Fall 2011

Guess what??? It's still Fall in Utah...there's no snow on my ground. It's kinda fweakin me out, okay? Haha. I haven't written on here in forever. So time for updates! Marching band is going well...it's one of only two classes that I've been able to stay in this semester. And why is that? Because of 4 or 5 trips to the hospital this semester alone. And did the BRILLIANT doctors figure anything out? Of course not. They'd rather just pass it off as idiopathic and find a new patient that they can figure out to make themselves feel like Gods once again. Sorry to bring them down a notch from their lofty status. That's really been the story this Fall though; bein sick and then recovering from bein sick. It's pretty lames.

In other news: The Cardinals won the World Series since my last post! That was amazing! But they're super awesome, so it's not too surprising that they won their 11th Championship. It is sad to see Tony La Russa retire, but he had a very long, very good career; so good for him. I am still waiting for my Championship t-shirt though. That darn thing is taking forever and a day to ship to me! I wanna celebrate my boys with an awesome shirt. Why is that too much to ask for????


Additionally, I am running a 10K on Thanksgiving. Thank goodness it's in the morning. Should make me even hungrier for yummy delicious thanksgiving pigging out. I love gluttonous holidays, haha. But I am doing some exercise and I REALLY need to gain some weight. So hopefully thanksgiving will add a few pounds to my slim physique. ...and then add a few more for good measure. These things are more fun with pictures, but I don't think I've taken any recently. I'll look for something.

This one is for Michael. Hope it helps!!! :)

And this one might just be the happiest picture you'll ever see. So enjoy!

That's it for now. I hope have enjoyed your stay on my blog. Feel free to read other posts and listen to the marvelous music. I really should be better about posting on here....and taking more pictures of stuff. We'll see how that goes, haha. :)

Never get sick in college....

This is Ricky Bobby and Cal Naughton Jr. reminding you never to get sick in college.

ChemE courses are hard enough as they are w/out being sick and missing all the lectures....and completing the course 8 months later. I strongly suggest not doing it. It's really hard to motivate yourself in the summer to get much of anything done if you're not taking classes. My days are far from planned and studying is one of those things that is best done...planned. That being said, it's still possible. Though the true test of how possible this really is will be the test I have to take tomorrow. If it's about pumps and turbines, I'm set. If it's about the derivation of some ridiculous equation...forget about it.

On a happier note, the Cardinals won last night, though still 5 games behind the Brewers. Football is once again on TV! w00t w00t! Monday night football FTW. Though I must say it's horrible for studying, haha. Also, the Premier league has started back up, so Soccer is also on. ESPN is now my new home and it's a happy place to live.

Also, Band Camp starts next week. That will be interesting. I should probably start memorizing the music. I should have started that a while ago, but I do much better with memorizing right before...I tend to forget over time, so it would have been useless to start any earlier....plus I had fluids stuff I needed to work on. That should be an exciting adventure for this Fall. I haven't marched since high school. Well, that's not true, I've been a marching and music tech a couple of years. But I haven't been on the field performing since then; should be fun. My Trumpet needs a good cleaning though. It's dirty! I haven't cleaned it in forever, so it could use a nice spa day. :)

Rex Lee Run, Momma's Birthday, and a HUGE Snowman

These are totally not in order....ooops. I ran the Rex Lee run which is a 5K for Cancer research here at BYU. I figured it was a good cause. I of course ran it for my momma! Here's a couple pics from that adventure. I was really just happy I finished it and ran the whole way....even if I ran slowly.

Running stuffs

I ran for Momma! :)

We had a very wonderful celebration for Momma's birthday. We had lots of M&M's and some balloons and some wonderful angels food cake! It was a grand good time. It's high time we start celebrating her life rather than moping, and by "we" I of course mean me.

Playing with balloons!!!

I'm a Walrus!

Nummy cake!

Me devouring the awesome cake!

And lastly for this post, we made a GINORMOUS snowman. It was super duper tall and ridiculously hard to build. The middle ball was so heavy that we couldn't lift it on top normally. So I got down on my knees and they rolled it on my back and then on top of the big bottom ball. I wish we would have had pictures of that part, but sadly we didn't. The end product was super fantastic though. It should also be noted that we did all of this between sessions of Conference on Sunday. It was a good use of our time. We just had to do it; there was a field full of fresh snow!

Rolling up a snowball!

Made his mouth out of charcoal

The three of us that made it (Brad, Andrew, and Rob)

Me and the final HUGE snowman!

That's it for now. More to come!

Surgery and Easters

I have this nasty habit of getting sick. I try oh so hard to avoid and then blam! I'm sick again. This time it was the end of April, around Easter! Though it should also  be noted this was the time that Michael graduated as well. So I ended up missing all of his graduation things b/c I was sick. No bueno. And then I went to the hospital. It's kinda sad b/c I'm quite literally on a first name basis with many of the nurses on that floor. The 7th floor knows me all too well.

