ducknapping

#72 reason i love byu
the byu police beat, ever bother to read it? you should.


byu campus is unlike any other campus in the world because it lacks in criminal excitement.
instead it has an overflow of good clean and stupid entertainment.
for example post thanksgiving break i might have shed a few tears enjoying this imparticular article:


Theft:

Nov. 20: A female reported seeing two individuals feeding ducks while standing very close to the water. One approached and grabbed a duck while the other recorded the event on his cell phone. They put the duck in a bag and ran to an older model pickup truck and drove west down 800 North.

 

(for full text click here.)

thankful for thanksgiving

this year was an out of the ordinary thanksgiving, but when i say out of the ordinary i also mean fabulous.

this is why:

emily is in town so we partied last night. we got up at a decent hour this morning and made an effort to expand our stomach for today's later meal. it was a scrumptious b'fast, and for once i didnt burn the bacon. why? cause i made emily cook it instead. we also even made warm cinnamon rolls :)

im going to be an aunt again and again! alecia announced she was preggie just a few weeks ago and kassie made the announcement today as well! they are both expecting within just a few days in each other this may. they just cant keep from playing these games with each other. its okay ladies, we secretly love it too.

i made frog eye salad to represent the oliphant fam, that was just for you mommy.

aunt lari was so sweet and was all up for letting me invite myself over for a delicious turkey dinner.

grandpa picked me up, we had a great chat on the way to pg. ive got really amazing grandparents who take good care of me.

i may be five years older than the oldest child there, but i thankfully still got to sit at the kids table. its so much more fun and you get to play with your food :)

after pie, taylor played lulling piano music for me as i slowly dosed into a post turkey dinner slumber. she is so talented on the ivorys.

they sent me home with LOTS of food. thanks again.

hillary, my roommate, and i washed dishes and cleaned the apartment to great music after all our cooking, so im now sitting in a spotless apartment browsing tomorrows ads.

im heading over to my friends to watch home alone 2 in just a bit

and then emily and i are heading out to go black friday shopping at midnight!

now it may not have been a holiday where i got to beat amanda in the turkey trot, play settlers, consume excessive amounts of cheesecake, be with all the cousins down in warm weather, or even home freezing in wiscansin, but i still got to share it with those that i love. happy thanksgiving all. we have so much to be thankful for.

classy but sassy

Why cant boys just give us what we want? After all, they are on earth to do exactly that. ~Jillian Schulze


haha love you girl. can't wait to party winter break, mad-town style :]

scholastic suicide

today i signed up for three weeks of absolute carnage.

goal: to complete a full independent study course online before December 3rd.

why i think this is even possible, i do not know. but please wish me luck, keep me in your prayers, feel free to stop by with warm delicious cookies, and do not feel too frustrated with me if i have close to zero contact with the rest of the world.

17 credits here i come.

eleven

the number eleven isnt even that great of a number. i mean i know 11:11 looks kind of cool on a digital clock but why eleven?

why dont we wish at 3:33? in high school it marked a much more meaningful and pleasant moment. it was even signaled by the clanging of the school bell, celebrating one less day of waking up at five am, braces, and ap european history and one more day of after school soccer, musical practice, and drivers ed.

or why dont we wish at 12:12 in celebration of the birth of muah ;]

either way today @11:11 my english class is having a moment of silence. i would tell you what my wish is but i dont want to chance the idea that it might not come true.  i will let you know that it was a good one though. a really, really good one.

what are you wishing for?

fall back

the end of daylight savings time means i get up early enough to actually do my hair and put on make up in the mornings, but it also means walking out of the hfac everyday to pitch black. blah.

[picture was here]

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self declared graduation requirements

i had a recent discussion with my roommates about requirements to graduate from high school should include playing a sport, or being a part of some sort of team. high school is a time where you learn much more than just trigonometry and about the cold war; it is a time to make mistakes, to learn who your friends are,  and all about personal responsibility.

high school was a crazy time of my life (like im sure most of ours was), but while it was not always peaches and cream i will never regret the experiences i had because it made great memories and i am a better person because of it. luckily in high school i had the chance to be apart of quite a few team things, but that doesnt mean looking back  there were a few things i never did that i always wanted to do, and now will never get the chance. yes, sneaking out was one of them.

this time i am having a new experience that is very very different than lafollette. this time its called college. college at byu nonetheless. and this time i am making sure everything on the check list gets done.

i am a strong believer in memories. they are all we really have. a life is only made up of memories, so why not fill it with great ones.

The To Do Before I Graduate List:

¨  shake cecil’s hand

¨  spend a night on campus

þ  planetarium

þ  send a package to a missionary from the wilk post office

¨  an internship

þ  volunteer at the MTC TRC

þ  see humor U and divine comedy

¨  have a picnic on the south hill of campus

þ  see a byu musical or theatre performance

¨  get asked out by a stranger in the library

¨  sneak into the  tunnels

¨  take an outdoorsy adventure class

þ  roast starburst on the bell tower lights

þ  ice skate at 7 peaks

¨  give a talk in a singles ward (haha unchecked, suckers)

¨  play hide and seek in the library

¨  live in a house

þ  true blue football

þ  use the byu book exchange

¨  study abroad

þ  have a boy take you to squaw peak ;] (bet you my story is better than yours)

þ  sunday midnight denny’s run

¨  be a loyal member of a campus club

¨  feed the ducks

þ  dance on the deJong stage

þ  take a dance class

¨  get an editorial published in the D.U.

þ  meet jimmer 

¨  light the Y

þ  stay in the library til you hear the “get out” music

¨  attend every type of athletic sporting event

¨  get a 100% on a test

þ  have pebbles (or other small objects) thrown at your window

¨  drop a penny off the roof of the swkt

þ  join an intramural team

þ  attend a baptism in the jsb

¨  go to all five of the museums on campus

þ  have a calling you could only get in a singles ward

þ  pull an all-nighter doing homework

þ  stay out all night

¨  attend a byu ball (I went to a fancy banquet at the Hinckley Center - does that count?)

þ  get a “safe walk” home

¨  dine at every restaurant on campus

¨  get mentioned in the police beat

¨  make out in the stacks

þ  international movie cinema

¨  wear pink in the periodicals on a friday night

¨  sit in on a random interesting class just because

þ  stay in provo for spring/summer

þ  have a campus job

¨  sit on the floor of the marriott for devo

þ  skip a class (this should have many more than just one check next to it)

þ  tunnel singing

now its your turn to make your own, its now or never folks.

and please let me know if theirs any good ones i need to add to the list.

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Posted By Blogger to Clarissa explains it all. at 11/03/2011 02:28:00 AM

november's savvy saying

"Be who you are

and say what you feel

because those who mind don't matter

and those who matter don't mind."

- Dr. Seuss

oliphant oldest 5

is it just me or have the oliphant oldest 5 all been much closer since amanda graduated and richnerd got engaged? either way.... its been great :]

love you all