Yay!

I got my scholarship! Hooray!!!

Things are gonna be just fine. At least for the next year. :/

Back In Virginia

In short I missed the plane and made one the next day. I got back last night around 10. After getting home I still had some stuff to do so I didn't make it to bed until almost 2am. Faraday hasn't left my side for a second the whole time I've been home, soooo cute!

Last night after getting home I cleaned a little, scrubbed the bathroom, pet the cat, and then got started on laundry. I planned it so that I would have to do very little laundry the last few weeks of school so I could save all my dirty laundry for when I got home. Unfortunately, I didn't plan on staying an extra day so not only did I stink and was in dire need of a shower, but I needed something clean to wear. So I started on laundry and did three loads last night and a few more today. Yes, I have a lot of clothes. Actually, though, they were small loads. I actually separated stuff like it's supposed to be separated, something I never do in Idaho.

I set three alarms for myself this morning to be sure I'd make it to church, but my body woke me up around 6am. I stayed awake for two hours, cleaned a bit more, did some more laundry, finished the bathroom, and then went back to bed for one more hour when my first alarm went off. I got up and all morning my other alarms were going off as well as me getting a phone call from my mom making sure I was awake.

I got to church. It actually hasn't really changed much except for the fact that all the little kids grew a foot and the babies are no longer itty bitty babies.

Got home, ate some food, watched TV, played around on the internet, cleaned off my bed (so tonight will be the first time in a week that I've slept in a bed!!), finished unpacking, repacked a little for Disney, etc.

Now I'm about to play a computer game I've been wanting to play for a while (Black and White). Then I'll go to bed. I probably should go to bed now, but I've been napping on and off all day. Surprisingly I think no matter how tired I am I can't sleep more than about two or three hours at a time.

Tomorrow I plan to go into the 'Burg to do some shopping both for food and some clothes. I'll go back to the bookstore like I promised, but I won't get my job back. I might stop by Manpower (the temp agency) if I can figure out where it is but I don't think I'll have much luck since when I called them last they said it usually takes a few weeks for the resume to go through and for you to actually get a job and I'll be gone in a few weeks.

Anyway, it's wonderful to be home. I missed my cat a lot. I love love LOVE having the house to myself and setting the temperature to exactly how I like it. I've actually had it off a good portion of the time I've been home (so you can't complain, parents!). I like it super hot and my dad likes it cold. Poor mom. Haha.

As much as I like the house to myself I'll be happy when my parents get home. It gets a little bit creepy and lonely here at night sometimes and I'm pretty bored. I guess I'll get back to that computer game! But there's the update!

Home. FINALLY!

Long story short I made it home a couple of hours ago. In one piece thanks to the Royal Family and our good friend Martha.

My bank account will be recovering from it for a while, but I'm home!

Story tomorrow. Maybe. If I'm awake. And if I feel like it. For now, unfortunately, I have to get enough laundry through so that I won't stink to death at church tomorrow. Assuming I can actually get myself up tomorrow. I set every alarm available to me, so we'll see how it goes. :)

Junior Status

You know how when you're a little kid and it's the last day of school, say maybe 5th grade, and on the last day of school you start saying "Yay! I'm officially a 6th grader now!" Even though that way of thinking is silly cuz you're not really a sixth grader until you begin sixth grade! But the last day of fifth grade it's just so exciting to say that! Well....

I'M OFFICIALLY A JUNIOR IN COLLEGE!!!

I just hit the submit button on my final for Humanities and am now done.

I'm at the library an this computer keyoard is a piee off rap beuse hlf the buttons you hvve to pratically slam down th button to understand wht I'm trying to say. I hatte th library keyoards.

So yeah, that last paragraph I just typed normally. I'm giving my fingers a workout typing on this dumb keyboard.

I'm putting my stuff in storage tonight so I have to be packed by 5. Long story. And then I'll have nothing to do all day tomorrow (boring!!!) and then I'll fly home!!! I'm so excited!

Anyway, I'm done with this keyboard, I'm going home. :)

What A Day!

I have a birthday party of a friend to go to tonight. Yay for cake! I think she'll be 21. They were going to see Harry Potter again too (they were there the same night we saw it on Wednesday) and I was invited but I decided to save the 9 bucks. That really is a lot for a movie. Darn theaters.

Wow, I'm super negative right now. I don't really mean to be. Hmmm... happier things...

DISNEY WORLD!!!

Okay, I'll admit, I have spent a good part of the day keeping my spirits high on Disney World. I've been reading blogs and message boards PLUS I got an email from Disney yesterday. It comforted me a lot because I've been worrying lately that something's going to happen and I won't get to go after all. It's just to good to be true.

I called my boss at the bookstore today to see if I could possibly work for the few weeks I'll be home. But first, she's not the GM anymore and second, she wasn't in anyway. Third, I doubt anyone would want to hire me for three weeks.

