the new year.

I should be reading the rest of my homework. But i am angry at it cause its sideways and it doesn't turn around. and i'm not gonna print it off. plus i know its going to be stupid. cause all the other articles i just read plus the book i am reading are stupid. i can't say that i don't think they're not interesting. cause i guess some of it is. but other stuff is just stupid. like the chapter i just spent the last hour on. it was about the wilderness....and how there is no real wilderness....and we have created this romanticized idea of what the wilderness really is....and then i kind of stopped caring and so i couldn't tell you what the real point of it was about....

i got slippers!! they are pretty awesome. i would take a picture but i don't know where my camera is. they are boots. that are slippers. and they're grey (of course) and yellow stripedness. so very lovely. and fleece. and warm. no more cold toes!

i need to go grocery shopping...i don't really have food. but have somehow managed to survive the past week without it.

me and saren went to kickboxing at the rec center on tuesday. twas awesome. only 2 bucks! it was so fun. i miss working out like that. i was sore, still am. so fun, will be going again. and again. you should all come with us cause its so great!

hmmm...i guess i have run out of things to say. so i'll just be flipping the computer over so i can read my last article.

school begin

i had 99 posts last year. i almost made it to 100.


so....the semester hasn't gotten off to the greatest start ever....it stood outside for like 20 min and FROZE MY FACE OFF waiting for the shuttle. i should have just walked. no...it had to have been longer than 20 min, more like 25 - 30 minutes. so that made me almost 15 minutes late for class. then she only talked for 10 more minutes and then we were done. and i'm not even going to class on wed. oh dear. this is ridiculous. but not to worry. that class is going to be really....i was just going to say stupid, but i guess i'll give it a chance. so now i'm chilling in the library cause i don't have class till 10:30. but not to worry...i already have homework!!! so i'll just go get started on that......

something

Lately I've been feeling kinda....blah I guess. I feel like something needs to change. I need some change. But I don't know what. No idea. Something though. Something needs to change.


1- i like enya.
2- school is starting soon.
3- math sucks
4- i like my roommates. they're cool people. thanks roommates.
5- i like blankets
6- i need a haircut
7- i'm taking arts symposium again this semester on account of having no classes. is anyone taking it? i'd rather not sit by myself at all the shows again. anyone??
8- i like shoes. a lot.
9- i like to read. a lot.
10- i need to go to the eye doctor.
11- my hands are cold.
12- i like green beans.
13- nilla wafers are pretty good too.
14- i love my job. (even when it sucks.) those kids are just to stinking cute.
15- i need new pictures to put in my room.

(squeak...squeak...squeak)

Ok. so on monday i think i almost burned the house down. i decided to make cookies. oreo cookies. you know the ones? with the cake mix and cream cheese frosting. the amazing ones. yeah those. So i was baking away, making awesome cookies and then i had like 2 cookies worth of cookie left over. and i didn't really feel like eating them. So i thought to myself well i'll just put them in the microwave. Now listen i have done this before and found out what happens, although not quite to the same extent, but i didn't think about that previous experience. So i put the blob of cookie dough in a little bowl and stuck it in the microwave and hit the 1 so it would cook for 1 minute.

i turned around and was getting the other cookies off the pan so i wasn't paying attention to the microwave. And should i have to watch the microwave every second?? So just as i am finishing with the other cookies there is this awful smell. And i think, did i leave something in the oven? I turn around and there is smoke everywhere. and i think, CRAP i forgot when you put cookie dough, or cookies for that matter in the microwave they cookie VERY fast and then start on fire. or start on smoke i guess would be better way to say it. So i open the microwave door and smoke comes BILLOWING out of the microwave. my next thought, CRAP the fire alarm! so i reach for the nearest pan, oh yeah, i just took that out of the oven so its HOT. i drop it on the floor and...maybe almost did say a bad word, kind of like in the christmas story, in slow motion. Only it was NOT the f--- word. so i reach for the other one. Then i start fanning and fanning like a crazy person. I open the door to the garage so the smoke can go out there. people there was A LOT of smoke, i mean A LOT of smoke. I opened the door the addition to let the smoke out there. I go fan by the smoke alarm a bit but it clearly isn't concerned that i almost started the house on fire with a blob of cookie dough so i leave that and go tie the door to the garage open so it can continue airing out the house.

I continue fanning for the next bit. The house reeks of burnt microwaveness. Most of the smoke is out of the house although its still a bit hazy. There is a large hazy cloud in the garage just chillin out. At least it wasn't in the house though. So I learned a few things through this wonderful baking experience.

