dontfeelobligatedtoreadthisunlessyouhaveapassionforbasketballequivalenttotheoneburninginmysoulrightnow!

Last night marked one of the most incredible nights of basketball I have ever witnessed.

Better than UNC winning the NCAA tournament when I was however old to first spark my love for college basketball.

Better than Bryce Velasquez.

Better than Garrett Fiddler.

Better than Tyler Velasquez.

Seriously. Here's some stats:

Of the 14 posts on my facebook home page, 11 of them made some reference to BYU Basketball.
(that's pretty good, considering 14 out of 14 would usually be about whoever made the post.)

I got 3 emails from BYU Athletics giving me updates on how many student seats were still available and when to come to ensure I could obtain one. (People started going for it 7:00 am Tuesday morning, last I heard)

Every seat (and probably more) of the 22700 seat Marriot Center was filled.

BYU also accommodated students in the ballroom (filled to capacity) the Terrace (likewise) the JKB, the Marb, the JSB, and who knows where else since we couldn't fit in the Marriot Center.

And why? And WHY? Here are some more stats. My accuracy may not reach perfection becuase these are all from memory of things I've seen or read, but they're pretty darn close and pretty darn AMAZING:

Before the game: BYU: #9 SDSU: #4

BYU: 71 SDSU: 58

SDSU was one of 2 undefeated teams and BYU BEAT THEM. We handed them their first loss in 20 games, their first road loss in the last 8, and their first loss in the conference from their streak of 10. But the important part is, it was their first loss!

JIMMER FREDETTE: FORTY THREE POINTS!
He made, as always, some impressive 3s, the kind where you jump up and know it just can't go in but then it does and oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh
I think he scored something like 18 points in a row in the first half! What? Who does that?
I think he only missed one free throw but shot like a billion because he's feisty and the Aztecs couldn't help but foul him
With 13 minutes left in the second half, we had 52 points. CBS put up a little box that accounted for the points as such:
Fredette: 34 points
Davies: 14 points
Rest of Team: 4 points

It. Was. Insane.

And speaking of Davies, every article I've read about it gives him like a one sentence shout out at the end becuase Jimmer was just incredible, but woof, Davies! He was awesome! I don't know what his totals came out to, but he scored hard the whole game!

Also, there was one beautiful stretch of time when the shot clock was winding down and Jimmer went up for this unbelievable 3 (and made it of course) and then shortly thereafter Jackson stole the ball (as always) drove to the basket and DUNKED IT. If I were CJ I would have been crying. The Aztecs were history at that point.

Also, the big news is Kevin Durant, number 1 scorer in the NBA, tweeted this to the world:
"Jimmer Fredette is the best scorer in the world"

Our Jimmer! crazy!

Seriously. Everything I've read about it since has left me breathless. It was phenomenal.

If You're Wondering...

(but if you're not, don't bother reading any further) Nonetheless, my camera is broken and it is hard to think of good blogs without some awesome accompanying pictures! However, to ensure you all that the adventures are not ceasing (heaven forbid!), here is brief review of the going-ons (if you care):

I went to a poetry reading. A real live there-were-homely-and-eccentric-individuals-with-blue-hair-and-flared-glasses-and-baggy-sweaters-and-skinny-jeans-occasionally-interrupting-their-game-of-scrabble-to-sip-from-their-coffee(probablyhotchocolate)-before-standing-up-to-recite-some-sappy-unrhyming-and-mostly-nebulous-poem-about-love-or-death-or-God-or-other-gratuitously-confusing-subjects poetry reading!!!! I also broke every single one of their dramatic norms and gave them a shortened version of the dating poem. Why wasn't my camera working!?

Lise and Kelcey (our new freshman roommate from Arizona) and I went to the Jordan River Temple. It was a swoopily architectured structure and a very fun adventure.

I gave my first boy haircut. Woof, was I nervous! But it turned out pretty good, and I would like to do it again and again. Not to mention I now notice the caliber of boy's haircuts much more than I used to.

