Sept 8 2010

I realized a few things today.

I'm almost to an entire year mark of blog posts.

Almost to the 200th post. Wow.

And, tennis shoes are a really awesome invention.

It was raining today, so I put on tennis shoes to walk to school. Remember that big hill that kicks my butt? I kicked it's butt today. :] The tennis shoes on my feet worked miracles, and I was totally confident striding my way up the asphalt. I would like to think it is because I have become amazingly fit in the last week or so, but I think I must give credit to my feet and the joy they were feeling at being cushioned and comforted as they walked up the hill, instead of smacked around by the flip-flops I usually wear.

Another great thing, my story made it in the paper! We had some bumps along the way, but look at this:

It's my first every Professor profile! I interviewed my favorite teacher from last semester, you might remember, Dr. Austin. Me and Tori loved her class, so when I was assigned this, I jumped at the opportunity to interview her. It was much bigger than I thought it would be, so that is cool! I got a GREAT job from my editor, and she told me I was going to be a GREAT asset to the paper. Very excited. :] Hopefully it was not just beginners luck, and I actually have the skills to keep this going. Oh yeah. I get a press badge too. That was like number one reason I took the job. :] It will be like my Lehi sweater all over again, and I can use it however I want. :]

For my other job, I am also doing great things. I am like a professional survey caller. I was the first one to get thirty completes in my shift today. So, I won the cool item below. I finished the night with 60 completes in a 6 hour shift. Pretty impressive. I'm like, really good.

I'm always incredibly busy, but I'm really excited for this weekend. We are going to go eat at a new restaurant in Logan, Aggy's. I have to write a review on it, so a whole lot of us are going. Tori and her new boyfriend are even coming. It should be really good. Also, Saturday is the first home football game! Woo! :]

Sept 7 2010

We just got back from vacation!

We came home for Labor day and had a blast! Friday night we drove down late after I got off work, and hung out with Troy's family for a while. His brother Chad and his family came up for the weekend. Saturday we spent the day with them. We watched Troy get his butt kicked at P90X, played at the park with his nephews and the dogs, and then went to the Dinosaur Museum. It was really fun. :] It's weird to me, because now I'm a insta-aunt. But I'm really excited about it. The boys are super cute. I just need to meet Corbin, Troy's sister's boy. I haven't met them yet. :] Saturday night we took off towards St. George to hang out with my family down at the condo. We had a really good time, we went to Zion's National Park on Sunday and spent the day hiking. We went up to Weeping Rock, and then to the Narrows. It was really fun, we had never been before so we really enjoyed it. :] Monday we hung out at the condo, had a Wii tournament, and went swimming. It was really fun to just be able to hang out and not worry about things for a while. We drove back home late Monday night, and then headed back up to Logan this morning. It was a lot of driving! It was actually really fun though. Troy told me all about his Elementary years, and we got some really funny memories written down. :] It will be fun to have later. Today I bought a Fondue pot! We made a trip to D.I and they had a really cool one for $4! I'm excited to try it out, so stayed tuned for that post. :] It hopefully will be pretty cool. We're going to have to plan a party!

Sept 2 2010

Today was slightly more eventful.

I got another job! Haha, my meeting at the Statesman turned out to be my first meeting, not an interview or a practice. So that is pretty cool. I will get a Press Badge and everything, so I will be as legit as I can get. I'm pretty excited about that. Who else do you know that has a Press Badge? No one. Now, you all do. :] I have two stories already, a Professor Profile and a review of a new restaurant. I'm a little bit nervous about them, my first interview is tomorrow, so we will see how it goes!

We had our very first DESA meeting tonight as well, and all went good. I'm excited about DESA this year, because since we started the new ASL club, our part will be focusing more on the professionalism versus the skills and learning ASL. It will be a really good experience for all of us to get our contacts out there in the real world, and have our names already known when we are going to look for jobs. I'm very excited about that.

