Great, Just Great

Ever since I've been back to EA I have been really good about working out everyday. Now to many this is quite shocking since I don't do healthy "stuff".... EVER.

Well today I was working out before work and I barely made it back to my dorm to take a shower before I went to work. I didn't have any time to fully put myself together for the day, but I figured that I would be working in the game room and hardly anyone ever comes in (mom would be so ashamed). SO I ran to work and my boss tells me she wants me to answer phones for her in the main office......

Bahahahahah the one day I look gross I have to work in the main office!!!

I tell you life has a funny way of messing with you.

Blessing in disguise

This week the air conditioning in our main school building has gone out. Now most kids are complaining about the heat, but I think it’s wonderful. Why you ask, because it’s not just us college kids that are hot…

The teachers are too!!!

And they will do just about anything to get out of the sweating classrooms, even if it means letting class out early. Yup, so far I’ve had three teachers let us out early because they could no longer take the heat. And for a student there is nothing better than class getting out early!

I swear life gets better and better each day :)

Greetings From College

Hello family.....and anyone else who has stumbled onto this blog!

School is in full swing and I've been so busy that I havent been able to update you sooner on my adventures.

I think the best way to get through all the excitement of my week is to do a day by day break down.

Monday: I woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed and a bit nervous to start a new year….when I notice that all my sheets and blankets were wet. I was so very confused until I looked at my wall, about 10 streams of water was pouring down onto my bed ha ha only I have this kind of luck.
After I moved my bed into the middle of the room and notified the proper officials I went to school.
My classes were really great.
What I haven’t mentioned is my new roommate. Since Anna (my old roomie) decided to abandon me, I was going to have a random raving loony come live with me (thank you Anna :( ). Well I have been waiting for this new girl to move in all weekend and she still hadn’t shown up.

Tuesday: I don’t know if any of you have slept in a tiny bed that is not next to a wall, but it is very unnerving. The entire night I was terrified that I was going to fall out of my bed.

Today my wall stop raining which was a good sign and all of my classes went great. Still no sign of a roommate so I started using her drawers for purse storage and I moved my Love Sac to the middle of the room to make a reading area :)

Wednesday: I moved the bed back to my dried up wall and slept very peacefully. My new roomie still has not shown up so my roommates and I are using her dresser as our personal pantry.

Thursday: Last night the fire alarm above my bed started making this awful screeching noise every 10 seconds on the dot. Needless to say I was not a happy camper and I received very little sleep.
Roomie still hasn’t come, so to liven up her side I started decorating it.

Friday: I got the fire alarm replaced and am very pleased. Today Marisa and I rearranged my room in order to make me a nap/movie watching area. I LOVE having the whole room to my self ha ha.
There was an institute dance that night that was really fun, but I have to admit I only went for the root beer floats.
Mom and Candace also showed up for the weekend to decorate Kyle’s trailer.

Saturday: Today there was a school sponsored scavenger hunt using cell phones and texting. And basically a bunch of people organized into groups of six and we had clues sent to our cell phones and in order to solve them we had to run all around campus. It was sssoooo much fun. My group ended up winning by like 20 min ha ha. After that the fire department came and made a huge slip and slide and a ton of people were there. I had a blast!
That night Mom, Kyle, Candace and I went and watched a movie and ate out, it was a great night lol.

Sunday: Sunday was really great I love my ward. And after church my Bishops wife invited Marisa, Kelly, and me over for dinner. It was so good :)

Well all in all it was a wonderful week and I’m very excited for the rest of the year!!!

Babysitting Madilyn

Last weekend I went to the valley to babysit my niece at a resort while my sister went to meetings all day. The day started out great madilyn was happy, she took a long morning nap, and was being really cute and sweet. Then came lunch...

Madilyn refused to eat her vegetables and when I told her to stop knocking the spoon away this happened. Apparently she did not find my tone acceptable. The rest of the afternoon she did really great and at dinner she kept making the cutest faces that I found adorable.

So the weekend was really fun and I hope Madilyn doesn't harbor any hard feelings over the lunch incident.

Finals Playlist

Everyday I listen to a playlist on my ipod when I walk back and forth from classes. And with finals coming around I made a playlist that was sure to express my feelings towards finals haha ya there is definately a theme with the titles.



Under Pressure by Queen

I Say A Little Pray For You by the guy off My Best Friends Wedding

Stayin' Alive (barely) by Bee Gees

I Will Survive (Public speaking) by Aretha Franklin

Suppermassive Black Hole by Muse

Smile (though your heart is breaking) by Nat King Cole

Winner Takes it All by McFly

(psychology) Gives You Hell by All American Rejects

All These things I hate Revolve Around Me by Bullet for My Valentine (wow this ones really crazy)



But seriously music really helps in stressful situations :)

Happy....wait what holiday is it?

Today was my first day of finals, and let me tell ya it has been a blast….and by blast I mean its been awful. Not only is every one plagued with the feelings of wanting to burst into tears from all the stress, but on top of that we’re freaking out from all the weight we’ve gained by eating massive amount of chocolate to cure the stress. (wow life is an evil circle)

But the lunchroom knew how we would be feeling so they decided to spice life up with decorations and a nutritious meal. But the funny thing with the lunchroom is their inability to correctly decorate for a holiday. Tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo, so there was red, white, and green streamers it was all very festive. Until we got to the milk dispenser, there in plain view is this.

