I don't really have much to say but I was feeling guilty for neglecting my blog. :) JonTon comes down tonight and will be here until early Sunday morning. It should add some excitement to my house. lol. I am excited about Christmas festivities...from now until Sunday is basically one big party. lol.

I have been enjoying my Christmas break and have been relaxing quite a bit. I am working a few hours each day for Longview Surgical group, but nothing stressful. :) I am glad for the $$. I babysat last night for my usual family. Last night was not really one of their shining moments, but they were fine. It is always nice to see them. :) Other than that I haven't been up to much, just chillin' with family and friends. :)

I really don't have much to say to ya'all so I guess I will leave it at that for now...

Happy @ Home

I have now been at home since Friday night and am enjoying my time away from school. It is nice to just be able to relax. :) I have been spending the last couple of day with family and Friends.

Saturday morning Teresa, mom and I went to Susie's house to be crafty. I tagged along to the sewing festival usually put on by Aunt Linda. It was fun to be crafty. This Saturday we are going there again to have a card making party. It should be fun. :)

Saturday evening my family and I went to see The Chronicles of Narnia. It was a really good movie I thought! I would definitely go back to see it in theatres if anyone wants to. lol. It is one I want to own as well...

On Monday I went out to Grandma and Grandad's with my Dad and Aunt Linda. It was nice to be out there again and to eat lunch, which is always good at Grandma's. :) I don't usually go out there with just Dad and Aunt Linda, so that was cool too. :)

Today I did the prep work for my work at Longview Surgical Group. I am helping out for a couple of weeks purging charts. It is nice to be able to make some money while at home. :)

Then later this afternoon Teresa and I went to Grandma and Grandpa's house and was able to have a good visit with them. :) We chatted and then played some cards. Despite the 3 or 4 games of pinochle we played I didn't win any of them. Oh well, I am used to that. lol. :)

I can already tell that this break will go by too quickly, better enjoy it while it lasts....

My Quarter

# of classes taken: 4

# of books "read": 10

# of Papers written: 19 (36 pages total)

# of tests taken: 6

# of hours it will take me to forget everything I learned: 24

Yay for the end of Fall Quarter!!

Can I go home yet? Please?!

So I am almost done with my paper of death (aka my English paper). All my other papers are finished so it is just this last one that is keeping me from enjoying anything tonight. I am giving up pretty soon and calling it good. I have my doubts that I will get a good grade on the paper, but there is only so much I can do. Papers are over rated anyway (although try telling that to an English professor...).

My roommate has left me. Yep, Bonnie was able to escape this stress sooner than I. It is a sad reality. However, my room is clean and I have it all to myself tonight! Yeah! (No offense Bonnie) lol. I was telling Emily earlier today that I will go home and watch TV and it will be weird because I won't have my commentator beside me. lol. :) I heart my roommate.

So tomorrow I am getting up early to take my friend Christine to the airport and then coming back and sleeping. lol. I will get up in time to look over once more all of my papers and then e-mail them out to the professors before my final at 1:00. This final is more of a party than anything else, so at least it won't be stressful. After that, I am done with SPU for the quarter!! I will come back to my room and pack and get ready to go. A couple of my friends and I are going to go out to dinner to celebrate being done for the quarter, so that will be nice. I don't know when I am leaving for home, but sometime tomorrow evening. It will be nice to be home.

Looking forward to seeing all of you soon!

This day has gone from bad to worse. I hope finals don't kill me.
3 papers down, 2.5 papers to go....

Finals Week

So, tomorrow is the official start of finals week. I am excited about it actually because it means the end of the quarter! Tomorrow I have my first and only test of finals week. lol. Unfortunately I have final class periods I have to attend and papers to still write. I have written 3 of the 5 papers I had. I have most of my English paper written and have yet to start on my Theology paper to write though. Oh well. I think I will do fine on my Economics test tomorrow. I have gotten B+'s on my tests so I figure I will do about the same on my final....we shall see. I guess technically I haven't studied very well, but I didn't study all that hard for the other tests in the class so....yeah.

Anyway, I am off to pick up Jonathan from his Seattle office and head to Renton for a night of semirelaxing. lol. We will see how relaxed I get with my thoughts always returning to the test tomorrow and the papers due Friday. heh.

See you all soon!

I am fairly annoyed at the moment. I have been up since 8:30 this morning and haven’t really gotten anything accomplished. I am having such a difficult time with this English paper. I can’t even decide where to start on the 7 page paper! The rough draft is due on Monday and although not all 7 pages need to be completed it would be nice because then I could get more of a critique. It is all just frustrating. I really have no idea why this class is so hard for me to write papers for. It sucks though. I think I could finish all 4 of my other papers this weekend if I wasn’t working on this lame one. Grrr.

