End of my days with cell phones...

Just so you all know I got rid of my cell phone, because it was getting a little out of hand with people texting me all the time. And it's just kind of a pain having to pay $50.00 a month, when there is a cheaper route. It was hard to give it up, but since I'm not going to be in study groups anymore and that sort of thing I just decided to get a track phone. Because all I really need it for is probably getting a job, and stuff like that. So just plan on e-mailing me and we should be fine right?
This is kind of a strange story...but you know how it always seems like when girls turn in mission papers and suddenly they get a boy friend? Well, it ends up that my old roommates brother has started talking to me on facebook and just like today was like "what's your phone number? because this facebook thing is really slow when talking to people." So yeah, I did just get a track phone, so I just said that I couldn't talk on the phone alot with it being a track phone. But it's kind of wierd that this guy is suddenly all interested especially since we'd only met once. It's the usual going on a mission scenerio though...since a girl that I met in the summer had got her mission call and everything to suddenly get a boy friend. But apparently this guy didn't like the idea of letter writing and waiting 18 months so they broke up and she's on her mission now. Interesting how that all works though!!

May 15 2010 is the day...

I wanted to do it earlier, but with having to pay for my own insurance I decided that I can't put any ealier then May 15 on my mission papers so then I will be able to have like five or six months to work before leaving. I'm ready to turn them in though like right now, since Marianne just got her mission call today. She's going to Guatamala and gets to learn spanish...kind of sad since I want to go to a spanish place. I probably will end up in Russia or some place that I won't need to know the laungauge again after finishing. Actually, I'm pretty sure I'll end up in the states or Canada, just one of those things that I wouldn't be surprised seeing happen. But it's kind of funny because I am going to take the same mission prep class again next semester and it's going to be the same teacher. I decided that I should do that since last semester I didn't really take it all that seriously, but now that it's closer and school won't be in the way I'm going to attempt to be more serious about it ;)

Marvin the teasing brother...

So I was trying to write a blog post and Marvin keeps teasing me and he's smiling right now because of it. So I'm not saying anything else today...except that Mr. Marvin is keeping me from being bored today...;)

Quite impressive...

So my roommate just tonight started telling me about her semester long chemistry group and how they've always got together, but just to compare their homework answers and to study for the tests. And today she got there to find out that no one in the group but her and done the homework, so these people in her group literally wanted her to just give them the answers. Yeah, and so I mentioned that it would have been interesting to see how this guy in our would have reacted if he'd been in the group...because he's in her class and she's studied with him before. And she was like "he was there actually and I forgot to add but he was the only one who wasn't trying to get me to give him the answers." Yeah, so later it came up again and I asked if the guy in our ward had actually told the other people that he didn't want the answers? So she said that he actually didn't really say anything, but she knew he wouldn't have taken the answer if she'd tried to give them to everyone. Because apparently this guy doesn't always finish the homework, but he'll just turn it in anyways even if he gets a C and he won't take answers from other people. So my roommate was just like "I guess he thinks it is more important to be honest then to get an A." But anyways, that most definately is the ideal attitude in life, because in a few years grades will be forgotten but if you learn to cheat that won't be forgotten.
Sigh.......I have to add that just the other day I was at work doing homework with the first graders. And this first grader was seriously trying to copy math answers from some of the other kids and I had to stop her. But yeah that's pretty sad for first grade, which of course leads to the same type of study habit for college...sigh!!

The things I do when I don't have my roommates around...

So I ended up having to come back to Logan two days early this Thanksgiving weekend. I was sure that I'd be really bored...but as a matter of fact I just hung out at the computer labs doing homework. And I ended up finding really cool movies on youtube that I watched...:) I found Persuasion 2007 version and watched it...great stuff ;) (very similiar to Pride and Prejudice) And somehow they got the Joseph Smith movie from temple square and put it on youtube...so I haven't been bored at all with that and catching up on homework.

Happy story is that there is only one week left of school and then two finals for me...:) I am quite ready for tuesday of finals week to be here and then I can be done with this college stuff. Although I can imagine in about how many months that I'll be sad that I'm not in college anymore...:o

Funny story...or more annoying then anything!

So usually when I have to do tons of homework and that sort of thing I usually find songs on youtube to listen to. And so somehow the song list came up with Joseph Smith songs and so I started listening to one of them and I glanced down on the comment list to see this person who kept going off about all this anit-Mormon stuff. Yeah, I was kind of annoyed so usually I don't comment on there, but I commented and basically he had been going off about polygamy of course and how we all think that we'll be doing it in the after life. So basically I said that it of course was true, so of course this guy jumped on that and started going off about how he was so right and it's wierd that we hide it. But then I realized that I'd kind of done a bad thing because he was referring to we just think that men can get as many wifes as they want and stuff. But I'd been referring to there will be polygamy but it will be just among the people who you were married to on earth and nothing more. So basically I just said there's alot more to it and you'll have to talk to the missionaries to find out the rest. And then I also just made reference to the fact that alot of these people just look up Joseph Smith and then go off about anit-mormon stuff just to get us to debate with them...so anyone who is LDS should just ignore them. And the funny thing is that these guys started going off from my thing about all this stuff and they totally ignored what I'd said about them just trying to get us to debate with them. It was kind of funny, but I basically ignore their gunk because honestly they just want us to argue with them. That's going to great fun being a missionary having to deal with that and it won't be just over the internet either...scary!!

Just so you all know...

So I'm pretty sure that my family thought that I was going to apostize a few days ago...as in LDS church apostize. Basically due to the fact that I've now talked to three different bishops about getting temple endowments out and they keep telling me that I'm not ready and should wait. So after three years of this and three different bishops saying this I was just really sick of it and was complaining to everyone about it since the third time was just this week. I didn't realize that everyone was all worried about it until I got past being mad about it and suddenly everyone has been like "oh good we were kind of worried about you." But just so you all know there are sometimes that you just want to be mad about something...even if it is really dumb to do that...but after this last incident I was just being silly and being mad about it just to be mad about it. I'm over it now although I still think it's annoying...but you know?

I was kind of thinking about it though and how there literally are people who get offended and do apostize and that sort of thing. Even when it's less dramatic and it's just something like having a ward get split and people have to go to a different ward and so they get offended and stop going to church just because of that. But even with this whole temple thing I would NEVER do that...because what's the point of that? Basically it's called apostizing because you're mad that you didn't get your way...so yeah none of you need to be worried I was just complaining to complain and that was about it.

I've figured it out...

So in my cultural diversity class we've been talking about world religions and so this last week we were talking about Doism and Confusicium which are Chinese religions. And one of the girls in the class said that she had tried to talk to her sister who lives in China about their religions and she'd never heard of them. Well, she didn't recognize the names and so when the girl in my class told her that they were names of religions her sister wasn't surprised that she hadn't heard of them. And this girl basically found out from her sister that the majority of China population is Athiest, because it's a communistic country and the government won't let them practice their religions. So their temples haven't been used in a long time and there is always the possibility that some of the people say that they're athiest but they still have their religion at home. (so the governement isn't aware of it) But that is just sad...and it also explains alot as to why there aren't LDS missionaries in China. (except for Hong Kong which has a different government with it)

This actually explains alot also in relation to a meeting I went to a few weeks ago about China. This group called Link is trying to spread awareness that a huge percentage of Korea is in poverty and due to that alot of them try to get into China so that they don't starve. But they of course go in without passports and the pretty much get caught and sent right back to Korea...unless they are sneaky and can hide out somewhere. In the movie which was filmed in 2005 said that pretty much anyone who went back to Korea who had tried to go into China would end up in 'death camps', which I'm not going to explain since the name explains itself. So anyways, I guess some Americans have tried to talk to China and convince them to let the Korean refugees stay, but it hasn't done any good. Because they keep insisting that they're getting in illegally and what not. So after finding out this thing about the government and religion it actually isn't to surprising that they are so against Korean's coming in, even if they are half dead from starvation. I guess though that in Korean this Link group has started a underground raidroad system. Which is that they can go underground, but through donation funds and such Link helps them get to Mongolia, USA and other places. So it's not as bad as it sounds...but it's still pretty bad. To think I went to this presentation just to get 5 extra points in stats and it had absolutely nothing to do with research.

But my roommates prediction that I will be the first person ever to go on a mission to China 100% chance won't be happening...:) Actually I could go to Hong Kong...I almost forgot about that one.

Maybe it's not as great as it sounds to graduate after all...

I think that I am more frustrated with the after graduation part of things now then I am with any of the classes that I'm in right now. I actually keep getting stress head aches from trying to figure out what to do after graduating, because I am still going on a mission. But it's kind of hard when you have to pay off a student loan first, and the only job you can find related to your major without needing to know Spanish is a 10 hour/week job. So yeah, I am actually considering trying to get a job at a bank, along with the 10 hour/week job that is related to the major. Because I know several people who have graduated who have ended up at banks. So that is probably what I'll end up doing too, but have that as a plan isn't so helpful though since there isn't really a guarantee that there will be any job openings at any Logan banks in January. So I will just continue to get stress headaches I suppose for the next month or so. But I am thinking it's probably also harder to graduate in December then April, because it's like Christmas and not a high job obtaining time of the year as it would be to graduate just as summer is arriving. So just hopefully a bank job works out or I can find something at least a bit decent for being someone with a bachelors degree...we'll see though.

