Wow, much has happened since my last blog. Where do I start? First of all, I no longer have a job. I decided to quit because, well, let's just say that Foundations Insurance was not the best option for me in this point in my life. I find myself with much more free time, and yet I still don't get everything done. Go figure. It's kind of invigorating really to not have to be tied to that place. But hopefully I'll have a job for next semester.
Within the same week that I quit my job, I also had an adventure with my car, or former car. I was driving home from work (actually the last day I did drive home from work) on I-15. I'd rather not go into lots of details, so let's just say that my car is no more. It was one of the scariest things I've ever done and I have no desire to ever relive it! I was shaking for a good hour afterward and I still just kind of want to cry when I think about it. But, alas, it IS just a car. Life will go on, even if it has to go on without the Altima. I think that one of the saddest parts was emailing Brian in Uruguay to tell him that the car he has grown to love he will never see again. This is how his email back went:
"It was one of those things...it was one of those relationships you knew was too good to last. I loved her like I have loved no one else, but, it was time to part. If thats the way things have to be, then....I will move on. I can still dream about her late at night, and still remember the good times we shared together. She will live on in my heart forever! "
Clearly he was heart broken. The Altima was more than just a car to him, and to me; it was a loyal friend always there when you need them. He is right though - we will just have to move on. I would post pictures, but they are kind of painful still, and they're on Courtney's camera. I'm still working on getting over my fear of driving, or even riding in cars, particularly the freeway. I avoid it as much as possible. And I think that I kind of scare Nichelle when I jump when the driver of the car I'm riding in applies the brakes.
Other than that, I've just been trying to make the most of my time here at BYU. Football games, late nights, homework, studying, midterms, labs, roommates, church callings...it's all part of the experience I guess. And I can't wait to see what the future holds for me!
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Saturday, October 13, 2007
And We're Back!
So I've been really bad about this whole blogging business. Sorry Em! I love you! But quite a bit has happened. First of all, I was finally able to pick up my glasses about two weeks ago. That was pretty exciting...or at least I keep telling myself that! I'm not sure that I'm a fan of wearing them yet, but I sure do love being able to see detail! This is me with my new glasses on. I'm with Chris and I'm not really fond of this picture, but you get the general idea.
That weekend I went to St. George with my family to see Cinderella at Tuachan. I loved it! And the actors even had faces! And they moved! And I could see them! It was all very exciting.
Speaking of exciting, we had a rather exciting Sunday a couple of weeks ago. The day was September thirtieth. The place was Wyview Park in Provo, Utah. The time was immediately following dinner. Nichelle was washing dishes when she inadvertently dropped one of our glasses. Luckily Chris's shoe broke the fall. However, moments later the same glass fell again. This time Nichelle tried to make a spectacular save. In her haste, she smashed the cup against the counter, sending shards of glass flying in all directions. Once everything settled down, we realized that she was wounded. Apparently in her attempt at heroics, a piece of glass pierced her finger. A short (or not so short) time later we found ourselves at the local IHC checking Nichelle in to see a doctor. The doctor looked at the cut then proceeded to give her three stitches. But don't worry; this story has a happy ending. Two weeks later the cut is nearly healed and the stitches removed. Although she did have issues with leaving the stitches alone while they were in...but that's another story altogether.
WARNING: THESE PICTURES ARE NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART! :)
It starts:
After:
All better! Sort of...
So, as you can see, we had quite the little adventure. Never a dull moment around here!
I have now taken my first college exam ever, two of them actually. Neither one of them went as well as hoped for, but hey, you do what you can. Life goes on and you just try to do better next time I guess. Other than that classes have been going rather well. I'm pretty sure I want to stick with computer science as my major. I seem to enjoy CS 142 so far, but only time will tell if that trend continues, especially since our first exam is this week. We'll see how that goes.
