Well, today I asked for work off so I could get a little bit of homework done. Surprise, surprise I got maybe an hours worth in. Even though I'm so close the the end I've had no ambition to just get everything out of the way. Truly if I just sat down I could get most everything out of the way but no I felt like watching a movie and going to the bookstore instead. At the bookstore I finally broke down and bought that Twilight book everyone has been obsessed over. I have a rule with myself that during the school year I can't read "fun" books. When I was younger I used to read so much my mom would have to hide my books so I'd even eat dinner. (you'd think that love would come to textbooks as well, but not so much). Anyway, it started getting popular beginning last school year so now I finally can do it. Of course I'll finish out all my finals and papers before I crack it open, I really shouldn't have even bought it until after that but not much I can do about it now. I also bought a book to help practice for the test to get into graduate school. Now, I'm not sure what I want to do after I graduate next spring, but I need to make some decisions pretty soon. I've wanted to do law school, but then I think I should get a master's in something else before that so really I'm up in the air at this moment. I also might work for a year or so, but then it's hard going back to school after that. I'll read over the book and see how I feel about it all. Also, I need to make some decisions pretty quick about what I"m doing this summer. Sooooo many choices and I truly have no idea what I should be doing. Generally I lean to something that I know I should be doing, but I feel everything that's available could be good for me. I wish I just had enough money to not worry about things and just be able to go to school. Haha in a perfect world right? Well, the more time that goes on the faster that decision will need to be made. It's interesting how it's almost like I"m being tested. I've written about it before where I used to super plan out my life and I've stopped doing that lately. I feel most of the things that have happened to me, like the good things, happen right at the end when I"m not expecting it, it's like my patience is being tested and that I'll have enough faith everything will work out. Anyway, I also went to the chiropractor today which was much needed but always makes me sore for two or three days after. I think about this all the time how other peoples backs feel. Now I don't want to go too far off on some tangent, but just like the pain I think I have is as bad as I think it is if that makes sense. Or if someone had my back for a day would they think it was horrible pain or I was just a baby about it. I don't voice my complaints too often with it, if someone asks I'll tell them and sometimes to my mom if I feel its been especially bad. I know a lot of it can be stress too, like something triggers it and the stress tightens it and keeps it in. I've tried to get into stretching and yoga but I'm not always the best at it. The doctor suggested today getting an exercise ball and he'd print me off things to do while on it. Anyway, I hope no one takes that as complaining but just a thought about how everyone handles things differently. Well besides that (whoa I almost just put nothing else exciting going on, but we all know my luck when I make that statement haha) I guess one update a friend from work said my little stalker note passer guy came in today. He went up to her and said where's the tall red head that sits down on the end. So, that means he doesn't know my name and I"m sooooo happy I wasn't there although worried he'll come tomorrow since he knew I had today off and should be there tomorrow. Its not that I"m afraid of him, I just don't know what to say if he says anything. We were joking and she should have told him yeah she got passed this really creepy note so they made her transfer to the Deseret First up in Sandy. Haha, but oh well maybe i'll start wearing that huge ring I have and tell him I eloped last weekend or something to some 6 foot 8 inch football player. Anyway, I need to get working on other stuff just giving you all an update.
So, since I haven't updated this for awhile I decided to attempt it while at work. I'm prewarning you if it seems scattered it's probably because I'll get interrupted have to come back, but lose my train of thought in the process. So, I'll tell you what I did this past weekend. Friday night I went to a chili cookoff for my ward party. It was...how you'd expect a ward party to be...no further details needed. After I went Latin dancing with some friends from work. I almost didn't go because I was so tired and my feet hurt from standing all afternoon making the chili, but I decided oh well I'll try it out. Besides some guys asking to take pictures of us (I stood back) it was pretty fun. I swear since I clogged for so many years my hips are trained to stay stationary and let my feet do the dancing. Well, you can't do that in Latin dancing. As soon as I got home I collapsed into bed haha and it was only like 1 am. Saturday, I didn't do too much during the day. (whew my boss just walked by I hide to hide the window) I took my dad out to take care of some stuff but that didn't last long before I thought I'd have to grab a puke bucket haha jk. I also helped Chalice start up the lawnmower, not a good idea when your back is sensitive to anything like that. Later that night I watched the amazing Jazz game. I love sports and depending during what season you ask me that is my favorite sport, so now it's basketball. Sunday I got up and went to church. I had prepared my lesson for primary and sat in there for all of sharing time and singing. I didn't have any kids but a few weeks before the primary president told me one little girl goes to nursery then likes to come in for the lesson, so I figured I better stay. She comes up to me and says you know you can go. I explained why I stayed and she had forgotten about that so we went to find the girls mom to ask what she wanted us to do. I also have a coteacher we tradeoff every other week. I guess she asked to be released to go to a singles ward. They asked if I"d be willing to become full time teacher since I only have max two little girls. One of them hasn't come in a few months and the other we're going to take it a week by week basis if she wants to come in or stay in nursery. So basically I have to prepare a lesson each week, but I may not give it. We had dinner that night and I had put homework off all weekend so I was up until around 1 finishing it. Monday I went to work and class. I finally got all my verification stuff taken care of at school, which was a huge relief because there were so many documents I had to gather up. I didn't do too much that afternoon except again watch the Jazz game. I really really really want to go to the game Thursday and hopefully I will. I went to two playoff games last year and it was so much fun. That brings me to today just sitting at work. It's been rather slow and people mainly doing basic things which is definitely good compared to other days, but I don't want to jinx myself. Well, lunch crowd is bound to hit soon so I"ll leave it at this.
