I'm Bored, I'm Bored, I Don't Know What To Do

Happy No Test Week!  So school is about to finish up for the semester and we are into the last week before Finals, woot!  However, this also translates into a week of boredom because we have no homework along with no tests.  But, don't worry, I am finding things to do.  

This last weekend I went to Olive Garden for the first time, and have decided this may be my new favorite restaurant.  Their salad and breadsticks are awesome!... and the main courses are pretty good too :) I also went to Moonlight Serenade at Davis High, another exciting thing.  If you've never been to Moonlight Serenade you are missing out, of all my band memories, serving at Moonlight is definitely one of the top ones, which if I can have that much fun serving at it, somebody going to it to eat and dance will definitely have a fun time.  After all that excitement over the weekend I came back to school (and sun!) and buckled down to finish the whole 1 assignment I had due this week.  Now I am officially finished with all schoolwork other than finals, so I have had plenty of time to do other things, such as sit around and think about how bored I was.  That made me think of all the stuff I wanted to be doing at the moment which made me think of all the stuff that I've learned to do since coming up to USU, so I decided to make a list of new skills I've learned at college (although not necessarily in a classroom): 

1. How to play the guitar.  My song repertoire now consists of "Here Comes the Sun" by the Beatles (I can play the full song even (: ), "Classical Gas" (Only about 2 lines on this one), "Banana Pancakes" by Jack Johnson (Only like 1 line, but still), "Breakdown" by Jack Johnson (Pretty much the whole song on this), and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (Whole song, woot!).  Sweet, huh?  Maybe I should join a band :) 

2. How to make an html website.  Haven't tried it yet but I do know how :)  

3. How to use C++.  Not very well however.  

4. How to longboard.  Someday I am going to get me one and ride it to school to show how cool I am, haha! :) 

5. *How to talk in ASL.  ("They're communicating!") 

6. How to work a Macbook, I'm a total expert now... sort of.  

7. How to cook scones and wontons.  (I put these together cause they are pretty much the same concept, just wontons have stuff in them) 

8. How to make a bowl out of a vinyl record.

9. How to build a circuit.

Well, that's all I could think of right now, I bet there's more.  The one's with the * by them are one's I learned in a class, everything else I learned from a friend or on my own.  So from the looks of things I've had a very productive first 2 semesters :) Anyway, wow, this feels like a really long post.  Probably because I'm trying to catch up on everything since I last wrote, and then I thought of these other things that I wanted to put on, and so it's just going to have to be long.  But, since I am now out of things to write (other than telling you about how I painted my toenails or how I got sunburned from sitting out in the sun) I'll just end here. :) Hopefully one of these times me and Kajsa will get some pictures put up on this thing, but for the moment my camera's battery is dead and I don't know what's up with Kajsa, so just be patient.  :) 

Moving Forward, Moving Back

So I got on to the blog today thinking that I was going to write some amazing post about everything going on in my life and I discovered that... well, I had nothing to write about. I wish I was like Kajsa and had momentous, exciting news to share like I was applying for my program, but sad to say I'm still just moving along at my same, old, normal pace. And really, that's what I think has been bugging me for these past few months. I feel like everyone around me is moving ahead, plowing forward, and I am stuck at one point with no movement going on whatsoever. I don't have a major so I can't move ahead with school, I don't have a job so I can't move ahead with my career or even just working, I have a boyfriend who's leaving on a mission so I can't move ahead with that relationship, I have no idea what to do with school next semester so I can't move ahead and make my schedule, pretty much I'm at a halt. And I don't like it. Everyone tells me, 'It's fine, you just need to continue going, we can't have an exact 100% plan in life, it just doesn't work that way, just keeping moving and everything will work out', but that's not really helping me. And I can't explain it but I just feel like... I'm not even sure really, it's something like what they think is the problem is not even scratching the surface of the real issue. But the other problem is that I don't know what the real issue is. I wish I could just figure it out. I need everyone else to stop moving on so that I can have time to think and worry and ponder it out. Unfortuanently it's not happening. But you know what, maybe I should listen to everyone and just buck up and take the next step. Maybe the reason I'm at a halt is because I really am waiting for life to light up where my next step should be, but like everyone said, life isn't going to do that. Sometimes you have to put out your foot in the darkness and walk on, and then the light will come and let you see if you're going the right way. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Well, I guess I might as well try it, you never know maybe by my next post I'll feel like I'm going somewhere, it's always worth the chance. Haha, wow, who knew writing in a blog could help you solve problems like that? Just kidding, I did know that, writing is supposed to be a way to sort through and finalize plans and ideas, a way to release emotions and concrete feelings. Odd, but helpful. Anyway, sorry, no fun entertainment from me today but hopefully reading this helped you a little. And if not, hey whatever, it helped me :)

