Epic days before the start of school...

So over the past 24 hours I have gone from thinking I would be living in one place until the end of the school year, then to hoping to move, to selling my contact at the first place and being homeless, to moving into my new place and trying to get organized and unpacked.

So my whole adventure really started on Friday. One of my best friends, Brian, was up in Logan helping someone else move from Salt Lake up here for their last semester of schooling. They called me up and I went to hang out with them. Stephen, my new housemate was bragging about how much he was paying and everything for the size of the house and I kinda wanted in on it.

He gave me the number to his landlord and I called mine to see if I would be able to sell my contract and move sometime during the first week of school. (I know I am crazy wanting to move during the start of a new work schedule/trying to figure out when I can sleep and just the craziness of school in general) She said that she did not have anyone looking at the time but would keep an eye out for me so that if something came up she would be able to let me know.

So I continue hanging out and just having a good time, not really able to sleep Friday night, it was kinda warm and I couldn't stop thinking about school, work, just life in general. About 9 am my current landlady calls and says she has someone that wants my contract today, how early would I be able to get my stuff out. So I start packing and cleaning getting ready to move out.

He wasn't coming to sign the contract till 12:30p. A lot can happen during that time so I didn't pack all of my stuff just in case something went wrong. My new landlord told me they would be in Logan around 11:00 a so I thought I would be able to meet with her and then sell my contract and move my stuff without any real sitting period. Well that didn't happen, at 1:00p there was still not solid word on if I had a place to live as the new landlord had not shown up.

I asked Brian if I could stick all my stuff in his Van and hoped that I would be able to unpack it somewhere before the end of the night.

The landlord showed up about 3p, I was able to sign the contract and move in. Now I am in the process of un-packing I hope to be done before classes start on Monday or I will not have any of my books or school supplies because packing was less knowing where I was putting stuff and more throwing everthing I could into a box so that get out fast so I don't have an easy way to unpack as my things are not organized.

But it is a small price to pay to be in a better place.

Summer Break

So I have kind of forgotten about my blog. I gave up on Facebook and then I just stopped updating my blog... I am back now... back on Facebook and back to updating my blog.

So far I have been in love with this summer. I work three days a week and then I have off four days. With all my time off I have finally started to feel not as stressed about everything. I have gone on hikes in Logan Canyon by myself. I have read a little bit out of a whole bunch of books just because I can, I need to stop doing this because I start to combine the stories in my head into some supper story that I think is awesome but doesn't really exist.

A while ago I went to the doctors and had lost weight as you may be able to remember. Well I have been on a new diet and have maintained weight... I am increasing the amount of calories I eat a day so I hope to start increasing.

Bells on Temple Square has been in hiatus while the Mormon Tabernacle Choir have been on tour. We won't have practice again until the end of this month. It has been very weird to have Wednesday Nights free, I am exited to not have them free anymore.

So that is what has been going on in my life for the last month. I am going to continue to  relax and do enjoy my summer.

So I am losing weight.....

I had a doctors appointment today... I have lost weight. Over the last four months, since the last time I weighted in at the doctors, I have lost 2.3 pounds... Since last summer about this same time (June or July) I have lost about 5 pounds.

With the way that my Thyroid is acting, being in an underactive and not over active state, this kind of worries me. Most people who are affected by Hashimotos Thyroiditis are gaining weight like no other. However not everyone's body reacts the same. My doctor told me to watch my weight and that I am not to lose any more... oddly this is not the first time I have hear this statement in my life.

So I am back on the weight gain band wagon, party of one. I will get my test results back later this week. We shall see what happens.

P.S. If you have any recipes for some fatty, delicious, fast and easy to make food post it in the comments below.

The Move and Summer

Its been just over a week and I am all unpacked and loving the new apartment. There is no smelly roommate, there is no annoyingly noisy road. The move was a move up in the world and not a downgrade. I have moved almost all of my stuff and have it unpacked.  I even go a entertainment center for my TV so that I can use the desk space in my room as a desk.

Currently I have three very awesome roommates, a fourth one should be moving in sometime this month. For the first time I do not have any kitchen stuff in the apartment because my roommates have all the pots and pans and kitchen stuff taken care of. I have not really cooked a full meal in this apartment yet because I have forgotten to buy meat every time I have been in the store. This Thursday however, I plan on making Paprika Parmesan Chicken with green beans and mashed garlic potatoes, sounds good doesn't it?

Summer so far have consisted of working and moving and going to Bell Choir practice. Tomorrow I am taking my Mother out to a movie and lunch for her Birthday. I will also be giving a presentation on Paraguay to my niece's class. I am going to be talking about the culture, people and landscape of the country.

When I start to put my presentation together I missed Facebook because I would have been able to grab pictures from all of my mission buddies without having to search through random pictures on the internet. It might have taken a little longer to get done but I did it without Facebook and I am still glad that I deleted my facebook account.

During this next week I am going to be trying to get a bike from Aggie Blue Bikes so that I can get some exercise outside. I am so exited.

