Thank heavens it was just a dream!

So I had a dream last night that was really bothersome to me. Well, a big group of us was at this crazy inside pyramid thing, and it was like a maze but you had to go up to the top of it. At the top, I dropped my glasses all the way down, and they went down a storm drain that was near the bottom of the pyramid. I was so sad, I guess I really loved those glasses. Julie and I reached in and tried to grab them, but instead we found a bunch of other odd glasses, like glasses that measure people's heights and rectangular sunglasses. Well, later that day we were in a doorway, I think waiting in line to go do something else, and Rick walks up to me and he gives me a new pair of glasses. I was so happy I kissed him, and lo and behold, that causes outrage amongst everyone else I'm with. Then, like in a movie, I see the background before this moment. It turns out Rick and I dated, but I had some doubts, so I just up and married someone else. It turns out that my marriage was miserable and horrible (by the way, I was married to Zack Ruben). I was so sad, because we had gotten married in the temple, so I knew I had ruined the rest of my life and eternity, because I would be stuck in this miserable marriage forever. Well, I guess for the past two years of our marriage I had been having an affair with Rick, which made me even more sad because he was so great and I knew I really loved him. But we could never be together because I knew that I could never get divorced. So, in kissing Rick, everyone found out about my affair and I was even more miserable.

So when I woke up this morning, I felt awful. I woke up with a feeling a dread because I had sabotaged my own future. Only after a shower did I remember I really was married to Rick. That made me so happy! So, I'm glad it was only a dream, because an eternity of misery was not really fun to look forward to.

Now I want to Travel with Charley

I just finished reading Travels with Charley in search of America by John Steinbeck and I'm itching to get out of here! How fun to drive on all the small side roads of America and meet the people and see the sights, to immerse yourself in it. If only there were time, and if Rick wanted to do it, which he says might be alright but doesn't really interest him. Provo seems so small now, I want to hit the open road. Maybe, when I finally get around to making one, this journey will be on my 100 things to do before I die list.

Well, a lot has gone on since my last post, so I'll just summarize. Finals were fine, I studied a lot and I did pretty well on all of them. I got two As, two A- and two B+. Not bad at all. Christmas break was a blast with Steve and Cindy. It was fun to just hang out and sleep in. And playing games was great because it is something that I like to do but don't get the chance to do much. Christmas day was nice, and I got a lot of great things from great people. We got back and school started all too soon. My classes for this semester will be pretty awesome though, and I get to read a lot of really good sounding books about things like American Cold War holidays and travels around Europe to where certain fairy tales take place. Plus I am taking a social dance class, and it has been awesome so far. Work is pretty much just the same. Well, I can't think of anything inspirational or witty, so I'll just sign off.

Great way to start the week

Well, two finals down 3 more to go. I took my religion test last week, which was okay, we'll see how I did. Today I took my map reading and analysis test kind of on a whim. I decided I was as ready as I'd ever be, so I went and took it. I got the test and I thought I was doing pretty well, until about half way through. Our TA came into the room and said that most of the people who had taken the final already had done really poorly. I got nervous at that point because I was wondering if I wasn't doing as well as I thought. Well I finished the test and I just looked at blackboard and saw my grade. I got about a 91% on the test which means a 93% overall for the class. Not bad at all, I'm really proud of myself. Hopefully the rest of my finals go as well.

Oh, and I just want to say that my integrity is worth more than $20. I went and returned a book and our iClickers to the Bookstore and the lady accidentally gave me one too many twenty dollar bills. I returned it when I noticed, because I'm just that honest. And extra blessings during finals week never hurt either.

I'm still thinking

Sorry Holly, I'm not going to write my 6 interesting things about myself until I can think of really good ones, so this post will not have those six interesting things.

Work went very smoothly last night even if I froze while taking down those dumb flags. Then I came home and had the most delicious veggie soup for dinner, it was really good. Then I felt like watching a movie, but not one we own, but I also didn't want to go rent one. So I watched some tv for a long time till I was bored to tears. I went to bed at 3am and woke up this morning at 11:30. I feel kinda like a bum. Today is going to be busy. I have 4 finals to study for, the house to clean, dishes, laundry, and we might go to Salt Lake tonight to see the Christmas lights on Temple Square. We did it last year and it was great. Oh, and we might go finish our Christmas shopping so we can get this show on the road and go to AZ. I'm really excited to go and to do fun things like hiking and just plain relaxing.

