I LOVE Thanksgiving in Redmond. Probably because every Thanksgiving I've ever had has been in Redmond. That's probably why I like it so much. Even though I've been away at school for a year and a half now, I've gotten to come home for Thanksgiving. I LOVE IT! I'm so grateful for a lot of things, but especially to be able to see so much of the family this week. 5/7 of the kids, 2 of the siblings-in-law, 6/16 nieces/nephews, and Mom and Dad. It's been really fun to be with everyone.
Thanksgiving dinner was amazing, like always. And like most of Jeanne's meals, I can't decide a favorite part. The potatoes? The gravy? The salad? The rolls? The turkey? The fruit salad? I just can't decide which of those. The rolls are always amazing. But same is the salad. And well, the potatoes and gravy are always good. Oh I love fod.
I slept at Paul's tonight so that he and Jeanne could go shopping in the morning. It was great. Ryan woke up first, so I got to go climb into his bed--I think that surprised everyone and made them laugh. Normally when I sleep here I go climb into Katie's room to finish sleeping. Ryan has the coolest Transformer sheets and such. They made me laugh.
Ummm. This has been a fabulous trip so far, and will continue to be great as today and Saturday happen. I feel like getting up and dancing now, so... so long!
11.28.2008
11.22.2008
Crying...
I think I am going to cry. I feel like a two word explanation will do it all: Max Hall.
To laugh... I will think about the play where a Ute lost his shoe and handed it to his coach to untie. Hahah. Ute can't even untie his own shoes. Hahahahahaha.
To laugh... I will think about the play where a Ute lost his shoe and handed it to his coach to untie. Hahah. Ute can't even untie his own shoes. Hahahahahaha.
I found this on some random blog and wanted something to do.
4 Joys:
(I'm not going to list the obvious family, church, etc.)
1- BYU Football
2- When classes are cancelled
3- Toblerone bars
4- Sleeping in
5- Bubble baths
6- Pedicures
7- Eating good teryaki
8- Pay Day
9- Getting really good test scores
10- Listing more than 4 things that bring joy to my life!
4 Songs
1- Stolen- Dashboard Confessional
2- Tell Me What to Do - Metro Station
3- Fall For You - Secondhand Seranade
4- The Chanukah Song - Adam Sandler
5- LTFP - We Shot the Moon
6- The Luckiest - Ben Folds
7- Vindicated - Dashboard Confessional
8- High School Musical 3 soundtrack as a whole
9- Dark Blue - Jack's Mannequin
10- Foreign Language - Anberlin
4 Things I Did Yesterday
1- Slept in until 11:30 :)
2- Went to two classes
3- Went to Mr. BYU
4- Went to a surprise bday party for my FHE brother, then stayed and watched Zoolander with them
4 Fears
1- Water
2- Mice... I don't want my building to get infested with them.
3- Big emergencies (because of training we just got)
4- Running out of food.
4 Things on my wish list
1- my building to not have any problems
2- sleep
3- meals that I don't have to prepare for myself
4- next semester to come already... lets skip December cleaning checks, check outs and finals, k?
5- New music
4 Things I look forward to
1- GOING HOME FOR THANKSGIVING!
2- GOING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS!
3- Going to Allison's in 2 hours for the BYU Utah game
4- Sleeping in... when, I don't know.
4 Surprising Facts
1- My room is basically spotless
2- I've done dishes pretty much everyday since I got back to school
3- I'm ahead in all of my classes
4- I have no real homework to do over Thanksgiving! Just some extra credit reading!
4 Restauarants
1- Zupas
2- The Olive Garden
3- Red Robin
4- PF Changs
4 TV shows
1- The Office: season 5 (the current season)
2- The Office: season 4
3- The Office: season 3
4- The Office: season 2
5- The Office: season 1
(I'm not going to list the obvious family, church, etc.)
1- BYU Football
2- When classes are cancelled
3- Toblerone bars
4- Sleeping in
5- Bubble baths
6- Pedicures
7- Eating good teryaki
8- Pay Day
9- Getting really good test scores
10- Listing more than 4 things that bring joy to my life!
