Ummmm....What?

I have been feeling very absent minded the last couple of days. Oh, and I have been feeling like school should have just ended for the semester at Thanksgiving. I know classes are over this week, but I just don't feel like doing homework or studying. I have a few papers to write but I sure don't want to write them. I hate papers, they are stupid. Oh, and I hate 7AM finals, which I have 2 of. Why can't people just leave me alone to shop for Christmas presents and read the Artemis Fowl book. And sleep, I definitely want some sleep.

In other news, I went to the grocery store today and spent forever trying to find Velveeta and Hawaiian rolls. I did get myself an awesome orange flower though, and it makes me happy just to think about it. I want to carry it around with me, but it would probably die. I hope everyone makes it through the next couple of weeks. Happy two weeks till Christmas!

Attention: Snow

Another new snow adventure. I laid ice melt today for the first time in my life. Go me.

Let it Snow!

Okay, maybe not really let it snow. Snow is so cold. However, I did have an experience today that was a first. I shoveled snow for the first time in my life today. It was kind of fun, but I wouldn't want to do it all the time. Thanksgiving was awesome, but I'll write about that later. Right now I need to look up some pretty pictures.

Stats lessons...zzzz

I cannot stay awake during stats lessons unless I'm up and about doing something. But if I'm doing that, I'm not actually listening very hard and I have to listen to at least parts of them again anyway. Stats is awful and I'm so glad I only have to take one class of it. Besides that, this week I have two midterms which will be very hard. I just got my review sheet for my Geog 101 test and it is twice and long as the other two reviews, and there is a ton of terms and such. My Geog 260 test is tomorrow, and I'm totally not ready for it. And I really want to do well on this exam, because the only test left in this class is the final. I did okay on the last one, but I'm hoping for at least a B+ in the class. I really like the class, but there is so much that we learn and it all kind of relates to eachother, so if you can't remember one part, you can't really do much else. We'll see how I do though. The last test took me two hours, this one will probably take even longer.

In exciting news, tomorrow I get to miss half of work and go to the exciting Financial class with Holly and Caleb. Also, I'm going to a lecture about Rome, which should be cool. It won't be quite as cool as the lecture I'm missing during that same time though, which is "the simpsons and the politics of satire". I could count it as a cultural experience for my Humanities class because we've read a few satirical pieces, but oh well. Friday will be classes and studying and work. But Friday will be awesome because Rick and I are going to the football game! It will be my first BYU game and I'm totally excited! And then Next Tuesday Rick and I are winging our way south for Thanksgiving, which is also so so so exciting.

So much fun

Well, today was basically two parts: one part bad and one part really fun. The bad part was I took my humanities test today and I think it went really, really bad. I'm mad about that. On a good note though, well I guess I'll start with very early this morning when I got a phone call from Julikins. Roxy is going to be in our Aerobic Dance class. Huzzah! It will be so much fun, I can't wait! Then this morning Holly broke into my house, which gave me a heart attack. Then I got to go to class which was the best part of the day! We had our last class activity, and we had all kinds of fun things to do. It was a dance themed day. First a native american boy in our class did an amazing hoop dance. It was so cool. Then some of the folk dancers did some clogging, which was cool but not as much as usual seeing as they were dancing on carpet. Then some islanders did a freaking awesome Haka, which for those of you who don't know is a dance before a battle that is supposed to intimidate your opponents. It was pretty scary, and totally awesome! Then more folk dancing, then some line dancing. We learned a cool line dance, and then we got to learn the Haka! It was so much fun, but I don't think I look very scary doing it, and I can't pronounce all the words. Now I'm at work and I should be studying for my stats test.

Good day

So today was a pretty good day. Well, it started out kind of weird because when I woke up I thought it was Tuesday. But when I finally figured out what day it was, the rest of the day went pretty smooth. Classes were interesting and I stayed awake. I got to see mom and say goodbye, which was sad. I had a good breakfast of a banana and yogurt. When I got out of class, I listened to a message Rick had left me during geography. He was like "I couldn't find the post it notes, so I decided to call instead to give you a warning. There is something waiting for you on the table." My first thought was a puppy, but then I thought about it a second and we are not allowed to have puppies. When I got home I looked on the table and there was a beautiful bouquet of flowers waiting for me! That totally made my day. Work is pretty easy tonight, which is cool. Then for family home evening tonight we are going to book our B&B for our anniversary. We've been married ten months today, it is getting so close to a year, which is weird, but awesome. I saw PJ Eager today, and Steph, that was nice. Hey, what does everyone think about doing a little something for Halloween tomorrow night?

Somebody's Tired

So, I don't want to do any more homework, even though I haven't done that much in the first place. However, I did get 100% on my stats quiz, which basically means I rock. Today Rick slept until noon, and I was totally jealous. And it is funny because he didn't even wake up on his own. I called and had to basically yell into the answering machine to wake him up. ABUSE! Rick just hit me, and as everyone knows, that will happen exactly once! School is eating up all my time, time in which I could be doing things like sleeping, eating cookies and brownies, reading good books and basically just hanging out. This weekend will be nice though, I don't really have much going on homework wise, which means I can party hard with Mom. I'm excited to get curtains for the living room, it will make the room look so much nicer. And I'm contemplating getting new throw pillows for the couch. And I'm excited to go to Salt lake, it will be awesome! Okay, nothing else really going on.

