Sleeping, Cars, and Cops

Well it didn't take long for me to finally become a REAL college student. I fell asleep in my first class today. In my defense, I worked the grave shift the night before and hadn't slept and my teacher was showing us how to use Canvas which I already knew how to do. And I woke up whenever he switched back to taking notes. So really, I didn't miss anything. I'm sure the people sitting behind me had a good laugh cause I kept nodding off and I haven't quite mastered the discreteness of sleeping in class. But I've made it my goal to not miss any classes this semester unless it's for a really good reason like a death or something so I needed to be in class even if I was dozing off. I'm also going to strive to get a 4.0. It shouldn't be that difficult seeing that I'm only taking 8 credits. I was taking 12 but I had to drop my Spanish class. I mean lets face it, I don't know how to speak Spanish and I'm probably not going to learn it by taking a college class. So rather than stressing over doing 4 hours of Spanish homework EVERYDAY for the next semester, I figured I would drop the class so I can focus on my other classes. I already feel great about it!




This week was pretty adventurous to say the least. I already shared in my last post about the nightmares of my car not starting. After I got off work I went to go start my car and alas, it didn't start again. I called my friend Brooke and she saved the day. She had jumper cables so she came to jump my car. We found out that neither of us really knew how to jump start a car. Thankfully guests at the hotel are sometimes nice and they helped me jump it. It started and I took the car to O'reily Auto Parts to have them test the battery. Brooke took me home while we waited for an hour to have them tell me it was a bad battery and I needed a new one. She then drove me back to buy the battery. I owe that girl big time for helping me out so much with that stupid car. My car works just fine now! Knock on wood!

Next for my adventurous week, Brooke's roommate Melanie had a birthday this week. Technically her birthday is Saturday, but Brooke and her roommates threw her a birthday party earlier in the week so they could all celebrate together. We had some yummy cake and Aggie ice cream and had a good time. Then we decided to have a dance party. They have some awesome speakers with a subwoofer so we blared the music. Seems logical right? Dance party=loud music. Well we didn't really take into consideration that it was a school night. So we are dancing for a good 2 hours just having a blast when Brooke hears the doorbell ring (I still don't know how she heard the dainty doorbell over our blared music). It was the girls who live ACROSS THE PARKING LOT! Our music was so loud they could hear us from across the parking lot!! They were really rude about it and we were really nice so it was pretty entertaining. We thought we were done with everything cause we had turned the music off at 10:00. The noise rule in Logan isn't even applicable until 10:30 anyway. Come like 10:20 Brooke's neighbor walks in (he's the assistant manager of the complex) and says that we had a noise complaint. We said we had taken care of it already. But then a cop was behind him! Some loser had the called the cops on us! Really? If you have a problem with our loudness, come and tell us! Don't call the cops BEFORE they can legally do anything about it. The copper was really nice and we offered him some cake and ice cream cause turns out it was his birthday too. We didn't get in trouble or anything but it was still pretty funny. I sent the cop off with "It's your 30th birthday right?" (He was clearly in his 50's. All in all it was a pretty hilarious night! If you want to see a little peek of our dancing https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=592170455&sk=photos here ya go!

So there's the last few days in a nutshell! :)

Random Thoughts and Resolutions

Well, this time I only went 4 months instead of 5! Progress! I realized after writing a really really long letter to Spencer that I need to blog again. I have so much going on in my life and I feel like I need to share it with someone! And Spencer is the person that I have always shared everything with. But he's on a mission and doesn't need to hear about EVERYTHING going on in my life. So. No more novel letters and back to blogging!

What's going on in my life? For starters, I just started school again for the first time in a year. What caused me to do such a thing? Let's be honest, I miss flying for free! Because my mom works for Skywest I have always been able to fly for free. That was until I turned 19. After that I had to be going to school full time. As most of you know, School and I don't get along very well. Actually, we hate each other. But I decided to put our differences aside so I can travel the world.

I'm still living on my own in Logan and working at the Holiday Inn. And boy what an adventure this has been! I've met so many new people and I feel like I've lived here for years even though it's only been a few months. I've learned how to play poker (my mom gives me crap about it daily!) which I thought I would never do. But it's so fun! Don't worry, I'm not addicted or anything, it's just a fun card game. I've baked like there's no tomorrow, and I've learned that life is anything but cheap. One thing that I haven't done a whole lot of is dating. For some reason, guys don't like me. Guys are always complaining cause they are stuck in the "friend zone", but it goes both ways! All guys are just friends with me. It's not a bad thing. But it would be nice to get asked out on a few dates here and there.

I've learned that cars...are NOT cheap. You think you've bought an awesome car for a good price. You take good care of it like getting the oil changed when you're supposed to and putting the good gas in it instead the cheap crap. You think you're golden. Until one day it just decides to not work for you! This happened to me yesterday. Everything was awesome until I tried to go to work and my car wouldn't start! It was teasing me. It tried to start and then just wouldn't. It was not very nice. My friend let me borrow her car (I felt terrible for calling her at 7 in the morning waking her up) and I made it to work. I cleaned off all of corrosion on the battery hoping that would fix it. Still nothing. So my friend charged it for about an hour with his battery charger. It finally started! So I let it sit for a bit and tried it again. Started again! I thought I was done! Nope! So I get out of class today and I was gonna be a few minutes early for work. Awesome! Until my car decides to not start again! I was so frustrated. I called my manager to let her know that I was going to be late but that I was trying. She was so sweet about it and sent one of the housekeepers to help me push it out of the parking spot so I could jump it. It finally started! I still have yet to figure out what's completely wrong with it. I'm taking it in to get the battery looked at after work. Let's cross our fingers that it's a repair under $300.

To end this boring blog post, I'm going to share my New Year's resolutions. I haven't really written them down yet so I guess this is my way of getting them written down instead of just keeping them in my head.

First, I'm going to become more financially stable this year. I know it's super cliche, but it's something that I really need to do. I'm going to keep my receipts and get out of as much debt that I possibly can. I can't stress about living paycheck to paycheck and still barely making it. My parents are helping me out by paying my insurance and phone bill (another perk of going to school). And in the summer I'm going to move to Willard to live with some family friends so I can not pay rent for a few months. Hopefully this will get me more stable so that I can spend more on Black Friday this year!

Second, I'm going to actually pay my tithing every month. I have always payed my tithing. Until I moved to Logan. I kept meaning to but I never got around to it and then I was hurting for money so bad that I just didn't pay it. But I realized that's why I was hurting for money. I know I should pay it right after I get paid every paycheck, but I'm going to pay it at the end of the month in one monthly payment. I'm hoping this will help me become more financially stable and become closer to my Heavenly Father.

Third, I'm going to read the Book of Mormon and bare my testimony on it. I haven't born my testimony in years. It's kind of bad, but I just feel like I haven't been as close to my Heavenly Father as I know I can be. I've also never actually read the Book of Mormon so I've never been able to stand on the pulpit and say "I know the Book of Mormon is true." I want to be able to say that! So that's my goal. Hopefully it will help me build up the courage to bare my testimony more than once this year, but I'm trying to be realistic about my resolutions. So I'm only guaranteeing that I will bare my testimony once.

Well, this is my long and overdue blog post. Hopefully I will be back more with more boring posts about my life. But hey, I'm not making you read this! So it's your choice if you come back or not! :)