Actually, I can't blame the stress headaches completely on graduating though...alot of it has to do with trying to get 150 hours for a gerontology practicum. I still have to get at least 45 hours in the next few weeks and both sites are running out of stuff to do. But I doubt that they'll just tell me that they have nothing left, they'll keep coming up with stuff to do. So just hopefully I don't get to bored with it and can manage to still get 45 more hours.

I have decided that I probably won't be a researcher someday, because at the moment I'm helping a professor write a journal article that she's trying to get published. But in order to do it I have to read the majority of those research journals that I once was able to just pick and choose what I read. So now I actually have to read the majority of it, methods and results and all. And it's really hard to get through them and come up with enough information that makes sense to put into this new journal article that is being written. But just about 15 more hours with that and then I can be done with it and get like 30 more hours at the Senior Center and then I'll be forever done with this gerontology practicum.

Why oh why didn't I think of this like five years ago...

Earlier today I went into the student center in attempts to go into the computer lab, but they ended up being closed strangely enough. So I was wondering around and randomly started looking at the job board, even though it's kind of bad timing because if I were to get a job now I'd have to work during Christmas. But there were some interesting looking jobs and so when I finally figured out that the Education buildings computer lab was opened I started looking at the on-line job board, which is the same thing. But I came across a job opening very much related to my major and it pays about $14.00/hour. It's a family specialist at Centro De La Familia De Utah in Providence. So I started looking at it to find that it's connected with Head Start which is were I did some of my practicum at last semester. But you have to know Spanish to get it...guess what? I didn't think of needing to know spanish a few years ago and so I never took any spanish classes. Yeah, I probably could apply but won't get the job without knowing spanish...why oh why didn't I think of this like five years ago??? Because I will probably run across this problem in more jobs then just the Head Start ones...sigh!!

I seriously can't believe it...

So today we had our monthly staff meeting for work and they kept bringing up that everyone needed to make sure they're putting the correct hours on time cards. And they've mentioned it several times in the last few days...so I was kind of confused. (along with quite a few others I found out later) And then they brought up that one of the guys quit...who I actually didn't know since I guess that he works on the opposite days. So finally part way through the meeting the time card stuff came up again and the supervisor finally admitted that this guy named Marc actually didn't quit, he actually was fired. Because he would leave like a hour early, never tell anyone that he was leaving and just go. Then he'd put on his time card that he was there the whole time when he wasn't. And they figured it out so he got fired...which is pretty sad for a work study job. But yeah, I just figured that I didn't know who this person was...which was probably good. Until later one of the other girls I was with after the meeting mentioned that he is her Family Finance TA and so I still didn't know who he was still. And then like a half hour later I suddenly realized that I knew exacally who he was, because this guy named Marc has been in several of my classes and he was at the orientations for the job at the starting of the year. But once I realized that I knew who it was I seriously couldn't believe that he'd even be doing stuff like that. But apparently the government is still letting him keep the work study money and he can now go get another job with it. But if he tries that again then he has to pay them back...even though that is what htey should be doing right now and not waiting until later.

When stuff like that happens though it's pretty shocking, especially since in Utah it's pretty easy to fall into the mentality that stuff like that doesn't go...but it does sadly enough.

Which do I like more...

So my roommate was invited by one of her old roommates from last year to a halloween party last night. And it ended up that my roommate convinced me to go with her to this halloween party, but we had to dress up. But it was kind of a problem since I don't really get into Halloween and usually just come up with some random thing at the last second. So this time I couldn't think of anything, but maybe a mummy...which wouldn't work because I didn't want to waste toilet paper. But once again at the last second I noticed that I had some christmas tinsel laying on my floor and a green sheet and green bed cover sitting on my bed. So I hurried and dressed up like a christmas tree, it was actually pretty funny. But I got really hot at the party because of how I was drapped in these green sheets and such. Everyone kept going off about how it was like the best costume ever...but I didn't end up really liking it though because of getting hot and my head kept itching from the tinsel being on my head.

But I think that I actually would say this was the second best costume I've ever had. Because when I was like twelve, Marianne and I decided to use this brown blanket and dress up like a two humped camel. And then we made a camel head to poke out, made from cardboard. So the camel costume was probably the best one I've ever come up with.

To think next year I can't dress up for halloween...to bad huh? But I actually like Christmas more, so I'd be more sad if it were Christmas I were missing. Can't you tell that I like Christmas more since I dressed up like a Christmas tree at halloween?

How ever does that work?

So I was talking to a girl in one of my classes and she was telling me that she had like four tests in one week. But the majority of her classes are on tuesday and thursday, so she ended up having two one each day. And the funny thing is that she got A's on all four tests, which you would think wouldn't happen considering if there are that many and so close together there wouldn't be time to study for all of them. But she told me that she usually does better when they're all close together and what not. So when she was telling me about that I was thinking that to bad that didn't happen like that for me more often. But guess what? For at least the last two weeks I've had tons of stuff to do and I'm always running around. And I'm normally not the kind that gets headaches, but in the last few weeks I've had several stress headaches. But what's made it worse is that this research project that I was in on slowed down and so for the majority of the semester I've put in about 25 hours and that's about it. Well, suddenly just last week the professor e-mailed me and had this huge list of stuff that I could come and do. And I need like 50 more hours for my practicum and so I kind of have to do it, even though I don't have a single bit of time. So due to that I am insanely busy...:) But I had this stats test today and believe it or not after only studying for it for about three hours I got an A. So how does that work? Yeah about like the girl in my class who got all A's on her four tests that we're all together. Maybe if I started doing it like that then maybe I'd get all A's. (so I should just stick with being insanely busy the rest of the semester and then I'll get all As)

I have figured it out...

This semester I was supposed to be doing research with a professor and count it as the gerontology practicum. But it didn't really work out, due to budget cuts and so I had to find a new site since by the time I realized it wasn't going to work it was to late to drop credits. So I am now at the Cache Valley Senior Center and pretty much I don't like it all that much because I just sit at a computer and plan activities every time I'm there. But just yesterday I was in a different office and so I was right next to the gym, which is where they do alot of their things at. And I heard some people talking and so I looked out and quickly figured out that not only do they have five days a week lunches, but they also give out cereal and canned food on wednesdays. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, except when you think about it the government is always flying the social security flag in our faces. But how much good is the social security? It's not enough and is only getting worse, especially since people are living alot longer. So when I found out that all this happens and that it is totally backed by the government I was really quite annoyed. Because if they would talk more about saving for retirement and not running to social security when you retire then they wouldn't even need socialistic programs like Senior Centers. So I decided that I should go to graduate school in institutional studies and then go to congress and stop them from having senior centers. But then after deciding that I decided that it wasn't really logical, because there is to much research and people who are for senior centers that I wouldn't be able to stop them.
So this is my new plan for life: I am going to use The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach and teach classes in the community (wherever I end up at) about saving for retirement and about how the only way any of us will survive is not through social security, but through saving. (which alot of people don't know how to do) Since I will supposably be a Family Life Educator in a month and a half. (not that I really like teaching but if it's for a good cause then I'll do it)
One thing I have determined about senior centers is that they actually aren't that bad, it's just sad that old people have to get into them since they are so destitute. But they are good in the fact that they do help old people stay involved with the community and so if I were the one here in charge of those things I'd have senior centers but more for the activities they provide. And once those who are like 45 right now where 65 then I'd end the food business part of it...since everyone is going to be so educated about saving for retirement in within the next ten years.

Insane class anyways...

So I'm in two classes that are pretty much upper division classes and then I have this one that is only a junior level class. And almost everyday this week it'll be the end of the day and I'll think about it and then realize that the only homework I did that day was for that junior level class. So in this class we have four books and assignments that go with every single one of those books. Currently I am working on three different assignments for this class, and I'm pretty sure there is a test in a couple of days too. It's completely insane that a 3000 level class would be harder then 5000 level classes. Well, it's not actually really hard it's just tons of busy work and they're not just little easy papers and projects. But interestingly enough this is the class that I actually have liked the most this semester and somehow I seem to be getting an A in the class which is great considering it's one of the hardest classes of the semester. Well, I guess that I ought to get back to finishing two of the assignments for the class tonight!

This is why I'm 25 and not married...

