Nothing really to call home about

This latest post was actually written at work on a yellow legal pad. Yes my job can get so boring and slow that I have time to write a whole post.
After this past weekend which was great minus 2 things; A) I didn't watch any football .. .. I know my life is so hard and sad B) I couldn't get on the internet to do homework. I have decided I'm not sure what I want to be doing and/or where I would like to be doing it. Part of me wants to stay here and keep working and see where this job can take me (which is probably no where further than living permanently in Ephraim). Yet after some thought this weekend and a few really good conversations with different people, that's probably not the smartest thing at all. Lyric had a great point, this is a good job but not a career for me. Though it is nice that they want to give me all the extra training and pay raises, cause I'll never complain about that. And I really do/don't like it here. I mean it is a great town, it's nice, and quiet, very friendly...just a good place but I'm an hour or more from anyone or anything. Which I would be fine with if I was married and raising a family but well..surprise I'm not right now. Sorry I had to spring that surprise on you. And because I'm not I would actually like to be closer to everyone else for now.
And now I have started to think twice about what I really want to do for school. I don't know if teaching history really is the route I want to be taking. I got talking with a really nice older lady at work the other day and she was asking me what I was going to school for and I told her the past 2 1/2 years I was working on being a history/social sciences teacher but then I remembered the night before I was going over some old physics homework and I remembered how much I liked that class, so I also told her I was thinking of going into physics also (though I'm not sure why I said that cause I haven't really thought that until recently). She then made a comment that is very true, history teachers are great and it's a good subject but they are a dime a dozen. Every football player forced to choose a major chooses history. It's easy, everyone knows it. I realized she was and still is right, more than any other subject (except for maybe dance) I have met TONS of history majors. Though I love history maybe it would be smarter for me to look into something else. She also made a point that I remember reading about, that there aren't enough people going into the sciences and it's a very open field of work and in need of a lot of college graduates. That's always nice, to be able to have a better chance of getting a career out of college in the subject I just graduated is the reason I am going to school.
So I have been thinking of going into physics now. What I would do...I'm not sure. Maybe I'll become Sheldon or Leonard from The Big Bang Theory.
Sorry this post has been a little boring and a little more serious than most others, so now it's time for some very interesting good stuff!! Big announcement..... we got a new rim poster in the bathroom at work! Yeah we did! Now I'm not so bored if I ever go in there hahahaha

"You can call it a ninja star danger jock if you want. Doesn't make you any less of a cross-dresser."

Love it

Poker night, need I say more? Every Tuesday night at 9 p.m. nothing else matters (well almost). We gather in a tiny room and play for hours, tonight we played for 3 hours tonight. I love it.

That's all

"Hey lady there's a whale on your boat!"

The day of days

The year was 1985 and there were good things all around. Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd were traveling through time, Sean Astin and his friends were all known as The Goonies. Whoopi Goldberg was winning awards for actual good movies. We still had Magnum P.I. and the A-team keeping us safe, thank you Mr. T. The Kansas City Royals were baseball world champions and Pete Rose was still allowed to play baseball, and the 49ers beat the Dolphins in the super bowl. Yes it was a good time to be alive.

Yet there is another thing that is far more pressing that happened in 1985 that for me was quite important. It happened in October on the ninth to be precise, yet my memory is fading so I could not tell you the time. It was in a small hospital in the city of American Fork, Utah. A young mother gave birth to her second son. Me, that’s right me.

Yesterday was my 25th birthday and I was blessed enough to spend it in Ephraim, not the ideal place for ANYONE to spend their birthday. It was most definately the last place I thought I would be spending this birthday if you would have asked me a few years ago. But it happens and thanks to Lyric it was a great one. To start the day Lyric showed up with breakfast for me, doughnuts and a coke, and we just hung out and watched football for the morning, around 1:15 we headed over to the football game. A little after half time I got really tired so we came back to my apartment and took a nap for quite some time, I think we slept for about 2 hours it was nice. After that I cooked us dinner, steak baked potatoes spaghetti squash and rolls. It was a good one. Then we just hung out for a little bit then took off to the homecoming dance. We were there for a bit then it was getting late so I had to get Lyric home so she didn't die driving home through the canyons. That and I was getting way tired again. Needless to say.. it was a great birthday, so thank you very much Lyric.

