Wait, what?!?

To all you good people sleeping right now like I should be---I was just looking through what I have left to do this term and to graduate.  For my own personal musing purposes...my school agenda for the next 10 days includes: *Baking: Practical & Written finals; *Stats: 1 Module, 1 Homework, 3 Quizzes, Project presentation & final draft; 1 final; *Externship: get one and make necessary arrangements!; *Job: get one! (why?  cuz Clint says you have to and if you're going to graduate in ~4 semesters, you better start saving up for the $1000 loan payments you plan on making to eliminate student loans in less than 3 years like you really want to do cuz 30 just sounds horrid. ok?  OK!)
So I could be finishing my time at BYU-Idaho next year this time...but it's more likely I'll stretch it till April or July 2012...How?
Winter 2011: 9-13 credits or just my MA externship (2 credits)
Spring 2011: MA externship (2 credits) if not done in Winter
Fall 2011: 5-14 credits (1 credit being internship for HS major)
Winter 2012: 12-14 credits (2 of which I could push to Spring term and then I'd graduate July 2012 instead)
I'm a lil panicky now...don't worry I'll be a lot panicky next year when the reality of having a degree after nearly 7 years is waiting around the bend to smack me in the face.  The cool thing is...I may actually graduate before I'm 25!  Wait, what?!?

It's 4:03 and I can't sleep

*Preface, there's a song that Clint and I like that the title of this post comes from.

So it's actually 3:52 right now, but I'm going to post this at 4:03.

I made this blog public again.  No one was reading it when it was private.  I fixed the reactions...so if you don't have time to comment, please at least give me some feedback by clicking one of the reaction boxes.  A bonus of the reactions is that it's totally anonymous, so if the post was boring, I won't know who thought so.  

Anyway, I really can't sleep!  We're keeping the kittens out of our room for a few nights and to do that we have to shut our bedroom door which means it gets really warm in here when the heat comes on.  Another reason I can't sleep is that I pulled an all nighter Tuesday night and so my sleep clock is even more screwy than usual, esp. with daylight savings time thrown into the mix.  We keep styrofoam in our windows to cut down on our utility bills and that also messes with my circadian rhythm because not as much natural light gets in.  Clint recently suggested that we should paint or decorate the faces of each piece so our windows are more cheerful and 'light' inside and out.  Maybe we will do that at some point, but maybe we won't since we'll probably leave it for the people who take up residence in this cozy house when we move away from Rexburg someday.

Sigh, I want to yawn, but I'm so tired I can't sleep...I'm sore from cleaning yesterday and it is now 4:03 and I still can't sleep!

Never Find A Love Like This

Power 90

Clint and I have decided to start the Power 90 workout to get fit for P90X.   We woke up at 6:15am yesterday (YES, I got up willingly, excited even, w/out dawdling or complaining!) to get started.
Contrary to popular belief, though Clint and I aren't exactly overweight, we aren't fit, trim, and healthy either.  So, Day 1- we measured ourselves and logged it into our individual workbooks & we gave the diet guide a go.  Of the 5 meals I missed lunch and Clint didn't eat his snacks.  Dinner wasn't ready or eaten three hours before bed either but it was yummy! (Mediterranean Chicken courtesy of good earth dinner box)  We even had three Oreos each and stayed w/in our calorie limit for losing fat!
Day 2-Today we woke up with just enough time for Clint to eat granola, pack a lunch, don his CMC apparel and grab a jacket before I drove him to work shivering in my pajamas. (Another reason I need to start the Power 90 life--I hate going out as a schlumpadinka!)  I've just eaten my breakfast of granola but I'm already 99% sure that I'll be taking a nap as soon as I post this blurb.  On the off 1% chance that I don't immediately drift off in LaLa land, I'll work on my statistics homework and figure out how and what I'm going to present for my final in my Family Studies class this afternoon.  Bless you Clint for enduring 9-5 training today!

Madison firefighters to unveil 9/11 memorial - Rexburg Standard Journal: News

Madison firefighters to unveil 9/11 memorial - Rexburg Standard Journal: News
Clint and I attended the unveiling of a memorial constructed out of steel from Ground Zero by the Madison county firefighters in honor of one of their own this year for the 9th anniversary of 9/11.  I still need to stop by and take a picture of the actual memorial now that it's not surrounded by a crowd of people.  Here's the pics I did get:

 I pledge allegiance to the flag, of the United States of America-And to the republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All.  We are children of our Heavenly Father who loves us.  I love him.  I will stand as a Witness of God at all times and in all things and in all places.  I am truly proud to be an American, humbled at age 14 by the events of this day.  It really wasn't long ago at all. Here, I share briefly my thoughts and memories and feelings of  9/11/2001:9 years ago today, I had no idea what the Pentagon or the Twin Towers/World Trade Center were.  It's disconcerting to me how isolated I was.   I happened to be waiting for friends that morning to walk to school-I was alone in a living room and thought that the airplanes crashing into the buildings was a clip from a movie being talked about on the Today Show.  Naivety shattered by shock, I did not know how to respond.  At that time the eastern states were like a completely different country to me.  Rumors of INL (then INEEL) being the next target because of nuclear technology there had me wondering whether we'd be quarantined in our homes for months.  I stretched my mind trying to think of someone I knew who had been there or lost a loved one...my mind was blank.  I have never liked how sheltered I was as a child...even now I am sheltered from terrible things.  I remember a teacher asking us to never forget this day or pretend it wasn't a real life tragedy like the Holocaust is for some people/governments/countries/etc.  I am sad that people have already forgotten or deny the truth (http://www.thoughtcrimenews.com/  http://www.thoughtcrimenews.com/9-11-is-a-lie.gif God bless the USA.  God bless His children and comfort all those robbed of peace and freedom.  I'm grateful for the gospel.  I know that all those who've suffered loss and pain because of these events will one day soon be reunited with their loved ones and their hearts and minds will be healed because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.God bless you.  God bless me.  God bless us all.  Always remember!  I shall never forget!