Christmas Break!!

It is christmas break at the moment and at first I was kind of bored since on monday everyone was at school and work. But then Nelson my younger brother who is 16 got really sick and has been at home for the last three days. And today he was entertaining me when I was making christmas presents, actually he was telling me Roosvelt gossip/stories.
Anyways, it was also really sad because our neighbors house burned down the other day and so people kept calling us because it was night and looked like our house.
But christmas break has been good so far...have fun you all!!

The End!

So how many of you thought that I was ending my blog posts forever when you saw the title The End?

The end!

Well, it's finals week right now and I must say that I'm not to sad that the semester is basically over. I always seem to have this problem every semester, either it's extremely easy and kind of boring. Or really hard and really annoying, but this semester was the easy one so kind of boring. But family finance was one class that was easy but also one that everyone should take. Because if everyone took that class no one would have to file for bankruptcy or wouldn't be running credit in the zillions. (not that zillion is a real thing but you get the point)
Anyways, this is a sad end of fall semester, because normally I've never had roommates who move at the end of fall. Since normally it's easier to stay and wait to move until the spring. But this semester half of my apartment is leaving and it's actually kind of sad, I think that sadest one was when we found out Becca was leaving. Basically it was the day we were leaving for Thanksgiving she announced that she was moving and selling her contract. The sad thing is that she's a freshmen and I just don't think that she liked Logan, or the school or something and so she moved home. It's sad, but I guess that we're getting new people next semester...! But I guess that is how college is, everything is always changing.
Anyways, good luck to you all with finals and christmas break and such!!

Practicum!

I started my practicum last week and have been doing stuff here and there for it since. But it's really fun and more like a job then a class. So guess what all of you who aren't seniors yet? When you become a senior you have to do really hard classes, but then you also get to do practicums and stuff like that which aren't really hard. Because it's basically just correlating with all those other classes that you've taken for the last couple of years, but more like a job type thing. And then you also get lots of credits and yeah it's great!!

What's wrong here!

I've had this rather frusterating class this semester, and the main reason why it's been frusterating is just because the teacher has kind of been treating it like a graduate class and none of us in the class are graduate students. But today our teacher was gone and so the TA had to teach and anyways he basically told us that on some of the papers that have been turned in people have actually written stuff like "your stupid", basically referring to the teacher. And when I heard that I was completely shocked, because sure I haven't always liked the class and the tests are pretty hard but I'm not going to be rude about it. And I guess what really annoyed me was that I have had alot worse math professors in college then FCHD professors. But I've never said stuff like that to any of those math teachers, so it's just sad that just because people aren't getting A's in a class that they're going to be that angry about it. Sure grades are important, but not so important that your going to be disrespectful and angry about it. Because I've been working at a elementary school this school year and that is one thing that makes me not like working with 4th and 5th graders, is that they can be really rude to other kids, teachers and probably even siblings and parents. So even though things aren't going as planned it's a good idea to keep in mind that there's a line between being civil and being rude. Because at first I didn't really like this particular professor to much, but I quickly noticed that if I went and talked to him about problems with the tests or papers that he usually was cool about it. So honestly getting the highest grade in the class isn't always the best thing, but being a decent and nice person is.

Exciting News!

So it's very interesting because it seems like things always seem to work out and so that's when you can tell that your going in the right direction. Basically my reason for saying all of this is because I've been slightly worried about after-graduation since my major isn't exacally a money making field. And it's not exacally my idea to go to college and then graduate to only get a job that pays like $8.00 an hour, come on I could go back to Roosevelt and get a job at Stewarts for that much. But anyways suddenly this semester alot of random things have suddenly just started happening. For example I went to a graduate school meeting with my major today and it was brought up that there is a professor in the major who is doing like three or four research projects and would love to have students come and do undergraduate research with her. Just so you know I would have done that along time ago, but I didn't even know that there was undergraduate research in my major until today. So I e-mailed this Professor right away and anyways she e-mailed me back all excited because she wants students in on it I guess. And anyways, so starting next semester I'll probably be doing undergraduate research. Also, I found out at this meeting that due to two school years ago when I didn't have a major in mind and I was just randomly taking classes that I'd actually taken some classes that go towards the gerontology certificate. And so to this very day I could do the 3 credit practicum and join the gerontology club and get the gerontology certificate quickly after. And not nessecarily do my own research on aging, but I could be an assistant. Which probably wouldn't pay as well as someone who did their own research, but it would pay most likely alot better then working in a daycare or preschool. And it's great because I would want to do research, so it's working out perfectly. So, it's just cool when things start falling into place, especially after two years of waiting for that exact thing to happen.