1-Never put cookie dough in the mircrowave for more than like 6 seconds, cause it will try and kill you.

2-I now have zero faith in my smoke alarm. That thing should have gone off like 4 times with all that smoke. I will die if there is a fire.

3-Its only ok to do all these things if your mom's not home. Cause then she can just ask. What is that awful smell? Oh, sorry mom i was just making cookies and...burned...one....yeah....(no i really told her what happened. and laughed. a lot.)

4- i might have sustained some smoke inhalation injuries.

In other news, MY. BED. SQUEAKS. the squeak needs to die NOW. before i go insane. I already hate my bed and the squeak just makes it worse. I only have to think about moving and it starts squeakin away. ahhhhh. squeak isn't even a word anymore now that i have looked at it for so long. is that even how its spelled?

White Chicks is a very funny movie. Over the past year or so my family has seen it a few times on the tv. Everyone in my family likes it. Even my grandma thought it was funny. So, awesome sister that i am, I decided to get White Chicks for my little brother for Christmas. Its hilarious. It's just so ridiculous that you have to laugh. If you haven't seen it, quick, go rent or buy it now. Or we can watch mine! If my brother is willing to part with it...

christmas time

Happy Christmas!! My Christmas was wonderful and I hope yours was too! I like all my presents. I even got all my books!! I think one of my favorite presents though are some mittens my mom gave me. Cause. They're mittens. And they are made out of old sweaters. So very cute.

For some reason I am getting a cold again. And my last cold isn't even gone yet.
My pictures are being weird. Me and saren and a bunch of other people went skiing at the Canyons after school was over. This is the only picture I took. We were tired.



This is my brother with my hat on. I like him. And the hat. And Christmas.



Sometimes I try to be crafty.



Family Christmas party was last night! Twas a grand event with baked potatoes and cheese. My cousins from Arizona were there. And they were all grown up. And it was weird cause I swear they will always be like 3 years old. I didn't even know all of their names.

Dear snow,

stop.

ehhhhhhhh

today i wrapped all the families christmas presents. well the boys of the family. it was really fun. i like wrapping christmas presents. they are cute.

my family is charge of the Stringham family christmas party this year. so were making snow men out of 2x4's to put on the tables and then everyone will get to take one home. we are doing this cause we are adding on to my house and have lots of wood laying around. for some reason i think that its hilarious. we are being green....or recycling...or we just have lots of wood laying around...anyways i have been home alone all day. so thats why have been doing all these things to help my mom out. i even made dinner. in the slow cooker. and then i have been reading. my second book of the break!! i read the third peter pan book, that i got from the elem. library. seriously i love those books. i almost cried at the end. and now i am reading the third eragon book! its pretty good....he likes to use big words in his books. cause he thinks he's smart. and i asked for a bunch of books for christmas cause hi, i'm a nerd. but hopefully i get them. cause my mom has a hard time buying books for me. who knows why.

um. i wish i had a picture to post that was christmas related....its snowing. its been snowing alllll day. i like snow as long as i'm inside and warm. but for some reason i feel like shoveling the driveway? i have no idea why. i'm crazy.

christmas is coming!

ok. I admit. I was totally just listening to Camp Rock music. Cause I totally just got finished watching the movie on tv. Yup, thats what I do when I come home and everyone goes to bed. I watch Disney channel movies. Admit you know you've done it before. So after that fun movie watching experience, I am on the computer. It doesn't even feel like a Friday night. But it never does when I come home. Oh yeah. I am home! Today was the last day of school. It was really fun. Elementary is so fun before Christmas break. We made ornaments, and cookies, and watched a movie and had an assembly and sang Christmas songs. Its fun cause I am totally psyched for Christmas. And little kids are cute. Adorable. Even when they tell me i'm not their friend.

(ok. i am going to talk about school for just a tiny little second. did I mention that one of my classes has been canceled. As in. it no longer exists. Something to do with the current economic strain...yes it really said that...or something. so i only have 7 credits right now....i need more than that. I am taking the math review thinger...so i might be taking math next semester....gross. also...i am considering resigning up for ballet....ok. end school)

back to music. there is this song. that i really like. and it really is an awful and stupid song. but i really like it. its by akon. i really like it when it comes on the radio. with the volume all the way up. so there. get over my bad taste in music.

its cold outside. and there is lots of snow. there is a lot of snow in logan. lots and lots. but i wont be up there for a whole week.

i had something else to say....argh. i still can't think.

cold

first off. i'm sick. i have cold. a head cold. well. yes a head cold. my ears are plugged, i can't hear anything. My nose is just awful. and my eyes hurt. and my voice sounds like i just woke up, even though i've been up since 8:30.

