Oh Boy

Yes it is tuesday, Yes it is 12:18 in the afternoon, yes I am still in bed, yes my house is shaking because it is surrounded by large machines ripping up our street building a building and shaking my house!, yes I have eaten four bowls of unhealthy cereal this morning, yes I hope that no one ever finds this blog post, yes I have to take a test today, yes I have to study for the test I am taking tomorrow, NO I did not say what I wanted to say, and yes I am feeling sad about that now... Oh boy. 

I have no idea why

I can attest to the fact that, the older i get the more i do not understand. I swear I have more unanswered life questions than i ever have before. For example, why can i not find a flipping job, why is there a hole the size of china in front of my house, why do i want to sleep and then again don't want to sleep, who decided that it was socially savvy to wear makeup, why do i always say the wrong things at the wrong times, and of course WHY IS THE SKY BLUE? 


I swear I will never understand. I fell as if I am constantly playing a game of catch up, I barely correct my mistakes before I clumsily find my way into another awkward/bad situation. 


Last question...how do you make your thoughts organized and simplified?


Like seriously, this life thing... it isn't always easy !  

odd conversations... i think NOT

so as i sat waiting for one of my classes to start i overheard this conversation...typical for BYU you know the kind of kids who are out to solve the "serious" problems of the world...trying to change the world one bathroom at a time. 

"you know we could save a lot of energy if they just had one size of drinking fountain"

this comment alone was enough to stop me in my tracks

so i paused...... and listened to the rest of this 

weird conversation that went something like this 

second friend "no really?"

"yeah i mean No one ever drinks out of the small drinking fountains because why would

you drink out of a small drinking fountain when you could drink you of a big drinking fountain?"

"oh"

"yeah so get rid of the big drinking fountains and just use the small one then no one would have 

to choose between the two sizes of drinking fountains and you could save room AND energy"

"right... i think you are on to something here"

"oh and you know what other idea i had, you know the bathrooms at the conference center

(yes the L.D.S. conference center but of course here on campus this needs no verification)  

well if you haven't noted, there is always a line in front of the womans restrooms 

NO (gasp) really? 

so i was thinking about it and the men and womens restrooms are the same size right? 

"yeah i suppose so"

"ok well then you know if they just made the womens restroom larger then there wouldn't be such 

a big line."

NO WAY a light just went on... 

so what i learned today is that if the restrooms were build bigger they would accommodate more people wow i

cannot believe that it only took that boy 22 years of his life to figure that out! this could change public

restrooms for good!

Quote of the Day

" you am not boy crazy you are MAN crazy..."  thank you Dottie!! 


this simple quote from my lovely roommate Dottie made my night wonderful. 


another quote about college...


"life in the dorms is like an anti-scocial persons worst nightmare...oh no... my life is my worst nightmare"


walking on BYU campus is like walking into a room full of love sick puppies... people are holding hands everywhere... you might think that i am righting about this because i am jealous, however those who know me best would say that it is because it makes me want to vomit... right?  why would i be jealous of all the young lovers? good question  


Took my first test today... it went well...i think... i don't know i guess i will have to see... 


too late to continue on with this stupid blog that no one but me wants to read so ta ta for now! 

SICK

so i say sick, not sick as in cool, sick as in sick.  who would believe that while thousands of miles away from home i was never one ounce homeSICK but now that i am a whole amazing 60 miles away i am super homesick.  


i have come to the conclusion that homesickness is not fun. 

i shouldn't be homesick 

so i tell my self every day 

you are a big girl sarah 

you can do this

you are just 60 miles away from home 

your brothers are just taking your room 

N. B. D. 

i am in college so i don't care 

right? 

WRONG

for some reason i care... too much 

A Whole New Life

Home messy Home 
somehow I am lucky enough to have
clean roommates.... and they got stuck with me ...

Well I wish that I could say that since moving into the dorms I have turned over a new leaf and become clean person, a neat freak, tidy, however this is not so.  as you can see my room is currently in a state of disarray and instead of taking steps to organize it I am writing about it... ask me why? I have no clue. 

Tower Bridge

Woot Woot here we are in London good ol' London 

Here he is tall and stoic not allowing anything funny, or disturbing 

to disrupt his focus. 

that is he allowed nothing but the comments of our group to disrupt him

Side story:  we all wanted to see if we could make him smile and after several tires i am proud to say we succeeded.  first let me just say that even being around them is kinda awkward because you know they are alive and human, however they do not react to anything!!  you can be standing 2 meters away from them talking about them and they still show no reaction. so i was not all that excited to be a part of the scheme to break his concentration, but i witnessed it.  

                           lindsey: "his lips are just so kissable" 

          enough said he cracked up !  and from that moment on we all tried to make all of them laugh and i am glad to announce that everyone we saw we made them laugh .... they all needed some happiness in their boring lives.

and of course the tower bridge 

i saw the crown jewels and went through an interesting armer museum and saw all the cool things around the tower of london

later in the night we went to Beethoven's 9th in ST. PAULS cathedral 

It was amazing!  i have no idea what to say other than the fact that 

                    Beautiful music + Amazing building = BLISS

Bath Glastonbury and Stourhead

Bath or should i say bOth 


after hearing much about bath from the characters of the many austen novels that we have read my mind already had a firm image of what it should look like, however what i thought it should look like and what it did look like were slightly different.  


the roman baths were extremely interesting, they are built on natural hot springs and although i probably should have already known this i didn't and i found it extremely interesting.  

