Thanksgiving Break

Thanksgiving Break is both a blessing and a curse. It's absolutely wonderful getting the 3 days off of school, but when it ends, you come back to the worst three weeks of school that ever existed. However, I think the three days off is totally worth it. I don't live in Utah, so I don't have the wonderful opportunity to drive home whenever the occasion arises. Texas is a little too far to drive to, so my parents arranged flights for my brother and I to fly down, and thank goodness we left when we did! If we had left one day later we wouldn't have been able to go home. We left on Monday after classes, but my Grandma and Aunt who were set to come have Thanksgiving with us had their flight on Tuesday -- the day that the worst storm in ten years was to expected to come to Utah. Unfortunately their flight was canceled so they weren't able to join us in our turkey feast. We still had company over though. We had Thanksgiving dinner a day early and had the missionaries over and my brother's friend Cara from school. She is looking into the Mormon church and taking missionary discussions where she goes to college so it was great to have her meet the missionaries in her home area.  The missionaries had great personalities. One of them was on his 18th month in the mission field and the other had just been baptized a year ago and was on his second month in the mission field. They both got along really well and you could tell they have a lot of fun together. My little sister set up a scavenger hunt for me to help me find the gift she made for me. It was a pillow that she had made herself and had sewn "LOVE" onto. She made it so I could use it on the airplane when I sleep. I had a great time going back home from break and enjoyed every minute of it. I am so grateful for my family and that we are healthy and able to spend time with each other. However, now it's time to buckle down and get the monstrous pile of homework done. Bring on the finals!!

Preference Week

This week is preference week for my ward meaning the girls ask the guys on dates.  There are more girls than guys in our ward so the Bishop asked us to ask at least two guys out.  I never knew how ridiculously hard it is to plan dates!!! It is very weird being in the guys shoes and being in charge of everything! It's also super hard because ALL the girls in our ward are asking guys, so it's hard to know which days the guys are available and who has and hasn't been asked already.  So you can have a date set and planned and then have it fall through because none of the guys can make it for that particular day or because they're already booked with five dates. I think preference week is a great idea because it gives the girls a change to get a feel for what guys go through every time they ask girls on dates. It's a scary process and man do you guys have guts!! Preference week would be so much better if it was more like Two Weeks of Preference so we didn't all dive for guys in the same week. But it was definitely a great idea and I'm glad that I am able to be a part of it!

That Darn Research Paper

So I am still struggling with figuring out my topic. I decided earlier to discuss the differences between being a Veterinarian and a Veterinary Technician, leading more towards being a Veterinarian. However I feel like they are way too similar and wouldn't provide enough information for me to write 8 pages on.  So I think I am going to take this opportunity to explore other careers. I am going to look at majoring in Biology with a Pre Veterinary Medicine, Marine Biology, and Animal Genetics/Biotechnology. I don't have a side chosen yet, but after researching I will pick one of them and put into my thesis. Let's hope I decide to stick with this one!!

Halloween Dance

This weekend I went to my first dance in three years, and my first dance while being at BYU. You would think that being a Junior I would have been to one by now, but I avoid dances pretty much like they're the black plague.  Dances really aren't my thing. If you have the right people, they can be fun. Like stake dances during high school were always a lot of fun because I knew a lot of people there and we would just mess around. I ended up going as a tired person, so I was in my pajama pants and a t-shirt and slippers. However, when the dances are smaller they tend to get a little awkward. And long. When slow songs come on, my friends and I book it out of there so we can avoid dancing with people. We then go back in when the fast songs come back on. It's a pretty good system I think. It's worked well so far.  I am really glad I went to the dance last weekend though. It was a lot of fun seeing all the awesome costumes the people in my ward came up with and everyone was familiar to me because they are all my neighbors. It was truly sad though how sore I was the next day.  I didn't even dance. I walked around taking pictures. Oh well, I guess it just means I need to work out a little more and go to more dances. All in all, it wasn't that bad of a dance and I ended up having a lot of fun. Especially because I got to wear comfy pajama pants :)