My Life Force is Temporarily Diminished

Hahaha! Ok so college life is going to be AWESOME!!!! My schedule is sweet! My dorm feels like home already (Of course mom helped alot with that what with her whole decorating sense and stuff like that) and I have plenty of friends and unlimited possible friends! Mondays and Wednesdays are my super horsey days because I have both my riding class and stable management hours those days. I have to get up at 7:30 for riding but its worth it. I come back from that at 10:30ish because I have to eat and calm down a bit before I go back to the barn for 5 of my 10 hours of stable management from 1 to 6! Nutso huh?!

Tuesdays and Thursdays arent to tense either. I have a 9:00 creative arts class that is SO MUCH FUN!!! The teacher is interesting and from what I gathered its a very interactive class that is going to teach me all the intruiging ins and outs of art and culture that has always been interesting to me! Oh, and the class has 625 people hahaha! I also have my Shakespeare class at 3:00 and thats going to be really fun too, except some of the people I think will get on my nerves :p

Alright, now to explain the title a little bit ^-^ I GAVE BLOOD! For the first time ever too! It hardly hurt and it was SO COOL to watch the blood fill the pouch. I found out you can make it fill faster if you pump your hand more that the 3-5 seconds they suggest. It was really cool! I think I'm going to donate blood more often. I'm excited to find out what blood type I am too, I've always wondered that...lolol I wasn't dizzy after either which I think was really convenient. OH! Hahaha Ausia didn't have as good of luck as I did however. Her flabotomist didn't get the vein right so her blood clotted to soon and then the nurse started to stab the needle further in and swizling it around and still didn't get anything so Ausia was in mucho pain and they didn't even get to use her blood because it didn't fill the bag and they didn't change veins soon enough :( sad face.

Well, thats all that's happened for today. I'm doing better than I usually do with stuff like this, but still if I fall behind LET ME KNOW!!! hahaha

Loves and Misses ^-^

First Day of Class!

BAH!!!! I told you people I'm bad at this game!!! Text or email me and remind me to do it ok?! Geepers! Hahaha, ok so another reason I haven't been writing is that I've been super busy but nothing in particular has been special enough to write about lol just hanging out with Marc (boy) and Ausia (girl) lol I've also met tons of random people here and there that are totally awesome ^-^

My schedule is pretty open but my classes are fun and I hope they challenge me while still having me enjoy them. I've got a riding fundamentals class that I went to for the first time this morning at 7:30...ugh...haha but no it wasn't too bad. There are a couple girls in my class that I have stuff in common with. One girl went to Olympus with me, we had a class with Chip together but I still don't know her too well. The other girl knows Tom Bakke who got me to Ching Farm and started me into kenpo. They know each other from Ching Farm as well. I think its going to be an awesome class ^-^ I've got another class at the equestrian center tonight that will be my stable management class! YAY! Haha I love horsies! :P

My other classes are creative arts and intro to Shakespeare but they haven't started yet. I've heard good things about the creative arts class though! And obviously I'm stoked for my Shakespeare class :D haha

Anyway, thats about all for now so I'll try to write soon! LOVES and MISSES

First Batch Pictures

Ok, so I'm going to do my usual splurge tonight but for now here are a few pictures!


This is my bed area with my puny dresser and closet. As you can see we have a microwave and mini fridge, SCORE! LOL And of course all of my hanging clothes are on the doorless side of my closet :P









This is my desk area where I spend most of my time when I'm in my room. I love my computer!!! Thank you Daddy ^-^




This is my room mate, Stephanie's half of the room. She still has some clothes she needs to hang up on the back of her chair but other than that she keeps things really nice. I'm glad to have her as my room mate.

