Writer's Block

I hate it.

21,261!!

My story has officially reached the 20,000 word mark! *celebrates*

Can't wait to write some more tomorrow! I would write more tonight if it weren't for three things being tired: hands from writing, fingers from typing, and brain from a long day.

I know what's going to happen in the next chapter (anything after that, I'm coming up blank) so it shouldn't be too difficult to write.

Have a great day!

Life Lately

Hello readers! :) Here's what I've been up to...lately. Haha

*sister's birthday
*dad's birthday
*started my new journal :)
*Nancy's bridal shower
*HARRY POTTER WEEKEND (best)
*wrote a little
*amazing lesson on Charity in Relief Society
*amazing lessons on the signs & times, and miracles of Jesus in Sunday School
*nightmare known as registration
*registered (love my schedule for this upcoming semester)
*POTC1
*broke my iPod (however, it still works)
*applied for a TA position
*got emailed about said TA position
*wrote "the chamber of secrets has been opened" on our ceiling with Nancy in glow-in-the-dark paint
*clean checks
*packed
*BYU basketball
*FAFSA
*Toy Story 3
*Mormon and Keira Knightley version of Pride & Prejudice
*How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days
*Dinner with Home Teachers
*Music :)
*sorta finalized plans for Conference Weekend (SO excited to see my family :))
*TA interview (I *think* it went well)
*more music :)
*wrote this

And now I'm going to go work on my story. Maybe. I should.

Have a good day!

I Hate Registering.

That's all there is to it, is that statement up there. I hate it. With a fiery passion.

Oh, registration, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways:

• More than a vegetarian hates meat
• More than a Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobic hates long words
• More than the mid-1830's Missourians hated the Mormons
• More than the amount of Jacob's hatred towards Edward
• More than Edward's hatred towards Jacob
• More than Dan's loathing of baby-daters
• More than the Cougars hate the Utes
• More than the Grinch hated Christmas at first
• More than the McCabe family hates the Lakers
• More than Sue Sylvester hates the Glee Club
• More than I hate the frigid temperatures of Rexburg
• More than Ron Weasley hates spiders
• More than Professor Snape hates any Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher
• More than Lord Voldemort hates Harry Potter
• More than Riverton Silverwolves hate the Bingham Miners
• More than I hate grammar errors
• More than MLIA people hate Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, and Twilight
• More than Google-lovers hate Yahoo!
• More than I hate hot dogs
• More than Harry Potter fans hate Twilight

And that's saying something.

Darren Gene McCabe

To my dad, on his 42nd birthday...I would try to do 42 things that I love about him, but that would take forever to come up with and forever to read. So I'll just spout out the things I love about him, and we'll see what that number is at the bottom :)

1. Well, you're my dad. Kinda supposed to love you. JK I love you anyway :)
2. Even though I complained about it all during my middle and high school years, I'm grateful that you are tall and that you passed it on to me. :)
3. I love the fact that you are skinny (and that you passed it on to me :P).
4. I love your love of the gospel, and that you spend a great amount of time trying to instill that love into each of your kids.
5. Your selflessness is pretty awesome. Mom told me what you volunteered to do at The Valley Journals.
6. Your willingness to serve. Whilst you were in the bishopric, every time you were asked to do something, you immediately agreed, no questions asked (unless something big in the family was already scheduled).
7. Remember how when I was like 16 you tried doing that monthly "father/child" talk with each of us? That was amazing. I loved (still do) how you devoted an hour or so to that child, and wouldn't let any other thing get in the way of that hour. I can honestly say my life was better for that one hour during such a dark time in my life.
8. The fact that you honor your Priesthood. Every single Father's Blessing you have given me for school meant so much to me. And whenever you give a Priesthood Healing Blessing (pretty sure that's not the correct name, but whatever), you always knew exactly what to say.
9. Your willingness to listen. Whenever I had a problem, I could easily talk to you, and you would listen to me. Thank you for that :)
10. I love the fact that you were calm when I got in my car accident over the summer. Of all the times in my life that I thought you would get mad at me, you didn't. Sure, you were disappointed, but not super mad like I thought you would be.
11. Everything you do for the family. You go to work to provide for them, cook dinner when Mom doesn't feel like it, help make sure the kids do their chores, sometimes do house fixer-uppers (I will NEVER let go of the fact that I never got closet doors. Just to let you know. :P), etc.
12. I love how you pushed me to finish my Personal Progress in Young Womens. Without your persistance, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have finished. Thanks :)
13. I love your testimony of the gospel. Every time I hear it, I can always feel the spirit. I hope my testimony can be as strong as yours one day.
14. I don't know if you remember this, but there was this one night my senior year of high school that I was up really late doing a preschool project that was taking a really long time, and you offered to help. I just love the fact that you offered.
15. Your awesome math skills. They came in handy over the years. Come fall semester, you can expect calls for help again. But I promise that's the last time you'll ever hear me asking for help with math (besides taxes).
16. Your love for mom. Her surprise birthday party last year was awesome and really nice. And its so cute whenever you give her flowers or a random massage gift card :)
17. I love the fact that you wake up around 3:30 ish every Tuesday morning to go work in the temple, because mom didn't like it when you went on Saturdays during the day.
18. I love how you would always hold FHE every Monday, and how you would try to wait for me to come home from work to start it.
19. This is for when I was younger, but it still applies. Anyway. I love the fact that you don't have to travel more than 20 minutes for your job at any point in time. I didn't exactly love it when I was younger and you would fly to who knows where Sunday evening, come home Thursday night, work all day Friday, spend Saturday with the family, and then fly out again on Sunday. Now, you just have to hop, skip, or jump (I guess walking works just as well) across the driveway to get to work.
20. You're just awesome. And I love you. :)
21. I laughed when you asked why I don't call home a lot. I really should call more often, just to "say hi" like you suggested. I'll start working on that. :)

