I just looked over my blog.
I suck at blogging.
Haha.
That is all.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Hear You Me
Okay I'm gonna try this new thing... Usually when I post, I'm listening to music. So. From now on, I'm going to title my blog as the song I am listening to when I start it. Neat, yeah?
I got out of class REALLY early today (almost an hour and a half...its 3 hrs long) and I have a lot of time to kill... So I thought I'd post a blog.
My next class is Prep for Eternal Marriage and we're doing a presentation today on In-laws and conflicts between them and the married couple. I feel like this is kind of an important topic with me because I know I want to marry someone who gets along with my family. And since my family is so big, if someone doesn't like the other, that could be a problem. So doing this presentation has been kind of neat. When I researched for my section of the presentation, I found out that the top 5 common problems are as follows:
1. Annoying Habits
2. Criticism
3. Keeping In Touch
4. Privacy
5. Family Occasions
Pretty self-explanatory right? I thought so, too. I also found it interesting that this article was posted by "Psychology Today" and throughout the whole thing, the whole resolution was always "decide as a couple", "talk as a couple", "work together", "have fun", etc... It was neat, because in all the General Authority talks I researched for this, they said the same thing, too. Glad we're all on the same page here! Ha.
So I was going to go to the Boys Like Girls concert tonight in Blackfoot, Idaho. I'm really impressed with Southern Idaho's choice of bands for concerts. I mean really. Who knew Blackfoot would get Boys Like Girls and The Maine and Cobra Starship? I can't go unfortunately. Too much to do and all my money is going to other things (like tuition since grants/loans didn't work out) so its a bummer. But whatev. When I'm rollin the the benjamins I'll fly all over the world to go to concerts. No big deal.
HOW ABOUT THEM BRONCOS?????? O-M-G. I'm so so proud of them. 6-0?! It's amazing. I love it. And I love rubbing it in. Eddie Royal? Kyle Orton? I just want you guys to know, I love you two. I hope this continues! My weekends are so so happy partly due to the Broncos undefeated season so far! :-) OH and lets not forget about my fantasy football team. Tom Brady? You were my top scorer this weekend! Thank you. I love you. Larry Fitzgerald did amazing also. I freakin love football.
Since we're on sports, let's hit up baseball, too. I'm so sad my Red Sox are out. And the Cardinals too, let's be honest. Freakin Angels are completely responsible for the Red Sox being out. So, due to that fact, I'm rooting for the Yankees currently. Yes, I know. That's pretty much against the laws of baseball and sanity. But why would I root for a team that just killed my own? I know the Yankees killed the Red Sox too this season, but I do respect Jeter, and I kind of really want it to be the Yankees and Phillies. Is that even possible? I dunno. Whatever. I just don't want the Angels in the World Series.
Anyway, life is good. I love Rexburg. and I CANNOT wait for snowboarding season. The pass for the hidden gem here, Grand Targhee, is only 200 BONES THIS YEAR for students. Normally its like 750 for all adults. They finally got some brains. Early Christmas present? Ha, I'll take it. I'm seriously donating all the plasma I can so I can get this pass. Whatever it takes. I'm going to have a good season this year. Fact. Bring on the snow.
I got out of class REALLY early today (almost an hour and a half...its 3 hrs long) and I have a lot of time to kill... So I thought I'd post a blog.
My next class is Prep for Eternal Marriage and we're doing a presentation today on In-laws and conflicts between them and the married couple. I feel like this is kind of an important topic with me because I know I want to marry someone who gets along with my family. And since my family is so big, if someone doesn't like the other, that could be a problem. So doing this presentation has been kind of neat. When I researched for my section of the presentation, I found out that the top 5 common problems are as follows:
1. Annoying Habits
2. Criticism
3. Keeping In Touch
4. Privacy
5. Family Occasions
Pretty self-explanatory right? I thought so, too. I also found it interesting that this article was posted by "Psychology Today" and throughout the whole thing, the whole resolution was always "decide as a couple", "talk as a couple", "work together", "have fun", etc... It was neat, because in all the General Authority talks I researched for this, they said the same thing, too. Glad we're all on the same page here! Ha.