I don't know about you guys but I thought Cinco de Mayo had something to do with Mexico...my mistake.

Well after that fiasco I got in line for lunch and I decided on a simple burrito because I figured the lunchroom could not mess up beans and cheese.

I sat down to eat to find that the burrito tasted funny. So I opened it to find turkey, stuffing, cranberries, sour cream, spinach, mayo, and guacamoli. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!

What kind of sick joke is that?

My roommates and I just started laughing, only the geniuses at the lunchroom would think that this would be deemed acceptable by college kids. Needless to say I through it away.

Sometimes you just have to say no.

The Cherry On Top

About an hour after I wrote that last post I realized I HAD to go to my public speaking and psychology classes cause I have tests in both. So I ran blindly to school and sat through two hours of mind numbing class while people did double takes on my weird eye to find that both teachers postpone the tests.

Great, just great

My lack of an immune system

So this morning I woke up ready to greet the day when I realized I couldn't open my EYE! I ran to the bathroom to find Quasimodo staring back at me. That's right one of my eyes was swollen shut and the other was very very pink. When I finally got the other open it was pink with some weird stuff in it that looked strangly familiar.....that's when I remembered my little niece who I had played with who had PINK EYE

dun

dun

dun

(dang you madilyn)

So I layed in bed while I waited for the doctors office to open and remembered all the good times I've had this year with diseases. I've had the common cold 5 times, stomach flu 4 times, strep throat once, a strange case of hives, and now pink eye. All in all a great year:)

Now I'm going to wait to go to the good doctor and get eye drops. You may wonder why I'm not going to class in the mean time...well aside from the fact that I look grotesque and my eyes are blurred up from some weird goop (great imagery right) I broke my glasses three weeks ago. Swell isn't it?

Well I'm off to go ring some bells
(the first was my eye in the morning and the second was my eye later that day, big improvement right. O and I know this is weird to post but its to cool not to)

My Birthday (it was on March 27, so this is really late)

On my birthday I awoke to the faint noises of my roomies shuffling about. Now I usually wake up to this because they all decided that mornings are to be enjoyed through exercise while I decided that if anyone woke me up before 8 I would kill them.

Anyhooooo I woke up and they were surrounding me singing a rap and dancing for MY BIRTHDAY! (ya I’m not kidding) So I got up and found to my surprise balloons and streamers covering my room. How cool is that.



Then they had me open my gifts and every one of them gave me my favorite candy. There was a huge bag of Plain M&Ms, my favorite chocolates, and triple chocolate M&Ms, and that’s when I knew that these people GOT me. They even got me popcorn with M&Ms which if combined create a life changing experience. I was so excited.


I also got a cd from Anna and an iTunes card from Marisa. So for the rest of the day I bought really fun music.

On my way out of our room my roomies made a path that had little squares that tell you to go ahead 2 or go back 3...well I got stuck on go back 3 and thats why I was so late to English (thanks a lot kelly). Yah I did go to school (I know, who goes to school on their birthday!) I was tempted to skip, but what was I going to do all day….sit in my room. Fun.

Well that night we went and ate out at Casa Manana and then we went to Kelly’s sister’s house to make Pazookies. If you have never had one of these you are missing out my friend. What you do is make giant cookies but you don’t cook them all the way through they you put ice cream on them and eat um ….mmmmmmm delicious.

After we ate we went back to the dorm and did really crazy makeup and got all dressed up and played America’s Next Top Model…..yup we’re that weird. After that we made popcorn with M&Ms and watched a movie.

It was a great day, and thanks to everyone who wished me happy birthday and to my roomies who made it amazing.

The Dance

Last Saturday my friends and I got all gussied up and went to a dance. The dance was out in discovery park in a three story building…how cool is that. Need I say we were all very excited….

until we got inside.

There were only a couple of people and all of them were high schoolers, YIKES, and yes I know it was only a year ago that I was a little tike excited for a big college adventure, but now I get to look down on these youngiens (kidding and yes I frequently make up my own words).

We decided to stay and make it cool bahahahaha.

Well pretty soon tons of college kids came and it got really fun for a bought 30 minutes and then there were too many people. (I sound like Goldie locks).

Soon the dance floor got crowded and very interesting. Growing up in Saint Johns my idea of dancing is bobbing up and down and on a slow dance being a good foot away from your partner. This was NOT how they were dancing; I just couldn’t fathom how anyone would be comfortable doing what they were doing. Not only did it not look fun but it seemed highly scandalous. I could go into details but this is a family blog. All you need to know is that they were all very close to each other and it wasn’t pretty. They basically showed Baby and Jonny what real dirty dancing is all about (if you have not seen the movie Dirty Dancing….you are not missing out. Sorry if that offends anyone).

And the most shocking thing about the dance was they were mostly Mormons. WHAT!?

My roommates and I were flabbergasted, and there were return missionaries dancing too. Now my roomies and I are going to make it mandatory that we see our husbands dance before we’re married, the more awkward and far apart the better hahaha. I have to mention there was a return missionary who came up to us and was as disturbed as we were. Needless to say he got major points in our book, as did all the guys that looked liked deer caught in headlights at the dance. (didn't know girls kept points, well now you do)

Anyhoo we still had fun in our little corner bobbing away. I love how weird my roomies and I are :)