The German has landed!

Yes, ladies and gentleman, you heard right. Alex, my host sister from Germany, arrived on Monday night! I'm so glad she's here! I missed her a lot these past couple of months, but thank goodness for Facebook, right?

Alex and I might as well be twins. We have SO much in common; even our humor is the same and it rarely gets lost in translation. I feel terrible that my German is so deplorable; I was getting pretty good while I was in Germany, but once I got back, all of my newly-acquired language skills just leaked out of my brain. Saddest thing ever.

It's too bad my car broke down last month, because I could be a lot more involved with the activities that their group is doing if I had a working vehicle. My parents are going down to Utah in a couple of weeks, and I can drive their cars while they are gone. Maybe I can convince my dad to carpool or take the bus to work until then, but I'm not holding my breath.

While I was in Germany, I found myself spending a lot of time with a few people in my group; Kyle, Mark, and Becky, and their respective German host sisters Jessy, Mareike, and Jenny. The eight of us in varying combinations spent mostly every day together and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Tomorrow, all of us are getting together at Kyle's house for dinner (which the Wests will probably appreciate; when's the last time I WASN'T here for dinner?) and having a barbeque/potluck. Alex and I don't really know what we should make, but I'm sure we'll figure something out. Maybe lemon bars or something. Haha.

I wish I had more to blog about but I'm an incredibly uninteresting person. I just make up for my lack of hobbies with a few clever witticisms here and there.

When Alex is done writing her emails, we're going to watch Monday's Gossip Girl. That show... I can't say I'd recommend it to anyone, but I love it and I can't get enough. Oh well, it's better than Twilight.

Ach, Härm Noch!

Oh jeez. I haven't blogged in forever. Sorry. Here, enjoy a list.

1. After a week or so of doing absolutely nothing wedding-related, Nathan and I finally got our butts in gear and accomplished a few things. The first is we made our wedding registry at Target. It wasn't exactly the non-stop fun-fest that we were told it would be, but it was fun enough. Yesterday, my brother-in-law Jonathan took some engagement pictures for us! They look pretty good, but we haven't decided which one we're going to use.

2. I could include this with number one but I don't feel like it. Tomorrow, my mom and I are going to see Teresa and finalize a dress design and then go fabric shopping. OH MY GOSH! I'm really excited for this :D I hope she has some cool ideas, because if there is one thing I will absolutely never be, it's a clothing designer. All of those Project Runway episodes have done me absolutely no good.

3. I could include this with number two but I won't. The next thing on our list is announcements. If there's time tomorrow, Nathan and I are going to head up to Paper Zone and find some, you know, paper. We have a couple weeks before the ~appropriate~ time to send them out, so we really need to get on that.

4. Next Monday, my German host sister Alex will be arriving! She'll be staying at my house for a couple weeks and it's going to be RADDD. As a precursor to this, I have to clean my ENTIRE house. My room is by far the most daunting task at hand. I'm doing twelve thousand loads of laundry today. Why do I have so many clothes? And shoes, oh my gosh. I have like 20 pairs of shoes. Possibly more, but I'm afraid to count.

5. For the first time in my life, I watched all four sessions of General Conference. WOW. That was a lot of conference. At one point, Nathan's mom referred to Elder Bednar as "Babyface Bednar" and I laughed for a century.

6. Neil Diamond sucks.