Alright, so today at 1:14 p.m. I finished my final final for high school ever!
It was a calculus final, blegh, and NOT fun at all! But it is now over, for better or for worse it is now over and I'm fairly certain that I passed my calculus class (with an A is something I'm less sure about, but what can you do?)
Can I just say that it is such a relief to have that over with? Such a weight off my mind to know that that's done. I'm not graduated from high school yet- that happens on Thursday (and trust me, a blog will be forthcoming on that great day!) but to know that I'm so done with high school finals FORVER! Ah, it's great!
I mean, this Calculus final was a BEAST! There were dirivatives, and crazy things about L'hopitals Rule (He's some French guy...) and optimization, and a problem about Bonker Noselwang Brinkerheinz who was giving Marshall Dillon down in Dodge City a run for his money fighting crime so he locked them up in a cell. Unfortunately the people against the unethical treatment of good guys named Bonker Noselwang Brinkerheinz (or PATUTOGGNBNB for short) were very against this so he had to build this cell using only a certain amount of materials and yet still make it big enough--actually this was one of my favorite problems, even just reading it was so much fun! Dad sure does get creative. And Newtons Method and implicit differation...yeah. For all of you people who have no idea what this is, count your blessings. I wish I didn't know either. Haha- you shouldn't ever have to know how to divide by zero.
Anyway, I didn't really mean to get off on that tangent, it just kind of happened...I think it's a half a year of calculus all pent up inside, just waiting to get out! And now it can! I can forget everything I learned--trust me, when I get back from my vacation I plan on having a nice bonfire and burning all those math notes and english papers, and government and citizenship pages...well, maybe I'll do it before I leave.
Ah, sweet satisfaction. Such joy...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
Family!!!
Alright, I know you all know, but family is so very astronomically important!
I have 8 older brothers and sisters, 3 brothers and 5 sisters. Of these for the past year I've kept in touch regularly with 7 of them. I have one older brother, the black sheep of the family if you will, that I hadn't talked to in a while. In fact no one in our family has--my sisters would try to call him and he wouldn't return the calls. After a while I think that pretty much everyone gave up to an extent.
Well, this last Tuesday I started texting his step-daughter, my niece, who I had a pretty good reputation with. Then I decided to try and give Ryan a call (which I had never actually tried) and see if he'd answer. Well, at first he didn't and I was a little disappointed, but not too suprised.
Then, on Thursday night he called me back! I was so excited!! He called and we talked for about 30 seconds but he was at work and I was cleaning so we informed each other that we had text and we started texting each other.
I was so happy to talk to him again! It feels like a small part of me that has been a little missing is back--it just feels right to have three brothers again when I know I was supposed to have three.
So we texted most of the night while we were at work, just talking about how life was going and catching up on things. He is in the army and he is going overseas soon, so he was especially glad that he got a chance to talk to me now, just in case things don't go well over there. (I definately hope they do! They should be alright!)
He learned that I would be in Washington, where he lives, around his birthday time and he got so excited! We made some tentative, maybe-ish, plans to see him (I still need to talk to you Val--I plan on calling you today) and he was just so happy.
It turns out that he was missing me, and family in general, as much-if not more- as I was missing him.
I look forward to talking to him some more and catching up on lost time! Especially before he leaves.
I have 8 older brothers and sisters, 3 brothers and 5 sisters. Of these for the past year I've kept in touch regularly with 7 of them. I have one older brother, the black sheep of the family if you will, that I hadn't talked to in a while. In fact no one in our family has--my sisters would try to call him and he wouldn't return the calls. After a while I think that pretty much everyone gave up to an extent.
Well, this last Tuesday I started texting his step-daughter, my niece, who I had a pretty good reputation with. Then I decided to try and give Ryan a call (which I had never actually tried) and see if he'd answer. Well, at first he didn't and I was a little disappointed, but not too suprised.
Then, on Thursday night he called me back! I was so excited!! He called and we talked for about 30 seconds but he was at work and I was cleaning so we informed each other that we had text and we started texting each other.
I was so happy to talk to him again! It feels like a small part of me that has been a little missing is back--it just feels right to have three brothers again when I know I was supposed to have three.
So we texted most of the night while we were at work, just talking about how life was going and catching up on things. He is in the army and he is going overseas soon, so he was especially glad that he got a chance to talk to me now, just in case things don't go well over there. (I definately hope they do! They should be alright!)
