ode to a red van, the many andy bernards of the world, and a whirlpool of awesome!

i set this out on facebook on the 2nd of may. i think. now i'm in kansas with my sister and nephew, and it's the first time that i have seen them in a year, so that means that it's the first time that i have ever seen my nephew. he is pretty awesome. so without further disruption, to the story of traveling home. . .
wow guys, i have to admit that the ride home was in many different ways almost fatal, but i am pleased to say that i have finally made it home, and i wish to share the adventure with you all.
so for the first adventure, the red van of doom. when i left utah i went up to montana to see my grandpa. he has cancer pretty bad, and has to go to chemo every week. so we were up there, and we were supposed to leave that monday, and we did leave. we were driving up the pass between butte montana and bozeman montana when one of the lifters on the red van of awesome stops working. because it stopped working we lost oil pressure, and one of the bearings ripped a hole in our engine somewhere, and oil was leaking. we weren't over the pass yet, but we made it over by turning the van on and off trying to get it over the mountain. we finally reached the top of the mountain, and we don't think that the van will make it any farther, so my dad tries his cell, but there is no coverage. i have two bars, so my parents sent me running up to the top of the mountain right next to the road to see if i can get better coverage to make the call. i ran to the top only to find out that coverage wasn't any better. yeah, i have to admit that definitely took the cake. running up the mountain was like when i decided to hike to the trailhead, i could reach out and touch the mountain. it was basically like crawling really fast on lots of lose rocks and red clay. i wish you all could have seen it. so i get back down to the van, and we decide to see how far our car can coast. turns out that the van can coast for 35 miles. wow.
so we finally get the car to a mechanic where they tell us that we need to find another engine and another transmission for the van to work. we were stuck in a town called three forks, where there was one car shop and two motels, around 5000 people. we went to the car place and found a van for $16,000 with only 15,000 miles on it and it was an 07. we got it on tuesday, and we were going to get a trailer hitch put on it for our trailer at three that after noon. we get to the trailer hitch place and they can't have the hitch there until thursday because it has to be special ordered because of stow and go seating. we found another dealership and bought another van and they put the trailer hitch on then and there for free.
this is where andy bernard comes in. i was chilling with my little brother in the 07 at the dealership where my parents are looking at other cars, and i see a dead look alike for andy bernard, and he was the one that helped my parents pick a van. thank goodness he wasn't as annoying as the andy bernard in the office, and it turns out that he was actually a mormon too! way awesome. so after purchasing an 07, we purchased and 04 and continued on our way on wednesday morning. what a car adventure.
i have to admit that it was pretty awesome owning four vehicles for a short period of time, but on wednesday we returned the '07 and went on our way. it was hard driving through the rain and often times snow, but we finally made it home. it as only when we got home that we realized that everything in the trailer (all of my stuff) was soaked. yeah, i have to admit that i wasn't too happy.
the other cool part about the trip home was when we stopped on wednesday night. we stayed where there was a pool, so my little brother and i wen swimming. true, the swimming pool only went to six feet deep, but my little brother and i decided to create a whirlpool by running around the walls of the pool in a circle. i have to say that it was awesome because it actually worked. i hoped that it would but when it did, that was even better, so i floated around the pool in circles after we got it going.
so i finally made it home yesterday around nine at night, and i have to say that it was a crazy adventure. for sure. i really wanted to write it all in haiku, but that would definitely take too much work. so after being home for only 40 hours i am actually going to go to wichita kansas to help my sister and her baby for all of next week. i shall let you all know how the adventure goes.
cheers

the second to last sunday

so today was a pretty busy sunday. it was the last sunday that i have to play piano, probably until i come back out here in the fall, but i think that i'm going to keep playing, because i like it. it was the last sunday that i got to sing in the ward choir, although i hate our ward choir, it would be so much cooler if we actually sang arrangments of hymns instead of the hymns.
i got visiting taught today, and it was pretty awesome because all of my visiting teachers are so happy. they are really helpful, and they gave me cookies. yeah, i have been trying to take a nap since five, but everyone just keeps coming over, so no nap time. suck!
before i went to sleep last night i think that i came to terms with the whole roommate and best friend thing. i think being a friend is the best place to be right now, and even though it really blows, and i don't understand why he didn't pick me, i think that i can be cool with that. i've decided to make the most of what i got, and right now that is nothing, but i can write that with a smile on my face now, instead of the sadness that was there the day before.
we had a roommate picture day because we were all wearing green. it was pretty much amazing. the only problem is that i totally look so tired in all of the pictures, like a person that needs more sleep but isn't going to get any. oh well.
so this week i have to admit is looking kind of crappy. i have three quizzes due, and four papers due, and a spanish oral exam all before wednesday. other than that, on wednesday i'm going to go to lunch with this guy who i've only talked to twice, but he seems like a nice enough person but i guess we'll see how this rolls. and of course i think that i have a final saturday morning from 7 to 10 which really isn't cool at all, but i guess that i'll take what i can get. i think that i'm going to find time to take the spanish written final sometime this week, plus i think that i'm going to read all of the d and c. speed reading is pretty much amazing.
until later my friends, hasta luego.

part one: the drama before going home

so i have to admit that the last few days have been pretty busy. i spent most of last week writing three papers and i finally had the opportunity to turn them all in by friday. it was a pretty busy week needless to say.
this week there are four papers that i have to write. one is due on monday, the rest are due on tuesday. the only good news about this week is that i don't have spanish class anymore, but the bad news is that i have the spanish oral exam this tuesday at 7:15 in the evening. it really blows.
it is odd to think that by this time next week my parents and my little brother will be on their way out here to get me. then we shall go home, and i shall slave away all summer long. . . doing what though, that is the real question. here are some reasons why i should go home
reason number a: i seem to have this thing for a guy i used to date, the only problem is that he's dating my roommate. yeah, i still don't know what i'm going to do about it, but one of the funniest quotes i've heard about how a person feels about this situation is that the deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers, and mutineers. i don't approve of the relationship because i don't think that they took everyone's feelings into account. i don't think that they thought about how their relationship would change the dynamics of our apartment, and his apartment, but oh well.
reason number b: it is time for me to go home, to not have to pay rent, and to see my family again. they are really great people, my family, and i'm rather attached to them. i'm not saying that some people aren't as good as family, i'm just saying that i miss my family.
reason number c: . . . uh, yeah i can only think of two reasons as to why i should go home. i can't change my mind though, and i know that i should go, but why? what am i supposed to do or learn?
so i feel as though there is this other guy in my life, who is in need of a fallback. . . and i think that he keeps coming over here because he can't get the girl that he likes, so he tries for the next best thing. . . and i keep turning him down. yeah, i'm not down with that, i shouldn't be the person that other people settle for, i should be the one that they like, and not the one that they always think that they have.
well, mi amigos, i have church tomorrow at a very early hour, and my head hurts from lack of sleep, but i will keep you posted, and i shall try to post everyday, even when i have to write four papers and take two quizzes for my classes. peace out!

welcome to the wonderful world of prime!

this is the beginning of the iowan chronicles. i have two weeks left out here in utah, and then we shall all get to live the adventure of the summer in iowa. be ready for adventure.