Love you, Dad!! I can only hope my future husband is as amazing as you are. I can't wait to see you Conference weekend, and maybe I'll talk to you soon ;)

Ignore the oldness of this picture. :)

Caitlyn Janelle McCabe

To my sister, on her 13th birthday, I present 13 reasons as to why I love her:

1. You're my sister. Why shouldn't I love you??
2. Caitlyn, even though we didn't really get along when we were growing up (you're still growing up...so I guess this should say when I was growing up), I'm glad we get along now. :)
3. We're natural gangstas (see bottom for proof)
4. You're GORGEOUS!!! (see above for proof)
5. You know how to have fun
6. You're AMAZING at piano. Congrats to you, Caitlyn, for sticking with it. You truly are amazing--I'm jealous of your skills.
7. You're nice to everyone--the "clique" crap that plagues our home ward doesn't change who you are.
8. Caitlyn, remember that one SUPER long chat we had over Christmas break? I really enjoyed it :) you can come to me whenever you need advice about anything. Or when you just want to talk to someone. :)
9. Even though you don't anymore, you were awesome at dance! You were pretty much a natural.
10. I love being around you (now--growing up, not so much :\).
11. You're hilarious! Its really hard not to laugh whenever I'm around you.
12. I don't think I could have asked for a better first sister to have. Even though we didn't really get along in the past, we do now, and now every time I go home, I'm excited to be with you :)
13. I just love you!

Love you, Bubbles!!! Can't wait to see you Conference Weekend, and maybe I'll talk to you soon ;)

Gangstas :)

What to Write About...

Well, it's almost 1:00 AM right now. And, thanks to Daylight Savings Time ending, my body thinks its before midnight still. So, I don't feel the slightest bit tired (which is weird cuz I was falling asleep whilst watching a movie). Or maybe it has nothing to do with Daylight Savings Time ending, but everything to do with the bowl of Cocoa Pebbles I ate an hour ago for dinner...

Either way, I'm not tired, I was on here, and I felt the need to let you all know that I'm awake (but probably won't be by the time anyone reads this).

Life was good this past week. I won't go into all the details like I have been recently, but here's a summary of what I've been up to:

*signed my contract for my new apartment!
*wrote a letter to my missionary friend in Brazil
*talked to my mom, dad, brother, sister, other sister, other other sister, foreign exchange student, nana, and grandpa. TOTALLY made my day!
*acquired mucho musica from the people I babysit for (they have TONS of CDs)
*hated Glee for once
*made plans to go down to Utah conference weekend!
*finally worked on my story
*had a Twilight party with Nancy
*went to Sienna's bridal shower
*watched Aladdin
*amazing lessons in Relief Society and Sunday School
*hung out with Ron
*figured out the dessert for FHE "tomorrow" (technically it's today)
*wrote this blog

And now, I'm going to attempt to go to sleep (after writing today's journal). Have a good day, and Happy Pi(e) day!!