My New(ish) Obsessions

Most people that know me, know that I love music and I love reading. So it will be no surprise to them that that is what this post is about. Over the past couple of months I have fallen in love with a couple of things and I just thought I would share.

So i'll start off with the books. My friend recommend this series to me and i've read the two books that are out and I love them. The first book in the series is called Matched and it's written by Ally Condie. Basically it is about this society in the future, where everything you do is chosen for you even down to when you die. The people in the society don't get to choose who they marry but they get "matched" based on who is most alike them and who they are compatible for. So it just follows the story of this girl Cassia through her matching and afterwards. I know i'm not doing it justice. So just go read it. haha.

And now for music =]

One of my new favorite bands is The Wanted. They are amazing. They are a British band who has recently just started to get popular in America. My friend showed me a couple of their songs a couple of months ago and then The Warblers sang their song on Glee and they've started gaining more popularity since then (they've already had American fans for a little bit though). So if you haven't heard their song Glad You Came, i'm betting you have, then go check them out. I would recommend listening to Glad You Came, Gold Forever, Lightning, Warzone and Heart Vacancy =] those are my favorites =]

But my biggest new obsession since January is, One Direction. I cannot say enough how much i love them. As the fans would say, I have One Direction Infection. They are also from the UK. They were on the X Factor over there and came in third and recently came over to America to open up for Big Time Rush. Since they were on the X Factor they can all actually sing! And let me tell you, they are amazing! (and very attractive too =]) So anyway, you definitely need to go check them out too! I would recommend listening to, What Makes You Beautiful, One Thing, and More Than This. Actually just listen to their whole CD, because it's amazing.

Oh and because the movie just came out, i need to talk about it. THE HUNGER GAMES was amazing! I went to the midnight showing and I was really pleased with what they did with it! I thought that with the amount of time they had they did an amazing job including mostly everything in the movie. So if you liked the book, then go see the movie. The cast did a really good job.

Okay so that's pretty much everything.

It's starting to get warm outside and it's making me really anxious to go home in 4 weeks!

I just gotta get through the next 2 and a half weeks of classes and then through final week and then ill be home for the summer! I can't wait to see my mom and my sisters. and my niece and nephew!

The awkward lunch and the great games!

Be prepared for a blog full of awkwardness. haha. 

So when I first started this blog I promised awkward stories. Well I have one from not this past week but the week before. It was the tuesday after President's Day. Me and my friends Alex and Kaitlyn were at lunch in the Wilk and we saw this really cute guy. And i recognized him from somewhere (not a big shocker for me). So we were thinking about it and I finally realized that he had given a talk at the Religion Symposium that we had gone to the previous friday. So my friends were like "Mary go talk to him!" So i walked all the way across the cougareat to go talk to him. And yeah it was a really awkward conversation. That's all im gonna say about it. Haha. 

So the next great story of these past 2 weeks...i met Brandon Davies. I've wanted to meet him for so long! Me and my friends were at the men's volleyball game on the 24th and we saw him walk in and walk up the bleachers to go sit in the back of the smith fieldhouse. So me and my friend Hailey were like we wanna make sure to see if that's really him. So we went a walked over there and it was him. At the end of the game we were like "shoot we really need to meet him!" so we didn't want to go up to him and creep him out, we wanted to wait for him to walk out so it would be less awkward. but he wasn't walking out. so finally my friend alyssa convinced me to just go talk to him. So me and my friend Hailey went up there and the only thing i could say was, "are you Brandon Davies?" he smiles and points to the guy behind him and is like, "no that guy is". im glad he turned my awkward moment into something funny cause i was so nervous. anyway we were like can we get a picture with you. and so he said yes. and it was amazing. he's so tall. and i just love him. haha. so here's the picture:

so the next story...

me and my friends, alyssa and kaitlyn, went to the mall yesterday. me and alyssa were waiting outside of the bathroom for kaitlyn and alyssa goes, "wouldn't that be awesome if #7, Phil, from the volleyball team was here?" and i was like yeah that'd be legit! (because phil is so attractive). anyway, we walk out to the food court to get lunch and while we are waiting for our food im just looking around and i see this really attractive guy so i do a double take and im all like hold up. is that phil? sure enough it was. so we got our food. and went and sat down. and my friends were like "mary go talk to him!" so i went up to him (and this lady that looked like his aunt or mom was with him) and was like "are you #7 from the volleyball team?" and he was like "yeah" and he just looked really shocked. and then the lady was like "oh thats so cool that people are recognizing you!" and so i was just standing there so i was like "well good luch at your game tonight!" and he was like "thanks. are you gonna be there?" and so i said "yeah of course!" and he was like "okay well see you there!" and the lady goes "you should make a sign for him!" and i just kinda laughed and then was like "okay well i gotta go." and phil said, "see you tonight!" so me and my friends always go early to the games cause we like to get front row seats. and we're there and phil is talking to his teammates and then points up at me. and i kinda duck back cause i was like oh gosh. anyway that was that. and so tonight it was the second half of the game. and during the game they threw out these basketball stress balls. and so i caught one. and my friend Neil goes, "mary you should write your number on it and throw it to Phil" thinking i wouldn't really do it. but when someone says something like that to me, i like to do it. so i wrote my number on it and waited for the game to be over so i could throw it to him. so the game was over (we won!) and my and my friend hailey walk over to where they walk out and as hes walking out she yells "phil" and he looks up and i threw it to him. he looked at it and was like "yeah! thank you!" so i don't think he'll text me. but it was still a good memory for me. and it forced me to do something out of my comfort zone. back home i would have never done anything like that. so even if nothing comes of it (which im sure it wont), im still grateful for the experience it gave me =]

Gosh, i love this school so much!