Alfred the Praying Mantis

I was visiting teaching today and My companion and I were headed back and we found this praying mantis. He is now our pet. The note says, "If you see a praying mantis outside, please don't kill him. He is our pet and his name is Alfred." Alfred is also in the picture. :)

Thought I'd throw in a random picture of all my pictures on our living room wall.

OHS Homecoming Football Game!!

I went home for the OHS Homecoming and it was so fun because I got to put my hand on the Alumni wall!!

Chrisanne, Jess and I at the game!!
Go TIGERS!!!
Bri, dad, mine and Chrisanne's hand and signature. Bri got a REAL handprint cause she's the last graduating class of OHS. But I drew mine. :)


They won the game!!!

Mission Call!!

This post is dedicated to my best friend from 9th grade who just got his mission call!!! Congratulations Steven!! Zimbabwe Harare Mission!! You're gonna be an AMAZING missionary!

www.mylifeisaverage.com

I feel the urgent need to tell you about a website that will waste your time!! www.mylifeisaverage.com You'll love it! When you read the stuff that's on it you're roommates will hear you laugh and wonder why. It's a great website!

FHE: Shopping Cart Races!!

I have to tell you about FHE last night! It was so so fun!! We had shopping cart races! We went to Walmart to do it. Shopping cart racing may not be what you think it is. No, it's not racing up and down aisles pushing someone in the cart. Actually, you have a certain amount of time to go get a certain number of items from throughout the store. The purpose is to make it hard to find where you got them from. Then when time's up you switch carts and the first person to put all the items away wins! I was with Jared and I think we came in last... of almost last. But the group that had our cart came in second to last, so it's all good. :) It was so much fun!! (The picture is of Jared with our cart.)

Chemistry Study!!

Yikes, I'm taking my first HUGE Chemistry test tomorrow!!! Yes, I'm terrified! We had our study group tonight, but instead of it just being Matt and I, there were three other people too. I think we should only let one of them officially join our group.... maybe that's mean. But the other girl there didn't really get any work done and was distracting. Anywho, I feel like I was productive and even learned something I didn't understand before. Wish me look on my exam tomorrow!! If I'm eating ice cream in my room and being mopey, you'll know why. :)

p.s. I wish I could proudly wear this shirt like the random guy in the pic... not yet though.

BYU vs. CSU

GO COUGARS!!!!!! Way to pull off that win against CSU!!! That was awesome! I even got to see like the last 6 minutes! :) The cool thing about my job is that I get to go DOWN ON THE FIELD towards the end of the game. I was like 2 feet away from the players. :) And let me just say, WOW they look good in their uniforms. A few in particular. 42-23 Go Cougs!!

Reunion

I have to tell you about the COOLEST thing that happened to me today!! I was walking down the stairs in the Tanner Building (which is a long walk, it's just one LONG staircase) and there were some guys at the bottom of the stairs handing out some flyer for a business club conference thing and I didn't really pay attention to them cause I'm not a business major. (Don't ask me WHY my health professions class is in the business building...but that's not the only random place I have a class. I have English in the Eyring Science Center and Book of Mormon in the library.) Anyway, the point is there were guys standing at the bottom of the stairs. I was a few minutes early to my class so I just sat down on a bench, thankful for a little break. I kept hearing these guys say something along the lines of "Come to the BYU Marketing Club conference tomorrow, there's gonna be food," (I don't know if that's the real name of the club, but you get the idea.) I turned around to look and I saw someone I was not expecting to see in a million years!! At first I didn't know he was. But I DID know that he looked SO familiar! For a minute it was driving me crazy cause I couldn't figure out how I knew him!! Then it hit me, RICARDO'S!! It HAD to be Lance from Ricardo's! (That was literally the best job I've ever had! And not just because there were a couple really handsome guys that I worked with. Oh, by the way, Ricardo's is a Mexican restaurant.) (I honestly think I have a really good memory for remembering people I've met, even only for a minute. Random tangent. Not even five minutes before this I ran into a guy by the drinking fountain who I met at the top of the Y a few weeks back. I only talked to him for like a minute up there, but I still remembered him.) So I sat there for a minute more, thinking to myself, 'It HAS to be him. Should I go talk to him? But what if it's really not him and this guy just has one of those faces that everyone thinks is familiar?' But I figured, 'What the heck, if it's not him, sure he'll think I'm a dork, but it's not like I ever have to see him again. I can walk into class and when I get back out he'll be gone and it'll be as if it never happened.' So I got up....my feet just kinda lead me there; My mind couldn't really change my feet's mind about walking in his direction. It was one of those awkward moments when once you stand up you really can't sit back down... like in testimony meeting. haha. So I walk up to him (of course he's in the middle of a conversation by the time I get there) and he looked at me and I said, "Can I ask you a really weird question?" He was like, "sure....?" "Did you used to work at Ricardo's?" "Yes!" "I KNEW you looked familiar! Lance right?" "Yeah, I remember you! You were the cashier." We proceeded to chat for a minute, reminiscing about the good ol' times and the people we worked with way back when and where they are now. Once we both left Ricardo's I NEVER in a million years thought I'd actually see him again. Wow, that's all I have to say. I always did think he was quite the stud, although so did every other girl who worked at Ricardo's, except the one girl he was into. (She's now married and expecting a baby.) It was a short conversation that we had, but it really was good to see him. Man, it sure did make me miss Ricardo's though. I didn't get his number, he didn't get mine, so I'll probably never see him again, but it was really nice to see him. Just thought I'd write about it. Who knows, maybe one day we'll cross paths again.

