Insomnia...

I really think I have a sleeping problem.

I wake up early every morning (okay so like 8-9ish) and don't take naps (except today when Sophia fell asleep on me. But Sunday naps our acceptable).

Then by ten at night, I'm exhausted. I lay down, fall asleep for like an hour, then wake up and can't get back to sleep for hours. What is that??

I'm getting really sick and tired of it.

On a happier note, I've found some places that have open rooms. Which both are in my old ward. I made my schedule at SUU and got financial aide started. Just need them to review it and let me know if I get it. Which I know I will. Tuition is a stinker. I don't understand why on earth it needs to be so expensive. Even though I made my schedule at probably the very last minute, I got all classes I need for my major. All of which are in the Education building. Maybe I should just rent an empty classroom and live there? Pft. I wish. That would be bomb.

So anyway, hopefully I find a house soon so I can move back to Cedar and start getting things in order. I have never been so unorganized in my entire life. That is soon to change, my friends.

I hope you all had a wonderful Sunday and will have a superb week!

p.s No matter how excited I am to move back to Cedar, I'm going to be so sad to leave my nieces and nephew!

Webcam Fun..

Here are some pictures me and my nieces and nephew took (minus Sophia-- she was downstairs watching TV and I didn't want her throwing a fit)!

Aren't they so cute? I know I posted these pictures on Facebook. Just letting the ones who don't have Facebook have the opportunity to see these fun kids!

I was telling Daniel today about dating and he was asking me all these questions about dating afterwards. He's going to have the ladies lining up for him.

Well that's all for today!

Is it bad that I'm more addicted to blogging than Facebook now?

Potty Training...

So my niece is learning how to go "potty like a big kid."

And let me tell you. Not easy. While Lydia and Ronnie are at work, I get the joys of it all.

We give her a sticker every time she goes to the bathroom on the toilet.

We take one away every time she has an "accident."

Once she receives five stickers, she gets a treat.

We try and get her on the toilet every half hour/hour. It usually works. Usually.

Lesson learned from today: Don't take her away from her favorite tv show to go potty. She'll scream hysterically and will refuse to go. Tough lesson. Then afterwards she thinks it's too funny. She's nuts.

Not Computer Smart...

Rant of the day:

I've been staying at Lydia's house to watch her kids and so I can figure stuff out with my life. While I'm here I'm sleeping on the couch in a pitch black living room (the only room without windows). This morning I woke up to start getting ready and hit my leg so hard that it instantly swelled up and bruised. Lovely way to start off the day huh? Can't wait to see what it looks like in a few days.

After feeding the kiddos breakfast, hanging out watching stuff about the Anthony case, and then feeding them lunch I started on Lydia's computer that crashed last week. Well she got her recovery disc yesterday and then it deleted everything off her computer. Even her wireless whatever you call it. So what I did from one in the afternoon to five was sat on the phone trying to figure out how to download drivers, nonsense that will fix your hardware, how to get into the behind the scenes of the computer, how to pretty much rig internet. It was pretty fascinating to see what can be done with a computer but I will not, let me repeat, will NOT get a degree in computers. It's too confusing. Kudos to those who are.

Two things I have learned in my college years: a) I am awful at Chemistry b) computers are a no go for me.

While I was in the middle of the chaos of trying to fix her computer (which by the way, I got the internet back on it, it's just not opening any icons now. I gave up.) Sophia kept coming up to me, grabbing my shoulders and would look at me with a serious face. I would ask her what's up and she would just tell me, "I love you, Mary." She's so cute.

Now I'm sitting here about to fall asleep. I'm exhausted. I'm glad I'm not married with kids. I'm not ready. Give a year or two. :) Nieces and the boy (nephew) are plenty.

As I was getting ready for the day my niece Alexis had some fun watching me and asking me about things while I got ready. It was fun. Boggles my mind that she'll be wearing make up in the next few years. I mean, she's already liking boys. Scary! So I put some lip gloss on her, offered to curl her eyelashes (she thought it was going to hurt so she denied) and did her hair for her.

Isn't she so pretty??

Really? This is annoying.

So again. Change of plans. This time, it's going to stick. How many times I've changed my mind is getting annoying.

I'm not staying in St. George. I'm not going back to Orem. Where am I going? Cedar City. I'm meant to be there. I think of anywhere else and I start stressing out. Mostly about school. I'm still a student at Southern Utah University. I want to be. I will probably live at the Inn across the street from my old house. When I think about Cedar, I get excited and relax.

Yes I have changed my mind an infinite number of times but I think I'm going to stick... scratch that, I'm going to stick with it. No thinking about it.

I still haven't sold my contract so hopefully that happens!

Another update. This time in life I'm getting a little carried away with what I eat. I don't think about what it will do to my body if I eat it. I weighed myself today and lost a whopping eight pounds since last time I checked. Crazy stuff right there. At least I think it's good. I'm going to try and lose thirty pounds. The frustrating thing about all of this weight loss stuff is that I usually only lose inches and not pounds. I'm going to give Weight Watchers a try. What do you think? Should I? I know some of you have done it. Let me know how you like it. If you have any tips, let me know.

