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! :)

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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!

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!

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!