Trick or Treat Street!

As part of my HIST 170 class, I am required to participate in 10+ hours of community service. When I found that out, I thought, "Oh MAN, I don't have time for that kind of stuff right now!" But then I had the most brilliant idea ever.

As some (if not all) of you may know, our Young Men/ Young Women group participated in a Halloween service project last year. We volunteered at the Trick or Treat Street held in the South Towne Expo Center, and I had a blast. So this year I thought to myself, "Why not count THAT as community service?" I talked to my teacher and he gave it a thumbs-up. Woo hoo!

It didn't work out QUITE as I had hoped (I ended up having to miss a class on Friday so that I could be there at the right time, and I had to take TRAX there, which was not so fun, although I did have one of my friends with me so it wasn't so scary), but it was still a lot of fun. I ended up getting 12 hours in as opposed to just 10. (Although, to get that many hours, I had to work a 7.5 hour shift on Saturday, which I wouldn't recommend to anyone who wants to keep his/her sanity; they play the same songs over and over, and there are enough lights flashing to cause a minor seizure. But not like that bothered me. Heh.)

Seriously though, to anyone with little children, the Trick or Treat Street is a fun idea. It's supposed to be a safe alternative for Trick or Treating on Halloween Night, it lets you show off your cute children and their costumes (there were so many cute little princesses... it was adorable) and it gets you a lot of candy. "Candy out the wazoo," as I heard people saying. For those of you who DON'T have little children, but who are still children at heart (that's me right there), I recommend this as a great excuse to dress up in fun costumes and serve your community while you're at it.

Happy Halloween!

P.S. And no, I did not get any pictures. I left my camera home both days, and it's not like there was an abundance of time for taking pictures... you're pretty much on your feet for the entire time. I think that the longest sitting break I had was 5-10 minutes long. And during that time I was organizing boxes of candy so that I COULD sit, or at least think about sitting. *Whew!*

So You Think You Can Dance Tour- It was awesome!

Do I really need to say any more? 

Ok, ok... I'll expound a little bit. Yesterday I went to the SYTYCD Tour with my older sisters at the "E" Center. It was great fun. My only problem was that the music was too loud, but what do you expect? 

Speaking on music... check this out! (For anyone who doesn't really know or care, this link is as much for my benefit as it is for yours.)

National Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Ahoy from off the port bow!

Yaaaarrrgh mateys! Today be a day of much celebration and rum! Here be yer CHALLENGE from the Captain Mad Charity Bonney of The Stalwart Walrus: sing as many seafarin' chanties that ye can, say "Argh" to all ye meet, and drink up all th' rum ye can lay yer hands 'pon!

May the Fair Winds ever be to yer back, and may th' sea take ye to High Adventure!

Happy Birthday to Me!

Well, so far it's been an interesting day. It hasn't felt like my birthday. That's still mostly because it's FREEZING outside. And I have to work.

You wanna know what I got? Yeah, didn't think so. But I'll tell you anyway. I got a special edition of Stephanie Meyer's "Eclipse." It's cool; it's got the first chapter of "Breaking Dawn" in the back, and it also came with some Team Jacob and Team Edward iron-on decals. (Or whatever they're called.) Fu-un. I also got some new bed sheets. They are striped-y cool. And then I bought myself a new shirt (it's way cute... and orange) and some Bath and Body Works stuff.

Oh, and guess what. My Certain Gentleman Friend came by my work today with flowers, a gigantic eclair (from Dick's, he said) and a balloon. Isn't that sweet? That guy is too nice to me.

Whoopee!! After work I get to go out to dinner! (With the family.) We're going to The Training Table (I think). Yay! I'm excited.

Thanks to everyone who called me today and/or gave me something. It was very much appreciated.

Rejoice!!!

So, I just noticed that it has been a while since I updated this post. Man. So much has happened since then.

But I digress. You must be wondering what "Rejoice!!!" is supposed to mean, and that's the point of this post: I Got A Job!!!

Granted, it's kind of my old job back again, but still... ! Here's the story: my old boss called me up and said he was in a pickle; the guy who is working at the help desk (which is not where I worked before, but it's and extension of my "department") right now is going to BYU and my boss needed someone to take his place... so he called me up. And I accepted. Hooray!!! I can stay on at the help desk when fall semester starts, or I can go back to being a computer lab assistant if I want. (Which is probably what I want. I dunno.)

Yeah, that's my "rejoice." Oh, and sooner or later I'm gonna put up a slideshow of our recent camping trip, but that's going to have to wait until I have hi-speed internet to use.

Laters!

Mmm... pizza

Oh man, I love the end of the semester. It's when all (or most all) of the teachers are at their nicest (this is AFTER your class final, of course; before the final they are unbearable) and they see fit to bring food for all their poor, overworked students.

I love free food.

So, on Tuesdays and Thursdays I have my religion classes (B.O.M. and Institute Choir) and I think that the Institute was giving out donuts to all the religion classes because there was a box on the table in my B.O.M. class (I don't know if anyone had one though)... anyway, I got food in both of my classes. My B.O.M. teacher made us all some delicious homemade cinnamon rolls (still not as good as Mom's, however) and in the choir we all got pizza. And I got the last donut from the box that was left from the previous class. Heh heh! Mine-all-mine-all-MINE!

Yeah, it was great. I didn't have to bring a lunch today. So good.

Another Day, Another Post

Woo-hoo! It's the end of the semester in about 1.5 weeks! Cannubelieveit? No, neither can I. And you'd think that I would be working my face off with finals and stuff, but I find that I have more and more time to do absolutely nothing at all. (I think that's why I even created this blog in the first place.)
Meanwhile everyone else that I know is about to drown from the enormity of their own separate workloads, and I'm thinking to myself: "What's the matter with me? I have no life!!!"
Heh, enjoy it while you can, I say.

Look who broke down and got her own blog!

Hey everyone!
Since all of my older siblings have blogs, and I am in desperate need of something to do during work, I created my very own, bonafide (that is totally spelled right), for-realio-and-trulio, no denyin' it blog! (*Trumpet fanfare and much streamers and confetti here.*)

Yeah, it's not that cool.

To tell you the truth, I have no idea how to do blogging stuff, so anything you see here will be me winging it. A lot.

So yeah. I'll see how this works...