Well when I should be doing about ten trillion other things I thought you all would enjoy an update since I didn't get the chance yesterday and I didn't want 10 emails about why I didn't do it. I'm ok no worries I just have been busy. So, I"ll take you back to yesterday I went to work although truthfully my mind wasn't there whatsoever, I had a bunch of other things I needed to take care of. This was the day of my presentation and although I was up late the night before looking over things I just wasn't as comfortable with the topic and it is a much larger class then the one I did the presentation for last week. To make matters wore when we were finishing up last minute details outside of the classroom the teacher walks out with three students who presented last week. I only heard bits of the conversation but the basic story was part of their paper(we have to write a 5 page group paper along with the presentation) I guess was plagiarized. She was all I thought I recognized this I went online and found the exact copy verbatim. Now, I'm not sure if this was a group decision to copy or one student putting their piece as that and the others didn't know. It totally scared me because I've been in tons of groups and even this one we each wrote our own piece then someone just transitioned it together. I wouldn't know if someone else got their stuff from the internet. I have no idea what will happen because the University has very strict policies to the point of failing the course or being kicked out so who knows. So, after hearing this it was in the back of my mind the entire presentation. I did ok, although I mostly read from my notes but one other girl who didn't show up for our last meeting and is rarely in class when she was doing her part froze midsentence and was shaking. She had to sit down and someone else finished. There are a lot of outspoken people in class but our group didn't get any of them. We all finished our parts in like 20 minutes but luckily we did a class discussion which dragged it to about 40 so we called it good. I then went to take care of some things at the financial aid office. I was turning in an application for summer aid and the girl told me I received my maximum fall and spring because of the tuition scholarship I had. I was pretty mad because I really wasn't budgeting to pay for summer tuition I know next year the scholarship I have will pay for about half tuition all year so I'm ok to pay the other part, but now I"m not sure I can afford summer. I'm going through many debates on what to do. I could just get a full time job that pays more then I get now and work like crazy through the summer without doing school. By the time fall/spring come around I can go to school like crazy taking a ton of hours and not work, but live off what I make this summer then I'll still be able to graduate in spring. Another option get an internship like I was talking about and only take one class although the frustrating thing is you have to pay all the fees upfront so one class is about a thousand bucks. Another option just stick with the job I have but work a little more. The last two options I'm not sure if I can graduate when I want to, it might drag out another semester which I"m not sure if I want to do that, we'll see what plays out. I then headed home and just caught up on some things I needed to do here. My dad had knee surgery yesterday so he got home not to long after that. My mom and grandpa had helped him at the hospital and we had to get him situated here and hooked up to some sort of machine. It was pretty cool because the doctor who did his operation operated on Tiger Woods knee the day before. Anyway, my mom went to a bookclub meeting so we just hung out here although he kept getting visitors and people calling. We also had the Jazz game on, wow that was a sad game but hey they're still in the playoffs I guess. I then just went to bed. This morning I also had to help get him situated downstairs and was a little late to work which I felt bad about but that's how life goes. I worked and now I"m home. I think I"m going to a wedding reception tonight and then I need to start my massive amount of homework. I asked for next Wednesday off and I got it so I'm pretty happy I can get a lot of stuff taken care of. I've got so many decision to make within the next few weeks and its scary but we'll see how things go. Another crazy thing happened at work. So I'm not meaning to go all crazy spiritual or anything but it was pretty cool. So, we're supposed to get at least one upsell a month at work. You think not so hard but sometimes it is just because we get really busy and it's scary to ask if they are interested in our products. So anyway today a kid came in with only $100 overdraft, which isn't very much at all. It counts as an upsell if we ask to increase it I did and he wanted to. I was very excited because he even stayed to fill out the application sometimes we can get them interested in it, but they never bring the application back. I'll know probably early next week but more then likely something like that will be approved especially because he already has one with us. Also, we are promoting our super low auto rates right now 4.9% I know come see me if you want this sweet deal. We have a bunch of flags around our branch and a member in drive thru asked if there's a race going on. I told him about the low rates and if he was interested. He said sure so I was able to give him an application. Now, two possible upsells in one day is pretty crazy good. THe whole reason why is earlier this morning I was thinking it's nearing the end of the month and I knew I didn't have anything. I said a little prayer that I could have some luck getting anything for this month. Now think of that two in one day??? I don't think it's coincidence. Anyway, all in all pretty good day so far hope you all enjoy your day!
Well, I sit here at 11:00 at night my body a little more anxious then it should be. Its tax day and well frankly just plain not fun day at my house. Now me, being the on top of things person I am, filed my taxes months ago(well honestly I knew I would get a refund so I wanted my money) At least there's only an hour left of it and hopefully no one will be grumpy about it tomorrow. So today I went to work as usual although I was running extremely behind. Chalice and I sat and talked this morning for like 20 minutes, making us both very late but neither of us felt like getting ready. Because of that I had absolutely no time to pack a lunch so I had to break down and get some Wendys on my lunch break. Now, I have to give another frustration so I'm in the drive-thru and I order a chicken sandwich combo with potato instead of the fries(at least try and be a little healthy plus I'm not the biggest fry lover) so the screen comes up with baconator. I"m like uhh whoa I don't want that(I was nice about it, but I mean if I ate one of those wow I'd still be sick) So she's like oh ok we got it and I pull up and get my food. I'm sitting there eating it back at work look at the receipt and realized I got charged for the baconator like two bucks more then my meal. I was mad, but didn't have time to go back plus I didn't care that much so anyway that was a midday frustration. Work was slow in the morning but picked up towards the afternoon, I think everyone trying to do last minute tax stuff. I finished up the day getting out of there a little bit late to come home to some fabulous homework. Tomorrow is the big day of our presentation and I have to go first introducing the topic and talking about privacy in relation to global media and the role in the state protecting intellectual property. I do ok giving presentations, but not generally my thing especially a 45 minute long one. Since I am going first I do have the advantage of not having to take up so much time because there's people behind me who can fill in if I don't get it all in. I"ll let you know how it goes. I also have been trying to get some paperwork together so I can run errands around campus getting some things straightened up and taken care of. I also have been finishing filling out an internship application for KSL. At work today, well I've been thinking about leaving so I can take on an internship. With my field I know I have to have experience to even compete. I figure I need to get in now as a student and then with the scholarship to back me up I"ll be in a really good position. I guess there are some people from out of the city branches who are going to be here for the summer and wondering if any position has opened up. I've talked about it outside of the work setting just getting ideas about what I could do and honestly I haven't made a final decision. I've been worried about quitting because I feel bad since they've accommodated my schedule this semester. However, this is a really good opportunity for me. One of the internships is with KSL studio 5 and the other is with KUED working on an event in September. I have no idea what to expect, but I"m excited to try something new and get into real world experience within my career. I've been busy with finishing this semester it's been hard looking into stuff but when I'm at school tomorrow I'll run into the department and check out internships their binder has(since I used to work there and I put it all together) Well, that's about where I'm at in life. No word on stalker, ummm what else needs updating not sure anyway, I hope you all are getting to bed and reading this Wednesday instead of when I post it 11:30 on Tuesday night.