Snow?!

Well it pretty much snowed all afternoon up here, however none of it stuck. It is still sorta raining outside right now and I have a feeling that it might snow and stick over night if it gets cold enough. So the two main questions on my mind are: 1)will classes be canceled tomorrow and 2) do I want classes to be canceled tomorrow. lol.

It was my last day at work this quarter today and I went home early because of the snow. hee hee. I probably could have stayed there but I wasn't sure if the snow would start sticking or not. So I figured it was as good an excuse as any to skip out early. lol.

On another note my paper count is up to 5! That is right I have 5 papers to write before next Friday. Ugh. I am only really concerned about one of them though (my English one). So, I will be working on those this weekend. Which will be hard since I have 3 parties and Tradition to go to this weekend. I will probably end up spending late nights working on them this next week. Double Ugh.

Anyway, I guess I should see about dinner soon. Hope you are all enjoying the weather. Hopefully I will actually be able to write about real snow tomorrow. :)
Keep me in your prayers over the next week. I will need them. ttfn

P.S. No Shave November is now over and it makes me sad. All the guys were just getting to look good when they shaved it all off. Sad day.

So, I know in reality that next Friday will be here before I know it and I will be able to go home and relax...however, right now it doesn't feel that way. Right now I am facing the stress of the last week of classes. I am dreading the paper writing. Ugh. This quarter has been pretty hard on the paper writing, I have never had so much trouble writing papers. I usually enjoy it in some sick way, but this quarter has killed me. Although I have gotten good grades on all my lame papers this quarter, except for in my English class. For some reason that teacher just doesn't relate to my writing style or something. Even after I met with her it didn't improve my paper grade any. I got the same grade I got on the first paper I wrote for her. It is really frustrating. Especially since it is her class I have to write my major paper next week. The whole thing is aggravating.

P.S. There is rumor of snow for tomorrow (Tuesday)...I don't think it will actually snow, but I am concerned about ice...

I love home

I had such a good weekend, I wish it could have lasted forever. I am sorry that I am back at school facing the reality of 3 papers to write. Ugh.

Fun things I did this weekend:
-had 2 Thanksgivings!
-got to see all of my extended family
-played cards with extended family
-played with Aunt Linda's cat (probably the first cat I have actually liked...)
-watched Friends season 10 with Kristen
-played Halo 2 with friends
-beat Halo 1 the game with Andrea

I am going home!!!!

Things that made me sad today:
-the amount of work I still have to do before the quarter is over
-the fact that my two papers aren't done yet, I still have to finish them by Wednesday.
-the fact that it is Monday and not Wednesday.


Things that made me happy today:
-Christmas lights went up in the Loop (I heart tradition-the event-at SPU...Moyer has the best view!)
-The enormous amount of sticky tack that I was able to take from a poster that was left up too long (now I will use it for later posters that i put up! Yay for being the publicist!)
-The smiley face puddings that I requested Gwinn make finally appeared today! They bring me great joy. :)

yeah....

So apparently I am not so good at everyday blogging anymore. However, 3ish times a week isn't bad. :)

This week has gone by pretty fast despite the potential of it to drag by. lol.

I don't really have anything to say, I am actually doing pretty well on my papers. I finished my English paper and hope to go over it with the teacher before Wednesday so that I can get a better grade on it than I did my last paper. heh. My Economics paper is coming along. It is almost done. I just have to figure out a few more things and finish it off. So those are both good things. It is nice since neither of the papers are due until Wednesday. Good Laura.

I went to see Harry Potter on Friday night with Megan. It was amazing! I was sitting there watching it thinking to myself, "I love Harry Potter." They did leave quite a bit out from the books...but stayed pretty true to the larger story. :) I can't wait til it comes out on video! hee hee.

At 3:00 today (15 minutes from now) is Moyer's Super Staff. It when the Hall Council, SMCs, and PAs meet together (happens once a quarter) and just hang out. It should be good. :) Then later tonight I am going to church with JonTon. So, that is my day.

Can the quarter end now please....

