The weather here in the past couple of days has been very interesting. Yesterday, the high was 80 degrees. Today, the high was 60 and on my way home from work...it began to snow. Snow in September is something I don't think I've ever experienced before, and I can't say I like it much. Fall has a very special place in my heart and I always hate when winter comes around and snatches it away from me. Winter is already trying to shove its way in and frankly it's just not allowed yet. I found a kitten today on our porch crying loudly for its mama. I attempted to coax it into our apartment so it could be warm, but it was scared of me. I put out a big, fuzzy, warm blanket for it to have tonight to sleep on while it snows. I hope it's okay!
Other than the snow I've been having fun. I went to my first ever corn maze last night at Thanksgiving Point. It was a fun little date. I also bought myself a new pair of shoes today, and that was really fun! I'm easily entertained, I know.
9/29/07
9/21/07
Baffling "Beauty"
I guess I do not understand the Utah culture as much as I thought I did. Countless times I have had my haircut here and have come home complaining of the weight of the excessive hairspray and the amount of backcombing that was used in the styling of my "do". I'm not sure what the triangle-head look does for people here, but all of the hair stylists seem to love it. Once I even came out of the salon looking something simliar to Jackie Kennedy (who was a lovely woman, but her hairstyle isn't quite my taste). I have vowed never to get my hair cut in Utah again, and if I somehow break and have to cut my hair, I will ask only for a cut, and I will style it myself when I get home. I just can't handle it anymore.
However confusing this hairdo thing is for me, I thought it was the only strange beauty trend occuring in this state. Boy, oh boy was I wrong! I recently talked with my mom about some new makeup called Bare Escentuals. It's supposed to be really healthy for your skin so I ordered some online. The kit was $60, so I decided to go to the mall and have it put on me by a so-called "professional" before I opened my kit and decided I hated it, and then waste $60. While I love the makeup, it feels really good on my face and looks very natural, she decided to add some of her spunk to my look. Blush from my nose to my ears, eye shadow clear up to my eyebrow, and jet black mascara (I usually use brownish). EEK! It looked kind of nice after I fixed it for a while, but then when I got home it looked like I had put on makeup that was two shades too dark for me because of this bronzer crap she put all over my face. This was a surprise to me, because her makeup was beautiful. With the hair thing, you can always tell when you're gonna get backcombed, and I figured it was the same with makeup. Maybe I'm just an old fuddy-duddy and I am too conservative for the new 'Hip' styles. But, I will not get my makeup done here again, either. I love the makeup, and I think I would love it a whole lot more if I put it on the way I like it. Who knows, maybe I'm just too hard to please.
So, if anyone can explain what's so beautiful about a triangle head and fake makeup, please..enlighten me. My midwestern farmgirl ways just don't seem to fit in out here. Funny, though, I never pictured Utah as a fashionably modern place to begin with. Huh.
However confusing this hairdo thing is for me, I thought it was the only strange beauty trend occuring in this state. Boy, oh boy was I wrong! I recently talked with my mom about some new makeup called Bare Escentuals. It's supposed to be really healthy for your skin so I ordered some online. The kit was $60, so I decided to go to the mall and have it put on me by a so-called "professional" before I opened my kit and decided I hated it, and then waste $60. While I love the makeup, it feels really good on my face and looks very natural, she decided to add some of her spunk to my look. Blush from my nose to my ears, eye shadow clear up to my eyebrow, and jet black mascara (I usually use brownish). EEK! It looked kind of nice after I fixed it for a while, but then when I got home it looked like I had put on makeup that was two shades too dark for me because of this bronzer crap she put all over my face. This was a surprise to me, because her makeup was beautiful. With the hair thing, you can always tell when you're gonna get backcombed, and I figured it was the same with makeup. Maybe I'm just an old fuddy-duddy and I am too conservative for the new 'Hip' styles. But, I will not get my makeup done here again, either. I love the makeup, and I think I would love it a whole lot more if I put it on the way I like it. Who knows, maybe I'm just too hard to please.
