Leaving on a Jet Plane to bad I know when I'll be back Again!

I am leaving for the airport in 3 hours and I am not 100% packed!!!

Just found out I can view final grades till Monday Morning!!


AND i am soooo excited!

Its Beyond What I Can Take.

UGH!!!!! WAITING IS THE WORST EVER!!!!


I can not even begin to describe my level of excitement right now!!!  I keep looking at the clock and then I get mad cause it has only been three minutes!!! DUMB why does time slow down the closer you get to "T"??  (get it,,, T minus...  lol... I'm so Punny)


Anyway,  no no... this is all I can think about!

Happenings

 Ok so, since I don't know how to professionally organize my photos and make them look all cute and write on them, you just have some random pictures with captions.

Lately, where we live is a lot colder than where we grew up and sometimes colder than The Bubble.  Our apartment doesn't know how to keep us warm and I am getting really frustrated.  I spent all day at home yesterday in sweats experimenting and trying to figure out and teach our apartment how to keep us warm.  What I discovered is that the Heater only puts out HOT air if the thermostat is set for a temperature that is warmer than the actual room.... which makes sense right but what I am getting at is that it decides to put out just regular air if the room is the temperature the thermostat is set to... which means that it turns on every 190 seconds or so and stays on for 265 seconds or so (counting was done when I was trying to sleep).... That is A LOT of wasted energy.  What I want is a thermostat that will only tell the heater to pump HOT air if the temperature is 2 degrees away... that way it only has to pump hot air and not worry about pumping regular air...
Other problems I have discovered is that air  comes in from everywhere... the windows in all rooms and the door with the door being the biggest culprit.
Side note ::we keep getting whiffs of weed... We do not smoke anything, have not ever smoked anything, will not smoke anything, will not store or buy anything related to smoking and YET are plagued with the sweet smell of weed and the weird smell of tobacco::

So, last night, we bought a space heater (just a $20 one from walmart)

A special log for the fire place (it said it would burn for 4 hours and we thought that meant it would put out major amounts of heat the whole time... Fire lasted 4 hours BUT major heat only lasted 2)

 We taped  the seam around the door closed (during the day, I taped the windows and shoved socks in the tracks.  When we went to bed, we closed the door and had the space heater and I had my first countless night.

Just Random Pictures Of Life

I pulled a toupee out of the shower drain.  It was having a hard time draining so showering was also a foot bath.  So, I got out a metal hanger and it just kept coming out.  If you remember this one a while back in the Bubble and a bathroom sink.... This one was a lot worse... I think someone washed their extensions out......  It was gross... I gagged. 

 This is a real sign in front of a church that is on our way to our church.. Just thought i would catch a picture because it is soo fitting.

 Pennsylvania's first snow that we were a part of.

The worlds longest arch bridge I believe.... I'm serious..

And just a nice picture of me taken by me to show what I look like when I have been in the sun for a while.  My freckles show out REAL dark and defined... I usually like my freckles.. they give me character... BUT... I would like to not have sooooo many... I want to look growed up... can I put them away and get them back out when I am 50 and want to look young again??? please??

Test Update

So that scary surprise last Tuesday with the test that I missed and didn't know about then took went well.  I got 84%.

I am excited silly!!! for Christmas.  Actually, I am not sure what I am more excited about; going to the motherland or experiencing Christmas.  Actually considering that my "countdown chain" only includes the number of days till we fly, my official answer is going to the motherland.

I have a really bad habit.  I don't mean to do it but it just... happens.  I plan on attending activities and sometimes I even sign up to supply things (like signing up to bring food items or signing up to actually participate).  I totally plan on going and I plan on bringing or doing predetermined sign up BUT... The day comes and I just rate actually doing it very low on the scale... It is, like I said, a very bad habit.  I am ashamed it admit it.  don't judge me.  I am working on it.  Since I made the goal to stop, I have attended more than 3/4 of planned activities.  I am not typing this expecting any applause or thumbs up.  I am admitting this because I need to pump myself up for the next planned (and signed up) activity.

