Swimming is Awesome!!!

So I just kinda wanted to brag about myself a little bit. Haha. Just kidding. But I swim the midterm half mile (18 laps in 30 minutes...and a lap is down and back) on October 15th (in basically like 15-16 days). I've really been trying hard to get better, so every day that I have class I go in anywhere from a half hour to an hour early and just swim. Well, today as I was doing my warm up (and a lot more than what was required for warm up...we only had to swim 8 laps for warm up) I was able to swim about 14 laps in about 40 minutes...but I also just wasted about 15 minutes doing nothing b/c I was done with the required laps and didn't know what else to do. If I had actually kept going, I would've been able to easily get 18 laps in 30 minutes. I'm so proud of myself! Plus, today has proved to me that I am able to do things that even seem impossible. At the beginning of the semester (like the first day) when Phil (our coach) told us what we'd be doing for our midterm, I freaked! Luckily as I talked with Anna, she reassured me that if I worked hard in class I'd do okay. Well, I certainly will be okay!!! I'm so glad I took this class...I've already lost about 4 pounds just from swimming! I don't think I'll be gaining that freshman fifteen til next semester ;) Just kidding.

My Weekend

Wow...this weekend has been pointless! Just kidding. It's just been pretty boring. For some reason a lot of people went home. If I actually had money (well, I do, I'm just saving it) I would go home next weekend instead for a couple reasons, 1) it's General Conference next weekend and 2) this weekend is our family Sunday where our families are invited to come up and go to church with us...then afterwards they feed us lunch! Hey...it's free food! Haha. But my fam is leaving early early tomorrow morning to get here by 9:30 am. They're gonna be grouchy! Haha. Oh well.

Yesterday I tried putting on a fake tattoo in my bathtub so that I can someday join Anna's biker gang! Haha. It was way cool too...barbed wire!!! But alas, sadly it didn't work. It was actually a way crappy one...almost like a sticker so it peeled off. Haha. But it was fun while it lasted!!! And yes, I did take a picture of myself putting a fake tattoo on my ankle:) I was way hyper that night anyways!!! When I come back to Logan next I am sooooo stocking up on cool tattoos!!! Then I'll really look like I'm in a biker gang!!! A lot of people down here put on fake tattoos just for the heck of it...some of them even put ones on that're of spongebob and Dora. Haha. I'm not THAT into it, but I do love putting them on!!! After that, I went out to the lobby b/c we were having a movie night here at Castilleja. A bunch of girls pulled out their mattresses so we all piled on those...and the rest of the people sat on the couches. The first movie we watched was The Italian Job. I had never seen it but I'm glad I did b/c it was way good! The second one was The Goonies...which is a total favorite of mine!!!

Today I woke up around 12:30 pm...it was way way way nice!!! For some reason, though, our apartment is like filled with flies! It is kind of disgusting. So I became a fly hunter! For like a couple hours I just went on a rampage killing about 5 flies. Haha. It was way way fun! I wish I could've gotten a pic of me actually in the act...but my roommates were laughing too hard at me!!! I didn't think i was being all that funny...but I guess the fact that we were up until about 2-3 am last night/this morning gave us reason to laugh at just about anything. After my fly escapade I went and cleaned out my cupboards b/c I was way way bored!!! I took everything out, organized it, and then put it all back in. It makes it look like I have a ton less food, but I really don't. A lot of it is just like the boxes of pasta and ramen and stuff like that. But now I can actually get to everything! It looks way nice!!!

I just got back from the General Relief Society Meeting. It was way good!!! It was the first one I've ever been to...so I guess it makes it the best one that I've ever been too:) Haha. No, but it was really good. Especially Elder Uchtdorf's (I think that's how you spell his name) talk. He always can make anyone laugh..but yet at the same time tie things in to the gospel and bring the spirit in so strongly!

Singing to Old People

Today we had our first ever "concert". Haha. I might want to start off by saying...as some of you know, I am in a woman's encore choir here at Snow. Basically we just learn songs and sing them at concerts...nothing big.

Anyways, so today we had our first! It wasn't much...but apparently it's tradition that we try out our songs on the old people. I was sort of scared at first, but when I realized that half of them couldn't really hear what we were singing anyways, I warmed up. Haha. We went to an old folk's home here in Ephraim (just a few blocks down from campus). It was way fun...especially when we did our songs Mamma Mia and Take a Chance on Me (both from the movie Mamma Mia). We do actions to both of those and the elderly people were totally getting into it! I loved doing it! I hope we go back!