4 Songs
1- Stolen- Dashboard Confessional
2- Tell Me What to Do - Metro Station
3- Fall For You - Secondhand Seranade
4- The Chanukah Song - Adam Sandler
5- LTFP - We Shot the Moon
6- The Luckiest - Ben Folds
7- Vindicated - Dashboard Confessional
8- High School Musical 3 soundtrack as a whole
9- Dark Blue - Jack's Mannequin
10- Foreign Language - Anberlin
4 Things I Did Yesterday
1- Slept in until 11:30 :)
2- Went to two classes
3- Went to Mr. BYU
4- Went to a surprise bday party for my FHE brother, then stayed and watched Zoolander with them
4 Fears
1- Water
2- Mice... I don't want my building to get infested with them.
3- Big emergencies (because of training we just got)
4- Running out of food.
4 Things on my wish list
1- my building to not have any problems
2- sleep
3- meals that I don't have to prepare for myself
4- next semester to come already... lets skip December cleaning checks, check outs and finals, k?
5- New music
4 Things I look forward to
1- GOING HOME FOR THANKSGIVING!
2- GOING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS!
3- Going to Allison's in 2 hours for the BYU Utah game
4- Sleeping in... when, I don't know.
4 Surprising Facts
1- My room is basically spotless
2- I've done dishes pretty much everyday since I got back to school
3- I'm ahead in all of my classes
4- I have no real homework to do over Thanksgiving! Just some extra credit reading!
4 Restauarants
1- Zupas
2- The Olive Garden
3- Red Robin
4- PF Changs
4 TV shows
1- The Office: season 5 (the current season)
2- The Office: season 4
3- The Office: season 3
4- The Office: season 2
5- The Office: season 1
11.18.2008
A note to my roommates, who will never read this....
Dear Roommates:
You're sitting in the kitchen right now complaining about how you don't know anyone except for "our boys". Well. Get off your butts and go meet people. There is no rule that you can only talk to them. Be brave, make cookies or something, and go find boys that you want to be friends with. Be bold, and go hang out in some random guys building (not the one in our ward). There are at least 10 boys buildings in Heritage. Pick one. Maesar. Shipp. Smith. Snow. Broadbent. Kimball. and a few others that I don't remember. There are a few more buildings in Helaman, boys in Wyview... and have you ever heard of off-campus housing? Meet people. Don't just sit in our kitchen complaining. Do something about it. To quote something you just said... "if it's a big enough deal to complain about it, do something about it"
There are 54 other girls in this building. Do you know them? No. Do you know our next door neighbors? Only the two that visit teach you. Maybe start there. The guys in our ward will pretty much all (minus Tim and Cory) be on missions by the end of next semester. Meet the girls. Be friends with them. You could have so much fun with them, our building is AMAZING. When I see the girls from my building last year I am embarrassed that I recognize their faces but have no clue what some of their names are. You will see them again, whether you want to believe it or not.
You're complaining that "our boys" don't give their #4 roommate a chance. You have no clue what they are going through with him. You only hear part of the story, you only see some of it. Give them a little credit. Also, what about one of our roommates. Do you give her a chance? Have you written her off?
Put aside your thoughts of what BYU would be like. Everybody doesn't know everybody. Not everyone is best friends. Not everyone is perfect. Some people are unhappy. Some are depressed. Some aren't the "good mormons" you were expecting. Move on! Accept that we're all different and that there will be people you don't agree with and like.
You complain about getting sick, and not getting good grades. Try going to sleep before 3am. I promise it works wonders when you get sleep. Don't sleep too much, but get more sleep than you have been. Staying up til 4 doing homework really doesn't help you. I've done it before, it doesn't work. Eat real food. Remember that plan to work out? Why not actually try it? It may help you too. You might just feel a little better if you're not just sitting around all day. I know it's helping me.
Don't waste time being lame. The semester is almost over. Our time here is just about halfway done. Before you know it, we'll all be going home. Make the most of our time. We say goodbye to one of "our boys" in a month. Are you ready for that? It's hard, I'll warn you. I've been through it. You won't realize until he's gone just how much you enjoyed being with him. Make the most of your freshman year here. You only get one shot at it. You don't have to be best friends with each other, don't try to be. Be friends though. Please.