After Surgery with my monkey and some oxygen

They cut me!

This trip to the hospital they decided to cut me open and tear some stuff out. They really just took out my gallbladder b/c I keep getting pancreatitis. We're hoping that will solve that problem, but we don't really know for sure. They also removed a few adhesions that were causing some partial obstructions on my small intestine; fun stuff right? Then I spent the next week laying in bed trying to get better and leave that 7th floor. As nice as they are, I don't really like seeing them that often, haha. Easter happened to fall in that period of time, so I spent Easter in the hospital. But no worries, it was still super duper fun! We had an easter egg hunt, and I had my easter basket, and I had bunny ears! David deserves most of the credit for making my easter so epic. It was a marvelously fun day and one of the best Easters I can remember...even if I was in the hospital.

 

 

My easter loot! :)

Looking for eggs!

So that was my marvelous Easter. It's alright if you're jealous. :)

Ward Prom

So my ward decided to have a so called Ward Prom. All the single dudes and all the single ladies signed up on separate lists and then they randomly paired us. Then all the guys had to call up their girls and set it up and all that fancy jazz. Now this is not really an activity that I usually go for, or like all that much. But since I signed up to go, I was gonna go all the way. I called up ma girl and got her dress color and got a spiffy vest and tie to match her dress and a beautiful corsage...which also matched her dress. I'm fairly certain she was the only one with a corsage at this event. I would have thought that someone else would have; they did call it a prom after all. Oh well, at least she felt super special, as she should.

Me and Hannah

It started off with a dinner thingy. They had Hawaiian haystacks. I'm not usually a fan of them, but these were pretty good. My usual complaint is that people like to use cream of chicken and cream of mushroom soup. They only used cream of chicken. No mushrooms: yay!!!! And it wasn't that whole sweet and sour bit either. Sometimes they make it with a sweet and sour sauce or something, not a fan of that either. So they actually made it in a way that I liked! Woohoo! I ate some salad too b/c I wanted to feel like I was a healthy person. But I made up for that by eating extra dessert. I'm not quite sure what I ate for dessert, but they were sure delicious. The whole place was decorated like Alice in Wonderland. That movie has always creeped me out. I'm not the biggest fan of that as a theme, especially since they had a HUGE Cheshire Cat which was just downright scary. And after dinner, they of course had the DANCE.

Pretty corsage!

I've never been the biggest fan of dances. Mostly I just don't like to get started. Once I've started dancing and such, it's all good. But it takes a lot to get me started and to get out there. But the girl I was with would have nothing of that sort and made me get out there and dance...so I did. All night long. So for those of you wanting me to be social and all that jazz, congratulations, I was. And they even had dance cards for all the slow songs, it was pretty funny. So I got my dance card filled. It was a fun little adventure. That's pretty much that.

Us again. :)

6 months to sexy

In the mission field, most missionaries spent the first 18 months letting themselves go and adding lots of weight and then spent the last 6 months working out so they could be in shape. You don't need to be in shape when you can't date, but you sure do when you're back home. And that program is internationally dubbed as the Six Months to Sexy program. We've decided to do that now, mostly b/c Michael wants to get in shape for the Navy or something crazy like that. So I decided I would too. It's really just sit ups and push ups, but it hurts...a lot. But that's supposed to be good. Oh boy, bring it on. It's also a good way for me to gain some weight. I really need to gain a bunch of weight, so hopefully this will bring me up to a healthy weight. Also being in shape might make healthier and I'll do pretty much anything to avoid the hospital, haha.

In other news, I am presenting at the Utah Conference for Undergraduate Research again this year. But this year I will be healthy enough to give it! Last year I was selected to present but was sick and missed it. So it will be nice to actually get to do it this time. I finished making my presentation today and it looks AWESOME! It's gonna be great. I am the first presenter of the day though, so that will be interesting, haha. I've had to discontinue from classes this semester b/c I've been so sick. Just once I'd like to be healthy for an entire semester. That would be super awesome.

Ducks!

I got a rubber ducky cake pan for Christmas (it was on the top of my list) and I finally felt good enough to use it! So I bought a lovely spice cake (I'm not a big fan of spice cake by I let my roommate choose the flavor) and I made a super duper cake. I had some help from a girl from back home with the frosting. I'm not very patient when it comes to frosting, haha. But I did color the frosting all by myself to get the super bestest colors for the cake. Here's the awesome pics.

From the Top!

Awwwww....It's so beautiful!

Look at those two studs! :)

 My piece!

I also treated myself to a marvelous steak dinner! The steaks marinated for about 3 days and I grilled some fresh pineapple! It was soooooooooo delicious and awesome. It's alright to be jealous.

That's right. I eat in style!