School is done!

I have finished school, and now am at Sky and Lac's playing with Abi, holding Emmalyn and helping Lac. I finished classes on wednesday, cleaned on thursday, and then headed to Poci to be with my family. I am so happy to be done with classes, and am excited for christmas. I'm not sure it can get much better, 'cause I already have a new niece which has got to be the best christmas present ever.
I am of course thrilled to see all my family again, and am sooooo excited to see Dani when she comes up. I had better go so I can help Lac and Sky.

HEHEHE

So happy news from the Allen house. I am pirating someone's internet. From a certain spot in the room above the garage I can connect to the internet! Yay. So I am sitting at Meg's computer to type in really quick an update. I am almost finished with school (Huray) and I made rolls and the turkey is smelling really good. And i am really excited for dinner. Which is an improvement becuase I havn't really had much of an appetite over the last few days.
I only have two more weeks till the end of school and there is a very likely possability that my apparment will have only four girls in it for the winter semester. (SIGH) that will be nice to have more space in the fridge.
I have finished my last test for one of my classes, and now I just have to attend for the sake of attending. I also have several more assignments left to do for my one nursing class, though I have pretty much finished up the other one.
It is time to give Megz back her computer, and go and help mom more with thanksgiving preparations.

Three more weeks...

... of classes until the end of the semester. I am really looking forward to the end of this semester, first because Lacy is gonna have another baby and I am soo excited to go and visit them, help Lac, and play with my niece, and hold their new baby. Second I am so excited for the end of this semester because then I will get a new FHE group, its tollerable but I still think, I have so many more things to do, and I dread going to FHE, but once I'm there it's fine. I guess it is kinda like work in that respect. Third, because Christmas is coming! I love christmas, all the lights, the sounds, the cheerful(or not so cheerful) people. And of course fourth because in three more weeks(excluding the week we get off for thanksgiving) I'll be done with my hard classes for the semester, and I am sooooo tired of studying.
Today I have been 21 for a week. Last weekend I went home. I really went home becasue my license expired on the eleventh, and there was no way I was going to make it home to renew my license on the eleventh, so I renewed it on Friday. Then Sat we went and strung lights up on the front of the library, and I talked with my mom, and procrastinated homework that I should have done, and I got recipes for yummy goodies. Of course I also opened my birthday presents. I got new scriptures, and some yarrow. YAY.
This week seems to be going rather quickly. I can't believe it is thursday already, and I still have so much to do before next week. SIGH.
BUT only one more week until thanksgiving, and then only two more weeks of school after that. : )

What a weekend

Well I finished all my test and most of my assignments and headed to Poci friday night. We spent the night there an then headed to boise to watch state early the next morning. More about state on the family blog. After state we got back into the car and headed back toward poci where we had left Jake and Zac to play with Sky, Lac and Abigail. We stopped for a late lunch at Prasai's in Twin Falls, which is one of the best Thai restraunts I have been to. I love everything, and everything is always good. Then we returned to Poci, where we played with Abi for a while and Lac, Mom and I went out. We hadd planned on going to costco, but they had just closed when we got there, so instead we went to JoAnnes. We looked at all the cute decorations they had, and I bought a couple of little scarecrow decorations for thanksgiving. They are so cute. I'll load a pic later. Then we came back to the 'burg and they dropped me off and then they headed home. We got to Rexburg about 11pm. Sunday was nice and relaxing, and then we started back into the week. And yet again I have so much to do and I don't want to start any of it yet.

Gahhhh!

Well, today I took my first of three tests that I have to complete before Fridat night. Then after I finish them, I can go to State with my mom and dad. State is saturday. Hopefully I can get my test done on Friday before mom and dad leave IF. So a big skills like test for Nursing thursday, then on friday a patho physiology test. Then Saturday state XC in Boise, then back for church on sunday. Whew! I'd better stop procrastinating studying for that skills test.

OUCH!