So Confused

I don't get it...when girls flirt with a guy it means that they're interested. Is it not the same for guys then when they flirt with girls? I don't get how a guy can flirt with a girl and then date other girls and then tell that one girl EVERYTHING about their date and how those girls shut him down when he's gone to see them again. I don't get how everything can feel so right at one moment, then everything crashes down on you within a day. I don't get how you can be so sure about one thing but then it's not what you thought. I don't get how you can get hurt by a guy when you're not even dating...

This movie, though, is a good way to release any hard feelings toward guys...I would highly recommend it to anyone!! But it has a good message to it too, so all in all, great movie!!!

Funniest Youtube Movie!

Oh my heck...so we were watching youtube videos the other day here in my room and by far this one was the funniest one I have ever seen! If you guys have time you totally need to click on this link and go watch it. It's about 10 minutes but oh my heck...so worth it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Y4keqTV6w

Here are some good ones too! Haha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYmsr8Sy4K0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wTyI9xqy7U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZL0f7IHvWw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEQXIDbz6Oo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic (This one is Scary Mary...gotta see it!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTC4qkb8Ppk

Random Stuff

Hey everyone! So far this week has been pretty good! Been sick a little bit but I think the majority of the school is like that. It kinda sucks being in dorms b/c then EVERYONE gets sick even if only ONE person was sick! Haha. Oh well...dorm life isn't ALL bad :)

Monday night was FHE and so our FHE family went and played volleyball first and then swam in the Activities Center! It was way way way fun! Haha. Afterwards a bunch of us came back to our apartment (well, my cousin came up and Amy was there and so was Andrew and Becca was hiding somewhere) and we just messed around. Me and Andrew played 'Battle of the Cameras' in another video. I took this one b/c Steve and Andrew were messing around. Haha. Totally shows what normally goes on in here.

Yesterday was a horrible day...I woke up with a fever and went to my first class. Everything in the room spun around even when I had my eyes shut! It was nuts! But I came home, skipped half my classes and just slept the morning away. I had to go to work later in the afternoon but that was okay...I earned $40 for the four hours I was there. Haha. Payday is this Saturday so I'm totally excited!

After I had come home, I realized that it was cleaning check day! OH NO! Haha. Just kidding. Actually, we've kept our apartment super clean (pretty much ya...) so it wasn't too bad. Besides, before I left for home last week I cleaned almost the entire bathroom and mirrors so I just had to wipe things off and then clean the shower. When the RA's came in they were very impressed with how clean our apartment was! I thought we should've put on something like the Sound of Music when they walked in but we were barely getting things done as is. Haha. It would've been a nice touch though:) This is of me cleaning the mirrors...and yes! I am wearing a bandana. Haha. I thought that was an extra nice touch! Actually it was just to keep my bangs out of my eyes...but I looked like a total biker chick! Not quite as much as my best friend Anna (who by the way passed her motorcycle driving test this morning...CONGRATS AGAIN BABE!) but pretty darn close:) haha.

There's not much else going on...just have a chemistry quiz tomorrow so I'm going to need to start studying that pretty soon, but first I think I'm gonna take a nap! haha.

This Weekend

This weekend has been quite fun! No joke. Even though I do miss some people back in Ephraim (wink, wink). Haha.



Me and Cass hung out yesterday...it was nice to be able to just relax with my old & one of my best friends!!! We went to dinner and the mall and everything like that so it was way fun! Haha. Her nephew is soooo cute! His name is Shaddix. Oh geez...cutest kid I have ever seen!






This morning I woke up late (as always! haha...I'm a college student now) to go to a volleyball game for the YW in my home ward. It was way fun! Haha. They won too!!! I am so proud of each of those YW - they worked way hard and they were able to pull out a win! I was supposed to be a line judge...but then it got boring and they didn't really need one, then I was supposed to do score, but someone else go to do it! So I gotta sit by my BFF Anna (the best coach ever) during all three games. I love the YW's crazy socks! It makes me really miss being in YW's. It feels weird to be 'too old' to be a part of them. It's hard to no be able to do the things that I used to love to do!

Jordan and Emily...concentrating!

The most perfect pic! Sammy went after the ball which created a perfect action shot!

The best coach ever...and my BFF & sister: Anna Swan!!!!!