Well two posts for you guys to read today. Happy Independence Day to you!

I promise, next place I live, I'll stay there for some time. Thanks for sticking through my life.

It's Independence Day...

So for the Fourth of July weekend, I came to St. George to spend time with Lydia and her family.

On Friday, Sophia had her birthday party. She's three years old. What? What happened to the other two years? She's so cute. She got a lot of toys and had a Bug themed birthday. It turned out really well and Candace made a cute Caterpillar cake (bunt cakes cute in half and stood them up). It was very cute. I wish my camera wouldn't have died. Disappointment.

On Saturday, we went up Cedar Mountain to Ronnie's (brother in law) Grandfathers property. It was so gorgeous up there. Once again, camera was dead. Before I go move on to more important things, I'm going to give you some useless information I learned that day from my intelligent because-she's older sister. I learned what a bluff was, a knoll, a marsh, and learned that the Aspen trees at Fish Lake is the biggest living organism in the world. I also learned about different wildflowers. Yes, the only reason she knows these things (as her kids would say) is because she's older and they know everything. Pft whatever. Anyway, we kept seeing meadows. Like you would see in The Sound of Music. I wanted to frolic in them. With all the yellow, purple, and white flowers. People who frolic are cool, right? Well sad to say, I didn't frolic at all. Once you got up close it was all lumpy. There were Mole tracks. Gross. Then Ronnie told us that we needed to entertain ourselves because we would be there for some time. So what did three adults do? We pretended that the ground was lava and the only way we would live is if we balanced on the dead Aspen trees that fell. After losing limbs from the lava burning them off, we decided that we had nine lives. We started off at five years old, and ended up graduating to fifteen. Yeah, we sure did entertain ourselves. It was actually really fun. We all deserve to be five years old sometimes. Try it out.

Sunday I went to Church with Lydia and her family. It was interesting. A lot different from the LDS Church, that's for sure. After Church we came back and ate some dinner and then went to see Transformers 3. In 3D. It was phenomenal. If you guys haven't gone to see it, please treat yourselves to it and GO. If you don't know who Geniel Perkins is ignore this. If you do, you can't tell me that one of the girls on it (forgot her name) looks JUST like her.

She didn't wear the glasses during the movie but afterwards, I put them on her and this is what she did. Isn't she so cute? I think she is. You think whatever but you don't have a soul if you think otherwise.

Today is Independence Day. I'm so grateful for the people in other lands, fighting for us, so we can be in our land and live in freedom. If it weren't for them, we wouldn't be where we're at today. Tonight, we're going to light fireworks and just hang out. At least I think that's the plan. Along with everything else, Sophia is learning how to go "pee-pee in the potty." Today I told her that every time she went to the bathroom IN the toilet, she would get a sticker. If she gets five stickers, she'll get a treat. If she has an accident, she gets a sticker taken away. Hopefully it works.

Well there is my weekend. Is anyone else doing (or already have done) anything fun?

One Last Time...

So before I had back down to St. Geezy, I told Jessica that we had to go on one last adventure before we left the big city. She agreed. We then made our way to Salt Lake. What's there to do there? Oh you know, go to the best place ever. The Salt Lake Temple. I don't know how long we were there but we were there for quite a bit.

Here you go. Enjoy a few pictures:

How fun huh? Just what I needed to end such a stressful life up here. Don't get me wrong, the experience up here was great. I really figured things out about myself up here and that's a good thing. I'm really excited to see if St. George if for me. I sure hope so. I'm sick of moving.

When we got back, we went to wal mart to get nail polish remover because Jessica accidentally got nail polish on the wall. Don't ask. So we got some and then saw pastel nail polish. Jessica's obsessed. Go here and you'll believe me. You know, follow her if you would please. She's a great blogger (she needs to get back in habit though. ahem.).

Yay for pastels! Don't think I pull the whole bright color off though. We'll see how long it lasts.

So my lovely friend Chelsea is like the best blog ever. You know those people who get famous for their blogs and it turns into a career? Yeah, well she's going to be one of those people. Then I'm going to be privileged because I know her personally. Well anyway, she blogged about the Do's and Don'ts of summer. I'm really jealous of people with long hair. I miss mine so much. I am very fond of my red hair now but I want the length back and I'm not going to get extensions. Not only are they costly (and what poor college student can afford that?) but I can't pull them off. I've never tried but I have an idea. I want to be able to braid my hair again. Her blog was showing way cute braids. I love the fishtail side pony. So much.

Like this. I want my long hair back. Now.

Well anyway, it is three o'clock in the a.m and I need to wake up early to get the show on the road.

Next stop. St George.

So long, Orem. It's been real. It's been fun. But sorry, it hasn't been real fun. Yeah, I'm funny sometimes.

Thanks for stopping by and reading! Have a great day.