Lets see, I went to the public health clinic yesterday (as a patient), and got two shots, one in each arm. I got a flu shot and I decided I wanted to get the guardasil series. So I got the first in that series. My arms hurt to lift them up. And while the guardasil shot hurt more initially the arm that got the flu shot is definately hurting more now. And they hurt to put any pressure on them which is sad because I sleep on my side, so I didn't sleep well.
Yesterday at FHE was actually fun, for a change, we had the lesson, and then we actually sat there and joked around for a while like humans. It was fun, sorry Dan, no mission stories, though I'll try to remember next time. : )

THE FOLLOWING IS MEDICAL WHICH,OF COURSE OBVIOUSLY, I DON'T MIND SHARING, BUT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ IT DON'T!!!
Then today I went and saw the doctor, 1. because my YAZ is supposed to make it so my periods are at least less painful, and over the past seven months they have become more and more painful. Not quite up to the point that they were before the YAZ, but still, also I am kinda sick of being such a witch when I am on my period. I wind up staying in my room because everything (and everyone) anoys me! (not a good thing when living with 5 other people) : ( 2. I have been exercising more, and because I have I needed to refil my Albuterol Rx, and of course 3. I apparently have really high LDLs(bad cholesterol) which for a person my age is not a good thing. I also have high triglycerides but I have a good blood glucose and my HDLs(good cholesterol) are in the upper range of normal.
So I made an appointment to go and see someone at the healthcenter, 1 because they are open when I have time to see them, 2 they are on campus, and 3 chances are good that they are less expensive than other places. Also a bonus, because they are here at BYUI, and to be here I have to be following the honor code, and as I am single and not sexually active going there means I don't have to have another pap to get more BC. : )
TOday I went and saw her, she gave me a Rx for Nuvaring, for BC, hopefully this will help, and she renewed my Rx for Albuterol, and after discussing my diet for a while, she decided that my diet is not unhealthy, and decided there might be some genetic factors in the LDLs and triglycerides, so she gave me a low dose statin drug, with instructions to go back in three months to check and see if it is helping. The only thing that makes me concerned is that I may wind up taking statins for the rest of my life if it works.
I have had some more headaches, sensitive to light, and sometimes sensitive to sound, though I wonder if they aren't because I am in the middle of switching BC?
Better go so I can actually get something done today.

OCTOBER!

Ok, so its the middle of October and I haven't posted anything for a while, but I don't know that I really have had much to post. Last weekend was Mother's weekend, and my mom came out Saturday and we went to some seminars in the morning, and then went out to lunch-Tai food, YUM-then we went shopping and mom bought some stuff for people and then that night we went to the International Culture Night, which was fun because some of the associations performed, including the poynesian and korean, which means all sorts of fun dances, and really loud drums. Megz has been driving my car to Teton to the Haunted Mill for work, with a group of other students that work there. If I had another year in Rexburg I might want to do that. I always liked working behind the scenes and knowing what all goes on.
I started the first part of my clinicals with public health. I got to give shots, which was kinda fun to do that again. I forget how much I miss working until I go to clinicals. Now I only have two more clinicals to go.
We are almost halfway through the semester which seems really strange to me because I feel as though school just started. It has been pretty crazy with my classes and tests etc.
I enjoy my calling, and since I last vented about my FHE brothers we got another one who is a recently returned missionary and seems more mature than the others who have been back for 2+ years. At least he is not distainful about FHE, and I don't dread going to FHE because I know he'll have a good attitude.
It was hillarious at our last FHE, we were at our ward clerk's house with another FHE group, and we were going around the circle introducing ourselves, and as part of introducing ourselves we told what we learned at the last general conference. It got around the circle to this one boy, and he started talking about what he learned in the priesthood session, he started talking about this one speaker who spoke about priesthood holders fulfilling their responsibilities no matter what they are, and then he recounted a story of a man who was working on the SLC temple. This man's family lived 22 miles from the temple to on friday night he would walk home, get home and spend the weekend working on his farm and with his family, on time while he was at home, he got injured and shattered the bones in his leg, which resulted in amputation. This brother continued to say, "and if I remember correctly he went on to invent the prostate...er prosthesis..." to which we all laughed of course and he jokingly made fun of his own slip of the toung by continuing, "prothesis, I'm sure his prostate was fine." I though this brother had great character in that he was able to make fun of his own blunder and make light of it instead of becoming embarrased as many people would have. I thought KUDOS to you sir for having the character to continue on and make light of an awkward situation.
So that is my story for this week, I should go study for my Patho-phys test so I can make it to the XC race this Friday afternoon.