Most importantly. Be yourself. You are talking about how you haven't felt like yourself here. Maybe you should start with that. Be yourself and you'll probably have an easier time making friends. People can and do see through you and know you're not being you.
Love, your roommate.
You're sitting in the kitchen right now complaining about how you don't know anyone except for "our boys". Well. Get off your butts and go meet people. There is no rule that you can only talk to them. Be brave, make cookies or something, and go find boys that you want to be friends with. Be bold, and go hang out in some random guys building (not the one in our ward). There are at least 10 boys buildings in Heritage. Pick one. Maesar. Shipp. Smith. Snow. Broadbent. Kimball. and a few others that I don't remember. There are a few more buildings in Helaman, boys in Wyview... and have you ever heard of off-campus housing? Meet people. Don't just sit in our kitchen complaining. Do something about it. To quote something you just said... "if it's a big enough deal to complain about it, do something about it"
There are 54 other girls in this building. Do you know them? No. Do you know our next door neighbors? Only the two that visit teach you. Maybe start there. The guys in our ward will pretty much all (minus Tim and Cory) be on missions by the end of next semester. Meet the girls. Be friends with them. You could have so much fun with them, our building is AMAZING. When I see the girls from my building last year I am embarrassed that I recognize their faces but have no clue what some of their names are. You will see them again, whether you want to believe it or not.
You're complaining that "our boys" don't give their #4 roommate a chance. You have no clue what they are going through with him. You only hear part of the story, you only see some of it. Give them a little credit. Also, what about one of our roommates. Do you give her a chance? Have you written her off?
Put aside your thoughts of what BYU would be like. Everybody doesn't know everybody. Not everyone is best friends. Not everyone is perfect. Some people are unhappy. Some are depressed. Some aren't the "good mormons" you were expecting. Move on! Accept that we're all different and that there will be people you don't agree with and like.
You complain about getting sick, and not getting good grades. Try going to sleep before 3am. I promise it works wonders when you get sleep. Don't sleep too much, but get more sleep than you have been. Staying up til 4 doing homework really doesn't help you. I've done it before, it doesn't work. Eat real food. Remember that plan to work out? Why not actually try it? It may help you too. You might just feel a little better if you're not just sitting around all day. I know it's helping me.
Don't waste time being lame. The semester is almost over. Our time here is just about halfway done. Before you know it, we'll all be going home. Make the most of our time. We say goodbye to one of "our boys" in a month. Are you ready for that? It's hard, I'll warn you. I've been through it. You won't realize until he's gone just how much you enjoyed being with him. Make the most of your freshman year here. You only get one shot at it. You don't have to be best friends with each other, don't try to be. Be friends though. Please.
Most importantly. Be yourself. You are talking about how you haven't felt like yourself here. Maybe you should start with that. Be yourself and you'll probably have an easier time making friends. People can and do see through you and know you're not being you.
Love, your roommate.
11.15.2008
My birthday... really late
I realized I never blogged about my birthday, and since I use my blog as a journal I need to write some of the details from my birthday. Also, I need to remember that I really do love my roommates and this is a good reminder.
The night before my birthday I went home with Allison, my roommate from last year. She lives with Jenny and Sarah, also roommates from last year, so their apartment was deemed our party apartment. I have my last class on Monday's with Allison, so I went over at 4. We fingerpainted, ate dinner, did homework, and I took a nap on their couch until it was time to go to their FHE. After FHE our other roommates came over and we had cake, a dance party, and watched some really funny videos online. We did other random 215 things which was pretty much just hilarious.
I came home from that at like 10:30 and I think I watched a movie until midnight. At midnight I called Stephanie because she had sent me a package and told me I couldn't open it til my birthday. She and I talked for a while as I opened everything in the package. I was so excited for all of the makings of a typical "Marce & Steph girls night", minus the Steph part, since she's back in WA.
I got a couple texts, emails, and facebook messages around midnight. Including a movie of the Livelys and our FHE girls singing Happy Birthday to me! I was so excited to see them all! I love my friends back home!!!
Then I went to bed. That was good.
I woke up on my birthday to find streamers all over our hallway! It was fabulous. They were pink and lime green and they were amazing. I went through my morning class having a great time. My old roommate, Christie, and I met up for devotional, then she took me out to lunch at the Pendulum Court in the Science Building. It was quite tasty!!!