Ok, dream time again. But these are violent, so for those who are faint of heart, please don't read this.
My first dream took place at an outside cafe. I think it was my freshman ward reunion, even though none of the people there were really in my freshman class. We were all chatting and having a great time when all of a sudden, one of the guys pulls out a large gun and tells everyone to put their hands on their heads. We do so, and then we line up facing the wall like he tells us to. He then went through everyones pockets and took all our money and jewelery and the like. One of my brave friends got a call to 911 and told them our situation. The mean guy saw this and shot the girl making the phone call, he shot her like 3 times. Then we hear sirens, and we all start running around trying to get away. The police line up outside the cafe walls and they can't see the guy very well, but they decide to take the risk and just start shooting in hopes they hit him. They pull out their machine guns and start shooting everywhere. People were dying all around. It was very terrifying.

Next dream. We're all at home and getting ready for a huge party. The Birds are there helping us set up, cook, and do the other party things. From the moment I woke up I had been getting the party ready, so I hadn't showered or anything. Finally, we're all done setting up and it is time to go to the park where the party is happening. Everyone is ready except for me. I tell everyone to wait while I get ready. Mom (who looked beautiful) told me it was my own fault that I wasn't ready. Oh, and there was no more hot water for me to take a shower, so I should just come. Dad says they should just leave me, and if I really want to come that I can get myself there. I was so mad at daddy, he was being so mean. Then I turn to Rick for support, but he tells me he's taking our car and that I can just come when I'm ready, but that probably won't be for a long time and I'll miss the party anyway, so I just shouldn't come. That was the last straw. I start throwing upper cuts at Rick, yelling at him, kicking him in the face and the tummy, punching him wherever I can reach as hard as I can. Then I woke up. I apologized to Rick, cause I shouldn't beat him up, even in my dreams.

Blueberry Muffins

I thought it would be a nice surprise to make muffins for rick this morning since it is snowing, but he ruined it when he woke up earlier than I expected him to. The muffins, however, were still delicious. The snow is still cold though, and it looks like a blizzard outside right now, not fun.

Today is homework day which I hope I can stay concentrated enough to actually do. I've got 2 papers, one oral presentation, one portfolio and NO GPS ASSIGNMENT! It got canceled because the units had an error an couldn't make a route using the datum NAD 27, which is what we made the points in. Sad. I had even chosen a fun one entitled "Christmas Light around Provo". It was too good to last I guess, but at least it is one less assignment.

In closing, I will type out a dream I had the other night.
I was in a mall in a bookstore and was tossing books off the shelves in a sweeping motion. Then I saw some people who I knew were bad, so I tipped like 3 bookshelves on top of them. A mall police man saw me and started chasing me. I ran out of the store (which was on the 3rd floor of the mall) and ran down a flight of stairs. I saw that I hadn't lost him so I ran down to the first floor. I lost him but decided not for long, so I wanted to get a disguise so he wouldn't recognize me. I went into a beauty parlor and had my hair permed curly and dyed brown. I obviously had them change my race to because when I looked in the mirror I was Hispanic. I flirted with a cute boy for awhile but then was caught by the police man, who I don't know how he recognized me. I was really sad, but only because I thought the boy would like me less if he knew I was a criminal. The police man walked me out of the mall (it was night) and I don't know where he was taking me. Then a bunch more police men showed up, and I noticed they had batman logos on their shirts. They tassered the police man who had me and Robin came up to talk to me. He said they could get me out of this. The bat lawyer was going to write up stuff for me for my court appearance. Robin was my representative in court, but as he read the Bat lawyer's testimony, it made me look more guilty. Little did we know that the Bat lawyer was actually in league with the Joker. Then I woke up.

I love GPS

So I just got back from an Enrichment activity. It was pretty fun, but a lot of work. I was there for 3 hours earlier today and then I was there from 6pm to 9 for food serving, the activity, and take down. Rick was awesome though and helped babysit and then take down.

I did a GPS scavenger hunt thing yesterday and it was fun to put together. He wanted it to be fun when others do it so I gave it a theme. I did Freshman Memories and I went to some of my favorite places around campus. I hope other people think its fun. I get to do someone else's next week and I'm excited, GPS is a fun toy. Yesterday I also got my hair cut. I love it! I finally fixed those layers I never liked and it looks cute. Thank you Holly for inviting me to come with you.

This weekend I have a bunch of homework and I really need to dig deep down and find my motivation, because I'm just ready to be done.

Was there....

me making out with a guy from a TV show?
the dreaded beach elephant?
Caleb working in a shady office in which no one ever knew what he was doing?
a trip to Antarctica?
the swankiest hotel room ever?

