number a few times, but it always seems that they never use it. So the next time I am asked for my number I am pretty sure I am just going to say "I'm sorry, I forgot it." or something with that same effect. how do you think that will go over? ha. It has been good to get back in touch with old friends. I didn't realize how the Provo bubble really does affect relationships. I almost never hang out with my friends from Springville (or Idaho, I suppose) anymore. It is really cool to see where everyone is in life now.
Work. I work at the Counseling and Career Center in the Wilk. My department is more specifically the Career Center and Academic Success Center, I am a paraprofessional for one of the counsellors there. Basically I love it! I have even considered changing my major, or double majoring. I would love to be a career counselor or an academic counsellor at a high school. I was looking it up a while back, it is going to be a lot of work. But I think that being a history major was kind of a dead end. I really would like to publish some of my own theories on history. But until I can do that, I think I will look into a counselling job. If you have any suggestions let me know.
School. Well, I kind of covered it in the work section but more specifically. I am in a history of Spain class right now, and it is so awesome. I need to learn some spanish but despite that, this is one of my favorite classes this semester. I am also in two dance classes; dance 260 and dance 180. 260 is the history of dance (which is only interesting because I am a history major, otherwise, I am positive that modern dance is NOT my favorite, but meh who knows maybe I havent been out much). 180 is a social dance, haha and by that I mean I am socializing with kids a foot shorter than me and two years younger than myself. yup AWKWARD! However, it is a really fun class, I am always happy after I leave it because it is not impossible to dance, just challenging. I am also in History 221, oh the bane of my exhistance! I am pretty sure this is a rediculous class, or maybe it is the teacher? anywho next class, I am also in a survey of world religions class, *Doreen, thank you so so so much for your notes, I have no idea what the heck he is saying. yup my teacher is from korea, and I have such a hard time understanding the words coming out of his mouth. Pretty sure if I didnt have Doreen's notes to follow I would not be doing so well....Doreen, is that right? <- inside joke you would have to have him as a teacher to understand. haha I counted 50 'is that right' in just thirty minutes of class. He is still a way cool teacher, very funny, so dont think I am dissing on him.
Yup well that is my life so far. school, work, handing out numbers. I will definately make a better attempt at writing more often to let y'all know what is going on.
Family, I love you all and miss you!

Me

this is me

tims graduation

when sherie and fam came in to town
















Sorry I have been out of the blogsphere for a while. but dont worry I have only been saving up all of my cool stories....like the correct story as to what happened on the trip to Arizona. be afraid Carol!

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rihanna,oh blessed woman! Many people have asked me what my fetish with rihanna, beyonce etc. is....well it is that they are so empowering. Who doesnt need empowerment? They are perfect to listen to when you are angry, tired, or heartbroken. Basically they are the ultimate way to get over rough things in life. After listening to their songs I am not angry, vengeful, or sad. I just want to pick myself up and move on. What else could be better than that? So basically, stop crying do something about it while you listen to the all too awesome rihanna and beyonce! KAZAA