Hot Springs

On the way down to St. George, Tyler, Lauren and I stopped at these fabulous hot springs in Meadow. They are privately owned, and there are no signs for how to get there, but they must be listed somewhere online maybe, because Tyler and his friend once saw two naked Europeans there.... but otherwise, you kind of need to know someone who knows how to get there.
Anyway, as you can tell by the picture of Tyler in the water, they are perfectly clear and steamy hot. What you can't tell by the picture is that they are also a mile deep. Tyler was smart to tell me only after we had gotten out that a scuba diver had died in them because he went too far down and ran out of oxygen. He was also smart not to tell Lauren at all :)
This was such a fun idea, even though we were freezing as soon as we got out and cars kept pulling up while Lauren and I were trying to change outside the car, I am going back asap! Oh and we also got burgers on the way home, which were delicious and I put that picture up of Tyler eating one because I love it when a boy has a hardy appetite. And plus, he is good looking even when he eating.... :)

Hair!

I did it! I achieved my goal of being blonde for nine months, and now I am back to dark hair :) I really like it though it definitely took some getting used to. Shout out to Meredith Beesley who was my stylist on the project, and who is also an awesome visiting teachee! Also, for the most recent fabulous news of my life, please see Andrea and Adam Alba's blog, which is linked on the right...

Lost and Found

I have spent much of my life living in a constant state of clutter. Don't get me wrong, I knew where things were in which pile, on which flat surface, and I knew where the most likely places were that I had put that certain something. I just had to spend a certain amount of time looking. As a result, I am very used to losing/misplacing things and then finding them eventually because as everyone knows, clutter kind of rotates through in a kind of slow cyclical pattern.... Its great cause I never freak out when I can't find something. I either keep looking or wait for it to turn up. For example, I currently have no idea where my drivers license is. Am I worried? Not really.

As I have gotten older and have a lot less space to live in, it has become important to me to keep my living areas less cluttered because being clutter free makes a room feel more spacious. I now truly appreciate being able to see my floor, and the surfaces of my desk, dresser, and other flat surfaces normally covered in stacks of books and papers and piles of clothes. I have become more organized. I am a master at packing my room like a ship. For example, I have four large plastic tubs under my raised bed, and smaller plastic tubs stacked in the closet. And after losing important papers such as my passport and social security card several times, I am finally using a file folder for important documents. I have gotten to the point where I actually put things away.

But the kicker is that amazingly, I still manage to lose things on regular basis! For example, I "lost" a pair of pants I had recently purchased and spent twenty minutes looking everywhere in my apartment, never imagining that the pants would be hanging neatly in the closet exactly where they were supposed to be. Also, I had been missing my patriarchal blessing since I moved two months ago until this past weekend. Who would have thought that it would be where it was supposed to be, clearly visible in my file folder? I had looked everywhere!

It just amazes me that leading a more "organized" and less cluttered life has proved to be ironically inefficient. I still spend a lot of time looking for things. I guess I might adjust eventually to organized life, but in the meantime, I am officially surrendering to the fact that I am probably going to spend at least 1/30th of my life searching for things that may, or may not be actually missing.

I like the weekends

This week I took three tests, gave a presentation, and turned in an 8 page paper and completed two more rounds of the business simulation (my group is still kicking trash btw)! I am pretty proud of myself because I have been studying so much harder lately, and I did much better on these mid-terms than on the last ones! Yay me!

So....today is Saturday. And I have no definite plans, nothing pressing. And no school work that absolutely has to be done, and believe me, it has been a long time since that has happened, even on a Saturday. So I am going to the gym, going shopping, cleaning, and painting my toenails. And I will probably watch some T.V. and of course party tonight :) I am so excited!!

My new extra-curricular activity

Dear readers,

Its not officially official yet, but.... I am the new Purser for the BYU Sailing Club! I am not sure that I am officially in the BYU sailing club - I think my enrollment in the class automatically put me in it, but... Anyway! I think that it will be a good opportunity and a good thing to put on my resume! I am quite excited. Also there is going to be a formal event on Friday when I get inducted in :) I love dressing up!

This might be boring, but...

I feel like posting about my day for several reasons: 1) its been clipping along at an excellently productive pace. 2) Its a pretty typical day 3)BYU is pretty freaking amazing because you can do/experience so many different things in one day. Stop reading now if you aren't interested in the nitty grittys of my life.

7:25 Dragged myself out of bed. The only thing that got me out of bed this early was knowing that Tyler would be walking to campus in 20 mins and if I was going to campus soon anyway, I wanted to go with him. Using this incentive has been very effective lately in getting me to campus earlier :)
7:45 Out the door. Yes, I am amazing at getting ready fast. I can look half-way decent in that amount of time, so be jealous! hahaha
8:00 Spent 5 mins looking at the student art exhibit in the HFAC where Tyler's class was.
8:05 Studying for Managerial Economics
9:30 Got super tired so I took a nap on Tyler's shoulder
10:00 More studying for Man Ec, plus decisions for the product that I am managing in an industry simulation for my business strategy class.
11:40 Taco-bell. Cheap and warm and substantial and tasty. That's really all I care about.
12:00 Group meeting for the simulation.
12:30 Strategy class. My group ("company") is in second place in our industry! We rock
1:45 Met with the graduation counselor. I am officially leaving BYU in April, totally finished. But I have to take 16 credits next semester. Sigh.
2:00 8/10 on my Man Ec quiz. Dang my non-existent long-term memory.
3:20 Purchased snacks and a sandwich.
4:00 Went to the BYU welding department and convinced them to make me a cookie cutter type of a thing to the specifications of the sandwich I had purchased. This is all for my supply chain class. We are having a contest to improve the process of making PB&Js for the homeless. My group is going to win dang it. :) And I now love the welding department (which I wasn't even sure existed until today, even though I gambled and convinced my group to rework our process on something that I wasn't even sure I could get made... if BYU hadn't worked out I was completely prepared to go flirt with high school welding shop boys to get them to make it)- they are doing the job for free and its going to be done tomorrow.

The day is still young. I am now going to do Business Law reading for my test, go to Einstein Bagel with Tyler, come back to campus for another group meeting for the two different presentations we are giving this week, and then I am going to run home see if I can catch some FHE and then I after I am done deep cleaning the apartment for cleaning checks tomorrow I will crash until its time to wake up and do it again, but with a higher percentage of studying, and hopefully the gym thrown in there... I love my life!

Oh, and Tyler and I went to the formal homecoming dance over the weekend. We should be getting our pictures back tomorrow. I will post them as long as they turned out well... :)

My flight is booked

I just booked a flight to Kansas! I am going to visit Scootica with Lu and my mom on Oct. 15th! I am so excited!

In other random things I feel like sharing on my blog, I love my roommates. We ate pizza, and watched a movie last night, and it was a blast. I heart them! And pizza :)