I've also tried to give blood three times in the past week and a half or so. The first two times we got there too late so they were turning people away. The third time we made it and I filled out all of the paperwork and did all of the other stuff, but alas, they told me my veins were too small and that I should drink more water before trying again. I think this means that I'm not meant to give blood. Three strikes and you're out! But really I think that I might go with Nichelle sometime to try again. She couldn't give blood either. She's tried four times and they've stuck her twice, but her veins are just too small so the blood doesn't come out fast enough. I'll just drown myself in water before I go. I think it's a good plan. I'm determined to make it work. Enough of this worrying about it all day then not being able to give business.
This is a random picture of me and my roommates. We didn't even plan the face; it just seemed to work out that way. I just like pictures so I thought I'd include this one.
That's about my life in a nutshell (it may or may not be a rather large nutshell!) for the past couple of weeks. Hope things are going well for all of you!
That weekend I went to St. George with my family to see Cinderella at Tuachan. I loved it! And the actors even had faces! And they moved! And I could see them! It was all very exciting.
Speaking of exciting, we had a rather exciting Sunday a couple of weeks ago. The day was September thirtieth. The place was Wyview Park in Provo, Utah. The time was immediately following dinner. Nichelle was washing dishes when she inadvertently dropped one of our glasses. Luckily Chris's shoe broke the fall. However, moments later the same glass fell again. This time Nichelle tried to make a spectacular save. In her haste, she smashed the cup against the counter, sending shards of glass flying in all directions. Once everything settled down, we realized that she was wounded. Apparently in her attempt at heroics, a piece of glass pierced her finger. A short (or not so short) time later we found ourselves at the local IHC checking Nichelle in to see a doctor. The doctor looked at the cut then proceeded to give her three stitches. But don't worry; this story has a happy ending. Two weeks later the cut is nearly healed and the stitches removed. Although she did have issues with leaving the stitches alone while they were in...but that's another story altogether.
WARNING: THESE PICTURES ARE NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART! :)
It starts:
After:
All better! Sort of...
So, as you can see, we had quite the little adventure. Never a dull moment around here!
I have now taken my first college exam ever, two of them actually. Neither one of them went as well as hoped for, but hey, you do what you can. Life goes on and you just try to do better next time I guess. Other than that classes have been going rather well. I'm pretty sure I want to stick with computer science as my major. I seem to enjoy CS 142 so far, but only time will tell if that trend continues, especially since our first exam is this week. We'll see how that goes.
I've also tried to give blood three times in the past week and a half or so. The first two times we got there too late so they were turning people away. The third time we made it and I filled out all of the paperwork and did all of the other stuff, but alas, they told me my veins were too small and that I should drink more water before trying again. I think this means that I'm not meant to give blood. Three strikes and you're out! But really I think that I might go with Nichelle sometime to try again. She couldn't give blood either. She's tried four times and they've stuck her twice, but her veins are just too small so the blood doesn't come out fast enough. I'll just drown myself in water before I go. I think it's a good plan. I'm determined to make it work. Enough of this worrying about it all day then not being able to give business.
This is a random picture of me and my roommates. We didn't even plan the face; it just seemed to work out that way. I just like pictures so I thought I'd include this one.
That's about my life in a nutshell (it may or may not be a rather large nutshell!) for the past couple of weeks. Hope things are going well for all of you!
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Life is Good!
So today I was sitting in Sunday School (or was it Relief Society...?) and it just hit me; I love it here! Everything about it is so amazing. Sure, it hasn't been an easy change, but I feel so lucky just to be here! Just the fact the I can start my food science class with a prayer, or that I can have family scripture study and prayer with my roommates, or my health professor can give quotes from apostles about how important our bodies are! It is so cool! I am completly surrounded by the gospel. But then I got thinking again, it doesn't even really matter where I'm at! The church is true everywhere! I can go anywhere in the world and still have the same blessings of the gospel! I know that the gospel is true, so why should I be afraid or sad or upset? Everything will work out just fine! It won't be easy, but I will always have something to fall back on. It's awesome! I absolutely love it! I just can't help but be happy!
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Books, homework, late nights, and oh, DISNEYLAND!!!