I do wish I would have gotten two things that I am going to have to eventually buy for my self, those things would be .......

WHAT!?! Thats right I'm back

It's been a while, but no worries I'm still alive. It's been a busy week and a half almost two, nothing really big or important has happened; I've just been busy with work, and school, and RA duties, and trying to spend time for my self.
I went home for the first time in about 3 weeks this past weekend and spent a lot of the time with Lyric or by my self, no one really knew I was coming so my family was all busy and/or gone. I stayed up till 4 the first night just playing Reach on-line cause I have yet to do that and I heard it was pretty fun and well.. it is and it's addicting. On Saturday I watched conference in the morning and looked for stuff at my Mom's house, then for the rest of the afternoon I was at Lyric's family's house watching conference and eating dinner till it was time for priesthood session. I went and to be completely honest I slept for all of it except for 2 talks, so for what I saw it was really good. Then later that night Lyric and I watched Walk The Line and ever since I've been addicted to Johnny Cash music, which isn't bad, I just haven't really listened to him this much.
I've been freaking out the past little while cause I have had my check engine light on for the past 2 1/2 months and I thought I was going to be spending hundreds of dollars fixing my lean fuel problem, but then I found what was really wrong .. a cracked vacuum line .. and I fixed it, for free! Yes I did. It was great! Now my truck runs like a champ....again.
So today I was asked by one of the school counselors to come speak in her class about how to make the most of your college experience and how to not waste your time. I'm pretty sure that most of the kids in the class didn't hear a single thing I said but I really don't care, most of them just stared at the floor. Then when the teacher asked if anyone had questions everyone instantly just started looking around and trying to get picked on or even look like they had thoughts on their minds. It was pretty funny.
See that's the most exciting things that ever happen down here so I'm not sure why I write sometimes cause it's just not exciting at all.... in fact I'm a little bored even writing this, but I'm going to force my self to keep going.
Actually tonight is a little exciting, not for Miss Snow competition in fact that's a deterrent from what I have going on tonight. Tonight is our first weekly poker night!! That's right I said poker night. A bunch of us played a few nights ago and we decided that we need to start playing every week, so we're going to try and do it every Tuesday night. I'm freaking way excited to play.

"That's a big Twinkie."

Agh!! Rough night

I know sometimes it seems like all the posts are a bit onery and depressing but well... life happens that way sometimes, and sorry that you have to read that. But I promise when something happy and good happens I'll let you know.
But there are a couple of students/residents down here that I have a bit of an issue with. Lucky me it's a guy and a girl that like to sit around all wrapped around each other and lovey like and its a bit annoying. But any who last night we had an injury while some residents were playing a game and when she came in and we were trying to figure out what was wrong I was a little upset about this game causing another injury or making someone feel uncomfortable. I know it's their own choice to play the game but I figured they'd be smart enough to not hurt each other. So I told the people that for now they were done playing the game, I guess, I was a little upset and I may have come across as a little mean and I didn't mean to. The other residents kinda understood where I was coming from but these two started up right away telling me that I had no right to make up rules and enforce things I don't have authority too. I never meant to come across like I was trying to do that. I was just trying to help keep some of the residents from getting hurt and get them to stop for the night or next couple of days and I may have I have not clarified what I meant so it is totally my fault.
So I took the next hour or so and sat and talked with them ab0ut I feel like when I'm on duty I have the responsibility to look out for the health and safety of the residents but still they sat and argued that I was doing things wrong, and as we talked the real reasoning came out, I guess I'm not as good as Magnum, OF COURSE I'M NOT!!! I'm not Magnum, I haven't done this for a year already, I don't have his patience or am not as nice or laid back as him, SURPRISE!! idiots This whole injury thing has really been the only big thing I've had to deal with and the fact that this couple was crying about how I've handled things in the building wrong this year so far made me a bit pissed.
Sometimes I'm not sure if this was the right thing for me to be doing, that maybe I shouldn't stay for a full year. I don't know, I guess yet again it's just been a rough night, oh can I also mention that through out all the running around last night trying to take care of everything I accidentally locked my keys in my room, yeah GAY! So at 3 in the morning when I can finally make it to bed, I realize I can't get into my room, so I tried to find someone to let me into my room but guess what just my luck I was the only RA in the building for the whole weekend, so I tried to sleep on my tiny little couch in my apartment, when I couldn't sleep I tried eating or reading random things, I had nothing to do. So finally around 8 in the morning I HAD to get into my room soon so that I could get ready for church and so I did the last resort, I knew my window was cracked so I went outside and looked to see if I could get my screen off with out breaking it, and I could so I gently took it out and climbed in my window just in time to get ready for church. So needless to say it's been a long night.
Having this RA position and having to deal with all these students all the time is really making me second guess if I really do want to be a teacher, but if not a teacher I have no idea what I would do.