My Humanities teacher is weird. Our textbook for the class, no joke, is the Bible. It is a new modern translation of the book that influenced Western civilization. Basically, he tries to not interpret the Bible, and confuses the heck out of all of us in the class. It's going to be difficult to pass I think. I hope that it goes alright though. I really need to get all A's, especially since I'm taking such a small amount of credits! I'm still waiting to hear back from the FCHD department about switching majors, so stayed tuned for news from that.

I'm looking forward to this weekend, we are going to go home. Troy's brother is coming up from Vegas, so we are going to spend Saturday with them, and then go down to St. George for Sunday and Monday with my family. We are excited. School is harder than I remember, and I feel like I never stop doing things. Which is scary, because it is the first week! Ah!

I'm still trying to register for Institute, we are going to try to take another class from Bro. Maughn. I'm excited. :] Troy is taking two Institute classes, the one with me (Latter-day Saint History) as well as a Seminary Teacher prep-type class. It will hopefully be really good for him, and he can get a feel for what Seminary teaching will be like, and see if that is really what he wants to do. It's a good step. :] Things are going well for both of us, so hopefully it continues through the semester, and is not just a beginners luck type of thing. (Even if we aren't really beginners, and it is just the beginning. Oh well.)

Side note, I'm going to be incredibly skinny in a few months. I have to hike all the way to school, plus I feel like I have not stopped running around at all. And, I eat on the go, and it's usually pretty healthy stuff. Plus, here is the kicker, I still haven't had any soda, unlike another weaker individual we all know. :]

Sept 1 2010

Today was a pretty uneventful day.

It was A-Day on the Quad, so I had to head to Campus early, wander around like a fool for an hour, and then sit in the hot sun trying to recruit people to join ASL/DESA club. It was pretty great. Troy kept me company for a while, and brought me lunch. It was good. We got a lot of people to sign up, so hopefully we get a lot of new people coming to the activities. I went to class (even though I debated skipping, and it's only the second day?!?!) It was good. I sat on the VERY front row, so I could sit by Jon and James and see the interpreter. Next time however, I'm getting there earlier, so I can at least be on the second row. First row is way too eager. After that I went back to the Quad, sat in the sun, and then went to work. For 7 whole hours. It was incredibly terrible. I will never work that long again. There is a married couple that trained with me, and so far, the three of us have worked all the same shifts, so we kind of became buddies. It's nice. If Troy ever gets around to joining us, we can double with them every night! :] Only I could make that into something fun.

I also found out something really great! The one and only Tesha Balls works there too! I heard her voice and her name, and it was a great discovery! Yay Tesha! I don't feel quite as pathetic working there anymore, I kind of know what I am doing now. The greatest thing is, I got an interview at USU's Statesman, so now I might have two sources of income. Yay me. :] (If they pay good enough, I might just write and stop the phone calling. But I'm surprisingly good at it...) I also decided today that I was going to change my major. I'm switching to FCHD with a Deaf Ed emphasis. This means that I will get to be the parent-child advocate, for when people find out their children were born deaf. This is much better, because this is what I want to be doing anyway, and no more out of the state awkward twelve week deal! Yay. Plus, I will hopefully (cross your fingers I figured right,) graduate in Fall 2012. That is like so much closer than the other one. Again, yay.

Aug 31 2010

So today was pretty crazy. Tuesdays are pretty crowded. I go to school all day, like all my classes, and then I work from five to ten. But, two great things.

1, my Astronomy teacher is great news. He has an English accent and is super hilarious. Love it.

2, I like dominate this job that wasn't supposed to be that great. I was on the top three for a large majority of my shift. Go me. :]

Also, I got off like a half hour early, so I got to go meet up with my great friends at the movie they were showing on Old Main Hill. Oh yeah, I love college. :] That is really all I did.

Aug 30 2010

Back at school!

