Everything Is Set, at a Price of course!

I got an apartment today! It's even the one i wanted. Which I find surprising because it's the week before school is starting. That and it's only 250/month for a private room with WIFI included. Not bad at all! and it's just a block away from campus.
Last week I got to go in a "family" vacation to San Diego. I actually came back with a tan! (surprising no?) We had a blast and it was great getting to know my best friend's little brother. (he just got home from serving a 2 year LDS mission to Toronto, Canada.
We went to Sea World, the Wild Animal Park, the San Diego Zoo and the beach. (As well as a few other spots.) It was fun to go everywhere and take a ton of pictures! I'll add the pics as soon as I upload them! :)

 My best pic of a sting ray.

 Sea World! The killer whales were great!

This is the USS Midway. 

 Pretty sunsets on the coast! It was so nice!

 Everyone just strolling around the San Diego Zoo

 Koalas! This little guy to the left was really moving around, weird for a koala.

Well, back to reality. It's been a hectic and costly month! I paid off my car $625, then paid for an extra 1 credit class $305, then had to fix some valve and get an oil change $230. Today I realized that I need to register my car before the end of the month, $70ish. I also paid rent for Sept already, $300 (with deposit). Not to mention my text books that I had to order this week as well, a record low of $83.
Add it all up......drum roll......comes to a grand total of $1613(ish.) And that was all in this one month! eek! I really detest money!

Wahoo!!!!

Great things have been happening this week! 

So, Tuesday night I checked my application status and it said to contact the registrar's office. So I tried to a few times on Wednesday, but no one answered. It's ok though because later that day I get a fantabulous email! You have been accepted...Yay!!!! 

Next I got to start worrying about getting financial aid in time for school. So i send an email to the financial aid office. I get a reply twice. once from the guy in the office telling me that another email is on its way. (huh?) So in an hour or so I get another email. You've been awarded financial aid....Yay again!!!! So I don't have to worry about that now either. 

Now all I have to do is figure out my class schedule and where I'll be living. (bleh) Not my favorite thing to do. But I got two MAJOR things over with this week. (Might I say finally!)

Wonderful, awesome week! 

Oh yeah, and I won $100 at work too. :)

Grad School Delays

Waiting is a very difficult thing for me to do. I'm not an extremely patient person. 

At the end of May I applied for Grad school at USU and I've been waiting for a reply ever since. (I don't feel this to be a very good sign. I just want to know either way and the suspense is killing me. I finally hear back from the department head for which I want to apply. They told me that it's actually so and so of the department that is in charge of this, I'll pass it on to them. Aghhh! Not more waiting. Then 3 or so weeks more went by finally today, on a whim, I decided to-once again-check on the status of the application. What did it say? Contact the admission office! More circles. I just want a response. 

Though I really, really want to go back to USU. Also, I am uncertain what to do with myself if I am not accepted. (I'm trying to be optimistic. right)

And now I'm off to bed, hopefully I'll be able to sleep with the suspense. (I'll have to call tomorrow.) Wish me luck!

Sun Burned + Hat = OK Day

Today I spent roughly two hours of my time driving around the Pineview Reservoir looking for a young adult activity. Granted I was with my friend Rynda, so it was still an enjoyable experience. We even made fun of ourselves at one point. (Rynda and I get on swimmingly, and wished we could find the group to do just that!) Did you know that they charge ten dollars just to park at Pineview? Five seems adequate, right? It just seemed so steep of a price to park your car. Luckily the rangers at the toll booths were nice and let us drive around the lots looking for our group without paying. (Though we were given a time limit at one of the sites.) We eventually just gave up. Coming out of the small valley with little more than a sunburn. (I'm not used to being on the passenger side!) So we opted to go see Iron Man 2 instead. Decent movie really.

Another good thing that happened because of this trip was the finding of a decent hat! Granted I do not own the hat, as it belongs to my friend Rynda, but it exists! I have hope! There are hats out there big enough to cover all my hair and head! (I have a big head.) (And no, I don't mean the opinion of myself/ego.) A friend of hers made it for her. I was allowed to take it home to show my Allred mom. She's a crochet wiz and who knows maybe she'll help me make one. (or if she tires of my impatience she'll make one for me, but I'd like to try.) Rynda says she'd pay to have a few more like hers in more colors. 

Journal vs Blog

I've been trying to finally finish my journal. Thus being said, I've once again ignored my blog! Oh, so difficult, do I blog or go old fashioned and write in my journal? 

There are undoubtedly fans for both sides. I actually do lean towards blogging just for the fact that there is a spell check feature and I can choose the ink color without buying a new pen! But at the same time, I really like adding plane tickets and movie stubs to my journal page. This is not so easy of a task with blogs. You have to scan it in then save it where you can find it on the computer, finally you must upload it to the internet and hope that the file size fits or you'll have to adjust that too! *whew* so much just tot add the plane ticket or picture that proves you really were there!

Either way, I find it hard to keep up on such things. I'm always missing days then trying hopelessly to make up for it by adding multiple blogs at once! 

Done with April

So April was definitely a crazy car month. After almost dying on April Fools day, then losing a windshield wiper while driving in a rain storm. Last Friday just made things even better!

So, we're driving down to Price to go hiking at 9-Mile Canyon. We get to about Lehi when suddenly BAM! The window I'm sitting next to is gone. It was the strangest thing I've ever seen! I was looking out of it at the time. There one second and gone the next. There wasn't even that much glass in the van either. Luckily all I have to show for it is a couple small cuts on my right arm.

We stopped at a car wash and vacuumed up the little amount of glass actually in the car. Then we found a cardboard box and used duct tape to fill in the gap. It worked rather well.

(according to the repairman- air pressure probably forced the window outwards. strange huh?)

Undecided

So, what should I do now? I fell that teaching Elementary isn't right for me. I can do it. I just don't feel like it fits me. Should I go after a librarian certificate? Teach choir, history, something like that? Ugh! I just don't know what to do!

I love learning, is there a profession where I can continue to do that? :)

I just feel like I've been backed into a corner of sorts. I know I don't want to stay in this corner, I don't feel comfortable here. I need to find a place that suits me. What can I spend the rest of my life doing, and it will keep me happy? (obvious answer, reading!)

...Any suggestions? Seriously. My mom and a few others have told me to just teach for a little while anyway. But I don't want to teach elementary. They're cute kids and all, i just don't like where education is headed right now, with merit pay, lack of funding, etc. *sigh* I just don't know!