Argh!!!!!!

I am so frustrated!!! I just found out today that the mail man has not been giving me my mail! I am soo upset. I had had a suspicion cause it has been 2 weeks since anything with my name on it has come out of our mail box. But this morning I looked online to see why my textbooks hadn't come yet and that is when I found out that the Postal Service has no clue that I reside in my own apartment. The text books I bought 2 weeks ago were sent to back to the sellers because the mail man just decided not to put the mail in the little box the packages told him to put it in! I am so frustrated!!!!!!!!!! Cause now I have to contact all the sellers, see if they will send it back to me, and some how make sure that I start getting my mail again. It wouldn't be so bad if I knew how to fix it all, but I don't know how to make it better. I did however write a little note to the mail man in hopes that he will start giving me my mail again and knows that still live in the same place! I guess life wouldn't be interesting if we didn't have problems.

First Week of School

I LOVE FLAGSTAFF! It is the best place in the world. The weather is just wonderful right now. I am getting along great with my roommates and I have money! I got $2,600 from FAFSA this semester, $300 was spent on stupid NAU fees, then I spent about $200 on books and $100 on other things like school supplies and food. But I have about $2,ooo left to do with as I please!!!!! So I bout my self a camera! :D I also took a day off of work. The plan is to save it all for emergencies but we will see how that goes :P

This semester there are 6 of us living in once tiny apartment. So far so good, no one has been killed yet so things are going pretty good. I get my own room this semester but you can hardly call it a room. The roof slants so one of my walls is about 2ft high but I am not complaining cause I have my own little space.

For the most part my classes seem like they are going to be pretty easy. I have a statistics class, a computer programing class, two education classes and then a Math class of pure agony! MAT 320W-Foundations of math. Not only is it my junior level writing requirement but it is a proof class. I know 4 people in my class who are taking it again this semester cause the dropped out last semester. My goal for these next 3 months is to pass this class! We are going to have 20pt quizzes every Wednesday and the first week of school was no exception. We only had one day of class before he was testing us!!!! INSANE! The very first day the professor redefined the meaning of a sentence. In case you were wondering a sentence is either true or false. There is no room for opinions in the language of mathematics.

I also am going to be an SI this semester. I am not sure all the details yet but I will go to a MAT 114 class (Quantitative Reasoning) and get to know the material. Then I will hold a session where all the little freshman (who are only a year younger than me) will come and get me to help them on their math HW. Sounds like fun! It will actually be something I can put on my resume so that when I am trying to get a job as a teacher, in 2 years, I can have more to put then "I worked at Jamba Juice!!!"

Oh and how pathetic am I? It is my first real weekend in Flag, my first Friday NOT at work, and I am sitting at home alone. :(

Below is my lovely half room. Notice how the far wall in only a few feet high. I also have my very own TV and DVD player so I can watch movies whenever I want (I doubt that will ever happen but it is there just in case). I also keep my bathroom stuff on my dresser cause there are four of us sharing one bathroom!

This is my beautiful new camera that I bought with my awesome government money. It is water proof and ironically is the same camera Joseph bought this summer before he left. I liked it so much I bought myself one! The best part is that the green one was $10 cheaper than the black one and $15 cheaper than hot pink! :D

My beautiful new hair style, a box die from Walmart and an amazing cut from Mindy :P I have had SO many complements on it. MINDY IS THE BEST!

Doodles

So these are my amazing doodles, the only semi exciting biproduct of my summer school classI know I am really weird! But at least this all gave me an escape from that awful professors voice

You would not believe how much pencil I got all over my hand doing these two. The best is when I would come back from class with pencil all over my forehead!Just in case you ever wondering, all those circles are on the front page of the packet our professor passed out for us to take notes on...I erased the little notes I did have :D

This one is one of my favorites! I like all the hearts.

This one I actually started up in Flag right before finals and then just finished it in my boring summer school!