I only have three more days of classes. Classes for me end a day earlier than everyone else. Even though I'm switching apartments next year I found a place to store my extra stuff for free AND I got a friend from class to drive me to it.

I'm having trouble deciding what to bring home and what to leave. Considering I'll be living away from home again after going back home it's hard to decide. I'm going to leave my bed sheets and hope against hope that we have some decent ones at home I can take to Disney. I'm also unsure about my toaster. I looove my toaster, but I'm nervous for it to travel. But I loooove my toaster. Loooove it! My alarm clock I think I'll leave considering I think we have some at home and the front broke off my alarm clock last time I brought it out here last year. I'm thinking I'll actually leave a lot more than I originally planned. I guess it all depends on how much room I'll have in my suitcases. I haven't started packing yet. I don't plan to until Tuesday or Wednesday.

And that's about all! It hasn't really been a super busy day. Just sort of boring, a tad annoying/frustrating, and exciting since I've now hit less than a week until I'm HOME!!! Yay!!!

Beginning My Last Week

I love my bank here. The people are so friendly and easy to work with and they give me free stuff!

I've been working on eating down my food supply over the past few weeks but I think I judged a little bit wrong. Looks like I might be living off of oatmeal and rice for this last week of school. Although, my roommate's been awesome because she has loads of extra food AND she enjoys cooking a lot. She's been feeding me very well (well, actually we had a little deal thing going on so she sort of owes it to me, but I have a feeling she's overpaying me a bit, but hey! I'm not complaining!).

It turns out that my shuttle back home next Friday is the same shuttle my roommate will be on! Yay! I'll have someone to hang out with at the airport!

All I have left for the semester is a five page essay and a three page essay. I don't have to take one final exam, so I don't even have to go to class on the last two days of class for one of my classes. This means that as of WEDNESDAY at 12:15 I will be DONE with my sophomore year of college. Halfway through, baby! (oh, and for those that don't know, "technically" the last day of school is Thursday, that's why I'm so excited that I'll be done Wednesday)

In my free time I've, obviously, been obsessing over Disney World. Here's the latest:

I've been messing with Google Earth (as I think I said in a previous post) and found where I'm living and such. But yesterday I figured out where the nearest Walmarts are as well as the Marriott hotel (just in case!). Marriott happens to be within very close walking distance to where I'll be living. It's practically next door. There's also a Publix grocery store within walking distance, but everyone I know who's been there says not to shop there because it's ridiculously expensive.

I also found some pictures of my costume. Mostly, I'll probably be stuck in khaki shorts/pants and an ugly button up polyester blouse. But, I'm hoping really hard that I'll get to work in the Magic Kingdom (MK and EPCOT are my top two choices in case I haven't stated that before) and if I do I'm pretty sure the costumes are way more fun. More ridiculous and ugly, but definitely more fun! I read something about white balloon pants? Whatever. I can't wait to go.

You Know You've Been Staring at a Computer Too Long When...

...you're reading a regular piece of paper and as you near the bottom your eyes move to the right hand edge of the page as your finger presses down on nothing wondering why the page isn't scrolling.

Pants and Haircuts

I went to Idaho Falls with some friends yesterday. It was super fun and I got some nice pants for Disney World from Maurices. One $75!

Well, they would have been $75 if they hadn't been on sale. One pair was marked down to $6.51 and the other was marked down to $7.86.

I LOVE 'em! And I really did need them for Disney. I only have (used to have) one pair of dress pants and they're not even that dressy.

The down side is that I have no shoes to match! Better go shopping again!

Oh, and as a side note I just wanted to document that my roommate went to the salon to get her hair cut that morning. She got there at quarter til 10AM with an appointment right at 10. We walked out at 3:07PM. In case you can't do math that's OVER FIVE HOURS for a hair cut. It only cost her eight bucks and she got a free dye because of it (long story), but still. Five hours for a haircut. Wow. Haha.

TMI But Too Funny...

You know that round thing that pops into the toilet paper holder? Well, last week I went to the bathroom (surprise surprise) while my roommate was outside into the vanity area. Our little round thing that holds the toilet paper up is broken and falls off periodically. Well, this particular time it fell off and rolled under the door out to my roommate who immediately began laughing. "Didja lose something?"

Fortunately the toilet paper itself won't fit under the door. It just fell to the floor. But just now I went to the bathroom and recalled that memory as I pulled the toilet paper off and I started giggling. I came out to find that same roommate at the vanity eying me. "Why were you laughing in there?"

Okay, it's funnier in real life.

Little Fact

Walt Disney's birthday is December 5th and he had a daughter named Diane and he was in charge of ambulances (they said he decorated the outside of his ambulance with cartoons).

My birthday is December 6th and people call me Diane all the time and I'm an EMT.