but i went skiing yesterday at the canyons. for free! it was sooo very funny. it was really cold but the weather was perfect. i would go into more detail but my hands are cold. i love park city. i wish i could live there....or be reach and have a 2nd house or condo there. cause i love it.

i am very very sore from yesterday. and i think being sick has made it worse.
today at work was the teddy bear picnic! it was fun. i didn't have a teddy bear though.

i was talking in my sleep last night. i think i do that when i get sick. i think its creepy.

i can't think right now. so i'll be done.

sad day.

so i got my computer grade................its not good........yup.....i failed. Yes its true. I failed. i got a D. a D. dee. D. 66%. (i got 78/150 on the final. really that is soooo awful. i didn't think i did that bad though so i was kind of sad.) oh it really is horrible. but really i don't care. its over. and really thats all that matters. I feel like a HUGE weight has been lifted off my shoulders. really. so yes. the second of my schooling career. sigh. like i said though i'm just glad its done. but i did get 142/150 on my other final. which is quite good if i do say so myself.

um. its really nice not having school. Its soooo nice to get to do whatever i want and not have to worry about the homework that i'm not doing. i haven't even been on the the computer in like 3 days cause i don't have to be!!!! so very nice.


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i have to work all days this week. but i get to go skiing on wed in park city!!

it snowed. lots and lots of snow. and more snow and ice. cold.

I have nothing left to say. no school!!!!!!yaaayyy!!!!!

done.

i am done, DONE with the semester. I don't have words right now to express the feelings i feel. so i just wont talk about it.

(i just got an email about my ballet class next semester. you are required to wear a leotard and tights. so i will not be taking the class. sad day. because i refuse to wear a leotard and tights. and pink ballet slippers. which i do not own.)

i think that was all.

refocus

ok. I was doing really good on my paper....until awhile ago happened. And i stopped writing. So after this is done i will go back to writing. Cause since no one is home, they are all out to eat...sad. i refrained from going even! go me. i had a bowl of cereal. I don't have any more cereal. i finished my take home test this morning. awesome! i took my computer test this morning..........................i don't even care how i did. that has been thee most awful class ever known to man kind and i don't ever want to see or think about it again. so i won't talk about it ever again...(except if i pass...which probably wont happen) so i just have my paper to finish...3 pages...I CAN DO IT. I JUST WANT TO BE DONE. and a final at 9:30 tomwwm. and then i think i will sit down and cry for a few hours. cause thats just what i feel like doing. all the joy, grief, pain, and crap will be over. ahhhhhhhhhhhh

ps. my little brother is funny. He makes me laugh a lot in my life.

real quick.

IT IS SO HARD TO STUDY ON THE COMPUTER. I HATE IT. PLEASE END. but i have to. theres not other way. my final is tom at 7:30. my fate will then be decided. my mom thinks that i am going to be retaking this class.....yeah right. i would rather be shot. its been a good night though. my brother brought me food. that was nice. katies bf brought breadsticks from work. and seriously. i could eat all of them. the kind from papa murphys. there quite tasty. then those same folks brought me a donut. i've been eatin' real healthy as you can tell. now i am cold though cause i drank some milk. milk is healthough though.

batman is on right now. and i can't watch it. i think i might have to go in my room. i really should go to the library. i should have gone to the library hours ago. its just so coooold outside.

ok. i must be off.

its almost over

Took my first final this morning. Took 1 hour and 45 minutes. Finals are NOT supposed to take that long. I think I did pretty good...Hopefully. alkjwenoiwn

1 down.
3 1/2 to go....

I'm taking a break from the homework. I got a lot done today! But not enough. Never enough. I need to study for my computer final....but its sooooooo hard. And I need to work on my projects to......i'll stop complaining.

It snowed today. Did you notice? Yes, lovely surprise when I woke up this morning. But it was alright. Cause it wasn't to cold. I need a scraper thing for my car. Cause I don't have one. Cause I got my car this summer. When there isn't any snow. And its warm. I used my umbrella today to wipe it off to go to work. ...this is all really boring... I want to go skiing!! Or snowboarding. I am a skier but it seems that everyone and their dog do the snowboarding thing. And I have been once. It was fun, I just couldn't get off the lift. Not once. I fell every. single. time. The guy would see me coming and just slow the lift down for me. But the snowboarding part was fun.

I am excited for Christmas. I like buying Christmas presents for people. wahoooo...

green jacket.