Propostion 8

I have been hearing alot about how the homosexuals are mad that proposition 8 passed in California and they're surrounding the Los Angelos temple I think it is. And so I was talking to a couple of people about it and just how it's really frusterating that alot of other people in California voted for it who were not LDS. Basically saying that it wasn't only LDS people who voted for it, so I just think it's really annoying that it's turning out like this, but then I got this from a friend:

"SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov 07, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The following statement was released today by Bishop William Weigand, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento and former Bishop of Salt Lake City, in response to attacks on the Mormon Church for supporting California's Proposition 8, defending the traditional definition of marriage:"Catholics stand in solidarity with our Mormon brothers and sisters in support of traditional marriage--the union of one man and one woman--that has been the major building block of Western Civilization for millennia."The ProtectMarriage coalition, which led the successful campaign to pass Proposition 8, was an historic alliance of people from every faith and ethnicity. LDS were included--but so were Catholics and Jews, Evangelicals and Orthodox, African-Americans and Latinos, Asians and Anglos."Bigoted attacks on Mormons for the part they played in our coalition are shameful and ignore the reality that Mormon voters were only a small part of the groundswell that supported Proposition 8."As the former bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, I can attest to the fact that followers of the Mormon faith are a good and generous people with a long history of commitment to family and giving to community causes."I personally decry the bigotry recently exhibited towards the members of the Church of the Latter Day Saints--coming from the opponents of Proposition 8, who ironically, have called those of us supporting traditional marriage intolerant."I call upon the supporters of same-sex marriage to live by their own words--and to refrain from discrimination against religion and to exercise tolerance for those who differ from them. I call upon them to accept the will of the people of California in the passage of Proposition 8."SOURCE: Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento"

So kind of the point here is that it's not really religion that inspired the voting for of proposition 8, but it has alot to do with a society that supports traditional marriage in general. So I just thought that it was cool that this Roman Catholic Bishop sent out this letter, because it most definately was not only the LDS church that passed that propostion. We most definately live in some very interesting times that is for sure.

New church information!

At Religion in Life today it was one of the Osmond relatives and he told us that we're supposed to steal, lie, drink and swear. Do any of you believe me? Yes, this really happened even if you don't believe me. Bytheway if you were at Religion in Life you cannot comment on this question...hehe!!

Another jumping picture

If you haven't noticed I am collecting jumping pictures, this one in particular is a girl named Liz that my roommates from last year were friends with. And she was stuck in a freshmen ward, and so she always was over at our apartment. If anyone finds jumping pictures you should send them to me, so that I can add them to my collection...LOL!!

Jumping!!

Which do you think is the coolest jumper of the three? It's very strange how pictures can be taken of people in mid stride of their jumps. Anyways I thought that these jumping pictures were really funny, so that's why I"m showing them to all of you.

Teaching at Bear River Health

I thought that I should tell everyone that next semester I get to teach classes at Bear River Health, so yeah it might be kind of hard. But hopefully it goes over well and all since it's part of my practicum and that would be not good if it went bad. Basically I'm supposed to teach family classes, in relation to blended families. So wish me luck on that one!!

Blogs!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...I'm just bored right now because I'm trying to study for a finance test that I need to take tonight! But yeah, it's just kind of boring and so I started looking at everyone's blogs but Caralee and Eric are the only one's who update their's very often and so I read it really fast and now I'm really bored again. But I'm really glad that Caralee and Eric update their's alot, because I like blogging but it's not that fun if I'm the only one doing it. So everyone else should update their blogs too...don't you think y'all?

General Conference!

Hey I thought that you should all know that I went to the priezthood session for general conference and I was the only girl there...all the guys were giving me really wierd looks. Just kidding, but I'm sure that I would get really wierd looks if I tried that one, don't you think? Anyways, at the institute they replay all of the sessions durring the following week of conference and after a 7:30 a.m. class today I was really tired and went in that room because there were empty couches. Anyways it was the priezthood session and so I heard President Monsen's talk and I thought that it was a cool talk. Actually the end was really cool because he told this story about how he got a letter from some friend who was in world war two, with the marine I believe. And anyways their ship wrecked and he was the only LDS one among the group so everyone kept asking him if he'd pray for them and of course he told them yes. Then this search and resue ship came by but it continued on and didn't stop, and then later the same thing happened again. So by that point they were really worried because they kept coming by and not seeing them and the next time the boat/ship came by would be the last time, so if the people in it didn't see them they'd be toast. Well the last time came and the boat/ship came by and continued on and quickly this guy basically told the people to see them and turn around through the preizthood and prayer. And suddenly it stopped and come up to them, to their great surprise the people in the ship/boat were like "we were looking and never saw you, so this is really wierd."
I just thought that was cool because commonly a boat that is looking for someone and doesn't see that someone won't suddenly see them and turn around when they're already past. And so like everyone else conference was great for me too...it was sad thought that Dallin H. Oaks had to say that people shouldn't be texting in church or sacrameeting. But it was great...may the force be with you!!

Something awesome!

One of my old neighbors from last year put some zoo pictures on facebook recently and isn't this picture of the giraffe so cool looking? That would be great fun to be that tall with a neck that long don't you agree? Because then you could reach your head clear up and look into birds nests in the top of trees and it wouldn't even be hard at all. Actually probably after awhile it wouldn't be that fun...especially at night when your trying to sleep, but it would be cool for the moment. (haha)

And besides only those biologists would want to look into birds nests anyways...don't you agree all you fine biologists out there? (maybe not though because I'm not a biologist and I like to look in bird nests)

Summer Hiking!!

