Life

Yes I’m still alive, I’ve just been really busy. School has been going great! There are still times when I think ‘what am I doing here?’ but then I get to practicum and realize what the point is :P. I really think that I made the right choice in staying here, this is truly what I want to do for the rest of my life….i just have to make it through the next two years.


Living on my own has gotten easier; I still go home at least once a week but I don’t miss it as often as I used to. Although it is still nice to go home and eat a nice meal and hang out with my family :)I think what makes it easier to live on my own is my roommates, we all get along really well and haven’t fought at all. It’s pretty sweet that we can hang out and talk about anything, even at two in the morning :P.

In other news I felt like yesterday was a very productive day. I got home worked on my English assignment which I am almost finished, I did my video quiz, started on my paper on developmentally appropriate practices, and went to institute. I even went to bed early! That hardly ever happens now a days. But I hope to be almost done the developmental practices paper by tomorrow so that I can watch conference this weekend :D

Ohh and I bought a new more relaible car. It seems to be working which is a good sign :P haha

Well that’s about it for now, hopefully I’ll have time in the near future to update again.

Goodbye Car

Dear Car,
I'm sorry but we have to sell you, you're just to demanding. I need a reliable car and I'm sorry but you're not cutting it. Please don't take it to harshly, I'm sure there's someone out there that would love to take you. Can't say that I'll miss you,
Julie Marie O'Brien

Moved In :)

So I survived the past week! I moved all my stuff in and finished my first few days of post seccondary education :) Anyways here's a tour of my house!!

This is my sleeping area (bedspread and rug found in Denver!)

My tiny closet

My bathroom :)

My kitchen.

My shoe rack

There will be more to come in the next few weeks but right now I have homework to do and instead I`m on here...I better go :P But I`ll try to do better at posting things on my blog. Night everyone!!!

Moving on

I am happy to report that I found a place to move into! It's not im my current ward but it is in the same stake so it won't be completly new. By this time next week I will have finished my first few days of school, be moved in, and hopefully be pretty good at cooking my own meals. I am so excited that I am moving on and vernturing out on my own, I'm sure it will be a reality check but I am ready to learn!

Oh and today I went to the dentist and had a funny conversation with him concerning my wisdom teeth.
Dentist: How old are you?
Me: 19
Dentist: Oh so old enough to get your wisdom teeth out
Me: Ya....
Dentist: It's not an emergency or anything but if ever you get bored and you have 2 ot 3 days to relax, you can make an apointment to get your wisdom teeth out (smiles really big at me), wouldn't that be exciting?

It's very unlikely that I will EVER get so bored that I'm willing to put myself through that, but I guess I'll have to do it eventually...maybe in May :P

One year ago I didn't know what I wanted.
I thought that I would be going to BYU-I for who knows what degree.
I wasn't happy with where I was in life.
Also working at the store wasn't doing much for my overal mood.

 It's amazing what can happen in one year, I'm heading to school in a week for my Early Childhood Education Certificate. I am happy with my decision to stay here and am excited to start college life!  I've had a great time working with all the kids at daycare and am actually pretty sad to leave them. But who knows in another two years I could be working with them again, I guess what I've learned this year is that you can't plan to much ahead because nothing seems to go the way you want it to. I'm not saying that I'm glad my life is ending up this way I am actually quite happy it did, it's just not what I expected :P I just had to learn to put my faith in the Lord and believe that he will lead me to where I'm meant to go.

So what ever is in store for me in the next year, what ever life throws at me, I have to trust that I'll be ready.

Summer

I realized that it has been one month since I last blogged...ooops :P Summer is almost over! I can't believe that school starts up soon and fall is just around the corner...but anyways I'll tell you what I've been up to lately.

So this month has just consisted of work, work and more work with a few ocasional trips to Lethbridge, don't get me wrong I love my job but sometimes it can be a little bit draining. As you can imagine children have a few minor mood swings. But anyways a week ago we picked my brother up from EFY and I have to say it was sad not being there with him, I went for five years and this year I couldn't go :( I love the experiences that happen there and the friends you make. Hopefully next year I can go as a counselor and then I can keep my lights on till ELEVEN THIRTY, I know it'll be pretty awesome.

I also bought a parking pass for school and am heading to the College this afternoon to pick up my books, which means I am a College student!! I'm pretty excited to start this new chapter and hopefully it will be a good one. I am most likely moving out in the next few weeks as well. I don't know how I can live at home and be able to get all the stuff done for school, I'm sure I could do it but spending 40 mintues in traveling time every day could add up.

Oh and guess what? My family and I are heading to Denver tomorrow!!! I'm pretty stoked to go (not for the drive because that will be long and boring) because I get to see my cousins again, that will be twice this summer :) Charlotte will be home so I get to spend some time with her before she enters married land and doesn't get to see us much, not that she saw us much before but you know :P.

That's been my summer, not really exciting but I did make money and am almost ready for school :). Wish me luck!

Yuck

TMI Warning; This post is not for people who have a weak stomach, so reader discretion is advised.

I've avoided blogging about this because to it's some what gross and at the time I didn't want people to know but since it's sbout the only exciting thing that's happened since my cousins left I thought what the heck. SoOo about a week and a half ago I was coming down with what I thought as a cold since I never have allergies, now it makes sense that it was allergies but at the time it never crossed my mind.

Anyways my tuesday was like any other one, I went to work, came home, facebooked for a bit then sat down for dinner. As I sat down and was about to take a bite of my chocolate chip pancake I sneezed (harmless right?) Well it wasn't harmless, right after I sneezed blood started coming out of my nose, so I went to the bathroom and tried to make it stop; normally it takes five mintues max for it to stop, not this time!!

It only got worse, it was pouring, literally pouring out of both nostils and all I could see was blood pooling in my sink. At this point (it's been 15 mintues now) my mom is starting to panic, she called my neighbour who is registered in first aid and asked her what we should do. She told us to get to the hospital to see if they can stop it. Right after she hung up the phone my dad gave me a blessing so that I wouldn't faint or something, I don't even remember much of what was said, I was kinda freaking out at that point.

So we left for Raymond and luckily I have a mother who was willing to hand me tissues and hold a bucket so that I didn't get blood everywhere, you should've seen the bathroom sink...it was so nasty. Anyways by the time we got to the ER my nose had basically stopped and all the doctor needed to do was take a look at me to make sure I was alright. Durring the time I was there all I could think was "I cannot believe that I am in the ER for a stupid nose bleed", luckily there was no one there except the nusres and doctors to see my face covered in blood.

It turns out that taking Advil really does thin your blood because a couple days earlier I had taken some, mix that with hay fever and a really dry nose and you get a horrible nose bleed. I still can't believe that it lasted for about 45 minutes before it stopped...and that I wasted a perfectly good wash cloth on my nose. I would've taken a picture but I was to grossed out to show the world my lovely experience.

So moral of the story?? Don't take Advil durring allergy season.