Post-Christmas Gloom

Christmas is over . . . and now, with the bleak prospect of returning once more to the land of misfits, I find myself becoming more and more depressed.

Don't get me wrong.  Life can be fun living on your own.  There is definatly a whole lot less cleaning.  I do go to bed when I feel like it and dont get mocked by brothers when I wake up a noon or later.  But I hate living in the land of the cowpoke.  It sucks.

Evidently, I'm a city girl after all.

At any rate, I do have to go back, and I can only hope that this semester will be better than the previous one.  Of course, with my carefully thought out schedule (no classes on West Campus!) it is already starting out to be fan-diggity-tastic.

Grades

Today my Facebook page was abuzz with my friends news of grades and such.  Naturally, I rushed right on to my school's website and found the link to my grades.  I was understandably nervous as I had missed a few classes here and there (*more than a few cough cough*).  It didn't help my nerves to learn that I had to complete evaluations for each of my professors before I could learn my letter grade.  I hurried and did so and then refreshed the page (as per the instructions) to learn my fate.


. . . Well . . .




I passed!  Straight A's except two B-'s and I'm totally okay with that.  Thank goodness this first semester is over.  I'm now a veteran of the system and I feel ready for anything.  But . . . Oh Mighty Universe, if you could make Christmas Break last forever . . . I'd be much obliged.

There's Only One Thing on the Mind

There's no place like home . . . there's NO place like home . . .

And in 24 hours I will be there.  : )

The Horror of it all

Finals.  They are just so . . . different.  Different from what I was expecting at any rate.  Today I went to psychology to take my first of four finals and found myself in what seemed to me to be an alternate reality.

There was no book of boring instructions such as;

"When you come to a page with a stop sign, stop.  Do not continue until you are told to do so.  You may look back at your work in this section only.  Do not look at any other section blah blah blah."

No.  I kept waiting for it.  But it never came.  I looked around me to see what was going on and discovered that everyone was ALREADY taking the test.

Plus, once I finished I left.  I left the classroom and went back to my apartment.  There was no waiting.  No pretending to read while actually fighting every instinct to fall asleep.  I just . . . left.  And almost immediately got right on the internet (It's me.  Who are we kidding, when am I not on the internet?)

Finals.  They are different . . . in a very good way.

Maybe this week won't be as awful as I thought it was going to be.

Shoot.  I bet I just blogged to soon.

Sappy Sundays

Well. I apparently fail because I never wrote a post about "Thursday terrors". So let me update the blogerverse today. Thursday wasn't actually all that bad. In fact, around 3:15 PM things started looking up. For you see, blogerverse, at 3:15 on Thursday, karli and I caved and we opened our presents for each other.

Karli loved her magic eight excuse ball. I did too. My favorite excuses include; "krypyonite" "Oprah" and "abducted by aliens" and Karli gave me .... (drum roll) ... "the sims 2"

Yes. I got a computer game. And I'm not ashamed to admit that I've already logged quite a few hours into that thing. It's literally that fun.

Now all that is left is to complete my four finals and hopefully but 5 PM on Friday I will finally be home. Just in time for Christmas. :)

Warring Wednesday

As you may have guessed from the titles of the last couple of posts . . . this week has not been my week. As the week comes to a close, my professors are pulling out all the stops to finish up everything they have planned before finals next week. And guess who gets to stick around till Friday after 2 because of them. This girl.

I can't believe that they scheduled any final for Friday at noon. They were NOT thinking. My roommate leaves on Wednesday and then I will be alone . . . of course . . . I do enjoy my space being the hermitic blob that I am. So I guess it's not all bad.

At any rate. Today was tough. And based on how well my week has been thus far . . . it's going to remain kinda crappy. So. Look forward to tomorrow when we explore my "Thursday Terrors"

Tuesday Trauma

Well. I slept through my alarm . . . again. This time though, it was bad. I slept through not only Karli getting up and getting ready and my alarm. I also slept through math and just barely made it to history on time. Man oh man. I need to get on top of my life.

Karli! If you are reading this, we are going to bed early tonight!!! Early I tell you!

I don't know how much more of this I can take.

And as if that wasn't enough. I had to do laundry in our ancient washers downstairs. They are so old I personally believe that they were some of the first washers out of the factory when William Blackstone invented washing machines way back in 1874.

Get your acts together oh washers. You suck.