This is from the same hike, except that it is Becca that is in the picture, not Erika. And Zeeland the hiker dog, as in she went hiking with us.

Summer Hiking!

I thought that this was an awesome looking picture, as in the back ground, so I decided that it would be a good blog picture. During the summer my ward went hiking on the Crimson trail for FHE and this was at about the top of the mountain. The other girl besides me is my friend Erika and she saved me from dehydration...just kidding! Actually what happened was that my old roommate Leah had a back pack and so we put all of our water in it and anyways we got split. So I didn't have a water bottle anymore and so Erika had some extra and gave it to me, and then along the way we stopped and took pictures along with Becca...who is the trainer of Zeeland the dog. She like trains dogs for blind people and that sort of thing. So it was a fun FHE and I was very glad that I went to that one.

Biology lab!!

In my biology lab today we went conoeing at a lake out in Benson, which is fairly close to Logan. But the main purpose of this conoeing trip was to see the birds and I ended up on a lost conoe. So we missed half of it, because we were trying to find the group. But it was fun conoeing, since I've never done it before. It was cook though, because there was a group of pelicans and so that was cool.

Religion in Life!!

Today I went to Religion in Life at the institute and this guy that is in a wheel chair talked. Basically he told the whole story of how he ended up in the wheel chair and what not...basically this is the story: When he was 15 he went over to his friends house and his friends parents were gone somewhere. So his friend pulled out this gun and said that he liked messing around with it, because it was fun. Then this friend dumped out the bullets and pointed the gun straight at this guy that was giving the talk and bamb (there was somehow a bullet still in the gun) the bullet went straigt through him. Except that it stopped because it hit his spine, so he has been paralyzed from the time he was 15, so about 30 years. The very interesting thing that I found from this whole story was that it was an accident and everything, but of the two the one that turned out messed up was the guy with the gun and not the guy in the wheel chair. Even though it should have been the other way around. But the other guy ended up robbing a bank later on and has been in jail like 20 years. So I guess the whole point of the talk was that even if trials happen you shouldn't give up and follow the world, but do the exact opposite. But I must say that I sure wouldn't want to be that friend, like ever. (as in accidently shooting someone or something like that)

Days of School Life...!

I've decided that I didn't know how lucky I was when I was at Snow College and didn't have to work during the school year. Because I haven't been able to start my new job yet and it's the end of the second week. But due to that I am actually not behind in really any of my classes, and I have all this extra time. So either I have easier classes then I had at Snow, or I didn't manage time very well at Snow. But it's cool, because I still like all my classes...and the wierd one is actually pretty good now. More the fact that I don't want to read the book and I have to, so I read it really fast and write the papers really fast...so then it goes by fast. So that is kind of why I like that one, because with the rest I tend to read really slowly and it gets really long and boring.
Onto another subject: I've come to notice that college students tend to do this thing called they want to graduate and leave the school they're attending.
So as my friend Jessi was writing on her blog we need to enjoy the time we have and not rush through it in attempts to get rich, or get married or whatever. Because sooner or later we'll suddenly realize that we're like 50 and rushed through everything.
I've started noticing this lately because when I was at Snow I wanted to get through it really fast and go to Logan where friends/relatives were at. Then I came to Logan and was sad to not be at Snow anymore, but then I got sick of living at the first place I lived at in Logan so I wanted to move somewhere else, because it sounded funner. Well, I moved last spring and now wish that I were back there in that ward, because it was actually better then I thought it was at the time. So it's best to not rush things and actually appreciate what you have. That's my life lesson of the day...hehe!!

Happy times!!

It's really strange, because for once I have cool roommates (as in basically all of them are cool) and I like basically all my classes. Well there is one class that is kind of wierd, but for the most part I like my classes. And yeah it's really wierd, because normally I have one or two bad roommates and at least one or two annoying classes/teachers. So it's nice and I'll enjoy it while it lasts...but cause I have a feeling that I'm going to be annoyed with a certain math teacher very soonly, (hehe) maybe not though. It's nice though that things are going good at the moment!!

Poor cat!!

The other night I went with some friends to the Olive Garden here in Logan and my friend Cami was telling us this sad story. When she was younger they had this cat and one day in walked in the garage and drank this fuel (or something similiar) that was sitting there. And then this cat didn't die it just went crazy, like it would always fight with everything and everyone and it would only be nice to her. Isn't that sad? The poor cat probably had brain damage or was just sick all the time, so it would fight because it was grumpy all the time. Poor grumpy...sick cat.

Terribly sad story...!

It's really sad because in three days school starts and summer ends...isn't that sad? Well, it's also happy because I just moved into my new apartment after a week of waiting. Because they were remodeling the kitchen floor, so I had to go in a week late. But I like my new apartment...it's not as small and crowded in!

Added part to the last post:

Bytheway Jenny was the only one of my fine co-workers who wasn't LDS/less active, because as far as I know everyone else was very much LDS and always attend church and such.