New Calling!

Yeay, I finally have a calling! I am an extractor for my stake. I get to read really old census records that have been scanned onto the computer and then I type the names down. It is part of the process of geneology work as well as it gets the temples names(after a few more steps that I don't have anything to do with). Allthough, some of the names are strangly written so it takes a bit of guess work to figure some of them out. Others are a piece of cake. So sunday I learned how to do it, and got my log in id and password and all that, though I do have to say I need more patience because I was getting a bit frustrated with the elderly man who taught me and logged me on. I think I might need to slow down, and enjoy the sceneery more.
I am in a new ward, I don't know if I mentioned that, and so I have a new FHE family. I am not impressed. First of all none of our brothers want to be there, just because they don't want to be there, also they all(except one) have the mentality of high-schoolers, today I thought they were going to actually make fun of one of my more exuberant roommates and I was afraid they might have gotten mauled by at least six very angry females. It is one thing to not want to go because you don't want to go, but quite another to not want to go because you dread the experience of meeting with your FHE brothers and dealing with their emotionally draining distainful attitudes not only toward the institution of FHE, but also toward all of the people there. Grrrrr. But I am being good and I go, and at least pretend that I enjoy it, and then when it is time to go I can leave and feel no obligation to stay and "hang out" or any such thing.
I believe it is about time for me to get back to my homework. Sorry about the rant on FHE.

Back to School

I have returned to school!!! I have 17 credits this semester so I may not post much. I have the feeling that my pathophys class is going to be quite time consuming. After the first week of classes I believe the rest of my classes shouldn't be quite as bad. I mean I'll have tests and such, but I have the feeling this patho class will have me studying as much as I did for my nursing classes (gasp) I know sooo much studying. (note: nursing classes required 8-12 hours of studying outside class per test) I have a good ward this semester. No calling yet, though that probably has something to do with the fact that my the relief society president (who happens to be my roomie) was just called and has not yet told the bishop who she would like to have as her counselors. So no other RS callings have been filled either. We'll see what I'll be doing this year.
Yesterday I went to IF to see Ben run, and I took Megz with me. She was at first sceptical when I said that XC was the best sport even if running isn't your favorite past-time, but after talking to my mom, and hearing the XC story from the last race then watching the race and of course cheering Ben on, she believed me. She actually said that the energy was what was so great about it. Everyone has this great energy.

STORY
OK this actually could go on the family blog, but I remember it now so I'll just post it here
At the star valley race after the team had rested a bit, the boys were looking around and couldn't find one of their teamates. He hadn't crossed the finish line yet, so all the boys team went back out to the course and ran well over half of the course again running in this teamate. He is generally slower than the rest, but the whole boys team was out there cheering him on and running again. After you give your all to a race, running is not the first thing you would normally think about but because there was one of their teammates missing they went out and brought him back in. It was a great story. Mom said she and my aunt were almost in tears watching it. AHHHH.

