Why did I take 6 classes again???

So 5pm marked the end of my mad rush of exams. I have just wrote 4 exams in the last 48 hrs....man was I going crazy!!! Today after I wrote my cost accounting exam I actually contemplated quitting school and just working as a receptionist or something. My brain is completely shot at this point in time and I still have 2 more exams to write!!!!! I continue to keep in mind that on friday I am having a super fun crafts night with my girlfriends and that friday afternoon I am going out to buy another season of Greys to relax my brain during Christmas holidays. I don't really have anything exciting to write seeing as all I have done in the past week is study, eat and sleep. Christmas will be full of me laying around so if you want to do something then call me up :) Oh and does anyone have any good gift ideas for a 25 year old male??

ARG

I hate finals week. Especially this finals week. I am pretty sure that if you go into it with a negative attitude you won't succeed but I just needed to blow off some steam. I have 6 finals this year, 4 of which are on monday and tuesday. I have International and Law on Monday and Cost accounting and Tax on Tuesday. I have a day break then I write corporate finance and then Intermediate financial accounting...oh what a joyful day it will be next friday afternoon when I am at Michael's buying craft supplies for my girls craft night! Yesterday I was totally in the zone and I studied for about 12 hrs...today I just haven't been able to get into it. I ate a good breakfast, I am chewing gum, keeping hydrated but I just can't concentrate...I guess there is just too much on my mind!! gah. So if any of you studiers read this, comment on study habits that help you when you just can't get into the zone. On the bright side, Andrew has the day off so he is going to pick up our new couches..maybe I will study in those tonight because my back is just killing me from these dang chairs haha! Also, I wanted to rant about people who come to the library to study and then just talk to their friends the whole time...oh yeah and they are sitting in the quiet section...with people all around...getting more and more frustrated. I totally get wanting a break to quietly whisper with your friend but talking for like an hour is so ridiculous!! The library made a loud zone for a REASON. Anyways I don't have much else to rant about....I'm thinking I better go read a scripture or something to calm me down and get me in the zone haha...yesterday I read the ensign article about being grateful and it was awesome!!

Well wishing everyone good luck with studying and exams..... :)

Oh this week has been eventful!

So many things happened this week...they aren't actually too crazy but one of them was really crazy. So the other day I was walking to the school from the institute building( if you have never walked from the institute building to the Uof L then you won't know that you walk across a little patch of road till you get to an island thing where you then wait for it to be your turn to walk across University Drive). To go across the little strip of road you have to walk down a little hill thing and most drivers will yield to the pedestrian even when we are at the top of this little hill thing. In all my time walking from the institute building to the UofL I have always been surprised at how good drivers are around this intersection. This is probably because it is a super busy intersection and there are students walking everywhere. Anyways, because most days I have vehicles that stop when I'm on the top of the hill, instead of right before I cross, usually I can see them and I don't have to check if someone has stopped for me. This has caused me to have quite a bad habit of not even looking before I cross because usually they have stopped for me. On this particular day, I think it was Tuesday, I was just about to cross this patch of road when instead of checking I almost felt someone physically stop my body from walking across the road and right as I was wondering what the heck I was doing frozen in place a purple van zoomed past me. He was not only driving super fast around this bend but he was also really close to the curb. If I would have stepped out...which I usually do...wait make that ALWAYS do...I would have been squished like a pancake...i honestly don't think I would have had any chance of survival he was going so fast. So I was somewhat in shock and my heart was pounding like crazy as I walked to the school thinking " I almost just died... I'm not even being dramatic..I almost just got smushed....Andrew could have come home to a dead wife tonight...oh that would have been horrible". Mom and I went out for lunch that day and I was telling her my story and she said "don't tell your dad" and I was like "why not?" and she said " this morning your dads friend had a son that got killed because a girl didn't yield to him....and his wife just had a baby this summer"...so yeah it was a pretty crazy day. I obviously have so much more to do on this earth and I always hear stories like this but never has it actually been me that has been so close to getting killed, I am so grateful I still get the chance to do all the things I plan to on this earth and this experience has really made me appreciate my life.