We need to live our religion...!!

This is also something that happened at work: There is a girl that I'm pretty sure has some form of mental illness, but I'm not exacally sure. Basically she'll just ramble and tell wierd stories and sit around alot while we're all working. So I was always nice to her and everything, but when she wasn't around everyone would complain about how they didn't like her and that sort of thing. Well, after awhile as in towards the end of the summer some of my fine co-workers started being really rude to her...and it wasn't just gossiping about her when she wasn't around...it was really saying stuff to her. So one day we all got to work and we had to carry all of this stuff up four flights of stairs and there was so much stuff that this girl had to bring up the whole mop set alone...and beware she's like really, really tiny. So one of the main people that wasn't nice to her told her to bring up just one part and we'd go back and get the rest of it in a minute.
When we finally got up there everyone sat down including this girl that had brought up the mop part. And suddenly the lady who had told her to leave the rest down stairs asked her where the rest was at? And she wasn't being nice about it at all and insisted that this girl go back and get the rest alone while we all just sat there and waited. At this point everyone who was in earshot started pointing out that she did bring up a part as she was told to do. But this lady was still being really rude about it and suddenly this other girl named Jenny jumped up and said that she'd go help get it. Nothing has really been said about this incident since then, except that this lady who was being all rude about the whole deal started being nicer in general.
Well, this week there has only been Jenny and I who have been around. And somehow that incident came up again and she ended up telling me that she didn't appreciate that there was so much gossip going on about this other girl, and she was annoyed that this lady wouldn't be nice to this other girl, even if she was different. And it was actually Jenny that had gone and told the supervisor what had happened and that was why this lady started being nicer towards the end, because the supervisor talked to her.
So I who kind of went along with it and such was quite happy that Jenny tried to stop it and that sort of thing. Well, when we were about to leave work yesterday Jenny suddenly asked me something about about institute, like she didn't attend institute and then she added that she hasn't gone to church in 20 years and basically has been less active. I couldn't believe it because honestly of all the people that I worked with this summer she has been the best one, because she didn't go along with the gossip and she was friends with everyone and she acted like a good mormon, alot better then the rest of us. (I'm included, even though I didn't stay involved in the gossip...but still)
It was just a shocker that so many people say that they're LDS, but how many actually act like they're LDS? How often is it that the non-LDS and less actives are actually better then the LDS people who go to church every sunday of their lives? Yeah, it's sad to admit that Jenny is much better then alot of us and she doesn't go to church every sunday. What's wrong here?

Tidbits on Dreams!!

Today at work one of my co-workers and I somehow started talking about dreams, as in why we have them and if they mean anything and that sort of thing. And she was telling me that apparently if you dream certain things repeatedly it means certain things. Like she was saying that she always has dreams about swimming and she read in a book once that when you dream about swimming it means that you have a peace of mind. And I guess if you dream about owls it's because you're involved in witch craft. So it's very interesting and now I'm wondering if alot of that is really true or not? But this girl also told me that she also found out from a book that if you only sleep during the day then you'll be more prone to breast cancer and that sort of thing. Because when you sleep at night your body lets off certain chemicles in which it doesn't let off in the day. So it's would be cool to find out if that's actually true or not also?

Books are to expensive!

I decided that I need to buy books really soonly, so today I went to the book store to find that I have to buy a couple of books that are over $100.00 and there are no used left. So I started looking on-line and a few are alot cheaper, but very few are. Basically saying that I will be really poor very soonly, so that's the sad story of my life...at the moment!

To kill some time:

i am: tired
i think: homework is overrated
i know: the sky is blue
i want: new shoes and to graduate from college before I go crazy
i wish: i wasn't poor
i miss: my family
i fear: reality (ha, ha)
i feel: tired of cleaning up after construction and messy people
i hear: music flowing
i smell: nothing..the inside of the library doesn't smell
i crave: real food...not junk food!
i usually: love to swim
i always: go to work
i search: books!! this one is dumb
i wonder: why life is so unfair at times
i care: about my family
i worry: about friends who I know are making bad decisions and they won't take advice when needed
i remember: good times at Snow College
i believe: in miracles oh yes I do
i dance: when I'm at Western Swing dance
i don’t always: like to cook
i argue: usually only when I really need to, but otherwise not so much!
i write: amazingly
i win: sometimes, depends who the fight is with!
i lose: sometimes, depends who the fight is with!
i never: will eat pickled pigs feet
i listen: to country music
i don't understand: mathmatics
i can usually be found: at work, usu campus, home or at a friends!
i am scared: of making mistakes with my life!
i need: a nap
i forget: what it feels like to not be a student, hehe!
i tag: everyone

Fun times at work!!