I went to the rest of my classes, and in my 2nd class they sang happy birthday to me. The guy I always sit by asked why I was all dressed up and I told him it was my birthday. I had signed up to pray that day (as I had done in each of my T/Th classes) so when I stood up to introduce myself he added to my intro that it was my birthday and the whole class broke into song. It was kind of awkward, but also mostly hilarious.
Soon after classes were done, I had to go to the creamery to look for moleskin because I had blisters on my feet. While I was at the creamery I missed the delivery of my cookie bouquet from Paul, Jeanne and the kids. I guess it was quite the task to figure out how to get it delivered to me because the store said it was impossible. With the assitance of Marie, I got my cookie bouquet, and man was it tasty! Then I spent 45 minutes on the phone with Jeanne until I had to go to RA class and she had to run.
RA class was the best ever... Relaxation & Stress Reduction. It was fabulous. We took pillows to class and we all got on the floor and our teacher walked us through a relaxation exercise. It was so amazing!
Then I went home where my roommates told me that we were all going out to dinner and that we needed to get ready because we were leaving like 15 minutes later. Well, this was a lie. We weren't going out as an apartment at all... They had talked to my friend Aaron who is also an RA in Heritage, and he and I were going out to dinner together. Apartment dinner my butt. I was so confused when they told me it was time to go, shoved me out the door and said "have fun" and then I saw Aaron. We laughed about it and had a great time. We went to the Olive Garden and it was quite tasty!
We had to hurry back to the dorms though because it was the kick-off fireside for Missionary Week and we had to go lead our zone conferences. My zone was amazing and we had a great time.
After zone meeting I got to talk to Paul and the girls which was way exciting, their singing over the phone just isn't quite like their singing in person... it made me kind of sad.
After that, Aaron and my FHE bros came over for dessert (Lemon bars, because they are one of my favorites) and we watched the news about the election. It was pretty fabulous. We also had a ton of helium balloons so we had a ton of fun with the helium. :)
Around 10 the boys all left and I went in my room and watched Zoolander, which was one of the things in my package from Steph.
Pretty much... one of the greatest birthdays ever!
The next day Kelli (old roommate) brought me jello-jigglers (very much a 215 thing) that spelled out "Happy Bday Marci!" They were the perfect proportion of raspberry, strawberry and lime jello packets. :)
Oh, and this week Megan took me out to dinner for my birthday-- we went to Zupas which is quite possibly one of my new favorites! YAY for Megan!
The night before my birthday I went home with Allison, my roommate from last year. She lives with Jenny and Sarah, also roommates from last year, so their apartment was deemed our party apartment. I have my last class on Monday's with Allison, so I went over at 4. We fingerpainted, ate dinner, did homework, and I took a nap on their couch until it was time to go to their FHE. After FHE our other roommates came over and we had cake, a dance party, and watched some really funny videos online. We did other random 215 things which was pretty much just hilarious.
I came home from that at like 10:30 and I think I watched a movie until midnight. At midnight I called Stephanie because she had sent me a package and told me I couldn't open it til my birthday. She and I talked for a while as I opened everything in the package. I was so excited for all of the makings of a typical "Marce & Steph girls night", minus the Steph part, since she's back in WA.
I got a couple texts, emails, and facebook messages around midnight. Including a movie of the Livelys and our FHE girls singing Happy Birthday to me! I was so excited to see them all! I love my friends back home!!!
Then I went to bed. That was good.
I woke up on my birthday to find streamers all over our hallway! It was fabulous. They were pink and lime green and they were amazing. I went through my morning class having a great time. My old roommate, Christie, and I met up for devotional, then she took me out to lunch at the Pendulum Court in the Science Building. It was quite tasty!!!
I went to the rest of my classes, and in my 2nd class they sang happy birthday to me. The guy I always sit by asked why I was all dressed up and I told him it was my birthday. I had signed up to pray that day (as I had done in each of my T/Th classes) so when I stood up to introduce myself he added to my intro that it was my birthday and the whole class broke into song. It was kind of awkward, but also mostly hilarious.
