Christmas

You know what I love about Christmas? A lot of things. So that's what this post is dedicated to.

First: Christmas songs! "Mary, Did You Know", "Kung Pao Buckaroo Holiday", "O Holy Night", "Hard Candy Christmas", etc. Some are beautiful, some are fun, some are funny. But they're all great. Can't think of one that I don't like.

Second: Shopping!! I am a fairly typical female, so I like to shop. I love spending money. However (like always), I am limited so I am only buying presents for a lucky few. Although, a few others will be able to appreciate the third thing I love about Christmas...

Third: Baking! Cookies and cookies and cookies and bread and cookies! All kinds of cookies...but only one kind of bread. I hope we get a whole lot of flour soon...

Fourth: PRESENTS!!! I love getting things. I'm greedy and materialistic like that. That's why I have my lists of things that I want on the right side of my blog. Go ahead, buy me something. You'll be more likely to get some baked goodies that way. :)

Fifth: Family. Yeah, everything else gets exclamation points. But everything else is more of an excitement thing. Family is more peaceful and relaxing. Family makes you want to relax on the couch and drink hot cocoa and make fun of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.

Well...that's all. Merry Christmas to all. :)

I'M DONE!!!!

With Personal Progress, that is. I finished it last week after having only two projects left for about a year. But now it is complete and I is very happy. So, for your extreme enjoyment, I will post a list of what projects I did (also because I have nothing else to write about and this post is too short to...post...)

Faith: Read the entire Book of Mormon and pray to know that it is true (guess what? It is).

Divine Nature: Help out Sarah with the kiddos and learn about my divine nature as a mother.

Individual Worth: Do my job as the lighting designer for Little Shop of Horrors and realize that I was the one for the job and I did an AMAZING job.

Knowledge: Learn how to make bread and then teach it to someone else.

Choice & Accountability: I helped plan and decorate a youth dance last year. It was pretty amazing. For the youth who went, it was the Luau themed one with the smoothies.

Good Works: I collected recipes into a book and then prepared dinner for the family several times.

Integrity: I took notes on all four sessions of General Conference and compiled my notes into 4 little booklets. (This was my last one)

Virtue: I read the entire Book of Mormon and took notes while I read.

Never thought it would come to this...

So this is going to be difficult to admit to everyone. I never thought that would have to say this, but unfortunately I do...yesterday I learned that...I need more pink in my wardrobe. Ugh, I am almost ashamed to admit it. I need something pink and girly, but still me...which means that I would have to buy it for myself, because I'm so stinking picky. I also realized that I need more...elegant jewelry. Small simple things, y'know? Ones that are accents, not statements.

Now I don't want people getting some strange idea that my tastes are changing. That's simply not it. I have just realized that I am missing some certain necessaries of my wardrobe. Things for different costumes.

Anyway, that's all. Also, I cut my hair.

All woozy and light headed...

...except not really! However, those are possible side effect of donating blood, which I did today. : ) I'm super happy about it.

I went right after school. Cameron drove me. We got there and I showed my ID, gave them all kinds of personal contact info, filled out a health questionnaire, and then sat through a fairly awkward Q&A about my (nonexistent) sex life. Why, no, I have not had sex with a guy who has had sex with another guy (since 1980). Goodness this AIDS things is a hassle! (haha, I love understaements.)

After finishing the Q&A (I passed), the nurse-lady-person took my vitals. And stabbed my finger. I'm looking the other way and then SNAP! I'm bleeding profusely from my finger. I was like "OMFFM!! THAT'S A LOT OF BLOOD!" She scooped up the blood and said something about "87%, that's very good." Compliment?

Then I went into the donation room. Comfy chairs, food, fruit juice, and the biggest needle that I have ever had inside of me. I didn't look when it went it, but I was kind of expecting it to prick like when i get a shot. NO, it was worse. I wasn't like "ooo", I was like "OW!" Then I looked at the needle and saw how freaking HUGE it was.

Sat there flexing the stupid stress ball for a few minutes. Every now and then I would look at my iodine stained arm and think, "why am I doing this?" Then, after I was done bleeding and had rested for five minutes, I got up and went over to the food area and thought, "ah! this is why!" (I don't think with proper capitalization)

After ten minutes of sitting around (and eating and drinking), I went home. I'm still a tad light-headed, but it's not too bad. : )

My Mind is Blown

Got bored, looked at my stats. Then I was like O.O

Not because of the amount of views (because it's not that impressive), but because of the fact that I've had people from other countries view my blog. 1 view each from Romania, Australia, and Denmark. 2 views from Russia. 3 views from Canada. 13 views from Germany! And then a lot from the US.

It was the Germany number that stood out. 13? Is that 13 different people? Or one person 13 times? Or 2-12 people multiple times?

I feel cool....haha.

My Classes

The school year started about...oh, five weeks ago. So, I should probably tell you about my classes now, huh?

First period: AP English with Ernst. Amazing class. Love the teacher. We've read through the Oedipus Cycle and Beowulf already. Had a very interesting discussion about the symbolism of swords and caves on Thursday.

Second Period: CP Physics with Rappleye. Love the teacher. Class is super boring. It's easy. Too easy. We've been going over speed and acceleration for 2 or 3 weeks. I mostly just sleep.

Third Period: CP Econ with Marquez. Myeh. But Marquez doesn't believe in homework, so I guess it's ok. Once again, super boring. I'd sleep, but we have to turn in our notes...

Fourth Period: Drama!!!! Love it! We're doing Shakespeare right now. I'm in a duo with Angelica. We're split up into production teams. Two Drama 4's and about 9 techs. We hire actors per project (except for Shakespeare festival...). My fave class.

Lunch: Ok, so maybe this is my favorite one...

Sixth Period: Student Tutoring for Kunnath. Don't really have anything to do...I just read. Maybe things will pick up later on??

And then I have seventh off and I go home.

That's my schedule. It's super easy and super boring. Not my fave schedule...but it'll do. Maybe I can find a new job?

Two Things...

One, this morning: The Spider Attack!!!

In seminary this morning, we were sitting around talking and stuff. We had reached the Seven Minute Lull in conversation. All of sudden Ashlynn says, "Robyn! There's a spider on your arm!" I freaked. I flailed my arms in an attempt to fling it off. At the same time I pushed my chair away from the table...and possibly screamed. Then no one could see the spider (at this point, I may have squealed). Suddenly, someone pointed it out. It was on the table (may have screamed then too...). Joel got up and ran out of the door. Jesse grabbed a book and slammed it down on the spider, at which point I definitely screamed. It was dead. But I was still mildly freaking out. I was almost hyperventilating and on the verge of tears. I hate spiders.

Also, I checked out a book yesterday (Tuesday). It was by an author who I had really liked...but I hadn't read anything by her since I started reforming my books choices (mainly because I've read all of her books). I noticed that the library had a new book by her, so I decided to read it. Man, it was awful! I kept reading it because I wanted to finish it, but I started getting really depressed. I started thinking about doing stuff I shouldn't (like drinking and drugs and stuff). I thought that it was a continuation of the mood I've been in recently, but I realized that it was more. And...once I switched to a different, more positive book...the feelings disappeared. It's thing like that that help me to become better. It's the moments like that, when I realize that something doesn't make me feel good, that help me set rules and limits. If only it were easier to learn from the positive feelings...but, hey, at least I'm learning.