I was having some minor frustrations today so I thought I'd get them off my chest here(in no particular order). So today I was walking along and all the suddenly I hear a pop and my purse strap breaks on one side. Of course it has to happen in the exact middle of the day so I have to carry it around looking like an idiot and don't know how a purse works. I'm also one of those people who carries their life in a purse, so that doesn't help either. Next cold sores. So, last week I had one coming on so I quickly put Abreva on it. Now I've been battling them my entire life and every sort of medicine I use no matter what doesn't work. Finally Abreva came out and works but you have to catch it at the tingle of one coming on and it just lessens the time doesn't make it not come at all and probably the biggest problem it's like 15 bucks for a little tiny tube. So anyway that came on and right as it went away I got seriously like five of them on my bottom lip. Luckily I had been using the Abreva so none of them got to bad although one on the outside of my lip started to break out but I think the worst is over. They're just so annoying because they look gross and they hurt/itch. Another frustration comes while driving. I hate when people either A. slam on their breaks on the freeway or B. wait until the last second to stop for a car and then have to slam on their brakes on the road and since I'm so little and can't see around them I always end up slamming on my breaks too. Now, I love taking pictures of weird things while I"m driving. Another thing today I was behind this huge truck with all this wood in the back and guess what was holding it in. Some tiny little bungee cord on the bottom stack of wood. If he had to slam on his brakes or something its going to come flying off and hit me in my little baby car. After the accidents I've been in I've seriously thought of getting a bigger car but frankly I don't want to have a car payment for this last year I'm in school. Side note of taking pictures I have some funny ones like a license plate that said sexyboy this kid in a BMW in February with the top down and sunglasses. I didn't get a picture but I saw a cop car one time that said donated by your local Walmart, I've also found several funny pictures on the sides of cars. Or those little stickers of stick people representing people in the family haha one time I found a van and it had to be polygamous or something. There was one called Big Poppa and then all these wives in order then children. I just think it's hilarious what you can find just driving normal everyday routes. After getting into this I realize what a hater I sound like, but most of it is stuff that makes me laugh. Oh I thought of another one when I try to connect to the wireless at school oooh or the library that's the worse and really I'm just trying to check email before class but it takes like an hour to load so I'm halfway through the lecture when it finally takes. Anyway that is definitely enough rambling about pretty much nothing for the day. I changed out my purse, put some abreva on my lip and have yet to die from people not securing their loads on the freeway haha.
Well, my day started with a 4:30 text although truthfully I wasn't sleeping that well before. I didn't get to bed until midnight because of homework then I was having horrible nightmares about the stupid guy from my work like stalking me even finding this blog and yeah I'll just say it was a not fun nightmare. I then tossed and turned until I had to get up go to work. Speaking of him my manager asked me his name and account number, that's all I know about it I'm not sure if they'll call him or what will go on luckily he didn't come in today. I also help set up a display for our promotion this quarter of low auto loan rates. They are actually really low I thought briefly about doing it, but I really don't want another car payment. I then went to school both classes my first one she walks in and says I've noticed you guys haven't been doing the reading lately I have two options. Either pop quiz or I'll split you up into groups of two to discuss a part then present to the class. So, that's what we did she gave us a statement from the book and it either said agree or disagree and then another group in class had the other half of it. We then got up and presented/debated on the topic. Luckily I was with a kid who likes to speak because I sure don't. We had to think outside of the box because it was disagreeing with the book and actually disagreeing with how we both felt about the topic. My next class we had two final group presentations, not much to say there. As I was coming home I decided I deserved a treat because I made it through the day(I know sounds dumb but oh well) So, my treats usually are a fountain drink diet coke or sugar cookie. I've been soooo good about "watching what I eat" lately(I refuse to call it a diet) and working out more with doing yoga and running on the treadmill, so I opted for the diet coke. It was sonic's happy hour time so drinks are half price mmmm can't beat a diet coke from there with their ice. I have been really good with what I eat lately and not getting so much fast food(not only because it's bad for you but also the money). And it paid off last week when I went to the doctor I had lost 10 pounds since when I had been in February, I was pretty proud of myself. Anyway, I then came home and since I had a granola bar I decided I needed a little more for lunch so I had a leftover hotdog and a little bit of funeral potatos(even though I'm watching what I eat I still make sure I eat something for every meal of the day, I can't function unless I eat something even very small) Now I'm about to start homework, I know story of my life, and then I have to run back up to school at 7:30 to finalize a group project I'm doing on Wednesday. I really don't even want to begin my frustrations with this group and I know this meeting will be pointless, but oh well I'm not saying anything. After that I'll probably go tanning, I haven't been in almost two weeks and I'm sort of starting to lose it plus it's so relaxing I need something. That looks about it for my plans. I really want to watch the Jazz game tonight, but I"m not sure if that will work out with the time of everything so we'll see. I'm trying to think I know there was something else of importance that happened today, but it's not coming to me maybe you'll see another post later about it anyway happy reading.
