The Sweet Life

Well the past week is over- which means I officially am done with all 5 of my beastly tests. woot woot! I took two of those tests on Friday, which basically took me all day and night, so no fun plans for Grace on Friday night.  Saturday however was a good day - and Valentine's Day on top of all of that!  I went into work in the morning, and two of the guys that I work with were having birthdays, so we had a huge luau themed birthday party.  It was super fun.  We invited other houses and a good time was had by all.  We played games, had hawaiin food and sang happy birthday of course.  Plus I received flowers from the fam at work, which were awesome! And everyone thought I was getting them from some hot boyfriend - haha.  Then after work I chilled with some friends from the ward, which conveniently live across the hall from me.  We went to grab some food and on the way home is where it all went downhill..... what happened do you ask?

It was a dark night, around 10 PM.  We were driving down a small road in Provo, Utah, listening to music and discussing our uneventful Valentine's Day night.  All of the sudden out of nowhere I see a cat dart out in front of my car.  Before I could even register what to do, such as swerve off the road and risk our lives for this cat, or slam on the brakes and cause the car behind me to rear end me, I ran over the cat full on, and that cat was huge! I was afraid it did damage to my car.  Then I look into my rearview window and see this cat bolt off the street and lay on the snowy grass past the sidewalk.  At this point I'm wondering how in the world the cat had the strength to not only get up after being run over by a car with 3 people in it, but full on run out of the way.... So after a little debate in the car, we decide to go back and check on the cat to see what's up.  We don't dare get that close to it, but it is obviously flat as ever.  Then after a long argument on whether or not this cat is breathing, we decide there is nothing else that can be done so we leave and go home.  If you feel the need to write an ode to this cat or something, we could have a little competition or something, just leave it in the comments and the more creative, the better! I'll think about one too.  

On a much happier note, I won $30!  At work we get these "Making a difference Daily" bucks. So basically good deed bucks.  Now I didn't do anything amazingly novel, so don't get too excited.  But my manager gave me one for the month, which means that your name gets put into a drawing for prizes!! Needless to say I won the $30 prize - which was the 3rd highest prize.  There was a $100 and $50, but I wasn't that lucky.... But still... winning in general is pretty much awesome.  Well that's about all for my adventurous life, until next time!!

Wednesday

Well the song of the day is "Somebody's watching me" by Rockwell feat. Michael Jackson. The reason being that this song has been in my head for the past EVER.  Probably because it's the song that plays at the end of all the new Geico commercials.  So everytime it's about to go out of my head, I will see one of those commercials and the cycle starts all over again.  Aside from buying that songs on itunes, making it extremely convenient for me to listen to it whenever I please, I also bought an awesome remix of it.  And as you all know, I love remixes!  If anyone has a good recommendations for some great remixes, I'm all ears.  I haven't been able to find anymore good ones on itunes recently, but the search goes onwards.  

And now back to today.  I have 5 tests this week, but fortunately I'm already done with 3 of them!  So it really hasn't been that bad.  Today in ballroom we had a sub so we learned the waltz just for a day (because we're still learning the cha cha).  The sub's teaching style was way slower that our normal teacher though, so learning the waltz wasn't as fun as I thought it would be.  I'm sure it'll be fun once I learn it with my regular teacher.  The class in general still continues to go well.  It won't be long before I'm a pro.  

I feel like my blogs have taken a turn towards the boring. That sentence doesn't even really make that much sense, but hey it gets the point across.  I need some new innovative ideas to add some flavor into either my life, so then writing about it will automatically be fun to read, or at least learn to make my life sound more interesting. haha.  I will have to work on that. I think that's about all for today.  New and exciting things to come! 

February is in the air

Hello all - it seems as if I've been a complete slacker as far as blogging goes, but there's no making up for it now, so the show must go on!  A lot and yet nothing has happened since I last wrote.  I feel like my life is extremely hectic and crazy and yet it remains stagnant because I'm always busy with the exact same stuff that I'm always busy with.  Church, school, work.  That's what I do!  So what HAVE I been up to do you ask?  Well a number of things.  As far as school goes, everything is going really smoothly this semester.  I've had a few tests this semester.  One was on the fox trot in my ballroom dance class.  I pretty much love the fox trot.  Now that we've moved onto cha cha, I love it even more.  The cha cha seems like it would be a lot more fun and sassy, but it's harder! haha.  I feel like there's a lot more that goes into it to make it technically correct.  But fox trot is so much classier.  Anyway - you'll just have to see for yourself if you ever learn these dances.  Then I had a french test which went really well.  But now I have FIVE, count em 5, tests next week!! That is definitely NOT normal, is it? Either way I'll get through it.  I'm really enjoying my classes this semester so studying for the tests isn't so bad.  

My calling continues to go well also.  I guess I could into that, but it really isn't that exciting.  Work is great as well.  Well I've seen two movies since I last wrote.  The first one was Bride Wars.  Usually when I see a movie I don't really know what to think of it so I need a day to sit on it and then decide if I like it or not.  When I got out of this movie I was kinda like "eh...it was alright," but knowing myself I waited a day to really decide how I felt.  After the next day I decided that I really didn't care for the movie too much.  I felt like all of the good pranks that they did on each other were in the previews, so there wasn't much of a surprise.  And then maybe it's just my sense of humor, but I didn't find it very funny either.  So all in all I'd probably give that movie a C.  The other movie I saw was "He's just not that into you," which I saw last night with my roommates and some other girls from my complex.  This movie had a few parts in it that I wasn't a huge fan of but overall it was a lot better than I expected it to be.  It was clever, humorous, and so very true.  I'd probably give it a B+.  Coming from me however, that means it was probably an A for everyone else because I'm usually into girlie movies like that.  

So I've been getting creative with my cooking lately and I have come up with an incredibly tasty meal.  It's not THAT original or anything, but still simple, easy to make, and yummy.  It's a breakfast quesadilla, but of course you can eat it any time.  I beat 2 or 3 eggs and put a few spoonfuls of salsa and a handful of cheese in the eggs.  Then I scramble the eggs and put them between two tortillas.  Then I warm the tortillas in a pan on the stove to the point where they are a little crispy.  Then I slice it up and eat it with sour cream on the side.  And it is basically amazing.  So I would recommend it to anyone that's interested in a simple meal.  Just thought I'd share that with everyone.  

Not a lot else is going on with me.  My life seems to continue to run smoothly, which just convinces me even more that this semester is going to be my best semester yet.  Oh and Obama got inaugurated since I last wrote, yay!  That was a good time.  Once again, people didn't seem to be too happy about it out here, but hey the people voted so that's that.  If I don't write again until after next weekend, which is very possible, then Happy Valentine's Day!! It's a good day, even if you're single!