Finals are next week.

I made my Christmas letter yesterday and Now I just need to address them and send them out. I would feel accomplished if I didn't do that to procrastinate writing papers, but hey at least one thing is done.

Finals are next week and we are studying like crazy people. I have a take home final and an in-class final for one class and a portfolio to hand in for another class. Endrit takes his second final on Friday so that leaves him with 1 final left for Tuesday. We will be greatful once they are over.

Not much has happened. Another storm is supposed to blow through this weekend. I am not too excited about that but we need the snowpack. That is it for now.

INS says "say cheese!!"

Another Picture for the INS. Proof that we still like each other. Endrit thought that the snow background was cute. I think he just wanted a picture. It is cold and I am glad that mom gave me an intermediate jacket to wear. Leather too cold, trench coat, too big! It is still snowing so lets see how much the skiers and snowboarders will b happy this weekend

December 1...Lotsa snow on the ground when we woke up. We actually woke up to no power. It is pretty, but not too much fun to drive in. We had to drive to Smith's to return the rented DVDs (Live Free or Die Hard is a great movie!) and driving back up the hill to the benches where we live was like driving on an ice rink! It is borderline miserable. It looks pretty but I still don't think that it is worth it in the end to have to walk in it for the rest of winter. The picture above is of our little army dude on our antenna. I just thought that he was too cute to not deserve a picture.

Update.

Thanksgiving has passed and so my rules no longer apply with no Christmas songs and no snow. It is funny because Snow is predicted for today and my aerobics teacher is starting to use Christmas songs for our cool-down music. Oh well. I just think it is funny to streach to rudolf the red-nosed raindeer.
There is only 2 weeks of the semester left. Endrit and I couldn't be happier. Hopefuly that happiness will stay with us as the semester grades get posted. I am sure that we will do great.
Not much has changed around here. My house is dirty because of the looning end of semester. My visiting teachers are coming today so I need to clean. My landlords have banned my neighbors from smoking on the stairs and that makes me happy. We are swamped with homework. I was in Lab from 2-5:55 last night; almost an hour over the regular lab time. I am petitioning the geology department today to be able to get both bachelors and masters degrees rather than just a bachelors. Busy busy busy. I should be starting to go back to work over the Christmas break. Endrit will be doing research over the break as well. In other words he will start to be a little happier now that he can research. That is what he lives to do.
I am officially 22 now for almost a week. It is interesting how the years fly. I know that I am still quite young, but I am getting older. That is about it. My ramblings...

Goodness

I have been sick for the last few days. It has been crazy because the doctors actually thought that I had a good chance of being the first Flu patient of the year. Thankfully that was proved to be false. I just have a bad case of the sniffles. If you were wondering about the comic...yes Endrit was the one that gave me the cold. Fortunatley for him he only had it for a day or two over the weekend.

Tis the season to be pregnant. Fa La La La La La La La La. No I'm not, but I have had at least 5 pregnancy announcements given to me in the last week or so.

Marissa

Mallory

Christy

Tanya

Josh's little sister

I know that you don't know many of these people but holy cow. I am happy for them, but sheesh. I will try not to have a May-July baby just for these reasons. Too many people have babies at the same time. I also have a way that I want to have my babies and I don't want those rooms taken. I think that there are only 2 of them in the Univerity of Utah Hospital. I know that I shouldn't be thinking of things like that, but oh well, It is right in front of me right now.

I really hope that the semester ends well. It has royally sucked thus far. I am hoping that it gets a little bit better next semester. I get to register for classes this afternoon so time goes on...

wedding band

Here is my ring...I hope you like it...I do!

The benifits of being a poor college student.

There is a picture of my ring with the wax model of the wedding band with it...I love it and it had exceeded my expectations. I will be picking it up on Saterday and will post an actual picture of my ring after that.

There are many benifits to being a poor married college student in America. First there is a little thing called the FAFSA that gives you grants and subsidized loans (subsidized loans you don't have to pay the intrest while you are in school grants you don't have to pay back at all) With the onset of this semester I got enough grants and subsidized loans to pay for my out of state tuition with the addition of another source of help as well. Almost $9,000 all together. Today I recieve an email saying that I have another $2,000 in the mail in a late to reward grant. Oh the joys of being poor...that means that I can pay off my wedding band rather than puting it on credit!! The great thing about this grant is that I can get $4,000 my jr. year and $4,000 my sr. year. I got this supposedly my last semester of my Jr. year missing out on $2,000. At this university I am1 credit shy of being a sr. which gave me the second semester of jr. money...I still have 1 full year of this grant! Needless to say I am very happy today!

pumpkin patch

I don't have the picture of the pumpkin patch, but it was really fun. I was able to go with Endrit and Alex and Brydie and their kids and Cooper and Allie Mae and grandma and grandpa. It was fun to be able to play with the kids that I don't get to see too often. Of course uncle Endrit was the favorite but that is just his personality.
Endrit has been able to get 2 of his 3 grades for this last quarter and so far he is passing with flying colors. A- in inorganic and B in Physical organic...Spectroscopy grade yet to come.
I finnished my first round of teaching. For the most part it went really well. There was one class that got me really frazzled, but tis the life of a teacher in training. The rest I was able to get all the facts inside their little heads. It will be interesting with the second round of lessons.
I am getting an early birthday present. After almost 2.5 years of marriage I am getting my wedding band. We went to the jewlers last weekend and custom designed the band. It will be interesting. I should be able to get the ring on Saturday. The funny thing is that I asked the jewler for a loner ring and they actually gave me one. It is nice that they have things like that so that I can stay looking married without buying another ring.
That is all...pictures probably to come.