Well the title pretty much describes my mood at this moment. Ever since I forgot that assignment last week I've been freaked I'm forgetting all this other stuff and in turn it's just given me no motivation to do anything because I realize exactly how much I have to do. I've thought about planning out my life to the minute like I used to do, but somehow I don't think that's the answer. Maybe I should do it with homework. I seriously when I was in high school and my first two years of college I would write out hours and pre-fill them in with work or times I was in class and then I would make a list of all the big assignments I had to get done that week or work on. It would be even so detailed that from 4:00-5:00 I worked on the reading assignment due the next day. Now this in itself took at least an hour each week to compile. The great thing about it was when I had time to do homework during work I would then have that time when I had scheduled it originally as free time. With this system I never forgot to do anything and in fact most things got done and redone, but I also had a job with a lot of time to do homework. After I stopped doing it I realized how much I stressed over sticking straight to that schedule. I've totally loosened up lately and although most people would disagree I've started to be more spontaneous(at least for KayCee). Anyway, that's what I'm up to this second is listening to music thinking I should do my homework, but really not having a desire to because I have so much of it. Last night we went to Outback. I got the prime rib and I swear it was still raw, but the potato and everything else was amazingly delicious. We also went to Deseret Book. I got the new book from President Hinckley My Dear Sisters and I've already read through all of it. It really is a neat book of small quotes I also got another one similar to it called One Bright Shining Hope and then a book called Finding the Angel Within. Neither of the last two I've looked at yet. Well that's about it(I almost just typed out nothing too exciting going on, but I've definitely learned my lesson) Everyone enjoy their Sunday and I'll get back to actually doing my homework.
Today I went and got my hair done. I know it was only two months ago since the last time but come to find out when I got it colored it was kind that fades away and isn't permanent so that's the reason it really didn't last that long, thought you all might like to know. Anyway so I'm going to post a picture of what I looked last night(the flipped out hair) that was my punkish style for the U after party I went to last night. I then got up went to work, looking no where near that, and then went to get my new hair done(the......mushroom haircut) Now I must say I love the color and I like the cute, but I didn't like how the girl styled it. You should have seen what I looked like when I walked out of there before I sort of got to fix it. Wow, is all I can say. Like it was ok, but not me. Anyway, after I wash it tomorrow maybe I"ll post another one called, what KayCee will look like every other day of the year. I also choose the worst day to go it's every high school in the valley's prom tonight and there were millions of little teenage girls getting their hair done. Anyway, I've decided to keep this post short and sweet. I'm going out, probably to dinner with friends tonight I'll let you all know how everything goes.
So, I'm sitting in my room about to finalize my choices for fall semester because I have to register tonight when I thought I'd take a break and update you all on my life. As usual my morning started out going to work, I was a little late haha sorry to my work, but it was all good. My manager was also there and after discussing with my parents last night I knew I needed to tell him about creepy man's letter. He even laughed at it, although apologizing but I said you know it is really funny. I told him I didn't want to get the guy in trouble I just wanted to make sure someone was aware of it in case other things started happening and they wondered why I didn't tell them in the first place. He said he had never dealt with a situation where it was a much older man and he passed a note. He is going to contact the HR department and probably sit down with the guy him and someone from HR. I figured that's ok (well really I have no say in what happens now just telling them my story of it all) and really it is true what if he started doing other stuff like following me it's better to stop it now. He might figure it's not bothering me just because I haven't said anything to him like when he'll make small comments I just let it roll off my shoulder. So, I"ll keep you all updated on the status of what happens. It was funny my manager is like wow that's really something you need on your plate with finals and everything. I'm like I know, but it's probably because I jinxed myself from that other day saying how boring of a life I have. So that's that. He didn't come in today and yeah we just had a normal Friday. I got an email from the MUSS saying there's a party tonight at the U and I think I'm going to go to it if other people will go with me. It's not until like 10 so I'll have time to figure something out. Another exciting thing happened today in that I got an email from Bonneville about the scholarship I got. They posted our bios to their website(I'm pretty sure it's not on the news or anything but it is here, I'll link you to the website for those of you I didn't email it too. This is an excerpt from his email www.bonneville.com click on newsroom then scholarship winners and you'll find your students on that page). I'm honestly still in shock I got it, I look at previous winners and see where they're at with KSL now and I can't believe the networking this is going to offer me. Anyway that's about it for now. I"ll let you know how tonight goes. Oh yeah I almost forgot I'm getting my hair done tomorrow, I can't wait I"m going to go a little darker and also cut it the same style as before. Well I'm off.