When it rains it pours

So as previously stated by Melanie it has been one week since starting our blog, and up until today we had only the posts done that day. Then all of a sudden in one day BANG we do 3 posts in one day! So enjoy it while it lasts cause there might not be any for a while.
So you may be asking yourself... why is Kajsa writting again today? Isn't one enough? The answer is yes one is enough, but I was bored at this moment because Mckay (boyfriend, you will probably be hearing about him a lot) is off getting food (like always) and so I am stuck alone in the library with the strict orders to not move. So what else is there to do besides get on facebook or blog and as we previously discussed facebook is getting old so here I am blogging. So what is new with me... well basically my life consists of homework right now. General Conf. was a great weekend, but by the end of it all I could think about was how much "stuff" I had coming up. I had made a new goal one week previously that I would not do homework on Sunday, so yes it was a much needed break from things, but it was hard to not do ANY homework. But in the end I made it through and overall I am excited to now have, as Mckay says it, "a day all to myself." Except I must correct him that it is technically not my day, but you all get the point. Anyways...moving on this week I have had two major accomplishments. #1 I have perfected the art of being able to study with your boyfriend. Part of it has to do with choosing the right guy (when mckay is in his "zone" he ignores everything around him and so I have nothing else to do besides work on homework) and part of it has to do with setting. Such as the library (where we are now) you can't help but focus on homework while you are here. This is such an accomplishment because previously I would often get very frustrated because I wanted to spend time with him, yet I needed to do homework. I was always in a constant battle with myself and never felt like I was accomplishing much of anything. Now I get to see him all day and still feel like it was a productive day. #2 I have now completed everything that I have to do before applying for the education program! (oh besides pass my current classes, which I am planning on it so everything should be all set) I took my last two CIL tests yesterday and found out that I have passed them all. So I will be applying by July 1st and hopefully I will get in. If not there is always Oct 1st. I have heard that it is hard to get in on your first try so I thought I should probably start early, and it is already going to take me 5 years to graduate so I don't want to waste anytime. Well those are my only two exciting things this week, and I can see that this blogging stuff will get easier so I will keep practicing (obviously I need it, I am so embarressed by my first one :P) But everyone has a bad one here and there. AndI know this will come as a surprise to you but I am not perfect.... shocker I know! It blew me away too the first time that I heard it. Ok, wow this is getting worse by the minute I think I will just stop here. Have a great day!

One Week In

Happy Week Anniversary!  So me and Kajsa have now officially had our blog for about a week, and sad to say we, or at least I, are more prone to look at it to see if Kajsa's written anything than I am to actually log on and write something.  But, never fear, I have now written again!  Woot!  Please hold your applause.  :) 

Anyway, moving on to news from me- 

We have been able to experience "spring" for a few days here in Logan this Monday and Tuesday, finally!  I spent most of Monday outside enjoying the sun and playing football and frisbee (which caused me to spend all of Tuesday and today incredibly sore) and a lot of Tuesday sitting out on a blanket reading a book.  It was wonderful.   I also went and saw "Monsters vs. Aliens" Tuesday night, which was a really funny movie I must say.  Other than that I haven't done anything very exciting, just school and taking Computer Literacy tests so I can graduate when the time comes.  Which, speaking of, I totally got 100% on my Document Processing computer test (meaning I can correctly and efficiently use Microsoft Word 2007, woot!).  Right now I'm waiting to see what I got on my Power Point test, hopefully I will do just as good.  Well, that's about all the news I have, sadly.  I'll try to do something more exciting this next week so that my next post will be full of action packed fun like sky diving or snorkeling in Maui, but, as with my hope that my little car won't die and my parents will suddenly realize I should get it rather then Bradley, I don't think it will actually happen.  :) 

Things I (Kajsa) have learned at college

So this is my first post on our blog, and it is also my turn to share my top twenty things that I have learned at college. They will probably wont be as entertaining as Mel's but try and bare with me...

