Day of Spontaneity

This is what my life has been like for the past couple of months.

• Go to school
• Head to work
• Study
• Try to squeeze in some exercise
• Go to bed
  

Well today my roommate and I decided we were going to be spontaneous and drive around Ogden and actually do something fun. We first drove down to the famous 25th street, walked around a bit, and took a bunch of AWESOME pictures. It then was dinner time and we both decided that we wanted to go to some place we had never been before. We went to the University Broiler where they had awesome Greek food! I enjoyed in immensely. We then saw that Weber State was having their last basketball game for this season and they were still undefeated! Both of us had never been to a basketball game, (I know pretty lame) so we were going to go!! It was so much fun! Weber played an awesome game. Final score was 97 to 61! Go Wildcats! We saw a bunch of our friends there so we stayed after the chat for a bit. All in all, a very good night. It's about time we did something fun. Now I need to get back to studying! Here are a few of the pictures of our night.

Sleep Deprivation #2

I don't know what it is with this week, but this week has been awful sleeping wise. I wake up many times, randomly at night. Don't ask me why. I would like to know that myself. My roommate and I had a big break in between classes and we both decided that we deserved a nap. So we went to our "nap place" and took a good 45 minute nap. Felt really good. Face afterward looked retarded. Thankfully it completely went away before my next class.

Headache

Thursdays are usually one of my favorite days. Mostly because the next day is Friday, but also because it's also my special needs class. So I usually look forward to Thursdays. After a rather fun lecture in Patho, I head to my specials needs class. Today's lesson was on prayer and I was excited for this lesson just because prayer has played a HUGE part in my life. Well the special needs kids all head in and a cute girl that I had never been partners with before came and sat by me. We exchanged names and she told me how she just loves High School Musical. It's so funny because I think every girl in that specials needs class has told me the exact same thing! Well I pulled out my book and started teaching the lesson to her. Five minutes into the lesson she looses interest and puts her head on the desk. I stop and ask her what's wrong. This is how our conversation went.

Me: "What's wrong?"
Partner: "See that girl sitting up front?"
Me: "Yes..."
Partner: "Well we are in a fight. She's not my friend anymore."
Me: "Oh but I think you guys will be friends again soon!"
Partner: "I don't think so. We won't talk to each other."
Me: (hmm we are really getting off subject here...)
Me: "Well have you tried praying about it? Praying always helps. Look it even says we should pray for our friends and our enemies!"
Partner: (rubs her head and puts head back on desk)
Me: "Do you have a headache?"
Partner: "Yes!"
Me: "Oh what from?"
Partner: "YOU!"
Me: "......oh."

Haha not really what I imagined that lesson going like.

At all.

A Venture

I came across a recipe in Women's Health Magazine that I just had to try. Making new meals can be a good thing, and a bad thing. Bad because you don't really know what it's supposed to taste like, good because others don't know what it's supposed to taste like. So I decided to venture out and just try it. Here is the recipe if any of you want to try it out! I highly recommend it! I don't really like fish, so I just used chicken.

3/4 c uncooked long-grain brown rice
4 Tbsp orange juice
2 Tbsp lime juice
2 Tbsp olive oil
4 Tbsp finely chopped cilantro
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 pinch (about 1/16 tsp) sugar
4 snapper fillets (5 oz each), rinsed and patted dry
1 3/4 c medium salsa
1 can (15 oz) no-salt-added black beans, drained and rinsed
2 c chopped pineapple

1. Preheat oven to 400°F and cook rice according to package instructions.

2. In a large, shallow bowl, combine orange and limejuices, olive oil, two tablespoons cilantro, garlic, and sugar, plus salt and pepper to taste. Add snapper fillets and marinate for 15 to 20 minutes.

3. In a 3-quart baking dish, combine rice, salsa, beans, pineapple, and 1 tablespoon cilantro. Place snapper over mixture, overlapping fillets if necessary. Spoon remaining marinade over fish.

4. Bake uncovered until fish is cooked through and opaque, about 25 to 30 minutes. Sprinkle remaining cilantro on top and serve.

Makes 4 servings. Per serving: 466 calories, 10 g fat (2 g saturated), 594 mg sodium, 54 g carbs, 5 g fiber, 37 g protein

Of course, after that wonderful meal, the roommate and I had to get caught up on Kyle XY. I had already watched it without her because I couldn't wait, but I was more than willing to watch it again! He is just so dang attractive! Too bad the season is about to end. What a sad day that will be.

Dirty

I've decided that it either needs to snow all the time so it stays pretty and white during the winter, or it needs to vanish so it's not so dirty looking.