So there is a marcarque (I think that's how you spell it) ball next thursday that my roommate is helping plan. And she wasn't planning to go until she was trying to sell tickets and our neighbor asked her when she was trying to convince him that he needed to find someone to ask. So she's going now and as of yesterday she walked up to me and started telling me this story about this guy she knows who is helping with the planning, but isn't going because he's shy and doesn't want to ask anyone. So she wanted me to go with him as a blind date...but I have been on enough blind dates to know that I don't like them. In general I don't even like dating for that matter, but when it's a blind date I always end up being the one doing all the talking and keeping the conversation going, and besides for a $30.00 ticket ball you really should be going with someone who asked you and you actually know. So one good thing about this is that she never told him that she was going to try to find someone, she was just going to see if she could get someone to go with him first and then see if he'd go. But I do feel bad, because I should be nice and go even though I don't know this guy. Except that it's a big dance and dinner date and another thing besides dating that I don't like is dances. Because I've gone to Western Swings in the past and have figured out that even guys who know you will ask you. But they seem to always figure out which girls are good at dancing and those are the ones they always go back to once they've figured it out. So I just don't want to go with someone I don't even know to a dance and not even know how to do the dancing. So this is why I'm 25 and not married...sad story huh?

This is why I'm 25 and not married...

Interesting story!!

So if any of you haven't heard yet you should look at this website: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=8108202&autostart=y#. So even though I don't know Elizabeth Smart we seem to be quite alike, her story sounds about like mine. Maybe I'll go to Paris France and be companions with her...lol! Also we're a like in the fact that we don't think that we're the missionary type...but suppose it'll work out.

Maybe it's true...

So I'm in some hard classes this semester, well more like just busy classes and hard ones still the same. In one of my classes we had a take home test and so the other day I was in the computer lab writting a paper and this guy had heard me talking to someone about that class. So he came up to me and asked me if we could compare answers on the test? Well we started comparing and quickly realized that he'd done one section right but I had messed it up with one small error. And so he pointed it out and it was actually a very good thing that I'd ran into him like I did because I later realized that I'd made the same error in the homework. So then on blackbaord there were several people who wanted to do study groups, and I ended up getting in on two different groups which helped alot except that one girl kept telling me to do some stuff not the right way. So today I was in the computer lab again looking at the take home test and trying to decide whether I should do it how that other girl said or do it how I thought I should do it. Well, suddenly this older lady sitting close by turned to me and asked me what I'd gotten since it was kind of the general area where people study for that class at. And so I showed her and I ended up finding out from her that I was doing it right all along and so I talked to her some about the test which deemed to be helpful.
So like a year ago Elder Holland gave a talk in conference about people being angels and helping people. Well, I decided that after running into two people who showed me how to do things right on that test and homework that the angel talk must be true. Because it most definately seemed like I was being watched out for, since I most definately don't have time to have to stick around at USU to retake some hard class or something like that. (well that's a little bit of an exageration because I'm sure I'll pass the class but still the same you get what I mean)

Who would have thought a Brigham City Temple??

Sorry guys but I've always thought of Brigham City Utah as a Heber/Roosevelt town, not big enough for a temple since Logan is like a half hour off. So when Pres. Monson announced a temple being built in Brigham City I had a jaw dropping experience and Ruth was laughing at me bytheway. (lol) So I guess it's actually bigger then I'm making it sound but I normally just drive straight through on main street and never drive around the actual city. Meaning it's probably big enough for a temple, but still it was a bit of a shocking event. Sadly I won't be in Logan anymore when that happens though, as in when that temple gets dedicated. Well, conference has been amazing thus far but it in the midst of it I have two major tests on monday and tuesday of next week. A terrible weekend for that too happen on and by far the first time ever that I've thought of doing homework on sunday. But that is one thing I will never do...so the A once had in Cultural Diversity might be leaving me quite soon. That's okay though, grades shouldn't be the top one priority in life...right?

Funny story

So it's pretty funny because in my cultural diversity class we had to do an interview paper and then relate the culture from this other person to our culture. And one of the questions had to do with how the other persons culture thinks in terms of marriage. So I interviewed a mexican lady I know and she was talking about marriage being sacred and what not in Mexico. Well, it was kind of funny because on my part of the paper I wrote that America used to be like that but not as much now because of homesexuality and divorce. And the TA who is not LDS made some comment about how that's so surprising that I should write that since alot of the US think of that topic at 180 degree different angle. It was just funny because he didn't know that he was grading a LDS person's paper and that is by far the LDS opinion of homosexuality/divorce. (he was referring more to the homosexuality though) It would be most interesting to be a non-LDS person in Utah, don't you think?

I should become a blood donator!

It's kind of funny because I haven't had a single shot since I was 5 years old and so I really don't remember ever getting one. So I've always been freaked out by needles and so I actually got the donating blood coordinator calling two summers ago and I still wouldn't do it. Well I've finally been forced to get shots and so today was my second day of getting shots. And interestingly enough I don't think that I'm as afraid of needles as I thought I was. So just last summer I was talking to some girls in my ward about how it's the people who deal well with needles who should donate blood and the others shouldn't. So now that I know that I deal well with needles I should just start donating blood more often...don't you think?
But as for right now I basically just have to go to the dentist and find out blood lab results from the health and wellness center and then I am done filling out mission papers...! Actually I forgot one really annoooooooooooooooooying thing though, so I am kicked off of my parents health insurance because I'm to old for it now. But I have to have insurance for going on a mission, so I have to get my own health insurance and I don't know what to do about that. Since it's so expensive as it is and I need to be saving for going on the mission. But hopefully I find something before January, since that is when I'm turning the papers in...has anyone heard of a group plan? Because my bishop did tell me that I should do that, but I don't know anything about it. (it's probably the best option though)

11 more weeks

I normally don't try to wish the semester away, but this time I am because in 12 weeks from now I'll be graduated from college. (unless I do happen to go to graduate school) That's all I'm thinking of at the moment as I try to attempt finishing some papers today, but I'm so tired of homework I haven't started yet. Basically it's a very good thing that I'm not going to be doing anymore school stuff for a few more years because I've been in college for way to long...sigh!!

So it's kind of funny because according to the calender it is fall now as of last monday, but it's still boiling hot in Cache Valley. But the funny thing is that on monday the 21st (first day of fall) it was really cold, and then by the end of the week which is right now it is suddenly hot again. So it's like the weather is trying to prove that it's fall on the first day, but it can't keep it that way. The weather here is so strange, it's either really hot or really cold...that's why people get broncitis here right?

How many vote this is a scam???????

So I was doing computer stuff today and just out of the blue this screen popped up. At first I thought it sounded cool, and decided to look back at it later. So later came and I looked at it again but that time I noticed all the comments and all these people are getting thousands of dollars a week at this internet job. After reading that I had a very bad feeling that it was a scam...read on and then tell me what you think since it would be helpful at the moment to have a good job. Here's the website: http://www.news3insider.com/finance/work-for-google-from-home.html
Remember I need to know if you all agree with me or not, and if it's not a scam then I should get the job. Don't worry I won't be to depressed if you all agree, but I already kind of figure it's a scam. Mainly because it sounds a bit to unrealistic...but if it is a non-scam job you all should get it.

Facebook is over taking the world I tell you!

So today I found out that Marvin is doing facebook...I can't believe that my whole family is doing facebook now. Everyone but Janae and my Dad, it is realllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly wierd I tell you. Well it's more wierd when 12 year old Tanner is doing it, 14 year old Marvin is doing it...so you know it's just kind of wierd how stuff like that snags everyone in. It seems more like a college student network, but now it's a everyone network. Strange isn't it?

Close call and the missionaries!

I came extremely close to losing all my classes this semester, to think if it had really happened I would be in a heap of trouble. So I got this e-mail yesterday saying that the deadline for tuition and fees is Sept. 17, which is like tomorrow. And I thought to myself "well that is strange that I would get an e-mail like that when financial aid normally pays tuition and fees." But for some reason I had this odd feeling that something was terribly wrong and I didn't know what it could possibly be. So I forgot about it until this morning in the computer lab and suddenly I remembered that e-mail so I went back and looked at it. But then I decided that it really had to be just an e-mail that got sent out to everyone, even though I've never gotten it before. Well, just minutes before a class I suddenly got an e-mail from financial aid saying that I had to sign this agreement form with their conditions on it that was on-line. Then I suddenly remembered that I had gotten that e-mail before but discarded it since I already have gotten financial aid, considering it is on my school account and all. So then today I suddenly realized that maybe I didn't get it after all even though it says I did in my account. Well, I ended up hurrying and finding this form and agreeing to the usual "I'll get a 2.0 GPA or higher to keep this financial aid" and whatever else is in that agreement from. Well, I suddenly realized that I must have read the account wrong and I never did get it, so right after the class I ran to the financial aid office. And guess what? I found out that I really didn't ever get it, just because I'd never gone and confirmed the agreement form. Which is pretty sad because I don't recall this sort of incident happening before. Maybe it is just a new thing, or I did that early enough in the summer other times that I have forgotten it. But to think if I hadn't of gotten that e-mail when I did I probably would be in college anymore as of tomorrow. Without paying $100.00 add fee to get them all back when financial aid did actually come. But that explains alot as to why I never got the extra that I usually get when tuition is paid. I just assumed it went to a wrong address or something...!

So I was kind of bad today and I went on a different path as to avoid the Elders, it's probably not a good idea normally. But I was in a hurry and they always stop me and start trying to get me to come up with someone who isn't LDS that I can hook them up with. It's kind of hard when I get stopped every other week and everytime I still don't know anyone besides the one person who is already taking the discussions and the one lady who is way into drinking to ever consider that. So I saw them at the top of the old main stairs and so I took a different route...bad attitude for someone who is supposed to be going on a mission right? (the Utah missionaries are slightly to pushy though since it's Utah and how much of the population is LDS?)