Yes to all of the above.
No that wasn't real life I was talking about, it was a dream I had last night. Many of the details are not included, these were just some of the most memorable things.

I have to take a test tomorrow and I really don't want to. But, I also get to use the GPS again tomorrow, which is fun. We went out and did a little field work on Wednesday, and it was fun but freezing! It was 25 degrees when we left the SWKT, which wasn't exciting.

Thanksgiving was really awesome. It was nice to get some sleep, see the family, do some fun things and eat some great food. It was bad if only because now I'm totally out of school mode, which I haven't really been in for this semester. I'm so antsy and ready to be done.

Okie dokie, well here is whats on my mind right now, but I'm going to go write a paper about sex.

Thank you kind stranger

For the first time in my whole life I won something. It was only because a nice boy gave me his raffle ticket at the e-business competition. I got a 1gig jump drive, not an iphone, but still pretty good.

This last week was busy, but a lot less busy than I have been in the past. I could have gotten more done to get ahead, but I didn't and I will probably regret it later. This week I am so excited for! I love Thanksgiving and I love California, and I get both! It will be fun to hang out with the fam and to go apartment hunting. It will be our first real apartment and I'm really excited. I think I'll start feeling like an adult once Rick starts working full time and we have our own apartment, it will feel weird, but awesome.

Everyone out there should be thinking of what they want for Christmas. And I know I'm a hypocrite because I can't think of anything. I'm working on it though.

Today I feel lazy

I slept in really, really late because I went to bed at 3am. I have been reading for most of the day, and not the school books like I should be reading but I have been reading about Narnia. I feel like a bum, and I know I should be doing school work, but during the week I do so much, I feel like on the weekends that I don't want to do anything. But alas, I am looking at my list of things to do and it is long. Just thought I would post.

Candy Corn Cannibals

My shirt from Woot Shirt came today and I'm totally going to wear it to work. I'm really excited about it, because I think it is funny to have candy corn cannibals on a shirt. I should post a picture of it. But not now

It's coming...

Halloween, that is. I think I'm gonna go to school on Wednesday as Batgirl, but we'll see what happens. Mostly, we'll just see if I remember it's halloween when I wake up on Wednesday morning. I don't really have anything to post, I just decided that I should. I talked to the family on the phone today for about an hour and a half, my cell phone was really hot afterwards. Mom said they are moving the washing machine out of the kitchen, that will be nice, but will look odd when it happens.

I got another calling today, which means Shelley: 2, Rick:0. When the second counselor in the bishopric called and asked to come speak with us for a bit, I was sure it was to give Rick a calling, but I was fooled. I'm now the Ward Chorister and I'm on the Enrichment Committee. I feel kind of bad, because work prevents me from ever actually attending Enrichment, but at least I'll get to help plan it. I think it will be fun.

So the semester is officially half over, and I have mixed emotions about that. I'm happy, because the closer to the end of the semester, the closer I am to finishing school. On the other hand, I still have a few big projects and papers which I have to finish. I just am ready for a break. I think Thanksgiving will be fun. Julie is driving down to Redlands with us, and it will be fun to see the family. Then it is just a hop, skip and a jump until Christmas, and hanging out in AZ with the Allison's will be fun. We might take the long way and see the Grand Canyon while we're at it, but only time can tell.

The Trees are raining!

So yesterday it snowed, and my brain is not ready for that yet. There is white stuff all over the ground when the only thing on the ground should be crunchy, colorful leaves. Can't we finish one season before we start another? Well, because of all the snow, and then the warm day today, the snow is melting off the trees and dripping down, like rain.

Let me try to summarize whats been going on, but I'm sure I'll forget parts. Today church was pretty good, I was tired though, and when I woke up it was dark and cold, not good wake up conditions. Then I went visiting teaching, and my new girls are nice. One is from Korea and she's really cute. The other is an artist, but only as a hobby. She works full time as a civil engineer while her husband is finishing school. Yesterday was a kind of yucky day in the fact that it snowed and that I missed my freshman ward reunion. I was excited to go and see people I haven't gotten to see in awhile. However, because Rick and I can't seem to get to bed at a decent hour on the weekends, I slept in and missed it. And we we're late to the opera for a couple of reasons: A) I was having an emotional meltdown because I didn't get any homework done and B) Totally forgot there was a football game, so the traffic was horrible, it took us 25 minutes to get from our house to the Riviera to pick up Julie and friend. But the rest of the opera was really great, and my friend Sarah was a hoot. Everyone was so talented, it was awesome.