Loveliness

Weather for today: 50 degrees, a little bit of a breeze and shining!
Oh how I wish it could be like this every day! I just want to walk around campus all day and not go to class. I don't even have to wear a big warm coat, gloves or a scarf. Heck I can just wear a scarf instead of a coat. Most of the snow has melted and you can see the grass! The sky is clear and the birds are chirping. Pure loveliness. Perfect day for flying a kite! If only I had such a thing.

Sleep Deprivation

I need to write about my birthday and post some pictures but the only pictures that I have are on my moms' camera so that will have to wait.

Last night was a pretty bad night. Sleep wise. I woke up at 3:00 thinking it was somewhat close to six, (my roommates and I were going to do baptisms in the morning) but alas...it wasn't. I couldn't quite go back to sleep after that so I just layed there in bed until I fell into a very light sleep. Well it came time to go to class so my roommate and I got ready and headed to class. Monday we have lab at 10:00 then Bio Med at 11:30. Well we were both so tired I guess that we totally forgot about lab and went straight to class. First we walk in and our seats are taken. So we sat in a different spot. I took a look around and found that I don't recognize anyone in the class! I looked at my roommate with a very puzzled look. Then the professor came in and put up his slides for Microbiology! That's when we both realized we were in the wrong class. Blast! So we walk up out of the classroom and went to lab. So embarrassing! It's fine when that happens at the beginning of the semester, but when you're halfway through the semester, that's another story.

Plague

Who ever gave this cold to me I am very bitter towards right now.
My lungs are filled with nasty sputum and I sound like a smoker.
I look and feel like a zombie.
Tried to study....that only lasted about an hour.
With one sneeze I feel like my whole body is about to EXPLODE!
Have no apatite but am starving!
Can't stop coughing and roommates have avoided me like the plague.
It's okay though because I did the same thing when they were sick.
I always sneeze at the worst possible time.
Body aches all ova!

The sun will come out tomorrow.
NyQuil it's time for you to do your magic.
A good nights sleep here I come...maybe

On the Look Out

A bench by a bus stop covered with the perfect amount of snow. I grabbed my camera. It made me smile, and feel a little bit creepy at the same time.

Strike and Note

I am a little ashamed of what I did. But it needed to be done. One of the roommies is going a little crazy and driving us all mad....and thanks to her our heating bill is 3 times what it should be. No lie, she takes 30 minute showers. What in the heck do you do in the shower for 30 minutes!!! So this next time she got in the shower I decided it was a good time to do my laundry. It really was time too so I didn't feel quite that bad. Lets just say her shower was a lot shorter this time.

Don't even get me started on how our kitchen looks. Dishes piled high in both sinks....none of which is mine or the other two roommies. I think we know who the culprit is here. Strike! I'm not giving in....well I'm going to try not too. Knowing me I will eventually cave in. Blast. I hate that about me. I don't have a backbone when it comes to things like that.

So funny story, I was studying in Lampros, getting ready to take my test, and sneezing up a storm! I couldn't stop! My eyes were watering like crazy because there was one more that just wouldn't come up. After the sneezing, this girl walks in and sits on the table across from me. So just imagine what I look like right now. Tears about to spill out of my eyes, nose all stuffed from sneezing....just trying to focus really hard, but this girl didn't know that I had just had a sneezing fit. I had 10 minutes left to study when I see her pick up her backpack and put a note on my table, then leave. My first thought was, "okay....that was weird?" So I pick up the note and begin to read it. I guess this girl thought I was on the verge of crying and that something wrong had happened so she decided to write me a note of courage, telling me to keep my head up, to look ahead and look for the positive. I couldn't help but smile and laugh just a little bit. Poor girl probably thought something terrible had happened to me! But hey it did make my day, and I stopped sneezing! Thanks my no-name friend.

Got snow?!

• 6:30 - Alarm goes off, hit snooze
• 6:45 - Roommates alarm goes off, gives me a heart attack, roommate hits snooze
• 7:00 - Alarm goes off, finally get out of bed, look outside, want to crawl back in bed
• 7:10 - Put on every single layer of clothing I own, plus a plethora of socks
• 7:40 - Eat breakfast, put on coat, gloves, scarf, walk out the door, umbrella open
• 8:15 - Walk clear up to the Allied Health Building in blizzard
  
• 8:30 - Endure Patho
• 8:35 - Pop in a Ricola
• 9:30 - Still enduring Patho
• 9:50 - Blow nose, study for midterm
• 10:25 - Pop in another Ricola; tongue is red and breath smells like nasty cherry medicine
• 10:45 - Take midterm
• 11:20 - Look out window....still snowing
• 11:28 - Most miserable walk home of my life
• 11:40 - Soaked to the bone
• 12:00 - Get into warm sweats, sip hot chocolate, and watch Kyle XY
• 12:15 - Over a foot of snow has fallen and still counting
• 1:00 - Look outside, can't even see
• 1:45 - Get a call from school, all afternoon classes have been canceled
• 1:55 - Looks like we could be on planet Hoth. Terrain: Frozen Ice Planet. Affiliation: Rebel Alliance
• 2:00 - Take a nap and dream I'm in Hawaii!
  

