Oi.

Man I'm sorry! Soooo much has happened since my last blog post- but I am going to continue on in my life letters. I will continue on!
Day 4- Your Sibling(s)

Kenny- You are such an amazing older brother. I am proud to be your little sister. You know so much about so many things and I love how goofy we get when we're together! I love spending time with you and while I do get snappy with you, I appreciate your advice. A lot of times I just don't want to hear it, even when I need to. You always know what I need to hear. I love you for being there for me when I really need you and always listening. I love you!

Erik- You are the most like me in a lot of ways, not just in appearance, and I'm honored to say that! I am proud to be your little sister. I have always admired so much about you, like your ability to accept people and have conversations without them being awkward. I really appreciate how much you look out for me and have helped me to figure out what I want out of life. Thanks for being there, especially lately, with everything that is going on. I love you!

Anna- I love you, you're the best big sister a girl could ask for. I'm so blessed to have such a wonderful example of grace, poise, and all-out crazy in my life. Thank you for being so wonderfully patient with me- though I know I don't deserve it in the slightest. Some of my favorite moments in life are just talking with you in the kitchen and dancing around. You are such a blessing to me and I'm grateful for you. I love you:)

Day 3- My Parental Units :)

Dear Aiti and Dad,
Well shoot.
I'm 18! It's crazy, I'm the last one, how are you guys going to live without me once I move out? ;) Haha. Okay sorry. I'll be serious now.
I love you so much. You are such great parents! You teach me new things and you have raised me so well, I'm proud of the person I am becoming, and I am proud to be your daughter.
I really appreciate that you raised me up in the church. The church is so important to me, and though for a bit, I was unsure of the church, I am so grateful now to have it in my life.
It teaches me so much and it gives me a good foundation.
You give me a good foundation.
I've learned so many good things from you!
I mean, Dad, how many girls know how to tie flies? Or identify edible mushrooms? I'm not as good at it as you are, but I could definitely survive in the wilderness for a while if need be.
And Aiti, you have taught me so many things about how to be a good mother. I know that one day, I'll have kids and I will use a lot of the skills that I have learned from you. You're so nurturing to all of us kids, and that is so important.
I love you guys so much! Thank you for all that you've done for me already:)
Love you tons!,
Sofia

Day 2- To my crush. Eep.

Sooo I'm runnin' a little behind on these, so I'm gonna do two a day. I already did one. Here's numero dos:

Dear Mr. Crush,
You are amazing.
Like seriously, you're simply amazing. You blow my mind every day and you teach me so much about things I never knew about.
You're kind, loving, an amazing listener, and you understand. I feel like I can talk to you about everything.
I love that about you.
You treat me like a girl. That's a weird feeling. We've discussed that before, I always kinda feel like a guy, but you treat me like a lady, and you are such a gentleman:)
It's weird.
I feel like I could talk about you for hours, but then writing this, it's so hard for me. There are just no words to describe what you mean to me, just as a friend.
I love that we can talk for hours. And we talk about such simple things! I never feel like a loser when I talk to you, you make me feel like you actually care about what I have to say. That's really really important to me. You don't treat me like I'm any less of a person than you are, you respect me.
I love the feeling of protection I get when I'm around you. I feel like I am instantly going to be okay, all the time.
I wish I could be a better person for you. I wish I knew how you felt! Oh man, if I only knew how you felt, how that would change my entire outlook.. But, thus is life, I suppose.
I have to be patient.
Which is hard for someone like me! I'm a very curious person, you know that, I get these dumb ideas and then you're like "Oh, that's cool!" and I'm like, "Crap I sound like an idiot."
Freaking story of my life.
Why do you put up with me? Ha. I don't really expect us to go far, even though there are others who would disagree, but I hope that we can at least be friends forever. You're so important to me and I care so much about you!
It's very rare that I find someone who can understand my weirdness!
There are only 2 people on this earth that understand my weirdness, and I'm so glad that you are one of them:)
No one else knows me like you do.
I love your family too! Like holy crow, they're such great people:) They are such good examples and make me want to be a better person.
I really appreciate the friend that you are to me, and I hope that I am able to be that kind of a friend to you.
Love,
Sofia

Day 1- To my dear best friend:)