He learned that I would be in Washington, where he lives, around his birthday time and he got so excited! We made some tentative, maybe-ish, plans to see him (I still need to talk to you Val--I plan on calling you today) and he was just so happy.
It turns out that he was missing me, and family in general, as much-if not more- as I was missing him.
I look forward to talking to him some more and catching up on lost time! Especially before he leaves.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Christmas Favorites
5 Favorite Christmas Songs:
1) The Christmas Song
2) The Little Drummer Boy and Peace on Earth (The duet one with David Bowie and Bing Crosby)
3) Oh Holy Night
4) Walking in a Winter Wonderland
5) Angels we Have Heard on High
5 Favorite Christmas Movies:
1) Miracle on 34th Street
2) The Bishops' Wife
3) It's a Wonderful Life
4) Elf
5) Home Alone 2
5 Favorite Christmas treats:
1) Candy Canes
2) Fudge of any variety
3) Hot Chocolate
4) Gingerbread
5) Goldrush Brownies
5 Favorite Christmas memories:
1) Watching my sister wish a spider a very "Merry Christmas"
2) Laughing at my dad as he told us about the seam of his wrapped present that was hidden so well
3) Watching a Muppets Christmas Carol every Christmas Eve (we generally watch it one or two times beforehand too, but we try not to because it gets us too excited for Christmas! Honestly who wouldn't be excited after listening to "One more sleep 'till Christmas"?)
4) Always waking up to find an orange in the toe of my stocking
5) Waking up to my niece patiently tapping my nose. As she saw that I opened my eyes she said, "Merry Christmas Auntie Bonnie- now wake up! We need to get downstairs before Uncle Thom does, he said he'd steal my presents so I'm going to hide his" (Not that we did...but the thought was there)
5 People I tag:
Well, actually most of the people I would have tagged have already been tagged or tagged me, so I'll just tag two...
1) Steph
2) Val
1) The Christmas Song
2) The Little Drummer Boy and Peace on Earth (The duet one with David Bowie and Bing Crosby)
3) Oh Holy Night
4) Walking in a Winter Wonderland
5) Angels we Have Heard on High
5 Favorite Christmas Movies:
1) Miracle on 34th Street
2) The Bishops' Wife
3) It's a Wonderful Life
4) Elf
5) Home Alone 2
5 Favorite Christmas treats:
1) Candy Canes
2) Fudge of any variety
3) Hot Chocolate
4) Gingerbread
5) Goldrush Brownies
5 Favorite Christmas memories:
1) Watching my sister wish a spider a very "Merry Christmas"
2) Laughing at my dad as he told us about the seam of his wrapped present that was hidden so well
3) Watching a Muppets Christmas Carol every Christmas Eve (we generally watch it one or two times beforehand too, but we try not to because it gets us too excited for Christmas! Honestly who wouldn't be excited after listening to "One more sleep 'till Christmas"?)
4) Always waking up to find an orange in the toe of my stocking
5) Waking up to my niece patiently tapping my nose. As she saw that I opened my eyes she said, "Merry Christmas Auntie Bonnie- now wake up! We need to get downstairs before Uncle Thom does, he said he'd steal my presents so I'm going to hide his" (Not that we did...but the thought was there)
5 People I tag:
Well, actually most of the people I would have tagged have already been tagged or tagged me, so I'll just tag two...
1) Steph
2) Val
The letter "I"
So, a couple of days ago on my keyboard at home there was something stuck underneath the letter "i". And because it was something fairly large (I think it was the tip of a colored pencil) I couldn't push the button far enough down for it to register that it should type and so I was i-less while trying to do my homework. And I had never really realized until that day how important this letter is in the English language. Already in this paragraph I've used 29 i's.
I was trying to write an e-mail to my sister and I had to compose an entire missive without i's (which, although quite challenging, was actually rather enjoyable, I suggest you try it sometime) and the whole time I was thinking to myself, "What is up with this? "I" just isn't that important. But it is.