So I decided that I write to serious of blog posts, and as an attempt stop that here is a nice little story from work today. At my job there are several different crews and we're all in seperate buildings. So my crew is in Valley View Tower (which is the girls dorm) and another crew is in Mountain View Tower (the boys dorm). And this other crew went and hid in bins several different times over by Richards Hall and then they jumped out and scared some of the people in my crew. So we decided to play a prank on them...which is what happened today. We went and gathered up all this plastic from the hundreds of new mattresses that we had to put in all the rooms on all the seven floors. So we gathered up all this plastic, bytheway it was alot, and we got there at seven a.m. And we took it all and stuffed it into their office. Then two of the girls from my crew snuck over at eight (which is when we normally get there) and they saw them taking one piece of plastic out at a time and then they heard the supervisor saying "whose going in first?" So pretty much they thought that we had put something in there, but we really didn't. It was really funny and yeah their supervisor came over and yeah I don't think she's going to let them keep it going. Because she just commented on how they'd started it and so that's the end of that, sad huh?

Memories!

This is just something I found on a couple of my friends blogs, so I thought that I should do it too.
Here's the rules...1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments

Luckily I didn't land somewhere else in life!!

Yesterday at work we had two hours to quickly clean like 20 apartments, so we were all hurrying along. And anyways two of us were rushing around and all stressed out because we still had eight or so apartments to clean and this youth group was supposed to be moving in but they couldn't because we weren't done. So like two of us were rushing around trying to get things done and then I looked over to see two of the girls making beds rather slowly and they were just talking like it was a normal slow day. And anyways I couldn't believe it because I was making beds alone and making them as fast as they were making their's together. And then I was going and redoing stuff for people because they were doing really bad at their cleaning experties. And anyways I suddenly realized after work that honestly of the 12 on my crew there are about four of us that actually are able to work and not have someone follow behind us and pick up after us. So I was trying to figure out how in the world I can be doing this much better at this job then someone who is say married, or someone who is like 50? But suddenly I realized that the reason why I can do things on my own and not have someone following behind is because of my parents. Because sure when I was young I thought it was really annoying that I had to always do dishes and weed the garden, and lots of other things that aren't fun while other kids were always out playing. But now I can see that because of my parents making me weed the garden when I was ten I now know how to work and have good work ethics. While these other co-workers may have had their parents tell them to do something, but didn't really enforce it that much...so now they don't know how to do it on their own. So I'm really glad that I didn't have parents who just let me do whatever I wanted and they didn't let me go swimming at the lake everyday during the summers. But they always made me and my siblings do yard work and house work, because it's pretty clear now that it was worth the fight. (on my parents account)

Sad story!!

Last weekend I went home because of the 4th of July and anyways my sister Marianne was telling me all the town gossp and what not. And anyways suddenly she asked if I wanted to hear the news about a guy that's been our neighbor since I was like 2. So anyways she ended up telling me that she had been told by his aunt that day that he'd been told by a friend that if you're on high speed dirt bike/motor cycle you can get away from the police. As in if they try to pull you over you can keep going and they won't chase you, because high speeders are to fast I guess. So he was in city limits and was driving like alot over, at least 70 or 80 in a 30 mile area. And a police tried to pull him over and he kept going and they ended up putting up a road block and he got caught. So when she told me this I was like he just got like a huge ticket right? And she was like no he got a felony and is in jail at the moment and will be for the next two or three years. Yeah I couldn't believe it I've known this kid forever and I never thought he'd get into trouble like that.
So anyways I guess that rather then going on a mission he got into the oil field and that lead to problems. Basically this little experience has made me start thinking about how the kinds of choices we make when we're 18 or 19 can totally lead us to destruction or vice versa. Because this guy was always really cool and good at being good, but in the last two years he's totally changed. So I've just started noticing lately how important it is that we make good choices, even in the small aspects of our lives. Whether it's were we work, or whether we read scriptures, prayer or whatever it be. So this has been a great reminder to me of how if we forget to do the little things in life then that is how satan gets in and makes us believe stupid things that the world tell us. (like getting away from a policeman on a high speed motor cycle)

My cool stats class!!

In my stats 1040 class we are to the probability section and so we were talking about the chances of getting a six on a six sided dice. And anyways our teacher decided that since dices and flipping coins is so common that we should do something different. So we had to fill out these papers and along with that we tossed Hershey Kisses to see how often they land flat up or on their side. And we had to tos these kisses 100 times, also we had to toss them single 100 times and then two at a time 100 times. The two at a time was basically to see how often they both landed straight up or on their sides at the same time. It was quite entertaining, and I think that's it is quite hilarious that they actually have a college course that discusses stuff like that. And people also major in stuff like that too...!! It was quite fun though and yeah we also go to learn the formula's on how to determine what the chance is that you'll draw a certain card in a card game...fun, fun!!

Life is crazy!!

This fine summer I decided to take this Stats 1040 class, which was an attempt to make the class easier. The class isn't really hard, but I also work alot which makes for no time to do anything at all. And also along the lines of work I seem to always be working overtime now, which is due to the fact that I'm on the supervisors good list since I actually do a good job. So pretty much every single night I find myself doing Stats homework, but then it's hard because people want me to go and do stuff with them. I've pretty much decided that no matter what you do life will always be hard, so it's not really worth it to try and get out of it, because that never works. But other then that I sleep and eat, good plan huh? Or I'd be dead right now, which would be really sad right??