Funny how different schools are!

So I wasn't planning to work at the after school job again, but it ended up that it was one of my only options so I took it again. They had enough at the old school I was at, so I'm over at Ellis Elementary this year. It's crazy though because I was with the 1st graders last year and I am again this time too, but I was completely shocked today when a bunch of them came running over and wanted me to read books to them. Because last year the first graders didn't even want to read, they wanted to play more then that. And it's also strange because a whole bunch of them always want me to help them do their homework. Whereas last year they would always run to the other teacher, which they knew more since she'd been there longer then me. But it's just interesting that these kids are so into doing their homework and reading, and not just playing all the time. Another nice thing is that the teacher over after school is very much into it and isn't there because she has to be. And she is fluent in spanish, which helps since there are alot of hispanics in the school. So I've come to decide that it was a good thing I took the job again, since judging something by one time experience isn't always accurate.

One problem with electronic communication!

So I was talking to someone through facebook and this morning I replied only to find another reply to me from this person this afternoon. And apparently this person thought that I was all mad or something from the comment I made this morning, yet I haven't been upset today at all. (in fact today was great since I did really good on a test) So I don't have anything against facebook, e-mail, texting or whatever but it can be frusterating when someone reads you wrong when the conversation was through facebook. (and when you tell them you weren't mad they don't believe you because it was through facebook) So talking on the phone or in person often times is much better...don't you all think?

It's official...!

So as alot of you know I was thinking of going on a mission, or in other words I wouldn't go on a mission but I got the very distinct impression to go on a mission back in July. Well basically I figured out what happened, back in July I got the very distinct impression to go on a mission. And after a few days I got all confused about it for a month or so and anyways kind of what it was was that I was previously planning to buy Marianne's car from her so that she could go and not have it sitting around our parents house. Well the thing is that it was like the perfect situation because it was going to be a really good deal for a car and I would buy it right after I graudated and everything. So anyways I ended up telling her that I wasn't going to buy it anymore and so she was going to give it to someone else and the thing was that she was going to wait though until I decided that I wasn't really going to buy it. (and really go on a mission) So psychologically I really wanted to buy the car and not go on a mission, even though I didn't really realize that this was the case. (yeah that sounds wierd but sometimes that happens you do want to do something in the back of your head but you haven't figured that part out yet) So anyways, I was over at Janae and Richards like a week and a half ago and they asked me if I was still going to buy the car? since they want to buy it if I don't because their car just recently broke down. And at first I said that I didn't know and then after a little bit it suddenly came to me that I really don't need that car and they really do need it alot more since it's edging on fall/winter in Cache Valley and they can't just bike around with little Jaylee in the ice and snow. So I went back and told them to buy the car because I can keep riding the bus if I needed too. Well, as it turns out the very next day I was on facebook and my nice friend Jessio wrote to me and was quoting these scriptures and all of this relating to going on a mission and then it was also the Oquirrah Mountain temple dedication that weekend and guess what once I forgot the car it was very easy to make a decision. Or in other words I wasn't confused anymore and I had the very distinct impression to go on a mission again and it hasn't left since then. So I am going to start filling out mission papers this week because just so you all know I have another story for you all.

Back in the day when I was attempting to move off of Darwin Ave I got the very distinct impression to move to Anderson. So I went and as things turned out I was in a freshmen type ward and I really didn't like it all that much, but I did have some cool roommates and so it was okay. But I did wonder more then once why I got the very distinct impression to move to Anderson when I was how old? So anyways, Holly my roommate from Anderson and I decided to stay roommates this year, but we also decided to invite a girl we met named Julia (she lived on Darwin last year we just randomly met her at a party). So as of right now we are all roommates, and guess what? Julia for the last year has been in a graduate program that she does not like at all, but she's just staying in it because she doesn't know what else to do. Actually that was as of last week, so Holly (the one I met in Anderson) started talking to her about how she's doing pre-med and all of that and very quickly Julia had decided in just a few days to drop her program and do pre-med. As of last week she completely dropped the graduate program and got into all these biology classes a week late. And now she is going to finish this semester and move back to Provo and go to BYU with her brother, which is where she should have been doing all along except that her graduate program was only at USU. (the only University in Utah that had the graduate program anyways, it's probably at other Universities out of Utah) So anyways the moral of the story is that if I had not followed the instinct impression to move to Anderson and I'd stayed over by Darwin I would never have met Holly. I would have met Julia but not Holly and to this very day Julia would still be in that program she didn't like, since the only reason why she dropped it was because she didn't know much about the medicine programs and it was because of Holly that she found out who the advisors were and pretty much just got someone to convince her to drop the graduate program even if she'd already been in it for a year. So the moral of the story is that due to this experience I will never ever again ignore a very distinct prompting to do something. Which means that I am going on a mission even if I'm how old? Because I will never ever ignore very distinct promptings again, especially in this case where I've had the same very distinct impression to go on a mission several times.

Not totally what I thought!

Actually I found out that they are doing December graduation this year, but this is the last year. I guess that they decided to be nice to us this year since alot of people who are graduating where probably planning for it, so they aren't making it official until next year.

Silly budget cuts

So apparently we have such a big budget cut now that they are cutting out december graduation at USU, well more like what they're doing is everyone still graduates but they are cutting out the commencement. Not like it costs anything, we're the ones who have to get a hold of the cap and gown. But get this, last night my roommate and I went to this school event, which was bingo. So while we're there they have this contest with two guys who have to eat pizza and then whoever is finished first has to call someone to bring them lucky charms and whoever has it first gets $400.00. Then they're doing something today where with some contest whoever wins get $1000.00 tuition wieved. Yeah, such a huge budget cut that they cut out fall graduation but they seem to be able to afford throwing money out like that. I have to say when I first heard it I was slightly sad, but not a ton since you know it's not like I'm not graduating I'm just not walking. But then when I heard about all of this other stuff I was alot more annoyed...grrrr. And the other thing that is annoying is that they spend thousands of dollars on remodeling the dorms as in totally gutting the buildings and completely redoing them. Yet they can't do fall graduation commencements. Anyways, if I really wanted to walk I'd do it in the spring, but we'll see if that happens.

I must have been inspired...

So I go stuck in the Village/Aggie Village for work this semester and so I get to drive around this little ice cream cart. And today I was going to leave and I back up but just a bit to far and so the back tires were on the grass and when I tried to drive the back wheels would just spin and I couldn't get the cart to drive back onto the side walk. So there I was and I needed to get to a class and so I got out one last time and I looked around and finally decided to just back up to the wide walk across the grass. And it ended up that half way across the grass I almost hit a tree, because there is no back window on those carts. So I had to stop before that happened and so I just turned around and got turned left and got off the grass luckily. Well when I got to the cart parking lot I couldn't get into my spot, because this golf cart was in the way. So I went around it and found that there wasn't enough room and so I hit the golf car, but I was going slow enough that there wasn't any damage and so it was wierd because I backed up and somehow got around that cart into my spot. And when I got out to leave I looked and it was very wierd that I even got into that spot, because there really wasn't room. So I guess that I was just inspired alot today to back up...because I barely made it on time to the class since it took 15 minutes to park the cart. But as it is I made a possibly bad decision...I quit that job today. Because Aggie Village is just to far away from campus for someone who is walking like me and so I will most likely be late to alot of classes if I continue working there. Luckily I have enough $ for the semester though, it's just later stuff as for next spring that I don't have enough for...but oh well it'll work out.

Being homeless....grrrrrrrrrrr :(

Do you know how annoying the moving system is in Logan Utah? So basically in the spring it is a little better because the place you move out of and the place you move to are closer together. But in the fall it is really annoying, because they make you move out the first week of august and the other place won't let you in until part way through august. So yeah, at the moment I am having to find people to stay with, as in until this sathurday. But my whole problem is that they're remodeling and haven't finished yet, so I'm stuck having to sneakily stay with people. It's a complete pain...but the thing that I've decided is that I'm never moving again in Logan. So I've been thinking about it and I've come to the conclusion that I should go to the applied technology center here in Logan and do dental assisting. Basically because I didn't make the wisest decision when I decided to do FCHD and so I really won't ever get a very decent job even with a bachalers degree. So anyways, I have decided that I just need to finish school and so it would be better to just go to Bridgerland and do dental assisting since it only takes a year. While alot of master degrees take several years, so if I'm doing dental assisting then I'll be in Logan anotheryear. So yes my plan is to never move again while I'm in Logan Utah...!

Not yet...:)

Well, I haven't gotten the pictures from Marianne yet...so you know how that goes :) :) Anyways, it's been fun because this summer I worked with some mexican girls and so they started teaching us how to make mexican food...such as salsa, tamalies and stuff like that. I must say even though I have worked at a cleaning job for the last three summers it has usually turned out fine. Because I've come to decide that as long as you get along with co-workers, roommates and such everything turns out just fine :)

You can tell that you've been somewhere to long when you start...

