Best summer EVER omg lol!!!!1!!!!11!!!

So I know we're into Day 2 of the school year, but you guys, 2008 was an EPIC summer. I would be ungrateful if I didn't go back and give the last few months a proper send-off. Though the order of events is not particular, none is more important than another.

Highlights from the Best Summer Ever
- Bringing home the bestest little baby named Sprout. This was technically during Finals Week of Winter semester, but we fell in love this summer, so it counts.
- Seeing Rooney with Valerie, and dancing to When Did Your Heart Go Missing? by myself in the crowd.
- Seeing Ben Folds with Tyler and (sort of) Marie, and elbowing a guy as he attempted to push ahead of me.
- Talking to Alex on FB chat at 5am, more than once.
- Working at the MTC with all the mostly cute/sometimes obnoxious/always ridiculous missionaries, like Elder Swinney.
- Watching the Sister Montgomery/Elder Commons drama unfold.
- Having a crush on a beautiful missionary from Russia named Bogdan (bling!)
- Moving from my room to the spare room.
- Getting into a car accident that provided the funds for me to live in London for a month.
- Driving a deluxe PT Cruiser for a month that smelled like cigarettes and Febreeze when I attempted to get the smoke smell out.
- Having Ghost Hunters marathons with myself.
- Talking to Biz for hours and hours about our futures.
- Learning that I can, indeed, belt and that my mix voice is not the limit of my vocal horizons.
- Getting cast as Amy in Little Women even though I wasn't even called-back for the role and didn't know how much I wanted to play that part.
- Discovering blonde is not a scary/awful look for me.
- Singing The Most Amazing Thing and loving that performance more than any other, even though Rhett had been stuck with a pin from his pants in a very uncomfortable manly place.
- Having as many costume changes in various parts of the theater as I did in the actual dressing room.
- Misplacing my slip during my quick-change outside, thereby flashing my corseted charms to all of Orem, Utah, as well as my castmates. I never made that mistake again. Maybe I wanted to, but I never did.
- Mao, and Silent Football.
- Reuniting with Courtney onstage for the first time since high school.
- Going to the midnight showing of Wall-E with Alexis, Steve, Rhett, Joel and Kacey. We fell in love with a robot, but who wouldn't?!?
- Sister pow-wow.
- Going to King & I with Kyle and Darick, then talking to the Jeffs family afterward.
- Going to Footloose with Cory and Matt with Coscto churros and an entire pizza. It's fine.
- Going to The Drowsy Chaperone and meeting my boyfriend, Jonathan Crombie, of Anne of Green Gables fame.
- Arrested Development on my iPod.
- Seeing Indiana Jones 4 with Jeremy and Matt-- and driving up to Jordan Commons in Jer's BRAND NEW CAR!!! Also, skipping Little Women rehearsal to be there.
- Getting the greatest haircut of my entire life, with the best hair color of my entire life, which color I did myself out of a box from Target, thank you.
- Watching Celebrity! at the Shell and making comments probably a little bit too loudly. Who cares. That was My Band, you guys.
- Texting funny things with Julie, usually including a great deal of "circus music."
- Going to the Olive Garden and being snarky with Jen and Whitney. I seriously love being snarky with Jen. Jen, why aren't we more snarky more often?
- Clue night at the SCERA Shell with AJ, Julie, Kyle, Jeremy, Janessa, Heidi, etc. "I don't like boobs." Also, going to Denny's afterward.
- What am I talking about-- going to Denny's, anytime, with anyone. But mostly Julie, Kyle, AJ, Ness, etc.
- Watching Impromptu and talking with Heather until 4am.
- The Tudors season 2. MY BOYFRIENDS ARE SO ATTRACTIVE.
- Having Spencer take my new headshots practically moments before I left for England, and having my favorite one be the most-ignored one of the whole bunch.
- Going to Hooters with Jeremy, Matt and Melinda, followed by The Dark Knight on IMAX. The IMAX part made up for the disgusting fried pickles.
- Deciding to pursue acting as a potential career, and being recognized for my efforts-- both by directors and producers, but also people on the street saying, "Hey weren't you in Little Women?" I mean literally, on the street. Because I hang out on the street.
- A single chapter from the Italy section of Eat, Pray, Love.
- Staying at Applebees till all hours with Katie and Heather the night/morning I left for England.
- Picnicking with AJ at Stardust. Clam Supreme that was almost made without the clams.
- "Not to sound weird or anything, but you two are really cute together." We know. Thank you.
- Being able to do another show with Mom.
- Learning to seriously love myself. Seriously.
- Thai food with KTB, Julie and Kyle.
- EUROPE. Dream. Come. True.
- My big yellow purse from Camden.
- Kissing a stranger from Australia
- Losing weight without trying.
- Having dinner and going to a show with old folk dance friends. Turns out I miss them, even if I don't miss the program. At all.
- Watching The 39 Steps with Jeremy and Heidi.
- Our first rehearsal for Pericles after returning from London.
- Megan and Cathy having babies.
- Watching Stranger Than Fiction with Andy.
- Shopping with Jackie for school stuff and discovering our mutual love for cardigans.
- Finally meeting and hanging out with much of the extended Oblad family.

Favorites
Songs: Low--Flo Rida; Disturbia-- Rihanna; 4 Minutes-- Madonna
Albums: Walk This Way-- The White Tie Affair; The Trick to Life-- The Hoosiers
Plays: ...some trace of her-- Royal National Theater; The Revenger's Tragedy-- Royal National Theater; Merry Wives of Windsor-- Shakespeare's Globe Theater
Buildings: Westminster Abbey; Big Ben; the National Portrait Gallery; Hale Center Theater Orem
People: Jonathan Rhys Myers; Ben Jonson; Queen Elizabeth II