Dragons... (just for you Karen :P)

On Monday I had a bad day at work so I went to walmart because walmart always seems to have something that makes me happy. As I was there I was walking around and saw this new animated movie. Now I am addicted to movies and animated are the worst. Also I love dragons and everything to do with them. I own so many dragon books and and Karen is always making fun of me for it. But this movie was called Dragon Hunters so i just had to get it. Now Karen really made fun of me and just called me a nerd but what can I say I am addicted to all things dragon. I watched this movie and it was not the greatest but I still liked it.

I really may have a problem because right now I am reading a novel about dragons in an Asian like society. I also have a whole series on dragons that I have yet to start but I bought just because it was about dragon. I have more dragon books than any other type of books in my library. I don't know what it is about dragons that is appealing to me. I know that they are not real but I have always dreamed of having a pet dragon that could fly me around everywhere. I also don't usually like it when they make dragons a just a mindless beast or when dragons are all bad. I like to think of them as intelligent and having the ability to chose between good and evil.

I know I am a nerd, and yes Karen I am expecting you to tell me as much. maybe someday I'll grow out of my fascination with dragon but as for right now I am a dragon nerd but it makes me happy.

Group Projects

For my Junior Design class we are doing a group project in effort to teach us how to work in a group on a design project. We are designing a cabin which I was excited about but I am learning that sometimes people get ideas in there head and just don't listen to others. Now I am sure that I do this too but it has been way frustrating so now I am just sticking to my assigned area and will just let the others worry about their areas. I was trying to help give advice since we just built a cabin but they just didn't really listen to me so I'll just keep my comments to myself until they ask or they are just doing something that I know wont work.

I am in charge of the site work and soils. It is not to hard I just got a survey area up on Kolob close to where my families cabin is located. It is an area that interstate is building a subdivision at so it was all surveyed out. I am now trying to find soil properties so I can figure out what we would have to do if we really were going to actually build there. I know a lot from when we built our cabin so that is good. Once they get the structure designed I am going to have to try and figure out how best to place it on the lot that we have chosen and then figure out the run-off water plan and how to handle it around the cabin. I already kind of know how I am going to to do that but the small detials are what I have to wait on until I get the building design. So I have come to realize that sometimes when working in a group that you will have to just wait for others to get something done first before you can do what you need to do.

We also have to create a 15 minute power point presentation every two weeks and so show what are group is getting done. I am suppose to show what I have done but I haven't done anything really because I have been waiting for others to get there work done so I really don't know what to do for my part of the presentation. I will probably just make something up and just BS my way through it for this week and next time actually put the real data in.

Valentine's Day

This weekend for Valentine's Day the ballroom dance company held a Valentine's Gala. We had to perform at it, help set up and take down. We could take a date if we wanted to actually go to the Gala or we could just show up for the performance. They needed my truck to take some stuff over to were the Gala was being held so I ended up helping most of the afternoon. I went with Karen which was wonderful. I had lots of fun. We had dinner and got pictures which was kind of awkward by the way because our director was taking the pictures and he told us how to pose for the pictures. Then we performed. I danced in Opener, Singing in the Rain, and Quickstep. I was pretty nervous because it was my first time dancing Singing in the Rain and Quickstep. They are both feature pieces so Mark was really getting after me to get the dances down really well. I felt like I did well on both of them so that is good. After we performed they just had dancing and which was fun. The only problem was that I had to help take stuff back after the Gala was over and I didn't want to be there all night so I started cleaning things up at 10 pm. I felt bad because I basically just left Karen while I cleaned up. So I got frustrated with a lot of other ballroom people because after the Gala they just left and didn't help. I was trying to clean up costumes but people had left them all over the place and wouldn't clean them up. I had some one go get Toni's car so Karen could go home while I finished cleaning up. I finally got down around midnight. It really sucked. But afterward a group of people came over to my house and we watched a movie, or at least turned one on while we took a nap. Overall it was a good day for me. It was really nice to be able to spend the evening with Karen and just enjoy her company. It was probably the best Valentine's I have ever had.

Just one of those days

Today has just been a bad day for me. Really this week has been a struggle but today has been the worst. It was snowing this morning when I went to practice at 6:00 am and has been snowing on and off all day. With not having a working heater in my truck it makes it so I'm always cold and I hate being cold. So it just adds to all the problems and stresses of late. This week things at work have been stressful because they need me to get the stuff I am doing done as soon as possible and it is taking longer than it should because the computers are so slow. So that is really stressing me out. Then Karen has been having a hard week and I did not know how to help her out which was stressful. I was going to drive her home after our Valentine's performance but because of the weather we can't do that now. It has just been a tough week with school as well. My classes are not very tough but they are just time consuming and I just don't have a lot of time. Also today I have a migraine. Now I wish I could have just stayed home today and slept it off but I didn't have that option so I just have had to deal with it. Since I get migraines pretty often I have learned to deal with the pain but I still have a hard time concentrating on things so in technique today I was really struggling with dancing. I really wish that I didn't get migraines. They are awful. They make it so everyone thinks I am in a bad mood. I probably am though because I don't want to really be talking to anyone. Now I am at practice and really don't want to be but I can't do anything to change that. I just don't know what to do anymore. I am just frustrated, stressed, and at my wits end. I just need a break from everyone.

The greatest place on earth... Kolob

So this weekend a group of us went up to my cabin on Kolob mountain. I had invited my brothers but most of them couldn't go so I ended up inviting my sister Heather and her family since I wasn't going to be using all 6 of the snowmobiles. So there was Heather and her family, Mike and Alisha, Brandon and Marie, Skyler, Karen and me. We were late getting out and ended up driving the snowmobiles up in the dark which made for a fun ride. On the way up I was pulling the sled with some of the food on it and lost one of the bags with the junk food in it because I couldn't see because it was dark. Other than that it was an uneventful drive up. We made dinner and then just played games and watched a movie Friday night. It was nice having my sister and her family there. Keegan was so fun to have around. He is such a cute kid. So we played a game of settlers of catan because my family is obsessed with it and then we watched "Wanted." It was a good movie, not the best I've seen lately but it was good. In keeping there with character Mike and Karen both fell asleep before the movie ended, in fact if I remember right the were both alseep before we even started the movie.

Saturday we had breakfast and then went out to play in the snow for awhile. We kept up with a tradition of snowmoboarding. Which is snowboarding while getting pulled by the snowmobile so it is like wake boarding just on snow.

Now Karen had to work so I had to take her down early but before we headed down she surprised me and while I was off snowmoboarding she drove the snowmobile all by herself. She had told me that I should not expect her to drive again so it was a shocker. After I took Karen down to cedar I drove back up and spent the last of the afternoon on the mountian. It was fun but I am very sore and tired. Here are a few pictures from the weekend.

Mike Tackling Me

Scott & Keegan

Shaylee

Sage

Karen

Scott & Keegan