...IS EXHAUSTING!! And the sad part is, I feel like I should be doing even MORE than I'm doing. I go to lecture all morning, come home, have some lunch, run a couple errands or take a 30 minute dip in the pool to revive from the ever-so-exciting lecture, then sit at my desk and do question after question and review outline after outline. My back hurts b/c I haven't found a chiropracter here and sitting in a chair all day isn't the best thing for your back. My head feels like it is about to explode with information, and I'm trying my best to keep it all in my tiny little brain for a few more weeks. I can't wait until 5:00 July 25th b/c then this will all be over! (but for some crazy reason, I am going to do this to myself two more times with the Nevada and Utah bars)
Anyway, since I've been studying, I haven't blogged...not like there is much to blog about anyway. Nobody wants to hear about how I learned that FL is a comparative negligence state, yahoo, yay, big freaking deal! BUT, on Friday, I decided to let my brain have a little relaxation so we invited two couples over for game night - Bryce and Brittni again and Steve and Emilee (another optometry student in our ward). We played Taboo (boys vs. girls and the boys beat us in the very end; not bitter or anything!), Clue (which I won in a matter of 15 minutes by pure skill...ok...maybe it was luck), and Spoons, which Elliott totally lost. haha. I made some new cookies for the event. They had crushed up Andes mints in them...YUM! YUM! YUM! - the recipe is on the back of the Andes mints bag found in the bakery isle of the grocery store...go find it and make em, cuz they were delicious. Not one cookie was left after that night! Then we all chatted for a while and Steve and Emilee decided to leave. Bryce and Brittni (who we are totally becoming great friends with) stayed and we rented a movie from our TV - Catch and Release. Just okay if you ask me. But, it was super fun having them all over! I'm so happy that there are other couples in optometry school, and especially without kids. Not that kids are bad, it's just easier to hang out with couples without kids when you don't have em either. I really like Steve and Emilee too, but we seem to click better with Bryce and Brittni. We are already planning a trip to Universal Studios with them once I take the bar. They invited us over next weekend for a BBQ, which I'm totally hoping Elliott doesn't have to work so we can go. Anyway, I am super excited to have such great friends!
Saturday was just work for Elliott and studying for me. Sunday was church, then work for Elliott and me avoiding studying. Oh, but Elliott does have another calling! He is also a ward missionary, which he seems pretty excited about b/c he loves missionary work. Bryce is also a ward missionary, so that's nice since they are already buddies.
Ok, enough procrastination for yet more bar questions.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
Weekend happenings
Wow, two blogs in one day...that can only mean that I am (1) super behind in the blog world, and (2) I am totally procrastinating more practice bar questions - I am so sick of studying already! Oh well, almost over.
Anyway, I thought I should report about my weekend since it was such a nice break from the ordinary sleep-in, study, Elliott goes to work, sort of weekend. Elliott has not had a weekend off since he started working here. It's been kinda nice b/c I just study and get a lot done while he's gone, but nevertheless, I still miss him. He had this Saturday off, so we decided to make plans even though I had a bazillion assignments to do. We decided to call up our new-found friends Bryce and Britney. Bryce is an optometry student who started last year, but is in the part-time program so he will be graduating with Elliott. They are in our ward. Our original plan was to meet at 10:00 at our house and then we'd all go to the beach that is 15 minutes away. (Nice, huh?) Well, of course, the weather had different plans for us. Usually it is sunny in the morning and rains in the afternoon, so we thought we'd get by going at 10:00, but no. So we nixed that plan. Since I had already made all the food for our picnic at the beach, we decided to have them over for lunch and then go to a movie. Lunch was great, they liked my cooking (who doesn't ;) ) and it was really nice to get to know more about them. Then they told us about this other movie theater that is nicer than the one closer to us and is connected to yet another HUGE mall. We decided to go to that one instead since it was only 15 minutes away and we had never been there. This mall was the coolest mall ever. It had all of the fancy, high-end stores that you can't afford, but it also had the cheaper stores too. Plus it had Pottery Barn, Williams-Sonoma, Crate and Barrel, Restoration Hardware, and pretty much every other store you could think of. We window shopped for a while and saw "Oceans 13" there. Good movie, I recommend it. By the time we were done with all that, it was dinner time, so we went to this Mexican restaurant that they recommended. It was REALLY yummy, and was just what we wanted since we haven't been able to find good Mexican food around here - no Robertos in FL...boo hoo....(for elliott anyway, i don't mind that much). So then we returned to our house and just kept talking and talking. I decided that they are going to be great friends. We have so much in common between the four of us. I'm super excited that we have such a great couple friend already! It makes it feel more like home.