Wow - I can't believe that I've been living here for two and a half weeks. It really feels like I've been here for so much longer! I have absolutely loved it here though - everything about it. My roommates are awesome and we just all seemed too fit together really well. It's crazy how we ended up together; we are all so different, but we all bring different things to the apartment and we have become really good friends.
I started classes two weeks ago. So far I have basically enjoyed them as much as could be expected. I'm thinking that I'm going to stick with Computer Science as my major, but that is to be determined... So Courtney and I felt like we were in second grade again the morning of our first day as our roommates saw us off to school (they didn't have classes until later in the day.) This is us on our first day! (Basically I hate this picture so don't look at it for too long!)
Wednesday night of that week I headed back home to catch a flight with my family to California. Yes, I missed two days on my first week of school - that kind of frightened me but it all worked out alright. This was me saying goodbye, I mean see you later, to two of my favorite people ever! (And yes, they are on their appropriate sides.)
In California we spent two days at Disneyland and then went to the UCLA game on Saturday. It was so much fun. And can I just say that I LOVE Disneyland! It is seriously one of my favorite places on earth! I walked through the gates onto Main Street and thought to myself, "Ok, I can do this whole growing up and going to college thing. I just have to come back to Disneyland and I'm five again!" It's so great! This is my sister and I in the happiest place on earth:
Pics of the Rose Bowl/football team. This game was a lot of fun - too bad BYU couldn't pull it off. Oh well, 12-1 isn't so bad either! :)
After the football game we were driving back to our hotel and apparently there was an unexpected guest who decided to come along with us. I was sleeping and suddenly felt something crawling near my eye. I went to brush it away or feel what was there and alas, it was a bee/wasp/hornet/something with a stinger. Naturally when I touched it it became scared and unleashed its only form of defense on me. This is what I looked like the next morning:
Needless to say, it was an intense night. The swelling is now completely gone however, for which I am very grateful. At least I can still see...well kind of. I'm going to see an eye doctor on Monday for the very first time to have him check my eyes. I figured it was a bad sign when I couldn't read the writing that was projected onto a screen at the CS lab orientation...or anything else that is projected for that matter. This has nothing to do with the bee sting, but I'm kind of scared....really I'm just a whimp and am worrying over nothing, but any advice would be greatly appreciated!
I started classes two weeks ago. So far I have basically enjoyed them as much as could be expected. I'm thinking that I'm going to stick with Computer Science as my major, but that is to be determined... So Courtney and I felt like we were in second grade again the morning of our first day as our roommates saw us off to school (they didn't have classes until later in the day.) This is us on our first day! (Basically I hate this picture so don't look at it for too long!)
Wednesday night of that week I headed back home to catch a flight with my family to California. Yes, I missed two days on my first week of school - that kind of frightened me but it all worked out alright. This was me saying goodbye, I mean see you later, to two of my favorite people ever! (And yes, they are on their appropriate sides.)
In California we spent two days at Disneyland and then went to the UCLA game on Saturday. It was so much fun. And can I just say that I LOVE Disneyland! It is seriously one of my favorite places on earth! I walked through the gates onto Main Street and thought to myself, "Ok, I can do this whole growing up and going to college thing. I just have to come back to Disneyland and I'm five again!" It's so great! This is my sister and I in the happiest place on earth:
Pics of the Rose Bowl/football team. This game was a lot of fun - too bad BYU couldn't pull it off. Oh well, 12-1 isn't so bad either! :)
After the football game we were driving back to our hotel and apparently there was an unexpected guest who decided to come along with us. I was sleeping and suddenly felt something crawling near my eye. I went to brush it away or feel what was there and alas, it was a bee/wasp/hornet/something with a stinger. Naturally when I touched it it became scared and unleashed its only form of defense on me. This is what I looked like the next morning:
Needless to say, it was an intense night. The swelling is now completely gone however, for which I am very grateful. At least I can still see...well kind of. I'm going to see an eye doctor on Monday for the very first time to have him check my eyes. I figured it was a bad sign when I couldn't read the writing that was projected onto a screen at the CS lab orientation...or anything else that is projected for that matter. This has nothing to do with the bee sting, but I'm kind of scared....really I'm just a whimp and am worrying over nothing, but any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Sunday, September 2, 2007
FIRST WEEKEND!