Alright, I've after much debate decided to write about my entire day, but I'm just asking please no crazy responses back on what I should do, you'll see why in a minute. Ok, so my day started out just like any other I got up went to work, same old thing. Although at work this morning we got to test out the alarms-that's always fun. I'm going to skip the part that I referred to at the beginning and tell you about the rest of my day, then I"ll go back. So I got done with work and went to my doctor's appointment. I truly don't like the office, but it's too annoying to switch to another doctor. I got into his room and he walks in with a computer as I was talking to him he was trying to fix some problem on it. He then looks in my ear says yup there's buildup you know there are kits at the store that will fix this, but we'll go ahead and take care of it for you. I was like yeah you better I just paid 20 bucks to come here. He sends the nurse in and puts some sort of ear drop in my ear and tells me to let it sit like that for a bit. She came back like 10 minutes later and I thought I was going to chop my ear off the ringing was so bad. They then skirt this mixture into it. She had to do it three times there was so much in there. She even said wow that's pretty bad we could barely get it. I knew if I tried doing it myself like the doctor said I couldn't get it. Long story short I can finally hear out of my ear again although it's a little sensitive, but that will go away probably by tomorrow. It is because of allergies this happens which totally grosses me out, but I"m back on a prescription so it should all be good. Then I stopped to get gas and now I'm home about to start on homework. It's for that group project, I won't even begin my frustrations on it. This kid emailed me today and said I need it as soon as possible because he's putting the final paper together, but I can't do the conclusion without his part which he hasn't sent me yet. I'll just conclude off what everyone else tells me and hope it works. That's about my life up until now so I"ll go back to my story. So at work, there's this member that comes in a few times a week and will now only go to me. Everyone has at least one person like this for whatever reason they just get favorites. I've never done anything especially nice for him, he just kind of always seemed lonely and I would just talk to him, nothing special or for long periods just asked him how he was doing. So anyway the last few times he's come in he's gotten a little more friendly. LIke last time he asked how I was I said oh pretty good. He said well someone as pretty as you should be very good. I was like yeah and just laughed it off. SO today I had been back helping test our alarms and when I walked back out to help he had been standing off to the side and as soon as I walked out he came back up to me. Actually thinking about it I had been in the back getting money for a member at my station and he was waiting until I was done with him even though another girl was free. Anyway, he comes up and hands me an envelope he said just put it in your purse. On the front it said Read Someplace else. For later. I was a little worried but just put it aside and ran his transaction. He talked to me for a minute but all day long I was having trouble hearing so it wasn't long. As soon as he left I ran in the back and showed my friend Shelley I was like I dont want to read it and she said oh I will. So she opens it and it says I'll type out the entire letter so I won't confuse anything
Well, again I'm not promising a fabulous day so only read if you're ready to hear about the same thing as this entire week. My day started waking up to go to another just fabulous Wednesday morning training at work and then working until I needed to get to class. My first class was another group presentation, some parts were interesting I was just too tired to pay as much attention as I should have. My next class I had to give a presentation in. I was extremely nervous going into it, it's for that group analysis we did on ourselves. It was, going into it, one of the hardest things I've had to do analytically for school, but now that it's all over it's something I've learned the most from. I'm not going to get into details of it, that would take way more time then either of us want to spend, but it taught me to take a step back in the situations I'm in and really think about things on a deeper level. Our group was very nervous going into it that we didn't have enough information or that since we have been working so well together everyone would just think we're sugar-coating it. After the presentation it was left open to questions and we got a lot of great feedback, in the end I'm very happy with how it turned out. The best part about it is we only have 2 more big things due in there and then I'm done with that class, oh how I cannot wait. After that I came straight home and just sort of hung out for awhile. I looked into my homework and got some emails out of the way but nothing too exciting. My family was all gone for the night so I was on my own for everything. Ever since my I thought I was going to die stomach ache last week I haven't had an appetite. All I had to eat today was a donut and granola bar so I decided to go to the grocery store to see if anything would peak my interest. I decided on a fruit bowl, cottage cheese and string cheese I ate just a little of all and now I'm sitting here with another stomach ache. Who knows what's wrong I actually go to the doctor because when I wake up every morning I can't hear out of my ear, I'll just get it cleaned out, like the inside that I can't do, I've had it done several times a couple years ago its more just annoying but hopefully now that I'm on some allergy medicine I won't have any problems. I'm not sure if I want to bring my stomach problem up with the doctor, I've been in before a few times and all that happens is the same blood work gets run and they give me free samples of the same medicine that doesn't work. Anyway, hopefully it's just from stress and will get better after the semester ends. So that brings me to now, I'm about to start writing my conclusion portion to the paper I'm doing with the other group project, I must say I'm not too thrilled about it, I definitely do better working on my own things, but yeah that's about it for the day. I know nothing too exciting oh wait I do have a funny story. So for that group presentation one of my group members is on the basketball team he is married and there is another girl in our group also married. So, I"m the only single one. THe one who is on the basketball team introduced our group to the class and explained a little about us. For me he gets up there and is like this is KayCee she's a 20 year old, single and very available. I looked at him like what the heck dude it looked like I made him say that or something. I must admit it was funny and got a laugh. For him he admitted about himself that he loves old Saved by the Bell tv show episodes. Now if you look at this basketball player and then if you know that show I seriously couldn't believe it and it definitely got a much bigger laugh then mine. Anyway, that pretty much is it, I'd say that I'll look for something more exciting to happen tomorrow, but I don't want to put another curse on me like Monday's experience.