My Personal Education Lottery

Ah! Ok, so the big news for today is that I got in to the two main classes I really wanted to take!!! This morning, inbetween eating, showering, and typing my essay due tomorrow, I decided to see if there were any openings for the Into to Shakespeare class. LOW AND BEHOLD!!! There is one opening and I snag it the second I see it! Then I went back to see if there were any more openings and as far as I could tell, I got the last slot in the class! JACKPOT!!! ^-^

Score number two is I got an email asking everyone in the Stable Management class to meet on Monday, August 25 to get schedules and feeding routines set. I r.s.v.p.'d but along with that I asked the teacher if there happened to be any openings in the Riding Fundamentals class (which is a pre-requisite for all of the other riding classes). She emails me back and says I'm welcome to join the class!!! HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY PUPPY!!!!

Other than those two major events today was pretty much me just trying to pull together the essay for my Connections class thats due tomorrow eh heh...:P Ok, so I'm still trying to break a few high school habits, but at least I got the essay done! Though at 4:30 I got a break when all of the FIG's went down to First Dam and we had dinner, canoing and beach volley ball. That was lots of fun. Marc and I kick butt at canoe tag :p Mwa hahaha

Ok, so I just realized that I haven't really explained the FIG's, Connections or who the people I'm hanging out with are. SO! The FIG's are the Freshman Interest Groups. I'm in Appreciating the Arts FIG, while there is a Outdoor Adventures, Science and Technology, and Education FIG's for other people. Its really fun and everyone in their respective FIG's are on the same floor in the boys and girls dorm. So, for example, all of the Arts FIG people are on the 4th floor. The boys are in Mountain View Tower and the girls are in Valley View Tower.

Connections is an extensive orientation class that goes on the rest of this week and the first three Tuesday nights of actuall school. We learn about the policies the school has, we explore campus and we get to know our peers so we aren't totally lost once school starts. Though I have to say I'm already pretty familiar with most of campus, but I'm sure there's plenty more to learn.

So, my roommate is Stephanie. She's really fun and is super involved with music. She has had marching band every day this week and had 9 classes, 8 of which have to do with music...SHE'S NUTS!!! Hahaha, of course it's not like I could room with someone who isn't a little bit off their rocker lol Marc is a really cool guy I met the very first day here. He's really nice and way fun to talk to and easy to be around. He's going to try out for the hockey team. It's kinda silly because his personality and face kinda fit the hockey player profile, but he has a lean, kind of slight build...it's interesting. He's from Vermont and pretty much only came to Utah for the skiing LOL We hang out alot and its really entertaining...he's one of the only people who heard my little slip up of me barking at a dog in a passing truck...it's bad.

ANYWAY!!! It's late, so I'm signing off and hopefully I'll have pictures for you guys soon of friends, room and all that good jazz ^-^ I love and miss you all!!!

Two Days At a Time

SO! Day two and three went by too fast hahaha! Due to that you get two days at once, MWA HAHAHA! OK! (Ah I'm hyper...) Yesterday I accidentally missed church because my alarm clock accidentaly got set to pm instead of am. I ended up meeting up with Marc, Krissy and Charles at lunch and we hung out most of the day and had lots of fun. I'm blanking on specifics right now so...sorry :p but last night at about 10 our RA and a few of the girls from our floor decided to go play uno outside and I learned a new version called "Cheat Uno". Its where you can hide your cards if you don't get caught doing so, but if you do you have to draw 5. It kinda sucks if you get caught but if your sneaky enough (tee hee hee) it can really help you out. Hahaha!

OH! My room mate also got in on Sunday! She's really nice and I think we'll get along. She brought the microwave and I've got the fridge! We have fun snackums and drinksors so we're set for the most part :p We've also got cereal and stuff for quick almost free! Hahaha

Today everyone in the FIG's and the other special groups went to a ropes course about 7 minutes from campus. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!!! I kicked BUTT at the island logs. They're 6 half logs suspended about 20 ft. in the air and you have to kind of swing from one to the other and I got across in like 30 seconds!!! Everyone was shocked and it was kind of awkward but...ya my ego balloon got a little inflated ^-^ We also did a couple other ground activities like this spiderweb thing. Everyone in the group has to go from one side of the bungee web to the other without touching the web or reusing any of the holes. I got put through one of the smallest holes in the dead center of the web and once I was through the boys who had my torso totally let go leaving this guy Kasey (sp?) with my legs and he started to trip over a rock but thanks to my amazing swing dancing skills I managed to keep my body pretty much flat hahaha! I got myself set straight and once we had gotten over the light-hearted accusations as to who let me drop he said nice abs! BUT!!! The girl who was stationed at that exercise miss heard him and thought he said "nice ass"! Everyone busted out laughing and were giving him a hard time :P it was really silly and out group was WICKED fun!!!