I am pretty sure that i would not enjoy swimming in these 

rather green bathes 

Although we did not have the opportunity to enter into Bath Abbey, because 

there was a graduation that was going on we got to observe the beautiful 

outside of the Abbey and the part i like the best were the Angels climbing up

the ladders to Heaven 

The next stop within Bath was to the Assembly hall where characters from Jane Austen's novels would have gone to dance the night away.  

Spinning and spinning and spinning and spinning 

Beautiful Chandeliers 

Large dancing rooms

and a group full of silly girls

NOT much has changed since the days of Jane Austen 

We quite enjoyed dancing all afternoon

Next stop is Stourhead 

This is one of the most beautiful places that i have seen every way you looked there was something beautiful to see.  i could have spent hours just walking around the lake and enjoying the scenery 

many of you probably recognize this from the latest version of 

Pride and prejudice well here it is and it sure is beautiful

so many girls all that was missing was the Mr. Darcies!!

further around the lake there is another little building that is just as picturesque as this one 

look at those ugly ducklings 

they sure are cute... even if they are Ugly 

everything was brilliant 

i can't wait to travel back here and spend

more time exploring the grounds

of Stourhead

Glastonbury 

Glastonbury Abbey- it is said that this is the place where joseph of arimathea brought jesus when he was a boy and where his rod planted a thorn tree whose decedents still are alive today in the Abbey gardens.  this is also where the legendary king arthur and his wife are said to be buried 

one word DISSOLUTION 

the abbey was destroyed during kind henry viii's reign when ordered a dissolution of all the catholic chapels, monasteries, abbeys, etc.

the tree coming in from the left side of the photo is said 

to be a thorn tree that is a descendant of the 

tree that joseph planted thousands of years ago

take it or leave it... believe it of not ... i don't know

i really enjoyed roaming around these ruins but there were a few things that disagreed with me...

poor little pigs, what did they do to deserve a sad end like this?

 i know this is a super cute picture of me... but it is showing king arthur's "resting place" 

Yeah i am pretty sure it is creepy that i did this but oh well what's done is done

at the end of our visit here we liked the abbey so much that we all decided to change our life styles and become... 

ok so not really but they just had these sweet costumes for little kids to try on ... and we just couldn't resist 

On to the TOR 

the hike to the top 

the tor 

some of the view 

more of the view

even more of the view

the rest of the view

all around the top of the hill there are beautiful views that you just can't ever get enough of.  so many different ways to look you can see almost clear out to the sea  

I LOVED hiking to the top of the hill and looking over the valley it was just amazingly brilliant 

This day was spectacular 

What a great way to end day trip #2 

Admitance

ok the last post was a mistake on my part...

Not realizing that i had already posted a post about these photos i spent an hour with the slow internet trying to write and publish this post... SUCCESS... again... because yep i just repeated a day!!! well great now you get two drafts of blogging for one day .... lucky you!!

July 3rd ish

JORDAN  this one is for you!!!  actually they are all basically for you so read up !! 


Platform 9 3/4 


The crazy thing about this is that this platform is definitely not between platforms 9 and 10 ... it was not as easy to find as it should be there were no HUGE signs there was absolutely no way for me to know where the stupid platform is 


so finally we figured out where it was !!! 

this is where it was supposed to be 

and 

this is where it actually was 

so as i walked back i saw this wheel and the first thought that popped into my head was this 

     Why would someone chain a wheel to this bike rack 

and then it hit me 

     it probably was not this stupid wheel that the person was trying to keep safe...

it was just a crazy thought and then i just started laughing sooo hard and of course i had to take photos 

here is the sad lonely wheel 

so of course we went to see the cricket grounds and on our way we happened upon a random red phone booth ... what are the odds but yes it is true we found a phone booth and i had to take the traditional " i am a tourist" photo 

This just SHOUTS

"I AM A TOURIST"

And then we had another Wimbledon Moment with the cricket grounds ... don't worry we only walked like 4 miles to try and see a random cricket game and here is the view i got... 

yeah pretty much i am pro at going to places that i am not allowed inside of...  

      and why would these people not move for my picture... i wish i knew that answer for myself ... i asked them kindly to move but they opted not to listen 

here is just some random book that i found at the british library that i thought was kinda funny 

THE BRITISH LIBRARY 

I LOVED the library, what started out as another tedious assignment turned into a LOVEly afternoon.  

there were so many amazing things to see there lots of old documents and jane austen notes on for her books i was in heaven seeing all of the old books and such so for all those planning on visiting London i would HIGHLY recommend the british library there is one section in particular on the first floor that is the best. 

LAST stops of the day 

Sherlock Holmes museum 

GReat ... but we didn't go on the tour so basically we just looked around in the gift shop and took creepy pictures out front 

last but not least the BEATLE'S STORE 

Creepy picture of the DAY # 2