Long Week, Fabulous Weekend

This week was seriously the longest week of my life and I have absolutely no idea why. It wasn't a bad week or anything, just LONG! I felt like Monday should have been Wednesday. Tuesday should have been Friday. Which means by Wednesday I was DONE! I guess that's just how the last few weeks of school are. The clock slows down, and every minute seems to last an hour. It was a pretty busy week for me too. Lots of homework before "dead week".

Thank heavens for weekends. Friday was nothing special. I worked and prepared my lesson for Sunday and that's about it. Saturday was a lot of fun though. My friend Jason and I went to the movie 'How to Train Your Dragon'. At first I was a little embarrassed to admit that I was going to see this movie. I blame it on the lame title I guess. But I actually quite enjoyed it. It was super funny and really cute, and one that I would definitely consider buying to add to my collection. It was 3D of course (because everything is these days).

After the movie Jason suggested that we check out this new restaurant that his dad had been to and said was pretty good. It's called Pounders and is in North Logan. It is Hawaiian food. So as you walk in there is a pile of papers that you put your order down on. Jason and I had no idea what we were doing so just kind of made it up as we went along. Jason then takes my paper from me and hands it to the cashier, whips out his wallet, and pays for me before I even have time to protest. I did anyways however, but not for long, because I have come to find that there is just no winning in an argument with Jason. (Don't tell him I said that though) ;) So we go sit down to wait for our food. The atmosphere is pure bliss with a giant painted palm tree on the wall, pictures of the Hawaiian islands everywhere, and Hawaiian music playing in the background. Now that's my kinda place! So Jason and I get kind of carried away in chatting it up... half hour later... we realize we still don't have our food. He goes to check on it and comes back to tell me they had forgotten about us. Ha how funny! When our food finally comes it is DEEE-LICIOUS! It was a lot of food for NOT a lot of money! Yay! I am totally loving this new find of ours! And to add just one more cherry on top, they gave us each a free meal for next time because they felt so bad for making us wait. Which means I just got two free meals! Yeah. Pretty sweet deal if you ask me! (Well, actually three if you count leftovers... which I do) =D

After that we came back and played games at my apartment with my roommate Emily. Also fun.

So today (Sunday) I had to teach the lesson. And oh boy was I nervous! Not so much for the teaching part, but for the filling the time part. It's harder than you would think to take a ten minute conference talk and turn it into a forty minute lesson! Thankfully, the Lord's hand was in it 100%! As I had hoped would happen, the Spirit just kind of took over and everything ran rather smoothly and I filled the time quite nicely. I was so grateful for all the girls that shared personal stories, I couldn't have done it without them! I know this lesson was meant for me, but I do think it went pretty well. I am always relieved when I can walk out of Relief Society, after just given the lesson, and have no regrets.

It was funny how today every meeting in church all tied in together. Crazy how that sometimes happens. It would seem that we ALL needed the same lesson on the same day. Good day in Church. But again, I say that everyday.

Our home teachers asked if they could come today. We said of course. They asked what time, we answered with a "Pretty much anytime today would work." So they said. "Alright. It will either be before four or after six". Ha ha. How funny is that? So pretty much the ONLY times they might not show up are within a two hour time frame. Sorry, but I just found this extremely funny. They are good guys though, gotta love 'em.

Well today has definitely replenished my spirit and I now feel ready to face my last week of school. Woot Woot! I am super-dee-duper excited and a little MORE than ready for summer! Wish me luck, or do one better and pray for me, on my Anthropology final . . . I have a feeling I'm gonna need it!

Lots of Thoughts

I have been attempting to clean my room for the past five hours. It's not going so well. I keep getting distracted and pretty much have no motivation whatsoever! So I guess I am using this blog as just one more distraction. My poor room. I see forever messiness in it's future.