Whhooooops!!

What do these photos have in common???

Varying amounts of fear and surprise I would say (and what I say goes because I am the author and these are my adventures).

On Tuesday, I went to my math class  and the first thing I hear from the teacher is "how do ya'll think ya did on that test?" HUH?! my stomach about fell to the center of the earth and I could hear my heartbeat in my toes... I asked the girl next to me and sure enough.... they all had a test while I was in P.A.soaking up the white out (I could see the parking lot next door at the hospital BUT that is good enough for me to call it a white out)!!! during the whole hour she was teaching something about conics I was thinking... is she going to let me take it even though I was gone for fun?  Is she going to ask me why I was gone?  EEEK!!!  After class, I asked her if I could take the test that day or the next, she said I could take it right then... HUH?! I was not ready (or so I thought) to take it (we had been working on log, LN, and e before I left and covered something hard on Tuesday I was sure would be on the test).  I got the test and set off to work....  finished 40 minutes later and felt pretty good about it.  YIPPIE....

just goes to show... 

I am such a worry wart!!

Oh man!! When I get Kids... We are soooo doing this!! Like..... all the time!

P.A. (I won't warn you that it is long and has no photos)

Last week we went to Pennsylvania!!  I decided to go (I think) on maybe Wednesday then the following Monday morning, we hopped in the car and skidaddled.  GoodLooking's work sent him there to kinda see how his internship work is going and some other stuff.  He had the choice to fly or drive and with the money they pay out for driving, we decided to drive cause not only the money, I could go with him.  I decided that since my finals weren't till the week after, I could go.  The drive there was absolutely B-E-A-Utiful!  We love love love Virginia (which is interesting cause our dream retire land is Virginia Idaho (rolling hills, small town, GREEN, distinct seasons, and gorgamous).  Monday night we just chilled then

 Tuesday GoodLooking went to work and I slept in.  Then it started raining and it didn't stop...
Then on Wednesday, it started snowing... and didn't stop.... Unfortunately, I only brought my running shoes... That is bad because the running shoes breathe. We drove to this little old coal mining town.  It was so picturESQUE.  Cute little homes and hills, and a bar, and people and all that.

Then on Thursday, it kept snowing.... and didn't stop... We went to the Pennsylvania Incline Plane (a.k.a. The Worlds Slowest Roller Coaster) ha.  It was really cool and made my ears pop both ways.
 I also went to JoAnns and got some cute 12X12 paper for like 5 1/2 cents a page

Then on (I think it was misty snowing still) Friday, we left.  It snowed A WHOLE HEAP!! (and I thought I would not see snow again this year!!).. We stopped at Gettysburg and saw the sights and it is really humbling to see the bloodiest battle grounds in US history.  So many people died there.  In school when you learn about these places it's kinda just "oh yeah Gettysburg... some guys fought there and the North Started winning and something about something else"  BUT actually going....It's like going to conference for the first time and being in the same room with the Prophet... it make is more real.

When I decided I was going with to P.A., I also decided I wanted to go camping (keep in mind it wasn't snowing when I made that decision (also keep in mind that is the same thing as planning a menu and saying "I'm not hungry now so maybe we will just have dessert")).  On the way home, we stopped in Tennessee (I think) set up the fire and ate dogs then had our smores (chocolate covered grahms and HUGE mallows)... It was really cold!.. Then we set up the tent and got that air mattress up. Got into bed and...... I could NOT stop shivering.  I made me cry even.  I really wanted to camp and I just could not get warm... I was soooo upset... GoodLooking finally said that we had to go to a hotel... So, we packed everything up real quick (like we rolled up the tent with everything in it and shoved it in the SUV) and went to the closest hotel paid probably like half my pinky toe and slept really well (which was good cause we had another 8 hours to drive (so maybe we were inn Virginia).

We finally got home in time to shower and go to the Christmas Party which was a lot of fun.