"Would you please put some pants on? I feel weird having to ask you twice."

The last week

As this last week came to a close all the stress and frustrations of all my responsibilities and activities kind of come to a head. between work, school, RA responsibilities, and keeping up with people both here and back in Utah county, I just have felt completely overwhelmed. I know this is part of life and I need to get used to it, I just am not used to it right now. I love being busy and having things to do because then I don't feel bored all the time, but instead I feel completely exhausted and worn out all the time. Hopefully I can start getting used to being so overloaded. And it's weird because it's not like I feel obligated to do any of the things that I do everyday. The reason my days are so packed is because I WANT them to be. Everything I do, I have put into my life because I want it there. I guess now I just need to find a place to put in some time for my self, which I have not had for quite a long time.
Different note now... I have spent the past week or so working on and finishing my letter to Olivia, I actually wrote 2 different ones, one that's a little more serious and one that talks a little more (well completely) about me. I figured she not only needs to know that I really do love her and how happy I am for her to be in that family, but also a little bit about who I am and what I'm like cause I know she'll eventually have those questions.
The other day as I was heading home from work I realized I really enjoy my job and really enjoy living in this area. I want to come back to an area that I know more people (Utah county) and have family but a part of me wants to stay here and keep this job and maybe finish school through the USU extension down here. I don't know, because I've also had the thought to come back a little earlier than planned and maybe move back at the end of December. Oh well, we'll see when the time comes.
This past weekend, also, I went camping with Lyric. It was great we went up Six Mile Canyon over by Palisades and went into this cool little spot where I backed my truck in. We built a little campfire and had hot dogs and s'mores while we just sat around and talked. When it got late we built a bed (about 10 blankets, 1 huge sleeping bag, and 1 huge egg carton pad) in the back of my truck, closed the shell and went to sleep. I was a pretty fun little trip. When we came back we went to the first half of the Snow College football game till it got too hot, I was sure I was going to melt to the seat I was in, then we went back and relaxed at my apartment. Before she went home I cooked her dinner, Pork chops rice and corn. It was a great end to an overly stressful week.

P.S. oh and yes I did spend a few days a little obsessed with my xbox, but to my defense, Halo:Reach did just come out and it is AMAZING!!.....just saying.

"Could you feather it please? Like.... Mel Gibson, circa ... 1983."

Baby stats!!!

So I just got back online to do some homework and I found that I had some emails from Vaughn and Amy!! I was so excited that I think now I won't be able to do homework at all.


Olivia Lea Barry
Born: 9-10-10
Weight: 7 lbs 12 oz.
Height: 21 in.

I'm so excited! She is a beautiful little girl! I'm scared to ask if she has the cursed Jorgensen finger toes. Maybe I'll ask later but anywho just a quick post about the new news!