So, if anyone can explain what's so beautiful about a triangle head and fake makeup, please..enlighten me. My midwestern farmgirl ways just don't seem to fit in out here. Funny, though, I never pictured Utah as a fashionably modern place to begin with. Huh.
9/19/07
It's a No Go
So I didn't get the job on the Behavioral Coding research team. I am actually not too upset about it. I was having some really not-so-good feelings about the position the more and more I thought about it and the longer I waited for a response. It's mostly self-esteem issues. (e.g. I don't think I'm educated enough to be on that kind of team, which is partly true)
Other than that life is good, minus the fact that I am still stuck at Sears where no one listens and I do way more work that I'm paid for. Never fear, I'm still searching for a better job. But in the mean time, come buy some jewelry from me.
Other than that life is good, minus the fact that I am still stuck at Sears where no one listens and I do way more work that I'm paid for. Never fear, I'm still searching for a better job. But in the mean time, come buy some jewelry from me.
9/14/07
Feeling the Pains of TOO MUCH HOMEWORK
Ahh it feels nice to sleep in and relax for a bit this morning. The first two weeks of school have been simply brutal. It's my own fault, scheduling 15 credit hours only on Tuesdays and Thursdays and all. Wednesday night I did my homework from 4pm to basically midnight with only about an hour and a half break in between, and I still didn't get it all done. While slight procrastination was to blame, I'm not sure if it would've helped as much as I needed it to if I had done my homework all on time. However, that day is done and now I get to watch season 2 of Rachael Ray...hooray!
Some happy news...I recently applied for a Behavior Coding position with the School of Family Life here at BYU. Of 53 people, 8 were chosen for interviewing. I was chosen! yay! Yesterday I went to the group interview and felt like I had an okay time, but it was all really uncertain. I'll hear from them in a couple of days to see if I got the position. It was odd, though, because they told us they were choosing not based on skill level at all. They were just going to choose the final coders based on whether or not they thought your personality would fit with the current reasearch team. So, we'll see if I'm weird enough or not.
A fun little side:
Here's me and Tony as simpsons...wow we're hot.
9/7/07
Space to Think
Since I realize basically millions read this blog, and you are all just dying to know how my first day of school with a new major went, I suppose I'll post an update.
Tuesday was the first day of school for BYU and I began my day as a new MFHD major with a class called "Forming Marital Relationships". The teacher seems very intelligent and he is very funny, so I think that class will be really good. The first day we talked about the whole Saturday's Warrior Theory: are there soul mates? Does Heavenly Father choose who we marry for us or do we make covenants in the pre-existance with someone to seek them out and find them? NO!!!!! (at least that's what I think) It was rather "heated" discussion because many people do believe that there is only one person for everyone. Although I said I don't believe this, I kind of sit on the fence for some of it. For example, I should not be at BYU. My grades were not good enough, and with all odds against me, I made it here. I believe that Heavenly Father blesses our lives and helps us get places He knows we need to be. Along with that, I believe I had the privelage to be here so I could meet Tony (and have other bad experiences along the way to him). So...does that totally contradict what I said? Probably. But really, as much as I love Tony, I don't think either of us floated around in the pre-existance promising we'd find each other and when we did sing "I've seen that smile somewhere before". I do not believe there are one-and-onlys, but I do believe that when you get married to the right person, you make them your one-and-only. I also believe Tony is the only one awesome enough for me so he is my one and only ;). But anyway--the idea of soul mates to me kind of takes away some of our agency...we can't choose who we marry? Done...let's move on.
My second class we talked about the same thing. Gross.
My third class which is Research Theories, while it seems like it's going to be the most boring class I've ever taken, is taught by the funniest old man I've ever seen. So, at least it will be entertaining, even if I get a bad grade.
