Cops and Cookie Dough

This week was pretty uneventful but, like always, there are always those random events that make me laugh. On Tuesday Jess and I decided to make some cookies (Aunt Norma's recipe of course). So, on the way home from the gym (a little counterproductive - cookies after the gym - but oh well) we stopped by the store to get butter and chocolate chips. After finding a dozen more things that we "had to have" we made it home and began cooking. About three minutes later we realized we only had 1 cup of brown sugar (we needed 2) and 1 teaspoon of vanilla (again...we needed 2). Not wanting to go to the store again we called the apartment below us (two of the girls visit teach me, the other two visit teach Jess and we visit teach one of them so...we are all kinds of connected). Anyway...we asked to borrow brown sugar and vanilla. After getting all that settled we were about to add the last (secret!) ingredient, but we only had a cup of it (we needed way more than that). So, figuring that even our visiting teachers wouldn't have that, I decided to make a second trip to the store while Jess started cleaning up. My half went smoothly but Jess had some problems on her own. While she was cleaning she knocked over the mixer, turning it on and flinging cookie dough all over the kitchen. After I got home and we cleaned that up we finally added our last ingredient, mixing it in with a spatula...since our metal spoons aren't long enough and we don't have a wooden spoon. Halfway through the mixing process our spatula snapped in half. We eventually finished but it has never taken me so long to make cookies in my life...it was seriously a three hour process.
This is a disgusting picture of us but captures the tragedy of our broken spatula perfectly haha.

The other "event" happened Wednesday coming home from the gym (I think there is a common link here). It was pretty late and I was driving up University when I looked in my review and saw a cop with his lights on. After a mini panic attack because I didn't have my license, there isn't a plate on the front of my car and I think my windows are a little dark, and thinking about my speed I pulled over to the right lane and...the cop zoomed right by. I seriously didn't breathe the whole way back.

Whatcha Booin?

Halloween this year was seriously a week long event and mom...this might be one of the first years that there were not tears after putting on my costume haha.

We had our ward Halloween party - oops i mean "harvest festival" - the weekend before Halloween. As a member of the activities committee I recruited my roommates and we were three of the few there, but it was still fun. It was a black light party so we wore our white and neon. Unfortunately, due to a scheduling conflict and the insistence of another ward to have the lights on for their party, our party ended about 45 minutes after it started. Needless to say...we were home early with nothing to do.


That Monday for FHE our "family" had a pumpkin carving contest among the three apartments. There were two guy apartments and then ours - 10 points for anyone who guesses which pumpkins the guys did :). Oh and I think the one on the right was supposed to say hot rod...but they didn't finish before time was up so it was judged as is. We interrupted some nearby families and got some people to judge for us. Surprisingly the barfing pumpkin on the left won a lot of votes but Jess kept recruiting people until our pumpkin won the prize...which she had bought earlier that day haha.

Our apartment with the "winning" pumpkin.

Halloween started with a quick trip up to the Chipotle in Sandy. If you dress like a burrito on Halloween they give you a free meal...it is amazing. So Jess, Torrie and I wrapped ourselves in aluminum foil and waddled our way to a free dinner. Our costumes lasted about as long as the burritos - which we inhaled. About the time we drove by Costco on our way back to Provo I realized I didn't have my phone so we flipped around and drove right back up to Sandy. I chauffeured while Jess and Torrie worked on their dreads in the backseat. Fortunately we found my phone laying in the parking lot where the car was parked but unfortunately we did not get back to Provo until 10:30 and weren't in our costumes ready to go until 11:30 since we had to make them on the spot and all. Our apartment was a mess with fabric everywhere but it was worth it.

Our pirate costumes that were thrown together really quickly - a boy's v-neck undershirt with an iron on skull and crossbones, a black fabric skirt, red bandanna, eye patch, earring, and some really dark make-up. We hit up a party in the parking garage of our complex for about an hour and then checked out the local redbox for a night of popcorn and movies - a perfect Halloween. Oh, and we didn't get a chance to use the hippie costumes but they are ready for when our ward goes disco skating in a few weeks. :)

Other than that I swear my life is consumed with school but I have finally finished all my mid-terms and papers so I shouldn't have another one until after Thanksgiving...yay! And...I just found out today that I was accepted to the London Study Abroad! As for this weekend...relaxing is the only thing on the to do list :)