Soon after classes were done, I had to go to the creamery to look for moleskin because I had blisters on my feet. While I was at the creamery I missed the delivery of my cookie bouquet from Paul, Jeanne and the kids. I guess it was quite the task to figure out how to get it delivered to me because the store said it was impossible. With the assitance of Marie, I got my cookie bouquet, and man was it tasty! Then I spent 45 minutes on the phone with Jeanne until I had to go to RA class and she had to run.
RA class was the best ever... Relaxation & Stress Reduction. It was fabulous. We took pillows to class and we all got on the floor and our teacher walked us through a relaxation exercise. It was so amazing!
Then I went home where my roommates told me that we were all going out to dinner and that we needed to get ready because we were leaving like 15 minutes later. Well, this was a lie. We weren't going out as an apartment at all... They had talked to my friend Aaron who is also an RA in Heritage, and he and I were going out to dinner together. Apartment dinner my butt. I was so confused when they told me it was time to go, shoved me out the door and said "have fun" and then I saw Aaron. We laughed about it and had a great time. We went to the Olive Garden and it was quite tasty!
We had to hurry back to the dorms though because it was the kick-off fireside for Missionary Week and we had to go lead our zone conferences. My zone was amazing and we had a great time.
After zone meeting I got to talk to Paul and the girls which was way exciting, their singing over the phone just isn't quite like their singing in person... it made me kind of sad.
After that, Aaron and my FHE bros came over for dessert (Lemon bars, because they are one of my favorites) and we watched the news about the election. It was pretty fabulous. We also had a ton of helium balloons so we had a ton of fun with the helium. :)
Around 10 the boys all left and I went in my room and watched Zoolander, which was one of the things in my package from Steph.
Pretty much... one of the greatest birthdays ever!
The next day Kelli (old roommate) brought me jello-jigglers (very much a 215 thing) that spelled out "Happy Bday Marci!" They were the perfect proportion of raspberry, strawberry and lime jello packets. :)
Oh, and this week Megan took me out to dinner for my birthday-- we went to Zupas which is quite possibly one of my new favorites! YAY for Megan!
Cleaning Checks, Mission Calls, and other RAish things
This week we had cleaning checks. Not your normal cleaning checks though, deep cleaning cleaning checks. The cleaning checks where you get to take everything out of the fridge, freezer, cabinets, etc to wipe down every surface of your apartment. You get to do things like... dust the chairs in your bedroom, wipe down the shower curtain rod, and the metal supports of the shelves on the wall. Doing the cleaning isn't toooo bad, but checking the cleaning in 7 apartments and watching your supervisor check them in the 3 remaining apartment gets really old. Basically... I spent 5 hours doing cleaning checks and probably 2 hours doing my own cleaning for my cleaning check. Oh, and then probably 2 hours of redos. I really like cleaning check week ;) Or I'm really glad for it to be over.
Mission calls... the one boy RA in my associate tri-hall is going on a mission after this semester. He's been waiting for a few days for his call to get here (he figures it should've come last Wednesday, but it took a little extra time). On Friday I was sitting in biology when my associate hall advisor called. I was kind of nervous, I had worked the night before and was afraid that maybe I had done something wrong, or completely forgotten to do something. After class I checked my voicemail. I wasn't in trouble at all, Mike's mission call had come and she was inviting all of our team to come over at 4:30 when he would be opening it. The four girls that were in town (everyone but Mindy) were there, along with half of his ward basically. Melanie (an RA) totally called where he was going... Spain Madrid. We're so excited for Mike to be going on his mission. But. We're also not happy about it. He goes into the MTC on April 1st. So he'll be leaving us after Christmas, but not going into the MTC til 3 weeks before our job ends. We're kind of really really sad that he has to leave us and that we have to train a new RA and get used to a new RA. For some reason we're afraid that his replacement won't be as cool as he is, and that the new guy won't be as willing to help us with everything like Mike is. Basically: we love Mike and want him to stay with us forever.
