Hannah's Christmas List

Yes, I am aware that it is December 9th, and I never put it up when I was told. Yes, I am aware that my siblings have all purchased gifts for me already. So I guess this will end up just being a list for Mom and Dad. Better late than never, right?

1- An "Incase Neoprene Sleeve" for my 13" laptop. I don't really care what color, though I do like the burgundy.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/TU090LL/A?fnode=MTY1NDA2Ng&mco=MjQyNjM2Mg

2- The dvd of "Iron Man" and "The Dark Knight". Both movies are awesome.

3- Clinique moisture surge lotion. It's the pink lotion in a glass bottle.

4- Pretty much any television series of any show that is awesome. Any Office, 30 Rock, House. Really any seasons, except for the first and second season of Psych. I have those on my ipod.

5- Gift cards to Target, Kohl's, or Aeropostale, especially Target. I shop there a lot.

6- I'd like some sort of cute BYU sweatshirt or any other BYU apparel. I'd like at least one thing from BYU.

7- A set of knives would be great, one like mom and dad's, though it doesn't need to be that expensive. We have 2 knives, which makes it pretty hard to cut things while cooking.

8- If you want me to do even less homework, you could get me a Wii or something. That's always fun, albeit not good for procrastination.

Really, anything for Christmas is great, I don't need that much. And once again, I'm sorry that I'm lame and wrote this so late. Merry Christmas! I can't wait to be home for the holidays!

Girls Fear Me

Well, my (Caitlin) life has been pretty uneventful lately, but last night we had mutual and made bracelets for our Secret Santa/Sister thing. It was pretty fun. But we got talking and someone made the remark that they wished they could play the piano. I said "Me too! All I can play is the flute and I don't even like it."

That's what started it all. My Young Women Leader asked "Oh, you play the flute? Sydney there's another person you can tell your Mom about!"
Sydney is Sister Trotter's daughter and Sister Trotter is in charge of the ward choir or something like that and is looking for people to help in the Christmas Program. When I heard that I immediately said "Uh...no I don't!". She of course knew I was lying and that was that. I told her I hadn't even picked up my flute since about 2 years ago for Young Women In Excellence when I was, once again, forced to learn a song and play it. So I begged Sister Pullan (the one who heard me say I play the flute) to not make me play the flute in front of the whole congregation. I told her I'd only make a fool of myself because I can't play a bunch of notes. (It's not like I don't try, it's that my flute is literally unable to play certain notes and I don't think we're going to get it fixed for a ton of money just to play one song.) Eventually, I told Sister Pullan that I would so much rather give a talk in Sacrament and that she could tell her husband that instead. Brother Pullan is the 1st Counseler in our Bishopric. Then of course a bunch of girl's were like "Oh well you can do both!" and I just kind of got mad and just said "No. I don't want to." Then they kinda just dropped it. I'm very glad I did.

That's why I think a few of the girl's in our young womens are scared of me. I can't blame them. Which brings me to my next story. We were on our way to some convention for BYU for mutual the day after Obama was elected. And there were 5 girls in my car with me. Only one of them knew my political views and she kind of just sat quietly with me. The rest of them were reading Forwards off of their phones about Obama. One said something like "All Caucasian American's need to meet at the cottonfields for orientation. Thanks President Obama." and one said something like "What part of White House don't people get?" So I kind of just sat there, waiting for them to shut up. Then one girl kind of pushed me over the edge by saying "People are idiots! Some people who like Palin said we should elect McCain because then he'll die and Palin will be President. That's just so rude! I mean they don't have the right to say that!"
So I finally opened my mouth. I know I probably shouldn't have, but this is what I said:
"Oh ok. So you have the right to be racist, say racist comments, and make racist jokes, but some people aren't allowed to say that a 72 year old man is more likely to die sooner than a 47 year old man. Huh. I get it."
Then they shut up.

So yeah, girls are scared of me sometimes because I can make a good point every now and then.
Woops.