So I was going to go to the Boys Like Girls concert tonight in Blackfoot, Idaho. I'm really impressed with Southern Idaho's choice of bands for concerts. I mean really. Who knew Blackfoot would get Boys Like Girls and The Maine and Cobra Starship? I can't go unfortunately. Too much to do and all my money is going to other things (like tuition since grants/loans didn't work out) so its a bummer. But whatev. When I'm rollin the the benjamins I'll fly all over the world to go to concerts. No big deal.
HOW ABOUT THEM BRONCOS?????? O-M-G. I'm so so proud of them. 6-0?! It's amazing. I love it. And I love rubbing it in. Eddie Royal? Kyle Orton? I just want you guys to know, I love you two. I hope this continues! My weekends are so so happy partly due to the Broncos undefeated season so far! :-) OH and lets not forget about my fantasy football team. Tom Brady? You were my top scorer this weekend! Thank you. I love you. Larry Fitzgerald did amazing also. I freakin love football.
Since we're on sports, let's hit up baseball, too. I'm so sad my Red Sox are out. And the Cardinals too, let's be honest. Freakin Angels are completely responsible for the Red Sox being out. So, due to that fact, I'm rooting for the Yankees currently. Yes, I know. That's pretty much against the laws of baseball and sanity. But why would I root for a team that just killed my own? I know the Yankees killed the Red Sox too this season, but I do respect Jeter, and I kind of really want it to be the Yankees and Phillies. Is that even possible? I dunno. Whatever. I just don't want the Angels in the World Series.
Anyway, life is good. I love Rexburg. and I CANNOT wait for snowboarding season. The pass for the hidden gem here, Grand Targhee, is only 200 BONES THIS YEAR for students. Normally its like 750 for all adults. They finally got some brains. Early Christmas present? Ha, I'll take it. I'm seriously donating all the plasma I can so I can get this pass. Whatever it takes. I'm going to have a good season this year. Fact. Bring on the snow.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Brand New Eyes
Someday I hope my posts won't always be 7 months apart.
I bought the new Paramore album today. It's so bomb. I love Hayley Williams. If I ever was brave enough, I'd color my hair just like hers.
Okay here's something I'm super stoked about (Abby you'll love this)--
Over my 7 week break from school in Colorado, I visited an estate sale. This guy that lives down the road from my grandparents was put in a home because he has Alzheimer's and his family is all over so no one can come take care of him or anything. So his kids were selling everything. My grandparents came home with some sweet finds so I went over there myself. I bought a desk lamp for school (my melted), two old cigar boxes (very cool looking), a mirror, and two Polaroid cameras. One is just a regular snapshot one but the other is a Polaroid Land Camera, which came with all the flash bulbs and lenses and everything. All of that for 10 bucks. Heck yeah. I'm so stoked. Now all I need to do is buy film.
I bought the new Paramore album today. It's so bomb. I love Hayley Williams. If I ever was brave enough, I'd color my hair just like hers.
Okay here's something I'm super stoked about (Abby you'll love this)--
Over my 7 week break from school in Colorado, I visited an estate sale. This guy that lives down the road from my grandparents was put in a home because he has Alzheimer's and his family is all over so no one can come take care of him or anything. So his kids were selling everything. My grandparents came home with some sweet finds so I went over there myself. I bought a desk lamp for school (my melted), two old cigar boxes (very cool looking), a mirror, and two Polaroid cameras. One is just a regular snapshot one but the other is a Polaroid Land Camera, which came with all the flash bulbs and lenses and everything. All of that for 10 bucks. Heck yeah. I'm so stoked. Now all I need to do is buy film.
Monday, March 2, 2009
DISTRACTIONS
I should be working on a research paper currently, but I think I need a break so I wanted to post a quick blog...
Things are going really well in life! I try to stay as busy as I can with school, but of course, I have to make time for socializing too. :-)Random--I applied to BYU Provo yesterday. I didn't even think twice about it. I just did it. I can't even believe it. I didn't even think about what I will do if/when I'm accepted! AH! It'd be freakin cool if I got in though...
