Cinco mas dias

OK everyone...I am getting antsy. I have a TON of stuff to do this weekend. Lots of homework, studying, and packing to do. Finals are in just a few days and during it all I have to pack and be out of here before I fly out on Thursday. I am moving to a condo a few minutes away from campus. It will be the same situation, four girls with our own room and whatnot...but it is the same price and SOOOO much nicer! Not to mention they have a gym and pool right there. I mean I have access to the school's gym and pool but it is so much further and a lot of effort to get there. The University of Utah really does have a HUGE campus. It takes me twenty minutes to walk to my closest class from my apartment right now--and that's with no snow. So...I am moving and I am excited. It is not furnished so I will slowly have to get stuff and I might be sleeping on an air mattress at first (blah) but I guess I will survive. I will still have my box at the Heritage Center so if worse comes to worse you can still mail me stuff there but I will let everyone know my NEW address as soon as I know it. I have it written down on the lease but that is at work and it's the weekend so I don't know. Anywho...


I know how Mr. Buble feels when he sings " I wanna go home"

July 24th

So.. today was Pioneer Day in Salt Lake City...which is apparently bigger than the 4th of July! Pioneer Day is always the 24th of July and it celebrates the Mormon Pioneers finally reaching their destination...the Salt Lake Valley. So naturally the whole city shuts down, which means no work! Seeing as finals are in a week you would think I would take advantage of this whole day with no obligations right? (Especially when I have SOOOO much studying to do!) Right? WRONG!!

As I was leaving work yesterday I passed through Deseret Book and I saw the new Harry Potter book. Everyone knows how much I love Harry Potter but I decided I would not buy it until school was over. As I passed it I lightly slid my fingers across the cover and I couldn't help but feel a tinge of excitement. "OK. I will buy it but only as a reward to great studying!! You are NOT allowed to open its covers until you are DONE with school!" I told myself!

Well... last night was quite uneventful and so I decided I had two hours to kill before I fell asleep...just a bit...just enough to where I would be excited to finish my studies and get to delve into the pages....well... as we all know what a SUCKER for reading I am... as was the case with the very first book so it held true to the last book...I was engulfed by the humour and mystery and magical wonder of it all from the very first sentence!! I did go to bed on time but only to awake and spend my whole day finishing it! Seven hundred and fifty nine pages of pure joy! Ms. Rowling sure is one heck of a writer! For those of you who I know are still reading it or maybe waiting for a more opportune time to read it......HAPPY READING!

LONG LIVE the D.A!

yes. yes. YES I KNOW!! I am a complete and utter nerd! We established this YEARS ago. My father was a Treky...and I am in love with Harry Potter. We all have our dirty little secrets! ;-)

Here...and then gone

So...my brother Stephen flew in to come visit me on Monday. He went up to Rexburg on Tuesday because I had a midterm Wednesday morning I needed to study for...and him and my sister Marie came back to Salt Lake Wednesday afternoon. It really was such a treat to be able to hang out with them and whatnot. They left Friday morning so it seemed like SUCH a quick trip. I miss them so much already. It is just really hard for me to have people I love be around and then suddenly gone. BUT I get to go home in less than TWO WEEKS! yippee!

EWW I am NOT a fan of Economics

OK... so here is the latest gossip with me. I went and talked to a DIFFERENT counselor b/c the one I had was obviously incapable of anything other than reproduction...is that mean to say? I suppose it is but yeah...she was a HORRIBLE counselor so I switched and talked to a different one even though they gave me grief about not sticking with my assigned one. Anywho....this guy was very informative and I wish I would have had him from the start. It looks like if I want to stick with Finance it is going to be about another 4-5 semesters because of all the classes I have to retake. HOWEVER, because UHCL's business program incorporated a lot of ECON I can get my BS in Economics with a minor in business and be done by May. I am thinking that is what I am going to do. I JUST WANT TO BE DONE!! ewww I am SO not a fan of economics but it wasn't really hard, it just wasn't my favorite thing. I figure I will just take the 6 classes I need to take and the 4 classes to finish my minor and then just do my masters in finance. Sound like a plan? I hope so. *SIGH* I really am not looking forward to a whole semseter worth of econ but I figure it will be interesting and hey, you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes!!

My brother also came in town yesterday to visit me. He is in Idaho right now because I have a midterm at seven in the morning (SICK RIGHT?) so I didn't want him to be bored while I studied all day. He will return tomorrow though and my sister Marie will be with him so I am suuuuuuuuper excited for that! My family is the one of the few things that ALWAYS makes me happy! OK I better go.

I'll Hogle YOU!

So... Yesterday was a pretty nice day!! I didn't get anything DONE...but I had a great day !

My friend Anita is an RA and she was taking her floor to the Hogle Zoo which is about a mile from where we live. She invited me and my roomate as well so we had a fun time.
After the zoo I went down to Provo where I got to hang out with Katherine Burns-Shumway, Amanda Leigh Davis-Stephens-Davis (she didn't ever change her last name) haha...and Sara, Kylie, and Marissa! But when I got to Sara's we had fondue so that was so much fun!It was a ton of fun. It was also kind of weird b/c no one's husband was home so it was just kind of like old times....except Katherine has a baby and then Shane came in at the very end. I dunno.... I wanted to be home by like 6 but I hours just passed without even realizing it and I didn't get home till about 11 last night. oh well...I still had a ton of fun!


MY BROTHER WILL BE IN TOWN TOMORROW!! I am soooooooooo excited!! I need my family!!

WHAT. THE....

OK so sorry I haven't updated...I meant to but honestly? I HAVE BEEN IN A CRAPPY MOOD LATELY!

I don't know what it is.....I just really have not been happy and just been gloomy. Someone needs to kick me in the bee-hind.

Ummm the fourth of July was probably the highlight of my week. I went to the pool by myself around lunchtime and then met up with Nick Ferrin for lunch. We tried this restaurant called Ruby River and it wasn't that great but it was still fun. I thought it was going to be BBQ but it was just a steakhouse and we all know I don't eat anyone's steak but my daddy's!! After dinner Nick dropped me off at Franklin Covey Field which is where the Salt Lake Bees (minor league) play. It was a really fun game and we even won! Afterwards they had about a 15 minute fireworks show to music. It wasn't a downtown Houston Fireworks show or even fireworks over Kemah show...but it was nice....


Alright well I have a TON of homework I am not even close to finishing so I suppose I'd better go!