Some people make my day

I was walking to the testing center at UVU and its a little walk from the main campus. I was cutting through the parking lot and this older women that I didn't know said with a smile, "Have a good day."  It was really random, but it made me smile. I told her, "Thanks, You too." She then replied, "You're cute, You need boyfriend." ha ha ha I said, "Thanks." and  that was the end of our conversation. It made me giggle the rest of the way to the testing center. Her smile, and nice words made my day. I'm glad there are people like this in the world. 

Power of Words

I've been thinking a lot lately about the power of words. I have to write a paper on the power of words, and I watched a video on youtube how a blind man was sitting on the side walk with a sign that said I'm blind and can't see. People would walk by occasionally throwing some change his way. Then one lady stopped, and wrote something on his sign saying nothing to him. She left, and then everyone that walked by was throwing heaps of change his way. The lady came back, and the guy recognized her, by feeling her shoes. He asked what did you put on the sign? She said, I said the same thing just in a different way. The sign said, "It's a beautiful day, I'm blind and can't see." Words really are so powerful, and the blind man was so thankful for some sympathy and kindness.

When I was walking down the hall today at school, there is this cute blind guy that I always see. Well a lady stopped him, and said hey, you probably don't remember me, and he immediately grabbed her hand and kissed it. He then said chuckling, I just bit you. It made me smile. The simplest hi or hello can go a long ways. Walking around in a wold you can't see must be hard, but luckily they have words to express themselves.

Going to a Dance :/

My roommate Rachael talked me into going to a dance party with her, and two of her guy friends. It was a friday night, and I had no plans, so I figured why not... Well dances haven't ever been my thing, no matter how hard I try to like them. I had to pay $8.00 to get in, and it was the biggest waste of money. I don't like dance parties. I'm the weirdo that stands in the back and doesn't dance, I just sit and watch people. The stench and the humidity in that place was disgusting. I can officially say I won't be going to another one of those. It was fun to get out, but that is just too much fun for me, and the fact the I lack dancing skills probably plays in to it.

Then Saturday evening I spent it with Robbie Lacee, and Lincoln. I love spending time with them, and they always rejuvenate me. I have been feeling really down, depressed, and burnt out with everything. Robbie gave me a beautiful blessing, and it was just what I needed to hear. We had a great dinner, and it's always fun to play with Lincoln. He has the cutest laugh. They are great examples to me, and I'm glad they are willing to let me come over and hang out with them. They also help me meet guys. They got some digits for me while eating at Olive Garden in West Valley. Robbie and the waiter (William) started talking, and for some reason Robbie thought he should mention me. William seemed excited (thats what they said) and gave them his number, e-mail, and told them to have me look him up on facebook. ha ha I'm glad they are keeping their eyes open for me.

Easter and then an ER Visit

Well, its been a while since I last blogged. A LOT has happened since then. I had boyfriend, he broke up with me right before spring break. Then I got back from spring break and got slammed with homework. The week of the March 26th went like this: Monday- worked 3-7pm, Tuesday worked 12am-8am, and took a mid term. Wednesday- 17 page paper rough draft due, worked 3-7pm, Thursday- worked 6-9am worked on a literature review which is reading 3 scholarly reviewed articles, and then a two page write up on each article. Then I had another two papers for my humanities class, and a test, and a math test. plus regular homework on top of that. All in one week!!! I hated life, and I may have had a little melt down, but I made it through and I did pretty well on all of my tests, I got 100% on my math test! :)

Then for Easter I decided to go to St. George because I had the whole weekend off. I got up wednesday at 7:00am and went to school worked from 3-7pm and came home and packed. Went back to work from 12am-8am and then drove to St. George. (I was up for a full 24 hours.) I went to the dentist and he hurt me, but I'm glad to have my cavities fixed. Then I got to see Devin, it was his birthday I took him a little gift, and we went to menchies and had frozen yogurt. Then on Friday I just spent the day with my family and celebrated Kenyon's birthday, and Saturday we celebrated Easter. It was a beautiful day and we spent the whole day in the backyard eating, playing games, and enjoying each others company. I was glad that Grandma Houston came down, and spent the day with us as well. I must say that I have an amazing family, and I love being with them, and laughing my guts out. We played hand and foot, bad mittion, lasso golf, and dyed easter eggs with red root, and onion skins, and also had a little easter egg hunt for the kids. It was probably the best day we've had as a family in long time. No one fought, and we all just enjoyed the day nothing better than that! Sunday I got up and went on a little hike with my mom and Kenyon. It was fun, and made me realize how much I love St. George, and hiking. I need to do it more! Then I drove back to Orem to have a dinner date with my dad.

I made it to Grandma Joans around 5:30 and waited for my dad to come get me. He picked me up and we went and got his friend Steve and the three of us went to dinner at Jim's. Me and two old fat guys! ha ha Well I ordered chicken, it was kind of dry, but I kept eating it because I was hungry. Well I have a problem with food getting stuck in my throat, and its one of the worst pains. You can't drink anything because it just comes back up, you have major heart burn, and trouble breathing. (this usually happens when I eat meat, and bread) Well it usually goes away in 5 minutes or so but this time it was being stubborn. My dad has the same problem and he told me to go try and throw up. So I took his advice went into the bathroom, and gagged myself 3 times. Nothing came up except foamy, thick salvia/acid. Well I went back to the table and sat there a little longer... and it still was stuck so I went back to the bathroom, and nothing again but thick salvia. So we left, and we were on our way back to grandma's and we had to pull over so I could get out and throw up. Made it to grandmas, and it was still stuck... threw up a couple more times, and by 8:30 I was going nuts! It had been there since about 6:30. My mom called right in the middle and told grandma to take me to the ER. Well of coarse they were busy and it took them a while to see me. I was having a hard time, and I the pain in my chest, and constant spitting up of salvia was driving me crazy. They finally put me in a room and made me get in the stupid gown. They gave me medicine to try and help my esophagus relax to either get me to throw up the piece of chicken or make it go down. Well they gave me medicine that gives you a head ache and it was immediate! Then they waited five minutes and told me to chug some sprite, well I just threw the sprite up. The chicken was blocking the passage! The doctor came in (he was pretty cute!) and said I had to get the scope down my throat they had to call the specialist in so it would be 30 to 45 minutes before they would take me back. At this point I just wanted the stupid thing out! Its 10:00pm I want to breath normally, and get back to Orem so i can go to school tomorrow. At 11 they wheel me down the hall into a different room and start getting me ready for the scope. Right before the doctor came in I finally threw up the piece of chicken and felt so much better! The doctor decided to go ahead and do the scope anyways because he said it wasn't normal for me to be choking on food like that. They sedated me and then I woke up laughing and smiling. I remember looking around and just laughing at everything. I even said, "why am I laughing this is so embarrassing." Then I was just thinking about school. I wanted to go to school today, I missed friday and didn't want to miss today. They told me I couldn't drive for 12 hours. I just kept saying I'm going to school tomorrow. Grandma Joan said you can't drive, I told her if I can find someone to come get me I'm going to school. The doctor wrote me a note to excuse my absence, they all thought I was nuts for wanting to go because I had a legit doctors note. I only made it to math today, but at least I made it to math! I have to go back in, in a month and be sedated again because my esophagus narrows as you go down, and they are going to stretch it out for me. Thats how I ended my Easter Weekend what a fun night/day!

I owe a big thanks to Dylan, and Nate for picking me up and driving me to orem, and Nate for driving me from school to my house! They are awesome!