Some may say that's pushing it, but I say it was meant to be.

Bored Out Of My Mind!!!

My mom called this morning. After me saying "Hello" she lectured me about how I was still asleep and should be awake and she could believe I was still asleep at this hour. It was 10:30AM and yes, I was asleep. How does she KNOW these things!?

I'm really annoyed with the school at the moment. It's a long story and I don't feel like explaining, but basically the school is telling me I owe them $10 when they're the ones who owe ME $10. I went to the cashier's office yesterday to figure it out. They were basically no help whatsoever. They said that I needed to hurry up and pay it. But I don't OWE anything! Well I had to prove it so I emailed this guy who is official enough that is HE sends an email to me saying that it's true, the school is the one who owes me, then I'll get my money back. Except he still hasn't written back. Stupid school.

School gets out in two weeks. I'm counting down the days. Life has been soooo boring! Someone invited me to go to the Planetarium with her tonight. And there's an all day ward activity Saturday. I don't really want to go ALL DAY. I'd rather get there around 5pm instead of 11am and then leave at 8pm. I should probably go all day, though. I know I'm going to be bored.

It's weird because I can't wait to go home but chances are I'll be bored at home as well. Except at home I have my computer with my computer games. And I have my cat. And I have a car so I'm not stuck within walking distance of where I live. And I have tons of movies back home and I'll have more food so I can spend more time cooking. I made myself a recipe book of recipes I got off of recipe blogs and other places. I've been collecting them and it's actually gotten really big. I only include recipes that look good to me, though. I have a pretty good amount, but right now I'm trying to eat down my food supply because I'm leaving in two weeks so it's hard to make anything and it's annoying to find recipes that I want to make but can't.

The good thing about a boring life is that I've been better about doing stuff every day that's good. Like I've been really good about going to the gym, practicing the piano, and some other things I like to try and get done daily. The bad news is I'm still bored and all I want to do is sleep. Ugh.

Kay, enough whining. I'm done now! Life really is good, by the way. I don't mean to say it's lousy. It's good to have relaxed periods of life every once in a while. And seeing as how at Disney I'm going to be hoping for constant 50 hour weeks, I should enjoy this while I can! Bye!

Old People Work

On Monday we got into my first class which is pretty small, and the teacher asked the typical question, "So what did you guys do over the weekend?" My answer was boring so I just sank a bit lower in my seat and let the other kids talk about driving down to SLC or bridge jumping or whatever awesome stuff they did. Although I was surprised at how many of us lazed around, watched movies, and played games with friends.

Well, we asked the teacher what he did. He told us he worked all day Thursday, (as a teacher he didn't get that day off) and then Friday he got up early and worked in the yard because it was in dire need of it so he spent all day outside pulling weeds and planting stuff, and then Saturday he had to get up early and drive somewhere and then watch his kids play ball and then work in some parade, and work and work and work.

Basically, it must suck to get old. Old people find ways to work on VACATIONS! Wow.

Lots and Lots of Pictures!!!

Overview of the Bishop's house where we had the talent show last week. So much fun AND there was free pizza!!!



This one cracks me up because these girls were doing the "Banana Dance" and the guys faces in the background are them looking at each other like "What the heck are these girls DOING!?"



These two girls started dancing to a song and then ran out into the crowd. I was with Ashley and Ashley was like "Run Dianna! Don't let them pick us! I don't want to dance!"



No worries, they had planned to pick these guys. They already knew the dance.







Steven, in his usual position at ward get togethers.



Steven. He was in three of the shows. Singing, dancing, and this. His one man magic show.



These girls sang "Stupid Cupid" with their little dance thing.



Kate and Jacob.



Ashley and I, being somewhat normal.

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The backyard view of my bishop's house where the Talent Show took place. If you look carefully you can see the temple. Dad would have absolutely LOVED his house. The seclusion mostly. Though it was only a little elevated, there was a ham antenna on his roof. He's not a ham though.



Ashley.. being herself at the Talent Show.



It took us FOREVER to finish the outer circle. Then one of our neighbors came in, looked at the board for about half a minute, and found the missing link. AHHH!!!



Little by little...



We were really excited to figure out the middle part.



And then connecting the middle to the edge was a big deal.



Almost done!!!



Our completed M&M puzzle! Sooooo hard. We began Monday night, worked on it until Sunday morning at 2:21am when Kassie and I finished it. She refused to go to bed until it was done and ended up waking me up to finish it with her. YAY!!! Kassie and I are geniuses!