So I'm sitting here on my bed contemplating life. Am I doing exactly what KayCee Burnside needs to be doing at this moment in life? Ok, sorry I'll get out of the weird third person reflective questions. I'll first explain a little of my day, I woke up went to work, sounds pretty ordinary although today we all switched up stations that was something new. After work I decided I really needed an oil change so I went over to my favorite place the Jiffy Lube. I always laugh going there because I know they see me as this little incompetent girl and think they can sucker me into buying things my car really doesn't need, I never fall for it. My favorite is when they told me my car really needed a tire rotation and I had just bought tires like 2 weeks before. I also love how they open all the doors for you because you know they really don't want to, but they have to. Today the guy opened it for me and we were walking out of it, he was behind me. He then tried to jump in front of me to keep it open because I was like a foot taller then him. He ended up like tripping both of us, I just wanted to be like I promise you I can get the door and I'm not going to complain to your manager. Well I guess it's a nice service they provide and I really shouldn't complain about them so anyway I'm happy they do it and I pretty much the reason I go in there is so they can fill my wiperfluid up because I hate doing it. So moving on I then stopped at the best store DSW because I had a $10 off coupon after buying my other shoes. I really couldn't find anything I fell in love with. Deseret Book is next door so I stopped in there for quite awhile. I found a lot of books I liked, but with school and everything going on I just don't have the time to sit down and read for pleasure. I did buy an amazing eclair mmmmm it was tasty. I then came home and checked out my webct with all my homework and dundundun(or however that music would look typed out) I realized I forgot to turn in an assignment on Monday for my online class. I"ll be honest that is like the first time I"ve ever done that and I am still very upset at myself. I quickly did it and got it in for I think a 10% reduction in grade, but I mean its not worth fretting over too much it happened and I paid the consequence. I then worked on some other homework and had dinner I have a big group presentation tomorrow, remember analyzing our own group so stepping outside of it to present on it with different theories we find. We've come a long way and I feel fairly comfortable in it, although I'm still looking over everything. The reason I'm still up is because I"m having a hard time deciding what to do in life. I really need to go to summer school if I want to graduate next spring, but I'm not going to go for just one class, its not worth the money. After talking with my manager today I think he was expecting to work a little more this summer, something I"m not sure I can handle with another full semester load. It's just such hard choices to make. In some ways I feel guilty because he's worked with me this semester in letting me leave at 11:00 to get to a class I had to take to graduate and this was the only time it was offered. I'm not sure where life is going to take me, I think by this time next year especially every single day will feel like a roller coaster with different choices to make and what to do with my life. Well no worries I'm not making any drastic choices anytime soon, but I'll keep you all posted to what goes on. Well I'm out for now its already 11:15 and I've got another fun Wednesday morning meeting to get up for, believe me I can't wait!
Well, for those who haven't read the post right before this one make sure you do before you read this. I will never again say I had a boring day or I need something more exciting to happen. When I was jumping out of my car to go to class I thought I didn't have my phone with me so I quickly looked in my purse and there it was. I was running late so I was hurrying to class as fast as I could. There's a part I have to walk through where they're doing construction, there's always noise going on in that area and I thought I heard something in the trees, but I really didn't think much of it. I get to class and go to pull my phone out to put it on silent when I realized it wasn't there. I didn't really think too much of it, I figured when I thought I saw it in my purse it was maybe just my keys or something(remember earlier I said I left it in the car and I felt like I was missing a lifeline) Anyway, so I finished class and went to my car when I realized my phone wasn't in there. I dumped my purse, my bad, everything out looking for it when I realized it wasn't there. I decided to retrace my steps. I got all the way back to my first class, the first place I remembered not having it, but there was a class in there. I decided maybe if I called it someone would happen to answer it. So, I go to the little free campus phone and right as it's about to go to the message machine a guy answers. He's like hi are you looking for KayCee. I said yes and he goes on to explain how he found the phone and called a number on it(my house) and also emailed me. I guess he found it in that construction spot I was talking about. So, finally I said well I am KayCee and he said great let's get you your phone back. He works in a downtown office and said he'd go outside and wait for me. It was funny as soon as I pulled up he knew it was me(I guess a bug driving in some office complex tips you off) Anyway, I thanked him and when I got home I emailed him back asking if there was anything I could do for him since he had to leave his work to get it back to me I also asked how he knew my name and email. All he said was the campus directory so I still have no idea how he figured out my full name because to use that you need at least the last name to find anyone oh well I got it back and that's the most important part. I truly thought since it's an iPhone no way would someone turn it in. He easily could have sold it or kept it for himself so I guess all this time of being honest and doing the right thing has paid off. Moving on to another story so I was sitting waiting for my second class to start and this older woman also in the class comes over to me to show me pictures of her new granddaughter born last week. We were talking and she immediately said you're not married are you. I said nope I"m not. She then goes on to say she has a son also going to the U who's not married and she really wants him to be and how great of a guy he is. I kind of laughed to myself I don't know what I'd do if my mom went to the same school as me and tried setting me up with people in her classes. I just kind of smiled not really saying anything to her about it(I'm sure whoever the son is would just die if he knew his mom did that), but yeah we'll see if she brings it back up because she's never ever talked to me before today. Anyway, those are my stories for the day and I'm never again going to say it was boring for fear of what would happen.
I'm just sitting outside of my first class' lecture hall about to walk down to my next class. To be very honest I'm fighting everything inside of me to turn the other way and walk back to my car to just go home. I ran home when I left work before I came up to school because I wasn't feeling very good so I grabbed some medicine and let me tell you that was hard getting back in the car and coming up to school. Anyway, I just was bored I'm not getting any emails and I left my phone in the car so I can't even call or text anyone. I also don't have enough time to start any real homework. Today has been just like any other day nothing too exciting I think the highlight of it will be when I stop to get an oil change on my way home, or possibly the homework later tonight-I should hold a vote of what everyone thinks is the best. One sort of exciting thing was there was snow on the grass on campus when I got here. I couldn't believe it all I got by my house was rain. It pretty much stopped raining up here although I spent 5 minutes this morning looking for my umbrella because I didn't want to get stuck in a downpour especially since I have my computer with me. Wow, I must say this post is boring I promise I'll try and have one exciting thing this week to write about or maybe take an ordinary story and make it seem crazy exciting. Well, I better start that walk....I promise I'm going to class and not home.