:D

I just finished my last day of summer school and thought it a momentous occasion worth mentioning on my pathetically neglected blog. It was a rotten boring class, that was way too easy to merit my full attention. I studied for about a 1/2 an hour before every test and never got below a 95%. I am just happy it was in the summer and was only 5 weeks instead of the average 3 1/2 months...although it didn't feel accelerated. I did however manage to cover many pieces of paper with pointless designs. I should scan them and put them up before I throw them away. That way I can look back and remember what I learned this summer; Colleges don't have your best interests in mind, all they really want is your money! As long as you put up with their fake smiles, jump through the hopes in their hands and pay to do it, you can get a degree! And in my case after I get that degree I can be the one that holds a hoop in my hand bearing a cheesy smile watching those little High School kids jump as high as they can, making their quest for success just as painful as mine was! :D

Summer!

First off I know, long time no blog. So there is no way humanly possible that I could catch up on everything so I am just going to put up some of the pictures I have taken this summer. That is all I can think of as a fast and easy update.

Lindsey, her kids and I all took a walk to Good Will (you know while they still lived at Dads house). Anne looks so cute walking all by herself with out a care in the world. :D

Lindsey was checking out and I was really board of shopping so I took Rachel to the hats and we took lots of pictures with different goofy hats! :D It was lots of fun!!!!

Emma looked too cute up on the fire place holding the puppy so I just HAD to take a picture.

And this, of course, is me and Joseph. We were at the Marcos Graduation and it just so happened to be raining! Weird that that would happen two years in a row when the norm is 100 for last Aug. Silly Joseph got really really cold and we couldn't stay to say hi to all our friends on the field cause he was almost convulsing cause he was so cold! :D

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I GOT A 99% ON MY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS TEST!!!!!!!!!! I MIGHT ACTUALLY PASS THE CLASS!!!!!! :D

Almost there...

I am almost done with classes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't even believe it. I have two more weeks of classes and then three days of finals and then I am headed back to the valley where I will have to find a job QUICK so I can make enough money to pay for my two summer classes. I am not sure where I will be living but I have 3 weeks to figure it out. Hopefully I will be able to pass all of my classes...it would not be fun at all if I had to retake Differential Equations or Modern geometry. Every other class I won't fail, it is just math that is giving me a hard time. Funny, not something extremely common for a math major....
In other news, for those of you who don't know, Karl Andersen left for his mission on Wednesday. I am sad that he lives so far away, I didn't get to see him before he left :(
Spring Break was so much fun and well needed. I stayed with Dallas and Natalie for a day, I got to go to the beach with Dad and Lindsey, I went spelunking with Mom, and I even got to spend the night with Afton and Mindy. But when we went to the beach I stepped on tar. And when we were in the cave I broke my camera!! Not cool!

Easter was ok. I think this is the first Easter my whole life where I haven't gone to see the Easter pageant!!!! Sad, so sad. The best part is that the whole family went with out me. I was not very happy about that :/ Oh! and I didn't even get candy! LAME!!!!!!
I made surprise cupcakes for my roommate Lanae for he birthday this past week. Everyone loved them and it made me feel special.
On Thursday I will be teaching again, but this time I will be teaching math to 7th graders at the Jr. High and then 20 mins later be at the Elementary teaching a chemistry lesson to the 5th graders. It is going to be a crazy day! I hope it doesn't make me too stressed. But that is the last crazy thing I have to do before finals.

I think that is all the random tid bits I can think of right now. Time for pictures!

Lindsey had a lot of fun playing in the sand with her girls. Rachel couldn't have been happier but Anne was deathly afraid of the ocean! This was the closest I could get her to the water. I asked her to but a feather in the sand castle, that was too much for her! She spent the rest of the day with Dad a safe distance away from the scary water. I love the concerned look on her face in this picture! It is so cute!

Precious Anne, safely far away from the water.

These are really...tender. I love the one of dad giving the cookie to Anne and all you can see is her little hand! SO CUTE!

Beautiful Hans on his 14th birthday. We found a hollow tree and it was just to much fun! I think they are happy mostly because at this point we had found our way out. I didn't even count how many times we turned around in that cave.
Have I ever mentioned that I LOVE MY FAMILY!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?! :D