Comedy

So Andrew has a brother (21 years old...haha.) who totally is the funniest guy I have ever met!!! The dirty blonde guy is Ryan, and the guy with the darker hair who walks past is Andrew. I hope you guys enjoy it...this is a partial video of some of the ones I taped in our apartment...he's hilarious. Oh and the guy in the doorway who Ryan is kicking at is their cousin Justin.

I made it home safely...I've been here in Logan for about 6 hours. But now I'm kinda sick...coughing really hard makes me pop out ribs and throw up and stuff...not very pretty. Tomorrow I'm taking Jordan Hanks out for lunch during her lunch break and then hanging with Stephanie (we're having a movie party for a little while b/c she's pregnant and not feeling great) and then hanging with Cassie. We're going to watch John Tucker Must Die :)

Death Hall Ball

Oh my gosh! I almost just got killed! Haha. Just kidding. But that's how it felt. We just played this way fun game, but at the same time it is pretty dangerous. Basically here's how it goes: we go to the longest hallway (the other one up here). We split up into two teams and we borrowed Kori's aerobics ball. You put it in the middle of the hallway and yell "GO!". Both teams go running for the ball. The goal of the game is to get it to the opposite end of the hallway by ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!! Haha. We won (I scored the point) but I was scared to death that I was going to get squashed b/c there was honestly like a 6'5" guy that was on the other team. Anyways, that is what we call Death Hall Ball...for obvious reasons. Haha.

Other than that things are going great! I'm getting more and more used to my job so it is getting a little bit better each time. Even though it's nice that I can choose my hours (b/c not every week is going to have the same activities...sometimes I go home, one week I have a concert, another is a rehearsal, etc), at the same time it's totally up to me to decide when to go in. So far (for this paycheck on Saturday) I have a total of about 20-24 hours. Not too shabby! Haha. I almost have enough in my savings account to pay for next semester's housing so I just need to add enough for that to be done and then I'm going to buy a camera. If I can save up enough I am going to buy probably either guitar hero or DDR :) Haha. Maybe even both depending on how much I can save. Down here I very rarely spend anything...honestly! There's nothing to spend it on other than food and that's not even worth it unless you go to Roy's Pizza.

Anyways, so I'm coming home next weekend (I'm coming back on Thursday the 18th or so) so if anyone wants to do anything (even just hang out) just let me know! I know me and Cass are hanging out sometime on Friday (surprise surprise...haha.). I'll be home ALL day on Friday :)

So there's this kid that walks me to my choir class every Tuesday and Thursday. He's in my institute class (choir's right after that) and last Wednesday he asked me for my phone #. He's also in my start smart group and we were leaving Start Smart and I could tell he was way nervous. He had a sort of terror in his eyes so when he asked me I couldn't very well say no or else you could tell it would've broken his heart. Haha. JK. But I did end up giving it to him.

So far I've done pretty good in my classes. On all my quizzes I've at least gotten a B on and same with my tests. I was worried about my psychology test, but alas, I got a B on it!!!!! Haha. And I had a migraine while I was studying for it so next time I'll do even better!!!

Other than that not much has happened. I can't wait to come home though! I love visiting everyone! I miss you all!!!

PTCE

OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!! I just looked on the PTCB (Pharmacy Technician Certification Board) to view my test scores (well...just to see if I passed)....AND...............................(dramatic pause)..................................I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my heck. It's like totally unreal how much everything has worked out! Now this week I'll go down to SLC (prob not all the way to Logan) and go to DOPL (Department of Occupation Professional Licensure) to get fingerprinted and have a background check and then I get my Pharmacy Tech License!!!!!!! Crazy huh!

So today has been so tiring already and it's only like 12:30. I went to swimming today and we honestly swam about a half mile. My legs were burning sooo bad! But I am trimming down a little bit...and getting into shape. Anyways, so then I have Fitness for Life right after that. It just so happened that today was the day that we needed to run the mile. Haha. Oh my gosh. If we ran it we only had to do 1 mile but if we walked at all we did 1.5 miles. So I basically walked. But it was really hard b/c my legs kept almost giving out so I could barely even walk. My muscles were so so so tired! Haha. Swimming is way good exercise though! Much better than basketball EVER was for me!!! Phil (our teacher) only told me one thing I needed to work on so that means that I am getting better!!! :) I'm glad. Right now we're just working on front stroke. For one of the drills we did we had to swim with our thumbs under our swim straps and swim with only our elbows. It was only hard b/c we didn't really know how to breathe when we did that. Haha. But we did get to use the flippers...so that was nice! Haha.

