A Little ♥ and Soul

It all started on a summer morning in August. I woke up before my alarm went off, which is something I NEVER do voluntarily. Maybe it was nerves or just the fact that I had gone to bed about three hours prior so it was meant to happen. Anyway, I wake up, roll out of bed throw some clean unfolded wrinkly clothes on and get upstairs to eat my bagel and peanut butter. I was ready. My stomach rumbled and grumbled to show its distaste for eating earlier than 9am and because, well, I was nervous. My classes are going to be pretty awesome this semester. Three of my five classes anyway. Hospitality, Intro to Business and English. My English Professor is pulling double duty this year - she teaches at Weber State as well - and is an adamantly professed hater of cell phones and also, as it were, an atheist. She's a little scary in the sense that she's so over the top. She doesn't say anything about religion because, well, she doesn't have a religion, she would probably drop a coup...

I am a fan of lists. Seriously. I enjoy making grocery lists, to-do lists, list of names that are unique and that I like, lists for things to spend my leftover pell grant and stafford monies on, lists for things I want to accomplish in my life. You get the picture. I heart lists. Confession: I'm a type B personality wanting to be organized. *Watching scary movies are much less scary when turned down and with the subtitles on. They are also much easier to tolerate when other people are watching it with you. *I dyed my hair back to its natural color. No more summery highlights for the rest of the season. Its a little weird seeing myself in the mirror with super black hair. *School starts in 5 days. I'm slightly nervous but I'm more excited than anything else. *I spent the majority of my unemployment check on totally useless stuff this week. Well, I did buy school supplies. But most of it was totally useless. *When I grow up, I want a bathroom with one of those freestanding tu...

I have 10 days till my pell grant and Stafford loan hit the school and my tuition and fees are paid in full. 17 days till I get the rest of the money. 17 looooooooooooong days. I want the money now! I have a list of things I need to buy. Responsible things like textbooks, school supplies, an eye dr. appointment, tithing, dentist appointment. But I would be exceedingly happy if I could spend the rest of my loan/grant money on things like an iPod, paint and wall mounted shelves for my room, clothes and shoes, a car...a laptop. If I could get away without buying my textbooks for the semester, I'd choose the the irresponsible list and waste away my money. But alas... Responsibility is what you'd except with a 28 year old and I'm pretty sure that I can't get away without my books this semester.

Midnight is approaching far too quickly for me. I should be in bed...you know, practicing the whole "early to bed early to rise" adage. But nope...I am pretty much at the point of rebellion and am putting off retraining myself before school starts. I still can't believe I signed up for classes that start before 10am. Oh well, this fall semester I will be getting out of class before 1pm on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and on Tuesday and Thursday, I'm out before 11:30am. How marvelous it feels to be done with my face to face contact with my soon-to-be-determined-if-they're-boring teachers at a decent hour! (Which reminds me, I need to check what books I need for the fall...this could be a disastrous way to end a perfectly good day.) Bah. I just completed a Sexual Harassment training for UVU. Oh yeah. I forgot to say that I have a temporary job working in the UVU Bookstore for Fall Book Rush. My chances of staying on may be a little slim. From what my trainer said ...