The culmination of all things educational

Finals are approaching... and with it my brain is disappearing!

For some reason, during my busiest times, my mind loves to come up with things it would rather think about than the task at hand. All things crafty and homemade are swirling around in my brain, and I can't get ideas of what I want to do this summer to subside while I'm trying to remember what I've learned for the past 4 months. This seriously happens all the time! I can't control it. Well, at least not yet. But I'm getting lots of fun ideas for painting and sewing and such to decorate my wonderfully cinderblocked apartment. I also have this strange urge to write a book--but have no idea what it would be about! I don't even know enough of anything to write a book! Also, Nate has this wonderful Family Home Evening lesson about gardening, and so we are planning on starting a mini one after this semester on our little balcony, which I am pretty excited about.

In other news, my friend Alise Coombs had her little baby boy! I am so excited for her and her hubby Phill, even though I had to find out from my mom (refer to previous post about no Facebook for Lyndsey).

I am just SO HAPPY now. I love my life, and am so blessed. I enjoy the fact I am almost done with school for the semester. I have a pretty fun job working at Yogurtland, despite the fact that everyone thinks I'm making up the name. BONUS: I also am being promoted to shift leader (woo!) and don't have to wear the goofy visor anymore, plus I get more moolah. I also get to start my job at the Missionary Training Center in the Human Resources department, which I am even more excited about! It will be great to work in such a wonderful environment, and Nate and I will be working at the same place. Double Bonus: it is a 10 minute walk from our apartment, so no wasting gas! My family is doing well, and (as they tell me) all are happy and doing well! My friends are finding the loves of their lives, and consequently there will be about 6 weddings this summer. That just makes me even happier, knowing they are happy and in love (eww)!

And the best part of everything-- My husband Nathan. He is so wonderful to me, I could never ask for anything better. Knowing that I get to see my best friend and eternal companion and spend time with him just keeps me happy all day. Every day my love grows! He is so dedicated to his school work, and so positive about his job (and who wouldn't be-- it's like the top job in town!) it inspires me to work harder and do better. We have our funny little jokes. We watch Seinfeld every night before bed. We check up on each other to make sure our homework is getting done. We play card games in our pajamas and spy from our back porch. It is an ordinary, married college student life. But its the best one I could ask for.

Disconnected

As of Wednesday, March 2, 2011 I have officially been off of Facebook. Not just un-signed in. But out. Off. Gone. Invisible.

I realized, 90% of the people on my Facebook I don't really care if I ever see or talk to again. And that 10%  are people I DO care about... and I actually talk to them on the phone, in person, or text them when I have something to say to them. SHOCKING! I know, what a concept.

I used it as a distraction, something to give myself a break from homework, or whatever else I was doing. But then I would end up stalking random people who showed up on my feed. OR re-stalking my friends. Oy ve. It really was stupid. So I deleted it. And I still have my bored moments. But then I just finish my homework in one sitting. What a concept!

The only negative aspect-I can't stalk my younger brother. It is MUCH easier to find out about which girl he likes by looking at whose pictures he comments on and whose wall he posts on than to ask him 5 thousand questions about it, and not even getting an answer. Ha.

So I challenge you. TRY IT!

Hidden Beauty

In the deep of winter (and particularly under all of this snow) I really start to miss my home of sunny southern California. Yes, hard to imagine, but I miss the warm sun, the sand that always makes a mess, and especially that the only coat I need in the dead of winter is a sweatshirt. I miss not having to worry about freezing when I decide what to wear everyday. For now, I don't really have a choice. So as I was bundling up to walk to class the other day, I realized we live in such a beautiful place! The snow changes everything and makes it look so COOL!

 

The mountains reflect a thousand different colors at sunset and the trees add silhouettes against the evening colors. I love that I can take these pictures when I'm walking from my apartment to class, that I get to see such unique scenes every day.

I love where I live! I love being here and actually seeing seasons, something missing from my hometown.  I'm glad I get to play in the snow, enjoy the fall leaves, and enjoy the outdoors in the warm spring weather. The summer I love, but I might shrivel up and die in the heat here especially without a beach! But we'll see how it goes with my first summer in good 'ol Provo!

I love movies! I love watching them at home or going to theaters to see them, seeing them with lots of friends or just by myself. For me, movies are a kind of way to escape daily life and enter a new world for a bit. It is like story time for adults... We get involved with the characters in their setting. We (or at least I) try to figure out what the problem will be for the characters, and when it comes up, try to figure out how they will fix everything.

The reason I bring this up, is the numerous movie ads that were shown during the Superbowl yesterday. Let's count the new ones they showed... Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Thor, Cowboys & Aliens, Super 8, Captain America: The First Avenger, and finally (give me a second to breathe) Fast and Furious Five. First of all, I think it was very smart to announce these movies coming out during the Superbowl. They get millions of viewers on the highest-watched program of the year. At the same time, I kind of feel bad for the lesser known movies getting overshadowed by the already well-established Pirates, Transformers and Fast and Furious movies (even though these three are the ones I really want to see). I think the newer ones (ie. Cowboys and Aliens-which seems a bit weird, Super 8 and Thor) could be easily forgotten over the hype of these highly anticipated films.

Anyways... I know what I'll be doing this summer!

There is a first time for everything...

I've never really been a huge fan of blogs to be honest. I find them consistently used for people to tell the world about their lives, to brag, to complain, to ramble to people who really don't care all that much for the minute details of lives. If there is anyone interested enough to read it.

But now I am starting one! Mostly for my advertising class (which I am really excited about), but also because I have been thinking lately it would be kind of fun to have a place to put my random thoughts, ideas, and all the other things that I don't have room for in my brain (thus-the brain spillage). I am a little nervous to start one only because I wonder if people will think what I write is weird or pointless or whatever. Or think I am weird. I guess we'll just see how it spans out. So all you Comms 230 students... here is the access to the excess of my brain.