Onto a lighter topic....hahah I almost done school!!! The next couple weeks are going to be....hard...I am thinking of another H-word but I won't say it lol!! I have 4 exams in two days...which means I have to be prepared for all 4 of them next Sunday. Then I have 2 more exams that week but I should have enough time to be prepared for them. I am done on the 16th so I get 3 whole weeks of Christmas holidays which is muchly needed. My girlfriends and I are going to do some crafts and I plan to read all the books I have been waiting to read all semester!! I am also getting quite good at making stew....I am making stew tonight for Andrew..hope he doesn't read this...but we are going to have a nice dinner date tonight with candlelight...and I hope he brings me some flowers home :). The 20th of November was our 2 year anniversary and exactly 1 year from when he proposed...I cannot believe how fast time has flown but we are super excited to hit our 1 year of marriage mark. Anyways I need to do my homework now but I hope everyone is enjoying the Christmas season!

Fire Fire Fire!

So this is just going to be a short post but I couldn't stand to NOT record the happenings of the evening. I get home from church this afternoon and start watching some Grey's Anatomy before going over to my parents house. At about 430 my dad texts me and asks if I'm okay....I thought that was kinda weird because nothing had happened to make me not okay. He then tells me that there is some fires around town and that Brock was crying and begging him to text me and make sure I was ok. So I finished my episode and went over to my parents. As I walked out of the apartment I looked over and a whole wall of the parking garage was fallen over and huge branches were all over the back yard thing. Then as I drove across town I saw the huge billowy dark sky. Anyways I am making this longer then it needs to be but I got to my parents and they acted like it was just another normal day. I asked if they were thinking about evacuating and they were like nah...not till we can actually see the fire. As I drove over I saw a bazillion cars driving over to the south side and I was wondering how close the fire was. Needless to say we have just been chilling out at home all night, playing some games, watching some TV ..no bags packed...haven't done a THING. I don't want to offend anyone because I am sure some people were closer to the fire and had more reason to pack but my dad walked into the bedroom after about a billion people had called and he was like ...I guess this kinda thing separates the normal from the crazy HAHHA I couldn't believe my ears..but oh well! I guess that just makes us one of a kind. Everything seems under control though and I hope not too much damage was done!!!

NEW truck=GOOD luck

So a couple posts ago I told you guys about this truck that Andrew had bought. Well we ended up selling it and we made a profit of $2100 !! Way to go babe!! Anyways so we thought on what we should do with this money for a couple days. We wanted to put it in savings but we also haven't really bought anything yet our whole marriage. Andrew got a job drilling out in Taber and lets just say he is making good money...plus he banked so many hours at his last job that we still have lots of money coming in from there. Needless to say it is Christmas time and we decided that we would save all our money from now on but we were going to spend that $2100 on ANYTHING we wanted. We looked around our house and definitely both saw what we were so obviously missing....good seating. If you haven't been to our apartment then I will tell you that we have this wicked old love seat from my parents house that I put a slipcover on and bought matching pillows for...it meets a need but sure isn't very comfortable. My cousin Lacey also let us buy this huge sectional from her for $100 and it is wicked comfortable.....BUT our apartment is set up so bad that we could only fit the one side in....and lets just say that couch is a little awkward to sit on. So we went to Ashley furniture...found the most beautiful leather couches with reclining seats...and BOUGHT them! They are brown and the "love seat" if that is what you would call it...is two recliners with pop holders and remote holders in the middle. PLUS Ashley furniture sets up all their furniture so that you can take the frame off and put them into your place in different pieces. The whole time we were looking at this couch Andrew kept saying " this is our couch babe...this is our couch"...... he is so funny. They actually came to almost exactly what we got off the truck..just a little less AND they will probably get here a week or so before Christmas. My husband really wants a dirt bike/truck/quad/toy....but he was super supportive of buying something that we can both enjoy....and most of what we do together is watching movies so we felt it was somewhat a need. Anyways I should probably get back to my homework....I will be stuck in this library for the next 18 days....

Date Night!!