Just a thought!!

I had to go and get finger prints at the Cache County Police Station last weekend, and I don't think that I've ever even been in a police station before. So we drove up and there was this extremely odd mound looking building (with no windows) connected to the police station and there was this fence all around it. So for awhile I was trying to figure out what this building was, and after a few minutes I suddenly realized that it was the Cache County Prison.
I suddenly realized that there are people who stay in those places for years and year and years. And they don't go anywhere, they just sit in those mound looking buildings and that's it. And so it just made me happy that I've never done anything that serious that I would have to be at a place like that for 20 years. It was really sad to me that this type of institution even has to exist...but I guess that is how the world is.
Anyways, this little experience made me grateful that I can do whatever I want, whenever I want and I don't have to be forced to stay somewhere like that forever and ever. The only thing I'm ever forced to do is homework, and I don't even have to do that if I don't want to.

Good things happen!!

I had a rather interesting experience the other day. So I've been rather poor these days because of college expenses and such. And last sathurday I suddenly realized that it was fast sunday the next day and that I was supposed to pay fast offerings...but I didn't really have enough to pay fast offereings. So anyways, I ended up doing it anyways and well I didn't really know what I was going to do about money and what not. Then on monday I remembered that I needed to buy a Stats book for my class that starts next monday. So I went to the book store and found out that the book was eighty plus dollars...and then I really freaked because I really needed to get the book. Well it ended up that later that night I walked into my apartment and sitting on my table was a letter from Coldwell Banker, and I suddenly realized that I would now be paying for carpet cleaning too. (yikes...looking bad) Then I opened the letter and guess what? there was a eighty plus dollar check and no carpet cleaning fees. And then I ended up finding a really cheap stats book on-line. Amazing huh? How when you pay tithing and such things seem to always work out. Bytheway I get a big check in a few days, so don't worry to much about me...I'll be quite fine.

Breaking the family tradition!!

This is just a picture of me from my sisters wedding reception a year ago. And it's showing how I still am at this moment in time, as in the fact that I'm still single. So for the last three years my three older sisters have gotten married, one year after the other. And so everyone kept telling me that I would get married this summer. But it hasn't happened yet, so I'm just breaking the tradition that's all. So I can tell this to everyone now, because the tradition is already broken. Since if I had said anything earlier I would have become jinked and then I would probably have not broken the tradition, which would have been sad because some traditions just need to be broken. J/K...I guess that I might not break the tradition if anything were to happen by December 2008 I suppose.

Side note!!

Bytheway, I am not happy that it's been bad weather...I'm just happy that it's started being better weather lately. Bytheway, I always do that...I write a post and look at it after and realize that I was rambling so then I have to write some more to make sure it's not all wierd and confusing to anyone who reads it. (hehe)

Days of Spring in Logan!!

I am very happy because this winter in Logan was horrendous. Basically it consisted of this...it would be good weather for about a day or so. Then it would start blowing or snow for a few weeks, and then it would be good weather again for a few days. On finals week it was so sad, because at the starting of the week it was really good weather. And of course I had to study for like four finals at that point. So I just thought that it would stay good after that, since it was like May by that point. But no it did not stay good after that, on the day of my math final I walked out of my apartment to see snow everywhere. It was so sad, because that was the last day of finals for me and it wasn't good weather anymore. So I have been making sure that I enjoy the nice days inspite of the stormy ones. Because now that the snow is gone it is constantly raining, so it's nice as messy here. But on the good days it's been nice, because it's always sunny and beautiful outside. So even though this picture isn't actually of Logan, it could be close to what it looks like on the good days.

Pictures!!

I decided that I should put more pictures on my blog, so I'm attempting to do that now...I'll see how it works out.

Summer!!

I ended up at the cleaning job again, but it's nice because my friend Camille is working there again also. (she worked there last summer also) It's been a good job so far, because we always end up together pretty much everyday. She's also in my major, but a year ahead of me, as in she just graduated. But it's crazy, because she's trying to pay off student loans really fast, so at the moment she has four jobs. All of them are part time of course, but I'm sure glad that I'm not trying to pay off student loans at the moment.
Logan has been pretty fun so far this summer, I went hiking with some people last week up the canyon. Then Ruth and I bought some roller blades from D.I. on sathurday, so we went rollar blading. But that was kind of bad because we had to go down hill to get back to our apartment, so we both kept falling and that sort of thing. But we didn't die and we actually ended up running into one of Ruth's old roommates, so we actually went to a big band swing dance. (which was quite fun)

One thing after the other!!

Now that the stressful semester is over I am not in need of a job. Bytheway the semester ended up turning out quite fine...which I am quite happy about. But anyways, I am now looking for a job, and it's not looking to great at the moemnt. Because it looks like I may end up with the cleaning job from last summer...but at least it's a job. And actually I do have a friend who's working there, so that would be fun to work there with her. But I'll see how things go!!

Interesting Events!!

