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!*

*Sigh.* You know you're a college student...

...(especially a second-year student) when you find that you have no time to post to a blog that you created only because you had so much time on your hands in the first place.

...when you begin to miss the seemingly endless, and ever more dreamlike hours to kill in which you sat in the hall, ate Funyuns, and posted at least once a day on your blog that you have only because you were bored during work.

...when you find that your favorite pair of pants (which is usually your ONLY pair) has finally gone through the wash after being worn two or more consecutive times, which means that now you can wear them again for two or more consecutive times.

...when you spend most of your waking hours at school. (And, in my case, work does count; I am on campus from around 7:15 a.m. to at least 3:30 p.m, sometimes longer. That chunk of time right there already takes up more hours than I sleep at night, and I'm usually still "at school" when I'm at home... homework never sleeps.)

...when a sandwich from the Bookstore tastes like the best meal you've ever eaten.

...when you fear that the world's forests are about to disappear from your doing alone, what with all the papers you have to write and the Kleenex you have to use. (Just FYI, I haven't gotten sick yet, but it's only a matter of time.)

...when you started this post two weeks ago and it still hasn't been finished.

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!

I must confess...

So. I ordered myself a MacBook. I know, I know... everyone I know will be rolling their eyes and moaning, "Why, Lady Type, why?" And I'll tell you why.

*Ahem* 'Cause.

OK, so there are WAY more reasons than just "'cause." But I don't feel like putting them all into this post right now. Lemme just tell you this. I love my old lappy, but I felt like I wanted to upgrade sometime before I moved away and had to start paying for food, rent, utilities, and all those other things. I figured that I should deplete my resources NOW while I have the resources. I know, I know. It's not very good logic. I guess I've never been logical. So sue me. ;-)

I'm Back!

For those of you who don't know (it's funny how many of my posts have started with those exact same words), I am back and living in Salt Lake for good. Until I move out, that is. (But I don't know when that will be, so don't hold your breath. *wink wink* You thought you could get rid of me so easily, huh? Well bwa ha ha haaaaaa! I ain't going nowhere, yo!)

Yeah, it was fun in Provo, but I am glad to be home, mostly because now that means I won't have to wake up at 5:00 AM to get to work on time. THAT was a killer. Let's just hope that I don't forget that I'm back in Salt Lake and hop on the 801 to Provo and realize, too late, that I am on the completely wrong bus. (That would not be funny while it happened, but afterward I would get a real kick out of that.)

I just realized that other than being back in Salt Lake, I have nothing interesting to say. Everything else is pretty much unchanged. I work all day, I haven't been to any cool parties, there are no vacations or days off from work in sight, and school doesn't start for another month. (Well, a little less than a month. Which reminds me.... I should prolly go figure out what textbooks I need soon. *Sheepish grin*)

Um... lemme see... I went to see WALL-E the other day. Hi-larious. A definite must-see. Oh, I've also seen Get Smart. It's funny as well, but WALL-E is the one that you'll want to see first.... trust me.

Well, blog on, my friends. Until next post, I'm Some Crazy Person. (And I can assure you that I'll be Some Crazy Person next post too. That just doesn't change.)

I await with great anticipation...

Oh man. I am so excited. Breaking Dawn is almost here, and my sisters and I are gonna have the most fun party EVER tonight! Everyone will tremble before the fury of our homemade T-Shirts and our deadly accurate trivia knowledge.

Team Edward all the way. Or at least Team Cullen. Hm... or maybe Team Carlisle. Oooh! So many options!

And then guess what we get to do the next day after zero hours of sleep because we were reading B.D. all night long! We get to go to Build-A-Bear for my number one Mom's birthday party! Doesn't that sound like just a jam-packed-fun weekend?
(I really have no idea why I even posted this post, seeing as how all -or most all- of the people who read this blog already know about the various parties. And I think that the majority of the people who read this blog are going to BE at the various parties.)