Monday Mayhem

I have looked into the eye of the tiger and I have won. Hear ye all who are mighty and tremble under the weight of my victory.

That's right. I gave my presentation in class today. It was on Christmas. And it was AWESOME.

It was so AWESOME that it was . . .

But I'm still glad it's over. Oh December 16th. You can't come here soon enough.

Blogging Update

Hey all you followers out there . . . I am assuming your there although no one ever comments on my blog . . . at any rate, if you are out there I have added a super cool video page where I am beginning to put up videos. The picture below shows you where to go to find them. Enjoy them! I know I have.

Late Night Awesome-fests

This is just too awesome to not put on my blog.

The Magical Friday Fairy

It's Friday y'all and it's going to be a good one. You see I have three classes on Friday since College Study Skills was cancelled and all of them were cancelled. My math professor is having surgery, my business management professor has a meeting in Salt Lake and my psychology professor never showed up. This Friday was great. Especially since this week has not been so fantastic. I broke my toe, pulled a stomach muscle and got sick. But the Magical Friday Fairy came through for me and today was okay.

Dear Roommate Part II

Dear Roommate,

Bring it on.

Sincerely,

Me

Dear Roommate

Dear Karli,

What is the ribbon for? You should tell me.

Sincerely,

Your [awesome] roommate,

Madison

Fun Fact . . .

There is big Christmasy news for all you viewers out there (you know who you are).

Today, my roommate and I, in a valiant effort to be anywhere but our apartment when cleaning checks came around, decided to head out to Wal-mart to see what sort of mischief we could get ourselves into.

Once there we, as usual, found ourselves in the Christmas asile looking at ornaments for our mini-Christmas tree. We found them. Karli (of course) decided that she was going to pay for them by herself and after a long and tiring battle . . . I let her. (I broke my toe and was in too much pain to argue)

Unfortunately, on the way to the check-out we saw . . . it.

Fun Fact . . . teachers don't have a life outside of school. My psychology professor should definitely NOT have a life outside of school. It's just . . . weird . . . unnatural.

(*Shudder*) At any rate. We have redecorated our tree and now (with the pine tree scented ornaments we hid in the back) it's even more like Christmas than before. Yay us!

The Doldrums

Hello world.

I am currently writing to you from the doldrums of college. Yes. I'm still here. But last night, something happened that made the sad, surprisingly summer temperature of the doldrums, slightly less pitiful.

My roommate and I went to Wal-mart last night as I needed gum and BBQ sauce. While she was looking at hair. . . crap . . . I went to the Christmas section because since we rolled into town on Sunday night, I've becoming increasingly more homesick. (Which is sad. The last time I felt homesick was when my mom drove away the day she dropped me off for school.) I was looking at the decorations and thinking about possibly getting some decorations for our room when I found a small fiberoptic tree just like the one back home. I saw that it was only $13 and knowing that I really didn't have the money, but knowing that I desperately needed a little cheering up, I went to find Karli.

You see, I owe my roommate $14. But she graciously said that I could hold off paying her for a month (she doesn't want me to pay her at all, but THAT'S not going to happen) so that I could get my tree.

I went back to the apartment a whole lot happier than when I left earlier that night.

So. I plugged in my tree, and I tied ribbons on it (since I don't have decorations and I really couldn't afford them as well) and we lit it up last night. My life is definitely much better now that I have a little bit of home with me.

But the doldrums roll on. Finals week can't get here fast enough.

Blue Christmas

My holiday cheer all but disappeared as the dreary, gloom filled life of a college student quickly came rushing upon me as we once again drove into town. With no snow to cheer me up, and nothing but a lot of work and studying to look forward too, I already miss my house with my rambunctious cousins and good food. (Unfortunately, I was NOT able to steal a pie. Something which has only increased the overwhelming sense of sorrow (*sigh*))

The only thing that has made today worth while was when my half-a-roommate brought in our very own Christmas Tree complete with ornament and everything. Ah . . . college.

Holiday "Cheer"

Mind games are so fun. Plain and simple. It is so funny to watch a person squirm when they think that you know something or they think that you are doing/ have done something. Lately, I have been really into playing mind games on my roommate, Karli. Of course, if she hadn't given me so much ammo . . .

At any rate, with Christmas on the way, I am hoping that my mind games involving a certain present that may, or may not be for a certain, "unspecified" roommate, will bring me much joy whilst dealing with the horrid experience of finals week.