Other going on's in life... we're going to carve a pumpkin for FHE this week, and I'm ecstatic. I wish I had some other decorations, but a pumpkin will be awesome. I made chicken fingers this week and they were very tasty. Rick and I are going to attempt to make calzones this week, and I'm excited to make a BBQ chicken calzone. I can't stop thinking about graduation and how then I will be done and moving to CA and having kids. I really can't wait to be a mom, I see babies and I just want one of my very own. And I want to get them cute clothes, like this cute bear hat the baby in our Marriage and Family class wore on Wednesday. I thought I had died and gone to cute heaven, it was so cute.

Well, I should go do more productive things now.

It's going to be a busy week...

This week ahead of me is not going to be fun. I have 3 papers due, 2 midterms and all the normal business of a regular week. Plus I haven't gotten ahead like I wanted to this weekend. I'm so busy during the week that I just want to relax on the weekends. I know I shouldn't but I just hang out and then by sunday night realize that I've pretty much wasted what time I had and have to cram a zillion things into one night. Not really a great system actually. I just am having a hard time getting back into the swing of school. This was the first summer in many years where I wasn't either going to school, working or doing both. So I really got out of the habit. And I know this is my last year, which makes it even harder.

I am looking forward to Halloween though. I want to make ghosts in the graveyard, carve a pumpkin and give candy to the adorable trick or treat-ers.

Don't want to be a hypocrite

So, I wish everyone would post more often, but then I look at my blog and see that maybe I should be a little better at posting, too. Well this week is busy! My boss, Phil, is gone for the week, so I'm the boss lady, which means I have to go everyday and make sure things are getting done. That means I'm scheduled for almost 30 hours, on top of all my class and homework. But so far nothing horrible has happened, only had to clean up something gross once this week, so far at least. And we get to set up for conference, which makes it a little more busy. But we're having everyone over on Saturday, and I'm totally excited. Plus, conference is always great, and I'm really looking forward to it. But, I guess some teachers forgot it was conference which equals zero homework time, because I have about a zillion things due next week!

In other news, I entered a contest today to win 10,000 dollars for anything travel related. If I win I'm totally going to Italy, Hawaii, a train ride through Canada, and Probably go see Japan or China. I just really have always wanted to travel, but it is expensive! I've never won anything before, maybe this will be my chance.

Oh, and for those of you out there who want to see The Marriage of Figgaro with me, what would you think if I invited Grandma Chatfield to come see it with us? She loves opera, and I think it would be cool to hang out with her.

cause wakin' up is hard to do

Yesterday was an emotional roller coaster. I woke up in a good mood, ready to tackle a bunch of homework and get some things done that I needed to do. First I made some banana bread for Rick, because I know he loves it. Then I did some homework and got ready to leave the house and get a hair cut and go pants shopping. Well, the shopping didn't get done. I went to get my haircut, and basically it looks horrible. It isn't what I asked for at all, and I hate, hate, hate it. I was so sad that I just went home and took a bath to try and relax. Then I did my hair to see how it looked after I washed it and did it, and it didn't look any better. So Rick was nice and we went out for dinner and then came home to chill. I started doing some more homework, but I fell asleep. And the next thing I know Rick is helping me get into bed. I slept through the night, from 8pm on. And that is really early for me to go to bed, but I really think I needed it. School is really roughing me up, and my new work schedule is hard on my body. But church today was great. It is kind of nice being back in Relief Society, but I still miss primary a little. And I'm excited about going to Grandma's house today, I'm glad she's feeling better.

Its a beautiful mornin'

So, this week hasn't been all that exciting, just the normal school, work, homework etc. I did find out that my friend Dani is the TA for my Geog 347 class, which is pretty awesome. Oh, and I bombed an english quiz, that was exciting too... Work last night went better than the week before, no vomit to clean up. Today hopefully will be an awesome, productive day. I want to get my hair cut, buy some new pants, and do tons and tons of homework. I already feel kind of behind, and I would love to get rid of that feeling. And this week I have too much to turn in to be behind.

Yuck

So, this is going to be a quick post just to say one thing, getting rid of a wart is gross. I've been putting medicine on it since Sunday, and it is killing the skin all around my wart, and the wart is hard and black. Just thought I throw that out there.

