FE. MALE.

fe: iron

male: man.

i am a female, therefore, i am ironman.

but guys. i'm not even kidding. 

i'm like really strong and stuff. 

i leg press 90 pounds, and i can run a mile in 6:30 on a good day. 

i can even break windows. 

but really.

i came home from the gym yesterday and the heater was left on in my room so it was blazing hot. i figured i'd crack the window and let it cool off real quick but when i tried, my window was stuck. and it ALWAYS gets stuck. even in the middle of the summer. so i figured i'd push harder. and harder. then i figured "oh if i stand at an angle, and push with all my body weight, it'll open" so i did..

i pushed all right. right through the first window pane. 

when my sister heard the crack, she came running in and i was holding a really nicely filleted thumb and a few splinters in my hand. i ran into the bathroom because blood was running down my arm and i didn't wanna get any on the carpet. so i went and washed it off and picked the very obvious splinters out. blood still gushing, i had a wad of toilet paper and it got all gross. so i rewashed it and came back to look at the damage. and that was the scary part of it all! the broken window..i mean you hear of people breaking doors all the time but WINDOWS??? you don't hear bout them stories much...
but thank goodness my parents were more worried about my sliced hand than my window. here's to a freezing rest of winter. anyone who wants to come bring me extra blankets is more than welcome to. oh, pie donations are appreciated too. 

because 6 year old's have the most fun

yesterday taylor and i went to the circus!!!:)

the last time i went, i was like maybe 5 or 6 with my parents. then my sister was birthed and everyone got boring. so it's been YEARS since i've gone.

GUYS. it was so much fun!!:) there were dancing elephants and jumping puppies! then the tight rope walker fell. twice. he was trying to jump rope on the wire and off he went. it's okay mr. tight rope man. jump roping is a hard skill that not everyone can attain. AND!! there wasn't a net under him or anything!! but when he fell, he caught himself using his legs. so no one died. then there were tigers!!!!! there were like 8. they were all super fluffy looking (of course i wouldn't know because taylor wouldn't let me touch one. EVEN THOUGH the tiger tamer was even hugging them. men...) those guys jumped through fire!! then i came up with a thought. 

all the dancers in the circus prolly took dance lessons since they were like 3  or something and prolly never got hired for any other jobs than the circus. that's kind of a bummer...

did i mention the elephants???!?!  because they were ADORABLE. there were ponies too!!!! they looked sad though.. but i'm sure when you have random kids riding you every single day of your pony life, you wouldn't be too happy either. they had a llama too!! taylor loves them little guys;)

then there was bike trick man! he even did a double back flip on it. 

(i'm in the hall of flags at school and some guy sat directly in front of me so now we're in an awkward game of eye tag..awk) 

i.heart.the.circus.soooooo.dang.much. 

because it's true love when buttfaces  are okay...:)

take one....i look handi

we are so dang cute!:) INSTAAAAAAAAA!

welcome to college part 2

welcome to college. 

when all you eat is granola bars your mom buys in bulk, water (because it's free, and zero calories), and the dinner tayter gater buys you the night before. 

cooking is just too hard for a sliced up hand..and me in general.

aaaaaand, the guy next to me in philosophy smells like smoke and old hot dogs... man, i sure do love college. 

asher roth knew what was up.

not.. 

one of them days

you know those days when you just feel like sobbing..? for no reason. it just feels like something that needs to happen? then you listen to something so cute and you go "AH. this..this is precious. someone sing this to me. please...?" then you are trying to fight dear life to not start crying in the middle of school...because that would be weird. even in the LA building at school...

listen to that and melt. do it. 

then because i am so exciting, me and my sissy went on a date to the chocolate and shared a cazookie! so good. but then we felt sugared down..so we went and got mc chickens. because those are always amazing. then after that i went to a ward party thing with taylor mayter. where we had dinner, (which was icky...) then we baby sat chillens!!:) after that great time, we came to my abode and watched youtube videos:) 

awh man. this one is going to kill you:) 

then we started a movie. but i was exhausted. like abnormally exhausted. so i tayter gater cuddled me while i slept. and i think that was our night. not exciting at all.. but i like him:) he's really super duper:)

today, i worked ANOTHER DOUBLE:)

and i've learned that doubles are much easier when i get a break and when i'm not bussing all night long. i was on the podium all night long:)

but i did manage to piss off the same server twice. then one of the assistant managers let me have it. for the record, even if your dad owns the place, it doesn't give you the right to be a snotty brat to anyone. your dad owns it. NOT YOU. but the rest of the night went pretty smooth up until this crazy table came in at like 10:30. we closed at 10. they were pulling on the locked doors and making faces at me, so i went and opened the door to let them know that we had closed, but the guy was like "no. you close at 11. i called. let me talk to a manager." so they came in and i went and got one, and he was like seat them..whatever. so i tried. but they insisted on talking him so i went back and got him. then they were being crazy about the fish. and how it was ridiculousness that we say we close at 11 but really 10. 