Bring it on Ephraim. Nothing you can throw at me will upturn this fun . . . "holiday cheer".

Knock on wood.

Votes are in!

The votes are in. And the blog is staying the same.

Thanks everyone who voted for "yes. It's the bee's knees"

To everyone else, I didn't care enough to remember what you voted for. :)

Near Misses and Thanksgiving Wishes

The countdown to Thanksgiving weekend has finally hit the home stretch. With only two days (six classes) until Thanksgiving weekend... all my classes are beginning to seem more mundane.

On the plus side, since I blogged last, I have finally made official my major. That's right world... I have entered the wonderful world of pre-pharmacy. Oh joy.

Let's just say there are lots of science, math (and for some reason which I can't fathom, english) classes in my future.

Happy Thanksgiving all. Eat lots, buy a new belt, (and for all my roommates . . . steal a couple of pies). :0)

Death, Deer and Determination

Yesterday, as we were driving home from our weekend away from the torture, I found my life flashing before my eyes. That's right. I almost died.

We were nearly home when a dead deer came out of nowhere. There was an oncoming car to our left, and nowhere to go on our right. We had no choice but to hit that dead deer going 60 miles an hour. My roommate (Karli) did her best to straddle the thing. But the thing decided to get revenge from the grave. It dented not only her muffler (causing us to go nearly deaf for the rest of the ride home) and somehow managed to dent the inside of her trunk. But as I so happily pointed out, at least there is more room for stuff now. :)

At any rate, Karli no longer needs to overdose on fruit roll-ups. My life is interesting enough as it is.

Putting away...

I almost got hit by a speeding golf cart last week.

True Story.

Gas; and not the Weird Kind

Wow. Today was interesting. No doubt about that.

Let me tell you what happened.

Like all interesting days, it started out normally enough. I woke up, I went to math, I went to history and then I went home. I have about an hour or so before I have institute so I goofed off on the internet for awhile and then geared myself up for institute. As I started walking towards the tute, I saw 3 cop cars in front of the new chapel they are building for all us young single adults. I was interested, but not too concerned. As I neared the institute building, I noticed that not very many people were hanging about like they usually are. I saw a girl walk up to the doors so I watched her to see what she would do. Do my amazement, she just turned around and walked away. As she passed me I asked her if it was closed. She said:

"Yeah. It says there has been a gas leak or something."

So there you have it. Had I been an hour early, I could have possibly been exposed to gas.

Wow life. You are sure full of curve-balls.

Been awhile...

Dear blog,

I am terribly sorry that I haven't updated you in awhile. It's just been one of those weeks. I even had to take TWO tests on Friday. But. I'm back. And boy do I have a story to tell you.

Love,

Your Creator

Hey world. I know it's been awhile, but man. It's been an interesting week. Or an interesting few days at least.

On Friday night, I participated in my first ever Denny's run. Apparently here at school, it is a rite of passage to travel the 45 miles from school to the nearest Denny's at midnight and then regress back to ones childhood.

It was awesome. For one thing, I wasn't the most insane person in the room for once, and I got lot of awesome quotes for the dorm quote wall. But most importantly of all, on the way back, we traveled by hyperspace.

All and all, it was a good ending to a horrible week.

Wasteland of a Week

Yesterday I posted a [freaking awesome] poem about drama. Today isn't much different. Of course, with four tests and four papers that all happen to be due this week, not to mention the barf that life spewed onto my lap which I am still cleaning up, I don't think many people would be happy.

Anyways, it's days like today that make me remember the words of one of my favorite poems.

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up though the pace seems slow--
You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than,
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up,
When he might have captured the victor's cup,
And he learned too late when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out--
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far,
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

- Author unknown

Enjoy life people because you never know when the storms of trial will sweep through it and attempt to drown you.

Life... Drama... Action!

Recently there has been a lot of drama in my life. This week especially has been overly dramatic. So... I wrote a poem (a feat I am almost physically incapable of doing) to explain how I feel about drama in my life.

Save the drama for your momma,

I don't really care.

Save the drama for your momma,

please don't try to share.

I don't really care why your life sucks,

Mine does as well,

When life upchucks.

The universe does not revolve around you,

It revolves around the sun,

The planets do too.

And when you try to make me feel dumb,

It makes me feel bad,

But I don't suck my thumb.