So today I was at the Logan City Library and I was walking along and then I glanced over to see that someone had left there wallet and cell phone (yes it was both of them) sitting on a table (actually the girl was down an isle looking at a book). I almost freaked out when I saw that...because I've been in Philadelpia for two weeks and if that had happened in Philadelpia that wallet and phone would have been gone in two seconds. I couldn't believe it...that someone would just leave there stuff just sitting there. But you know it is Utah and for the most part you can get away with stuff like that...! Except for one time when I was at the store I dropped a $20.00 bill and quickly saw that it was gone and went back to find it...but I never did find it. So anyways, that is what happens when you go somewhere like Philadelpia for awhile...which is that you come back to a place like Logan Utah and you realize that you do need to be careful about stuff like that.

Anyways, I'm messed up at the moment due to going to Philadelpia and then coming back to Utah...! Because Philadelpia is two hours ahead and so we had to get to the airport at 6:30 a.m. to get on a 8:00 a.m. flight in Philly. And so according to Utah time we got up at 3:30 a.m. and then we flew and then got kicked back two hours when we got back to Utah, and so we landed in Salt Lake at 1:30 p.m. And so we had to drive up to Logan and all of that, which was fine until I found out that I had to work at 7:00 a.m. the next day...along with working on sathurday. So yeah, I pretty much have been getting up early for the last two days...which has caused me to be extremely tired. (luckily I don't work on sunday)

But I have some Philly pictures that I'll have to post...when I get them anyways that is!!

Give Away!!

I think that most of you read Laura Nelson's blog, so you can see the pictures there. But there is this lady named Terry who's having a blogaversery, since she has now been doing blog for a whole year now!!
But she's giving away prizes and that sort of thing...and the prizes mainly look like crafts. (so if you like crafts you should do it) But here's the e-mail, so if you want to check it out:
http://terrytreasures.blogspot.com/2009/08/year-already.html
(sorry I didn't put the pictures on...but yeah I've been on vacation for two weeks and then right after getting back I had to work for two days at really early hours so I'm kind of tired right now)

Philadelpia

On Monday of this week my parents, Marianne and I flew out to Philadelpia since Caralee had Carmen. And so we got to the airport and got on the first plane to Denver, which was running 15 minutes late since that plane had come in late from the previous flight. So we got on the plane to find out that Marianne and I were in the front, and our parents were clear in the back. Well, we flew into the Denver airport to find that we had like ten minutes, so Marianne and I ran off and just as we got there Marianne and I's number was being called and so we hurried onto the plane. Well after awhile of sitting there we realized that our parents were not on the plane and hadn't come on yet, but the flight attendant was kind of worried that if we were to get off the plane that we might miss the flight too. So we stayed on and at the very last second they came on and basically we found out later that we should have stopped and talked to them before running to the next plane, because they thought that we had an extra half hour and so they were out sitting there waiting. But confused about why we weren't there and so finally they went and asked the desk people what was going on? Since they were calling random names and hardly anyone was around, so luckily they asked or they wouldn't have been stuck in Denver. But after we got to Philadelpia we got lost in the airport and finally found where we were suppose to get our baggage at the last second. (because they were taking our baggage away just as we walked up)

But since we got to Philadelpia we've basically have been playing with Lilli, because Caralee has to keep taking Carmen to get shots and everything. It's been fun though, and sadly for Lilli she's not the only kiddo in the family now...!! I'm also messed up by the time change because I wake up at like 8:00ish and I'm always really tired still...but in Utah it's more like 6:00ish. (so that would be why)

There are also row houses, which Caralee and Eric live in...but they are completely ancient. Basically the idea of row houses was brought up to lower property taxes...if you have to walls sticking out it's less then four walls. So there are rows and rows of stuck together houses, it's wierd but a very ingenius idea.

Also Lilli is very smart, because she knows all of these song tunes, but not the words...so she's singing all of these tunes all the time. She also knows what we're saying too, because Marianne and I were reading our scriptures upstairs yesterday and Lilli kept running in and laughing really loud. So finally this one time I said "Lilli we're reading our scriptures and so we'll come down and play when we're done." Then Lilli turned around and did the same thing to Marianne and then Marianne said the same thing and then Lilli turned around and went down stairs...it was quite funny. (considering she's under two)

Revolutionary War

I found this nice little quote on Caralee's blog: "The success of the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War came about through men who were raised up by God for this special purpose. You must read the Declaration of Independence to feel its inspiration. You merely need to study history to recognize that a group of fledgling colonies defeating the world’s most powerful nation stemmed from a force greater than man. Where else in the world do we find a group of men together in one place at one time who possessed greater capacity and wisdom than the founding fathers—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and others? But it was not to their own abilities that they gave the credit. They acknowledged Almighty God and were certain of the impossibility of their success without his help. Benjamin Franklin made an appeal for daily prayers in the Constitutional Convention. In that appeal he said, “If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I believe without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the building of Babel.” (Mark E. Petersen, The Great Prologue, Deseret Book Co., 1975, p. 88.)

So I randomly ran acrossed this fictional series about the revolutionary war at the library and it's crazy that the well trained England army couldn't overtake the colonies. Especially since they had like what 20,000 soldiers and the colonies had like 2,000 untrained soldiers and the funniest part is that King Henry 3 had to get Germany (or something like that involved after awhile also) So George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and all of them were quite inspired with how they handled things and won the war. Which is great for us because that would be no fun to have to be apart of England's controlling ways still.

I've become a workaholic!!

So as of recently I've been working 10 hour days, and it's going to be the same way for the next two weeks. Basically it is 7-5 p.m., but the funny thing is that I know of other people on other crews who run out of stuff to do and so they leave after like six hours. In a way it's annoying to be at work that long, but it's also good, because then it's less time to work during the fall semester I suppose.

Sometimes you just can't do it alone!!

So for the most part I like to be all independent like and that sort of thing. Well at my practicum which just ended recently, my supervisor wanted to have this goodbye party but frusteratingly enough everyone wanted to do it on tuesday except for me. (because I work all day on tuesday) So I finally decided that I would just get all of tuesday off of work and then I'd write the final paper for the practicum and turn it all in that day. So I did that and then went over to the good bye party and while I was there it was brought up that we don't have much longer before graduation papers have to be turned in. I must admit I had heard that the university doesn't warn people very well and so I was assuming they'd be due in like October for December graduation. So I randomly asked them when they were due to find out that they are due in about a month and it takes about a month to fill out the forms and that sort of thing. So luckily I didn't work that day (which actually is today that I'm referring too) and so I went and filled out the application and turned it right in. Basically to find out that I can't ever get the forms for three weeks, which is after the time that the application is processed. So yeah, if I had waited much longer...even a few days I'd be in very bad shape. Because I won't even be in Utah on August 5th since I'm going to be with the family in Philadelpia. So if I had waited for much longer I would have to pay $50.00, rather then $10.00 for turning in graduation forms late. Basically saying that I'm really glad that I did end up going to that goodbye party, even if it did only last for 20 minutes on a work day. Because alot of times it's just plain easier to do things on your own, but often times you miss alot of info if you try to do it all alone.

Rain rain go away come again some other day!

So one good thing about lots of rain is that it stops us from getting over heated. But for some reason it keeps raining at the most inconvenient times. For example a couple of us were hiking last weekend in Salt Lake and when we were coming back down it started pouring. Yes it was literally pouring for like 45 minutes or something like that and thundering/lightening. Also it was raining so bad that there was a river running down the trail after a few minutes and so we had to try to avoid the river as we were walking down the trail but we weren't very successful. So by the time we got off the trail and into the car we were completely wet...including pants, shoes, socks and all. So that is one time that this rain was inconvenient.

For the third time in the last two weeks I've been walking over to my practicum (it's easier to walk then to have to wait around for the bus) which takes like 20 minutes to walk to. I wasn't expecting rain all three of these times and so I planned to leave at the normal time to walk, not early for the bus. So everytime I've walked out the door and within five minutes it is suddenly raining, and continues to rain for the 20 minutes that I'm walking. And then I get there all wet, so anyways after the first time of this happening I finally decided this last wednesday that it was better to be late then to be all wet. So I got on the bus and then I found out at the transit center that the bus that goes over by my practicum wouldn't be going for another half hour. (some new thing they have come up with) So I still ended up having to walk for 10 minutes over there and I was still late, but luckily it was drizzling so I didn't get very wet that time. Then today I got on the bus again to avoid the rain, but one problem with the buses is that if your not at the stop at a certain time you might have to wait for 20 minutes. So I needed to get back within 20 minutes and so I ended up walking back to campus and I got all wet...again!!

But as I said the rain is nice because it stops us from getting overheated...it's only bad when it comes at inconvenient times. (sigh)

Such as life I suppose...!!

