Farewell to Fall and Winter

So, I'm sitting in Brittany's new dorm as she unpacks the MILLIONS of new things she accumulated these past few days, and its been making me think about this past two semesters. I guess I always get a little sentimental at the end of something when change is about to happen because even just seeing my dorm and my room completly empty almost made me tear up.

Fall and Winter semesters were a lot of fun, even though I am very glad to have those classes over with. There were the pranks, the dancing (for me--Christmas around the world and getting my head kicked open. story for another time), Brittany's RHA conferences (stories for another blog time Brittany?), friend's visting, apartment hunting for next fall, lots of birthday parties, and... um.....hmmm..... wasn't there more? Well whatever, sorry if we missed something big but both mine and Brittany's minds are drawing a blank. But it was fun nonetheless!

This past week has been insane. What with finals finishing, packing all our crap, saying goodbye to friends we won't see for a long time :( moving, and long hours at work, idk about Brittany but I am so tired. And guess what?? The new term starts this Tuesday... fun stuff

The night Matthew was leaving, Alyssa, him, Brittany, and I had a Martinellis celebration in honor of finals ending and people leaving.

After a lot of all the crazy stuff, Brittany, Bri (semi-roommate from these past semesters), Teddy and I got the chance to relax a little and go to the mall.

Even though Teddy, Eric, Alyssa, all our roommates except a few are gone, this next few terms have promise. What new memories will we make? What is my new off campus housing going to be like with a new roommate (yeah, Brittany has left me for 4 months. grr)? How is Brittany going to like her new job? How often will we all see each other? Is Sterling ever going to show up after Mattew leaves in June?

Well...here we go!

~Heather

In lovely procrastination

So, I'm totally supposed to be studying for geography for my final that is in about 7 1/2 hours, but I really have no motivation to. I'll pass the class and so for whatever reason I have the hardest time caring (sorry mom, if you're reading this. I promise I'll still study tonight and do well...)

Anyways, since it is midnight thirty, and Brittany is fast asleep cause she's the good student like that and I'm the insomniac (spelling??), I thought now would be the perfect time to tell you all about my dear friend Carl.

Brittany has provided my late nights with much humor even after she is unconscience, due to her alter-ego, Carl. She talks, giggles, grunts and twitches in her sleep a lot! Sometime she will wake up and it won't be her though---it's some deep, gruffy voiced version of Brittany that glares at me and makes me afraid for my life! After multiple times of this happening in the middle of the night and in the early morning when she first wakes up, I decided to give this other side of Brittany a name, and Carl was officially born!
(Don't worry Brittany, I cropped off the bottom half of the picture)

Sightings are rare and I am usually the only one priviledged to meet Carl, but our friend Ben Wright has seen him awaken shortly at around 7:45am when she just crawled out of bed.

One night, I was up late reading and studying for geography (hey! much like I will be doing tonight!) and I was sitting in my desk chair, but facing my bed, away from Brittany. Because of the amount of intense studying I was doing....*cough*... I didn't notice Carl turn over in the bed at all and next thing I know, he's yelling "What?!" at me, peeking out from under Brittany's eye cover she sleeps with, not moving a muscle but just staring at me. Creepiest thing ever!! It scared the crap outta me, all I could do was laugh! At that, Carl blinked, glared some more, and asked again, "What??" so through nervous giggles, I asked what back. "Didn't you say something to me??" "um....no? I've barely even been moving so I didn't even make any noise" "Really??" "yeah...I'm sorry?" "Hmmmm....*mumble**grumble*" and he rolled over and went back to sleep. In the morning, I asked Brittany if she remembered that. Not at all.

That's another thing about Carl: he comes and goes without his host body even knowing he was there! She never remembers anything I say that she does, and I think she still wouldn't believe me to this day if Ben hadn't gotten that sighting of Carl as well.

One more story, then I'll end this long post. Another night, I was again up late studying (pretty sure it was geography again. man I can't wait to get this class out of the way!) when I see out of the corner of my eye Brittany sit up quickly, reach for something invisible, and smack her hand on the shelves just above her bed, when Carl yelled out "Crap! Ouch!" When I started laughing, he glared at me again (he must really hate me, he always glares...) and I asked what he was doing, Carl grunted as he laid back down, "I thought something was falling..." I told him, no, nothing moved and asked if he was ok. That's when I thought Brittany was waking up enough to be Brittany again because her voice was getting less gruffy and back to its beautiful self, so I asked, "Are you going to remember this in the morning?" Carl/Brittany laughed a little and said maybe and went back to sleep. Morning came. No recollection whatsoever.