So it's really wierd because it seems like that through the worst times the best things happen. Since I've complained a whole bunch about my no so cool math class and everything you all know that I haven't had a very happy semester. But it's really wierd because now that it's the end I've suddenly started noticing that in my ward I have like a million friends. So it's not going to be very happy when I move in a few days. But it's so wierd because I have been in the same ward with all of these people the whole school year and last fall was less stressful. Yet last fall I wasn't really friends with alot of these people. So it's funny that it's the absolutely worst semester ever and that's when I suddenly get tons of friends and that sort of thing. It's true that the worst trials can be connected to the best moments/things in life. The reason why I noticed that I seem to have so many friends is because the ward has been doing alot of ward hang outs/dinners for finals week. So I go with my roommates, yet within two minutes of walking in I'm no longer with my roommates and suddenly I'm with all of these other people. It's great fun!! So try it, make your life rather difficult and then you'll notice at the end that something great happened. (just kidding, I'd never want anyone to have the life I've had for the last four months just to see if my theory is true)

Ooops!!

I was referring to the blog in general causing it to sound like I'm a depressed person, not that particular post.

I'm not a depressed person!!

I probably sound like a depressed person according to this blog. But I'm actually not, and bsides if I am it's only a temporary thing. (hehe) So it was great fun because over the weekend it was great weather. And for FHE we played soccer and ultimate frisbee, but I don't like playing sports that much. But I went anyways and it ended up that I didn't have a hard time getting out of playing because I kept running into people who weren't playing. So I ended up talking to people more then anything, it was really fun.
I have a cool ward and I have lots of friends in it. So it's kind of sad that I'm moving to another ward, but that's okay because I'll probably still come over and do stuff with the people in this ward after I leave.
And also, I'm a very happy person because in about two weeks it will be summer and that means play, play, play and work, work, work. But that also means money, money, money and no more being poor, poor, poor. Great huh??

What's most important in life?

I've been thinking on this quite a bit lately...mainly because it's basically the end of the semester and everything. But the other night I was reading this article in the ensign and it talked about this guy who had drank and stuff. And anyways he ended up quitting drinking and he repented and everything. So anyways, the guy from the seventy who told this story talked about when this other guy was basically on his death bed. And this guy from the seventy talked about how the only things that came to mind from this guys life were the things that he'd done, such as small acts of service and what not.
So after I read that I was thinking about it and it just made me think that really that's all that people will remember about us when we die, is the service that we did. And since it's the end of the semester I of course am worrying about grades and what not. And so I just started thinking about how grades seem like they're important, but in 20 years will they really be that important? I seriously wonder why grades are deemed as so important?
Just in my adolescents class a few weeks ago my teacher was talking about how getting a "C" in a class is classified as failing a class now. Yet 10 years ago a "C" wasn't considered failing it was considered average. And I have started noticing that really is the truth. Because from the looks of it I will probably end up getting a "C" in my math class. And when I talk to people about that class it seems like I always say that I'm failing my math class, yet I'm not because a "C" isn't failing. And so it's interesting that so much emphasis is placed on grades.
It's like we place the people who get 4.0's on a pedestol over everyone else. Yet if you think about it those people who get 4.0's don't do it on their own, those people who get 4.0's were blessed with the gift of intelligence. And for those lilke myself who get like 3.0-3.7 GPA, that doesn't mean that we're not smart and will never get through college. It only means that we have other gifts. Really why do we place such importance on grades?
Because in 50 years from now when we're about to die/we've died our families aren't going to remember that we got 4.0's in college and high school. They're only going to remember us by what we did in life and by those we've served and what not.
So really why are grades so important? Are they won't being upset over?

Conference

On my friend Jessio's blog she wrote about a conference talk she liked, which was Elder Ballards. And so I decided that I should mention the talk, one of the many, I liked. I haven't really ever been totally in love with Elder Bednards talks previously, but I really liked his talk on prayer. And the reason why I liked his talk was because he talked about how we need to have more meaningful prayers and he also had three points that go along with prayer. The third point was that we need to accept the will of the Lord and he told this story about a little girl who had some illness and so the father was upset about it and finally he prayed about it. And finally he accepted the fact that his little daughter might die, basically right after he accepted that fact the little girl went into a coma and died shortly after.
And I just liked that because my friend and also my sister Marianne's friends mom died of congestive heart failure about a month ago. The funny thing is that I didn't really know her mom, but it was pretty upsetting. Because my friend was sure that her mom was going to get better from the heart failure that she had last summer. And for awhile she was getting better, but suddenly out of the blue she died. So it's pretty hard because my sister, whom I'm pretty close to, was really close to our friends mom. And so it was hard just for the fact that this lady was only 45 and our friend is 18, she just graduated from High School last school year. So I guess for me it was more the fact that I suddenly realized that if my friends mom is going to die at age 45 then anyone could die. And my friend actually is dealing with the loss pretty well, considering. But I don't know as that I'd be dealing with someone in my own family dying very well, just because we're all tight, like really tight. And so I hope that doesn't happen for a very long time, as until we're like 90. But I guess as Elder Bednar said we must accept the will of the Lord in all things.

Trials, trials and more trials!!