So yesterday my friend and I were talking to this new girl at church, and this new girl isn't a freshmen but this is the first time of not living at home. (so very similiar situation) And anyways she was talking about how she wishes that she didn't have to move this fall and could just stay in the same apartment. So my friend and I were warning her about not moving around all the time like we have done, because it gets annoying to have to move alot very quickly.
So here is our little warning list for all of those freshmen/people who are still going to be in college for a few more years:

1. Find a place you like and stay there, and don't move every time the school year or summer ends. (because it's easier to get involved with your ward and to know more people in your ward if you stay in the same spot)

2. Don't live with your friends...well that depends actually. Because I've been roommates with friends, but it is better to make sure that your not in the same room.

3. Don't avoid the math placement test or math classes in general, because if you do then you will quickly find yourself taking math 1010/1050 when your a senior in college.

4. Don't take to long to decide on a major, find one and stick with it. Because if you do wait to long then you'll be like me and graduating after five or six years of undergraduate course work. (it's very sad I must say)

5. If possible don't work while in college because that pulls your grades down alot more then you'd think. (but that's easy to say when you're at Snow College, but the Unversity is a completely different story)

Anyways, it's very sad that we've figured all these things out now that we're (my friend and I) basically graduated. To bad we couldn't have been forwarned beforehand, but you know even if we had been forwarned we probably wouldn't have believed it. Such as life I suppose...!!

The randomness of Logan!!

So I like going on walks around Logan, normally at like 7ish though...so that's it's really hot. Anyways, they're normally the same...but last night some funny things happened. I was coming back and acrossed the street from the bottom of Old Main I found this huge garden behind someone's apartment. I wasn't looking for such things but I was walking and suddenly looked over and there was this huge garden hidden between some apartments. But it was funny because there was everything in this garden, like corn, potatoes and etc. The other funny thing is that this garden was big enough to have like four rows of corn in it and probably four rows of everything else in it. It was funny considering I haven't seen to many gardens in the city of Logan, and I've been here for about three years.

Well, then I was almost to my apartment and as I was approaching I saw some people in my ward that are dating standing pretty close to my apartment. (out in the parking lot) So I didn't want to have them see me because sometimes it's awkward talking to couples since you know...!! Anyways when I saw that I went around the back of my apartment and tried to go in the slide door on the balcony. But it was locked and so I was standing there and then I decided to go out in our little yard in the back of my apartment and look around the corner to see if they were still there. So I went over by this huge tree that is out back and as I walked over I came to notice that there were christmas lights on this tree. When I noticed that I went to look closer and I came face to face with an angry looking duck which was sitting in this middle spot of our tree on a feather nest. It was quite funny actually, considering it's pretty high up from the ground to get to this duck nest. And besides since when do ducks have nests in trees? they don't normally fly high enough to get into a tree. So today I went out again to see if this duck was gone and it was still there on this nest in the tree, and it wasn't a very happy duck either. It was looking annoyed and making angry duck noises. (haha)

So those are the funny things that I came acrossed in Logan Utah last night...huge gardens hidden between apartments and ducks in trees.

GRE!!

This summer I am pretty much roommateless...well I have one roommate that I don't see very often. So anyways I have kind of thought of taking the GRE, but you know haven't ever quite made up my mind about whether or not I'd really go to graduate school. So I've put it off for awhile and anyways since I'm basically roommateless I decided that I should do it. Considering I'm usually at the apartment alone at nights, so I have the time which means that I might as well do it. At the moment I have a GRE book, I haven't opened it yet...but I should be doing that tonight. I must say the main reason as to why I didn't really want to take the GRE and all was because I generally am not very good at taking tests like that. (you know ACT, GRE and etc.) But we'll see how it goes...hopefully good that is! I must say it's really odd being the one in the family that is actually considering the GRE and graduate school. Since I am the one that doesn't like college/homework the most...actually that's not true considering the younger brothers claim that they aren't going to college at all. But considering I'm not married it is easier to do it then if I were married...so you know!

One door opens and another closes!

This of course is finals week and so at my practicum a whole bunch of people are leaving since they're finishing their practicums for spring semester. And then a bunch of new people are coming for their summer practicums and then I'm staying because I'm doing both spring and summer. And anyways today one of the other people who is staying was telling those who are leaving that they still should come around and stuff, even though they're done. But this is something that I've come to notice, which is that when you move on to other things and try to go back to something it isn't the same. For example at the starting of the school year I was really sad when I left my old ward and started going to the one that I'm in right now. So in January I decided to go visit that ward and pretty much after going back one time I didn't want to do that again. Because alot of the old people where gone and there were all these new people that I didn't know and so it wasn't the same anymore. Basically saying that once you leave something it'll never be how it was before again. So it's better to just go on to new places and new things and not worry about what happened before, because it's never going to be the exact same again.

Finals Week!!

Once again it is finals week and I'm on campus studying for a final, but the nice thing about it is that this is the last final of the week. I actually only ended up with two finals, which was because the practicum related classes don't have finals in them. (they're more paper writting classes) So at the moment I'm studying for my research methods final, which actually is going pretty good and so I'm not to worried about it. The sad thing of the day is that in about six days from now I'll be cleaning dorms again as a summer job. (sigh) But it's better then some jobs I have had so you know that's how it goes. Well, it's exciting in about an hour my apartment is going to have a end of the semester part and we're going to the canyon. So that should be quite fun, but of course when we return from that I'll be doing research methods again...!!

To think when I was 17 I got $5.15 at a job...!

Today I had to go to a stafff meeting at work and guess what I found out? I found out that apparently they are raising minimum wage AGAIN...didn't they just do that like twice in the last two years? Yeah...apparently it's now going up to $7.35 and when I was 17 I got $5.15 for like three years straight. (well I got like a .20 cent raise by the end) So when I have working teenagers I'll have to say "well, you know I got $5.15 when I worked in high school so $12.15 is nothing to complain about." Haha...actually it probably won't go that high...but it could if they keep raising it every year.

Some of you will think that this is quite funny...!

So today I was at a practicum/staff meeting and our supervisor who used to live in Roosevelt started talking about how slow/fast people talk. And she went on to tell us about how they used to live in Los Vegas and then they moved to Roosevelt. So she called a housing realtor and this guy just kept talking extremely slow, and so she says that it's a country thing. Since city people talk really fast and country people talk really slow. But I wasn't to surprised by this little bit of news, since I've heard this sort of thing before. Have any of you uintah basin people heard this before also?

End of the Semester is Near!!

So usually by this time in the semester I'm usually really busy and wanting it to end really, really soon. But this semester has been really strange, because for the last few weeks I've had homework or a paper due on about tuesday. So I'm really busy on monday and tuesday but then by about thursday and friday I'm extremely bored because I have really nothing to do. Well, I suppose if I were wise I'd read every chapter in every text book, and then I wouldn't be bored and I'd ace all of my classes. But who really wants to do that if they don't have to? So anyways, this week especially has been rather boring because it's spring break with the school district and so I haven't had to work all week long. So finally today I went and got some books/novels at the library, just because the only thing that I have to turn for the rest of this week is a resume for my pre-practicum class.
But just so you all know (depending on the classes your in) the last year is really quite easy, and just awhile ago one of my freshmen roommates told me that she thinks that being a senior is probably easier then being a freshmen. So I must say that I have to agree, but that's because the only hard class I even have this semester is Psychological Statistics. And the rest are practicum related classes and research methods, so you know nothing to hard.

Bad day!!

So today I went to work to find out (we actually were told on monday that this was going to happen) that I am of the 10 of the 15 mentors who are being laid off, basically we can stay until friday but then we have to leave. And they were picking from the people who have been there the longest to stay, and since I just started in October I was one of the 10 to be laid off. Basically they are keeping five mentors because there are five grades. I was shocked to find out that they were actually laying off people because of how it's a work study job. But the reason for the lay off is to do with the fact that they're putting all this work study money into the university due to the 1.5 million budget cut. I suppose the furlough over spring break didn't totally solve the problem, and to think I'm going to graduate to a depression...maybe I really should go to graduate school after all.
Also, I found out that from my fine job that I now have lice...because one of the fifth graders who just moved over here from Palestine got it and passed it around the school. So it looks like I have to now try to get rid of this lice, because my head won't stop itching..............................................................................................................................................................
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April Fools...I got you!!!!! Actually I have not been laid off and the whole lice thing was an April Fools joke from our supervisor, she told us that this girl from Palestine was passing around lice. And we all believed her...sad huh?
But sad story about being laid off, so my roommates dad just got laid off yesterday...along with 400 others in the same company. And then they're laying off some others at the end of the summer, and basically they're hiring college graduates...because they won't have to pay them as much. But luckily he gets like this 6 month pay deal, so they'll be fine as long as he gets another job within six months.
But still I'm graduating to a depression? Not cool!

Nice Story here...!

You should all read the story at this website: http://www.usu.edu/ust/index.cfm?article=35084, it's about one of my neighbors from last year and the year before. You all should be quite happy to have read it by the end.

Finally it's been decided!!

