Life is good. :)

SERIOUSLY!?!?!

a FOURTH Pirates of the Caribbean? oh my gosh.....

The Wrestler (p.s. that's a movie title in case you didn't know)

So, Harriet once went to a rather tough high school. I think that has influenced her fierce fighting habits. Sometimes, when we fake fight, I am always of afraid of actually hurting her, so I play easy. She doesn't suffer from that same weakness--so she is a little more aggressive when we mess around. I usually end up running away after she attacks me.

Tonight, we were outside on the hill that we usually study on and somehow we got to wrestling around again. Yesterday when this happened, I just tried to hold her off until her boyfriend Scott came out and she could beat him up. Tonight---I wanted to show her that I grew up wrestling a girl that had five inches and two and a half years on me. And I usually sat on her.

Our wrestling match ended about twenty feet down the hill with me sitting/lying on top of Harriet, pinning her to the ground and her weakly saying the words that usually come out Scott's mouth: "That's enough....that's enough...." and then we laughed.

But now she knows.

I can take her.

I just got back from a nice looooong walk with two of my really good friends, Rochelle and Jeff. We tried to find Kiwanis Park, but walked a rather twisty way and got lost and so we sat on the grass of a church building for a while--then we walked down a hill--and there was the park. Anyway, it was a really nice night and we had a fun time just talking. It was a beautiful night outside and just too nice to go to bed! So now.....I'm thinking about getting up for my class tomorrow morning and ugh...but then I can come home after my 12 o'clock class and sleep/study in the sun! it will be wonderful.

Things have been going a lot better with my roommates lately. My roommate and a bunch of her friends that competed/watched DanceSport for a long time on Saturday cheered for me every single time I danced and then we were just really positive to each other. So lately we and I have been getting along pretty well, and it's been nice. I've been feeling a lot more positive towards that group of friends lately, and I'm glad that my attitude is changing.

The weather has been so nice lately and it has been wonderful to just be able to sit in the sun.

Lately, I've been having second thoughts about staying for both spring and summer. I think that I know that's what's smart to do, since I won't be able to find a steady job in Michigan (and I think that I would probably get bored), but I really miss my family a lot and sometimes I just want to be home. Am I doing the right thing, do you think? I think I am, I just need reassurance.

Anyway, I'm off to bed. It feels like Thursday....and it's only Monday.

Oh, we also ran around and played outside a little bit for FHE today, and it was heavenly. :)

Oh, and I decided to change things up on my blog--as you can see. I'm also trying to maybe think of a different title for it, something that describes me more--any ideas?

I probably just saw the best movie I've ever seen: Valkyrie. I tried to restrain my self from outright sobbing during the last 20 minutes and then had a really hard time doing the same thing in the car ride home. It made me want to be brave and to stand up for what I know is right. Did a Tom Cruise movie just change my life?

Right now I am eating a toasted turkey, cheese, and avocado sandwich with wheatable crackers. It is amazing. I love it. And I'm waiting to make myself do laundry and study for my human development test. After class, Harriet and I are going to our friend Kelsi's apartment, where she's hosting a facial thing, which should be fun. Then I'll probably study some more, and then tonight I'm going to go see Valkyrie at the dollar theater (or Seven Pounds, I've heard that's really really good). Anyway, I'm excited for both. But now I must finish my lunch and then study. Good bye!

This will be a rather busy weekend.

Today:
-Do my homework/study for several tests until 6:00
-6:30: Go tubing with my ward at Soldier Hollow!!
-Come back and hopefully have time to get lots of homework done
-Do my laundry at the same time
-Clean my room
-Go to bed at 11:00

Tomorrow
-Get up super duper early tomorrow morning to go to the Draper Temple Open House with my ward!
-Go to a TA review session for my American Heritage class at 11:00 (hopefully--as soon as we get back from the open house)
-Go to practice the Cha-cha at 1:00 at the Dance lab in preparation for DanceSport next week
-Do several more hours of studying
-Go to bed at a reasonable time

Sunday
-Church at a painful 9:00
-Ward Council ?
-Memorize my reading part for our stake musical fireside thing
-Have big run through for the same musical fireside thing
-Hopefully have dinner with Ruth, Mary Beth, and Jordan
-Ward Prayer
-Probably play and relax for a little bit
-Go to bed on time!!

And then next week, I have an American Heritage test, my Book of Mormon midterm, a few Biology assignments due, and then DanceSport on Saturday which I am pretty nervous for! I'd feel a lot better if we were doing the foxtrot or the waltz--I think I like the ballroom dances more than the Latin ones because I feel a lot prettier and graceful, so I think that's more fun than the more playful Latin dances---also, all of the traction has worn off of the shoes that I dance in, and I slip a lot more when we cha-cha than when we do the foxtrot and waltz.

And I'm very excited to have a clean room and sheets.

Oh, and if Ruth or Mary Beth reads this in the next two hours and you have snow gear, could I borrow it? all I have are boots and and coat, and I would really like to have gloves and an earwarmer at least!! Call me!

So......I've made some decisions. *Sigh*

I'm living in the Elms Apartments this spring/summer and in fall/winter.

I've registered for classes for the spring and summer. Would you like to know what they are?

Spring:
Social/Cultural Anthropology (3 credits)
Greek and Roman Mythology (3 credits)

Summer:
Civilization: Literature 2 (3 credits)
The New Testament (2 credits)
Doctrine and Covenants (2 credits)

My spring classes are ones that I've always wanted to take and it finally looks like there are good professors teaching it spring semester. My summer classes actually all fulfill GEs and they look like they have good professors too! (except my Civ class doesn't have a professor listed yet, but I need the credits and the class and it looked interesting)

All of my classes also start after 12 and so I'll have the mornings to work.

Now I just need to get a job.

And decide on a major.

And take this Human Development test.

I'm back...I think sometimes I just don't post anything cause I don't feel like I have anything noteworthy to say. But I do have something exciting from yesterday! Remember my film midterm that I was really worried for? I got a 96! Hot Dog! And the scene analysis essay that was going to be hard? I got full points on it! And my professor said, "Very good analysis". Which is lucky, because we had a write a paper analyzing a scene and because I didn't manage to get access to any of the movies or scenes (the one movie I really wanted to analyze a scene from is all on YouTube, but...we can't access YouTube on campus), I wrote my paper analysis on the same exact scene that I wrote my essay for my test on. So hopefully that won't be a problem. Anyway, that was very exciting!!

Yesterday at FHE we planned out what we're doing for the rest of the semester and next Monday we are going to play badminton in the RB and then go to Legends Grill afterwards! It will be very fun.

And now I really need to study hardcore for my human development test that I need to take today. I am in the library right now, but I really want to be outsidem, cause it is 62 degrees. Did you get that? 62 DEGREES!!!!! It is beautiful--but I looked at the weather for the next 10 days, and it just gets colder. Sad. But anyway, I am going to study so that I can get this over with.