Because I had somehow gotten onto this train of thought I started doing some research about i's, so you, poor poor reader, now get to learn everything that I learned about this letter. Although you probably already knew some of it. :)
~I is the 9th letter in the English alphabet
~The dot that is over the lower case i is called a tittle (the dot over the j is called a jot)
~Most often when i is written in code they use numbers to represent it instead of other letters or symbols as they do for other letters of the alphabet
~When people are playing word games or games with the alphabet the first words that generally come to their mind for i are ice cream and igloo (why do we associate cold things with i? that's just my question)
~Unless the alphabet game is animal-based and then the animal that people almost always choose is "iguana"
~I is the 5th most commonly used letter in the English alphabet (after e, t, a, and o)
Yeah, sorry I made you sit through that, but for some reason this last week 'i' has taken a special hold in my brain and I thought that if maybe I got it out, it would leave me alone. Let's hope it works. :)
I was trying to write an e-mail to my sister and I had to compose an entire missive without i's (which, although quite challenging, was actually rather enjoyable, I suggest you try it sometime) and the whole time I was thinking to myself, "What is up with this? "I" just isn't that important. But it is.
Because I had somehow gotten onto this train of thought I started doing some research about i's, so you, poor poor reader, now get to learn everything that I learned about this letter. Although you probably already knew some of it. :)
~I is the 9th letter in the English alphabet
~The dot that is over the lower case i is called a tittle (the dot over the j is called a jot)
~Most often when i is written in code they use numbers to represent it instead of other letters or symbols as they do for other letters of the alphabet
~When people are playing word games or games with the alphabet the first words that generally come to their mind for i are ice cream and igloo (why do we associate cold things with i? that's just my question)
~Unless the alphabet game is animal-based and then the animal that people almost always choose is "iguana"
~I is the 5th most commonly used letter in the English alphabet (after e, t, a, and o)
Yeah, sorry I made you sit through that, but for some reason this last week 'i' has taken a special hold in my brain and I thought that if maybe I got it out, it would leave me alone. Let's hope it works. :)
Saturday, December 6, 2008
I'm so glad I'm LDS!
On Thursday night I got a great chance to go to my friend- Tiffanys- Baptist Dinner Theater Play. It was a lovely play, really it was. Tiffany was the perfect Mary and her friend Nate made a great Joseph. There was so nice upbeat music, some nice slower music, and it really was a great rendition of the age-old Christmas story.
But it was missing that feeling. You know, the spirit just wasn't the same. I didn't really get goosebumps or get that warm and tickly feeling in my soul. I didn't actually get any feeling except for a "Hey, I kind of like this song"
And the way Baptists pray is so different. They pray like they would talk to a casual neighbor. I know that Heavenly Father is our father, but still I always try to make it something more sacred than casual, because prayer is something that is more sacred and not casual.
Don't get me wrong, all the Baptists that I know are really great people, and I'm glad I got to go--but this experience just made me realize by leaps and bounds how glad I am to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and how happy I am to have the truth.
The gospel really is like a happy pill, one that never goes away and never runs out and never changes. How lucky are we?
But it was missing that feeling. You know, the spirit just wasn't the same. I didn't really get goosebumps or get that warm and tickly feeling in my soul. I didn't actually get any feeling except for a "Hey, I kind of like this song"
And the way Baptists pray is so different. They pray like they would talk to a casual neighbor. I know that Heavenly Father is our father, but still I always try to make it something more sacred than casual, because prayer is something that is more sacred and not casual.
Don't get me wrong, all the Baptists that I know are really great people, and I'm glad I got to go--but this experience just made me realize by leaps and bounds how glad I am to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and how happy I am to have the truth.
The gospel really is like a happy pill, one that never goes away and never runs out and never changes. How lucky are we?
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Changes
So...I'm leaving town soon (most of you who actually read this know that already)
I'm going up to Washington state, shortly after the wonderful Christmas season. So let me add another thing to that list of things and changes that December will bring about--a change of address.
It won't be for long, most likely just around a month but it will be nice. Very nice. No children (although I do love the little angels :) ) no job to have to worry about, just kind of lazing around for a month. Taking a vacation.
And yet I'm still a little scared. I don't know why, this isn't anything I haven't done before. I go up to Washington every year, and it's not as if I'm going to alone, I'm staying with my loving sister and her husband, but I'm still a little scared.
Maybe it's because for some reason this just seems so final. I know it's not, but it seems to be. That and I have absolutely no clue what I'll do afterwards. Of course I've been kind of playing it by ear since around September.