Shh! This is a quiet study area

I have a hard time studying at the apartment, so I usually just head on over to campus to study at the library. Now if it's "somewhat, not that important" type of studying then I usually just go to the second floor, to the round table by the window so I can people watch while I study. I love love to watch people...not in a creepy way of course. But this was some serious studying that I needed to do. That required the third floor. The third floor is where people give you mean looks if you unzip your backpack too loud, or if your pencil squeaks, which is why I never write with pencils. So I made sure I had my backpack unzipped before I found my spot, pulled out my ginormous pathophysiology book and began to study. A girl walks in and sits at a table that was a couple of tables down from where I was, which didn't bother me until she pulled out her ipod and started listening to music. Now I listen to classical music or soothing music when I study so I can focus, but this girl was listening to "crazy" music. That's what I termed it. Not only was it "crazy" music but it was oh so loud! I could hear it perfectly clear from where I was sitting. Ha now it was my turn to give the mean "this is a quiet study area" look. Too bad her music was too loud for her to even notice it.

Triple Threat

I am such a fun of the "old" movies with Doris Day, Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds...can't get enough of them. My roommate and I decided we had nothing better to do then to watch old movies. I told her of a movie that I used to watch all the time called "Tammy and the Bachelor" and how my little brother used to go around singing the theme song, "Tammy's in love." He would probably kill me if you all knew that but we like to tease him about it once and a while. For Christmas my mom thought it would be funny if we got him the DVD! Not only did my mom get that DVD, but she got a triple threat!

Not only did he get Tammy and the Bachelor, he got Tammy Tell Me True, and Tammy and the Doctor!! I had never seen the other two so my roommate and I decided to watch all three of all them! Not all in one day of course but I can say that after watching these, we have both found someone else that was more naive than we were!! That never happens!

Shocking

Today after work, I headed home just to change and head to the gym. Training for this triathlon is hard work....not that I thought it wouldn't be but I'm at the gym twice, almost every day! It feels great though and I love the gym! I biked (when I say biked I mean like a spin bike...not the little sissy sit-down bikes) for a good 45 minutes then headed over to the treadmill to do some running. I set my mp3 down and started to run. A couple of minutes into my run I touched my mp3 to change the song and I shocked myself which for some weird reason completely shut off my mp3. What the heck! I thought maybe it was just a one time thing so I turned it back on, let it reload and kept running. 10 minutes later I touched it again to turn up the sound and again it shocked me and turned off the mp3. I thought this can't happen a third time so I turned it back on and started running again. Another 10 minutes later I touched it to change the song....and what do ya know...it shocked me really good and shut my mp3 off. At this point I am just frustrated! All I wanted to do was to finish my run while listening to some decent music! Is that to hard to ask? So after that I gave up on the treadmill and finished my run on the track. I dislike running on the track because after all, you are just running around in circles and my attention span does not do so well with that.
While I was running, these two older ladies, (way older...) wearing shorts that they shouldn't have been wearing, were running around the track the wrong way! Of course they were looking at me weird as if I was the one running the wrong way! After a couple of other people had passed them, going the right way, they decided to stop giving me weird looks and to turn around and run the right way. Geesh! What a night at the gym I'll tell ya!

A Child of God

So one of my new year resolutions was to actually get up in fast and testimony meeting and share my testimony. I don't know why but it is so hard for me to do that! I have never been able to say one with out crying and I just don't like getting up to share my testimony. I have given myself the excuse that I share my testimony with others through music. But today I finally got up and bore my testimony. As soon as they turned the time over to us, my roommate and I sat up and were the first ones. I just semi talked about how the gospel is like a universal language. Just like a smile, or the word "love", no mater where you are, they mean the same thing. In a world that is constantly changing, Pluto is a planet...now it's not; eat 6 servings of carbs a day....now limit carbs as much as you can. I'm just so grateful to have the gospel as my constant guide. No matter where you may find yourself in the world, the gospel will always be the same.

This testimony meeting has been one of the first in a while where there was never a moment of silence. There was always someone getting up to share their testimony. It was so refreshing to see how eager everyone was to share their testimony with others. The spirit was so strong and I am so grateful that I was able to add my simple testimony. One such testimony that touched mine was my roommates. She talked about the phrase, "I am a child of God" and how we would all treat others as such and think of ourselves as such if we only knew always the true meaning of that phrase. It's such a simple doctrine but yet I feel it's the hardest to grasp sometimes. We are always our worst critic and the hardest on ourselves. If we all knew we were children of God, how better would the world be. We would see those we may not get along with in a different light. Most importantly of all, we would see ourselves in a different light.