Shelves, Rolls, and Baskets...Oh my!

What a lovely week of doing nothing! Not even updating you on my life! But I shall now.

I have spent the last few days getting settled into my new apartment, which even though it is identical to my old apartment, has significantly less space for my things. Because of this I bought and built these wonderful $13 shelves from K-Mart.

When I pulled everything out of the box, and saw that there were no directions, I was rather scared, but using my inquisitive mind and excellent problem solving skills, I figured it out.

And they now top my dresser and store mostly my food that does not fit in my kitchen. Thanks Dan for the screw diver!!

I also decided to expand my culinary horizons and try to make cabbage rolls. I made the I-don't feel-like-waiting-for-them-to-cook-for-45 min version. And they turned out pretty good. And it helped not to have any of my roommates home. (I don't liked to be watched while I cook experimentally!)

(Cabbage rolls mid-making. My quick version only involved cooked beef, tomatoes, and sour cream rolled up in a cabbage leaf.)

(The finished product, before being cooked for 15 min. Perhaps some day I will make the real ones to compare.)

When Boy returned from his stay at home Thursday, he was bearing an Easter basket that his mother had made in my honor. While it is full of wonderful chocolate and beef jerky, I'm worried at the implications of its arrival into my hands. I'll just eat the chocolate and not worry about it.

Easter Packed

So, I am packed and moved to my new apartment upstairs and I am staying with Scott and Cassie till Thursday!! Adventures are sure to come...once I get off the couch...

But until then, here are some pictures of my "move".

Packing...just be glad you didn't see what my room looked like before this point.

My room now emptied out and spiffy clean...it looks a little naked...oh wait that word isn't allowed here at BYUI. Shhh...don't tell anyone!

This is all of my stuff (minus stuff in my closet and food still in the freezer and refrigerator), I don't have very much....but I think that's a good thing.

Some of my stuff in Boy's car while he drove me down to Scott and Cassie's, we then went out to lunch at Sonic before he headed home to Meridian.

I wish that I had gotten more pictures of our Easter feast, but Dan and I cooked up a regular passover wonderment. Fish, eggs, potatoes, and carrots. I even tried my hand and cooking Talopia and turned out great!! Dan's potatoes were amazing! Like candy.

Here's to an amazing week with nothing to do!!

Scholarly Projects

In honor of all the work I have put into these two projects, I am going to give you the best I can...pictures.
This is a sample page from the scholarly journal we put together for my Professional writing and research class. The articles were all written by my classmates, but were edited by me and the editorial board. If you recall a post long long ago...I was excited because I was named Editor in Chief, it was for this!

Our table of contents...I am ashamed to say that it took me over an hour just to format this so everything would be straight.

Our cover designed by one of the lovely ladies in our group. As you can see by the title, we created a journal about popular literature. With a cover like this maybe we'll be writing articles about ourselves soon!!

This is a second poster for my Research Methods class. This one is based on quantitative data while the other one was qualitative. As it is a professional poster we aren't allowed to make it pretty. But I think mine looks PRETTY professional. = ) If you look really closely you might be able to read some of it. I think it a phenomenally refreshing view of self-bias and its impact on our views of other people.

Week-ish News Exam

Along with all of my finals comes some good and exciting news, of varying goodness and excitement.

1) There are only two more days of classes and I think I'm going to make it!
2) The weather here in Rexburg has been phenomenal. It has been up hear 60 this week. This means students strewn out across any lawn they can find on campus, with anyone they can find on campus, and in any number of awkward and compromising positions that I am not sure are necessarily accepted on campus. Yay for the arrival of Spring.
3) I can sell my textbooks back and get moneys.
4) I will be staying with Scott and Cassie for a week-ish during break.
5) My bruise is finally gone (yes it is just now gone) so I can start giving plasma again.
6) I am putting together a scholarly journal for my professional writing class and it is going to be an amazing 40 pages long!!
7) I do not have to take my 172 question cumulative Sensation and Perception exam until Thursday.
8) I will be moving apartments this next semester so as to avoid any more disappearing money or grease fires (although it is just upstairs and fires spread).
9) Dan is going to be in my ward next semester and living in my complex!!
10) A rather violent tickle fight last night that resulted in a lens popping out of my glasses was quickly resolved with the aid of Boy's roommate's mini screwdrivers.

(This is my $10 printer. It works great and is pretty much brand new!)

Picture This...

Pictures...lots of them!!
This is a great shot of the lines going into the conference center. The first session we were there I accidentally looked at our PM tickets and we stood in the wrong line for like 15 min. It's a good thing we had people saving our seats!!This is the wonderful family who got us our tickets! They lied in Tennessee where boy served his mission. The boys were rambunctious but fun to hang out with. I made them paper cranes to keep them busy during the second session. What a great mom I will be!


One of the boys, I remember which one, took our picture for us while we waited for the session to start!
This is taken from my seat. Yes, we were that close. Elder Christofferson is the lone man in the middle of the shot. And I think it is Elder Bednar just to the right of that guys head.

Sarah and I saw these sitting in the hallway in the house where we were staying and immediately thought, "DAD!!"

This is the room where Sarah and I slept...I'm thinking it used to be a play room...it smelled like gummy bears.

This was the room across the hall from the room where Sarah and I slept where we spent most of our time. And this is the location in which I learned how to play pool! I am very glad that the lounge here where I live has several pool tables, as I think I will definitely be using them!!

Rapid Weekends

I had an amazing weekend. It pretty much was the worlds longest double date, and I'm glad that Sarah could be a part of the other couple!! Boy apparently has great connections, not only did he get us a place to stay that was only 10 min from downtown Salt Lake, but also tickets for both sessions on Saturday. It was a truly amazing experience. I had not been in the same room as the prophet since the Temple Jubilee when the Manhattan temple was dedicated. I have quite a few fun pictures to share but that will have to wait until I retrieve my camera from Boy's car!

My fun weekend is short lived by the rapidly approaching finals week (only a few hours away). It doesn't help that I accidentally slept 4 hours after getting back, but given the week ahead it may have been worth it!

Check back for the super fantastic pictures!!

Printing Lumberjacks

This is a picture from our Geology field trip last weekend. We were a pretty big group and there was a lot of snow! I have cleverly labeled the picture in case you couldn't tell it was me by my lumberjack jacket. The lovely lady next to me is Sarah from the Tomsriver ward. She apparently thought I smelled, which may have been true.

I bought a printer today...for $10. And there was much rejoicing. This guy was selling it through the schools bulletin board and I happened upon it! It is a practically new HP deskjet and he even gave me the cords I needed and two ink cartridges. I think I definitely am the win-ah mahn!

I am leaving tomorrow after my last class to head down to Salt Lake with Boy, and I have yet to decide whether or not to bring my lappy with me. So if you don't hear from me forever...that's why! We did find a place to stay with one of Boy's old missionary companions! Thank you all those who offered!