Then on Sunday, Elliott had to work a double shift since it was Father's Day. I had to substitute primary for the 3rd week in a row, and since the primary presidency got to know me these last three weeks, they thought they'd just call me as a teacher...so now I am going to be the permanent CTR 6 teacher. I'm actually pretty happy about that b/c Britney is also in there along with Emilee, another wife of an optometry student. I think it'll be fun to get to know everyone even in primary. Elliott also got a calling...it's a weird one....he is a zone leader for hurricane relief! hahaha! I thought this was SO FUNNY because of ALL people who should know about hurricane relief, Elliott and I are the LAST ones to go to! hahaha! I guess he has a group of people he has to call before/after a hurricane to make sure they are okay and have food, water, ice, etc. Crazy calling - definitely not one in the west!
I got way behind in my studies this weekend, but it was well worth it. I'll catch up during this week. I had such a great time getting to know another couple and spending time with my hubby. I'm beginning to REALLY enjoy living here, despite all the rain and being away from my family and closest friends.
Anyway, I thought I should report about my weekend since it was such a nice break from the ordinary sleep-in, study, Elliott goes to work, sort of weekend. Elliott has not had a weekend off since he started working here. It's been kinda nice b/c I just study and get a lot done while he's gone, but nevertheless, I still miss him. He had this Saturday off, so we decided to make plans even though I had a bazillion assignments to do. We decided to call up our new-found friends Bryce and Britney. Bryce is an optometry student who started last year, but is in the part-time program so he will be graduating with Elliott. They are in our ward. Our original plan was to meet at 10:00 at our house and then we'd all go to the beach that is 15 minutes away. (Nice, huh?) Well, of course, the weather had different plans for us. Usually it is sunny in the morning and rains in the afternoon, so we thought we'd get by going at 10:00, but no. So we nixed that plan. Since I had already made all the food for our picnic at the beach, we decided to have them over for lunch and then go to a movie. Lunch was great, they liked my cooking (who doesn't ;) ) and it was really nice to get to know more about them. Then they told us about this other movie theater that is nicer than the one closer to us and is connected to yet another HUGE mall. We decided to go to that one instead since it was only 15 minutes away and we had never been there. This mall was the coolest mall ever. It had all of the fancy, high-end stores that you can't afford, but it also had the cheaper stores too. Plus it had Pottery Barn, Williams-Sonoma, Crate and Barrel, Restoration Hardware, and pretty much every other store you could think of. We window shopped for a while and saw "Oceans 13" there. Good movie, I recommend it. By the time we were done with all that, it was dinner time, so we went to this Mexican restaurant that they recommended. It was REALLY yummy, and was just what we wanted since we haven't been able to find good Mexican food around here - no Robertos in FL...boo hoo....(for elliott anyway, i don't mind that much). So then we returned to our house and just kept talking and talking. I decided that they are going to be great friends. We have so much in common between the four of us. I'm super excited that we have such a great couple friend already! It makes it feel more like home.
Then on Sunday, Elliott had to work a double shift since it was Father's Day. I had to substitute primary for the 3rd week in a row, and since the primary presidency got to know me these last three weeks, they thought they'd just call me as a teacher...so now I am going to be the permanent CTR 6 teacher. I'm actually pretty happy about that b/c Britney is also in there along with Emilee, another wife of an optometry student. I think it'll be fun to get to know everyone even in primary. Elliott also got a calling...it's a weird one....he is a zone leader for hurricane relief! hahaha! I thought this was SO FUNNY because of ALL people who should know about hurricane relief, Elliott and I are the LAST ones to go to! hahaha! I guess he has a group of people he has to call before/after a hurricane to make sure they are okay and have food, water, ice, etc. Crazy calling - definitely not one in the west!
