My HI Adventure: Happiness

Hello dear blog stalkers! Haleigh here making another update! This time, there is no extensive hiatus, so everyone (Caden) should be happy. You may be wondering why this post is entitled "Happiness". Well, aside from finals prep, I am a very very very veryvery happy person. You may ask, what is wrong with this girl, did she just lose it? To which the answer would be, maybe just a little bit...

But really, I have so many things to be happy about and it isn't even funny. For example, last night, me and my friends had a snugglefest in a house. An actual house! I haven't seen the interior of one of those for eons. Literally. Okay, fine, maybe not that long, but still. It was nice. I love my Hawaiian family. We form an excellent unit. We have mama Emma and I'm not particularly sure which one is the most fatherly. I'm gonna have to say that Eric and David are out. And D.J., Austin; you two would be too nice as Oh well. I think I should start out with earlier this week before I talk about the Saturday Snugglefest? Yeah, I'll do that.

So, Sunday, we had a fireside and that night, I donned red lipstick for the first time in public. Lets just say that I am sort of obsessed with it. Like really obsessed. I wore it Friday and today too...

Anyway, the fireside finished, my lovely family and I got together and had a jamsesh out by the security office with a guitar and three ukuleles. And a shaker. Yeah, we're legit at this Hawaiian musical thing. We all have musical talent in some shape or form, so it is really quite safe to assume that this will become a regular past time. And I am excited. So very excited. So excited that soon I will purchase my own uke and teach myself how to play. Sorry real family, I'm going to be singing even more, I'm afraid! Lucky you!

The rest of the week week wasn't very interesting. I spent a lot of time finishing my lovely research paper for English, and copying down the notes for Biology and prepping for Anthropology. In general, just a lot of studying. Just one more week of it, I can do this. I know I can!

So to Friday, I finished my research paper and turned it in a few hours early! I'm such a good college student. Who knew, right? I missed out on going to the beach with my family to finish it. But that is okay because we were at dinner in the good ol' reliable caf for a mighty long time. They eventually pulled out a fruit salad which caused a huge riot and ruckus. All the Asians stole the fruit. I wanted to grab a fist full from their enormous fruit filled platters. Jerks. But that is also okay because then they set out dinner rolls! And even though they aren't entirely good as homemade, it is better than nothing.

Can anyone say Ugly Sweater Dance Party? Yeah, BYUH had one and it was fun. I donned my lovely red lipstick again. And guys get this. Short hair, sock bun, not possible, right? WRONG! I did it and I rocked it! It is officially my new go to hairdo. I am thrilled. I looked like a ballerina, and I liked it. So after the dance, we all walked to the Chevron and then a few of us walked to Bikini beach and talked for a long time. Then we decided it would be best to go to bed because we wanted to go to the surfing competition finals by nine. And surprisingly, it worked!

We, meaning Emma, Tori and I, went to the Pipe Line Masters competition and witnessed a perfect ten! We saw a guy get a perfect ten on his wave, it was incredible. Loved it, every second. So we get back and I take a two hour nap, got ready and ran to Caressa's truck by six. I got to sit in the back, which was fun! I wrapped my scarf around my head like a fancy 50's lady driving a convertible and we, meaning Sumner, Emma, Alex, David and I had a mini snugglefest because it started raining on the way to Caressa's house. Very fun! So we made it to her house and made delicious french bread pizza and watched a trippy movie and just had fun like we always do when we're together. Next semester will be very fun, I am predicting. I love my friends. They're cool kids. So after the movie, we had the aforementioned snugglefest which was lovely. I was toasty warm. The only things that could have made it better would be a nice roaring fire and some good quality hot chocolate. Yes, my obsession for hot chocolate is still going strong everyone. I will never cease loving it. EVER.

But so something that made me ecstatic happened and then we went back to campus and then Sunday came around and I went to church! Today has been fantastic as well.

Another thing that makes me happy is that I will be home in approximately eight days! Whooooo M-town here I come! I think I'll get along fabulously with the 70 degree weather. And a real comfortable bed and a private shower and good food and friends and family and cheaper prices and a boat load of other things!

Bottom line, I'm just so happy!

Picture time, yes?