You are a baby- not so mature,

And because of that,

We just endure.

So...

Save the drama for your momma,

I don't really care,

Save the drama for your momma,

Please don't try and share.

Halloween

Halloween is upon us!!!

Halloween is finally here and I am cowering in the apartment, to afraid to actually go outside.

Apparently there is a masked man wandering around doing his best to strike fear into the hearts of the poor souls who wandered into his path.

Unfortunately my cowardly plan burst into flames and I have ventured forth to the concert of the faculty. (thanks again Kaylyn . . . I owe you one)

Wish me luck on this, the Halloween.

A Missing Pencil; A Broken Mind

Sitting here in math class today, I went to reach for my pencil so I could start working on my homework and get ahead in class. Unfortunately, as I opened my backpack I realized something. I had made the mistake of loaning my pencil out to a girl in my institute class last tuesday. I never got it back. And I doubt that my MIA pencil will ever return. :'(

But enough about the "missing pencil". Now let's talk about the "broken mind".

On Tuesday of this week (exactly the same day I lost my pencil) my friends and I went to see a concert that my roommate was in. (we also did it to skip out on cleaning checks... But you didn't hear that from me).

I somehow managed to fall asleep. But I don't like falling asleep in public places so I was fighting against it. But when I am so tired I am fighting to keep my eyes open, I kinda start "dreaming" or "hallucinating" in real life. Which is what happened this night.

You know how your brain attempts to see patterns in everything? Well in my hallucinatory state, that's what my brain was doing. Long story short... I saw the lorax. In a tuba.

Let's just say I went to bed at 10:30 last night. It's been a long week.

Philosophy in My life

You know that old saying; "another day, another dollar?" Why isn't it true?

Happily Never After

Fall break has come and gone and once again left me with the tragic feeling of, "that wasn't nearly long enough.".

Lets just say that coming back to cowboyville Ephraim was less than a happy ending.

On the positive side... I did get so bored that I actually attempted to draw Yoda on my wall. Check it out below!

Riddle of the Week 3

That's right!!! I'm bringing it back baby.

Riddle of the Week is coming back . . . comment if you like it, or comment if you don't, but if no one comments its staying till I get bored of it again.

Anyways, here's this weeks riddle:

Name an eight letter word that has kst in the middle in the beginning and at the end.

(Spoiler Alert, the answer is in the comments.)

Enjoy!

Polling Update

The votes are in . . . and my quotes are staying on the wall.

The final tally was this:

Yes they should definately stay . . . they make my day. Won the competition with a total of six votes. "Yes, the more of you quotes are on the wall the less of my foot in the mouth moments show" had two. "No. They are just plain silly" had zero and "I don't care, I just wanted to click submit" had one.

So . . . long story short . . . the quotes are staying. Thanks everyone who voted, and check out the new poll now!

Firedrills and Repressed Memories

I missed the firedrills 'cuz I'm that awesome!!!

Today the school did fire-drills everywhere. This means dorms, buildings and apartments. I left about an hour before the one in my dorm, I missed the one in the social science building by a little less than a day, and I missed the ones everywhere else by I don't know how much. This is a good thing especially since when I was in grade school the fire alarm would send me into a panic and I would burst into uncontrollable tears. Good days. Luckily I don't do that anymore . . . okay. That's not entirely true. I do burst into tears. They are just tears of mental anguish that only my subconscious can see.

And on that happy note, I wrap up this impromptu post and pray that none of my decedents EVER see this. Course, knowing the power of the internet . . . they probably will find it eventually. :P

Up Up and Away

"Todays the day your off on adventures your off and away!" ~Dr Suess That's right everyone!!! Today is the day!!! Fall break if officially here . . . for the most part.

I was assigned a bunch of stuff in my business management class, (which is stupid because I'm really not planning on EVER being a business woman) but besides that . . . I'm off to sleep in . . . eat actual food . . . and enjoy all the loveliness that comes from having a room to oneself. (Sorry Karli . . . but sometimes I really do miss having a room by myself. Especially when you freak me out by popping out of nowhere (like magic) and poking me.)

Adios Muchachos! I will see YOU in less than a week. Wow. That was depressing.

Screaming in Irritation

So today I drew my interpretation of a well loved painting. I believe that it turned out very well considering I drew it quickly in Math and colored it within five minutes upon my returning to the apartment about an hour later.