So spring semester is always kind of annoying because you have to decide where to live the next year and it's always hard because there's always the "what if I'm going to the wrong place". Well, I have decided for the summer anyways, but not the school year yet. But anyways for all of you who know of Coldwell Banker wish me luck, because I'm returning to them once again. But it ends up that the summer apartment is most full for the school year. So the three of us (my roommate Holly, friend Julia and I) won't all fit in that apartment. Which means that we still have to figure out a school year apartment now, but we'll see. We just might move to the bottom of old main hill with the over 25 ward...that would be good considering two of the three of us are 25. But just so you all know, Coldwell is evil but it's worth it considering I won't have to pay yucky utilities every month!!

Spring Break!!

This has been the best break of the school year...Spring Break. Actually, I decided a long time ago that Spring Break is the best school break they could have ever invented. Because Christmas break is really long and all those other ones are to short, like presidents day or whatever. And Spring Break is the best one because it's in the very middle of the spring semester, which of course is the second semester of the school year...so it saves us all from burnout.
But the only bad thing about spring break is that your stuck with yucky homework, so you know...!!
It was great fun yesterday though because a bunch of us went to the Draper Temple open house and the Joseph Smith movie. It's really wierd with the Joseph Smith movie, because I've seen it alot but I seem to never get sick of it. So it's very interesting how that works.
But have fun you all and I'll return to you all in a short few days...actually to you Logan people that is.

The weekend!

I went to Provo last weekend because it was Kayden's (Reva and Joey's baby) baby blessing on sunday. I was quite reminded of certain brother in-laws though, particularly Eric and Richard who like to tease people a ton. Because Joey and Walter decided that they should tease me along with Ruth...actually they tease Ruth all the time, so that was normal. But actually Richard and Eric tease Nelson and Marvin more since they are fun to tease...actually more Marvin because he leads the teasing along. (it's quite funny)
Ruth and I also went and watched Twilight with Jessi, who was one of our roommates at Snow. It was fun and a very good hting since Jessi and Paul are moving to Arizona in a few months from now to go to graduate school.

Funny story!

Today at work there was this kindergartener whose dad is a teacher at the school and so the dad came to talk to him about something. So being like most kids are this kindergartener was being all annoyed about whatever the discussion was about or whatever. And then then the dad was like "hey I have idea, how about we switch and I'll be the kid and you can be the parent and you can boss me around." And then after that the little kindergartener stopped being all annoyed, well I think anyways because that was all I heard of the conversation.
But I just thought that it was funny because when your under about 18 years old you seem to think that parents are bossy and annoying and what not. But alot of kids don't realize that they actually have it quite easy, because it's probably alot harder being a parent.
It was kind of funny in institute the other day we were talking about trials or something like that, and our teacher was like "just to warn you all none of you will have had a huge trial until you have kids and they're teenagers." So yeah, poor us young people considering alot of our parents are past that stage in life and none of us are even to that stage yet. (pray for mild teenagers is all I can say)

Wierd experience!

Today I was walking out of one of my classes and happened to run into my roommate right there in the hallway. So we were discussing how it's wierd that we have classes in the same building and have never have run into each other before now. But as we were in the midst of this discussion this guy literally walked right into the back of me and so I turned around totally surprised. Basically to find out that it was this guy whose blind that I've seen around before who has a blind dog, so it was wierd that the dog walked into me too. But I guess the dog was trying to go around me, and so of course the guy didn't see me and that is why that happened. After that though the dog appeared to be freaked out and it wouldn't move but finally it did after a minute. But it is very wierd to have someone run right into you and you don't know who they are.

Something cool I found:

I randomly ran acrossed this really cool song on youtube that I've always liked but have never had. It was the last song that they sang at Pres. Hinkley's funeral over a year ago, and of course the part that we were all crying at. But the website address is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM0YaQEvrRM, and so you can all find it now too.

Roommates!!

These are just some pictures from the other day when Allison decided that we needed to take funny roommate pictures.

in the picture of us all falling backwards there is from left to right, April, Becca, me, Holly and Allison. And then in the jumping picture it is Holly, Allison and you all should recognize the other jumping person. It was great fun though taking these pictures considering it was 1 a.m. and three of us had 7:30 a.m. classes.

Record Player!!

I don't know if any of you remember the old time record players. But when I was about five my parents had one, and well yeah it died after my siblings and I played around with it.

Anyways, a couple of my roommates decided to buy records at D.I. to decorate our apartment with, such as wall decorations. So just last weekend my roommate Becca got back from being at home for President's Day weekend. And her parents had one of those record players and lent it to her. So we listened to all of our wall hangs/records on her record player. I must say it was really wierd to listen to music from the records, just because it was old time music. And we're all used to the fast upbeat music of the day...!

Also, it was kind of funny last night at like mid night my roommates Becca and Allison decided that they were going to go to Wendy's. So I ended up going with them and it ended up that very few places were opened at that time of night. It was quite fun though, and I must say without Becca and Allison around life would be dull. They are both freshmen and so that's probably why they're still entertaining compared to us seniors who are all into graduating and doing homework all the time.

Freaky...!

So the other day one of my teachers told our class that due to the dying economy they just lost quite a bit of $ from the crashing stock market. How lovely right? So I dont' know much about the stock market, except that it goes up and down alot. But I don't know how likely I'll do something like putting money in the stock market in my life time. IRA's are probably much more safer...but it really freaky to actually know of someone whose lost $ to the bad economy. Because it's most definately quite easy to be in college and be just fine and not having to worry about the economy. So that has made it so that I'm kind of oblivious to it all...until now!

The fire has been forced to return!

So I have this fine class called Psychological Statistics that is just one of those classes that you should not take if you don't have to. Unless your like my summer Elder's Quorum president and your majoring in Statistics...then you can take a class like that. But otherwise it's not allowed unless you absolutely have too. So anyways, it's become insanely hard...not that it wasn't insanely hard previously. But it's getting worse...so anyways I am now doing absolutely everything in relation to this class in a study group. Because basically everyone else is agreeing that they absolutely must be in this study group...so anyways I have to be all studious now and study a ton for this class. (about two more months) So if on tuesday night of finals week you just happen to call me and I don't answer just assumed that I was killed by Psychological Statisitics...just kidding. But it most definately is the hardest class of my life...agreed? Does anyone agree? Actually you aren't because I just banned you all from taking the class...so consider yourself lucky...hehe!!

What is this world coming to...?

So at work yesterday I was supposed to be doing homework with this little first grader and this little boy started and after a little while he just suddenly absolutely refused to finish his homework. It was so wierd, but I kept insisting that he do it...well that didn't work. So after homework time one of the other girls asked what had happened since he didn't finish his homework, and so I told her. And basically she was like "we have to make sure he does it because he will not do it at home." Of course I knew the answer to this, but I was thinking "and why won't he do it at home...come on where on earth are this kids parents at?" But of course I already knew the answer, alot of these kids parents are off working and don't seem to care that their kids aren't doing their homework. But it is most definately a hard job having to force kids to do their homework, especially when they're in first grade...just think 11 more years of homework and there won't always be a after school teacher around to force them to do their homework.

The fire is gone!!

So I have officially decided that it is about time I graduate and end the days of homework. Because normally after a few weeks into the semester I get into the homework and class rountine, but this semester I just seem to not be able to concentrate on homework. It's really wierd, but offically a sign of burn outage. So I have made this weekend the official stats weekend, because I'm really behind in stats 2800 and we have another test next week. Which means that it will be great fun reading about stats all weekend...but that is the hardest class at the moment so I can't just let the fire be totally out just yet.

Leading you all astray!

Actually it's not the teenagers that I haven't really liked about teaching these classes, because these teenagers are actually really good for being teenagers. Especially the two older ones, they kind of whisper to each other but for the most part they seem to listen and they're really cool. It's more the topic that I haven't really liked, for example last week we had to fill out these work sheets on change and everone including my co-teaching partner talked about when their parents got divorced and basically that all came about because the classes are on step families. So then there was me who was the only one who didn't talk about that on the work sheet, and so it's just difficult because I don't really relate to any of them at all. While on the other hand my co-teaching partner relates to them alot since she her parents were divorced also. I'm not saying that I'd want to be in a divorced/step family, but it is hard when everyone including the other teacher can all relate. And I don't relate at all, except that I get along with the 10 year olds since they seem to think that I'm funny or something...I guess!

Practicum

The step family classes that we are teaching started on wednesday and I don't know what I was expecting to happen, but I was quite surprised at how it went. Basically two other girls teach the parenting classes, and two of us teach the 6-17 year old class, but from what we were told it's usually 14 or younger. So I got there and half of the class was teenagers, several were at least 15 or 16. So we did our first lesson, which seemed to be okay, but not all the way. Because the other girl who has a step mom seemed to relate better to everyone more then I did, since I don't have a step family. But it seemed fine for the most part and then they do this thing were the parents and children all come together and talk about what they learned in the class that day, at the end. So we all stayed in the room and after awhile of discussion the lady (they're actually not married yet) started asking the children all these questions basically along the lines of why the children don't consider them all being a family? Yet they aren't actually a family because the parents aren't married. So I guess that I was just surprised, because I've heard about stuff like this in classes, but it's never been real life. Basically saying that you really don't get the real picture from reading a textbook compared to being in a real life situation like that.
As of tonight I get to teach the class, because we do this thing were we each do a lesson every other time and then just help the other person when they are doing the teaching. Hopefully it goes over well, since the older teenagers didn't seem to really like it, just because alot of it is kid games. But I'm sure they'll all be back because there is free food and the parents are getting them there, so we'll see how it goes.

