Good to know...

I went to Family Home Evening tonight (nothing new) and had a really good experience... let me explain. We played this "game" where each of us took a playing card and depending on which suit we chose, we had to tell different stories from our past. I chose clubs, which was a childhood memory. Spades was telling something embarrassing about someone else in the room. Hearts was a funny or memorable dating story. Diamonds was something embarrassing about yourself. As we were going around the room and hearing everyone's stories, I was all smilies. It was great to hear about other people's mixups and blunders. I then realized that everyone has their little mess ups like I do. Sometimes I feel at BYU that everyone is amazing and perfect and never has any extremely embarrassing things happen to them.... but they do! It was just nice to know I wasn't alone in that department :-) And, well it was way fun to hear their stories. I feel like I know my FHE family way more than I did a couple of days ago... Moral of the Story: Go to Family Home Evening

Wishing I could fast forward...

Do you ever wish that you could just fast forward your life a couple of weeks to get through rough stuff? I do. I mean... I know it wouldn't be life and I wouldn't be able to learn the things I do when I go through trials... but I've always wondered what life would be like if we could. I guess the reason I've been thinking this way is because finals are looming in the near future. I've never liked tests. When I am able to sit around and contradict myself over every answer it's hard for me to come up with the right one. Give me fifteen seconds however (like in high school when I was in Knowledge and Quiz Bowl... I know... nerd....) and I can usually produce a qualified answer.
Also yesterday I was thinking about the Sunday School lesson I taught. I swear, every time I teach I always look back and see some huge holes in my lesson or places where I misspoke. I mean, everyone always thinks I'm funny and that they learn a lot... but do they really feel the Spirit? I know I do... but it's mainly from other's comments. I guess it's just another thing I can contemplate on... (as if I don't have enough to mull over :-)

The first snow!

Last night and this morning was the first real snow of the season.... and it makes me happy! As much as I hate driving in it, it's hard to find anything more beautiful than snow. Especially the snow on the mountains. I just wish everyone would be required to take a "How to drive in the snow" course... even if they are from Arizona. I learned how to drive in snow from the start of my driving career. It's kind of a given in Minnesota. If you don't learn the skills quickly, your insurance premiums are sure to go through the roof with all the accidents you'll be in. Anyway, sorry about my snow driving rant...

Deck the Apartment

Well... tonight was my official night to set up my Christmas tree for this year. I wanted to do it before my roommates come home to suprise them. Little did I know that it would take me FIVE hours to do it. Ok... so most of you know that I am a spass sometimes. Trying to get a real tree in my apartment was one of those spass moments. First I recruited the help of a friend. We went to Smith's (a grocery store) and got a tree. Then we tried to stick it in my 2000 Jetta.... HA! Some idea that was.... I put all the seats in the back down and ended up driving home with my trunk completely opened and a Christmas tree sticking out the rear end of my car! The real problems was in getting the tree to stay up. We put it in the stand and tightened all the screws.... but it still kept tilting to one side. We resorted to extreme measures to hold this tree up. The items that are holding up my Christmas tree right now you ask? Electrical tape, a wooden board, and Jenga blocks.... that's right... I said JENGA BLOCKS... (ok, so we were really desperate!) However, the tree now is decorated and brings a wonderful smell and spirit into my apartment... oh how I love Christmas... Even if it takes five hours to put a tree up.... hehehe ;-)
P.S. ok... so that is not really MY Christmas tree... but how neat would it be if it was?!

Me in a closet... and again... I'm having problems
figuring out how to post pictures... it's a miracle
you can see this one... no... I'm serious about that!
Me

I love technology.... (NOT!)

Well I figured it was about time to start one of these things... It will be a journal of sorts for myself. I figure I can type much faster than I can write. Don't worry, don't worry... I'll still have a written journal. However, for my everyday life events, this seems like an easier way to record it. Plus, then everyone can see how my life is going etc.

Right now I have just tried to finish a slideshow I am putting together with pictures of my family for my Sunday School lesson coming up in a few days. I figured since tomorrow (well... seeing its really late... today) is Thanksgiving, I thought I'd get it done before I forget about it. Now for those of you who don't really know me.... 1. Why are you reading my blog? (Ok, now that I've got that out of my system) 2. I'm what the geek squad likes to call "computer stupid". I mean, I have taken some computer programming classes... but lets be honest. What does CS 142 actually help you to do?.... NOTHING! I'm learning Vb.Net Again.... NOTHING! So I'm trying to burn my slideshow on a DVD-R and my DVD burner is not recognizing that I have a DVD in my computer. So I try a CD-R... it burns just fine.... but it doesn't work on anything I put it into... not my computer.... not my TV DVD player. So by this time I'm frusterated. I change the format to VCD and burn on a CD-R again. This time at least my computer recognizes the disk and can be read after it is burned... but now the quality of the pictures has decreased significantly. And there is nobody left in Provo who can help me! :-( I hope my roommate's boyfriend Thomas comes back from Vegas before Sunday. He is our apartment's computer expert... but knowning my luck, probably not.

Well that was my rant for the night. This whole blog thing is very exciting and I hope I can find at least a bit of time each day to tell about my life! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!