ARE YOU KIDDING ME

5/13/14
Okay I know I literally just posted something but I need to say this.

What the heck is with all this marriage stuff happening?!  I know 8 people who have either been married or engaged in the last 2 months. Not to mention the 40 people in my singles ward that got engaged this school year. SERIOUSLY PEOPLE WHAT THE HECK?
I know we live in Utah and marriage age is low, but I was just on Facebook and saw that it was the birthday of one of my friends husband. They got married last month.  He turned 19 today. NINE FREAKING TEEN!  HE IS STILL A TEENAGER WHAT THE HECK?!  I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON!! NOW PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT ME LIKE "When are you getting married Korrin? Don't you know you are going to be an old maid soon?" I;m 20. I've been 20 for two months. CALM THE FRICK DOWN! I HAVEN'T EVEN BEEN PROPERLY ASKED OUT ON A DATE YET IM NOT GOING TO BE MARRIED. I DON'T WANT TO BE MARRIED. I WANT TO STAY SINGLE AND RIDE THROUGH THE GLEN, FIRING ARROWS INTO THE SUNSET!

Okay rant over.

-Korrin

Just a Bit of Catch Up

5/13/14
I've said it before and I will say it again, I am terrible at this whole blogging thing. For that matter I'm terrible at this whole keeping up with people thing. I'm not good at writting my missionaries letters, or emails.  I'm not good at talking to people in general. So today I plan to play catch up.  This will be a sum up of the big things that happened in my life as I make a better effort to be a better friend.  For simplicity it will come in a list format.

• St. Patricks day is the best holiday ever!! Irish-ness and green and I freaking love that holiday.
• I am now 20 years old.  It's weird. It's a lot like being 19, except that people look at me differently. More like an adult than a child. This excludes my parents.  They will always consider me a kid.  They literally told me that yesterday.
• General Conference is the greatest thing in my life.  Nothing can compare.  It wasn't as strong this April as it was in October, but it was amazing nonetheless.  Elder Packer and Elder Holland were perfectly blunt as usual and I'm still amazed that the news didn't rip into them as much as they could have.  Also if you have questions about the Priesthood in any way, go to that conference, read it, study it, because they said it all. 
• Teachers are very very good at putting major deadlines on the same day.  Like papers and a late midterm and a project where you have to go to a shool and teach all at the same time.  It's very stressful and is one of the reasons I didn't blog, because it would have been a complaining fest. 
• Captain America 2 was one of the greatest movies and I loved it so much.  I kidnapped two of my friends and we went to see it a week after it came out. A WEEK. I was dying and it was the bestest thing.  I had my hands on my mouth most of the movie because it was so shocking and I'm still having feels from Bucky. #HailHydra
• The 16th of April was they one year anniversary of my Grammie's death.  It was one of the hardest days in my life.  The week before in school was super duper busy and the week after was what my school dubs, "Dead Week." (More on that soon) The anniversary was on a Wednesday.  I skipped school. I took a personal day off of work. And then I drove down to my parents house and we all went to put flowers on her grave.  It was very nice, except the sprinklers were going.  And there were wild rabbits which was super cool.  The rest of the day was spent with my parents, my sister, and my nephew.  We went and spent some time outside at Thanksgiving Point, which was beautiful. The day was very nice, but it was difficult for me. I miss her terribly.  
• Dead Week is supposedly a week where teachers are not allowed to give you tests.  It is meant to give you time to study for your finals that are the next week.  It is a LIE.  This is the week where all of your final projects are due and by the end of the week you are dead.  I had two final folders, where I had to compile everything we ever learned in the class, a 5 page final research paper on any topic, and math homework out the wazzoo due that week. Not to mention the two teachers that gave me my two take home finals, but I don't complain about that because take home finals. 
• Finals week was over for me on a Tuesday, but I had to stay the rest of the week for work.  Most of my time was spent fixing and cleaning my apartment so that it was spotlessly clean for moving day.  The thing is, I didn't move.  Two of my roommates didn't move.  One person moved out of our apartment, yet we still had to make it look like no one was living there and it had to be perfectly clean.  We labored for 8 straigh hours to accomplish this task, and we still didn't pass.  It was one of the most annoying things to ever happen ever. 
• I went home for two days and then back to my apartment for the last week of work.  The kiddos went cray cray! Like it was amazing how bad it got.  We had over 60 disciplinary actions in two days.  But it was really fun and I am really going to miss those kids.  Like a lot. I actually can't wait for my summer job to start because I may get to see some of them again.  Next fall semester is going to suck because I probably won't be able to work there.  :(
• Now I am home for two weeks on vacation.  Except the kids got me sick so I have a cold too.  
• I got to Skype with Amanda on Sunday because her mom is the bestest person ever and invited me and Kylie even though it was mothers day.  I had a hard time accepting the invitation because it was a family thing, but it was super great to see her and I wish I could have seen Emily and Brianna too.  
• Yesterday my nephew had surgery to fix something. Nothing major but it wasnt fun either. So I spent most of the day at the hospital only to come back with a very unhappy baby that would not let go of his mommy.  It broke my heart to see him that way.  Except some times it was really funny because he was so exhausted that he would fall over as he was sitting.  

