Why you gotta be so rude?

The song in the title above is hilarious to me. When my sister came to visit I realized that I had no idea what new songs were out and popular because I don't listen to the radio here. Well...

I find this song to be quite funny and catchy. But I just love the chorus part haha!

So my weekend has been PACKED. I'm kinda physically dead at the moment.

Thursday night I mentioned I went to the temple and I was so happy to be there. I had to get my race packet as well so I was walking around Southbank for awhile since I had time before the session started. I hadn't eaten dinner so I got a burrito (blessed food that I miss) and a little Mexican chain restaurant here called Guzman y Gomez. It's alright, but it definitely isn't California Mexican food. But the exciting thing is that while I was there I got a Solo.

Janine was requested to bring one of these home for a friend who said it was made of WATER, LEMON, AND HAPPINESS. That is my favorite description of a drink I've ever heard! And it is delicious so on point.

I haven't been to the city at night much. But that skyline is very nice to look at by the river. :)

Then I went to the temple, enjoyed very much my session, then had to take the bus back. I was cracking up because it was after 10:00pm at this point and apparently they switch to a night bus schedule, so the bus was a double bus that reminded me of Italy with it's ghetto accordion center hahahaha.

Hilarious.

Friday I worked then went to the YSA dance with a couple people from my ward. It was Bollywood themed and I was extremely disappointed that I did not here a single Bollywood song. The DJ could have done great things. Despite that fact, I NEEDED that dance. I went a little crazy and used a lot of energy.

                     This is my dance philosophy per se. I used to absolutely hate youth dances and I only went because my friends went. I rarely got asked to dance, and I was very uncomfortable in that kind of setting. So I felt awkward and didn't dance and I never knew why I was there.

                     Something changed when I went to BYU during my sophmore year. Second semester I got some new roommates and made friends in the ward who were very outgoing and we became a very social apartment. And we had apartment complex dance parties in my living room all the time. And my ward dances were awesome because everyone danced and enjoyed themselves. I start to let loose more and started to actually LIKE going and WANTING to have dance parties. Changed me.

                     They are still hit and miss, and it completely depends on the people you go with, and if I'm not in the mood to go I'm not going to go, but now I LOVE dances! It is a time for me to release frustration and pent up energy and I just don't care anymore. I don't know any good moves, but if the song has a beat I like to move and not stay still. 

                     So now being on the other side of the fence, I get really sad when I see people who go to the dances and literally sit on the sides and do nothing the whole time. Why do they go at all? I have found they are usually just shy like I was.Which is completely fine. But I am SO GLAD that I have moved on from that and enjoy myself a ton. :) :) :)

So that was a lot to say that I needed to let loose some anxiety and frustration and energy Friday night. So I greatly enjoyed myself.

PEOPLE CHANGE!

On to Saturday..................WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I woke up at 5:30am to catch a bus, then a train, then a car to make my way to Redcliffe (north of Brisbane) to go SKYDIVING!!! I had only gotten less than 5 hours of sleep that night, but I was pretty awake because I had adrenaline. Yes I was nervous. Of course I was, I was going to jump out of an airplane! Anyone who isn't nervous their first time doing that is strange and rare I'm sure. But it was so cool, I broke down and got the pictures and video and I'm so glad I did because I've watched the video like 20 times already because it makes me SO HAPPY!!!! We got all harnessed up and I met my tandem instructor guy. He was awesome, we got along very well and he's jumped out a plane more than 7,000 times. Wow. On the ride up in the airplane I actually wasn't that nervous as we got up to 14,000 feet. I was the 7th of 7 jumpers, so when the door opened and the cold air blew in and I watched them all fall into nothing I got so excited and so scared at the same time. And then I was in FREEFALL!!!!!!!! I can't even describe the sensation, it felt amazing though!!! It was freezing cold as I went down, the pressure was high so my head hurt a bit, and my ponytail flew out of my hair, but I absolutely loved the experience. The views were beautiful of the Australia coastline. I can't believe I actually did it! People always say they want to go skydiving but how many people actually go? COMPLETELY WORTH IT.

I recommend it to anyone who likes adrenaline rushes. :) :) :)

Sunday. Today I sinned. Hahaha I've never signed up for a race or anything on a Sunday but this morning I ran in the Bridge to Brisbane 10k. It's kinda a Brisbane iconic run, so I figured I needed to make that happen even though I felt bad it was Sunday. But I still went to church this afternoon! :) So this morning I woke up at 4:30am (this helps me understand why I'm so tired hahaha) to go catch the bus again to the city where a big bridge is. At the beginning up the 10k you run up and down the bridge which is the first 2k of the distance. It was way fun! I'm not in good endurance shape but my time was 1 hour 10 minutes which could have been better but could have been worse haha. I haven't run more than 5 miles since my half marathon before the mission. I'd love to get to that endurance point again.

Lots of people running down the bridge!

At church today I was pretty drained haha. Now I'm starving. Then to sleeeeeeeeep. 

This was a legit weekend and I'm so HAPPY!! I needed all these exciting things. :) Next weekend is Melbourne then the next weekend is the USA!