This really is incredible. I can't believe it. Well, our apartment is finally completely moved in. Everything now has a place. That in and of itself is and incredible feeling! We even cleaned our carpets yesterday. They were pretty nasty, but I now can sit/lay on them without fear of catching some crazy disease. :)
Here are pictures of our cute apartment. It actually looks slightly different now; it's much more "homie." They are pretty much self explanatory.
Our kitchen. It makes me happy that we have one!
Our cute family table, complete with placemats.
Our bathroom, with a Cars shower curtain, provided by me, of course!
This is our bedroom - my bunk is the top one. Courtney's stuff is the messy part. :) Except my bed is kind of messy too...
This is my nice clean desk, with the "Cougars Reloaded" Poster of course!
Naturally I attended the BYU-Arizona football game yesterday. It was awesome. I sometimes forget how much I love being in a sea of blue at Lavell Edwards stadium on Saturday afternoons with 65,000 other fans cheering the Cougars on to victory. A good time was had by all. We even had our first college student moment. It was a rather hot day and none of us had water. Since we were all poor college students with no money, we resorted to the gigantic line at the drinking fountain at half time. After about five minutes, someone spotted two water bottles in a cardboard box near a snack bar type stand. Well, Chris and Kathryn decided that they were entirely too thirsty to wait for the line, so they took the bottles into the bathroom, washed them out, and filled them up. It kind of grossed me out but needless to say, they did get water! It actually really surprised me that Kathryn really did it. Chris, not so much. :)
Courtney and I having a good time:
You may begin to see a trend that Courtney is clearly incapable of taking normal pictures. The second one makes me laugh. It's Courtney, her friends Richard and Chris, and our roommates Nichelle and Kathryn. Chris looks a little bit angry...
This is my favorite new Cougar singing along with the other fans to the Cougar Fight Song following a touchdown:
Today was our first day in our new BYU student ward. I basically love it so far. Our bishop seems really cool and I can't wait to get to know the other students in my ward. Testimony meeting today was much different than in a home ward. There were absolutely no pauses. At least three people got up as soon as the bishop sat down and a steady stream continued from there on out. It was a good meeting nonetheless.
Here are pictures of our cute apartment. It actually looks slightly different now; it's much more "homie." They are pretty much self explanatory.
Our kitchen. It makes me happy that we have one!
Our cute family table, complete with placemats.
Our bathroom, with a Cars shower curtain, provided by me, of course!
This is our bedroom - my bunk is the top one. Courtney's stuff is the messy part. :) Except my bed is kind of messy too...
This is my nice clean desk, with the "Cougars Reloaded" Poster of course!
Naturally I attended the BYU-Arizona football game yesterday. It was awesome. I sometimes forget how much I love being in a sea of blue at Lavell Edwards stadium on Saturday afternoons with 65,000 other fans cheering the Cougars on to victory. A good time was had by all. We even had our first college student moment. It was a rather hot day and none of us had water. Since we were all poor college students with no money, we resorted to the gigantic line at the drinking fountain at half time. After about five minutes, someone spotted two water bottles in a cardboard box near a snack bar type stand. Well, Chris and Kathryn decided that they were entirely too thirsty to wait for the line, so they took the bottles into the bathroom, washed them out, and filled them up. It kind of grossed me out but needless to say, they did get water! It actually really surprised me that Kathryn really did it. Chris, not so much. :)
Courtney and I having a good time:
You may begin to see a trend that Courtney is clearly incapable of taking normal pictures. The second one makes me laugh. It's Courtney, her friends Richard and Chris, and our roommates Nichelle and Kathryn. Chris looks a little bit angry...
