Wow! Things are so great and yet not so great! Yesterday Jeff had a meningitis scare, but he's fine now. I had Mom cut off my awful hair and now it doesn't look bad. The funny thing is, Matt and I met for lunch downtown at Rowdy's Loco Amigoes, and I hadn't told him about the cut. When I pulled up, I saw that he had cut his as well! I was kind of disappointed because A. I wanted to cut his hair (he said that I could), and B. He always looks like an army boy after he cuts his hair. Any...

Phew, final exams are over! I am now doing much better, my laryngitis is gone. Matt and I have re-evaluated our relationship several times on account of me going on a date tomorrow. Apparently while we were talking things out yesterday, my mom eavesdropped, because last night she was practically interviewing me and it really annoyed me. Anyway, my earthquakes and volcanoes exam took an hour today and it was murder. I know that I should have studied more, but I felt like it was useless si...

So, I got this email from some dude with Church Curriculum. He said that they liked my writing style and thought it would be good for the New Era, and that I should do a service mission with them. If I can't do that, he said, I should apply next year for sure. They like graduate students. I wrote back, but I think it will have to depend on how flexible they are and how many hours a week it would be. They are really flexible with the service missionaries at the FHL. Saturday would have be...

I went to the dentist, and the assistant asked me if I ate a lot of chocolate, then scraped all of that gross goober off. Ron said I might want to go to a periodontist to check on my lower gums. Then I talked to him the whole time in German and he talked about Mom and we tried to get her to figure out just one phrase, but she couldn't. Don't you hate when you're mad at yourself because you're mad about something that you shouldn't be mad about? Yeah, well, Charla has these little things i...

So I just got an email that I'm not getting the chance to have an interview for the Ensign. That's disappointing in ways (of course, hard on the worth of writing samples in a portfolio), but in other ways it's very relieving. Now I will have time to take classes and hang out with my family, while only working three days a week! Sweet. Anyway, I just saw my high school English teacher here at the library. She has a baby now. Whoa. She's a cute baby, too. I was glad that I was able to h...

I've been stressing because my counselor let me know that I could not graduate and go to Boston in the same semester. I tried to figure out ways, but it was just too close to call, because of a residency requirement. So I think that the plan now is to graduate in the summer and either work there with an internship, or find one here, or start grad school there. Then I can go on a mission in the spring! Wahoo! On Thanksgiving, Mom took me to Shopko and bought me a coat that was on sale f...

Is it just me or do coffee drinkers smell from the coffee? Eeeeew! So, I need to work harder on school. Help me! I think I need to get my grade up in several classes (from a B or B+, but still). One of my teachers says he doesn't give As. I've worked really hard in that class, and he has to cancel it all the time. I don't think that's fair that he can't dedicate his time when we do, and he still can't give us the grades we deserve. On Saturday, I left the FHL to drive to Clay's hou...

There are so many things that I think about doing if I had more time in which to do them. I've been thinking of quitting one of my jobs early (it ends in December anyway) so that I can have more time to dedicate to the things that matter, but I love the people there! It seems so much more worth it, but my mom reminds me that I owe Dad money. Yikes! Last night, I asked him if I could pay it back slowly as a loan. He said, "Only if you stop bugging me about my zits". Hee hee. Then he stu...

Lena expressed her concerns to me at Cousin’s Day about Amy deciding to change her dress. I told Mom and she talked to Lena about it, and so now she needs to resew the parts she unpicked (luckily she hadn’t cut yet), AND . . . find a dress for Amy before pictures on Monday! However, Amy is in CANADA until Saturday night. Hmmmm . . . So, Mom took me wedding dress shopping with her for AMY, since I am about the same size. I tried on so many. Sadly, the first three or more stores we went to...

So much has happened lately that I absolutely have to write about it. I guess I will just put them in little stories. I helped Matt choose a paint color to go with the circus red carpet he chose for the home theater he was building where the climbing room used to be. When I first saw the carpet, I seriously doubted that anything would go well with it. We grabbed paint samples that looked like the color of the couch and the carpet he chose, and held them up to all sorts of colors. His m...

So I leave for study abroad in Germany in 13 days! YIIIIKES! It kind of gives me butterflies in my stomach when I think about it. I sent my host family a letter this week, so I hope they will get it soon and email me, because I do not have their email address and I would like to be more sure about how to get to their home once I arrive in Kiel (if I can find the bus at the airport in Hamburg). I think the main thing that scares me is awkwardness which goes hand in hand with making a fool ...

Matt is in Vegas. I need to talk to him. I saw a cartoon today of a cat with his tail in one of those walls they have in Holland to keep back the water, and a kid is walking by, turned toward the cat, who is saying, "Hey kid, got a minute?" I had to explain it to my coworker. I finally got a hold of Mike Bourne's family to ask for his address, and his mom said, "Aren't you off and married?" When I said no, she was so excited. She kept saying, "That's so great! Well, for Mike! Yay!...

It's been a lot longer than I thought since I last wrote! Time flies when you have none. Ha. I've been working and working at my other job and working at my OTHER job, and then hanging out with Matt for a couple of hours, then sleeping, then working again, etc. This week I was lucky because I got a few hours off in between jobs and I cleaned my room a little, brought some stuff to the dry cleaners, and did some laundry. I'm more used to the idea of Amy getting married while I'm gone now....

Matt made noodles and put them in his own version of Beef Stroganoff, then brought it to my work for me to eat! Wow, it was so good! MMMM! The noodles were chewy and thick and so good! He's really into spoiling me. We went on a nice hike this week and I can see a change in him that I really love. It's making me want to look at him and just smile. The other night, I flipped because of a spider, and my mom flipped at me. First off: it was late at

Yesterday Matt and I transplanted the pumpkins seedlings into his garden. There were a lot of ants around and so he sprayed them. I hope they won't come back and bug the plants. Today we tried to transplant the carrots, but realized it was a bad idea to start them in a planter first. There are too many and they are too small to transplant, so they just ended up in a big mess. Matt replanted some seeds and we hope some of the seedlings will revive themselves. This morning I turned in my ...