Also, I was reminiscing today on fun times in the past..I talked to Korben yesterday who was helping Elle wipe her bum after a good dump, and it made me think of when I went to Disneyland with my family a couple years ago. SO FUN! and one of my favorite memories I have, aside from meeting Peter Pan!, was Elle dancing in the street right before the parade. and I feel lucky enough to have been able to take a video of it! PS--I tried to rotate it but it wouldn't work.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
HAPPY VALENTINE'S/SINGLE AWARENESS DAY!
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! Or... for some, like myself, Happy Single Awareness Day!
I have a love/hate relationship with this holiday. Hate, because of the commercialism this country gives it--NOT because of all the frilly presents and gifts and huge amounts of love everyone gets from their significant other (although, why should a holiday be an excuse for that when it should be a year-round thing? ha). Love, because of the history behind it. They should make a chick flick for that... Valentine's Day Special!
See...Saint Valentine was a martyr. He died because he wanted people to be together. In his day, there was an Emporer by the name of Claudius who felt like dude's who weren't married or had families, should stay that way and be soldiers. So he outlawed marriage for young guys. Saint Valentine thought that was stupid so he went on and married people illegally. But Claudius found out and imprisoned him.
This is a cute part--while he was in prison, he fell in love with his jailor's daughter who visited him often in jail. Before he died, he wrote her a love letter and signed it--"From your Valentine..." Awww... so sweet.
Anyway, my big VDay plans are not that elaborate but I am spending it with those that I love. Which is how it should be. :-)
Happy Valentine's Day. <3
I have a love/hate relationship with this holiday. Hate, because of the commercialism this country gives it--NOT because of all the frilly presents and gifts and huge amounts of love everyone gets from their significant other (although, why should a holiday be an excuse for that when it should be a year-round thing? ha). Love, because of the history behind it. They should make a chick flick for that... Valentine's Day Special!
See...Saint Valentine was a martyr. He died because he wanted people to be together. In his day, there was an Emporer by the name of Claudius who felt like dude's who weren't married or had families, should stay that way and be soldiers. So he outlawed marriage for young guys. Saint Valentine thought that was stupid so he went on and married people illegally. But Claudius found out and imprisoned him.
This is a cute part--while he was in prison, he fell in love with his jailor's daughter who visited him often in jail. Before he died, he wrote her a love letter and signed it--"From your Valentine..." Awww... so sweet.
Anyway, my big VDay plans are not that elaborate but I am spending it with those that I love. Which is how it should be. :-)
Happy Valentine's Day. <3
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
PT/OT Society
So I was right about the snow. It's been pounding away for almost 3 days now.. I LOVE IT. I know I'm some kind of freak but... oh well. I love winter. There's just a certain caliber of peace to it that no other season can give. It's incredible.
Last weekend was amazing...having the opportunity to visit the Eastern Washington University and the University of Montana was such a blessing. It's like as soon as I made the decision to do Physical Therapy, everything has fallen into place.
Things were super cramped just traveling to these schools. There was I think 23 of us? and we were all cramped into two 12 passenger vans. It was annoying um...like 90% of the time. Thank goodness for ipods though. and phones! I'm glad I can text. Except there wasn't a lot of service traveling so... yeah.
Anyway, University of Montana is pretty cool. I really like their PT building. Of course, everyone is a hippie there so everything was really laid-back. I really liked how their program was set up though. They are doing research for quadriplegic and paraplegic people where they have them sit in recumbent bikes and they hook electrodes to their legs and then through the computer system, the patients are able to move their legs and have muscle contraction. It's amazing.
I think I liked Eastern Washington University better kinda. The overall atmosphere was a lot more like BYUI. They have a kind of dress code there and things were pretty organized. A couple grad students gave a us a tour of the facilities there and showed us a few labs. One of the labs we walked into was labeled "Anatomy Lab". Okay. I didn't really think anything of it cuz I've been in one before. Well. this was definitely different from the one I had been in. As I was soon about to find out...I walked in and there were ten stainless steel tables--2 rows of 5. Each table had a kind of lid to it that covered the entire table. Each table was about 6 feet long. the lids were like 2 feet high? My reaction was "oh cool! what are these for?" I'm definitely not the brightest crayon in the box... then i realize how cold it is in the room. I take another look at the tables. "OHHHHHHHH...." Yeah. it's a cadaver lab. Never been in one before. But it was definitely veryyyyy cool. Didn't see any bodies though. haha. dang.