After we got back from the ropes course Marc and I wanted to go swimming way bad cuz its really hot up here. So we get all ready to go only to find out that the pool is closed. LAME!!! So we start to walk around, see the bus, and he says "HEY! Lets go to Walmart!!!" ...sure...lol so we hop on the bus and make our way out to Walmart where he buys a bunch of school supplies and drinks. But because we took the bus we had to go from Walmart to our dorms on the bus with 2 bags full of Powerade, 2 bags of binders and another bag full of other random room accessories! So of course the Powerade bags decide to rip and by the time we reach his dorm we're carrying a 12 pack of lemonade each, I've got the bag of supplies, he's got most of the Powerade's and I've got 3! LOL it was nuts and we looked like idiots walking across the field with all that stuff :P

Dinner was yummy! The Marketplace is finally open so we get super good food! I had a really yummy burrito and churro (which was stale...) but it was fun cuz I'm constantly meeting new people especially at meal times ^-^ HOORAY FOR FOODSORS! Once we were all done with food we meandered around till we found a group of people playing kick ball! The team we joined ended up kicking butt once we joined in, mwa hahaha! AND we got free popsicles out of the deal. Then we went walking to our dorms and we found a group of people on the lawn outside of them playing on the grass doing cartwheels, sommersaults and hand stands so we joined them and had fun till a group went to watch Phantom of the Opera in the Valley View Towers basement (VVT for short and my building). That got boring really quick cuz everyone was singing and not everyone was the best and I wanted to hear the good voices. So I left, called mom and dad, and am now writing this!

First Day...wow

Ok! So today was the first day of me being all alone away from home at Utah State...I"M SCARED!...kinda. I got moved in all fine with the help of mom and dad. After they left I went with some other people from my building to the football teams scrimmage. Wow...Aggie football team sucks! HAHAHA! We're like...last on the national standing and its quite entertaining. I got to know a few people during the first bit of the game and dinner. The school provided burgers and bratwursts which actually weren't too bad. Then on the walk back I got to free myself of some dorkiness while walking with a kinda weird kid named Shawn (I think). So then I came back to my room and hung my posters and start to put away my clothes when I hear laughing and talking in the common room. So I go to check it out and low and behold they're planning to go play night games with a bunch of other people. So what I think was all of my floor and I go over to the quad and we play missionary tag, capture the flag, and ultimate frisbee...needles to say I left during ultimate hahaha and now I'm here sitting at my computer talking to you all! ^-^

Um...ya...I'm really nervous now. There's no going back at this point yet I just feel like I'm on vacation. I miss people already like Mom, Dad, Z and S, Suzanne, Grace and Tony. Tony keeps in tought with texting but its still not the same as being able to talk to his face, or anyone else for that matter...but oh well. What can I do now right? I can't give up now and I'm sure everyone here is just as scared as I am. (Haha, Tony's brother actually said I'm better at hiding it that everyone else :P that made me feel good haha) All my stuff is moved in and once I get my web cam set up (which shouldn't take long) I'll have pictures of my room and probably my room mate and stuff like that! ^-^

Anyway, its late and I need to try to somehow fall asleep alone...I've never been good at that :P Curse you Mom and Dad for insisting that I always have my room right next to you!!! Now I can't sleep with even the feeling of being alone! VILE FIENDS!!! Hahaha anyway. Email me to remind me to keep this updated. Or better if you can text me :p bad I know but its more efficient to get me. So ya! I LOVE YOU!!!