What if Aliens Invaded?

Collide (Acoustic) by Howie Day.

Thank you Pandora for just playing this. I love this song. How did you know?

In other news- so you know how supposedly if friendly aliens ever invaded Earth they would state, "Take me to your leader." Have you ever wondered who this leader would be? Well fear no more, the UN just appointed Mazlan Othman as our "leader". Aliens will be directed to her because she is now our extraterrestrial ambassador. Cool.. part of me hopes that she is needed at one point in time. That would be funny. But only if the aliens were really kind and didn't want to take over.



ooh. look up this song- Long Time Traveler by the Wailing Jennys. beautiful. I kinda really like folky music with cool harmonies.

mechale lauren

Lovely

Would you like to know what I love lately? I knew you would! Alright here it goes.

1. Harry Potter ABC's written by me(a.k.a. Ravenclaw) and Janey Boy(a.k.a. Hufflepuff).

2. The fact that I just wrote a bomb 10 paragraph essay on why 1763 was a turning point in the events that led to the American Revolution. Exceeding expectations.

3. Mary Hart 80's Aerobics Video with Natalie(a.k.a. Slytherin). Get fit ladies:).. the fun way!



4. Pandora Radio. I've just discovered some gems of songs on my Ingrid Michaelson station.

5. Homecoming is saturday. Its going to be so fun! My dress is dang cute. Thanks for letting me borrow it Hannah(a.k.a. Gryffindor).

6. I have the coolest brother in the world. His name is Johnny. He's homecoming king. Go yohahn(my affectionate name for him)

7. Calculus is cool. Math is no longer exercises. Its application and problem solving.

8. I want to go to MIT or Stanford. They have great mechanical engineering programs.

9. General Conference this weekend. Yesss.

10. Also seminary is wonderful. I love going. I knew hardly anyone in my class but we have the best discussions. Today was about the priesthood. Boys (not that any read this) remember, you hold the priesthood everyday, not just sunday and you've been endowed with something Godly. Remember that.

11. Sister Michelle Goodwin taught the best YW/RS lesson sunday about mothers and daughters. It really impacted me. I love you mommy:)

12. I have cool friends.

13. We have churros at my house. Do you understand how delicious a perfectly baked, crispy, golden churro is?

14. My family is wonderful. I love my siblings. Did you know that BYU came out with a study recently and they found that siblings have twice the impact that your parents have on you. I believe it.

15. I have the cutest nephew. I miss him.

16. The boys basketball team has started conditioning. That means the season starts soon. In fact, yesterday I put the entire season's schedule in my phone. First game November 23 at Northridge.

17. I want to be an officer so badly. Just sayin

18. I went to the state fair for the first time in my life. And I loved it.

19. I like my choir songs.

20. I keep reminiscing on the Maxwell side of my family's river rafting trip a month and a half ago. Look how cool my boat was! We were the River Rats named by gramps:)


We consisted of: our captain Gutless Willie(Jordan), Skip(Josh), Skipper(Johnny), Scarlet the Harlot(Me), Pompous Pepper(Kristi), First mate- Fearless Ferdinand(Buddy), and Motherless Mary(Heather) (From back to front)



Well this concludes a boring post..
love, mechale lauren

Fix You

If you love dancing... watch this. I'm slightly embarassed to say I cried.

Travis Wall is my favorite choreographer of all time. Wow.

mechale lauren

The Library of Congress

Today I watched the bonus features (my favorite part of any movie) of National Treasure 2: The Book of Secrets. By far my favorite feature was titled "Inside the Library of Congress." Now if you know me well, you might know that I have an extreme fascination with American History.. Mostly early colonial America and first half of the 20th century. So naturally my dream vacation right now would be to go back east to Washington D.C. One reason is to see my sister, her husband and my nephew in Maryland, but also to go explore our nations history. I want to go more than you even know.

Before watching the afore said bonus feature I really had no interest in going to the Library of Congress. But au contraire. That is the number one place on my go-see list. I have to go!