Northern Idaho is beautiful by the way. I would live there. Maybe. It was AWESOME cuz I was right in the middle of Korben's soon to be mission field! Yes--Eastern Washington University is in Spokane. Freakin sweet. He's a lucky dude.
I'm so stoked about PT. It's gonna be so amazing.
PS--I saw Uncle Rob's grad picture for Pharmacy School at U of M!!!!! :-D
Last weekend was amazing...having the opportunity to visit the Eastern Washington University and the University of Montana was such a blessing. It's like as soon as I made the decision to do Physical Therapy, everything has fallen into place.
Things were super cramped just traveling to these schools. There was I think 23 of us? and we were all cramped into two 12 passenger vans. It was annoying um...like 90% of the time. Thank goodness for ipods though. and phones! I'm glad I can text. Except there wasn't a lot of service traveling so... yeah.
Anyway, University of Montana is pretty cool. I really like their PT building. Of course, everyone is a hippie there so everything was really laid-back. I really liked how their program was set up though. They are doing research for quadriplegic and paraplegic people where they have them sit in recumbent bikes and they hook electrodes to their legs and then through the computer system, the patients are able to move their legs and have muscle contraction. It's amazing.
I think I liked Eastern Washington University better kinda. The overall atmosphere was a lot more like BYUI. They have a kind of dress code there and things were pretty organized. A couple grad students gave a us a tour of the facilities there and showed us a few labs. One of the labs we walked into was labeled "Anatomy Lab". Okay. I didn't really think anything of it cuz I've been in one before. Well. this was definitely different from the one I had been in. As I was soon about to find out...I walked in and there were ten stainless steel tables--2 rows of 5. Each table had a kind of lid to it that covered the entire table. Each table was about 6 feet long. the lids were like 2 feet high? My reaction was "oh cool! what are these for?" I'm definitely not the brightest crayon in the box... then i realize how cold it is in the room. I take another look at the tables. "OHHHHHHHH...." Yeah. it's a cadaver lab. Never been in one before. But it was definitely veryyyyy cool. Didn't see any bodies though. haha. dang.
Northern Idaho is beautiful by the way. I would live there. Maybe. It was AWESOME cuz I was right in the middle of Korben's soon to be mission field! Yes--Eastern Washington University is in Spokane. Freakin sweet. He's a lucky dude.
I'm so stoked about PT. It's gonna be so amazing.
PS--I saw Uncle Rob's grad picture for Pharmacy School at U of M!!!!! :-D
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
School...
So I'm in school. Back at BYU-I in good ole' rexburg, idaho. or iceburg. whatever you wanna call it. It's cold--it felt like -26 degrees the other day!!! So crazy. It hasn't snowed in a while though. But that only means we're gonna get POUNDED pretty badly in the next week or so.
Anyway, I've finally decided on a career! (i know everyone is celebrating...its a pretty huge deal. haha.) I want to be a Sports Physical Therapist (http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Explore_types_of_jobs/Types_of_Job/p!eipaL?state=showocc&idno=153). You know those people who run out on the football fields when players get hurt? Yeah that's what I wanna do. I wanna work for an NFL team (Broncos or Cardinals preferably...) and do physical therapy for them. It'd be SO tight. I can't wait.
And.. I feel like I'm already well on my way. I joined the Pre-Physical/Occupational Therapy Society up here at school and this weekend we're going to Missoula, Montana and Spokane, Washington to check out the universities up there for grad programs and for touring the school and stuff. I still have a LOT left to do...I probably have about 4 years left still, but I know I'm going to be successful in it. And hopefully I'll have a network built up so I can have a shoe in or something. That'd be amazing. Maybe I'll meet Tom Brady... haha.
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