Leaving Facebook

Over the past 12 hours when I posted that I was leaving Facebook I have received more messages and email and texts with everyone views on why I should stay or go. Let me more fully explain my reason for leaving Facebook at this time.

First, I find my self spending way to much time on Facebook. When I started using Facebook I did not limit how much time I spent on it or even pay attention to what I was doing. I do not like that I can just sit there and let a couple of hours go by and at the end of it not really know what I have been doing... I mean really how much is there of substance to do on Facebook? Not much. There are random stupid games that you can play.. most of which I stopped playing a long time ago. There are friends pictures and status to look at but that should only take about 5 minutes a day... if that. Not a whole lot of worthwhile things to do.

Second, Facebook Stalking, how often do I find my self looking over every detail of someones profile.. way too often. I do like that I can "learn" too much information about someone else just by looking at their online page. You should have to work to get to know someone. You should also learn the reasons of why they like or dislike something. Facebook can take a lot of the fun of knowing someone out of the picture. I don't like that I do it to others or that others can Facebook Stalk me. Yes I know there are privacy settings that I can change so that not one can see any information about me but for now I need to remove my account so that when and if I start using Facebook again I will setup what I do and when, for how long and how often.

Third, I am sick of stupid people. Looking at the past Facebook updates of my "friends" I have added a lot of people that I do not really know to my Facebook. These people tell their friends to add me and then I get requests from hundreds of people that I do not even know and it never stops. Rather than going through and deleting them one by one deleting my account will allow me to start fresh and only add those who I know or want to talk to. The random please that I at one time friend on Facebook are also the ones that are always sending random App requests... I generally don't use the Facebook Apps. I don't want a farm or a mob or any other stupid game.

I know that this means that some of you will not read my blog or stay in contact with me but we will live. If someone really wants to get into contact with me there are ways and I would be happy to talk or get together and cook or have fun.

Just not on Facebook for the time being. If you want to get a hold of me leave a comment on the blog and I will be able to respond or send you an e-mail.

Love you all and Facebook will be deleted Wednesday morning. 

Moving On...

Well I have not written in the blog for a while... So time to do a little catch up... This next week is finals week this also means that I will need to be all moved out by next Saturday.

These past weeks have been spent getting ready for finals.. Getting ready to move... Getting ready for the next Bells on Temple Square performance. Two weeks ago I was asked to play of one of the parts for a song called "Lore of the Loom", listen to it here, I really like the song and so I was excited to be asked to play. Then just this last Wednesday during practice an executive decision was made to let all of the subs play the entire concert. During the practices that we have been having I have tried to make it a point to not play the same part on the bells to much so I do not really have a part down... I guess this next Wednesday will be deciding what parts each of the subs will want to play for the concert and hope that no one needs a sub for the day so that we can get our new parts down in time.

If you want tickets you can either give me a call/text or go to the Temple Square Events Page starting May 3rd.

It turns out that everywhere that I was able to get a hold of to be able to get a storage unit wanted upward of $80 for one month of storage but if I wanted it for 6 or more months it would only be like $20 a month... Not worth it in my mind, too much money. So I talked to my parents and am storing my stuff there for a few weeks. I have already taken a load down and will take another one down this next week. On Saturday and Brother and Sister-in-law are graduating this next Saturday, the day I need to have all my stuff out. So anything that I do not have at my parents house by then will either sit in my car or my Parents car to have it out of my current place by the check out time.

I am really excited to get rid of Mr. Stinky.. the other night he set off the fire alarms at 12:30 in the morning. If I already wasn't awake because I was going to work, I would have been pissed off to no end.

Preparations for finals are going good. One of my teachers has said that if the grade on the final is better than the grade on the earlier tests that the final grade will replace the other grades... I am excited about that because it gives me a chance to take my B in the class to an A.

I am so ready for a summer break. I will be working three ten hour days. Then I will have four days off, to do what ever I want. I am also getting a bike from the school this summer so that will be fun. WOOT... It is so close I can feel it. 

Fire Alarms

So this past week I have been thinking. Comparing different situations and actions actions in my life to a fire alarm. Why? You might ask, well you see the battery in one of our fire alarms is going low and so it makes a beep every ten minutes.

This leads me to reflect on everything in terms of alarms. The steady annoyingly simple beep is just letting us know that although nothing is wrong if we do not take action soon something could go very wrong. *To be honest in my time living in Logan there have been three occasions that I have been happy that fire alarms exist and are installed in my house*

One of the other noises that a fire alarm gives off is complete silence. Quietly letting everyone within earshot know that everything is ok. The last is the ear defining noise that can be heard if their is smoke in the air around the alarm.

For most of my life I have lived in one of the two extremes, either I have felt that there is no danger or that something is so off that immediate action must be taken. Right now, for about the last 6 to 9 months I have felt something is slightly off. Not so much that I am in danger but more of just one thing must be fixed and once it is everything will be all right. Now I just need to figure out what it is that needs to be fixed and be done with it.

Oh and also I need to remember to buy a 9V battery so that the real fire alarm will stop beeping.