I know this probably doesn't make it sound that amazing but it is. This is from the Librarian of Congress(p.s. isn't that one of the coolest professional titles ever?!)

Welcome Message from the Librarian of Congress

The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.

The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. The Office of the Librarian is tasked to set policy and to direct and support programs and activities to accomplish the Library's mission.

As Librarian of Congress, I oversee the many thousands of dedicated staff who acquire, catalog, preserve, and make available library collections within our three buildings on Capitol Hill and over the Internet. I am pleased that you are visiting our Web site today, and I invite you to bookmark our URL and return to it often.

Sincerely,

James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress


I want to go.

Since I want to go so badly, I was on their website today. Granted it isn't the most exciting site ever, its very informative. I found this little gem called Today in History on their site, although it isn't the only Today in History on the internet I really like it. Did you know that today, September 7 in 1977 President Jimmy Carter and Omar Torrijos, Cheif of Government in Panama, signed the Panama Canal Treaty and Neutrality Treaty which signed control of the Panama canal to Panama? What a nice piece of history!

Okay so basically this post made me even more of a nerd than I already am. And sorry for this rambling of thoughts. It was really weird I know, but please don't judge me:) haha

mechale lauren

Impossible is Nothing

Since this is the new description to my blog I thought I'd just give you the rest of the quote.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing." -John C. Maxwell

This is probably my favorite quote of all time. I think I might write and oratory for debate on it this year. Tight.

mechale lauren

Bedroom Intruder

So I know that you most likely won't watch this... But please- Do IT!! Its kinda way funny. First you have to watch this one and realize that this is real. Straight from the news. And it's hilarious. THEN.. This is the even better follow up video. Someone autotuned the original and its actually a song on itunes now and is so dang funny! But watch out, it gets stuck in your head. You can run and tell dat. homeboy. (you'll get that if you watch it..)

k well hyperlinks aren't working so number one- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-ih9kzrx04 and number two- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw&feature=related

mechale lauren

school school school

If I were a normal teenager I would probably say about this subject, "Summer was wayyy too short (which I happen to agree with by the way) and I am not enjoying going back to school."

But alas. I happen to be an abnormal teenager and as such I have absolutely loved these first two days back! I've been on such a high. I'm excited to see friends I've missed and most of all (and suprisingly satisfying) I've been extremely excited to learn. I'm excited that both my AP American teacher Mr. Harris, and my AP Calculus BC teacher Mrs. Volk are both college professors. How cool is that? I also love that my new favorite teacher- at least for now- Mr. Harris is also my advisory teacher and our class is bomb! I love that my first period has about 20 kids in it, my second period has about 15 and my third period has about 120! Good ol' choir. Which by the way I have really missed. I've missed Larry, excuse me Mr. Smith, saying ridiculous things like, "may the blue bird of happiness rain poop on you." And as a bonus this year isn't just girls choir, we have boys in there too! I love my debate class. So much! Two of my very best friends Hannah and Natalie are both in there along with various extravagant people... Its going to be a pretty eventful class. I love that I knew all of about 10 people in my seminary period and therefore I will have ample opportunity to make new friends! I love that I have my favorite class, math, everyday. I'm really excited for my chemistry class. My lab group consists of Caddy, Adam, Chandler Meyer and me. We'll rock that class... as long as Adam doesn't injure us all! And my teacher is great! Mrs. Ludwig loves HP(Harry Potter). Score. And I love my English class. At first this was the class I was most nervous for because I didn't know anyone that was going to be in the class after asking most of my friends about it. Today I walked in and saw a great group of guys that I'll become better friends with I hope:) and oh Mrs Gardner... She has the most ridiculous sense of humor. I'm in love with that class already!

I'm so ready for this Junior year at Bountiful High. Bring on whatever curve balls you want to throw at me. Lets do this.

P.S. I learned a new word today- brouhaha: A noisy and overexcited critical response, display of interest, or trail of publicity. I like this word.. I'll use it in a real life sentence... Tomorrow. K?

P.P.S. I got a really short Jane Austen book at the library yesterday. Yes.