I have a lot of thoughts tonight. So this post will most likely be totally random and perhaps not make much sense at all. First, I would just like to say that conference this weekend was amazing! Not gonna lie, I am a hardcore conference lover. I was not a huge fan when I was a little kid. I never really got much out of it. But it's definitely my two favorite times of the year now. Listening to the apostles is quite the incredible experience that just does not compare to much else. This conference I especially felt the power that resides within President Thomas S. Monson. What an amazing man he is. I was talking to my roommate Emily tonight about it, and I realized something. President Monson teaches through stories, just like Christ taught through parables. I don't know, I guess I just thought that was a cool comparison.

This week I have been helping plan my grandparent's 50'th wedding anniversary. In the words of '27 Dresses' "50. Wow!" My Mom and I went from store to store to store looking for 50'th wedding anniversary decorations and gift ideas. It was amazing to me how little was out there. And in almost every store the salesperson would say something like this, "Well we don't carry a lot of 50'th anniversary stuff because it's not a big seller". How sad is that? Less and less people make it to the big 5-0. I lost count of how many stores we went to, like a gazillion maybe, and this would happen over and over and over again. What has marriage come to? Does it mean nothing anymore?? Sad sad sad. That's all I can say. It's just sad. But also oh happy day for BOTH sets of my grandparents who BOTH celebrated 50'th wedding anniversaries together. I pray that that's me someday.

Which leads me into my next thought. I was talking with one of my best friends on Facebook chat tonight and she was telling me that she thinks that one of her old friends has become a lesbian. She said something like this, "Well, she is 22. And never had a boyfriend. She never even had a boy that was interested in her." And I was like, shoot dang. That is me! No, not the lesbian part. But the pathetic part. I am 22. Never had a boyfriend. Never had a guy interested. Don't you love moments when your own obscurity is thrown in your face? Do people really see me as this pitiful creature? Hmmm... sad reality tonight I guess. Now don't get me wrong, I don't feel bad for myself. In actuality my life has been freaking fantastic lately. I love life! Really, I do. But that doesn't mean that I don't sometimes feel the void of other parts to life that I seem to be missing out on.

On a more positive note I only have three weeks of school left, which equals to only seven more classes. That is exciting indeed! Weird to think that summer is in a month and there is still snow on the ground. What's up with this freak snow storm in April anyhow? I must say, I do not approve of Mother Nature's strange antics!

So for the real quick updates of my life - school is going really good. I am actually doing really well in my classes. Yay! I worked my ham job again for a week last week and though it went ok, I am glad it only lasted a week! I was exhausted working two jobs and going to school! I don't know how people can do that all of the time. This week I am frustrated with my bug job because we finished all of the work that was set out for us to do. My boss has not been seen all week, so we have nothing to do. a.k.a. no one is getting any hours which means NO MONEY. BAH! Frustration hardcore! I hope we get more work soon. As for my social life, that is good as well! Really I am having a total riot! Like last week my roommate Emily and I drove down to SLC and went to the cheesecake factory for her birthday. It was so much fun! It seems like my social life has been picking up a lot lately! I have amazing friends. I am so blessed.

Speaking of being blessed, I am blessed with the most amazing visiting teacher ever. Last week she showed up on my doorstep with a bouquet of flowers for me. When I asked her why she was giving me flowers she replied, "Because it snowed and I am really pissed about it. So I decided I needed a reminder of spring and thought you might need one too." ha ha she is too funny. I just love her to death.

So I bought one of those things that spray the air scents every 36 minutes automatically. It's in my room right now. And though I love how my room is smelling constantly delicious, every time it goes off it scares me and I jump. I hope I get used to this soon. Pretty sure I will have to turn it off in the night so it doesn't scare me awake and I fall out of bed.

Well, I think that's it for now. I am sure I have forgotten something, but seriously, I am like the most distracted person in the world right now. I don't know why I can't focus on anything. I think the snow has caused my brain to ooze out my ears. I hear that can sometimes happen. Snow is the spit of satan in my opinion.