but then i finished my side work, got my W2 (because i think i have to pay taxes this year???!?!) my check, and home i came:) 

luke bryan kept me company though. so no worries.

spring 2013

i made it trough the first week of the new semester

fitness for life seems like it's going to be an okay class. the teacher is one of those funny douchers. kind of like coach andrus. the first thing he said to us was "raise your hand if this is your first year at college." so up my little freshman hand went (but not because i have man hands..) then he goes "i commend you guys for being here. college isn't easy. you are all good people i presume. with that being said, i don't care if you fail. i get paid regardless." welcome to college i guess.  

math.. is well..math. the teacher is old and friendly. we never have any strict "due dates" on anything. our homework can be done whenever, and we can retake tests 3 times. online. using notes. this is both a blessing and a curse. i'm already behind like 3 sections... but i  can retake anything when i want. which is really nice. 

english. it's pretty fun. except for the walk from the LA building to the ME building. OUTSIDE. but we listen to mumford and sons, birdy, and airborne    toxic effect in class. and the guy who sits next to me in that class is actually really cool. there are cool people at UVU!! who knew?? 

philosophy.. i LOVE this class already. the reading is sorta hard and there's lots of it but it's interesting and that's sorta what gets me through it. look.

"The third way is taken from possibility and necessity, and runs thus. We find in nature things that are possible to be and not to be, since they are found to be generated, and to corrupt, and consequently, they are possible to be and not to be. But it is impossible for these always to exist, for that which is possible not to be at some time is not. Therefore, if everything is possible not to be, then at one time there could have been nothing in existence. Now if this were true, even now there would be nothing in existence, because that which does not exist only begins to exist by something already existing. Therefore, if at one time nothing was in existence, it would have been impossible for anything to have begun to exist; and thus even now nothing would be in existence--which is absurd. Therefore, not all beings are merely possible, but there must exist something the existence of which is necessary. But every necessary thing either has its necessity caused by another, or not. Now it is impossible to go on to infinity in necessary things which have their necessity caused by another, as has been already proved in regard to efficient causes. Therefore we cannot but postulate the existence of some being having of itself its own necessity, and not receiving it from another, but rather causing in others their necessity. This all men speak of as God."

we're talking about the philosophy about religion right now and whether there is a God or not. it's really super interesting when you start comparing "religious studies" v.s. "devotional studies" cool right?? right. 

american national government. this class brings me back to senior year with good old Randy Rehrer. we had a love-hate relationship. but i passed his class and graduated which is all that counts. but ya, american nat gov started off suuuper lame. i get bored when we talk about the 13 original colonies. but then we started to get into the election process and the electoral college and the 2000 election and it was so interesting. didja know that on election year, states have their republican and democratic conventions and nominate 6 people. because utah has 6 electoral votes. then whoever wins the state, republican or democratic party, those 6 people are the ones that cast the electoral college votes. i didn't even know that! but our professor got there and started teaching. he didn't even mention the syllabus. so i have noo idea what to expect from him. oh well. 

over all, i like my classes lots this semester:)

uhhm..excuse me?

welcome to the real world Ali Sanchez.

the real world requires you to work and go to school and do homework.

at the same time. 

i'm honestly so overwhelmed right now. 

it's been one day. 

i honestly don't think i'm spoiled or anything..i mean my parents never said i needed to get a job.. so i didn't.

the moment they said i needed to start paying for my books for school, i found a job the week after. 

i hate it when people assume i'm spoiled. because i'm not.

i might not know how to handle everything right now, because i've never done it.

i feel like i'm dropping the ball on everything. 

i accidentally blew off one of my best friends this weekend for work..

i feel like i went to my PES class and everything went over my head..