The fab four after the Murder Mystery (L to R: Joe Kassie Me Matt). Joe was an Italian (he had a fake mustache on earlier) and also was the murderer! Kassie was a Hollywood rich actress (she had a tiara before I snapped this as well). I was a poor girl who owned a vineyard and was in competition with Barry (the guy who was killed) and Matt was the FBI agent. Kellie (Kassie's sister and acting as a rich ditsy blond) and Kellie's husband Alex (Italian friend of Joes) and Anton (German dude) also went. Unfortunately most of my pictures actually at the party didn't turn out and I didn't take a bunch to begin with. But the costumes were wonderful. Especially Anton's. He used belts as suspenders and his pants were hiked up like Steve Erkle's. The other guys also did fake mustaches. (you can't see Joe's cuz he wiped it off, but it was hilarious)



The BYU float



Snoopy in a car




Black thing spraying water over everyone



American flag on a float



Star Wars



This little boy kept yelling "I'm Aniken! I'm Aniken!"



Our kitchen. Look! It's clean! And that's my poster I bought at Neuschwanstein!




Oh, and by the way. CP stands for College Program. Sorry I just sort of assumed that.

Walt Disney World CP

Well, I haven't been making it as big a deal on here as it is in my head, but the CP is definitely constantly on my mind. So much so, actually, that I'm constantly dreaming of it.

Last night I dreamed that I really wanted to go into the park like, the day after I got there. Except that no one wanted to go with me. They were all being mature and trying to learn their jobs but all I wanted to do was play. (not to worry, my conscious mind DOES indeed know that I'm there to work, not play) Anyway, so I went to the park alone and went to the top of Mount Gushmore in Blizzard Beach and did the Summit Plummet all by myself. Crazy! I got to the bottom and it had felt just like a really short, normal waterslide. There was a little tiny pool at the end and I got out of it and watched the rest of the six-year-olds complete the same task. Then I walked around the park and soon came to a ferris wheel. Except I didn't get on because I. Hate. Ferris wheels. Hate them. I'm sooo scared of them. But right beside the ferris wheel was a roller coaster that went upside down around the track in circles BEFORE EVEN BEGINNING! I wanted to go on that one but woke up before getting the chance.

The night before last I dreamed that I was with my family. Most of my dreams of Disney I'm with my family since I was growing up. We had to go through this gift shop before getting to the parks and I remember listening to my parents talk about how it was "just another scheme to get money out of our pockets into theirs." Well, we walked through this gift shop and it reminded me of my grandma's store. Every single thing was easily broken. Everything. Everyone was taking a long time so I went ahead and came to a bunch of beer steins that said "Neuschwanstein" on them. Neuschwanstein is the Disney castle by the way. I got to go there when we went to Munich, even though it's about an hour away in this town called Fusen (not sure how to spell it but it reminded me of the Foosa on Madagascar). Anyway, there were a bunch of beer steins that said "Neuschwanstein" on them and I really wanted to get one for Cathryn except that my discount didn't kick in for another week and I wanted to get it with the discount but I wasn't sure I would get the chance. And then I looked at the price. 60 bucks with the discount. 300 without. Sorry Cathryn.

Another dream I was with my family, although only Cathryn and my mom were in it. We were on the bridge in Animal Kingdom except the bridge was the entrance to the park. I kept trying to go into the park because I could get all of us in for free and I really wanted to go play. Except Cathryn kept wanting to go into this no name bookstore. i was so annoyed with her. My mom kept trying to get me to be on Cathryn's side saying "Dianna, you'll have the next four or five months to come here whenever you want! Just do what Cathryn wants!" And on the inside I realized she was right except she didn't understand! I HAD to go into the parks THIS INSTANT!

So ridiculous. Anyway, just thought I'd blog about my CP dreams. 47 days and i totally can't wait at all!

Sorta Sick

I have the sniffles and a horribly sore throat. I was eating Ricola yesterday but my throat only felt better as long as one was in my mouth. After I went through three Ricolas within about two hours I figured I'd better stop. It hurts so bad though! Ugh! Also, I learned this morning (because I continued with the constant Ricolas) that it's not good to sneeze with a hard candy in your mouth. Not a good idea! That pretty much freaked me out enough to suck on anymore all day because I thought I was gonna choke and die! And then it sneezed right out into my hand. Icky!

We don't have any school until Monday. Tomorrow there's no school because it's "Examination Day" and Friday is because it's the day before the Fourth of July! What's Examination Day? That's also a new law that the State of Idaho apparently passed that says something to the effect of every college must have one day in the middle of the semester with no school. Okay, so I have no clue what the details are and that "State Law" thing may just be a rumor. Either way it gets us out of school! Yay!

I broke my roommates fork the other day. I was trying to cut butter. The butter was hard okay? And for some reason people think it was weird I was using a fork to cut butter. It's called NO DISHWASHER people! I like to save dishes. Soooo funny though. I think my roommate thought the story was too funny to be mad. So what do I owe her now? A fork? A dollar? That pathetic little fork couldn't have been worth more than that. (btw, she's the same roommate whose knife I broke last year cutting a sandwich)