We love Logan. :] Let me just take you through this weekend. We moved up here on Tuesday, stayed with Troy's cousin for two days until we could move into our apartments on Thursday. Read Mockinjay, which was really great. :] (Don't worry, this isn't going to be a spoiler.) I really liked it a lot. Probably, my favorite book of the three. Maybe. We moved in on Thursday, and I love my apartment. Me and Parker have the back two bedrooms, and it's really great living with her. We each have our own bathrooms right in our bedrooms. Very nice. We have two other roommates, Dixie and Bonnie. We don't see that much of each other, because we all kinda have crazy schedules. Bonnie already graduated and she works all day. Dixie is a senior, and works. Parker works her nanny job from twelve to six, and I am doing school plus work. School is slow this semester. I'm only taking twelve credits, down from the eighteen I wanted to take. I thought about it, and with this job, plus wedding junk, I think I'm going to need the extra time taking less credits will give me. I have a family finance class mwf, on tues/thurs I have a humanities class (that is proving to be very interesting, our text is the bible....) a astronomy class, and then intro to deaf education. In two of my classes so far, there are interpreters in both. Very distracting. :] But it will be good for me I think. Besides, when the professors use a word I don't understand, I look at them, and see the simplified-signed version, and quickly understand. :] It's like my own pocket dictionary. Minus the nerd factor of actually having to carry a pocket dictionary. :]

Work is not quite a thrill. I sit and stare at a computer screen all day, calling and calling all the hours of the day. I did pretty good for my first day, I passed. So hopefully I will be getting paid around nine or ten dollars an hour. That would be a real big help. :] Other than that, nothing is really going on yet. Just trying to get back into the groove of things, and figure out how to survive this Logan weather. Went to class dry, came out of class, it was pouring. Guess who walked home soaked to the bone in a tee shirt and flip flops? Oh yeah, yours truly. I rocked that look.

Aug 20 2010

In a couple of days I will be able to make my posts a lot more continuous. I know you are all just thrilled to pieces about that. :] Quick update on what you have missed in the last ten days.

I'm done at Smart Cookie! Forever! It's weird, but it is time to move on.

I got a new hair do. Life change, hair change. :]

We have still been trying to accomplish more and more things on our list. We did pretty good however. We hiked Ensign Peak just the other day and that was really fun. Then we ate at Five Guys. :] Completely undoing everything our hike did for us. Oh well.

A few Fridays ago, we met up with Kyle and Cortney (Troy's brother and his girlfriend) at the Cheesecake Factory ate dinner, then headed to Boondocks. It was a ton of fun! I had never been before, so I was opened up to a whole new world of entertainment! :] We raced Go-Karts, and played Laser Tag and Arcade games. I totally kicked Kyle's butt in our last go around of Kart races, and I was very proud of myself. :]

We have been doing our best to get a good chunk of wedding junk out of the way before we go to school, and I'm proud of our efforts.

We are dying to go up to school. We have had a good summer, working our butts off and squeezing in fun times, but we are ready to go to Logan. We only have a couple of days, and neither of us are packed, but hey, it will all come together the night before. :]

I'm very much looking forward to this next semester of school. Not only am I starting a new semester in a new place, but I am not doing it alone. It will be so nice to have Troy just up the road, and not have to drive home every weekend. It's going to be a time full of adventures, I can feel it. I'm hoping to not neglect the blog, and I promise to do my best to update whoever all of you are on what I am getting myself into. I'm sure the insight I will have on this whole engagement thing will be great, so stay tuned. Life has taken me in a direction I never could have imagined for myself, and I'm happy it has. I'm very lucky, and am so looking forward to what comes next. Moving on like I am has taught me so much about what I used to think I knew. I was (still am actually) a clueless pawn in this game of life. There are so many people who I wish were a part of my life now, and many I am glad are not. We are all working towards better lives for ourselves, and it is so fascinating to me where everyone will end up. Wherever I happen to land, I hope they have Dr. Pepper. Because we are doing the no soda thing again, and I'm dying for one. :/