I find it a little ironic that my senior year was when my world fell apart around me. I used to have it so together--I had a nice little plan to last me for a while. I knew what I wanted to do, when I wanted to do it, even where I wanted to do it and now? Yeah I have no idea.
Everything that seemed so certain, so black and white has turned to gray. What do you even do when you get to this point?
Well, I'm hoping that Washington will help me find my answer. I generally find that when I go up to Washington my head clears and things become simpler, I'm hoping for that!
I'll miss Utah though, some parts of it I will most definately miss.
But it's not forever!
Life changes so fast! So fast...
I'm going up to Washington state, shortly after the wonderful Christmas season. So let me add another thing to that list of things and changes that December will bring about--a change of address.
It won't be for long, most likely just around a month but it will be nice. Very nice. No children (although I do love the little angels :) ) no job to have to worry about, just kind of lazing around for a month. Taking a vacation.
And yet I'm still a little scared. I don't know why, this isn't anything I haven't done before. I go up to Washington every year, and it's not as if I'm going to alone, I'm staying with my loving sister and her husband, but I'm still a little scared.
Maybe it's because for some reason this just seems so final. I know it's not, but it seems to be. That and I have absolutely no clue what I'll do afterwards. Of course I've been kind of playing it by ear since around September.
I find it a little ironic that my senior year was when my world fell apart around me. I used to have it so together--I had a nice little plan to last me for a while. I knew what I wanted to do, when I wanted to do it, even where I wanted to do it and now? Yeah I have no idea.
Everything that seemed so certain, so black and white has turned to gray. What do you even do when you get to this point?
Well, I'm hoping that Washington will help me find my answer. I generally find that when I go up to Washington my head clears and things become simpler, I'm hoping for that!
I'll miss Utah though, some parts of it I will most definately miss.
But it's not forever!
Life changes so fast! So fast...
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
A month of change
Yeah, I was really trying to get this post up yesterday so it would be the whole month of change on the first of December and it would have been all cool and such...but yeah, yesterday didn't turn out quite the way I planned so now it's a month of change beginning the second...not as cool I know but what can you do?
This month I will:
~Graduate from high school (and I'm pretty sure that qualifies as a major step in most anyones life)
~Decide (fingers crossed) which college I'm going to, when, how I'm going to pay for it, and where I'll be living
~Probably leave and go up to Washington, at least for a little while if not for longer, and take a little vacation
~And of course I will celebrate Christmas with all the love and spirit that I know how too!
December is one of my favorite months of the year! It just seems the time for growth, love, and spiritual reboosts. Everyone is in a giving, sweet mood due to the holiday of love and giving and everyone has their thoughts turn to Christ more and more often.
It is the month of change, of fulfillment, and of perspective clearing and hope.
Really it's probably one of my most favorite months (I'm afraid it can't quite beat out some fall months because I just love those colors! All December has going for it in that perspective is snow, and really it hasn't even done that yet! What's it's problem?) and I love that this is the month that my life will change, to some degree, for forever.
Oh! I'm so excited!
And the other thing December has going for it is the Muppet Christmas Carol, I do love that movie! But I can't watch it in any other month besides December really because then I get far to excited for Christmas, but that movie is amazing! The songs, the words, the Muppets...
Happy December to all!
This month I will:
~Graduate from high school (and I'm pretty sure that qualifies as a major step in most anyones life)
~Decide (fingers crossed) which college I'm going to, when, how I'm going to pay for it, and where I'll be living
~Probably leave and go up to Washington, at least for a little while if not for longer, and take a little vacation
~And of course I will celebrate Christmas with all the love and spirit that I know how too!
December is one of my favorite months of the year! It just seems the time for growth, love, and spiritual reboosts. Everyone is in a giving, sweet mood due to the holiday of love and giving and everyone has their thoughts turn to Christ more and more often.
It is the month of change, of fulfillment, and of perspective clearing and hope.
Really it's probably one of my most favorite months (I'm afraid it can't quite beat out some fall months because I just love those colors! All December has going for it in that perspective is snow, and really it hasn't even done that yet! What's it's problem?) and I love that this is the month that my life will change, to some degree, for forever.
Oh! I'm so excited!
And the other thing December has going for it is the Muppet Christmas Carol, I do love that movie! But I can't watch it in any other month besides December really because then I get far to excited for Christmas, but that movie is amazing! The songs, the words, the Muppets...
Happy December to all!
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