This is my favorite new Cougar singing along with the other fans to the Cougar Fight Song following a touchdown:
Today was our first day in our new BYU student ward. I basically love it so far. Our bishop seems really cool and I can't wait to get to know the other students in my ward. Testimony meeting today was much different than in a home ward. There were absolutely no pauses. At least three people got up as soon as the bishop sat down and a steady stream continued from there on out. It was a good meeting nonetheless.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
All Moved In...kind of
So I actually wrote this post on Thursday, but I was waiting for pictures to post with it:
Wow - this is incredible. I am officially a resident of Wyview Park at BYU!! I can't believe it. Yesterday was so crazy and filled with so many different emotions.
I went with my cousin Courtney over to our apartment to check in at 10:00 AM. We went through the whole little orientation thing where we learned how to use a fire extinguisher and not jump out of our windows, then proceeded on to recieve our keys. Woah - that was weird, to hold the key to MY apartment in my hands. When we arrived at our apartment, we found that Nichelle, our other roommate was already there, but unfortunately Kathryn will not be moving in until Friday.
This is Courtney and I when we first walked moved into our new room together!
Wow - this is incredible. I am officially a resident of Wyview Park at BYU!! I can't believe it. Yesterday was so crazy and filled with so many different emotions.
I went with my cousin Courtney over to our apartment to check in at 10:00 AM. We went through the whole little orientation thing where we learned how to use a fire extinguisher and not jump out of our windows, then proceeded on to recieve our keys. Woah - that was weird, to hold the key to MY apartment in my hands. When we arrived at our apartment, we found that Nichelle, our other roommate was already there, but unfortunately Kathryn will not be moving in until Friday.
Well I didn't have much time to move stuff in, but I did get my bed made and headed back up to good ole Riverton to finish packing. This is me on top of my bed when we first moved in. Yes, the ceiling really is as close as it looks. Let's just say I'm hoping that I don't have any nightmares and sit up really fast in the middle of the night. :)
This is Courtney and I when we first walked moved into our new room together!
Upon my mom getting home from work at 4:00, we left for Provo once again. We met up with Courtney and her mom Terri at Costco so as to purchase food so we do not in fact waste away. After a subsequent trip to Ream's, we proceeded to our apartment well stocked with tasty delights. But alas, Courtney and I ended up locking ourselves out of our apartment for the first time, on the first day. We basked in the hot sun while we waited for Nichelle to return from her visit to campus. By the time she arrived, I was running very low on time because I still needed to return home to retrieve my car.
My mom, brother, and brother's roommate helped me move everything inside and we had time to put my clothes away, but left much of my stuff in an unorganized heap. I returned with my mom to Riverton where I went over to a park where my home ward's Mutual was being held. Let me just say, I absolutely HATE saying goodbye to people. You can guess how that one went. Then I, of course, stocked up on more food from my house, said goodbye to my parents, and proceed to the houses of two of my favorite people! After a *cough*breif*cough* visit with each of them and a longing look at Hobby Lobby as I past, I made the final journey back to Provo where I hoped to retire for the night.
Naturally we had visitors, much to my delight. They stayed until, of course, midnight when, in accordance with the Honor Code, they proceeded home. After they were gone, Courtney and Nichelle and I stayed up a little bit longer in a vain attempt to organize our kitchen. I think I actually went to bed sometime around two in the morning...great start to my sleeping habits in Provo. And, despite our efforts, I found Nichelle this morning eating a bowl of cereal on the back of our couch because there was no room on the table. That just about sums up my day. It is such a weird feeling. I am so excited though to get involved and meet new people. And, of course, stay in touch with the old people too! (By old, I am not indicating anything about the age of those who read this blog, but rather the amount of time I have know them. :) )
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
One More Day!
So this is my first official post on my new blog! I can't believe it - tomorrow I'm going to be moving into my apartment just minutes from the campus of Brigham Young University! AHHH! This is so crazy! I can't believe that I am really this old - I never thought this day would actually come. Where does all the time go? One thing that I've learned and am still learning is to just enjoy what life brings you - don't worry so much about all of the little stuff. I can't wait to start this next exciting stage in my life! Pictures of my apartment will definitely follow!
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