A summer in review & a countdown to Utah

Days till I am in Utah: 5.

Concerts I hope to attend before school even starts: 1. Since Passion Pit cancelled their show on the 9th I'll suppose I'll have to settle for Iron & Wine instead.

Days left of work: 4. Including today. Sadly I have work this afternoon/evening so my last Saturday at home is way less fun that it should be.

Times I'll have seen Megan before going back: 2. Hopefully. Tomorrow we're supposed to rendezvous for a little nature walk down by the lake.

Days till I see Jordan: no less than 5 but probably/hopefully/maybe no more than 8. We'll see.

Times I've eaten at Out & Out: 2.

Seasons of Grey's Anatomy I've watched: 4 1/2.

Pairs of obnoxious colored pants I now own: 2. Neon yellow and royal blue.

Letters I've sent and received: 3.

Wedding related mail, including announcements and thank you notes, I've received: 4.

Wedding receptions I'll attend in the weeks before school starts: no less than 2 but no more than 4.

Friday Fish Fry dinners I've eaten: 3.

New shoes I've gotten: 2. A beautiful pair of Birkenstocks and also navy blue Rocket Dog flats.

Taco Bell runs I've made by myself: 3.

Text messages Jordan and I have sent and received: I don't think I'm underestimating when I say thousands. (I shouldn't be quite so proud of this as I am.) My life pretty much only consists of going to work and talking to him.

Hours of YouTube I've watched: I dare not even try to estimate. I feel like every summer it increases greatly, though.

Baseball games I attended: 0. This number makes me real sad.

And I suppose that's all for now. I'm going back to my YouTube and my texting and my snacking now. I hope you're all enjoying my blogging every in August. I always do, even if some days it's hard to come up w/ something to write. Basically, the summer has been pretty quality though a little more strange than summers of years gone by. See you soon, Utah kids.

Last YouTube video I watched: The Debt - Julia Nunes

Birthday cookies!

I know what you're thinking, "Anna, your birthday was more than a month ago!" Yes, it was. But today I got in the mail a package from my friend Megan. It was a huge tupperware container of cookies. It looked something like this when I opened it.

I ate two of them right after I opened it while I was working on a history essay. I went from a page and a half to three and a half pages, so I'm pretty sure those cookies are magic at making me work. Because I have so many cookies, my Utah friends who read this blog are welcome to eat some with me.

Now is probably a good time to talk about Megan a little bit. I've known her since I was in the 1st grade. We've been basically inseparable since, honestly. Even now that we're at college in different states, we probably talk on Facebook chat or Skype at least three or four times a week. And sometimes it's seven times a week . . . We just really like each other. Here's a couple pictures of us throughout the years, though mostly from high school adventures.

October 2008 - senior homecoming

December 2008-January 2010 - London trip

May 2009 - senior prom

 May 2010 - Visiting Megan in Madison & seeing
each other for the first time since August 2009

May 2011 - Evening hike down to Lake Michigan

July 2011 - Lake Michigan after a Brewers game 

July 2011 - Deathly Hallows Part II midnight showing

 That's kind of a lot of pictures but that's okay, because Megan is awesome.

Other than cookies, I'm just trying to get all my stuff together for end of the semester projects and starting to study for exams . . . Oh joy. The end of the semester really should be great, though. And as for my four-fold mission in life, things are going swimmingly. I really am having an awesome time of it. Hopefully I can keep it all up through exam time.

Last YouTube video I watched: Heredity: CrashCourse Biology