Here is the originial:

And here is my version:

Originally it came in a note for my roommate. (That's right. I said NOTE. As in the most popular means of "secret" communication in junior high school.) I figured that we have performed all other means of communication (e.g. texting/ facebooking while in the same room, blogging to and about each other, email and of course speaking face to face) so I decided to write her a note. It was a loved lovely note. But alas, I lost it somewhere in between noon-2:30 PM today. :(

Cinderella

I feel like Cinderella. Now let me explain.

Irritated by the lack of counter/ table space when cooking/ eating I decided to clean up the apartment. There were Sooooooooooo many dishes... Of course with 5 girls living in a cooking dorm eating breakfast-dinner everyday... Well it adds up to A LOT of dishes an that means really pruney hands. Check it out:

Yeah. It's that crazy. But. On the plus side- the apartment finally has counter space. Course the table is now full of dishes...

PG vs Ephraim; the Fight of the Week

We are finally in the countdown stretch. I have less than 500 classroom minutes before fall break. And if all goes well... Just one test. It's a math test and 1010 is easy enough that I should be able to ace that thing no problem. But once that's over it's packing my bag and saying good riddance to Ephraim and hello to civilization. (AKA: PG).

It's going to be nice to sleep on my real FULL sized bed instead of the small little squeaky twin that you literally have to pull out. It will also be nice to not have to cook for myself. Of course there are chores . . . . :P

At any rate, the past three weeks have been big bundles of stress and I'm fully excited to finally have a break and just sit back and relax. No pressures. No homework. Just me myself and I. Doesn't that sound awesome? It sure does to me.

Adios Ephraim. In three days I will be back in good ol' PG.

Holiday Fever

Today has been a very antisocial day. Well. That's not entirely true. My roommate and I have been in our room all day. We've even exchanged a few words. So . . . to clarify . . . . Today has been a somewhat antisocial day.

So. . . .there's that . . . I also did a lot of google searching for wallpapers and found some humorous ones. Which is great. In fact; this is one of the pics I found over the weekend while goofing off. I hope you enjoy it. :) It really puts a person into the holiday perspective.

(It also probably ruined Subway for you forever. . . mwhahahaha)

Horror Movie Fest Fail

Well. We figured out what was wrong with our heater of death. As it turns out . . . it's completely broken. Somehow . . . someway . . . our HEATER is leaking water all over our carpet. Not only does this cause a strange gurgling noise . . . but it also is causing some kind of funky smell that is coming from what the carpet is no doubt growing.

On the plus side. If this somehow gets us a replacement carpet . . . well . . . let's just say that there won't be any complaining from my side. Our blackhole of a carpet (the one one of its kind in our entire dorm) (It also eats things if they remain on the ground for too long. . . its like the pit of carkoon college style) really sucks and it's most definitely not sanitary enough for bare skin contact.

At any rate, please come fix it maintenance people! It's in desperate need of repair.

Horror Movie Fest

If you ever want to be woken up in the middle of the night with the horrifying fear that someone is breaking into your apartment, move to Snow Hall.

Last night I went to bed late. It took me awhile to finish up my "homework" and clean up my bed so I could actually sleep on it. By the time I finally did finish it was around one in the morning. 15 minutes later I was beginning to fall asleep when I heard a terrifying noise. At first it was just water moving around. And then things got serious. Essentially it sounded like someone was trying to break into our apartment. My roommate and I both sat up and tried to figure out what was going on.

I got out of bed and went to the window expecting to see some "opposite-of-a-ninja, criminal" (they are opposite of ninjas due to the fact that it sounded like they were using a power drill or a band saw to break our wall down and ninjas are generally seen as silent assassins) kneeling outside our window. But I didn't see anything. So I went back to bed. A half an hour later (1:41 AM) my roommate and I both bolt upright. Once again there's nothing there.

Well... Long story short... It was our heater. Thanks a lot heater. I almost had a heart attack last night.

Halloween Awesomeness

Halloween is coming up!!!! This year I am particularly excited which doesn't make any sense since I am usually pretty grumpy about most holidays. (Which also doesn't make any sense . . . ) at any rate . . . Halloween is approaching. And with it comes the opportunity to once again pull out my amazing halloween costume. I've been looking online for a way to make it even more cool, but I haven't yet been able to find anything to help me on my quest. I did however find one that looks a million times lamer. But I suppose that's not what I'm looking for.