After these three classes, my first day of school was honestly, discouraging. I was fearing that I was in a major where every class was Sunday School and there would be only straight up LDS doctrine, and no scholarly learning. I was also having a lot of feelings of regret for leaving music, something I have been familiar with for years. Then, I went to my last class of the day: Strengthening Marriage and Family taught by Lloyd Newell (music and the spoken word man). That class helped me so much. He shared quotes with us about how the first presidency wants BYU to be known for family research and for the family life majors. (that's me!) That class was my pump up class, if you will. It made me feel so great about what I was doing and I realized that I was going to be okay. Yesterday my classes were tons better and we actually learned things instead of having gospel doctrine class. Don't get me wrong, I like the gospel and all, but...I want to learn about families at school, and gospel at church, thank ya.
*The one thing I love the most about this new major of mine is how much I get to think! In music, I didn't think all that much except for when I played. But here, they throw out these ideas and just get you thinking! It's so fun!!*
Tony's classes seem to be going well for him. I swear I don't know how that boy reads so much. $635 in books and most of them were his. He has 10 books for one class! Silly English majors. That's okay, though, he loves it and he is the smartest man I know.
So now you can all rest easy. I survived and I'm going to be okay. I forgot to mention that my Infant Development teacher is a former boilermaker (Purdue grad) and so he and I are already best friends. He talked with me after class and I could possibly see him as a future mentor for me, which is exciting.
Well, have a good day ya'll.
Tuesday was the first day of school for BYU and I began my day as a new MFHD major with a class called "Forming Marital Relationships". The teacher seems very intelligent and he is very funny, so I think that class will be really good. The first day we talked about the whole Saturday's Warrior Theory: are there soul mates? Does Heavenly Father choose who we marry for us or do we make covenants in the pre-existance with someone to seek them out and find them? NO!!!!! (at least that's what I think) It was rather "heated" discussion because many people do believe that there is only one person for everyone. Although I said I don't believe this, I kind of sit on the fence for some of it. For example, I should not be at BYU. My grades were not good enough, and with all odds against me, I made it here. I believe that Heavenly Father blesses our lives and helps us get places He knows we need to be. Along with that, I believe I had the privelage to be here so I could meet Tony (and have other bad experiences along the way to him). So...does that totally contradict what I said? Probably. But really, as much as I love Tony, I don't think either of us floated around in the pre-existance promising we'd find each other and when we did sing "I've seen that smile somewhere before". I do not believe there are one-and-onlys, but I do believe that when you get married to the right person, you make them your one-and-only. I also believe Tony is the only one awesome enough for me so he is my one and only ;). But anyway--the idea of soul mates to me kind of takes away some of our agency...we can't choose who we marry? Done...let's move on.
My second class we talked about the same thing. Gross.
My third class which is Research Theories, while it seems like it's going to be the most boring class I've ever taken, is taught by the funniest old man I've ever seen. So, at least it will be entertaining, even if I get a bad grade.
After these three classes, my first day of school was honestly, discouraging. I was fearing that I was in a major where every class was Sunday School and there would be only straight up LDS doctrine, and no scholarly learning. I was also having a lot of feelings of regret for leaving music, something I have been familiar with for years. Then, I went to my last class of the day: Strengthening Marriage and Family taught by Lloyd Newell (music and the spoken word man). That class helped me so much. He shared quotes with us about how the first presidency wants BYU to be known for family research and for the family life majors. (that's me!) That class was my pump up class, if you will. It made me feel so great about what I was doing and I realized that I was going to be okay. Yesterday my classes were tons better and we actually learned things instead of having gospel doctrine class. Don't get me wrong, I like the gospel and all, but...I want to learn about families at school, and gospel at church, thank ya.
*The one thing I love the most about this new major of mine is how much I get to think! In music, I didn't think all that much except for when I played. But here, they throw out these ideas and just get you thinking! It's so fun!!*
Tony's classes seem to be going well for him. I swear I don't know how that boy reads so much. $635 in books and most of them were his. He has 10 books for one class! Silly English majors. That's okay, though, he loves it and he is the smartest man I know.