More like Date week! Tonight is the last day of not studying haha...all I have been doing is playing all week with Andy poo. Tonight we are going to Breaking Dawn and I am so so so EXCITED!!! I LOVE Jacob...ahhhh 6 pack! I have been waiting for this movie to come out forever, I am also excited about the Hunger Games. I'm suppose to screen this movie before Ciara is allowed to see it but just based on the trailer I am guessing she WON'T be allowed to see it haha. This week has been great so far. Andrew and I have got almost all our errands done, we spent time at my parents house yesterday and watched the new harry potter and we went and saw Andrew's parents today. We are so lucky to live so close to family but we are kinda feeling like going on a little adventure. Andrew is still unsure where he wants to go for school but I wouldn't mind living in Edmonton for a couple years. I hear there are lots of young families and couple which would be nice. I have lots of friends down here but our ward is not compatible with newlyweds...or maybe I am just making up excuses. We live by the hospital so you can make your own assumptions about our ward haha. Funny moment of the week is definitely Andrew cleaning the bathroom. He was such a good sport to do it but I blamed him for the poopy ring around the bathtub and therefore made it HIS turn to clean the bathroom. Anyways he started it in the morning and finished it later on in the day....I was wondering what was taking him so long. So I pretended I was on the computer and kept looking into the bathroom to see what was taking him so long. Every so often I was catch him checking himself out and flexing his muscles. HAHAHAH he cracks me up some days. Anyways T-1 hr till BREAKING DAWN WOO!!

Finally Done!!!

So today was officially Andrew's last day of work. He had to work from 5am yesterday morning till noon today! What a crazy boy he is. Yesterday I had two huge exams and I basically spent the whole weekend from Thursday till Sunday studying for them. I also had class all day...from 8 till 9 at night with just a short break in the middle. I found out that I got 90% on my law midterm which was worth 45% of my grade so I was pretty happy about that! Plus our prof is a wicked hard marker....maybe I should become a lawyer ;). Anyways what I was trying to get at, is that I decided to make today my weekend per say. I got home from institute at noon and Andrew and I went out to the Cheesecake for lunch. We treated our selves to a delicious meal and then a piece of chocolate peppermint cheesecake to follow which I would definitely recommend! Then my wonderful husband...seriously though...decided to take me out to the mall!!!! For the past couple months I have been talking about getting another pair of long yoga pants because they are just so dang comfortable. I only have one pair but they were originally my moms and they are a little too short for my legs. So we go to onetooth and everything is pretty picked over so I say to Andrew that we should just go home and have a nap because he hasn't slept in like 30 some odd hours. He doesn't really like that plan so much. He says to me lets go to the mall and walk around for a bit...I'm not tired right now. So we go to the mall and in a very loving way he basically tells me that wearing yoga pants with my nice "going out" jacket doesn't match so well. I love my husband but he isn't too observant...so if he thinks yoga pants and my jacket look bad together...then everyone else must as well hahahaah! I thought he just wanted to get another more casual jacket but he was talking about getting me a real nice winter jacket. After a bit of looking I realized that he wanted me to get a snow boarding type jacket...well everyone knows how much those are!!! We looked at all the big stores but I just didn't want to part with that much money!! My other coat is fine....but he insisted...so we came out with a grey Burton jacket that is absolutely adorable...and now my husband can rest assured that people will stop thinking that I am incapable of dressing myself hahah. So now I'm pretty happy and I'm thinking that were going to leave...when we walk past LuLu Lemon....I didn't know we had one of these in Lethbridge...but we do! I think just for the Christmas holidays but we just went in to browse and sure enough and I walked out of there with a new pair of exercise pants.......and it doesn't end there! We proceed to below the belt where Andrew insists I buy a new pair of jeans....I keep saying no that we don't need them....and then he brings up that I only have one pair of jeans and I wear them everyday....which is true....but I'm a poor student and these are the kind of sacrifices you make. He then says...well Nick...you've got a hot butt...people notice it....so people notice you wear the same pants everyday. OVERALL a somewhat INTERVENTION took place today. For one, my Husband helped me realize that I can't dress myself...or that I just don't put a lot of time into realizing what I go out in...hahaha but MOST IMPORTANTLY I have the most selfless husband ever. He literally works soooo hard for his money and he decided that he wanted to take me out and use his hard earned money to let me enjoy being a not so poor student for a day. I absolutely love me husband...and not because of the wonderful gifts he bought me today...I love him because he puts me first in everything. He is such an amazing guy and I am so lucky to have found him. Now I just have to find a special way to show him how much I appreciate it!! Our 2 year anniversary is coming up on the 20th so maybe I will think of a great idea.