Two Hundred

I've started a couple posts recently, but haven't uploaded them because my last post was my 199th published post and I wanted 200 to be something special. I finally decided to write something and get it over with. So without further adieu, I give you my

For those of you who've been reading since the beginning, I thank you. We've been through a lot together here on the blog. You were with me when I used to talk about boys and how stupid they were. When I went on my trip to Australia you eagerly anticipated the days when I'd post pictures. Hey, remember when I created my 101 things to do in 1001 days? It's over now and I think I may have gotten like, half of them done...  And oh my gosh! You were there when I went on my first date with Joe (!) back when I called him Johnny.

There are so many memorable moments. I'm just going to put a bunch of labels at the bottom of this blog post and you can feel free to browse through them at your own leisure. 

Thanks for reading everyone! And here's to another

I don't plan on ending this thing any time soon, so I'm sure we'll get to 400 :) Who's with me?

March Catchup

Hey guys!

Did ya miss me?

Sorry about not blogging for a month. They don't call it March Madness for nothing...

March got pretty crazy with big assignments due in all my classes that month. Not to mention a huge group presentation I had to prepare for with my group. Though to be honest, it was one of the more fun group projects I've had to do. We had to make a video as part of our presentation and we did a Bill Nye video! I had fun editing it and bringing it all to life.

To be honest that Bill Nye video sucked up a lot of my attention. And poor Joe was even home during crunch time, so I hardly paid attention to him. He's such a good sport though. But hey! I spent waaay too much time and effort on that stupid thing not to share it with everyone. So check out our video and have a laugh.

Part 1: http://youtu.be/aa3JhTkjI18
Part 2: http://youtu.be/sTZrTmPlvQ4

Not much has really happened to me besides that... Sad, I know. Though this past Wednesday when Joe went back up to work he took a small load of things up with him in preparation for our move up there this summer! I'm starting to get excited about it. It'll be a good change I think.

Oh and I posted this photo to facebook the other day with the caption, "We've got a bun in the oven!"

It was April Fool's day to be exact. And I had a lot of people fooled into thinking we were pregnant, when really, all we had was a literal bun in the literal oven. So technically I wasn't lying or trying to fool anyone, because with this photo taken out of it's cultural context, all it is is a photo with two people who are excited about a bun in an oven. 

Wow, I just got way too scholastic for this humble little blog. I should stop writing now... 

just keep smiling...

This next month is going to be a challenge. Classes are ending, finals are coming and I am struggling to find the motivation to get myself through it all. And the fact that Johnny's not going to be home at all  this month doesn't help things.

But you know what, moping isn't going to help anything. It's always nice to have something to make you smile when you're stressing, so here is where my smile came from today:



Are you surprised?

Did You Know...

Your spinal cord stops growing when you're about 4 years old?? That means it's shorter than your vertebral column! (it stops at the L1 vertebrae, just below your rib cage)

Did you also know... 

Sometimes when I'm studying I'll have my earphones in but I won't actually be listening to anything because 

a) I can't pick something I want to listen to that won't distract me

or b) I just don't want to be bothered. 

Now you know. :)

In A Pickle

What an awful time it is for me to have an essay due.

I am in a hibernation mood and nothing would make me happier than to bundle up in a pile of blankets and watch a movie on my laptop.

But nooooo, I have an essay due on Tuesday and today (Saturday) is the day I decided I would write my paper. So I've spent the day procrastinating instead. I donated blood this morning with the ever so lovely KtJ, I uploaded a video onto facebook, I vacuumed the basement, I washed the dishes, and now I feel like snuggling in a cozy cave of blankets. It's been a rather lazy day, really. And I want it to stay that way.

I Liiiiiiive!

So tell me what the problem is, Great Ancestor. Just say the word and I'm there. If anyone messes with our family, vengeance will be mine!!!

Okay, enough of that tangent.

I bet you guys thought I'd abandoned you, didn't you? Well - in way I did. You see, I vowed to keep my laptop use to a minimum over the Christmas break so I could spend some quality time with family and friends. But you forgive me right? You knew deep down in your heart of hearts that I would be back someday, right? There was that little blip I left you on Boxing Day, that was a nice surprise, wasn't it? All that matters now is that I'm back and I promise I'll try to be better - unless I forget. Or if school gets totally crazy. Or the world comes to an end.

But anyway, I hope all of your Christmases treated you well. And I hope your 2011's are going well so far. My year started out pretty good. Until I had to say an early goodbye to my bestie, Selina, who went back to Utah before school started. But here's the kicker, Johnny got a job with some big shot oil company and they need him to go up to Edmonton for training for SIX WEEKS. So he left a week after Selina left me. I never thought I'd do a long distance relationship, but I don't think this one will be so bad because there is a definite end to his awayness.

Moving on... (No you will NOT see a mopey girlfriend on this blog!)... I've started school again and I think my classes will be a lot more challenging than last semester. However, there is one class that I am totally stoked about. And that class is yoga. I had my first yoga class yesterday and as we started doing some beginner's poses, I had such a hard time concentrating. My mind was thinking about the next class I had to go to, what I did at FHE the night before, Johnny, when I was going to buy my textbooks, anything but the class. But eventually my mind calmed down and I relaxed. I stopped worrying, stopped planning and stopped thinking. And then I fell asleep. I couldn't help it, I mean, she gave us blankets for goodness sake! I bet she has students fall asleep in her class all the time.

Either way, I must say, my yoga class is going to be an excellent start to my day every Tuesday and Thursday.

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PS: 100 cool points to whoever can name the movie I quoted at the beginning of my blog.

essays should be allowed to be written in blog format

There are so many things that I love about the Christmas season: the snow (in moderation), visits with the family, the food, and the music. But every silver lining has its cloud and that cloud is finals.

