Today was interesting. I was up really late last night. Kindy and I decided to trade music at about 1:30, and we were up til 4:30 playing and copying songs for each other. It was a lot of fun, but I'm way tired because of it. I slept until noon, and I NEVER feel good when i do that. it just makes me feel lazy and tired all day. Hopefully I'll be able to sleep tonight, but I'm an insomniac for a reason.
Kindy and I went shopping today. It was a nightmare. All the stores were full of people and you couldn't move without running into someone. It was ridiculous. I am a laid back person, but I hate being in crowded locations full of people. It's loud, people are speaking in 800 different languages, and I don't like bumping into strangers. I was not having a good time. On top of that, I couldn't find anything that I was looking for. A shirt I wanted to get for Dad was too big. Every web cam I looked at was either too expensive or didn't work on a Mac. It was so frustrating.
It wasn't a total waste though. I did buy some new church shoes that I desperately needed. I did end up finding something for my dad. It's a plastic, fold able lap desk for his laptop computer. It has ventilation slits on it to allow the heat to dissipate quicker. It keeps the heat away from your legs too. Not what I wanted, it not really fun, but I think he'll use it... At least, I hope he does. I'd use it.
Then we had to pick up some food and snacks to eat. We got sandwiches at subway and chips and pop at Walmart. We came home and watched the BYU bowl game. That was a disappointment. Anyways, the whole point is that I was mostly frustrated for today. But at the same time, it's Christmas. I realize there are going to be little things that bother and frustrate me, but that doesn't mean I can't be happy.
On a side note, I finished my geology website and sent an e-mail to my entire geology class to beta test it for me. I'll modify it based on their feedback and submit it to Brother Gahn once I'm satisfied with it. So far, I know that at least 2 people from my class have looked at it, due to the tracker I placed on it returning visitors from Washington and org eon. I'll see write more later. See ya!
Tis the Season to be... Jolly?
Been A While
It was a killer semester for me. The classes I took were just way hard with difficult/tricky teachers. All of them fair, just with very high expectations. As it is, I'm assuming I probably got straight B's for this semester. But all that is behind me now. It's Christmas vacation, and I plan on enjoying it.
Mandy is back in Kentucky for the break. I wasn't able to go with her. It's a bummer, but I really couldn't. Money isn't readily available for me. I'll get to see her again early January. I'm excited, even though it's like 3 weeks away. My break has been pretty fun so far. I've just watched movies and played with daycare kids mostly. I Helped my dad setup the train village today, and my mom wants me to put lights up outside tomorrow. I don't like doing the lights. It's kind of a pain... but then again, so is the village. But it's all worth it in the end to get into the Christmas spirit.
I still have to go Christmas shopping some time. I haven't gotten anything for anybody yet. Hopefully my mom and I can go together tomorrow. My mom hasn't gotten anything done either. She can't drive herself, so She has to wait for me to get home to be able to do it. If I can get the lights done early enough, it shouldn't be too hard to go tomorrow. Anyways, it's late, and I really just wanted to get back into the groove of writing in this thing. I think I'm going to change the layout and stuff here in a bit. But I have lots of things I'd like to do similar to that. Anyways, I'll write more tomorrow. See ya!
Soccer and School
That's about all I have time for now. I go to school and learn. I come home and do homework, unless I have a game to referee. I have 4 games to do in Sugar-Salem tomorrow. I only get to center. That's the bad part. And I have so much homework that I need to get done. I don't know how I'm going to get it all done, but I'm going to give it my best shot.
Mandy and I haven't had a chance to go out on a date for a long time. It's mostly my fault. She'll come up with an idea and tell me about it and I usually already have something going on. The biggest problem is that I have the worst memory in the world. I agree to go on these dates several times, and every time I remember that I had a previous engagement. Church calling duties was the culprit this time. I can't complain. My dad gave me a father's blessing, and I'm going to cling to it. It's my only hope right now. Things improve once October rolls around. I think the 9th is the last day I'll have to referee soccer. After that, things should slow down a bit and I'll have more time on my hands. A lot more time.
As a side note to my business, my computer's hard drive was fried last week. I wanted to defragment it while I slept, and when I woke up in the morning it was toast. Great way to start the day off. I've got it back almost a week alter, and I've been spending almost every spare second just reinstalling things. I finally got DJGPP reinstalled. that took forever. I forgot how complicated the thing is. But it works now and I'm happy.