I love my roommate :)

~Heather

Oh sweet Summer, How we miss thee

We really miss the summer semester, it really was the best semester yet and we all got so lucky that we were FHE brother and sisters and stayed great friends.

And while some of us may go our seperate ways, because of missions or new apartments or Vienna (amanda!), we'll always remember our fun times in the Summer of '09!

~Heather

The War that Wages When We Should Be Studying!

Yet another thing Heather and I have in common is our love for pranks! Lucky for us, two of our neighbors, Sarah and Brianne, decided to enter into a prank war with us. It started when Heather and I stole their lightbulbs and they responded by rearranging stuff in our room, hiding things in our room and in the kitchen. From there, things started to get a bit out of control. Here was our next prank:

After stealing Bri's keys, we spent an hour hurriedly foiling their room. I got 1000 square feet of aluminum foil from Costco and we used almost all of it!

The next picture is of Bri as she vowed to get revenge. After taking down all of the foil, we created a massive foil ball, which we eventually turned into an aluminum foil elephant.

After a few weeks, they still hadn't pranked us back, so we attacked with a little reminder of our war. During those weeks, we went around campus at night, collecting massive numbers of newspapers. We had been hiding them in locked suitcases, our closets, under out beds, and anywhere else we could stuff them. Finally, the day came. We set Bri and Sarah up on a date and while they were gone, we enlisted some help. Several guys rigged up a contraption made of a broom handle and vacuum cord to unlock their door and numerous other people from our building helped us with the prank.

It took less than two hours with all of the help. When Sarah and Bri came home, Heather and I hid in the massive pile that filled the room. Hopefully the video of their reaction will be coming soon!! After helping Sarah and Bri clean up, we had over 30 large trash bags full of newspaper!

We were definitely winning the war!

One day, about a week later, while Heather and I were at work, they got their revenge. They covered our walls, window, lights, and floor with black trashbags, rigged flour and rice crispies to fall on us, and set dixie cups filled with beef stew and water (random, I know!) all over the floor. AND, they stapled the cups together. Because of the lack of light in the room, I stepped right in the cups, getting the nasty concoction on my shoes. :) Also, they left a layer of crumpled newspapers on the ground and stole all of our clothes! Here are the pictures:

Due to end-of-the-year craziness, including finals, we still haven't pranked them back. BUT, they will be living in the Elms next year as well, so the war is not over... :)

Bless My Bloomerz, Our Blog has Begun!

Brittany and I decided that we deserve a blog for each other. So everyone can know every detail about our insignificant lives together.

It all started even before we met, in April of 2009 when we found out we would be rooming together at Brigham Young University in the summer. What a splendid summer it was!

With the exception of a short break at the beginning of Fall semester, we've been rooming together ever since and recently signed a contract at the Elms for next fall. Freakin' Brittany will be leaving me for this spring and summer to follow her dream of helping youngin's know where to sleep, clean up their crap, and direct lost souls. Lucky she has 5 extra beds in her own dorm so I'll be crashing there multiple times....even when she doesn't know I'm there..... just kidding.

What can I say, we were meant to be together!

And now a little about us, as if you friends and family didn't already know. :)

Brittany LeighAnne Ralphy was born in a little cottage just outside the bustling campus of BYU in Provo, Utah (she's returned to her roots!). She moved here to college from Blanchester, Ohio where she met me, who changed her life forever! She has 7 siblings and millions and millions of animals. She has always been awesome, according to her friends back home, she's very smart and always listens to me rant about every little detail about my day. And she LOVES cheese!

Heather Lauren Gibbons was born in Cottonwood, Arizona but claims fabulous California as her true home. For the past several wonderful years, she was privileged to live in America's Hometown, the one and only, Hannibal, Missouri! She is the youngest of nine chillins' and loves dogs...mangy mutts! She is a talented dancer and has a compassionate heart. What an amazing teacher she will make! We're perfect for each other in the fact that we have similar interests, odd humor, and we borrow each other's stuff...that sounds nice. :) Plus, for the month of April, Heather is student of the month for the entire intermountain region of National Association of College and University Residence Halls. Pretty impressive, huh?!?

Ok, that's enough for this post, stay tuned for future gems!

Love, Brittany (Bra, Barf, Carl) and Heather (Heat, Hairy, Pointy...grrr....)