Holiday Cheer at BYU

Who schedules a test the week of Thanksgiving when most people are already on their way home to be with family? I have great disdain for my professor who decided to torture us all with having to be in class on the Monday night before a holiday. I understand that you have nothing else better to do but it would be nice to not be a jerk all the time.

Great News

I was on CNN.com just now and I ran across and article saying that the prescription drug I use on occasion has been pulled from the market due to the possibility of fatal heart rhythms.

Great.

A Lesson Not Learned

Someday I will learn my lesson.

That someday was not today.

Lunch Dates

Today a certain boy made my day. We went to lunch together and he wanted to sit right by me. He couldn't even take his eyes off me...even though there were 6 other girls at lunch with us. He and I had great conversation he told me all about school and what he was doing with his life; I had the time of my life. If only he was 25 instead of just 5.

Ahhh such is life. I still enjoyed my lunch with him.

(along with Kim, Amber and Chelsea...I enjoyed your company too).

Please come back soon.

Super Senioritis

It hit me.

I officially have Senioritis, and unlike high school where I was already accepted into a college and nothing that I did was really going to change anything, the classes that I am taking now are some of my most important classes for grad schools. I'm sitting in the library and I literally cannot stay still. I've gotten up to go to the bathroom, filled my water bottle, thought about going to get something to eat when in reality all I should be doing is studying for a test that I have at 5:30 this evening. I do care about the grade that I get in this class but that doesn't seem to be much of a motivation at this point. I would like to be on the beach somewhere, preferably where its not snowing (it has snowed the past 2 days here) and just relaxing reading a good book.

Fortunately, this semester is my last semester of classes. Although I'm signed up for 3 classes winter semester, I don't have to take them if I don't want to. I'm definitely ready for a break from school and one cannot come fast enough.

The worst part about it is that I am a super senior (a senior + 1 year) so I'm pretty sure its twice as bad as it would be if I were just a regular senior. I really do hope that I can get through these next couple of weeks. I wouldn't be opposed to getting nice letters or calls or even care packages with words of encouragement and fun goodies. They would be much appreciated.

There are 2 things that I am really looking forward to though. First is that my friends Kim and Amber are coming out for a visit and I cannot wait to see them. They are truly the best and it will be nice to catch up and just hang out. Then second, my mom is coming out for Thanksgiving! Although I don't get to go home this year, its going to be a lot of fun having her here with me and my siblings for a quiet relaxing holiday without all the hustle and bustle that the holiday usually brings. The best part about it is that I will get to help make a lot of the dinner. I love to cook, and love to cook for other people even more. Every Sunday I cook for my brother and sister and nothing could make me happier. After Thanksgiving I have minimal amounts of work and a lot of studying and then on to my last semester as an undergrad. Its been a long time in the making!

The Absent Blogger

I finally got my computer back about a week ago after it being at Best Buy for a month (no fault of Best Buy). My old laptop crashed mid July after sticking with me for years on end. I got the computer towards the end of my senior year and lets just say it and I have been through a lot. To make a long story short...maybe...Stephen got a new computer for graduation from my parents and then won a really nice macbook pro at his all night graduation party and so his graduation present became my shouldn't you have graduated present. Only a few short days into actually having the laptop in my hands it also crashed. Technology hates me. Luckily we had a super fantastic warranty through Best Buy and they were going to fix it, new hard drive no problem. The only thing we had to do was get the recovery disks from SONY. We called SONY and to our bemusement their parts and accessories department was closed so that they could update and upgrade their system. What international business closes an entire department for over 2 weeks!?!?!?!?!?! After the 2 weeks....and then some, and then some more, SONY finally opened and then charged me for ridiculous things like oh um 27 cents for packaging. Really SONY???? You can't pay the 27 cents yourself???? I was so mad but desperately wanted my computer fixed so I payed up and then gave their service a horrendous review. It was much deserved.

I'm back in action now and have a lot of updates.

Not Your Grandma's Water Aerobics

This semester I signed up to take the water aerobics class on campus. I had taken a class while I was in school at Idaho and really loved it so I decided to give it another shot. The instructor is the freakishly tall girl maybe over 6 feet and is maybe about 120 lbs...but she is BUFF! She told us that she loved teaching water aerobics but this wasn't going to be your grandma's water aerobics class. The first day that we were in the water we did a 500 yard run in the water for time and I did fairly well. I came in second and the only person to beat me was a guy so I didn't feel too bad. It was much harder than I expected though. I run on a consistent basis (at least a mile often more) and I was winded by the end. Today was the first day that we actually did a full workout and I'm already feeling it. My legs are sore, my arms are sore, even my abs are sore and I am exhausted! Water aerobics is a really great workout where you control the amount of resistance you have. I figured though, if I'm going to take this class and get wet in the middle of the day, that I'm really going to work at it.

I have a 1 hour break between water aerobics and my next class so I was going to take a shower at the pool and then get dressed and go do homework at the library for the remainder of the hour. I brought my shampoo, conditioner, hair product, deodorant, a change of clothes and a brush. I thought I was all set to go until I came back into the locker room and realized that I had forgotten a few of the essentials. In all of my planning ahead and picking out my outfit, I had forgotten a towel as well and underwear and a bra. I would have been ok if I had just had one or the other but I had to forget both. I went up to the equipment room in the locker room and asked for a towel and they asked me if I had a locker rental which I did not. They then asked me if I had my student ID card (I was standing there in nothing but my bathing suit...where would I have put my student ID). Obviously I didn't have my student ID. So they told me that I could walk outside of the locker room to the end of the hall where they could give me a wrist band and then they could give me a towel. Why in the world would I walk down a crowded hall on campus dripping and soaking wet in a small bathing suit just to get a towel? I said so you can't just take my name down give me a towel and I will bring it back in 5 minutes? Of course because my school is stupid about those minute policy issues and no one will make exceptions because they think the world will end if they do break the rules, I could not get a towel. I had to put back on my dress, walk through the freshman dorm parking lot looking like a peed myself, get in my car and drive back home all so that I could put on some underwear.

Great Day.