Grrrr

Greetings from Victor. Yes I have returned home, briefly. Though it was quite the obnoxious time to get here. Tuesday we(My roommate and I) planned to come up in the morning so I could help dad a little bit on the farm in the after noon, but my car wouldn't start. So after thinking, well maybe its the battery and having one of my FHE brothers come over and try to jump it, we decided that wasn't it, so of course I called my dad, and he said, Uncle Doyle was comming out to get grandma's eyes checked, and that he would stop by and see if he could help. He came, and said,"I dunno what's wrong with it." and towed me to a repair shop where we left the Jimmy and rode back to Victor with Grandma, Uncle Doyle and Esther. Wednesday we gave blood, all of us old enough except Ben, 'cause he's in XC and coach would get mad at him. Then I went and moved a line of pipe out of the way of the swather(that was exhausting with 1 pint less blood than usual). Then I went to back to school night for mom, 'cause she was at round table. Whooo, thursday I went on the swather. The old one. After fixing guards and sectoins several times I finally shut down when one of the sections on the knife head broke and was making it difficult to cut the all ready heavy and leaning hay. Dad and Uncle Gayle hauled the entire knife out of the header, and the goal is to replace the rivets with bolts so the sections are easier to replace next time. Today I woke up, sore and stiff, and after a little bit of moving around I finally got so it didn't hurt quite so bad. Then I packed up and got readyu to head back to Rexburg, 'cause we intend to head back with Uncle Gayle when he goes back. Though he was out on the swather first thing after they fixed it this morning and mom had us go and wash and vaccum her car while we waited for Uncle Gayle to decide he is ready to go home.

Another update

Well I came back to rexburg a week ago saturday, then on monday mom, the boys(Jake and Zac) and I went to the street dance festival then we went to rigby lake to camp and play in the water. The boys liked playing in the water whenever they wanted to. We spent about five hours of tuesday by the lake, and poor mom got sooo burned. Then we went to rexburg and saw a movie. Wednesday we packed up camp and then we played in the water for a couple of hours. The wind was blowing so it was not so comfortable for anyone who was not actively playing in the water who was at all wet. We all sunscreened up again, but even though I sunscreened up I burned my back and shoulders. Grrr. Then we came back to the 'burg and ate at Original Thai! YUMMMY! Even my little brothers loved it. Well then I came back to my appartment and cleaned up my room a little and my appartment a little, and went to the library and got some books. Yeay! I am reading something besides textbooks again, and not for a class either. I also went to IF on friday to get food, and while there megz and I went to Michaels and picked up some cross-stitch fabric and threads for me and some chain and sculpey for her. We discovered that my hobby is less expensive than hers. : ) (which doesn't really surprise me). So I started a new cross-stitch. On Friday our bathroom was also torn apart , the flooring ripped up (it was kinda gross as it was starting to grow mold underneath it) the floor cleaned and new flooring layed down. It is a way cool looking tile/lynolium. And then they(my landlady & children) painted the walls changing them from a strange off white to a more tan color. They also discovered that the only thing holding the toilet down was glue. It wasn't even bolted to the floor. So they went and got a device that would bolt the toilet down. Lucky for all of us the glue was holding the toilet down really well. Anyway so now we have a toilet and freshly paintedd walls and they are supposed to put the sink back into the bathroom today. But the bathroom looks a lot more welcoming. Unfortunately for all those in my appartment who are adverse to cleaning when our landlady came down she saw what a mess the appartment and the rooms were and decided to do a cleancheck on tuesday (the first one I've had in the middle of the semester since I came back to school). I had better get going on cleaning as there are only four of us and the appartment is divided into six jobs so I am one of the ones who gets to pull double duty.

Back to the burg

Well, I finished school last thursday, did my clean check friday and then headed to IF to see Mom, Dani and Lac. Dani and Mom were there for Sheena's wedding, and Lac met us to get a girls picture while dani was here. Then we went to Poci to go to Sheena's reception and then we went to dinner together, and we came back to IF, and I drove back to the 'burg and picked up Anita. By that time I had an awful headache and I was way tired as it was around 1130ish and driving makes me tired, anyway Anita drove us home with me coaching her, and we got home around one, unloaded Anita's suitcase and went to sleep. I played with Dani, and mom all weekend and then on tuesday I drove Anita back to the 'burg so she could catch her shuttle to SLC and then fly home. I unpacked my bags from home, and repacked them and headed to Poci to play with my niece and Sky and Lac. Poor Abi wasn't feeling well for a lot of the time I was there, so she was fussy, emotional and clingy, which as long as she didn't burst into tears when I spoke to her I was OK with though I felt bad for her. She had a fever for several of the days and then on saturday we went yardsaling and she was way fussy and when we got back into the car Lac noticed she had spots all over. The poor kid got chicken pox from her vaccines. At least it is a weakend version. Oh well, I'll have to try and visit again, hopefully next time she won't be sick.