This week in RA class we learned a little bit about Emergency Prepardness and what our roles would be as RAs if there were to be an emergency. It was probably the most depressing lesson we've ever had in class. I just hope there is no natural disaster or other emergency that makes it so I have to go through my building and find my girls injured. We talked about how our goal then is to find help as many people as we can so we can't spend much time helping each person we find, so if we come across some requiring a lot of attention (not breathing, etc) we have to write 'dead' on their forehead. Ya. The room got really sad when our teacher was teaching us how to mark different types of injuries. Next week in class we continue our lesson on Emergencies.
Mission calls... the one boy RA in my associate tri-hall is going on a mission after this semester. He's been waiting for a few days for his call to get here (he figures it should've come last Wednesday, but it took a little extra time). On Friday I was sitting in biology when my associate hall advisor called. I was kind of nervous, I had worked the night before and was afraid that maybe I had done something wrong, or completely forgotten to do something. After class I checked my voicemail. I wasn't in trouble at all, Mike's mission call had come and she was inviting all of our team to come over at 4:30 when he would be opening it. The four girls that were in town (everyone but Mindy) were there, along with half of his ward basically. Melanie (an RA) totally called where he was going... Spain Madrid. We're so excited for Mike to be going on his mission. But. We're also not happy about it. He goes into the MTC on April 1st. So he'll be leaving us after Christmas, but not going into the MTC til 3 weeks before our job ends. We're kind of really really sad that he has to leave us and that we have to train a new RA and get used to a new RA. For some reason we're afraid that his replacement won't be as cool as he is, and that the new guy won't be as willing to help us with everything like Mike is. Basically: we love Mike and want him to stay with us forever.
This week in RA class we learned a little bit about Emergency Prepardness and what our roles would be as RAs if there were to be an emergency. It was probably the most depressing lesson we've ever had in class. I just hope there is no natural disaster or other emergency that makes it so I have to go through my building and find my girls injured. We talked about how our goal then is to find help as many people as we can so we can't spend much time helping each person we find, so if we come across some requiring a lot of attention (not breathing, etc) we have to write 'dead' on their forehead. Ya. The room got really sad when our teacher was teaching us how to mark different types of injuries. Next week in class we continue our lesson on Emergencies.
Going Home Soon!
HOORAY! It is almost Thanksgiving, which means it is almost time to hop on a plane and fly home for 5 days! Unfortunately, there is a lot to be done between now and the time I jump on my plane and fly away from Provo.
-A learning activity for my home & family living intro class... probably about 3-4 pages. about my experience increasing my daily worship habits.
-A topic paper essay for Teachings of the Living prophets... 8-10 pages about the church's position on mothers working outside of the home
-An activity paper for strengthening marriages and families... 6-7 pages about mom's parenting style and other stuff about parenting
-A research project for lds marriage and family... no page limit/requirement, I just have to find atleast 15 quotes about a certain topic and create this document with all of them and justify each quote
-A paper for biology about human poverty, ecological considerations and consequences... 3 pages
-A quiz for home and family living
-Two quizzes for lds marriage and family... one on temporal preparation and management, the other on the uniqueness of men and women
-A midterm for Biology
Then I've got my three assignments due the first day back after Thanksgiving break.
-A quiz for LDS marriage and family about adjusting and building love
-Some paper about the book Al Capone Does My Shirts and different elements we have studied in class found in the novel
-My big project for bio that is related to my major. I think I'm going to make a lesson plan on how to teach photosynthesis to children and include the lyrics to the Photosynthesis song we taught at the preschool, a page to color, and how to explain the process of photosynthesis in a way that children could understand some of it.
But... I get to go home in almost a week and it will be fabulous to get away for a few days. I'm really excited to see family again and to leave behind the wonderful world of the dorms for almost a whole week! YAY!!!!
-A learning activity for my home & family living intro class... probably about 3-4 pages. about my experience increasing my daily worship habits.
-A topic paper essay for Teachings of the Living prophets... 8-10 pages about the church's position on mothers working outside of the home
-An activity paper for strengthening marriages and families... 6-7 pages about mom's parenting style and other stuff about parenting
-A research project for lds marriage and family... no page limit/requirement, I just have to find atleast 15 quotes about a certain topic and create this document with all of them and justify each quote
-A paper for biology about human poverty, ecological considerations and consequences... 3 pages
-A quiz for home and family living
-Two quizzes for lds marriage and family... one on temporal preparation and management, the other on the uniqueness of men and women
-A midterm for Biology
Then I've got my three assignments due the first day back after Thanksgiving break.