Well, I don't have too much to write about today except I pretty much spent the entire day in bed watching conference and then eating dinner with my family and now back to my bed writing this blog. First, I wanted to put a bit about my grandparents in here. They're pretty much the most awesome grandparents ever. My grandpa has this email chain and I get about an average of five or so emails from him a day-really funny ones too if you want to get on his list let me know and I"ll let him know. My grandmother also has her own blog just like this one. I had to help her set it up and show her how to use it but now she's basically a pro at it. Since I know you're all dying to see it I'll link you over www.bettybroadhead.blogspot.com I know you'll enjoy it very much-and no worries she says I'm soon to be her next post in there. I hope she doesn't kill me for saying this but we just went to her 79th birthday party. Now, how many 79 year old grandma's out there do you know that have their own blog that's actually pretty cool. Heck I mean how many grandma's out there even know what a blog is? Also, she has her own cell phone and everything. Yeah, I know you all are pretty much jealous now that I have the most awesome grandparents in the world. Well, I better get back to homework and such it's the start of another fabulous week and I really didn't accomplish too much over the weekend-not a good sign, but happy reading and I'll see you all later.
Just a word of warning my Saturday wasn't the most exciting, but I decided to still write about it because I wasn't doing anything else too productive. It all started around 9:20 this morning when I was woken up by my sister JJ with a phone call. We talked until about 10:00 when I then decided to watch conference. It was really neat to see President Monson sustained in by everyone, a friend from my work got to go to that and I can't even imagine the feeling in that room. They asked if I'd be interested in going to the Gateway mall in between sessions of conference, I said sure why not so we went down there. It must have been my off day because we walked into several stores and I didn't see a single thing I liked. Oh, before going down there I had to go to Great Harvest to get a sugar cookie. I'm a complete sucker for them I joke that I'll have sugar cookies at my wedding instead of a cake I like them so much. Anyway, we left there and went back to JJ and Jacob's house so he could get his church clothes to go to Priesthood session and also so they could bring their own car out to our house. JJ and I then went shopping at South Towne mall. She found some excellent deals, but again it just wasn't my day for shopping. Later that night we went out to visit my Grandma and watched a Hillary Duff movie on TBS. Definitely not something I'd normally plan, but the tv was on that channel and it just sort of happened. You need to see those kind of movies every once in a while to make you realize you still have your favorites. So, see what I mean not a very eventful day and other things some people may find interesting happened, but I didn't entirely feel like typing it all out. I wish I could give all the readers some insight for the day, but truthfully I don't have anything. Oh wait I do have exciting news that paper I keep saying is due I finally finished and got turned in. You know it crossed off like one of the two million items on the list for final projects of this semester, but you know every little bit helps. I also last night started catching up on the sleep I missed out on the night before. I missed going to a movie I was planning on because I fell asleep and didn't wake up until it was halfway through, but at least I'm not quite so tired anymore. Well, I'm off for the night I need to be well rested to listen to conference in the morning and start thinking of posts I can do that would make things more interesting.
I was looking through all my pictures just barely-again avoiding the paper-and found this one. Joed took it for me for a press release on the scholarship. I had to give it to them in color, but he converted it to black and white for me. I've had mixed feelings on it. Sometimes I really like it other times I don't and I can't explain why. I see this picture as like a different part of me that I let the world see. I believe we all have different sides and some you're willing to show to certain people others you aren't. I believe this is how I present myself to everyone as a whole and why sometimes I like it sometimes I don't. It's not that I"m putting a front up, but that I'm not showing my whole self. I'm not sure maybe I'm just off in left field with this one, but just a thought I had.
Another day is soon approaching end and I am here again to give you all an update. Last night I went to my grandmother's birthday dinner. Most everyone in my family was there and we had a really good time. I had to leave a little early to work on some homework, but I still had the chance to visit with everyone. After I got home I stayed up until about 1:30 am writing this crazy paper. I started not feeling too good so I decided to head to bed. Well, needless to say I was up until 5:45 am with a stomachache that made my insides want to explode. Luckily, I have a good friend-haha Joed there I put your name in-who I text and by some miracle he was still up. We had a really good talk for like 2 hours that made me realize a lot of things in my life. It seemed like we were only talking for a short time though. After we hung up it took me a minute but I was finally able to get some sleep in before I had to go to work this morning. It was another day at the credit union, nothing too exciting happening-although that's probably a good thing anything too exciting there would consist of a robbery or something. Anyway, I am now home trying to finish the last little bit of this paper and then I want to take a nice long nap. I'm thinking about going to see Happy Valley it's a documentary on Provo, Utah and how it may seem like the perfect little town, but it's the number one place for teens and prescription drug abuse and how they overcome that in an LDS lifestyle. I'm not sure it depends if I can stay awake or not. It's not just that I"m tired from being up all night, but this paper is draining what little is left of my brain. Well I best get back to it.
Ok, I first want to start this blog out by saying please whoever is reading about me and doesn't know me personally don't blog about me and use me as your cute little example. I write this blog for my own family and friends. People who love me for me and aren't out there to critique my writing. IT'S A PERSONAL BLOG, do you understand that? I'm not on here to say I'm the best writer or whatever, but that doesn't mean you can go off writing things about me or saying I'm as ugly as my dog. I seriously don't understand it especially because you have no idea of my background. I am an A student and I am studying English. I consider myself a great writer in what I do for work and school. To tell you the truth most of these blogs are written when I have about five minutes to get out my entire day and I like to give details of everything. Anyway, next time I'll make sure to use really improper grammar and write an entire page on my dog. I think someone needs to take a chill pill and not analyze the world or better yet blog about all the people who blog about their dogs. I know the comment was left and your blog was just to egg me on, but it's a blog not a fancy law degree from Harvard. I'd actually like everyone who reads this to check out this nice gentleman's blog. Here's the link to his blog http://bloghata.blogspot.com/ I think they'd rather hear about my day then your pathetic ramblings of blogs and how insignificant they are.