Another week

Well this past week has flown by at the same time feeling as though ig was creeping. I have been working hard to get all my little homework assignments done before they were due yesterday and next week. Whew I am almost done with this semester. Last day is next friday, then I get to go home and see my family and Dani.
Well, Thursday mom and dad came out to go to "The Savior of the World" with me. It was a stage play/musical put on my the school. It was awesome. I always forget how much I miss being involved in drama until I go and see a play. : ( Also this evening Megz and I went to a Jon Schmit concert. It was way fun. I love to hear the piano. If you don't know who I am talking about this is the guy who wrote All of Me, the piece where you use your forarm at part of the song. Anyway that was a blast. He called this guy up from the audience to improv some blues/jazz on the piano, and the kid just about played faster than he did. It was way impressive.
Anyway, I had better go to bed, tomorrows already shaping out to be a pretty big day.

4th weekend

I went home thursday to help mom haul books out of the basement of the library, but by the time I got there they were all done. Oh well I helped the next day, morning and afternoon, then I was exausted! : ) Saturday Sky and Lac came up to Victor for a few hours. Abi was so cute! We are down to four kittens and she would toddle over to about a foot from where they were laying and crouch down and say "Kiyee" then point and say "Kiyee" she would smile, but she never moved any closer to the kittens, but if the kittens moved closer to her she didn't move back. It was so cute.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that on the way home thursday there was this most awesome sunset. See the beautiful pic that I got as the sun was just finishing setting.

Farm

I went home to help dad this past weekend. I got there thursday night, and went to work around 9am the next morning. I swathed the 40, then just after I finished the last swath, I picked up my header and turned to strattle the winrows at the bottom so I could park the swather and go home to get some lunch, I turned the wheel, something popped, and suddenly I was turning counter closkwise and making myself dizzy. I pulled the speed to N and the throttle down to turtle but I was still turning circles and no matter which way I turned the wheel I still turned counter clockwise. I waited for a few seconds, but the swather wasn't slowing down, and I was starting to get sick, so I turned off the ignition, and the swather slowed down, and then stopped.

SO the steering went out, a whole thing about this metal pole thingy that really is difficult to describe, but I'll try. the pipe/pole was a little smaller than a stand pipe, and at each end it had a bolt that was attached to the pole with a ball and socket. The bolts faced opposite directions so when the one on the right faced up, the other one faced down. This meant that the socket toward the front faced up and the one toward the back faced down. When it broke the bolt/ball on the front fell out of the socket. Daddy fixed it by flipping it end for end, so the pressure from the pole would hold the ball into the socket.

Back to work I went, to swath a new piece, just behind the storage sheds on cedron road. It is in line for construction, but that may not happen for a while, so even though the piece hadn't been watered for two+ years and hadn't been planted for more, I was instructed to cut it. It was the roughest piece of ground I have ever swathed. It was like driving across an endless road of potholes for the entire about 9 hours it took to cut the piece. By the time I finished for the night (I still had 2 1/2 hours left to cut the next day) I was so sore I had a hard time picking up my own shoes off the floor. The muscles along my spine felt (actually still feel) like rocks.