Anyways, lets see who has the best/ lamest costume this year!

Midterm Blues

I have a stupid class that I have to memorize something for and I don't want to do it!!! I have to memorize a one minute speech and I came up with a good one . . . it's about doodling . . . but I can't for the life of me pay any attention to trying to memorize it!!! This sucks!!! If I don't start memorizing soon, I'm going to have to wake up early and try to memorize it tomorrow morning. :P

Stupid class.

Stupid memorizing.

Stupid public speaking.

Wish me luck.

Quote Wall Queen

Just a little update on our quote wall; we currently have 339 quotes, 101 from me personally because although I am the Quote Wall Queen, ones that I have said such as: "It's a personal joke between me and myself" and "who cares if I slip and fall on my butt? It will just look like I had and accident." which really shouldn't be up there, are up there. So. Now it is time to give your opinion. Go to the quote wall votes to the side, and if you think my quotes should stay, or if you think they should mysteriously disappear into the night . . . state your opinion!

Enjoy!

Update

Hey all. I know this is my second post today, but I just added a new feature which, if it works correctly, should be super helpful. All you have to do is go to the sidebar. You should be able to see something that says "Follow by email". Type in your email, and, if all goes well, you should get an email every time I update my blog. Lets hope it works :)

School = Drool

I am coming to you live from my cell phone in psychology class. Its crazy how awesome technology is nowadays.

So today I was faced with a problem. I'm sitting in my personal selling business management class freaking out because I just gotten a third test in two days that I had once again forgotten to study for. I am positive that I am doing poorly in this class. I forget the homework. I forget to read. I'm really NOT doing well on the tests or quizzes because I'm not reading and then he says: "I have a list of initials here. If I call out your initials you might want to consider dropping the class."

Let me say that my heart skipped a beat or two. And then broke through the roof it was pounding so hard waiting for the two initials that I was just positive he was going to say.

But miracle of miracles. He didn't say my initials!!!! I was safe! At least for now. But with midterms over, I am so close to finishing all I have to do is plow forward.

So I made a plan. It was simple. Have my roommate password protect my computer and not give me the password until I was done reading my personal selling textbook.

But she was in class herself and was unavailable. So instead I find myself waking up 3 hours later from a nap I probably shouldn't have taken with nothing to show for my day.

Awesome.

Its SNOWing in October

Today was the first day of snow in little Ephraim. It was a big shock to a lot of people considering the fact that it's only october 6th. Of course, my silent response to all of them was as follows: "Guess what? This is Utah. Get used to it."

There are a few things that you need to know when you move here to the heart of Utah:

1) It snows. Deal with it.

2) It will snow . . . and be insanely sunny. All in the same day. Guess what? Deal with it.

3) St. George is very sunny. If you like sun so much, move there.

4) It will snow from October to the end of April if it feels like it. Deal with it.

5) I don't care how sunny California was. Utah is temperamental. Get a coat and deal with it.

If you don't learn these rules, you should expect to lose. :)

And that ends my happy rant for the day. Thank you for listening. Tune in the next time I feel like updating this blog for another happy moment with me, Mattie. :)

Modern Major and General ed

I think that I have finally picked my major.

Sure . . . I really don't know if I want it . . . and granted . . . I am not the most decisive person and can therefore end up switching it halfway through . . . but here's my reasoning behind this.

A few weeks ago, my roommates and I were talking about majors. They asked me what mine was going to be and I replied; "Well . . . here's the thing."

As we all know, any speech that starts out with 'here's the thing' doesn't really end well, and this one was no exception.

I went on to explain that I hated math, despised english, sucked at art, and couldn't sing and or play and instrument to save my life. And given my downright AWFUL people skills, I really shouldn't be a teacher. Therefore, I reasoned, that I really didn't have many options in terms of majors.

They all got a good laugh out of that (go figure) but it did prompt me to start seriously thinking about majors.

I know I need one. And I want one. See, I'm of the "what if" attitude. Although I want to be a stay at home mom, "what if" something happens to my husband and I need to provide for my family? I don't want one of those dumb degrees like "bachelor of young wife studies" or something. I need a legit major that will actually rake in the dough. So, I turned my attention towards science.