There.  Now we are all caught up.  I will have Kylie kick my butt into gear so that I do this more.  Again I publicly appologize for my lack of keeping my priorities straight.  And this post is pretty boring but it was necessary. Feel free to skip it. Wait you've already read it... HAHA SUCKER!!

-Korrin

Oh Captain, My Captain

NO THIS ISN'T OBSCENELY LATE YOU'RE OBSCENELY LATE.




I am absolutely exhausted but it was SO freaking worth it.

Comic con was like a shining nerd haven of glory and t-shirts.

And nachos. Those are pretty important.

But oh my gosh. Holy flipping cow. I was in the SAME BUILDING at the SAME TIME as some of my all-time favorite people.

Like I saw Brent Spiner.

BRENT. FLIPPING. SPINER.

Don't even attempt to tell me that wasn't freaking awesome.

But that wasn't even my favorite part of the con.

The con was awesome right from the beginning, when we pulled into the parking garage. My dad had been screaming "NERD!" at everyone we passed on the way in, so I was already super excited and the parking garage only made it a million times better.

"A parking garage?" you say. "Why the flip were you so excited about a dumb parking garage? Are you mentally stable?" Well, reader, if you just hold your horses and slow down a bit, I will tell you all about the parking garage. And no I am not mentally stable because finals DON'T JUDGE ME.

So I don't know if you've ever been to the Salt Palace before, but the parking garage has really low ceilings and is very poorly lit.

There is no color.

You can barely see anything.

Just cement walls, pillars, and ceiling.

It was awesome.

I wanted to run around and jump on cars and play Secret Captain America WWII Bunker. I wanted to scream as loud as I could just to see how long it would take to echo back to me. I wanted to try and find Nathan Fillion's car or Patrick Stewart's car or other famous people's cars just to see if I could find them but not to follow them because I'm not creepy.

And then Katniss got out of a car not too far away from us and I almost fainted.

Because it was real.

I had wanted this my entire life, and I was just now realizing my dream was coming true.

I can't explain what it was like when I walked through the doors. I just laughed. Because these were my people. They all felt the same way I did about a lot of the same things. They all wanted to experience this just as bad as I did.

Kori, Amanda's awesome nerd cousin, managed to sneak me into Nathan Fillion's panel and I can never repay her for that. It was glorious. I WAS IN THE SAME ROOM AS MY CAPTAIN. And as awesome as you think that man is, let me tell you, he is a million times more awesome in person. He's hilarious and charismatic and just a happy person.

I kind of wish I had been able to meet him, because I was wearing my Captain Hammer Stalker t-shirt and I know he would've said something awesome. But a couple people did end up commenting on how my shirt was an extremely "clever idea," so that was pretty great.

Anyways, I ended up leaving the Con and coming back later with Kenzi. She bought a full set of Dragon Balls and we spent most of the night sending questionable Snapchats and throwing innuendos back and forth. Best of all, we made it to the Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog sing-along. Seriously though--being trapped in a room with 700 other nerds all trying to out-sing and out-quote each other is one of the best things you can ever experience.

Really though, Comic Con was everything I'd ever dreamed it could be and more. It was beautiful.

~Kylie


PS: here are some legit pictures of Nathan Fillion that I took