Right now what is killing me is the final essay I have to write for my english class. If essay writing were like blogging, I'd be set. But it's not, and that's why I just spent the enitre afternoon and evening in the library only to get two paragraphs down that I will probably end up re-writing tomorrow. On the bright side, I've been doing some really interesting readings for my research topic, but that doesn't make the writing any easier.

Anyway, enough of my complaints. I'm sure that if you have any other university friends that's all you're hearing from them as well. I just have a question to ask of you, my readers. Is it sad that today is the 16th and that I've only just set up my Christmas tree this morning?

One for the Road

Hey friends!

I've got a bit of time to kill at the institute before Friday Forum, so I thought I'd write up a quick little blog while I wait.

Problem is, I don't have much to talk about. Maybe I'll just give you a rundown on what my week's been like. . .

Insitute started on Monday and I am loving my classes so far! I'm taking an Isaiah class with brother Wood and a New Testament class with Brother Reid. If there's anyone reading that has an opportunity to go to institute, do it! It's tons of fun and a really great way to spend an hour of your day. (Plus you get free parking)

My school classes are going well. I feel like I look like crap all the time because of my training in the mornings and then badminton class in the afternoons, I'm always in sweaty gym clothes! But on the days when I only have lectures, I make myself look pretty to make up for it. My poetry class is interesting so far. I'm pretty sure it's going to be a challenge. I sat next to this awful girl in my last class and she made the meanest, snippy comments about everything that people said! I'm never sitting by her again. I think I really like my evening psychology class. I've made two friends in there and we seem to get along really well.

I've been working hard in rugby practices and I think it's starting to pay off. The soreness has gone in my legs and it's getting easier for me to keep up with the rest of the team. Our first game is on Sunday and I'm both nervous and excited for it. I'll let you know how it goes.

Aaannd, that's my week. Sort of.

Ooh! Johnny took me out on Tuesday and we saw Despicable Me. It was so cute!

So True

With the beginning of a new school year underway, I thought I'd share this little piece of funny from xkcd

Stay cool, folks
P.S. If you can't see the whole image, try clicking on it...

A Step in the Right Direction

Did I ever tell you my exciting news?

I finally know what I want to do with my life! For reals!

Originally, I was majoring in biochemistry to become a pharmacist. But after I totally bombed in the chem department last semester, I decided that I didn't want to include chemistry in my life anymore. But if not pharmacy, then what?

One day my mum suggested that I should look into becoming a physiotherapist. Since I tore my ACL, I've worked a lot with physiotherapists and from what I've seen, it's a pretty good profession to get into. You get to play in a gym all day while at the same time, you feel a sense of accomplishment because you get to help people get back on their feet (quite literally sometimes).

So I took my mum's advice and took a look at what it takes to become a physical therapist. I found that there's a master's program up at the U of A that takes 25-28 months to complete. All I need is to finish my Bachelor's degree down here and then I'll be able to transfer up. I'm super excited. I just finished registering for my classes and I am all set for the fall. There is one downside to this whole situation though...

I've had to switch my major from biochemistry to kinesiology.

In case you don't know what kinesiology is, it's gym class. By definition, kinese is the study of human movement. In other words: gym class. Back when I was a biochem major, we made fun of the kinese majors and now I'm going to be one of them. Oh well.

With biochem, I worked myself into the ground. My class schedule was so loaded with lectures and labs and tutorials that I barely had time to digest anything I was learning. But now, I've got two classes in which I'm actually in a classroom and the other two are physical activity courses! On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays I have resistance training in the morning and in the afternoon I get to play badminton. And these classes count towards my major! How awesome is that? And the textbook fees are going to be a fraction of what they used to be. I'll actually have money left over once I'm done paying my fees!!

You know, even though I may have to suffer some jeers from my once fellow biochemmates, it'll totally be worth it once midterm and final season rolls around. I'm gonna have a smokin' hot body from all my physical activity while they seek new ways to kill themselves to avoid lab write-ups. Boo yah.

So Much Time and So Little To Do...

As I've mentioned before, I am currently taking a semester off school. I'm doing it for several reasons actually,

The main reason being that my family and I are going on a trip to Australia in April, which is the same time that my finals would have been written. Since I didn't want to have to put up with rearranging my schedule so I could write my tests before or after the trip(which would have sucked!), I decided to just skip school altogether.

School is expensive. And travelling is expensive. If I plan on travelling and going to school later on, I will need money. If I want money, that means I have to suck it up, be a big girl and work. I didn't work during the school year because I was majoring in biochemistry. Do you remember the high school days when science was your least favorite subject and that hour long class felt like an eternity? Try taking nothing but science classes. No wait, science and math classes. Sure I used to like science and I used to like math, but after doing it for a year and a half in university, I want to shoot myself in the head at the mention of words like conjugation, molecular orbitals and partial fractions.

Which brings me to my next reason for taking a break: school wore me out. Last semester I was crazy enough to take 5 classes: genetics, organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, calculus II and english. Those were some pretty hefty courses on their own, but I also had some new responsibilties at church as the Superma for FHE which meant that I, along with my Superpa counterpart, was (and currently, still am) in charge of planning weekly activities for the ward to enjoy every Monday night. It's a tough job to keep people entertained and happy, but I like it.

I had a very busy schedule last semester. So it's been a challenge to try and keep myself busy with all this time on my hands. It's so easy to fall into a routine of watching TV all day and facebooking, blogging and other online whatnot, but I'm trying to avoid that. I was blog-surfing today (wasting time, I know) when I came across a blog by a guy in my ward. He wrote an entry talking about finding a good use of our time. I thought it was well written and that he'd made some good points in it. If you've got some time to spare, check it out!

I've got some spare time, but I've already read the blog. So I'll go do something productive like solve world hunger or something... Peace out.