Science Fair Project

I need help over the Thanksgiving holiday while I am with the family. I have a little bit of homework for people to do in preparation...

Measure the length of your hand from the tip of the middle finger to the crease your wrist makes. I also need the length of your foot from the tip of the big toe to the end of the heel. (I want this from everyone including the little kids. During thanksgiving I will have you dip your hand in a full container of water so that I can measure the volume of your hand and compare it to your foot and hand measurements. I need to compile data before December 10 when it is due for my class. I want to have as many datapoints as possible so that I don't look like the crazy person that I am trying to get the volumes of hands.

I just wanted to let you all know that I want you to be my guinea pigs.

Fun with Density

It seems like I had a lot to take pictures of today. I have to do a mini lesson tomorrow and I decided (with my classmate) to do the rainbow in a straw with different concentrations of salt in the water. I decided to see how this would work out and I LOVED the result. It worked perfectly. I took a picture to email to my classmate and decided to post it here because it was just too cool.

Locks of Love

Yeah...so I felt adventurous today and had Endrit give me a little 11 inch trim :) A little girl will be so happy to get a red wig from Rachel hair!! I love cutting off my hair for locks of love!

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I wanted cake. It is my birthday week and I am going out of Friday so I decided that it was okay to at least have the cake a little bit early.

I honestly love my birthday now. On the actual day of my birthday it is Endrit and I's 6 month anniversary. This year it is 3 1/2 years of marriage. I really like having it like that. I promise when we set the date, that wasn't the reason.

I still am not feeling too much older. Being healthy is a good reason why I feel younger than I did when I turned 21. I am not sure if I can say that when I turn 25. I know that was a big one for Endrit. I still have a couple of years before I can feel a little bit older.

Fun times.

Fighting off sickness

I have felt like I have a cold coming on for the last couple of days. I really don't want to get sick this week because it is the whole my birthday weekend/Josh's wedding that I may or may not see him/BYU v U game. There are just too many things that I would like to do and being sick is not on the list.

I only have 1 physics 2 lab left and I am officially done with Physics!!! I couldn't be more excited than I am at this very moment. Well, perhaps I will be happier when I am done with my last lab come this time next week. We get to think about absolute zero and thermal expansion. It won't be too bad. The semester is winding down and I am getting thoroughly excited about it.

There are also gifts for Christmas enough in my house wrapped that I ended up putting up our tree early. Endrit got a couple of my gifts and wrapped them and I have 1 of his wrapped and then we have gifts for my mom and dad and his parents and Rick and Janet under the tree as well. We are still missing the family gift and 1 gift for me and 2 gifts for Endrit and we are done. Sheesh that seems like a lot, but they were great deals so it didn't strain our pocketbook. I don't think that the family gift will be wrapped and put under the tree because we will just have to use it when it gets here. We got a surround sound for our TV. I am sure it will be set up and left there in use. We are starting to have a very technologically updated apartment. That is Endrit for you. We don't spend much money on excess things so that when there is something that we want, we are able to get it. I enjoy the deals that he is able to find. We love Ebay and have never been ripped off.

I am just getting excited for the holidays and having a couple of weeks off of school. I have a friend getting married in January that I have been invited to the sealing and I am sure that it will be a great experience for Endrit and I as it will be our first live sealing we have been to other than our own. Life is good and we are happy.

Tact

It is interesting that some people in this world have absolutely no tact. You try to be nice and everything that they say comes out mean and tactless. Today was the primary program so I put on a cute outfit and had to babysit the primary during sacrament meeting. It is not an easy task when half of your class has special needs with behavioral problems. It was fun for sure.

I saw a lady from the old-folks-home that we used to do sacrament meeting at and I decided to say hello. I knew that she was a crotchety old lady so I knew that the conversation wouldn't be too good, but I am a nice person.

I asked her how she was doing and she burdened me with her bouts of sickness and all these things that were too much information and I just told her that I hoped that She would get better. The next part of the conversation I never expected to happen. Her first question for me was "Are you pregnant?" I have to say that I chose my clothing well and had no more of a pooch than I usually have. I told her no and I didn't care about that question, but the next one holy cow!! She said "Oh so you have just been gaining weight?" !!! Wow...I can hardly believe it. The first one showed little tact but the second one...NO tact. First of all I have been loosing weight for the last 6 months. I think that I am starting to look pretty good, but heck if I look pregnant I will just have to kick up the effort. I was even wearing black which is the most forgiving color. Why do people say things like that? I am just so shocked that she felt it good to say something like that. Anyway...

The primary program was awesome. All the kids were good and only a few didn't know their lines. It was different than I am used to because they didn't do it by class and several people were in more than one group which made it that much worse so I am just not sure. We were right on time limit...well maybe a minute or two over time but it was successful so I am happy. I think that I have to do sharing time next week and I am not too excited about that, but it is fine.

I officially love the U of U

Once I got in-state status, I found out that I am eligible for grants that I never knew existed. It is nice that I am getting rewarded monetarily for getting good grades (and being poor :P). I am overwhelmed by the amount scholarships and grants I have gotten this school year. I am so grateful because as hard as this semester has been, if I didn't have the funding, it would have been so much harder to stay in school for both of my degrees rather than just one of them. I am not joking at all with this either. If I didn't know that I had the money to go to school over the summer I can't say that I would. Summer semesters don't qualify me with grants so that semester is all out of pocket. Being an adult is harder than most people know until they get into the situations that they are in. Luckily, Endrit and I have learned to deal with school. I swear if we weren't getting older, we would stay in school forever, but alas, we have to grow up and have the next level of adult life with jobs and kids...but not just yet :)