Here we go again

Two days down, two days left to go (for this week anyways). Tuesday was a pretty good first day of school. I got permission to take History of Tourism in America instead of Economic Geography, which will make my schedule a lot less crazy and it sounds like more fun. And, it will be my first history class at BYU. And then I went to Adventure Tourism and Ecotourism, and it sounds like it will be a pretty cool, laid back class. Then I went to my business lecture series class, it was okay, but not life changing or anything. The best part of my day was seeing a bunch of cool people like Becky Johnson, Chris Gibson and Dani S. Work was okay too, there are a lot of new people working there and they seem pretty nice. And I found out I don't have a single shift with Moises! Hallelujah!

Wednesday was a little rough just because it was so long. I have four classes back to back, being Tourism, Marriage and Family, English 315 and Map Use and Interpretation. All my teachers seem nice, and marriage and family seems like a class where I'll learn a lot. Hopefully it isn't too bad for Julie though, he says he directs the class mostly to people who are already married. Thats okay, May is right around the corner. My geography classes seem like they're going to be fun, and my teachers are nice, and one of them reminds me a whole lot of Toby Maguire. Then I had work, for 8 hours and it was loooong. I was alone till 6:30 because the other two people didn't show up. And we trained two new people last night, and that just always takes a long time. But at least I don't have to go to work today!

Today will be a read a zillion chapters of homework day, grocery shopping day, and go to one class day. I just really need to get back into the swing of school, because homework sounds so awful right now.

Back in Provo

Well, here we are back in the land of BYU, it almost feels like we never left. I have mixed feelings about being back. I did love being able to have fun and play with my family during the summer, and I just plain love California! I did, however, miss the pretty mountains here in Provo, and I'm excited to be back at school because I'm a senior and this is my last year. It is pretty crazy to think Rick and I are almost done and are going off into Grown-Up land, the real world where a whole new set of adventures begins. But I'm glad I get to start that process as a married person, it is a lot less intimidating knowing Rick is going to be there with me.

Our trip to Vegas was a blast! It was awesome, except that it felt like it was a million degrees outside, even at 2am! We stayed in the Luxor (aka the pyramid one) and it was nice. The only downside was that we didn't get our preferred room choice of a room with one king sized bed. We had a room with two beds! Oh well. We pretty much just hung out, we didn't have a schedule or anything. But we did manage to go swimming, see the lion habitat at MGM, tour a chocolate factory, go to M&M World, see Ka ( a Circ de Soilei show), and watch the fountain show and the conservetory at the Bellagio. We also just walked around and checked out a ton of the hotels on the strip. We also ate a ton of good food, which I think was Ricks favorite part. It was mostly just a fun time where we could be together and not have to worry about work or school or anything.

Since we've been back we went mega grocery shopping since our apartment had no food, plus I finished reading Angels & Demons and Rick and I went on a date with Matt and Christina and saw Ocean's 13 at the Dollar theater. It was a very good movie and it made me laugh. I think Rick was happy to see Matt, they are so funny together and such good friends. We made plans to hang out again and include Ben and Liz, and I think thats a great plan. I really like Liz and Christina, and when the boys get together it's like insta-entertainment, so much fun to watch.

Meteor Shower

So my husband is in Florida today soaking in the sun and staying in a swanky Disneyworld resort hotel. I'm pretty jealous, but not too much I can do about it.

This morning I woke up at 1am so I could drive Rick to Pamona, to meet up with a friend of his from PwC so they could carpool to LAX to fly to Florida. It wasn't fun, because I had only gotten about 2 hours of sleep before that and I hate the early morning anyway. We woke Julie up at 2am so she could be my riding buddy for the trip home. I'm glad she came, cause by 3am I was sleepy and might not have made it. I told you all of that so that I could tell you this: the only good part of waking up at this God forsaken time was that Julie and I got home, went in the back yard and we watched the meteor shower. It was pretty awesome, I've never seen one before. Even from the city we saw quite a few.

After going back to sleep and sleeping till almost noon, I had a pretty bland day. Did some homework, picked up kellie from band practice and ran some errands. I got another 100% on my accounting quiz though, which already puts me worlds ahead of where I was when I took this class in the spring, so I'm pleased. The rest of my week holds more homework, some clothes shopping (cause I really need some new clothes!), having Holly come down (Yay!!!!), picking up Rick from the airport and going to a wedding. Not too shabby, actually.

Yesterday was a blast because there was so much family in town. Dad was made bishop, which is kinda weird and hasn't really sunk in yet. But it was fun to have the Birds in town, and it made me really look forward to having Brittany at BYU in a few weeks. And the Walkers came over, and they are so funny. Grandma Chatfield was there too, and she is such a nice lady and so funny when she is with Sister Peterman. We had a day full of family, excellent food and a nice 2 mile walk.