I'm registered!

Two posts in one day! What?!

I am just so EXCITED that I am registered for the LAST YEAR of my degree!! And, all it took was two trips to undergraduate programs office, one frantic call to the department of psychology, and one day off work!

I just can't wait to be done.

Also, I dropped my summer classes I was in, and picked up one that is only THREE WEEKS long! That means I have part of July and ALL of August to enjoy summer!

Things are lookin' pretty sweet right now. (knock on wood)

:D

Nice Gestures

It rained a LOT last night, and was still raining quite a bit when I woke up. I was on Deerfoot on my way to school when I decided I should stop at Superstore to buy some windshield washer fluid (it was very wet on the road still and making my windshield all muddy and gross and streaky and difficult to see through).

So, I went in, bought my stuff, went out to my car, opened the hood and was pouring it in when this little old[er] lady came up to me.

"I saw the hood of your car up, and I thought you might need some help. I see you're just refilling though!"

I love random acts of kindness like that, and seeing the thoughtfulness of complete strangers.

It just made my day.

Post 50!!

Us making cupcakes, as promised!


Matt and me on the hayride!

My company summer BBQ was on Sunday; lots of fun! The weather wasn't fantastic, as you probably could tell from the background of that picture. It started pouring while we were on the hayride and got so cold! The good part was that the driver made the horses go faster so we could get back quicker which made for a more intersting ride! It was fun though, and after, we came home, ate popcorn and watched Office Space.

I was looking at my facebook countdown to the end of Spring semester and thinking about how those stupid counters always make me nervous because I just think about how much I have to do and how little time I have left to do it in. Today though, I realized that I put the wrong date on the stupid thing! Instead of having 9 days left, I have 16. What a letdown.

Last night I was choosing my courses for my final year (!!!) of university. It took me a long time, and I don't have my last 3 picked out for sure; I have to make choices among many. I think I'm going to go up to the university on the 24th to see a guidance counsellor and pick the right courses so I graduate. I was looking through the "what you need to do to graduate" list, and it was so silly, but I was teary as I was reading it. I am so excited to be done (which I think is why I was so teary), but I'm also going to miss it in a way. Not the reading outside of class, and not the paper and assignment parts, but the exercising my mind and learning about topics that make me so passionate. I only hope I can find the same thing once I am out of school. Anyway, THINKING about APPLYING to graduate made me teary! Just think of what a wreck I'll be on the day they finally hand me that degree! (which should be next May if everything goes down properly).

I'm also kinda worried about getting out of school.

School has made me see some character traits in myself that I don't really like. The one that stands out most of all is procrastinating. Am I still going to be like that when I get out of school? Will it change from reading my textbook and writing papers to cleaning bathrooms and laundry? Ha, well we certainly know it won't be the latter. I don't mention work stuff here because I think I have a great work ethic AT WORK. Unfortunately, it doesn't carry over. Will I realize that the feelings that I attribute to mid-semester blues are actually not due to school?

Also, in losing school, will I lose positive parts of myself that it helped develop? Will I lose my critical thinking skills, my zeal for learning, my self confidence and other learned skills? Where will I get the "wow" factor that I so often get when in lecture when I learn something truly amazing or life changing? Will I gain something better than all of this?

These are the things that I hope work themselves out.

Remember me?

It's been quite some time again!

The most exciting thing lately was that Lauren and I went to see SATC on Thursday! I absolutely LOVED it! It was great that L went to see it with me, as she had already seen it... so good though. I can't wait to watch it again (and again and again). We also decided that we will be renting the seasons on DVD while we wait for DH to come out on DVD this summer. I'm pretty excited, because I didn't really follow the show, but apparently it is just as good (or better) than the movie!

Other than that, nothing really new to report! How boring of me. I'm just waiting for Matt to come get me (my classes are done for the day) and we are going out with his family for a birthday/Father's day dinner, since his parents will be away next week for both of those. Kinda funny; my parents are going away next weekend too! Maybe they planned a secret vacation with each other together!!!




[That definitely did not happen].

I feel like I had something absolutely hilarious to write about in here, but it couldn't have been that wildly funny if I can't remember. I guess my MUHL teacher was kinda funny today:

[talking about his 1820 guitar]: I was backpacking through Europe and I found this in a little antique shop in Germany [pause for effect].

Nah, totally kidding. I got it off ebay!

I thought it was silly. Also, there was a guy in my class today who came to class, but put on his headphones and watched The Price is Right the whole time! Why even bother to come is my question.

That is all for me! Sorry for the extremely vanilla entry.