Cute socks

As I was digging through my sock drawer today I thought about how I have the cutest socks. Colorful socks just do something for me, they add a bit of happy to whatever I'm wearing.

In other news Rick has a phone interview with Omniture for an internship, and that would be awesome.

It is hard to hear what your computer is saying about stats when you are in the shower.

Nice people are nice to work with, especially when they have cute smiles and smile every time you make eye contact.

The Mediterranean will get hotter in the future, causing fewer northern Europeans to go there in the summer time. I wonder if that will make it cheaper to go there?

The idea of making and eating brownies is making so that I don't want to go to bed.

Tomorrow in RMYL we will spend most of the time talking about Disneyland, and I feel I will do well with this topic.

A shoutout

This post is for all you crazy kids who actually read this, especially Shyla. Today was a busy but pretty good day. Woke up, went to my presidency meeting and visited some new members of our ward. One of them has a one and a half year old girl who I couldn't stop staring at because she looks so much like I did when I was that age. It was kind of weird, but cool. Church was pretty good, but I was tired becasue I stayed up with rick last night till 3:30 because he was finishing the Harry Potter book, and it takes him longer than five minutes to read. So while I was waiting for him to finish I took a nice bubble bath and brought in rick's laptop and watched a movie till all the bubbles were gone.

I just heard my neighbors stomping around. I am going to kill them some day, they drive me crazy. If I only had a sniper rifle...

This week will hopefully not be too busy. I have a paper to write, and a test on Friday, but that's about it. I'll be able to go to yoga this week, which I am so excited about. And this week is homecoming, which is just fun because of the things that go on.

I like school, but I need a break. It has only been a month and a half and I already feel burned out. I just need a few days to organize the apartment, sleep, and go do something fun without having to worry about homework or studying. That would be so awesome.

To fail or not to fail?

Hamelt, a random spanish baroque play, countless paintings, music with crazy long titles. I can't focus on it all, I don't want to study for this test anymore. I just want to take it and get it overwith. Right now I'm feeling like I don't care how well I do on the test, I just want it to be over. I know I won't feel that way once I've gotten some sleep. I should have done more studying, but I get distracted so easily. That's why I'm typing this now.

With a name like Albrecht, no wonder he was famous. Grunewald was gruesome. Campin was Merode. Borromini borrowed from Bernini. These are all thought and tricks to try and help me remember what the heck I've been studying. Does it make any sense? Probably not to you, but all those things help me know exactly what I'm talking about.

After I take this test, I get to go back to the Hercynian hills, celtic languages and Islam.

Life's a Dream

Two more midterms next week, not happy. 6 hours worth of RS training and meetings, also not happy. Can't go to yoga this week either, what a pity. Sad how things tend to pile up on eachother. But going on a 2 hour walk last night was fun, its been awhile since we've done that. We used to go on long walks all the time, I love long walks. Bowling was fun too. Except for the fact that Julie beat me in the last frame, grrrrr. And now Rick has finally made his mark on the chatfield vocabulary with his fwench piwate.

Today the leaves were finally dry enough to be crunchy, I was in heaven. Collette got me addicted to crunching leaves during the fall, it is way too much fun. I may have to allot more time to walking to class so that I have proper crunching time.

I wish a day off of school was coming up soon, I need a day to just chill and not have to worry about doing any studying or anything. That is why Rick and I have decided on a theme of relaxation for our anniversary. Okay, not really, but we decided less was more. Don't plan so much so that if we don't want to do anything, we don't have to. December is too far away.

Oh, and looking back at the title for this post, Life's a dream is a play I just finished reading. It was good. I think it is true in a sense, life is a dream in some ways. Especially today for me. During my nap I kept dreaming that I knew I was sleeping. It was a weird sensation. But hey, it is better than getting chomped in half by a T Rex like I did the other night. That was just plain gross.

I did it

Watched both sessions of conference. Made hot chicken salad that was delicious. Had Jared and Christine over. Lost Disney Sorry. Met another old mission companion of Rick's. Finished studying (kind of) for my geography test. Wrote that dumb paper about bloody paintings.

School, etc

I hate homework. It is boring and aren't studies showing that most of this stuff isn't doing any good anyway? For example, writing a paper comparing two bloody paintings isn't going to help me understand humanities any better. First of all, blood = yuck. Second, I hate writing papers. I can't study well either. Sitting and looking at the same thing for hours on end just does not sound fun to me. And stats? I don't even wanna talk about that since it is turning out to be dumb. I would rather just spend my time doing other things, almost anything. I want a degree, but can't we just skip all the boring. I just want to travel the world, mostly Europe. I want to go to all the cafes, the museums, the cathedrals, the mountins and everything. One thing that I do want to do (but it isn't homework) is to make my list of 100. We talked about that in RMYL and it sounds cool. Make a list of 100 things you want to do before you kick the bucket. You can't take things off once they're there, so you gotta be careful. That sounds fun to me. The sad thing is I won't even get a grade for doing it.

Well, since everyone else seems to be getting one, I might as well have one too. I don't really have too much to say, but we'll see what happens.