i walk into all of my classes and want to break down and cry because it feels like it's me against the world..or at least UVU..

i miss actually having friends..

today was one of those days when you convince yourself that you're fine until you get to campus and the knot in your throat grows a million times...you feel nervous and wanna throw up. 

sort of like the first day of kindergarten. only this time you didn't make friends by the time snack time rolled around. 

you learn to be best friends with your computer and headphones. 

and they said i'd love this...

doubles

i worked 35 hours this week. 

wanna know what that's all going to?

books. for. school.

i feel like i should be waking up tomorrow and heading over to mountain view and just praying i don't fall or get squished in that walk of death parking lot. 

but instead, i'm heading off to my SECOND semester of college. 

i am so OLD. 

i'm super stoked for school though. i picked out pretty sick classes and i think it'll be a fun semester (as long as my personal math tutor helps me out:)) 

on friday, britt and i went to target. because everyone loves target. then taylor and i went on a sorta double with ellie and jerehl. her new 24 year old beau. we went to starbucks and just talked. jerehl was one of those overly friendly "trying-to-stick-his-head-up-your-butt" sorta guy.

then we went to jerehl's apartment and it had a faint smell of weed. so we bounced as soon as the vodka was broken out. 

we are so cute
#wedon'tsmoke #nowedon'tdrinkeither #goodkids  #holla

then on saturday, i was planning on working at noon, then having a girls night with britt britt. then a girl called me and was like "hey ali! can you take my shift?? my car won't start..please??" and i was like "sure.." i figured i'd get cut at 8 at the latest. but the girl i was covering for was coordinating for the night so that ended up being me. i'd done it before so i figured it'd be the same. until i found out that we had 1. a party of 100 coming in 2. the owner reserved 3 of our biggest tables 3.a party of 15 AND half the restaurant closed at 6. i sat a table at like 5:45, but they wanted a tv, so they switched tables within the section that was closed, and one of the managers flipped and came up to the podium and totally let me have it.  so here i am, at the podium, trying my very hardest not to cry while we have a whole lobby full of hungry people. eventually, the same manager who yelled at me took over so i ran into the back and bussed my little heart out. then i FINALLY went home. after almost 10 freaking hours. never has my be felt so comfy.

today we had 11 am church:) praise the lord. but it broke my heart when my sunbeams left our class and went to the big kids class. i miss my cute little sunbeams. 

but! i got 5 new ones!!:) and! two of them are super cuddly, one boy is crazy and the funniest thing alive, another little girl is super shy and adorable, and parker was sobbing the whole time. it's gonna be a fun year:) 

here's to new sunbeams, a new semester, working doubles and double dates:), and target trips:) 

welcome 2013

it's officially 2013. 

i am so excited and so scared at the same time. 

if all goes as planned, this is going to be my last year at home. 

i'll have one more semester at UVU after spring, then i'm going to move out.

goodbye orem, hello salt lake:) 

i don't think anyone understands how ridiculously excited i am.

but i'm so scared at the same time. 

and even thinking of leaving all my friends down here breaks my heart. 

2013 is gonna be one heck of a year.

i am going to finish my FIRST YEAR of college.

i am working my FIRST job.

i still have the same boyfriend:)

a ton of my friends are going on missions.

so i really will be friendless. wah. 

but i dunno. i am so excited to see what this year is going to bring me:) 

i spent the first day of the year working! woot woot. but really, i kinda do like my work. i even made friends!

BUT! there is one thing i've learned that i hate.

stupid servers. 

today i was bussing and it always gets super slow. then everyone leaves at once, then i have 23 tables to bus at the same time. so you have to move fast. i was bringing back a tray full of dirty dishes and this server came up to me and was like "my table needs to be cleaned.." and i was already heading out there so i was like "i was just heading over there", but usually when i beat a server to their table, the come out and say "oh! hey thanks!!" but fabio (he only looks like fabio. his name isn't really fabio)  was a snot about it. so chase helps me clear the table because it was a gnarly mess. and then i come back and fabio was like "there was a check on my tab;e. what did you do with it?" but when i went out there, there was no check on the table. so chase was like "they don't ever move the checks..but we'll check again." and i was SO bugged. why would i steal your tips?? i mean really. then fabio was mean to me for the rest of the night. i was so irked. 

but all in all, it's been a good start to the year. 

2013, lets do this.