I am feeling sort of angry right now. A little bit ago it was a lot angry. I have no idea why I feel angry I just do. i think the end of the semester might be getting to me. oh wait. this semester has already to gotten me....about 6 weeks ago.

The other day....there was a movie on....what movie was it? I think it was Hook. Yes, i believe so. So I love that show, its a good one ya know? And it was on the tv and one of my favorite parts of the movie was on. And i got all excited and choked up and was darn near tears. So after that little episode of my being crazy we decided that i am a very emotional person. When i think of an emotional person i think of a person who cries a lot. I don't cry a lot. I never cry. Like 4 times a year maybe of actual crying episodes. But times when i want to cry, or maybe even get choked up?? hmmm...i don't know, i'd say on average at least twice a week? Maybe that is not a lot, or a lot, or i am just crazy. Maybe its only once a week? One of these days i will find all those tears and will probably cry for a week straight for no apparent reason.

but back to me be angry. i am listing to some music loud at the moment. (with the earphones of course, stupid speakers) so i am feeling better. i kind of feel like crying now....just kidding.

tomwomw is my last day of class. I will never have to go to computer programming. EVER. AGAIN. I had my last homework of the semester due on wednesday. did i get it done. Yes. did the program run. NO. I COULDN'T GET THE FREAKING THING TO WORK. Still the fatal error or whatever the crap was wrong with it...now i'm angry again. Hopefully they don't think it looks the same as my brothers and i wont get in trouble for cheating....cause i spent the whole night on the stupid thing. Right now my grade is 70.4%. So the final will decide if i pass the class or not. And since I got 51% on the last test.....sigh.

work was amazing again today!!!

if your stressing out over what you can get me for christmas(because i know you all are) you can get me the new jack's mannequin cd. The Glass Passenger. Cause i like him. and i like the one song that i have. i listen to it a lot...hahahahahahahah. lkjasoifjmoweakfjslkdfjsdflkjaslkfjalkfj hahahahaha. yeah.

i feel like i need to tell a story about something that happened to me today. hm, lets see. i got to sleep in...not so exciting....can't say anything about work...uh...saren cleaned the bathroom....i didn't start on my project...yeah sorry. no stories here.

I know! I signed up for ballet!! intermediate ballet to be correct. The first one was at 8:30. There's no way that was going to happen. This one is at 9:30 so we'll see how it goes. I have signed up for a pe class every semester of my college life and i always have to drop the class for some reason. So hopefully i stay in this one. I like ballet? i hope its not hard? i have danced my whole life, i think i'll be ok? do i have to wear tights? I do like ballet though. i think its really soothing. that sounds super weird. the only ballet i have done is technique, mostly bar stuff. and i really liked it. it was calming.

i'm going to be done with this now. so i can go to bed. cause i'm exhausted.

ps. i'm not angry anymore. feelin' pretty good acutally.

Well folks...

This is it. My last computer homework. And it won't run. If anyone knows what

Debug Assertion Failure!

means I would love the help. Its due at midnight. And it won't run. I think it should work....I don't even know. I know WHERE the problem I just have ZERO ideas on how to fix it. I have been staring at it for like 20 minutes now.I want to throw my computer out the window. And the go run over it with my car...no that wouldn't be very satisfying. Maybe go jump on it then hit it with a sledgehammer a few times...now that would feel good. sigh. i'm going to cry.

When I go home for work there is sometimes this old man(looks like he doesn't have teeth, might be homeless? but i don't think so cause he is always in front of a house) sitting on a chair on the side of the road smoking. Today I saw him before work. He was riding a very small girl's bike with a puffy coat and a few of those gangsta gold chain things...it was very strange. I laughed though.

by the way. work was AWESOME today. really. it was a really good day. I wish there was more days like it. even though that won't happen. but thats ok. it was a nice break.

have you ever made a decision and then immediately regretted it for the REST OF YOUR LIFE

(not really. but i mean. in the moment it sure seems like it. and it sucks.)

dec 1

its back to school. oh oh oh. one week of class left. and about 57 hours left of homework. Not counting studying for finals. so yes. its going to be a pleasant week. But i did good today. i didn't have to work today so i went to the library! and did homework for a really really really long time. yeehaw. is that how you spell that sound. cause i don't really like it no matter how its spelled. i need to go buy food for fhe. but i don't want to get up. i just want to on the couch for the rest of my life.

the polar express is a really good movie. i love it a lot.

i like harry potter too. despite the fact that really i don't like them but really i do.