So, despite the fact that there is only one more full week of classes (next week doesn't really count since it only has 2 class days because of Thanksgiving), I am quite ready for it to end now. In a weeks time I have 3 papers due (on the same day!!). Granted 2 of them are really short 1-2 page papers and the third paper is only 5-6 pages (still relatively short compared to some papers people in college have to write). It is really annoying. Now, I should probably be working on them right now instead of blogging....but why would I want to do that? I am slowly ticking down the hours of procrastination, slowly realizing that the time is coming when I will be able to do it no more. It is depressing. Plus I have had classes basically all day today (even an evening class) so I don't really feel like doing anything. Bad Laura.

On the upside I am going to see Harry Potter this Friday with Megan! I am excited about this fact (despite that it is further delaying my paper writing). I figure that in 10 years I will remember the Harry Potter and not the stress of writing my papers. lol. Plus, I don't go to movies very often in Seattle and when I get the chance to I try and take it. I am so behind on my movie watching. My post-it note of movies I need to see is rather long. It is really sad. I am looking forward to next year when I am out of school, have a job, and more time...then I can try to catch up/keep up. lol. I am hoping that it works out to see more movies with Tonia next year as well. Since Jonathan doesn't really see the chick flicks anymore. I will have to take her. :) lol. That is the plan anyway....however first I have to graduate and get a job. More depression.

Anyway, I guess that is all I have to say for now...I am looking forward to seeing you all in a week! Hope everything is a tad more upbeat in your world. ttfn.

Retreat!

So here is my weekend:

On Friday we (leadership) left for retreat at about 4:00 in the afternoon. We stopped for Dinner in Issaquah at 5ish and arrived at the camp at about 6:15. After taking care of the business side of things (i.e. paying) we headed off to our lodge to prepare for the rest of the people arriving. We turned on the heat and set out some snacks. At about 7:15 the first car arrived. It was raining outside and Steph and I decided to go out and direct cars since we wanted them to park certain places, etc. It was surprisingly fun to be out in the rain directing cars. We were wearing dark clothes, and it was raining, so every time a car would come down the drive we would break out our cell phones and use the light from them to get the attention of the car. :) After we were cold and wet, and most everyone had arrived Steph and I went in to join the fun. :) On Friday night after everyone arrived we basically just hung around and played games. The camp lodge has tons of games inside: fooseball, carpet ball, air hockey, and ping pong. Plus we brought most of the games from the Hall Council Closet. :) We also had a getting to know you session in our "breakout groups." These groups were led by each of the Hall Council members (including mawah) and the 3 PAs. We just played fun games and stuff. It went well. Most people stayed up entirely too late this night.

On Saturday Hall Council had to be ready at 8:45 to set up breakfast. Then the rest of the day was a mixture of free time and breached/floor groups. During free time we had a game called Bucketball. It is a tradition for Moyer. I can't remember if I described it last year, but I will do so now. There are 2 teams, 2 buckets, 1 ball. The object is to get the ball in your teams bucket. You play til 7 (or at least we do)...other than that there are no rules...although we set up some offside boundaries for safety reasons. :) I did not play this year because I played a little last year and decided it wasn't for me. However, I enjoyed watching. I was very happy that this year there was no blood. Last year there was several minor blood incidents. lol. In the evening we had a speaker come and talk to us. It was a guy that works for SPU that Matthew (HC President) knows from a small group the guy led. He as a good speaker, but a tad long winded. He talked about Unity, which was basically our theme for the weekend. It was good. Then after the speaker Hall Council met with him privately. I found this time to be more meaningful/helpful. It was really nice. :)

Then on Sunday Hall Council had to be ready at 7:45 for breakfast. After breakfast the SMCs (Student Ministry Coordinators) led a service. It was really good too. They provided us with some quiet time, which was nice as well. Then we had everyone help us clean up and everyone packed up. We were able to accomplish this fairly quickly. :) We took group pictures and then pretty much everyone left. Bonnie's car was one of the last ones (besides Hall Council) to leave and she had an extra seat. Well, as she was driving off we decided that we need her extra seat...so I went running after her car screaming her name...but she didn't hear me. It was pretty funny though. lol. So then Hall Council left and funny enough we beat Bonnie (and several other people) home...apparently people got lost. :) So, we got back to Moyer at 12:30.

It was a very nice weekend and it went pretty well. I could go more into detail about the problems that occurred and more of what we did...but you will have to ask me in person. Please enjoy the pictures I have included below. They are somewhat in reverse order fyi. I hope to see a lot of you in a week and a half for Thanksgiving. Have a good week.

Yay for Retreat!!! 

1st Moyer Girls 

Christine and I watch Bucketball.... 

Amy, my PA has a random conversation on her cell phone....while I laugh at her. 

First Moyer Girls Hang....