So now you can all rest easy. I survived and I'm going to be okay. I forgot to mention that my Infant Development teacher is a former boilermaker (Purdue grad) and so he and I are already best friends. He talked with me after class and I could possibly see him as a future mentor for me, which is exciting.
Well, have a good day ya'll.
9/4/07
New Crayons and Boquets of Freshly Sharpened Pencils
Today is the first day of classes here at BYU. I woke up early today and as I sit around waiting for it to be time to start getting ready, I've been thinking about all of my first days of school. Some make me laugh, others make me remember how scared I was back then. This year, I've started school differently (aside from last year, of course, when I started school as a married woman). I'm just going regular plain ol' style. This is the first year I've started school with no new pencils, paper, folders, binders, and mostly: clothes. Not that I need any of these things, but it is a weird feeling to me that I'm starting school without having been on the Grey Family Back-to-School Clothes/Supplies Shopping Extravaganza. First year, ever! I assume this is because I am an adult now, and Sears should provide me with enough paycheck to buy back-to-school clothes (HA!).
Regardless of the fact that I am wearing my same old wardrobe (which is still as fashionable as new clothes, might I add) I will start school today. I will be embarking on a new adventure called MFHD and even though I'm basically a professional at going to school having sixteen years of experience, I have those same anxious butterflies darting around in my stomach this morning. It kind of makes me nostalgic in a way because I remember feeling this same thing the night before my first day of kindergarten (too bad the school experience isn't similar to kindergarten!), and even though I may not LOVE school--I know I'll miss this feeling when I don't experience it once a year anymore. I will have grown up, and being a grown up like that scares me a little.
So, to all your BYUers out there: good luck today! Have fun, smile a lot, and do your homework. I'll sure try.
Regardless of the fact that I am wearing my same old wardrobe (which is still as fashionable as new clothes, might I add) I will start school today. I will be embarking on a new adventure called MFHD and even though I'm basically a professional at going to school having sixteen years of experience, I have those same anxious butterflies darting around in my stomach this morning. It kind of makes me nostalgic in a way because I remember feeling this same thing the night before my first day of kindergarten (too bad the school experience isn't similar to kindergarten!), and even though I may not LOVE school--I know I'll miss this feeling when I don't experience it once a year anymore. I will have grown up, and being a grown up like that scares me a little.
So, to all your BYUers out there: good luck today! Have fun, smile a lot, and do your homework. I'll sure try.
9/1/07
It was Colonel Mustard, in the JSB....
Last night Tony and I went on a really fun group date with some of our friends. We had done this before, but it was still lots of fun. We played life-sized Clue on campus. It's a pretty clever little game to play, and everyone seems to enjoy it. Each couple chooses a character (we were green, I'm not sure who that is in the game) and wears their colors so as to act as "game pieces". Then, it's a mad dash around BYU campus. You go into each building and use the courtesy phones to make your guesses to the "home base" couple. They will inform you how many guesses you have right..then you move on until you have all three correct. Tony and I never had the privelage to be the murderers, but it was still fun. It's nice to go on dates like that every once in a while. We also got to hang out with Tony's cousin, Aaron, and his soon to be wifey Shareena. They're a fun bunch to be with, and I'm excited that we'll have some more married friends!
School starts Tuesday and I'm not sure how excited I am anymore. I mean, I'm totally pumped for this new major of mine, but I just hope I can handle work and school. I've never had a job while in school before, if that tells you how much of a spoiled brat I am. :) I'm sure I'll have a great semester, though.
School starts Tuesday and I'm not sure how excited I am anymore. I mean, I'm totally pumped for this new major of mine, but I just hope I can handle work and school. I've never had a job while in school before, if that tells you how much of a spoiled brat I am. :) I'm sure I'll have a great semester, though.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)