-A quiz for LDS marriage and family about adjusting and building love
-Some paper about the book Al Capone Does My Shirts and different elements we have studied in class found in the novel
-My big project for bio that is related to my major. I think I'm going to make a lesson plan on how to teach photosynthesis to children and include the lyrics to the Photosynthesis song we taught at the preschool, a page to color, and how to explain the process of photosynthesis in a way that children could understand some of it.
But... I get to go home in almost a week and it will be fabulous to get away for a few days. I'm really excited to see family again and to leave behind the wonderful world of the dorms for almost a whole week! YAY!!!!
11.08.2008
Why I am Sad
Today was BYU's last home football game of the season. While the season isn't completely done now, I won't be there to watch the rest of the games, so I'm in mourning now. Now I have to wait many months to watch my favorite players continue in their quest for perfection. Max Hall. Harvey Unga. Austin Collie. Dennis Pitta. I'm sad to see one of my favorite players, Fui Vakapuna, graduating. It'll never quite be the same without him... chanting FUUUUUUIII whenever he gets the ball.
On a sidenote... Harvey Unga's fiance is in my Biology class. That's kind of cool. She's on the women's basketball team. Go figure.
And this is me, being sad, and avoiding my homework. I love BYU football. A lot.
On a sidenote... Harvey Unga's fiance is in my Biology class. That's kind of cool. She's on the women's basketball team. Go figure.
And this is me, being sad, and avoiding my homework. I love BYU football. A lot.
11.03.2008
Why technology is dumb
My printer doesn't work right now. Not only is it out of black ink (easy enough to fix) but it won't scan. I'm kind of angry about that.
Today I turned my computer on and it told me that my battery was dying and that I need to buy a replacement battery or leave it plugged in forever. I've had this computer for almost exactly 18 months and now it's crapping out on me. Replacement batteries aren't cheap, and apparently they don't work so well either, atleast according to every review I found at dell.com. Dad, if you are reading this I want to talk to you about it. Or Mom, if you are reading this, tell Dad that I need to talk to him about this. I want to talk things through with him first and make sure I get the right replacement, because that would make me more mad if I bought the wrong replacement. Dell's customer support wasn't working either so I couldn't talk to someone on there and tell them all the woes of my life.
Someone dropped my cell phone when they were trying to help me carry a bunch of things in from a hall activity so now it has a scratch on it which makes me really sad, this phone was looking really good still.
My iPod doesn't hold its charge for long, so I pretty much don't use it anymore unless it is in its docking station. I should give it some credit though, I got it in 10th grade, so it's been through a lot.
Wow. I love technology. Thank you world for fabulous creations that don't work long.
Maybe you'll get a happier post from me soon.
Oh. I got a haircut. And I love it. Pictures to come (once I have money on my meal plan again and can buy batteries so I can put batteries back in my camera and take pictures)
Today I turned my computer on and it told me that my battery was dying and that I need to buy a replacement battery or leave it plugged in forever. I've had this computer for almost exactly 18 months and now it's crapping out on me. Replacement batteries aren't cheap, and apparently they don't work so well either, atleast according to every review I found at dell.com. Dad, if you are reading this I want to talk to you about it. Or Mom, if you are reading this, tell Dad that I need to talk to him about this. I want to talk things through with him first and make sure I get the right replacement, because that would make me more mad if I bought the wrong replacement. Dell's customer support wasn't working either so I couldn't talk to someone on there and tell them all the woes of my life.
Someone dropped my cell phone when they were trying to help me carry a bunch of things in from a hall activity so now it has a scratch on it which makes me really sad, this phone was looking really good still.
My iPod doesn't hold its charge for long, so I pretty much don't use it anymore unless it is in its docking station. I should give it some credit though, I got it in 10th grade, so it's been through a lot.
Wow. I love technology. Thank you world for fabulous creations that don't work long.
Maybe you'll get a happier post from me soon.
Oh. I got a haircut. And I love it. Pictures to come (once I have money on my meal plan again and can buy batteries so I can put batteries back in my camera and take pictures)
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