6 Quirks!!

Here's how this works..
List 6 quirks about you..
Tag 6 people..
Tell who tagged you.. HODUH(amy)

1. I absolutely hate it when people leave the toilet seat and lid up.. It drives me crazy because honestly its just gross plus it looks quite trashy when you can see in the toilet. It has a lid so close it when you are done. It's quite a simple thing to do, I just don't get it why people leave it up.

2. I refuse to have my text messages make any sound when I receive one because I think it is annoying, however, I'm crazy about texting so I am constantly looking at my phone all the time to see if I have a new message since it is just silent when I receive one.

3. I have to sleep on the left side of the bed and I only sleep on top of the covers never in my actual bed. I'm not sure why but I just have always slept on top with a little blanket over me. Maybe its because I get really hot when I sleep and its just easier to get out of a little blanket rather than try to get out of all the other stuff on a bed plus the sheets are all tucked in and it just not really comfortable to me.

4. I love the summer because I can wear flip flops(and that's basically all I wear) because I hate wearing shoes and socks. My feet are kind of crazy. I start to get claustrophobia of the feet and my toes start to freak out.. Not all the time but occasionally and well I just prefer not to wear shoes so I only wear them when it is absolutely necessary.

5. I hate watching commercials so bad. If something is on that I want to watch and it has commercials, I'll pause it(thank heavens for DVR) and go find something else to do until its been long enough that I'll be able to fast forward through the commercials.

6. I hate when toilet paper and paper towels are put on the roll the wrong way. They are suppose to come over the top of the roll not from the bottom. I have to change them wherever I am if they are going the wrong way.

I tag Rachel, Marva, Kelli, Shelise, Whitney, Nikki

Picture Tag!!

So I have seen this on a few of my family's blogs and it looked like fun so I did it also..
I am 22 years old..













I live in Warrenton, Virginia.. You can look it up there's not much here.. It's basically farm country and I love it. It's about 40 miles south of D.C. and really, really small. I'm talking smaller than Cedar City.. Yep that's right!!












I would like to travel to Rome.. It has always been my dream and now I can finally have my dream wedding there.. Well in however many years it takes to finish the temple there.. But I was talking to a few of my friends and I think we are going to plan a vacation there sometime next year.. So here's to hoping it actually works out because that would be a dream come true.












I like about anything Italian.. This is my favorite dish when I go to Olive Garden.. It is the five chees ziti.. just ask my friends I rarely order anything different.. If ever at all..


















I grew up in Cedar City, Utah.. it is such a beautiful place, not that I ever want to live there again but it is really beautiful.. Plus my mom and Tom are there so I'll at least show up every now and then to visit..
















My favorite color is Pink.. Its just so fun and bright and it just makes me smile..

My favorite animal is the Chocolate Lab and I want one so bad, but we can't have a dog right now so when I move I am getting a little girl, chocolate lab and I am going to name her Godiva..

I used to love troll dolls so much I think I had like 30 of them.. they were such fun little things and now that I look at them they are kind of freaky but I loved them way back when.. I had a little house and everything.. they were such awesome toys.

My name is Julie.. yep pretty self explanitory there..

My middle name is Ann.. and I love the Today show so this worked out nicely..

Shelley.. Shelley, Idaho what a cool place..

4th picture tag..

Here's how this works.. Take the 4th picture from your 4th album of your pictures and post it.. Pretty simple..

This is at our prom night birthday dinner.. We were at Cheesecake Factory and well their burgers are huge so I was trying to see if I could even take a bite and well no worries I did it.. That's me eating like a champ=)

THE ART INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON!!

This past week I started Culinary school at the Art Institute of Washington and I absolutely love it so much. I am going to this school to get my degree in Baking and Pastry so I can eventually open up my own bakery. I never realized school could be so great. I have only gone for three days so far but it has been the greatest experience yet.. My classes are so much fun and my teachers are great. I am currently taking concepts and theories, which is a basic cookin class, it will teach me all the basic, well concepts and theories of cooking. So far we have learned different knife cuts. Ya there are quite a few different ones.. Small, Medium and Large dice, Julienne, Brunoise, and Tourne is what we have been working on so far. My teacher is a trip and there is this woman in my class that just cracks us all up everyday. I am also taking Marketing this semester as well as Management. My cooking classes, however, will more than likely outshine those classes because they are hands on and so much fun.. We have uniforms we have to wear to class and they are your average chef outfit and they are so much fun. So I should be done with school in about a year and then well we'll have to see where I go from there but for now I am enjoying my life. Because I have been thinking about it a lot lately.. Life that is and well President Monson pretty much reassured my thoughts I've been having. We need to enjoy our lives. I have been thinking a lot about yesterday and making sure that I did everything I could to enjoy yesterday cause I will never be able to get it back. I spend a lot of time with the Warner's and if you don't know who they are, that would be weird cause I talk about them a lot but they are a couple in my ward and they have basically adopted me but they have a wall hanging in their house that says Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination! That has stuck with me ever since I first saw it. Life only happens once and we should utilize our time and enjoy every minute of it. So I hope that for all of you that are reading this, that you are doing everything you want in your life. Never let anything or anyone hold you back from your dreams.. Culinary is one of my dreams and I'm finally doing it and I couldn't be happier. Live your dreams, open your eyes and enjoy yourself while you live. Because there is no point to living if you go through it with your eyes closed, so open your eyes and REALLY experience it.

My Hair!!

So everytime I do anything to my hair it usually makes me really sad, so you may ask why I keep doing stuff do it?? Well that's a very valid question and I just don't have an answer.. maybe because I get bored or just want a change but the simple fact is I'm a very plain jane girl when it comes to my hair. I like it long and I usually put it in a ponytail.. That's how it's always been with me. Well a couple months ago I had my friend chop my hair off because I saw this cute picture of a haircut that I thought would look great well it would if I #1 knew how to do hair and #2 ever liked to take the time to do hair so needless to say I hated the haircut and I cried(also something that happens once I do anything to my hair) So I wanted my long hair back so Sunday, while watching conference, we put extension in my hair.


Here's what it looked like all finished.. Sylvia did a pretty good job at putting them in. It was her first time ever doing them. She weaved them in. Now here's the thing though weaving means there were braids across my head in three spots and well sleeping on them kind of hurt my head and showering and washing my hair it was just kind of awkward. After a couple days the braids started to loosen and it just was really heavy on my head and the hair was pulling and it was just really uncomfortable plus even though we used human hair it just was kind of dull. My natural hair is so fine and bright and shiny and it just didn't do my hair justice so long story short Cameron cut them out last night and I am back to my natural hair and I will have to wait for it to grow out to be that long on its own.. Oh I didn't tell you the biggest reason why they didn't work.. I COULDN'T PUT MY HAIR IN A PONYTAIL.. The braids underneath would show through so it just looked kind of whitetrash and like I said before I'm a ponytail girl..