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?