thanksgiving

thanksgiving day

- orange cinnamon rolls in the morning.
- food. lots of good food. my gma is a good cook.
- went to the movie with the fam. minus the little brother cause he is in vegas playing football. We saw Quantum of Solace. Which i must say was pretty good. I liked it.
- jon & kate plus 8 marathon! i only saw a bit of a few episodes but i love that show.
- more food.
- didn't have to watch any football.

so all in all thanksgiving was a grand day. minus not having the little brother home. its just not the same when the whole family's(?) not there.

i want to read!!!! its killing me. i hate not being able to read during the semester. i got a book from the library to read this weekend. but i wont be able to cause i have so much dang homework to do. which is what i have been trying to do all day. and i want to set up the christmas tree too. but can't do that either cause of homework. i was just on overstock and looking at all the books. i would like to buy all of them please. jk rowling has a new book that is coming out that is supposed to be one of the books that is in the last book. hermoine translated it. but i will be buying it. cause i like harry potter.

i get to go shopping later though! which i am quite excited about because i need new shoes! and i love shoes!

gobble gobble

Its Thanksgiving break!!!!! Which means I didn't have to work or go to school this morning!!!! I got to sleep in!!! so nice. But I have been doing homework all morning...and not getting very far. You see its usually a good thing to actually know how to do your homework before you do it...so its been a bit of a struggle. I just did the dishes...only there is still a sink fun cause the dishwasher was already half full...at least the sink doesn't smell funny anymore. (which i totally disgusting no matter what.)

Yesterday I saw Twilight. And like my good pal Chessie I pretty much laughed through the whole thing. Oh gosh it was so stupid. I was very disappointed. If you haven't seen it, don't. Ok so first off Edward was sooooo awkward. I mean I had to stop myself from curling up in my seat from the embarrassment. Edward is NOT supposed to be awkward. He's like 100 years old for goodness sakes. He is never at a loss for words and always smooth. That is probably what bothered me the most. The movie might have actually been good if he hadn't been so awfully horribly awkward. It was terrible. And plus his ugly hair. Seriously my favorite part was when it was all wet from the rain and wasn't 3 feet high. Bella was good. The other vampire's were pretty good, they should have been in the show more....made it more interesting. But I did get a cupcake before the movie cause there was a birthday at work!! love cupcakes.

favorite parts though: the baseball game was the best part of the whole movie. But they left out my favorite part of the book...uh...i liked that everything was so green. I knew it was green up there but it was REALLY green. i really liked all of Edwards family, I wanted them to be in the movie more. and...can't think of anything else, oh yeah. I really liked her gloves, i want some.

After the movie we went to the basketball game. It was...like a basketball game. We played Weber and were down the whole first half. But then we won. By like 20. So it was exciting.

I am going home today...as soon as I get this stupid homework done...so that means i'll probably never go home. ha...ha...ha. But i get to do homework all weekend too. yipee...i just love school... Right now I am signed up for 9 credits for next semester and there is one more class I need to take...but I think i might just stick with 9 after the semester of death I have had this fall. sigh.

weekend!!

Yesterday there was a HUGE spider in my house. MASSIVE. Saren killed it.

right now ashley is playing the recorder. She is practicing it cause apparently you have to be able to play the recorder to be an elementary teacher. I never played the recorder in elementary. I didn't even know what one was till at least jr. high. i'm not gonna lie. Its kind of annoying sounding.

i ate lunch twice today. i ate lunch at home. a gross tv dinner. i forgot that they have a teacher luncheon the last friday of the month. so i had taco salad too. cause i mean, i'm not gonna pass up good homecooked food when its around. and i'm allowed to eat it. AND peanut butter rice krispie treats. mmmmmm so good. school was crazy today. it was crazy yesterday too. crazier than usual. if thats even possible. i am really excited for thanksgiving and christmas break.

i was gonna write about something this morning but i forgot. i got utah state sweatpants today!!!! they are for christmas!!! so that means my mom pays me back for them. i take them to her and she wraps them. and i open them up on christmas morning!!! they are kinda big...super comfy though.

so i have nothing to do tonight. i was gonna home saturday for a friends wedding reception.....but i might just go home tonight....cause i don't have anything to do....which is sad cause i don't really want to go home....cause i'll be home all thanksgiving break....and....yeah. maybe i could get my mom to go see twilight....which i don't even know if i want to see...but i mean. come one. you have to go see it. how can just NOT go see this movie. even if Edward is super ugly. i guess the first book was my favorite even though i hate the fact that i have even read them at all. they really are horrible written books. i mean a good idea...but just not good writing....anyways....i'm bored already and its only 4 15. and i still can't remember what i was going to write about from this morning.

i cleaned! actually i did the dishes!