I will be graduating most likely this Spring! Well, I'll walk at graduation this spring and then I'll go do classes during Maymester and then if I need to I'll do it during the summer as well but then I'm all done! Then I'm moving back to good ole Logan! I'm so excited!!!

Well now I need to start getting ready for chemistry. My teacher honestly doesn't really even teach...it's like a high school senior trying to teach us but oh well. hopefully his tests will come out of the book instead of lectures b/c I don't listen anymore :)

My First Weekend Here

So this is my first weekend here. It's been way freakin boring! Most people go home I guess over the weekend. But I have no money (really) so I have to stay here. Basically I slept in til noon, woke up, ate breakfast AND lunch and then worked on what little homework I had. Haha. I have it way too easy here...but it's b/c I worked my butt off in high school to take AP classes and worked even harder to pass the tests. So now there's a chance that I might be graduated after next semester depending if I have enough elective credits from high school. I'm hoping that I will b/c there's a Walgreen's (with a pharmacy if you know what I mean) that's opening up in Logan next year and I want to work there....badly! Haha. I like Skyline, it's just not the greatest work environment b/c I'm still pretty new to the whole pharmacy setting (I've only worked in a pharmacy for 4 months...3 1/2 of those were as an intern so i didn't learn EVERYTHING). The pharmacist does yell quite a bit and it hurts b/c half of what he yells at me for he doesn't need to yell or even get mad at. I don't know. I'm just ready to go back to Logan. I'll probably work a year or so and then when I save up enough money I'll go back to Bridgerland.

So for like the past 3 hours me and my cousin Steve and the girls in 202 and Amy and some other random people who just walk in have been playing DDR (dance dance revolution). I took a shower this afternoon and now I'm all sweaty again. Haha.

I'm sooo not looking forward to waking up tomorrow early! Haha. I am excited though to go to the singles ward! I did get a calling but technically I'm not allowed to say what it is. But I'll tell you guys tomorrow. Haha. Lets just say I knew I'd get this one...

I don't know what else to write...me and Steve went to Roy's Pizza tonight for dinner...it was way good! For $8 we got 3 slices of pizza each (they're big slices and are fat so like one filled me up) and 8 pieces of breadsticks each. Not too bad considering that it'll be my lunch (well...dinner cuz tomorrow's fast sunday) tomorrow.

I did try out for a solo in choir the other day. I was soooo scared but in the end I was glad I did it. We won't find out until Tuesday who got the last part but even if I didn't it was still so worth it!

Other than that nothing much has happened. I've put in 12 hours at Skyline so far (they're paying me apparently for the work I do). It's nothing like OGM (Old Grist Mill). So much more professional and busy! Haha. I never get a chance to sit down, which is what I was always doing at Lee's (my internship) b/c we were never really busy.

Okay, well, my turn is next on the DDR. Talk to you tomorrow!

CUPBOARDS!!!!!

There's just something about Snow College and sitting in cupboards I swear! Haha. So yesterday I had just gotten back from a very looooooonnnnnnnnnngggggggg and boring ride home (my apartment) and was packing away the stuff I'd gotten while in Logan. All of a sudden the girls from 202 came in and asked me to come into their apartment. Well, come to find out they had moved all their food and stuff out of their cupboards so that we could do this. It was way fun! The second one we felt like the Brady Bunch so we kinda looked at each other...it didn't work out as well as we had hoped but oh well. It was still fun while it lasted! The top left is Cynthia, top right is Larkin, bottom left is...ME!:), and bottom right is Tycia. The other 3 are the ones from 202. They're a fun group of freshman (not the annoying dramatic ones that apparently hate me now b/c the boy they like now likes me...gay! I don't even like the guy).

Labor Day Weekend

So I came back up this weekend to hang out with my friends and fam. So far it's been great! But the sad part is that I leave soon. Oh well. I think I got the job at Skyline...they gave me the tax forms that you fill out with a new job so I'm guessing that I got it. I won't be working a ton, but enough that I will have enough money to get by.

When I got back on Friday I went to Nathan's first varsity football game (he dressed as back up kicker...he's only a sophmore so that's pretty good!). I was hungry so I went home and then me and Cass hung out. It was fun even though we just went to Wal-Mart. I swear...even though we do some stupid things...things that generally wouldn't be fun...we always have fun when we hang out!

Saturday me and my fam went four-wheeling in our backyard. It was way fun! Haha. Luckily we have enough land that we could go pretty fast!

Well, now I'm going to go buy a fan for my apartment. My room gets so hot down there!