I got way behind in my studies this weekend, but it was well worth it. I'll catch up during this week. I had such a great time getting to know another couple and spending time with my hubby. I'm beginning to REALLY enjoy living here, despite all the rain and being away from my family and closest friends.
Crocs!
I will be the first to admit that I have hated those Crocs shoes since they came out. I mean, they look like shoes to wear maybe for gardening. I do like them on little kids, though. But whenever I see an adult wearing them, I always ask "What were they thinking!??" Well, now I (as well as Elliott) are one of those people. Yes. We bought Crocs. I just have to say that I feel like a total goofball for wearing them, but they were MADE for Florida!! I swear they are the nicest shoes for the weather here. It rains EVERYDAY, and not just sprinkles, but like torrential downpour rain. And you get caught in it without an umbrella because it was sunny two minutes beforehand. So my shoes were getting all yucky, so we decided to buy some Crocs and try them out. I love them for here. You can walk in all those rivers in the roads and not care b/c your shoes will be just fine since they are rubber. Plus, they are pretty comfortable shoes, I must admit. And, I think they will be wonderful beach shoes b/c the sand will come off super easy. So I confess...I'm a Croc-wearing goofy looking Florida lady now! :) haha.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Sunday Adventure
We already had to give talks during sacrament meeting! Crazy! They called us on Wednesday and asked us to talk this Sunday, and since Elliott was the one to answer the phone, he said "Sure!" If it would have been me, well, I probably would've murmered about how little time that was to prepare (especially considering I am studying like 18 hours a day and still feel behind!). Lucky for me though, we just barely had to talk in our Vegas ward before we left, and no specific topic was given for today, so I used my old talk! Yes! (It's really kinda sad how much I enjoy taking the easy way out these days...) So anyway, I talked about the Book of Mormon and its translation. It seemed to go over well, I had people laughing and attentive and a lot of people came up afterwards to tell me I did a great job. Elliott was talking about the creation...and that's about all I know about his talk b/c my attention to him was averted (as was everyone else's attention who was anywhere close to the pulpit) because all of a sudden this HUGE, and I mean HUGE, cockroach started to crawl up the pulpit towards Elliott. And then it changed direction and started crawling on the railing towards ME! At which point it crawled on the other side of the railing so I couldn't see it. Then, before I knew it, this guy in the front row (Brandon is his name) finally noticed it. His wife saw it and quickly picked up their child and left the building. Then all of a sudden Brandon jumps like 2 feet off his chair because not only is this a huge cockroach, it is some freak of nature cockroach that flies/jumps right at Brandon! Everyone else jumps and makes a big commotion, and Brandon finally kills the cockroach. Meanwhile, poor Elliott is up there trying to talk about how great the creation is. I couldn't help but laugh. The creation was wonderful...except for the creation of enormous cockroaches that jump and cause disturbances in sacrament, of course. It was quite funny.
Friday, June 8, 2007
Images from our place!
Okay, I don't know why the captions aren't showing up on their own, but if you run your mouse underneath the pictures, they show up! And you can make it go faster by clicking the + on the bottom left corner of it...sorry! I'm learning! Enjoy!
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Desert Rat
This last weekend, mostly on Friday, I had the pleasure of experiencing my first "tropical depression." Not like sad depression, but you know, the weather term depression. Let me tell you...HOLY COW!! I HAVE NEVER SEEN SO MUCH RAIN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!! It rained and rained and rained and rained and...you get the point. And not just soft, little rain. No, it was big ol' fat rain that came down in sheets! There are canals and lakes EVERYWHERE here in Florida, and, well, now I know why. What a way to start off Hurricane season (which started on June 1st). This little desert rat is in for a huge climatic change! I just couldn't believe it, had to share. :)
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