Better Late Than Never?

Wow. Apparently I'm going with the whole "update once a month" goal haha.

Well now that midterms are over and I've registered for next semester's classes I can maybe breathe....maybe. ;) My teachers on the other hand feel it necessary to pile on the work one thing after another without realizing we do in fact have other classes we're worrying about. *humph* Go figure. The last 10 days or so alone have caused me the most stress. A group 12 page research paper I've been working on with 2 other people only one of which seems to be carrying their weight which makes it infuriating for me and the other group member. So come 1:00am or so Monday night (after registering for classes....I'll get to that fiasco in just a minute) that paper was finally done. I had worked on it throughout the day from 5am until 1am the next morning. Talk about mental exhaustion! Unfortunately I'm not done....I got to class Monday morning to find out we now have a 6 minute/12 slide presentation to have done for our section of the paper that was done. Shoot me now!! All of that was just for one class! I had the paper to worry about, a whole powerpoint presentation to worry about now, teaching for our parent class for my Parent Education class tomorrow, and then my online class assignments now to deal with. All before Friday ever rolls around. Get me outta here!!!! *sigh*

Okay now for my whole class registration fiasco. So Monday night I stay up until the very stroke of midnight with stickies on my computer laying out just what classes to take and when. Okay so I'm feeling pretty prepared. Until I try to add a certain class I had planned. *ugh* Now what?! So I ended up spending the next hour trying to get my schedule to work to my advantage which just seems like it will never happen. So then when I realize that I have a class I need to take that I simply can't I get flustered and just take something else in its place. I get to my English class this morning only to realize that not only are there still places left in this class but it let me add the class!! :) Yay!! Now I start looking around at the classes I will need to be taking in my final semesters and something stops me dead in my tracks.....a class I need to take I'm being told by my adviser (who has been my hero this semester!) that the class I need is "discouraged" from being taken at the same time as another class I was planning to take. I freeze. I start breathing heavily. What do I do now?! So I frantically print out my graduation plan/transcript and I start furiously highlighting and crossing out the classes/requirements I've taken/met and I'm planning out what I need to do to make this work. I go to class and come home to find an e-mail from my adviser......he already asked the teacher of the class I needed and I now have permission to take it in the fall with the other class I need!!!! I am now feeling totally relieved and charging full speed ahead for graduation in December....FINALLY!!!! ^_^

Now that all of the school updates are done....I would like to take a moment to say just how amused I am that HOME got tons of snow and out here in podunk town we have been having wonderful weather all week!! :) It looks as though nearly half the snow is GONE!!! *knock on wood* I haven't needed to wear a heavy jacket or anything to class and such which has been marvelous!!

Well now that I've spent a good amount of my time home from class instead of doing homework I should head out and get a good dent of it out of the way ;)

Love you all!!

p.s. 18 days until my birthday which means 17 days until Mom comes and 17 days until the release of Twilight on DVD!!!!!!

The day has come, the Walrus said...

lol don't ask about the title....it started out as just "The day has come" and then the rest just kind of popped in my head ^_^

hApPy VaLEnTiNe'S dAy EvErYoNe!!! :)

well i hope everyone's Valentine's Day was amazing! and of course this means an immediate change in my blog layout....lol

luv you all!

wow o_O how time flies!!

wow...it's been quite a while since i've updated o_O life at school is just way more crazy than i was willing to admit! lol

so classes are going okay for the moment I guess. I have the same teacher for two different but similar classes (FAML 220: Parenting, CHILD 330: Parent Education) which has caused for some rather frustrating obstacles. Even more frustrating is that the teacher literally refuses to give out study guides for his tests and expects everyone to get the same overall message out of all of our readings. >.< so we'll soon see how well i did on this past test which will then determine how i attack the class for the rest of the semester. joy. *rolls eyes*

my roommates are AMAZING!!! we attempted to get free grand slams the morning after the Super Bowl and well.....we went home with our stomachs full of McDonald's $1 Menu items lol. the line was just TOO insanely long and Kim had to be back for an 8am class so needless to say.....we didn't get our free Grand Slams :( but it was an adventure to say the least!! ^_^

so i originally was going to go down to UT this weekend but too many things are going on school-wise and everything for me to be able to so i'm staying in good ol' Rexburg on "Singles Awareness Day"....*ugh* -_- but on the plus side Sheka is here in ID for a week!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!! :D i specifically told her we WILL be doing something on V-Day or i'm going to kill someone....i hate being in Rexburg on V-Day. *blech* gag me...

all in all life is going ok and I'm hangin' in there for now....i can't wait for March 21 to roll around so Mommy can come!!!! :D i'm so ready to party!!! holy cow...i'm going to be 23....that's just weird o_O

luv you all!!! <3

p.s. here's some WAAAAY overdue pictures of my room at my apartment. the pictures of the rest of the apartment will come soon and I may actually make it a walk-through video instead...haven't really decided

view from the bed....


view from the closet...sort of....basically the opposite side from the closet...its' not that big of a room lol


the closet corner....the closet doesn't have a door so i had to improvise ;)


the view when you walk in the door...

busy, busy, BUSY!!! o_O

so sorry everyone for being so behind on my blogging...the start of a new semester has been quite a whirlwind to say the least!

so the first full day we were here i essentially got food poisoning (i'll never be able to think of chicken fingers the same *blech*). that was AWFUL. i spent the first two days in bed. i haven't felt that miserable in a looooooong time. i felt like a little kid again...all i wanted was my Mommy!! :( (and i called her too...sorry Mom for the incomprehensible sobbing lol)

after that though everything was goin' a-ok....until i went to my adviser and found out i was retaking a class when i didn't need to. oops! books cost me about $370-something which was quite a blow and i actually forgot to mention that our new apartment was a total WRECK when we showed up. i was sick so that left Kim and our new roommate Beka to spend 5 hours essentially "white-glove"ing the whole apartment (don't worry....they got paid! lol).

so once i started classes things were going ok...until i became more than acutely aware that i needed a new charger cord for my computer. i swear computers just hate me and commit suicide in some way or another...i'll never understand it -_-

so now we're in a groove (wow...all of a sudden the "Peter Panda" song from The Pacifier popped into my head after saying that.....weird) and my new roomies are just plain awesome!! ^_^ we all get along REALLY well. YES!!!

i will post pictures/a video of my new apartment once i get my new Twilight posters!!! ^_^ (i've seen the movie 5 times now....obsessed? maybe. i AM reading the series all over again which reminds me.....Mom you better finish the book before you come out here in a couple months so get crackin'!!! ^_^ haha)

<3 you all and miss you!!!

First entry of 2009

well everyone...this is it. i leave tomorrow. the first step into my senior year. whoa. it's really here. it's so weird. everything is suddenly moving so fast and yet it hasn't even started yet.

so i'm blatantly avoiding packing. maybe it'll just go away or i'll wake up and everything will have been packed and my room cleaned mysteriously by the miraculous packing/cleaning fairies!! :D

........

ok it was a long shot...so sue me. lol

well this whole "the boyfriend is in Tennessee until the day after i leave" thing really sucks. but thank heavens for facebook and cell phones!! :)

alright i guess packing or sleeping is calling my name...well both actually but i haven't quite decided which one i'm really going to respond to....hmmmmm.....such a dilemma!