Marvellous Things

Who would have guessed that trying to go home for a week would become such a chore? I am about to the point of asking complete strangers if they would like to go for a 10hr drive north for a nice, cold tour of southern Alberta for a week in March... I may just have to come up with a better pick-up line.  People tend to want to go to California and Mexico instead, hard to believe, I know!

Turns out that after the break it will be very near to the summer months and I’ve been doing terrible when it comes to working out- I blame it on my cold. Regardless, my one piece, speedo swimsuit that seems to hug my body in my most favorite areas, may not be such a lovely contraption to squish into this year.  It usually fits so well other years…. Ha-ha

On a completely different note, my anatomy class has the lovely PRIVILEGE of working on cadavers for the remainder of the semester. How special! There is nothing I love more than handling someone who has been dead for over a year and is watered every now and then so they don’t dry out. Wednesday was our first time in the cadaver lab, which was conveniently after our test-so I was already stressed! I already felt light headed from thinking so hard for the past 20hrs. (No, my test did not take me 20hrs to complete, that was the time Courtney and me crammed as much knowledge we could into our caput, also known as your cranium, skull, or head.) So we walk in and there are three black body bags on the tables. We are taken to the end of the room to put on some aprons and gloves. We are then asked to put on some safety goggles- just incase some of the “juices” squirt into our eyes. We go through precautions; what to do when we feel light headed and then asked to not high-five the cadavers or steal them and take them to the ball games with us (charming).

The next two hours were spent “checking out” Mary, Robert and Sally. I am glad to tell ya that I did not pass out and was able to stay focused the majority of the time. The only thing that did make me sick were those terrible plastic goggles, they spent the majority of the time on top of my head or hanging under my chin- I have confidence in my blinking reflexes when something comes lunging towards my eyeball, I don’t need those!

 Now don't all go running to your nearest cadaver lab! As thrilling as that may all seem, it's really not all that exciting and was somewhat disgusting. 

I apologize, this entry has no direction. I just looked in the mirror though- that I do a lot since it covers my entire wall directly in front of my bed- but I have mascara under my entire left eye, down my cheek and then across my left hand. In a perfect line.. I’m confused my this.  Heck, I probably wandered campus all day looking like this! This is why guys flock at my feet! Girls, take note! 

Now as fulfilling as this whole thing has been i'm going back to my books! And just incase any of you are curious, I now have 71 days until May 4th-my day of freedom! Just thought i'd throw that out there.

A More Excellent Way

  My weeks just fly by! They suck and are stuffed full of a bunch of stuff I have to finish, but suddenly it's Friday again! I will never complain about this! 
  I kind of started my weekend early and since I have no tests tomorrow I decided to basically not do anything once I got home until the basketball game. Speaking of this basketball game, for one, I took the dumbest possible route to get there. I was walking there by myself from my house, and it was kind of getting dark out so I decided to walk along the main roads. Well, just some background history about Logan- Campus is located very conveniently on a giant hill and no matter which way you approach it you might as well crawl on your hands and knees since you are scaling the sidewalk- just saying! So I turned onto this road and started towards the Spectrum and halfway up I realize that i'm approaching this wall of pavement called the road and I had to walk up it! Honestly, killed me. I swear if I had leaned forward I could have kiss the road while still walking! Secondly, I love Utah State, minus it's hills. I forgot how much I love going to there games.  I was lucky and got to sit on the fourth row under the basket and It was just all around fantastic! Our fans our crazy and I was very proud to be an Aggie, especially since we won. You can just check out some Aggie awesomeness above if you would like to waste some time watching something rather pointless!
  On a much more serious note, I am a month away from Spring Break and I have never been happier! At first I was thinking I would love to just head south for a week and go somewhere warm, however, the more I thought about it, I honestly would rather just head north and go home for a week! So I am crossing my fingers that it stays nice out. Also,  I need people to drive with me, too bad I know only 2 other Canadians here at USU. Although i'm under the impression that Weber has the same week off as me this year, so maybe i'll force some other people to come with me! Who wouldn't want to go back to Alberta!?
  But I am being right ridiculous right now, I am usually in bed by 10:30 every night during the week, it's nearly midnight and here I am! I tell ya, I started my weekend early! Good thing I gotta tell a joke in my Sign class tomorrow and I have practiced it maybe twice! It's not very funny to begin with though, so maybe me trying to sign it when I haven't practiced will make it that much more humorous! 

All I Ever Wanted

So I have been dealing with this need/want to begin a blog for much too long. I have been waiting for my life to get exciting and have come to the final conclusion that I will probably be sitting around waiting for a REALLY long time and I should just write down all my fantastic thoughts anyways! 
Plus, I have been a really good "Blog Stalker" for years now.  I might as well become a blogger myself?? Enough of that jazz though, clearly this is my first post, now ya know i'm like everyone else that starts a blog and I feel awkward and I too am under the impression that my life is boring! AWESOME!
Anyways, today is Friday and I have officially finished one more week of my sophomore spring semester! I now only have to get through 13 more- yes i'm counting. Actually, me and The Mother pulled out the calendar before I ventured back to school and counted out the weeks of torture I was about to bear before I would be back in beautiful Canada.. i've been counting down ever since! I pretend that 13 weeks is going to fly by, I believe I am lying to myself..
 I might as well warn ya ahead of time that my posts will probably always tie back to school, cause it just so happens that school is kicking my butt and is infesting my mind. I try to veer away from it, but it just pops back up!! A little personal advice, never in your life take 17 credits unless you absolutely have to! And unless you are completely insane and really love to go crazy for 4months at a time, try learning some Sign Language! It will be a fantastic time.. 
Once May rolls around though I shall be as happy as a.. student that just got out of school... Because, not only is May 4th the last day of finals, it is also the due date of my lovely sister and I shall be an aunt, to what I am sure will be the cutest niece ever! It is also the little brothers 14th birthday and it will most likely be the day I drive back to Alberta! It's pretty safe to say that could possibly be the best day EVER!
Here's to 91 more days!