For your viewing pleasure I've provided a picture of the Tanner Building staircase. We stood talking at the very bottom. I can't remember if this is the entire staircase, or if there was one more level underneath this one. Anyway, just know we were at the bottom. :)

First Day of 4-H

As maybe one of you know, I'm a 4-H club teacher at Orem Junior High! And guess what! I teach a babysitters club! Sweet right??! Well anyway today was the first day and it went okay. I just feel like I'm a boring person and that junior high kids don't find it fun to listen to me... Half of them I think are forced to be there by their parents... Anyway, I hope I can make it fun for them! It was only the first week, it'll end up being great! :)

Stupid PDBio

Let me just re-state the fact that I hate the testing center. I hate that their hours aren't regular. I just hate everything about it. My PDBio professor said we'd be able to take our test Thursday, Friday and Monday. I just took his word for it when he said it'd be open all day and didn't bother to double check the times. I decided to take it Monday because I needed all the time I could get to study. Well, I get to lecture and he announces that we actually had 20 minutes to be to the testing center before they closed. So, half of the class had to get up and go take the exam. Stupid. So instead of having a few minutes to study after my classes were done for the day, I didn't have any time at all. He said we should plan on at least an hour to take it, well I only had like 35 minutes because I had to go to English. GRRRR! Sometimes I think I'm not cut out to be a BYU student. At least I passed my stupid test, and that was my goal.

BYU vs. FSU

Wow. All I can say is BYU must've left their ability in New Orleans last week cause they sure the heck didn't bring it tonight. That was a pretty sorry excuse for a football game. Not that I can actually play, but honestly, that was bad. They didn't just get beat, but as the old man I met in a wheelchair said, "They got the crap kicked out of them." I thought that was a fitting phrase. There's no reason they couldn't have killed FSU! The OU game must've been just luck. There goes BYU's brand new, hard earned respect. Come on Cougars, next week I wanna see a real football game!

I Feel Like 'Alexander and the Terrible horrible no Good Very Bad Day'

It was NOT my day today! In fact, it was a BAD day!! I almost never have bad days, usually I have good days, GREAT days! I just want to go to bed and not wake up until tomorrow. It's a good thing tomorrow is a NEW day. I was talking to my mom and grandma and they said I shoulda checked my horoscope before leaving my apartment this morning. So when I got home I checked it and this is what it said: "Try to slow down today -- things are too crazy! If you're patient, you can get enough done to call it a day, but if you try to rush anything through, you are sure to end up farther behind." It doesn't say anything about having a bad day, but I did anyway. I guess I have to have the bad days to appreciate the good.

My day would have been worse had my day been like Alexander's.

Jennie

I know I already posted something tonight, but I decided to do it again. I just wanted to say I MISS JENNIE SO MUCH!!!!! Honestly, I feel like crying that's how much I miss her! We became so close in those few weeks. I just wish she'd move here or something. At least come and visit. I'm sure everyone reading this misses her too. We had so many unforgetable and life changing experiences together. It's been six months. Move to Utah Jennie!

Artificial Heart Seminar

I was reading the Daily Universe this morning before class, just like I always do, and I saw this article that caught my eye. The title had 'artificial heart' in it, so I read it and saw that the man who created the artificial heart was coming to BYU and would be speaking TONIGHT! Of course I had to go, since cardiology is one thing I'm really interested in. I talked my friend Matt in to coming along. It was really cool! A lot of it went straight over my head cause it's not like I know THAT much. The Biomedical Engineering club put it on. Still don't know too much about biomedical engineering, but I'd like to look into it. It was pretty awesome.

COLLEGE!!

Even though I should be going to bed, I decided to make a post. Someone should like remind me to do this more often, cause I really do love to blog. I guess you wouldn't know it cause it's been like a year since I blogged consistently....

Guess what!! I voted yesterday for the very first time! And the very first person I voted for was my daddy! :) It was awesome!

You know what makes me happy? Getting letters from missionaries!! It honestly makes my day! No matter how stressful and hard a day has been, it's so nice to be able to open a letter and just relax for a few minutes before diving back into the day. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

President Monson came to BYU devotional Tuesday and it was amazing!! I'm pretty sure whoever is reading this also went... but just in case you didn't. It was amazing! He's so funny and amazing!

Well, I think that's all I'll put for now, BUT I might start posting more. I guess it's a little hard to stay motivated to update when only 2 people read it...