I've always loved the medical field. In fact, I wanted to be a nurse for a long time (until I took human bio. senior year and learned that me and guts don't mix well) and since I couldn't do that . . . well . . . I'm not sure when I realized it (it probably had something to do with my week long psych marathon) but I have decided to go into pharmaceuticals.

So . . . congratulations to me . . . for finding a major. And congratulations to you for actually getting through this rather long winded, picture-less post. Here is a picture just for you:

Count Dracula . . . he's always watching.

Movin' Along

Hello Internet.

Today I am blogging from my couch. Strangely, I have found that I have internet on the couch in my apartment, but in order to get internet at my desk I have to use an ethernet cord. Just using that word makes me feel . . . odd. It's such an old fashioned thing. I mean, we're living in the wireless age, and having to use an "ethernet cord" . . . it's unbelievable.

At any rate, I am coming to you live from my living room, where life is getting well . . . interesting.

In the past few weeks, I have started college (although I suppose it's been more than a FEW weeks) gone grocery shopping without my mother, had to cook every night, begun to eat breakfast again, written over 263 quotes on our quote wall, and gotten into a staring contest with the resident fish (who's a bit of a stalker like his owner) (love ya karli . . . if you ever find this!)).

Life is still just moseying along . . . and I guess I have to just mosey along with it.

Facebook

I have done it. I have finally joined Facebook. Something I never thought I would do in a million years. And I have to say . . . it's a bit overrated.

Maybe it's just me, but there really isn't anything to do on Facebook. AND I am constantly getting emailed and texted whenever anyone comment's on anything I post or on something that I have commented or liked on. It's very irritating.

And that's my pessimistic view of one of the most beloved social networking sites on the web-iverse.

Glum-ness

Well its my first night alone . . . ever. Until tonight I have always had someone I knew and trusted by my side when I spent the night away from home. Today I have no one. Sure . . . there are people here from the same high school as me . . . I may have even noticed them in the hallway . . . but not a single one of my friends is here . . . and I feel all alone.

It's not all bad I suppose. I can now set my own curfew, eat whenever and whatever I want. I no longer have to follow someone else's timeline for the day . . . but at the same time, I can't shake this unbelievable feeling of homesickness . . . something that with five brothers still at home, I never thought I would have.

I guess all I really want right now is to go back home to my not-so-perfect life where at least everything felt right. And I felt at home.

Summer Ends

Hey all. Once again, its been awhile since I've been on the 'ol blog. But here I am.

A lot has changed since my last post . . . I graduated high school, I got a cell phone (finally! My first one ever, and I'm only 18!) and of course, my aunt gave me a college makeover. That's right world, for the first time ever, I Mattie F, am wearing makeup. (dun dun duh!)

Actually its not that bad. I actually can't believe it took me this long to do it . . . but it's done now, just in time for college in T-minus 2 weeks. I can't believe that this summer is almost over and I'm about to start a whole new version of awful. We'll have to see how it goes.

Random Topic: Sock Monkeys

Sock monkeys are awesome. I don't know why. I doubt that anyone can truly define what makes a stuffed sock (that looks like a monkey) so amazing, but they are. So, this post is dedicated to sock monkeys, and their amazingness.

Actually, I looked up the history of Sock Monkeys on Wikipedia, and if you want to check it out, click here.

Otherwise, check out these awesome Sock Monkey Pictures:

Spring Time Worries

Utah has a funny way of destroying even the most carefully laid out plans. As I mentioned in my last post, the weather is unpredictable to say the least. One moment, we are worried about flooding, and the next, it dumps an inch of snow on us.

Of course, flooding is still a possibility. According to this website I checked out (Click here to see it.) there is more snow on our Mountain than ever, and when the spring temperatures begin to show up (assuming that they EVER show up) then we are going to be in a world of hurt. :P

On the bright side, they might be flooding 500 again, and that is always an exciting thing to look out for . . .

Of Utah and Weather

Two words . . . Utah weather.

If anyone has lived in, visited, or heard about Utah, I'm sure the weather has been mentioned.

In most states, there is a normal. In Arizona, expect it to be hot, in Florida, it's humid, but in Utah, you never know what the weather is going to do.

Simply put, Utah is the only state in which a person wears a sweater and a pair of shorts on the same day.

That's what we've been dealing with lately. For a few days, we have lovely spring weather, and the next moment, its a freaking blizzard. It's absolutely crazy, and it's going to happen again. Tomorrow. :P