Best friend.
What a weird term. It seems that different people have different interpretations of the term, "best friend". To some, it means that they're the person you hang out with. To others, it's someone you tell everything to, and know that they won't judge you.
For me, it's those and more.
I find that I have difficulty having one "best friend". But, if I were to give that title to any person in the whole world, I would have to say it is you, my lovely Teiglet.
You put up with me so much. Well, we put up with each other.
See, I see friendship as a two way street, as I'm sure most people do. But I find that in my relationships, it seems to happen that I give more than I receive. Not with you.
You're the best.
I love you so much. You put up with me when I'm crying, angry, hyper, calm, hurt, furious, annoyed, sad, depressed, lower than depressed, you do it all. I owe you soooo much.
And you always knows exactly what I need to hear. I don't always want to hear what I need to hear, but I know that what you say, you say out of love.
Our friendship has not gone without it's share of trials. But I believe the trials that we face have made us stronger and closer. I love that I can always turn to you when I feel like my life is spiraling. You're always there to pick me back up, and I love you for that.
You're gorgeous, funny, kind, gentle, sarcastic (good thing, I am too), non-judgmental, strong, and sooo understanding. I appreciate everything you do for me and I love that you let me help you.
I love that I can feel so comfortable with your family. Even with the incessant name calling and such.. cough.. I am so comfortable with you guys and I completely love it! It's a great feeling:)
It's weird to think that two years ago, I thought you were annoying and you thought I hated you.. and look at how our friendship has evolved! Ha. Okay, so we didn't start out on the best of terms, but you can't really blame me for why I felt the way I did, and I certainly don't blame you. It seems that the weird connection that we had was one of the unifying things to create the spark of our friendship.
I love our inside jokes. And I love that we laugh at the same things and feel the same way about so many things, but are totally okay with each other if we disagree about something.
That's so important to me.
You make me want to be a better person. Every day. You push me to become something more than what I am, which is really important for me, I need that motivation:)
I love you so so much, you're an amazing best friend, and I'm so glad to have you in my life, I hope you never leave it:)

All my love,
Sofers

Life Letters :)

So, I've been a terrible little blogger lately, not doing my blogging duties. I stumbled upon this list of letters to write, and I think this will be good to help me know what to say each day, maybe help me get back into the sync of blogging daily. So here's the list- and I'll start blogging today! :)


Write a Letter to:
Day 1 — Your Best Friend
Day 2 — Your Crush
Day 3 — Your parents
Day 4 — Your sibling (or closest relative)
Day 5 — Your dreams
Day 6 — A stranger
Day 7 — Your Ex-boyfriend/girlfriend/love/crush
Day 8 — Your favorite internet friend
Day 9 — Someone you wish you could meet
Day 10 — Someone you don't talk to as much as you'd like to
Day 11 — A Deceased person you wish you could talk to
Day 12 — The person you hate most/caused you a lot of pain
Day 13 — Someone you wish could forgive you
Day 14 — Someone you've drifted away from
Day 15 — The person you miss the most
Day 16 — Someone that's not in your state/country
Day 17 — Someone from your childhood
Day 18 — The person that you wish you could be
Day 19 — Someone that pesters your mind—good or bad
Day 20 — The one that broke your heart the hardest
Day 21 — Someone you judged by their first impression
Day 22 — Someone you want to give a second chance to
Day 23 — The last person you kissed
Day 24 — The person that gave you your favorite memory
Day 25 — The person you know that is going through the worst of times
Day 26 — The last person you made a pinky promise to
Day 27 — The friendliest person you knew for only one day
Day 28 — Someone that changed your life
Day 29 — The person that you want tell everything to, but too afraid to
Day 30 — Your reflection in the mirror
One a day, starting today..
Yeah, about that, I'm gonna start tomorrow. My computer's having a freakout.
So.. Tomorrow it is! :)

Okay. I really gotta get back into this.

Hello! I haven't blogged in sooo long.
I guess now is as good a time as any to start up again.
It's kinda funny, actually, a couple different people have gotten on my case about my blog lately.. I think it's a sign.
Anywho, what has gone on.. hmm.. I'm out of high school! FOREVER! :D HUZZAH! I'm so happy about it. Like seriously, you can't begin to comprehend the joy I feel from being OUT of high school.
And I have this cute little netbook. I appreciate its existence:)
So yeah.
I'm out of high school.
I love university ward already, it's really fun.. We do some cool stuff! Sports night is tonight, we're playing soccer.. aww yeah:) haha.
I have a job! Not the best job ever, but a job is a job and money is money so I'm happy.
I have the BEST friends ever. Like seriously. All of them are absolutely fantastic.
I love my Corvallis friend group especially.
They bring so much spirituality and joy into my life. I love them.
I am so excited for this summer! We have so many good plans made.
We're gonna do a lot of stuff.
I'm so stoked, you can't even comprehend it.
Basically.
The trek is gonna be really cool! And sweaty..eww. But cool! So it's okay!
Ha.
Matthew and I have made a lot of project ideas that we need to put into effect this summer..
We'll see how that goes. Him, Alex and I already made a rocket car! It was really cool. It had googly eyes. It was an alligator:)
I'm going to Idaho next week for a familam reunion, yo. It'll be tight.
YEAH!
Okay.
I gotta go get ready for Sports night.
I'll add more tomorrow! Or later tonight.. remind me!
Okay, love you all, bye:)

Holy Goodness, I'm Bad at This Game.

