freeeeewriiiiiiite

I've become ridiculously behind in my blogging, i know. im working on it though and im determined to change this week.

so i just finished writing up a personal assessment for my book of mormon class and its put me in this super spiritual mood. haha well not maybe not super, but now im listening to an e.f.y cd, so it feels like its sunday, though its monday! yay no school! i dont usually work either, but i volunteered to come in tonight from 5-9pm, mostly because i figured so many people would be out of town that we wouldnt have FHE or anything, and we totally do tonight. im kinda sad, but.. heck im getting holiday pay, and i need all the hours i can get. so im not completely crushed.
i think this past week is when it offically realized that living out here IS like a big youth conference or something. i was a friends apartment late friday night and we were talking about what movie to watch, and ended getting on the topic of what would be appropriate and it traveled to just standards in general (ie, if you consider its sunday at 12am, or is it when you go to bed/ when the sunrises? -to justify when its too late to go to the store or something-) it was really funny and made me feel very good and secure, which is a feeling ive been looking for since i moved out here. it was just being around people i barely knew and feeling like i was safe in being with them. ive been hanging out with my new friends all this weekend, and it feels like its been one very long day. hehe or like a few at EFY.
i went to EFY once in my junior/ senior year and it was fantastic. i signed up to go the following year, but i later learned the week id be there would be the week i was to graduate high school, so i had to withdraw. i was pretty sad, especially when i wasnt even allowed to walk the line at my graduation (so i didnt really offically graduated until i got my diploma.. which was just a few months ago. eugh, im SO glad im outta high school.)
man. im just in such a good, inspired mood. hopefully i can get all my homework finished up today so im not scrabbling to get it together tomorrow before school. i really like going to school and even doing the work most of the time; it was only home life that put a damper on it. my parents seperated in my freshman year of highschool, and high school just seemed horrible because of all the dang drama. now its just work that puts a damper on school. i hate work sometimes and it gets me all depressive, sometimes to the point where i just give up everything and sleep for a few days. i feel a lot better about it right now. hopefully i stay in this upbeat mood all summer :)

FW-I'm Behind With Blogging yo

So last Wednesday I was running late to class and, ya know.. Didn’t make it at all and missed the first IFAT and stuff. I wasn’t super freaked about it, but I had a good 3 hr gap before my next class, so I just decided to go home and eat lunch there and stuff. I was pretty caught up with homework and didn’t know what to do with my free time... it was a really nice day, so I had my iguana outside most of the time, letting him catch some rays while I was inside playing on my computer, watching TV, snacking, etc...Around 2:30 I went to go put my lizard Buddy inside, and he was like.. dead. Totally limp, nearly unconscious.. Obviously dehydrated. I freaked, put him in my truck and flew to the nearest vet (riverwoods). They didn’t know what to do for him (the reptile vet wasn’t in apparently.. this just motivates me more to become an exotic animal vet!!) and they sent me to Payson. nearly an hour later I got there, and Buddy seemed to be doing a little better (it was a crazy drive going 90 with all the windows down on the freeway... my hair was a mess lol)anyway... unnecessarily long story short- Buddy's alive. They took some blood and decided he’s way underweight and very dehydrated, mostly due to a mouth infection. I noticed his eating habits had gone kind of weird, and that, though during the winter he stops eating and loses a bit of weight, he hadn’t gained any or improved since its gotten warmer. I’ve been planning to take him to the vet since I moved out here 8 months ago, but.. The vet is expensive!! I was going to wait until I got my tax returns... but I guess not. Friday, during our class in fact, I got a call from the vet telling me he’s suffering from kidney failure. so... the past few days I’ve been forcing antibiotics down this throat and putting an IV in him daily. He’s getting better, and fighting me a lot more. Luckily, he’s not aggressive. :)so I think he'll pull through okay. I go back in Friday to get some more blood tests done and see if pumping him with meds and fluids (and food) is improving his kidneys. Cross you fingers!So as a result of his sudden sickness, I missed the rest of my classes Wednesday, completely forgot ALL ABOUT these blogs, and fell a little behind in my BOM class. I’m happy to say I’m completely caught up in BOM now though, and fully prepared for my midterm tomorrow! ahh... school is crazy! I love it. I really hope I do well and get good grades. I didn’t do too great in high school, because I was a slacker. I got my act together my junior and senior though. I didn’t get accepted into BYU cuz my GPA was so bad I’m sure (1.9) butut.. I know im a lot better than that. and i really want to prove it over the next few semesters. Let’s just pray that I don’t slack off...

i really love marshmellows. yum yum.

So I suppose this will be my first OFFICAL blog for this class (I post random blogs on my myspace now and then, though they're usually just lame surveys, so this isn't my FIRST OFFICAL BLOG ever. Just thought you'd like to know).
I feel I should explain nasty plaque. It's a beloved nickname of mine (NOT), given to me by one of my favorite people. It rhymes with Ashley Black see... my friends still get a good laugh from it. It's a little odd actually, since i moved out here, I haven't really gotten any nicknames. Back home I was RARELY called Ashley (mostly because i guess i just didnt seem like an "Ashley"). I was just called Black for the most part (like all my friends were PE teachers or something). a few friends spiced things up by calling me "blackie" or "blackgirl" but i remember in particular it was weird to hear someone call me Ashley to my face. Out here the only nickname I've been blessed with is Montikew, or Monitque. When a member from my bishopric was reading my records in he pronouced my middle name Monique "montikew". I was pretty suprised; i a lot of people I've met out here dont know how to pronouce my name...

Anyway... It's sunday, and though I've been meaning to work on and orgainize my homework, i, like many others, found something "better to do." which was of course talking with friends and listening to music. in fact, we swapped a lot of CDs today, ripping them onto our computers or just burning new CDs. i havent taken a monumental stand for or against music and movie pirating yet. i just dont really feel much for a lot of stuff, and so far i dont think its bad to rent a movie and just make a copy of it. i mean, i paid to rent it didnt i? and when it comes to music, almost every band and every CD ive ever fallen in love with has been a burned copy. i have no problem buying CDs, but i dont want to waste my money... i dunno, its a hard line to draw, and i just dont care enough to draw one. i dont make an espeical habit of copying EVERY movie i've ever rented (actually i dont think ive ever copied a rented moive; i usually end up coping some one else's movie.. which is something i didnt pay for, so.. my argument earlier about not feeling bad for copying a movie i pay for just kind of died.. but heck, i let the same friends borrow movies ive purchased.. ahh, i think it just all works out in the end. its all about how you feel, and i just dont feel its wrong.
anyway.
i really need to clean my room. especially after the popcorn fight we had in here today (which was more like a one-way attack). i have loads of clothes on my bed, and a lot that need to be washed. and i should really take care of all of it tonight so i dont have to worry about it throughout the week. i mean, laundry i can do at anytime really, but a messy room.. no fun.