So my cousin Ruthio commented on my last entry and what she wrote made me think of something. She said something about how the Lord is always there for us but he helps us at moments when we weren't planning for his help, or something like that. And actually this was just on the math test today, so I was going through all the problems. And almost at the end there was this really, really odd problem and I did not know how to do it, so I just did it how I assumed it should be done. And suddenly at the last second the thought just came to me that this problem was not supposed to be done like the way I had done it, but it was supposed to be done another way. So I hurried and changed it because I realized that was the right way. So even though I didn't ace the test it seemed like that there were problems that I know but didn't recognize were made clear to me. So it's true that sometimes the Lord helps you, but it's in unexpected ways and sometimes you don't even realize that it was the hand of the Lord. So it's amazing how we're never alone and the Lord is always there helping us along the path of life.
Farewell and have a great weekend watching conference!!

Trials, trials and more trials!!

So it's the end of the semester and I've had a horribly bad week. Mainly just because so many tests and papers are due all at once and there's never enough time for it all. So I had a math test today and as you all probably know I'm not super smart at math. And so thanks to many other things to do I really couldn't start studying for this math test until last night. So I probably studied for this math test for like maybe five or so hours and for a math test that is not enough time to study for that type of test. So the test was really hard and afterwards I was pretty upset about it. And then basically as soon as that test was over I had to come over to the computer lab to finish this research paper that's due. And so I'm just not to happy with life at the moment and it's kind of hard to think in happy terms after a bad math test. So anyways, I randomly came acrossed this quote by Pres. Hinkley on the internet. This quote goes as follows:
"It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers."
After I read this quote I had to admit to myself that it really does work out in the end, I mean every semester when I think that I did so horribly in a class I always walk away with at least a "B". So even though times get hard I know that things do wok out and the Lord will never once leave us alone. I mean right now I feel like I've been left alone in relation to math and everything but this is just a trial and it'll pass over just like any other trial. It seems like everytime I've had a horrible week or day this semester I always run into quotes that are like the above. So I just know that the Lord doesn't forsake us and things always do work out. I guess that my lesson this semester hasn't been to learn math it's been to learn to trust in the Lord and never give up even when the goin get's tough.

Utah ways!!

On Sunday my roommate Heidi and her fiancee Mike decided to make sunday/easter dinner for us all, so they made ham, funeral potatoes and cheese cake. Everyone that ate dinner with us were Mike, Heidi, my other roommates Beka and Allison, along with Mark who is Allison's boyfriend. So we were all eating and Heidi said something about the funeral potatoes and Mark who is from Chicago looked really confused and he asked us what funeral potatoes were? So I was like "oh, that's a Utah name for what we're having for dinner." It's funny how we have all these certain kinds of food/names in Utah and no one else have ever heard of such things. Such as funeral potatoes, fry sauce and the 24th of July (actually that's a Utah holiday). So it's funny how certain places come up with their own kind of thing/s.

Really wierd experience!!

So it seems to be that for the last two semesters I've had problems with getting into all the classes I need. Because it seems like alot of the classes overlap with their times and so I get into the right classes, but not all the ones I need to be in. So I'm now worried that my last semester I won't be able to get into a class and then I'll be stuck in college for a extra semester. So yesterday I decided that I should plan out the next two semesters, so that I'll be able to avoid that problem. And when I was figureing it all out I realized that I only have twelve classes left of my college career...!! It's kind of wierd, but really cool too. The other day my roommate Beka that graduates this December was like "what do you do after you graduate from college anyways?" That's the only problem with graduating is then you have to stop messing around and you actually have to get a real job.
I have a neighbor who is in graduate school and he said that the main reason why he's in graduate school is because he doesn't want to have to get a real job. So I'm glad that I only have a year left, but kind of not. Because it's easier to just go to classes and do homework then actually getting a life long job. But things will work out as they always do.

Interesting question?

This is something that I found out yesterday...so I was wondering if anyone knows which is the strongest bone in the Human body?

Hair Spray!!

It is good because my roommate Heidi came back to Logan on Thursday too, so I'm not the only one that's around in my apartment. But last night I went over to my sister Amanda and my brother-in-law Paul's apartment and watched the new movie "Hair Spray" with them. We are addicted to that movie...kind of like alot of other people are that I know of. But it's kind of funny because the girl named Tracy reminds me of my friend Jessio, because she is always singing and dancing kind of like Jessio does. So it was kind of funny that I thought of that when I was watching the movie. I always kind of wonder if I act or look like someone else in the world...probably since there are millions of people in the world.

Happy Days!!

So this week was spring break and so I got to be lazy all week...well until now. It is Thursday right now and I am going back to Logan today. I love Logan, but it's really annoying having to drive for four whole long hours. But then it's happy, because we'll be done with this semester in six weeks, hooray. Actually that hooray goes towards that Algebra class that I'm in, because I do like all the other classes that I'm in. The Algebra class is turning out good at the moment though, because I'm getting A's on everything now. It's just boring at times and that sort of thing.
Have a fabulas day you all and I'll attempt to have fun driving for four long hours.