I went fundraising with the Tri Club. Why, you may ask, seeing as I'm not actually competing for them and am not even technically part of their team? I respect what they do and wish I could do it myself, but for my lack of an entire third of their cause in the form of no bikeage. However, I am doing a 24 hour tri with them (more to come, I'm sure) and potentially running for one of their team members who can't in the next competition! But the point is, we went door knocking to sell raffle tickets and I felt like a missionary. There was one old man who had suspenders the same material as my cow pants (bond!) and one man who growled at me before slamming the door in my face! It was joyous.

BYU dominated TCU. Jackson Emery broke the steal record (he's now at 198, I believe?) previously held by Danny Ainge (sorry, passive voice). Lise and I cheered all the while.

I watched a boy run a mile in FOUR MINUTES! You can't even boil pasta that fast.

I swim like crazy! Have you ever tried swimming? Try it. It is awesome.

But since running is still the superior activity, I am training for Boston with great excitement and anticipation!

Grounds. Is. The. Best.


Sorry this was not such an entertaining blog, but I'm working on the camera and should have it soon. Thanks for reading!

Oldness

Mom, can I go to Jerusalem?

Other blog readers, can you remember that I still cherish all these people? And since you might too, please feel free to read their blogs if you ever have withdrawals from seeing them on mine.

(PS i didn't actually get permission to post these links, but I'm pretty sure they won't mind!)

Sarah: sarahegriggs.blogspot.com
Rachel: rachelsrosettastone.blogspot.com (haha good URL, eh?)
Chelsea: joyinmylittlesoul.blogspot.com

Newness

You may recall the interesting first (and last, oddly enough) impressions of my summer roommate from these odd objects in her room. Because R108 had a 50% turnover, there's 50% new and interesting things from which to draw first impressions now. I'll let you draw them on your own from these images.












Not because any of these objects are particularly odd (I think the mace/sewing maching/safety glasses/slipper and the rose combo was weirder), but certainly because they are new, Elise has never been dearer to me. I love her.

Also, dating is rough.
Especially if it involves going down a steep incline of pure ice and sliding an extra couple of feet even after the sled has gone away. Still fun!

Life is just thriving! More to come on the roommates and classes, but all I can say is I'm running the Boston Marathon and that's all I can think about!!!

Watch This

Time-Lapse of 2010 NYC Marathon

Change the location to Boston, imagine me in the middle of those thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people, and you've got the reason why I rearranged my entire schedule because one on my classes had a scheduled final on April 18th!!!!

First it rained, then it snowed...

...and it snowed...

...and it snowed......and it snowed....
...and it snowed...
...and it snowed!!!!!
THERE WAS SO MUCH SNOW IN PROVO! The Grounds Office phones were ringing out the wazoo and the Colorado kid in me wanted to jump in the feet of it everywhere! Hopefully it won't impede my progress towards home!

Happy Anniversary!

There is another new blog below this one FYI. Also, there will probably be a new one everyday this week, because I have time to make them and I love to do so.

For now, however, I just was looking back in my journal at a year ago today, December 19, 2009, and this lovely piece of joy is what I found. Just one perspective of many that could be shared, but this stuff is straight from my journal (with maybe a few deletions here and there for journal purposes.) Once again, no obligation to read. It is kind of long. But it brought back many fond memories for me. What a great day in Roy Family history.