Today's blessing: I actually understood my Discrete Mathematics homework after being totally lost during the lecture. Tender mercy.
Portland, Take 2
Yes, it' s summer again. And that means that I'm working like crazy. I've been very busy this summer spending as much time at arby's as I can. It's been a bit of a nightmare, but I still don't have enough money saved up. As the end of summer approaches, we go on our Portland vacation to visit my brother and sister-in-law. It's been a lot of fun, really.
The first day here we went to the portland zoo to see the rose garden. None of us had ever been there so we parked a mile from the garden. We saw a map and decided it didn't look too far, so we started hiking. It turned into a death march through the sun by the end of the hike, and we decided to turn back about half way there. It was a lot of fun though. I enjoyed.
The second day we went to the coast and played on the beach and such. It was fun. The water was freezing. I forgot to take my camera again, of course, but I took some pictures with my phone. After the beach, we had pizza at a seeside pizza shop. It was really good, and pretty expensive. Then we went to the Tillamook factory and watched them make cheese and bought some ice cream. It was really good. I got a lot of reading in my book. I'm about a hundred and fifty pages into it now.
Today is our third day and we went to a huge used bookstore. We go there every year. Last year i bought the Tolkein book Children of Tourin. I didn't really get anything this time, but I had fun looking around and just looking. it was amazing how many books they had. We went into their rare book room and saw a book that costs $16,500. After that, we just came home and watched movies and such. It was a good day. Hopefully the next days won't be so hot. Anyways, I'm tired and I'm getting some sleep.
Latino Gringo Battle
Today was fun. I had to go to work and learn how to do the two week cleaning and three month maintenance tasks for the shake machine. It was interesting. I ended up working backline again. I can't complain. It's my favorite station to work. It's much better than fryer, and I do better at it than running or taking orders. I'm really fast at fryer too... it just gets soo hot that I hate it. I'm a cold blooded person. I like to keep things around 65 degrees or so... not 120. Oh well. I got in some extra time at work and Karen asked me to work late again on Friday. I don't know how late I'll have to stay, but It'll make me some good money. I get 12.00 an hour on overtime pay. It'll be awesome.
After work, I came home and chilled for just a little bit before I went to referee a soccer match. I had no idea what I was in store for. Once I got there, I found out it was match between an all hispanic team and an all white team. It was pretty intense. I made some great calls on the line and the center loved me. After the game was over, the center official asked me if I felt comfortable being a center in the future. I told him sure, I'd love to, so he's going to recommend I start doing some matches as a center. I don't know what the center from last week said about me. hopefully it isn't conflicting and I'll make some more money. Centers make quite a bit more than ARs. I would be happy.
That's about it. Not a whole lot going on in my life right now. Just working like crazy so I can afford to go to school. I know it's been a while since I wrote, so hopefully this will help me get back into the routine.
Conference and Stir Fry
Today was pretty cool. I got quite a bit done on my program as far as sorting goes. It's still a bit screwed up, but I think I might just leave it. It's only like 2 names out of order... and I can definitely fix one of them for sure if I can find the time. I'm going to focus on building the tree and printing the ancestry first though. Conference was good. I had a hard time staying awake due to lack of sleep, but the parts I did hear were very inspiring. I always enjoy conference weekend. It's always great. I'm just worried about getting all my class work done for this week. Alex has to study now too, so it should be easier than it was.
After the afternoon session of conference, Mandy and I made this stir fry. I'm not going to lie, it was basically amazing! After that, we finished watching the first season of supernatural with Alex. It was pretty fun. After that, Mandy and I went star gazing for just a bit. It was a lot of fun. Now I have to hit the books for all the crap i have due in the next few days... See ya later.
Falling Asleep?
Yeah, I know, its been a few days since I last posted. Nothing to major though. I'm just doing homework like crazy and trying to get all that done. I have so much to do this weekend and very little time. I'm literally falling asleep over my keyboard right now. i know, doesn''t seem natural for me, but I've had a long day. I tried to donate blood and that didn't go well. i was able to go to the ward closing social tonight. That was a lot of fun. I'll write more tomorrow. G'night.