Luckily it wasn't broncitis...!!

It ends up that my roommate had the flu we think, because it went away in two days. And she's not coughing the broncitis cough anymore, so it couldn't have been broncitis...because broncitis does not leave in two days.

Sad story...!

On sunday we were at church and after sunday school my roommate Holly suddenly told me that she had a sore throat and that she was going to go home. And I was like "oh no, I hope you don't have broncitis." (but she just said that it was probably a cold) Well, being the same as I am she went over to her friends apartment to make indian food on sunday night and then she didn't get back until at least 11 p.m. And so I saw her in the living room sitting there after she got back and so I went in and she was literally just sitting there not saying a word, just so you know she likes talking alot. But she was just sitting there not saying a word and then she suddenly said that she was going to bed. So then yesterday she suddenly started sending me all these texts asking me how I could tell if I had broncitis and stuff like that?
It sounds exacally like broncitis now and the cough is a broncitis cough, and so she told me that she'd go to the doctor today. So hopefully she does and doesn't just take it as a sore throat like I did. But it's terrible because she's supposed to be taking the MCat this semester, so hopefully the broncitis doesn't kill that idea. It won't I'm sure...but it might delay it. But sadly enough the broncitis has spread from Ephraim Utah to Logan Utah...hopefully it stops in Logan is all I can say.
Guess what? (random part to the blog) I get to start teaching Step Family classes tomorrow for my practicum...fun, fun!! And it sounds like there are going to be some 18 year olds in the group, hopefully they are cool and don't try to cause chaos, not that all teenagers would do that. (hehe)

Van rollover of 2005

Last night I was kind of having a bad night because of the week and a half of broncitis, I still went to my math class. But I had these huge headaches and couldn't concentrate very well and so basically I got behind and I am now in for a brutal math semester. So yesterday we had our first black board test and I did study, but in the end I got lower then I would have liked on that test. And then after work last night and what not I was walking to my apartment/more sliding down the ice covered hill. And so I was just annoyed because of this annoying broncitis I am now in for a bad semester.
Well, then today I went to Religion in Life at the Institute and guess who talked at it? Some people by the names of Jared and Amy Nelson, you probably don't recognize the name. But I have a story here to jog your memory...fall 2005 there was a huge USU agricultural group that went on some trip in those huge old 15 passenger vans. Were on the freeway, the tire blew and the van rolled. There were 11 in the van, including a professor who was among the 11. Well, the van rolled and 9 of the 11 died. Two lived, one walked away in normal condition, but the other Jared Nelson had brain damage and is now in a wheel chair, can't talk, and worst of all he had only been married 5 weeks. So this friend of there's got up to introduce them at the religion in life and basically after the introduction he was like "and you guys think you have it bad, but honestly these two have it alot worse." And suddenly I was totally like thinking "oh dear, I at least found a study group for that math class, and I'm not the only one sliding down the ice hill around here." So yeah, that is exacally always how it works, when you think that you have it bad you find out that it could always be worse.
Honestly it would have been so much easier if Jared Nelson had died in the freak accident, well easier for his wife at least. Because then she could have gotten remarried later, but honestly that girl is amazing. She gave this whole entire talk on how it's hard because they don't fit in very well with other couples, but that's okay because all of us at one time or another feel left out or alone. And she just went off about how all of her trials are just like ours and nothing much different, but honestly hers are alot worse. All I have to complain about is being a poor college student, getting broncitis and doing bad on the first math test of the semester.

You don't appreciate it until you don't have it anymore...!

So it's really wierd, but all of last week I couldn't go to church or any of my institute classes all week long because of the broncitis. And so today was the first day back to institute class and it was really wierd because the whole time I was sitting there going "wow", which was rather odd considering it's Doctrine and Covenant part 2, so nothing to new. But I think it's totally because when you are fine and can go to church, institute and everything else under the sun you just kind of take it for granted. But when you actually lose it for awhile that is when you actually start realizing what your missing.
It's very interesting because my friend from choir and I decided to get into this Doctrine and Covenant class basically because the teacher is the institute choir teacher. And we just decided to get in that class to see if the choir teacher is more serious in a actual doctrinal class, compared to choir. But I must say that I think this is actually one of the best institute teachers in a doctrinal class that I've had at USU. Well, take that back I do like the Miracle of Forgiviness teacher alot, and the institute director also. (Brother Dymack and a few others)
But I think that this new love of institute actually stems from the fact that I've had to weeks to lay on my bed and moan, and also think to much. So since I was reading the work and the glory I seemed to be thinking about church history alot...so that could be a contributing factor.
But I suppose that I should get back to studying for Psychological Stats now...yeah we have a test tomorrow.

Money Matters Once Again!

I have a terrible story, so I couldn't return this $100.00 research methods to the book store, just because I didn't have proof that I was dropping the class. Because I wasn't, I just got a better deal on-line. So the only thing that I could come to was to put the book on-line and put it at the book store price. I was just expecting it to sit there awhile, but over night the book sold. So I sent it to this girl fairly quickly and I was quite happy about it because I got my money back. But sadly enough enough two days later I went into my e-mail to find that someone else had bought the exact same book and I need to mail it to this other girl by next thursday. Yeah, I swear I checked my account to make sure there was only one copy on there being sold...but somehow it still was on the ebay main page twice. Yeah, it's like I only the one book so how do I come up with another copy without losing money? So basically what I came to was that I basically bought the last used book in the book store and so to get one there I'd have to buy a new one for $150.00 while this person was buying my invisible one for $100.00, so I'd lose $50 that I don't have. So then I went onto half.com/ebay and couldn't find any good deals, sure there were some for like $80.00 but in horrid condition, and not what this person is expecting to get.

So by then I just didn't know what to do, I'd about decided that I would have to go get one at the book store and lose the $50.00. But then I decided to go to Amazon and see the prices on this book, well they were all about $110 or $150. So I went back to half.com/ebay one last time and then I saw at the very bottom this same book being sold for $72.00, so I went in. And they were brand new, which is what this person is expecting. Which is good because by buying that book I could save $28.00, which isn't alot but better then losing money. And so I ended up having about $85.00 in my total accounts. So I bought the book and now only have $12.00 in both of my accounts combined, which is really scary to get that low. But as far as I know there are no bills that will go through this weekend and if I make sure that I don't use a debit card or anything I should be fine until the money from the other book sales start coming in next week. So just hopefully it isn't slow coming through and it all comes in by the starting of the week. But isn't that terrible? That somehow it got two listings on there and now I have to almost invent a new book to get to that girl. But I'm just lucky that I went back in one last time to half.com/ebay and saw that $72.00 book at the very bottom and went into it and saw that it was brand new. So just hopefully this book comes fast and I can get it in the mail to this other person by thursday like I'm supposed. I swear my life is insane, but somehow things always seem to work out. Sometimes I wonder how it all works out when it's crazy things like an accidental listing for a book on half.com/ebay. But thank goodness it all has worked out is all I can say.

Good luck to you all have have a great holiday weekend with no school on monday!!!!

My brothers January surprise to me...haha!

So as was mentioned previously I was really sick and I basically placed it as a bad head cold. Well, by sunday I was coughing, had clogged ears and couldn't hear very good but other then that I was pretty much fine, it was just the cough that was being annoying. But anyways on sathurday night I was freaking out because I wanted to be better by monday, and suddenly it occured to me that I should get blessing. So I called my brother in law Richard, and he came over and did it. But while he and my sister were there at my apartment right off they asked if I had been to the doctor and I was kind of surprised because I thought that it was a bad head cold so I hadn't even thought of going to the doctor. Well, then that night I was talking to my mom she was asking what all the symptoms were? And as soon as I told her everything she was like "that sounds exacally like what Nelson (my brother) had for two weeks straight". (which was during christmas break) And I was like "Oh No, I have BRONCITIS". The next day I went to the doctor and I found out that I very much did have broncitis...thank goodness I realized what I had and stopped placing it as a head cold or I'd still be ill right now.
And luckily this wasn't 100 years ago or my whole family would be dead right now, except for my mom, dad, and my sister Amanda. Because we've all had broncitis now, well maybe Janae hasn't...but she thinks that she has because she was deaf in one ear for several months the spring that she got married. And basically with broncitis you get really sick with the coughs and then you basically are sick so long that it affects your ears and if not treated soon enough you probably could go permanantly deaf. (but maybe not because Janae finally was able to hear about from that ear by the spring)
But thank goodness for modern technology and the preizthood...or poor Amanda would be alone without any other siblings. Sadness...but just so you all know pneumonia follows broncitis and that is where it becomes a killer. So luckily there is medicine to stop it when it gets to broncitis...!! Also, there is something else that I totally just realized, but I'll leave that to another post because I need to run and do homework now. (considering I more better now)