From the Beginning

I was reading through some of my old journals and came across some rather interesting entries. Here are two that had a great deal of significance for me... somewhere near the end. :)

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

The new semester has been a great change of pace from working forty hours a week and being bored every weekday. Now I only work twenty hours a week and get to go to class half of the day which is very refreshing, until I get to the homework part. Now instead of having tons of spare time I have none at all which is rather a pain, I think I have negative time now which is a weird concept, I know, but I just don't have enough time to do everything and I'm not going to compromise my sleep for homework, that would be dumb. I enjoy the classes I'm taking although I don't enjoy the tests. I'm taking Nutrition, Home and Family Living, Intro to Interiors, ballet and pointe, and a New Testament Class. I've also recently decided that I'm changing my major to Social Work although I haven't done it officially yet not because I'm a slacker that just goes back to the problem of negative time. I'm really excited about my new major and am planning on getting a masters so that I can do clinical social work and be a counselor, pretty cool, huh? (that never happened...)

One of the reasons I haven't had much free time lately is because I keep getting asked out on dates. Dom and I have discussed this and we have come up with a theory that freshman girls just don't get asked out much because freshman guys still have to go on missions so they don't date (or they're just too immature) and return missionaries don't exist in the dorms except for really strange ones. But, the people I have encountered lately are a little strange themselves. To wrap it up in one phrase all of the guys that have taken me on dates since school started out of about ten or twelve guys are either short, bald, or boring, there's nothing more to it, that's that. I either can't be attracted to them or am and then as soon as they talk the interest is gone in a split second. Why can't I just find a cute guy that I like and likes me back.... if only life were that simple. (maybe it is, I just had to wait for the right one)

Monday, November 07, 2005
"Okay, today started out as a crazy day. I had to register myself and my brother Tyler for classes (he gets back on the 22 that's in two weeks!) at six a.m. and I don't have a computer or the internet at my house so I drove up to work the entire time thinking that I should probably go get gas but I didn't and boy was that retarded. I got all the way there but when I tried to come home my car wouldn't start and I had to walk home at six-thirty in the morning in the cold in my pajamas and slippers, I was a sorry sight! Oh well, it really wasn't that bad.

Yesterday I went to my crazy grandma's house (she really is crazy) with my mom to bring her food because she doesn't go grocery shopping ever because there's some kind of a conspiracy at the grocery store or something, I don't really know. I only went to see my mom and eat food that she brought, I got to eat homemade roast beef and mashed potatoes to break my fast, mmmmmm. My grandma's quote of the day was probably "So Alycia, are you going to run off and get married to some rich man?" or maybe when she said randomly "how does it feel to kiss someone, I can't even remember anymore. It was great! I was glad that I didn't have to stay for too long because I had to go to the CES fireside by President Monson, it was amazing of course, he's one of my favorite speakers. The topic was on preparing for the future and he told us a lot of things that made a lot of sense, I'm soooooo glad I went.

That brings us back to today of course. What a great life I have! Okay so other updates, I'm kinda sorda dating someone. He's one of the most amazing, respectful people I've ever met, you'll be happy to know. We've been dating for close to a month and a half and just held hands for the first time on Halloween, YAY! I'm a fan of taking things slow. He's an engineering major and graduates in April but then he'll go on to grad school, (or so he said) so yes he's about four years and five days older than me. For those of you that can't do the math he's 23 and his birthday is on July 13th. He grew up in Japan and his family lives in China now, he's definately white, tall and blonde, not asian but has a lot of cool stories. He served his mission in Australia Japanese speaking and now is taking Mandarin Chinese for fun because he's a freakin' genious."

Well I guess there was a lot that was significant to me. My grandma, although not in her right mind is pretty smart sometimes, she did know I was going to go off and marry someone. :) I also think it's interesting that I listened to President Monson's talk on preparing for the future (which included talk of marriage) right as I was beginnig to date my future husband. Some kind of fun things to think about.

Unfortunately this was my first and last journal entry regarding Gabe because after that I no longer had any time because I was spending it all with him, like when he took me to Big Band Night at BYU, nothing but dancing and eating all night long. This was the day we got our Engagement pictures taken which is why we're all matchy matchy, we don't do that on a regular basis... usually.