The next day I returned to the torture, finished the piece in time for lunch(it was plugged so we had to unplug it before we could start running it). After lunch I resumed swathing on Arnolds, then moved to Myers'. About 1/3 across the field, I was on my way back down to the bottom, when all of a sudden the swather started bouncing and making really funny noises. Again, I turned the speed to N and the throttle to turtle. This time the swather stopped, but it was still making funny noises, so I turned off the ignition, and called dad. I left a message on his voice mail that went something like "I broke it. Call me back."

It was the steering thing again, and this time the entire ball and bolt was gone. No more swather for Me this weekend. I then went home, talked with mom for a while, then she got called to work, and I went and got milk, and went and talked to Esther, and helped her care for Mel's kids, and then I decided it was to late to come back, so I just stayed the night there, and drove back this morning. What an adventure.

Tagged

So I was tagged

20 things that make me smile

20 Music
19 Disney movies
18 My crazy roomie Megan
17 My FHE bros
16 Tangents
15 Abi
14 Dani
13 Mom
12 The Big Bang Theory
11 Free food-that i don't cook
10 Ice cream
9 Getting done with homework
8 Camp fires
7 Candles
6 A good book
5 A good night's rest
4 Comprehension of difficult concepts- it just clicks
3 Clean clothes
2 Rain
1 Watching lightening from the safety of a building

Now I tag Megz... that's all that I know on Blog spot that haven't already been tagged.

FHE!

Yet another fabulous FHE has come and gone. We had a water baloon fest. We had a blast filling up water baloons, then we launched them (using a water ballon launcher) at a group and saw who could catch them and where they got hit. Then we filled up more water baloons, soaking each other in the process. It kinda reminded me of our Allen family soakings. Anyway we ate cake to celebrate one of our FHE brother's birthday that is tomorrow, then tossed the baloons back and forth and saw how far away we could be and still catch them, not very far, then we wound up just throwing them at each other. And then we were out of baloons again so we went and filled up more, and then launched them at the group and we had fun trying to break the fast moving water balloons on our bodies, heads, chests, butts, backs etc. We had a BLAST! Megz again brought her camera and when she gets a chance she said she would again post the pics on her page.

Alright, so monday night I had one of the most fun FHEs I have ever had. We went to our high councilman's house and his wife just so happens to be the relief society advisor. They not only fed us, but they let us ride their horses too. I had a blast laughing and jokng with my FHE family. Then on the car ride back I discovered that my FHE brothers have seen alot of the strange video clips I've seen online. It was really funny. I also discovered that they all have a penchant for quoting disney movies. : )
My roomie hauled along her camera, and she has posted pics on her blog (see link -megs). They are pretty fun.

Well the weeks have flown by. Homework and procrastinating have made my days quite full. Perhaps it is time to feed the brain and take a break from reports?

This past week I was reminded of a valuable truth. We are all born, we live, and we die. Death is as much a part of the life cycle as birth. And though we look joyously on birth, perhaps we also need to look joyously on death, as that means another step of the life cycle has been completed, and another cycle can start. Now that is not to say we should not cry, or be sad, for those that we love are gone. However, sorrow should be felt that they will no longer walk with us, not that they will no longer live. I believe they will live, in another way, and still be able to learn and grow and become greater than they could be while being held back by mortallity. Indeed, I suppose that when the time comes for me to die, I would like those I leave behind to feel sorrow that I am no longer here, but rejoice that I once was, and that I will be again. Rejoice that someday they too will be able to be with me again. So while death is a sorrowful occasion, as it should be, I believe we should also be able to celebrate the life they had, and the life that we have because of them.

So I have a wonderful new blog, mostly cause I wanted the really cool playlist thingy. Lets see I started the bachelors nursing program, and so far this week I have discovered why so many people think college is fun. When you have time to play, it is indeed fun. The ADN program was soooo time consuming, but I think the BSN will be alright. The other day I walked to a local formal wear store to pick up my little brother's bowtie for prom. FUSIA!!! The thing is so bright it hurts my eyes to even look at it. Hope it gets toned down by his black shirt and coat. I'll be taking it home friday morning, because he haas Prom friday night.