Well, I sure am being friendly with the posts today, it makes up for all those comments I got from yesterday. I'll finish telling you about my day at school. I have this huge group project in my 5640 group communication class. I'll tell you a brief bit of what we have to do in this but I'm warning you its a little abstract and makes your brain hurt. We have been in the same 3 member group since the beginning of the semester in January. We now how to step back and analyze how are group performs tasks, its process, its models and cycles. We then need evidence to back up our findings. So basically we're analyzing and doing a report on something while we're making the report, yeah exactly my feelings it can make your brain hurt. Anyway, we've been collecting data for about 3 weeks now and over the last week we started finding research to back up what we found. Since I was the only one there in class on Monday I decided we really needed something to get the ball rolling for the presentation. We had all our evidence and research it was just really hard getting it into a form we could show the class. That is what I stayed up last night doing. So, that brings us to class today because I started the presentation we finally got a ton of work done. We were thinking we may have to meet this weekend which I was totally trying to avoid. Luckily, we got most everything sorted out and we'll just go over minor things and we'll be ready to present next Wednesday-I'll let you know how it goes. So that finished off my afternoon of course I stopped at the gas station and got me a fountain diet coke then came home to get ready for the banquet. I'll know explain what that is. The actual Department of Communication Awards Banquet is an annual event held at the LIttle America with a dinner and reception of honored alumni and presenting student scholarships for the upcoming year. Many of you may know I used to work in that department so I've been two years in the past, but I've always had to work at it handing out nametags and stuff. So finally my night came where I went as a scholarship recipient. I'll tell you how I got there. I remember it was on Valentine's Day I had gone down to Provo to go to an early dinner at the Orem chuck-a-rama with Joed when I called my mom to let her know what I was doing. She was like oh by the way there's a message on the machine for you about some KSL scholarship. I was like what??? are you serious? So she let me listen to it and it was exactly what I thought it was. When I used to work in the department this Bonneville/KSL/Rodney H. Brady scholarship was one of the most prestigious awarded. There are six nominees(its by nomination only) by a group of professors in the department. So when I heard I was nominated I was extremely excited. I had to fill out an extensive application as well as interview with six vice presidents of KSL and Bonneville. Being a 20 year old college student I was extremely nervous and truly thought there's no hope I got that and consider it amazing I was even nominated. The next day I opened my email at work to Congratulations! You've been awarded the scholarship. I seriously screamed at work I was so excited. I think I scared everyone, luckily our lobby wasn't yet open, but I really didn't think I'd get it. Anyway, that's what brings us to the banquet tonight. One of my old professors introduced me and the other recipient and Nadine Whimmer of KSL gave us the certificate. He gave us both a nice introduction and we had to walk all the way to the front of the room for this to get recognized and of course all the pictures(it is a media major) My dad made a joke he could see me shaking up there and I thought he really could it was extremely scary and I'm glad I had gone to the bathroom before haha. Nadine Whimmer kept saying congratulations you guys this is so good for you, you'll go really far that really hit me someone as prominent as her recognizing me for that. Other local media figures were there as well because the director of news at KUTV was receiving one of the distinguished alumni awards(the news cameras were there so I'm sure they'll air it at some point) KSL also told me they were going to do a press release on it and I had to send in my picture and a statement on it, they never did tell me when it would be on. Since the banquet was tonight I'm not sure if it'll be sometime tomorrow or since KSL awards them to all schools in Utah, they'll wait until their presentations. Anyway, I also got to meet and get a picture with Rodney H. Brady himself and talk with him for a few minutes. It was a really cool night although I still feel like little old KayCee as a kid just living my life. ANyway, if my dad ever develops the film-who knows maybe 5 years from now-I'll post a picture with Nadine Wimmer and Rodney H. Brady from tonight. Well I had quite an eventful night and my homework is still waiting right by me haha
I totally forgot to put this in here. This is the outfit I got for the Awards Banquet tonight at the LIttle America. Sorry no one was home to take it so it's with my phone pointed at the mirror in Chalice's room. Anyway you can still get the idea of it. Just so you know the shoes are my most favorite part. I also posted a close-up of them so you got the idea of what they look like. I"ll post a picture of how I look tonight when I actually do my hair and it's not taken through the mirror. I'll also explain more about the Banquet and why I'm even going to this $45 a plate function.
Well hello again. I decided to write this after getting three questions of why I didn't post yesterday. I'm now sitting in my comm tech class eating a quick lunch of skittles, a granola bar, and you guessed it my diet coke wishing I was still in bed. Today was a rough morning at work. It started with our weekly Wednesday morning meeting where we had a training on IRA's oh boy do I love waking up for that. I then had every random problem to deal with one included a hearing impaired lady who couldn't balance her checkbook. Think about that and trying to get her to balance without being able to talk to her. We finally realized she was going off what her online statement said and maybe it missed something so I printed her off normal statements from us. Anyway, I'm now sitting in class just said here for the class roll now all I have to do is listen to an hour and a half group presentation, oh what fun. I'll back up a little and tell about my day yesterday. It was the usual same ol Tuesday wake up go to work come home do homework then go to bed haha. It also was April Fool's day yesterday which was funny. A girl at my work had the day off so we text her and said our boss came in and freaked at us for being on the Internet and then just quit and we had to call upper-management in and we were all on probation. She totally believed it and I felt really bad once we told her it was all a joke, he actually was out sick for the day. After work I went home and sort of started my homework, I still have a 13 page paper due Friday I haven't yet started because I have 2 group projects I've been putting most of my time into. Anyway, I then got the invitation to go tanning, which I not being very smart accepted. Even though I live in Salt Lake a bunch of girls from work and I go up to this place in Bountiful. We then went to Baskin Robbins after and then I came home where I stayed up until midnight working on a powerpoint, the ice cream made me sick too so I didn't really have a choice. I got about three hours of sleep when I then realized I forgot to do something else I got up and started writing I then realized I was writing out my dream I just had instead of what I really needed to be working on. At that point I realized I was too tired and not going to get anywhere so I just went back to sleep. So yeah, that's about it for yesterday to midday today. Happy reading.