Weighed Down

So this week is the first week of me bringing my laptop to school. My 17 inch laptop is kind of heavy, and i usually carry around textbooks as well. Sometimes I carry just one and sometimes I carry 2. I also have a music folder and I carry around my purse. Today was the first day I got to try out carrying both of my Psychology textbooks PLUS my laptop, charger, and headphones. It was pretty heavy and I think I am going to need to get a regular backpack with 2 shoulder straps instead of one. I don't like the feeling of uneven pressure on my shoulders. One shoulder has no pressure and the other one has too much on it. I have also noticed that the pressure on my shoulder causes me headaches the way it presses. I'm going to have a to find a solution to this problem sooner or later.

 Today in psychology we started giving our group presentations. Before class I got a smoothie from Jamba Juice and got together with my group to put our research together. We did not give our presentation today, we are going to on Wednesday though. Other people did presentations on stuff like which gender chews the most gum, how often people eat out VS just cooking, and why people go on facebook. The group survey presentations were pretty interesting. I am looking forward to giving ours and seeing the rest. I will tell more about our study the day after tomorrow when we give it.

 We were given another chapter reading assignment, this one is extremely tricky because it talks a lot about biology of the mind and how the brain works and stuff like that. I am about half way through it and my brain is so fried. I'm probably going to read it again once I don't have to worry about HAVING to read it. I like to go at my own pace where reading is concerned.

 Anyway, other than this school was pretty fun today. I have to admit I fell asleep in dating and courtship today because I was up late yesterday finishing my share of my group project. I also have to admit I slept through my other class because of the same reason. I did not sleep in my psychology class obviously.

 Tonight for ward FHE (family home evening), we played games and had a lesson. I do not remember what the lesson was about, but the games were pretty fun. We played this game where we all picked a fruit, all different, and we would call out our fruit and then say the fruit of someone else and the process was repeated. The catch was that we could not show our teeth at all so things got pretty funny.  We played a similar game next, only it was with states and people had to say it fast because there was a person in the middle that would whack you with a pillow if you didn't answer fast enough. If you got whacked with the pillow you were the one who got to whack people next. My state was Florida, so for example if someone said Florida I would have to say someone else's state really fast like Utah for example. if I didn't say the state fast enough and I was whacked I would be the one with the pillow. Sadly I was never even called. No one seemed to remember Florida. 

 We had chocolate chip cookies for refreshments after we were done. I just went home after this and did a bit of homework and did stuff on the Internet after this.

 Wish I had more to tell. I have been really tired all day so my brain is kind of dead. I think I will just end here.

 Oh, I should probably add that the snow has stayed. I hope it stays for at least a few more days. I am really enjoying it.

Back to Blogging

Long time no see I know. I honestly did not mean for it to turn out that way. Good news is that I have been faithful in writing so far this year. I will post those entries in a few days. We have been remodeling and stuff.

 I got a new laptop today. I have been waiting for it for a few weeks now. The people at vocational rehab got it for me for school and stuff. I've never told anyone about vocational rehab, they basically help people like me that are visually impaired and / or blind get jobs. They help people with other disabilities as well. They are a government organization. You can't even imagine how much they have helped me these past few years. My old councilor over there got transferred somewhere else a few days ago. You are given a councilor and they help you. I have a new one now, her name is Judy. My previous one was named Rhett, he is completely blind. I really like my new councilor.

 Anyway, school has been going pretty good, you will get more details when I put my other entries up tomorrow or sometime in the next few days. Today I had choir, and forgot my music folder haha. I was still able to do pretty good despite this. Going backwards, I had a tariyaki bowl for lunch before this. I have an hour off between classes, though you will probably also hear me say this in the entries i haven't put up yet as well.  Before my one hour break I had a class called "Student Success. The class basically helps you get better at studying and reaching your goal in life. At least that is what it is supposed to do. It helps you with college and stuff.

 In the class we visited this place on campus that also helps you get jobs after college. I intend to use this place in the future on top of vocational rehab. We also discussed being conflicted with our interests and career choices.

 Before i went to school today the carpet guy came again. He came a few weeks ago as well when we did the upstairs carpet. This time he is doing the downstairs carpet as well. He only got to put the pad on the floor today. The pad goes underneath the carpet. He didn't have to do my room today because we already did it when we did the upstairs. My room was the only one that got carpeted that was downstairs a few weeks ago.

 Nothing happened this morning besides this, just got ready for school and stuff.

 After school I went with my dad to get my new laptop (which I am typing on right now). I was and am still very happy to finally have a good computer for school and for home. No doubt it is going to be easier to do homework and other school work on it. On top of this I will finally be able to take notes. I write to slow, but I type really fast.

 Anyway, I have just been setting up the computer mainly for the rest of the day. I have a little psychology test tomorrow and I have been studying for that as well.  I also went to a relief society activity and we played games and talked and stuff.

 The most exciting thing and also the scariest thing to happen to me happened about 2 hours ago. I was on my way to the Relief Society activity and I was running across the crosswalk, my phone fell out of my pocket, right in the middle of the crosswalk. I didn't know this until I got to the church building and felt that my pockets were empty. I panicked and began re-tracing my steps back the way I came. I got to the crosswalk and saw it there. I wasn't sure at this point in time if it was broken or now, or if someone had ran it over. It was the longest 25 seconds of my life waiting for the crosswalk to tell me I could go. I finally ran out and grabbed it. It did not even have a scratch on it and still works perfectly still. I am so glad it did not break.

 The odd thing about thsi is a few days ago I had a dream that my phone broke. I honestly think that was a warning to be careful with my phone. I obviously was not careful enough but got lucky this time. I'm just glad I didn't lose it at SCHOOL! That would have been bad.

 Anyway I guess this is all. can't wait to get my other entries up.