I was such a good little blogger for such a short amount of time, blahh. Sorry! I guess life happens and priorities are made, and I totally managed to forget about my blog! D: Okay, my life:

I am currently in full swing of my senior project! IT'S SO MUCH WORK. OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS. I am doing a complete remodel of the interior of the band room. Meaning removal of cabinets and such, removal of the carpet, repainting the walls, replacing the carpet, and new cabinets. And there's more! I have to organize everything. AND I have to find a person who can do a mural (Or I'll just do it). I'd rather have someone else do it though, I have enough to do! Besides, that's a new senior project opportunity for someone else.
So basically that has been controlling my life, but when that's not in the way, I hang out with my friends! :D Mainly Geli. I try to see her as much as possible, I love her so much! She's seriously like the most amazing person to ever come into my life. I also hang out with the Carlson boys a lot, they're super funny and great!
Speaking of which: Halloween. I should tell you about it.
So I didn't actually do anything on Halloween, because I'm lame, but I did do something before it!
On the 30th, I had school (even though everyone I was hanging out with didn't)
And so Geli and Ashley came and got me straight after school, (I was already dressed up like Velma from Scooby-Doo, Geli was Daphne) and so we went to Downtown Corvallis, where we were going to meet the Carlsons, and then we had to find Geli's little sister so we could tell her she had Baton practice..? I don't know what it was, but yeah. So we found her sister after running around Downtown for a while, and then we finally sat down at this cafe, and right then the boys showed up! It was SO GREAT. They were Mario and Luigi, it seriously made my life. Hahaha. They pulled it off well! :D I was so proud of them. Hahaha.
So we meandered Downtown for a bit and did some half-trick-or-treating (I didn't do like any, I didn't want to really..) but then we decided we wanted to go somewhere, so we went to Wildcat Park (I don't think it's called that anymore..?) and played Fishy Outta Water (I'm terrible at that game) and it was fun! Minus the fact that if you're it, your eyes have to be closed, and there were tons of stairs and drops on the play structure. Haha.
So then we sat around and tried to decide what we wanted to do for like a half an hour (Power to the indecisive!) and decided that the majority of us were hungry, so we went to Subway (Geli kept trying to make me get something. And I really appreciated the offer, but I didn't feel good.)So they got their food and I just sat there (It was pleasant, I needed a chance to breathe, I felt gross) and then we raced to the Carlson's house, and of course the boys won (considering it's their house). So we got there, and decided we wanted to play a game, so first we played Apples to Apples (I kept winning cards with traits similar to a freshman girl, Michael kept getting ones that were masculine and such, Matt got like 40 billion cards, and they were so random, Geli got a bunch of really pleasant cards, so did Ashley.) And then we played moods (I'm not very good at that game either..) and then we played this game with candy bars wrapped in paper (it was doom, really) and they were hidden in this huge bag of newspapers.. and you had to find the candy and unwrap them while wearing winter gloves.. it was so difficult, and I was terrible at it! Haha. Geli was a WIZARD at that game, it was insane. She got like 8 candy bars(which she later split up among us). And THEN we decided we wanted to watch a movie, and decided it'd be a good idea to go rent one. So we crammed into Geli's car (okay, it wasn't really cramming, but there were 5 teenagers in a Civic, so think about it.) and we went to rent a movie, and decided 1408 was a good idea for renting. So we watched it.
TERRIFYING. It was scarier than I expected. I jumped several times! Geezaloo.
I felt so tired though (I had a longer day than everyone else, ha) and so I kept like half dozing off, and I'm pretty sure I did fall asleep for a bit once or twice.. And for some reason, I was ridiculously cold! I was wearing a knitted sweater and sweats and I was using a blanket and I was right next to Michael, and I was still freezing. I don't even know. It was ridiculous. I think that was the beginning of this deathcold I've managed to acquire.
But yeah, we ended up leaving at like 11:00? Maybe later. I don't remember. I was so tired! It was so fun though, definitely amazing, and it freaked out Geli and Ashley and I for a good amount of time!
Then this last weekend, I stayed the night at Geli's house! And went to church with her on Sunday, it was marvelous! I really like her ward a lot. :) The people are pleasant.
The first time I stayed the night at her house was the week before Halloween, and I stayed there because my parents went up to a lake cabin, and I didn't wanna go (we were going to the Corn Maze.) and so I stayed at Geli's and went to church with her!
OH!
CORN MAZE! It was great! I kept getting so scared! I personally think it cost too much for the amount of scaring they did, but it was still good! I like clung to Michael's arm, I swear I almost tore it off once or twice. Ha. It was Me, Michael, Alex, Matt, Geli, Caitlin, and Scott. It was fun! :D I squealed a lot, it was great. Ha. There was only one part where I think Michael got truly startled (lame) and that was this porta-potty! It was so weird. Like seriously. We walked past it, and it shot out a jet stream of water! And it was terribly intense and pressured water, it was scary. Haha.
But yeah, Corn maze was great!
I don't know what else to talk about, there has just been so much going on! I love my friends, and I love the influence they have on me and make me want to strive to be! It's amazing.