1. It is harder than I imagined
2. It never works to study with a guy you never accomplish ANYTHING
3. Always have a plan... without it nothing will get done.
4. Actually go to class... this seems so unoriginal yet it really helps your grade plus you are paying thousands of dollars for them so you might not want to waste your money.
5. Get involved in everything you can, it makes life a lot more entertaining
6. Everytime you go home raid the food storage, it saves a lot of money
7. Cherish Saturday mornings they are the only chance you will have to sleep in
8. Don't buy any treats and you won't be tempted to eat them if they aren't there.
9. Have tons of clothes because laundry is way over priced and takes too much time
10. Have a small room, because then it will always be clean cause if it wasn't you couldn't go in it.
11. Go to any function with food, that is one less meal you have to plan
12. Learn what isles at the store to avoid so you don't spend more money
13. You will never actually finish all of your homework and so learn to have fun while you do it.
14. Find joy in the simple things in life, such as a cute boy smiling at you on campus. :)
15. Get to know your ward
16. Discover all of the short cuts through buildings, for those days that you are running late to class.
17. Learn to sleep through anything, saves you when your roomates are watching movies till two am
18. Always find time to excersize... helps to avoid the freshman fifteen
19. Things are never as bad as they seem, just relax and take things one day at a time
20. College students are just big kids trying to learn how to be adults... is it working? probably not. :)

Well there is a taste of a few things I have learned at school. As you can see Melanie and I have had completely different experiences even though we lived in the same room, but I am sure we will both remember this year as a great one at least I feel that I have grown a person. It has definetely been a challenge for me, but as the year is coming to an end I can look back at everything and I realize that none of it was really as bad as it seemed at the time, and I am really excited about the future and the many lessons that are to come with it. (wow what I am I even talking about it isn't like the year is really over yet, we still have the worst week to come.) oh joy!

Things I've Learned at College

Here are my (Melanie's) things that I've learned since being at college (none of which are related to classes):

1- If you are running late to class, the bus will be running late also

2- When a bus is absolutely jam-packed, the bus driver's favorite phrase becomes, "Push back and get close, we can squeeze a few more on."  

3- If you ask a boy what he's majoring in it will almost always be Engineering

4- If you ask a girl what she's majoring in it will almost always be Elementary Ed

5- If you aren't majoring in Engineering or Elementary Ed you are in the minority

6- There is absolutely nothing to do in Logan

7- Finals Week is one of the worst things ever invented, who wants to have a whole week dedicated to studying and tests?

8- Spring is a non-existent season in Logan

9- Even if there is a church right across the street from you, because you're in the singles ward they will send you to a church 15 minutes away

10- College students are pros at finding free things, and you'd be surprised at the things you can get for free

11- People who live in housing that's considered "off-campus" can be closer to the actual campus than some of us in housing considered "on-campus" 

12- Forgetting your debit card at a ski lodge is bad

13- Red-box movies and $5 pizza make a good date

14- One of the most popular forms of entertainment is Wednesday night Country Swing Dancing 

15- If you don't go to Country Swing Dancing those who do go will feel the need to convert you into going

16- Make sure you always turn off the oven

17- The popular time for fire drills is 1 am

18- Going jeeping in the snow at 11 pm and getting stuck is quite the way to spend a Friday evening

19- Boys are just as confusing in college as they were in jr. high

20- Enough sleep is harder to get then an A in a class

We Succumbed to the Pressure...

So our roommate Jamie was pressuring us into getting a blog. Actually, this is what Kajsa says Jamie was doing, I have no recollection of any pressure on Jamie's part. After laughing about it for awhile we decided to get one together. Mainly because Facebook was getting boring and we had nothing else to do on this Wednesday evening. Finally after many struggles since we're both sooo computer savvy (not) this is what we came up with. And since we live together (roommates) we figured it would work well. But when we move away, and Kajsa gets married, and I can finally type this without her changing everything I say, we will try to keep it updated sort of alone/together-ish. Anyway, hopefully by the way we talk you will understand who's writing each time. (This time it's Melanie... with imputs from Kajsa, usually that involve hitting my arm and yelling "Don't put that!") So, thank you for reading our first attempt, maybe we'll get better at it as we go along, I don't give any guarantee on that though. :)