Blisters the size of my toe. Yummy!

Don't you just love being stressed out with a ton of tests in one week? I really appreciate the teachers synchronizing their schedules to have midterms and tests all in the same week. Total insanity. Yup.

Anyway, I've also been busy with my calling, work, homework, Ryan, Ryan again, and roomates. Life is so busy when you're at the school I'm attending. In past experience, the best way to deal with all of this craziness is to just take it a day at a time and to prioritize homework to what is due first, so you do that assignment or paper before reading for another class. At least it's organized stress.

Ryan and I have been dating for a month, and it has just flown by. It's funny to look at my first day back and we started dating. He's been so great to me. Good man, Ryan is. Gee, I sound like Yoda with that kind of a statement. But it's true, somehow even though I'm spending time with him all that time (I just said time twice in the same sentence, how does that make you feel compulsive indecision?), I feel like everything's going to be okay, school-wise and relationship wise.

The other day I wore some heeled sandals that pretty much killed my feet to the Relief Society Broadcast at the Mariott Center, and came home with blistered and cut up feet. You'd think I'd learn after this happening every time I wore those shoes, but apparently not. Anyway, I got this wicked blister on my pinky toe, which Ryan said was really gross, which is definitely saying something. So he pulled out his knife, and with my permission, he poked a hole in the blister and squeezed all of the pus (spelling?) out. I was pretty grossed out as well, you should've seen my face while I was clutching my favorite blue blanket, but I'm glad it's fixed. It was about the size of my toe itself. I hope nobody's eating while they're reading this, because they might become disgusted or something. I'm glad I'm so descriptive. Good for me. Yay!

Anyway, it's almost weekend, and conference, so it should be spiritually edifying, if not entirely busy with Ryan and homework. I guess if I had nothing to do I would be pretty bored, so I guess that'll teach me to have extra time on my hands.

Raise Nosebleeds Jamba Coat Ryan

I got a new coat today! Ryan must really like me or something, he purchased one for me at the Burlington Coat Factory. It was definitely a successful outing, full of me making fun of the most hideous coats I could find. It was great.

I went to bed at two this morning because I was doing a paper while I was half asleep, so it took about ten times as long as it really needed to. I was able to stay rejuvenated by stopping at the neighborhood campus Jamba Juice and asking for an energy boost. It actually worked, surprisingly enough. I ordered the sixteen ounce size, but I ended up with the next size up free of charge because they made too much or something. Yay!

I also got a raise today, a rather substantial one, I might add, of about twenty eight cents, so now I'm making $7.38, so since I've been a Sanitation Engineer, I've experienced a forty eight cent pay increase. Good for me.


I got done with my Humanities class early today by just a few minutes because my professor started getting a nose bleed. So pretty much he said he'd just finish up that slide and let class out early. The worst part was that I was sitting in the front row, so I could see it really clearly. Lovely. I have never had a nosebleed in my life, and think it's kind of funny when others experience such fun. It makes me think of Ralph Wiggim when I hear the word nosebleed. Ralph is going off to camp and his dad leaves him some parting advice of "If your nose is bleedingi Ralphie, you're picking it too much." and then as an after thought, says "Or not enough!"
Gross!

Ryan and I are doing fantastically. We see eachother every day, and talk about any subject that crosses our minds. We have lots of fun together, that's for sure. It's definitely a great learning experience, about relationships and other such things. It makes you realize how much you can appreciate someone. And then it's hard to imagine life without them. So far so good is all I can say. If I said anything else, rumors would be flying. And I hate rumors.

Anyway, I guess I should follow Una Tonaria's lead and tell everyone else to update their blogs. Yup. Make good choices and be nice to dogs!

Schooling My Life

How about I create some conversation, shall I? How was everyone's first week back to school? Exciting new things to learn at work? Anyone trying to race me for a relationship? Homework piled up yet? Get any great, out of the ordinary, fantastic callings?

As for me, I obviously got my extra special friend, meaning a boyfriend, for those of you who don't speak "(fill in my name here)." I still stick with my anonymity, it's much more fun and if you don't know me, my life doesn't mean too much anyway. I got a calling in my ward, yes Compulsive Indecision, I'm a secretary in one of the three relief societys. I like it so far, and I can tell that I'll be learning and growing a lot, as well as making a lot of new friends. I'm excited for it.

I got my old job back, which is good. I pretty much run the joint. I was a little worried that I would have to go and find another job, since I am a lazy gal, this job I currently have is ideal for the college life I desire. I like knowing how and what I have to do, and just doing it. I have a new boss, so that should be fun. She seems like a real nice lady.

I've got tons of homework, mostly reading, but I'm still working on it. Good for me.

Guess what? I got a printer! It's kind of funny, because earlier yesterday, before I got it, I had a Relief Society meeting, where since I'm the secretary I have to type things up and send them out. It also doesn't hurt to have a hard copy, but I don't really feel like going to the library and figuring out their new system for a few copies. Thus far, I have been using notebook paper, instead of printer paper, since I just got it yesterday. I was even smart enough to hook it up myself. How impressive.

Funny story. Today while Ryan and I were walking home from Stake/Regional Conference, I was looking around to see if there was anyone I knew. I asked Ryan if he knew anyone in the crowd around us, and he pointed to a blond girl in front of us and said, "I know her from work a few years ago." I had noticed the girl myself, and thought she looked kind of like someone I had met before at the beginning of the previous school year, but I thought she was somewhere else beside college. Ryan calls her name and she turns around and she recognizes him and asks how he's doing and then turns to me and I'm smiling. It's the girl I had met before, Susan, one of Compulsive Indecision's friend that used to live with Blue Adagio, unless I miss my guess. I thought it was amusing that out of a huge crowd, Ryan and I found the one person that knew both of us on completely different occasions. Weird, huh?

That's plenty for now. I should be watching the CES Fireside with Elder Eyring. Oh, and you guys you talk to Dancing Queen. She asked a guy out to Homecoming from church, and she said yes. She's super excited, but was wondering how it works now, whether it is considered a date or what. Yay!

Adios!

And more from a life in the peanut gallery

I'm back! And most of you have had the chance to see me in the flesh, which can't be too much of a bad thing I suppose. I have gone shopping, so now I can live, especially on that two percent milk that I love. Good stuff. Don't know what I'd do without it. I bought some of my books, so far the total is a hundred dollars. At least for Russian Choir, it's an easy class, and I don't really need books for that. Whoop dee do.

I have also acquired a boyfriend in my first day back, which must be a record somewhere, it was funny because when I was introducing him to my friends, they asked, "How do you know (my name here)?" and I said, "Well, he's my boyfriend. That's how I know him." and one of them said, "That was fast." At least I can say that at least we know each other more than we might have if we had just been dating. We were able to work on an emotional relationship before we ever engaged in any part of the physical, which I think is kind of a rare thing at this college. That's just my humble opinion and general assumption. I don't know how happy my mother will feel about this, but, there's not really much she can do at this point, though I do respect her opinions and am willing to take her advice. If they weren't concerned, they wouldn't be very good parents. They just want the best for me, and most of all, they want me to be happy and do what's right. Ah. I miss them. They're great.

I'm already all moved in, pretty much. My winter things are still in boxes, but since it's supposed to be a high of 89 today, I don't think I'll need them too much. Although, as most of you know, I do get cold pretty easily. I do eat, I promise. It just doesn't go to providing fat or warmth for me. I'm sure one day it will catch up to me or something. Probably. Well, that was a great post, don't you think? Anyway, back to another lovely Saturday, the last one before school starts. Lucky me.