Rachel...Don't Stress

I handed in a paper for my history class about 2 weeks ago now. I was stressing about it so much that I asked the grader to treat it as a rough draft and let me hand it in again. he told me that he couldn't do it so I just sat in wait for my bad grade (C). I thought that I would get it back last Wednesday. Nope he didn't have the grades entered yet so I had to wait yet another weekend to find out my score today. He walked up to me with the stack of papers in his hand and asked me if I was the one that was stressing about how bad my paper was going to be. I admitted that it was me. He handed me my paper and said that it was one of the best papers that was turned in!!! I couldn't believe that I got an A. Not that I am not excited about it but I really thought that it was going to be disorganized and poorly written because of my lack of timing forcing me to not proofread it after fully writing it even once before handing it in. There were a couple of errors but for the most part it was coherent. All I have to say is that when I have successfully completed University I will be writing a thank you not to Tina Stewart, my wonderful and patient friend who taught me how to write papers while I was still in high school. I have yet to get a grade lower than an A- on a paper in University! Thank you Tina!

Back from the dentist

I have the coolest dentist. He is a really nice person and I can go to his office before my classes and still make it to my class on time. He even apologized for getting me back there 5 minutes late. If I only had to wait that long at the doctors office. I had one tiny cavity and a chip. It took less than an hour for the whole visit. It was my first (and hopefully last) cavity. I am proud of myself by being 22 before I ever felt the drill. My face is finally coming back to life.
ETA: The only bad thing is the horrible pain that I had last night!! In order to try to go to sleep I tried regular pain killers and I tell you they did nothing!! Luckily I had some left over vicodin. I only had to take one pill and I was out! I feel much better today.

10 things...

1. I am glad that I am getting my degree. It is really hard to do, but in the end it will be completely worth it.

2. I love planning. I mean planning everything down to the T and that is my greatest strength and my greatest weakness. It isn’t to say that I can’t get in my car and drive to a random place every once in a while, but mostly everything really important is planned.

3. I am attempting to take Physics this summer and not only is it the first semester of it, it is both semesters crammed into one summer! Tell me that I am crazy!! I will only be taking one class at a time so I should be able to do everything and get a really good grade. I am hoping for a 4.0 this summer semester.

4. I love learning. School has always been fun for me because learning has always been fun for me. Now I am in my specific classes it is hard, but when my mind is on it, I love to just learn and expand my knowledge base.

5. I am finally loosing more weight. I am a little less than half way in my weightloss. It is definately harder than I thought it would be but before I have any kids I want to be as healthy as I can be.

6. I love Endrit. Like I really need to say that Endrit is an amazing person. He is my scholastic inspiration! Graduating with a Bachelor’s at 23 Master’s at 25 and hopefully a PhD at 28. I always think that 7 years of school isn’t worth the degree when I fully expect to be a stay-at-home mom until my kids are in school, but knowing that Endrit was able to go to school for 10 years straight it gives me hope to not give up.

7. I am superstitious. Not to the point of living my life by superstitions, but some things I tend to believe more than others. It is hard to explain.

8. Endrit and I are almost debt free. That is such a good thing. We do have some student loans, but our car is paid off so the intrest is subsedized instead of accruing on the car loan! It is awesome. By the time that Endrit and I graduate we should be able to be completely out of debt. That will be a great start for us to buy a house.

9. I love the thought of adoption. I have tried to convince Endrit that we should adopt all of our kids. He doesn’t agree of course because he doesn’t know if he could love an adopted child as much as a biological one...I know that in his heart he knows that he can. I secretly want to adopt a multiple birth from Albania. Who knows...only time will tell.

10. I learn by example. This is a really good thing because I can just look at other people and see the outcomes to their choices and make my decisions vbased upon that. There is a downside because I am to the point in my life that everyone that I know has not gone though the situations that I am facing so i am having to rely upon myself, yes myself and prayer, to choose what I need to be doing. It is really hard on me but I have not done anything drastically wrong yet so now I am gaining self confidence in my decisions.

A trip to Vernal.

Endrit and I talked aobut what we would like to do for our anniversary this year. We were thinking that we could go on a road trip or something fun like that over a weekend but in a financial crunch we are postponing that until anniversary 2010. In escence of trying to go to all Utah temples before we graduate and move we are taking a day trip to Vernal. I am so excited! It is nice that for an anniversary we can go to the temple and remind ourselves of what we got ourselves into. That would mean that we only have 3 left. Manti is one that we are going to with my parents and Alex and Brydie. They love that temple but have yet to go there so it takes a bit more planning to get all schedules to mesh. Monticello we will call and try to get an appointment to go there as we go through the town on our way to the family reunion next August. Then there is St. George that we still don't have a reason to go that way but I know that we will get to it. I am just so glad that I am able to get closer to my goal. I am also excited that Endrit is finding moving to Albuquerque is sounding better and they have a beautiful temple there. I just wanted to share.