"And, believe it or not, the earth did not end during the night, and Charina’s wedding day actually came!!!! And it just seemed, in those moments at 6 in the morning that none of these terrible setbacks had occurred, and we all went in a squealy rush to her room where she was curling her hair and bombarded her with joy!!! She was happy! And I was happy! And CJ and Jamie and Summer were happy! And all was joy!!!! Charina was getting married that day!! And when we told her that in high pitched, high decibel squeals, she, in her very charina like manner, was like… not just yet! We still don’t know if jimmy can make it to the temple. Oh, Char. I love her so much. Um. But yes, we did get all ready for the temple, and oh by the way, there really was at least 12 inches of snow on the ground and it was STILL coming down like crazy!!! But we got all ready and all 12 of us climbed into the van!!! And we were all in there together on Charina’s wedding day, and it was the most happy moment, especially since we had to drive through this perfectly romantic, snowy lane to get to the temple! When it finally appreaed, it was a beautiful sight! But, one more trial. It sits on a hill. So Charina was like.. ok, everyone! Faith, all our faith together can get us up this hill!!! And so we all had faith and we just got to the top!! But there was so much snow everywhere!! It was crazy! So we got to the temple and everyone filed out except for dad and me and bum and the kids because, oh yeah, guess what the visitor center was closed and so we were going to have to babysit the 4 kids in the car!! Hahha! At this point, the trials were just more humorous and glorious for the experience than anything else. And we were just glad it was only 4 kids and not the original 12 in the car! So we pulled up to the front of the temple, and there was Jimmy and Charina just melted into his arms, and it was such a happy sight, and everyone just went in after them. . . . It was bittersweet. So dad parked for us and then it was just me and bum and ally and viana and brooke and ram! And they were all pretty content at first, but then viana woke ram up and we did have about 20 minutes there of crying children and unhappy beings, but we just endured and fed them much food and found entertainment and we were just in that car! At one point Viana had to go potty and so I went in there and… .there everyone was, just sitting in the waiting room! What the? Well, it turns out that the sealer was stuck and hadn’t gotten there yet! So i was like..alas, I’ll just go back out to the car and wait. I sang random, made up songs to the masses and pretty soon, there was little Ram in my arms just sleeping away, and there was Ally sleeping in Summer’s arms and viana was being the perfect little angel, just coloring away, brooke was likewise being good! And so we had a car of calm. And… usually sealings take like 30 minutes? No. We were in the car for 2 and a half hours! Just because of all the complications, but anyway, it was happy when CJ came out to get us and I was just snuggling Ram! She was proud of us, and then Jame came out. But when CJ came I asked her how it was and she said it was so so good and just reinforced her testimony of temple marriages and was so beautiful and personal and so good and the spirit was there so strongly, and I just started crying because as much as it made me sad to lose a portion of the dimensions of a purely sister to sister relationship, I was so ebullient for Charina to have gotten sealed in the temple, especially despite all the setbacks. Jimmy must just be a man who will become a prophet and Charina his stalwart wife or something like and all those things were satan’s way of getting them to not go through with it. Ha, Satan! Take that! We got all the kids out and walked up to the temple and waited in the waiting area for the people. Because it was still snowing, they just walked out into the lobby, not out of the temple like usual, haha. But, it was pure joy an dhappiness and I hugged charina and jimmy and they were married and it was happy! And then proceeded the most magical moments of anyone’s life ever! So while we have been planning all of this, Charina said something like “I don’t care what you guys wear, I just want the picture with me and my matching sisters in front of the temple!” Well! It was snowing like crazy outside, but oh myword HAPPIEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE!!! We just skipped right out there through the blusteriest snow ever and huddled together with beautiful Charina and us in our purple shirts and there was love shooting like a wild circuit through us, and snow falling like love all around. It was so joyful being out there on the snowy lawn of the temple with my sisters. Of course, but it was just great! We left awhile after, and it was bad, bad driving to our hotel not but 2 miles away! It was crazy! But we went to the hotel and started to get stuff worked out then LaDon and Dad went back to get Jimmy and Charina and Mom, who had stayed to take snowy wedding pictures! And they had a dangerous drive, but when they finally came, we saw the most wonderful pictures ever! They got the best ones! Ever! Romance! Magic! Eternity! Ever moment I ever pictured with goodness was therein! I was so happy about it, and we laughed hysterically that since the honeymoon plans were getting botched, they were going to be spending their first night in the same hotel as us! But they did come and they got a honeymoon suite and they came and we all went to lunch in the hotel, their very expensive restaurant, but our only option because we were snowed in!! But we went down, and since of course the reception got cancelled, we just counted that as our own quaint little reception. . . . It was a good fun day. Most magical. Romance pictures in the snow, what could be better!? Little else, I say"

Happy Anniversary, Char and Jimmy! (With a first day like that, I have no doubt every one hereafter will be all the more joyous!) Thanks for letting us have the good adventure!