November 22, 2009

Sunday

This has been a great week for me! Wednesday, like most Wednesday’s, I just studied, basically, and went to school. Dan and I went to guitar and learned some more cool stuff. Every time I go to that class, I always tell myself that I need to work harder at learning how to play guitar, but I never have the time to actually sit down and practice during the rest of the week. It’s still a way awesome class!

On Thursday, I had class, a seminar lecture, to go to. I slept in that day, and didn’t have enough time to do a full workout, so I did a short one at home. Then I studied, and didn’t go shadowing, like I had planned. I figured that I had far too much homework to do (which is true, I was starting to catch up and study for my upcoming tests), and I’m probably not going to do dental hygiene anymore, so really…what’s the point? After my class, I think I just studied all day until Daniel came home. That evening, we had a function to go to. The National Advisory Council event was going on last week, and Daniel had signed the two of us up to go to that. As I understand it, the National Advisory Council (NAC) is a group of highly successful business men that graduated from BYU (at least most of them) and has made millions of dollars since then. They counsel the Marriot School of Business and donate so much money to the school. The addition to the Tanner building that was finished fall of last year was completely built from the money donated by these men; none of it came from the church or the school itself. Pretty impressive! Anyway, this function was just a chance for the business students to meet with these highly successful men and get to know them…kind of a social networking night. There was a light dinner and mingling time first; the food was very interesting. There were displays of it, and each table featured a different regions typical food: Mexican, American, Mediterranean, etc. And they were all displayed very trendy and artsy. It was the same with desserts, later on in the night. There was a little try with three different small desserts on them, and they were different than I had ever had. After dinner and networking, we split off into different panels with a few of the NAC members. Our panel (or the one that Daniel and I went to) was about courageous leadership in business, and it was really interesting what each of them said about leadership. They are all good members of the church, and so a lot of their comments had to do with integrity, seeking counsel from our Heavenly Father, following the Spirit and that sort of thing. It was really great and very motivating…especially, I believe, for Daniel. After the Panel, there was desert, and then Daniel and I left. We went home to study and then just went to bed.

Friday, Daniel and I went to the temple to do a session (for the first time in a while). It was really good. We had to get up early to do it, because both of us had to be on campus at around 10 o’clock that morning. But we just took all of our stuff and went straight to school after the temple. All that morning, I was a wondering and a tiny bit stressed about my plans for graduation. Dan asked me what I wanted to do about that in the temple, and I really just didn’t know. I hadn’t had any impressions in the temple.

Once I got to school, I started to work on different things. I went to see my Spanish professor about some assignments and about my project topic. We had a nice talk and I got some things straightened out. So it was really good. Then I went to biochemistry.

After biochemistry, I went to a Spouse’s Luncheon, another NAC function. Daniel had signed me up for it, but I hadn’t really wanted to go, because I have a lot of study to do. But I wanted to be a supportive wife, so I told him I could at least go for an hour. I am SO glad I did. It was wonderful! I sat randomly at a table with a couple of spouse’s of NAC members and some spouse’s of students. We just chatted before they officially began the lunch, and then while we ate, we asked the NAC spouses about their lives and for any advice they might have. It was nice to get to know them and hear what they had to say. I was going to leave shortly after that because I had class. But then, one of the girls at the table said that she had graduated with a degree in exercise science and had worked as a personal trainer after graduation for a while. This definitely caught my attention, especially as I have been seriously thinking about doing that after I graduate. So I peppered her with some questions, and then she gave me her email address so that I could ask her more questions and get help if I needed to. I thought that was so nice of her, especially as I’m a complete stranger to her. Well, since I stayed to ask her questions, I was detained, and when they carried on with their program, I was basically stuck there and couldn’t leave (or at least, I felt like I couldn’t leave, it would have been weird to just get up and walk out in the middle of someone’s address). They had a keynote speaker there, to talk about the theme “Joy in the Journey”. She was AMAZING! She was a really upbeat, positive person, and she really captured our attention. She told some really good stories, used some great scriptures and quotes, and conveyed a wonderful and extremely moving message. I really appreciated her thoughts and I even emailed the Spouse’s Association (of the NAC) and asked if anyone had recorded her message. She spoke about finding the miracles in our everyday lives and for recognizing Heavenly Father’s hand in all these things and being grateful for them. She encouraged us to step it up in our living of the gospel and in being positive. She reminded us of our great potential as sisters, mothers, wives, members of the church, etc. and that if we work hard and work together, we would have such great power and do marvelous things. I was very emotional all during and after her talk, it was so good, and it really spoke to me. I really hope someone has that one on file and that I can get it someday. It would be my life’s theme.

After school (I missed my Spanish class and just went to Sociology after the luncheon), I went to get my hair cut. I have been planning to cut my hair for a while, but haven’t quite conjured up the courage to do it. I wanted to have enough to give it away. Well, I went to David Douglass, and the girl showed me how much I would be cutting off…and then my hair ended up WAY shorter than that. It is so short. Shorter than it’s ever been (well, since that one time mom cut it short). I’m not used to it, and I think it’ll take a while for me to get used to it. But I think I can have some fun with it!

 Me with my little 12 inch ponytail. My hair now BARELY fits into a ponytail…it’s pretty short for me. I still don’t know how I feel about it.

After I got my hair cut, I came home and vegged for a little while, and then went to get Daniel from school.

Diane came in to Provo that night. It was basically just a pit stop on the way home for Thanksgiving. We didn’t do anything exciting with her. In and Out Burger had opened that day, and so we went there for dinner, waited in the longest line of cars I’ve ever been in for food. It went pretty fast, though. And it was good. We came home to eat, and we watched a little TV. We had a lot of fun messing around with each other and playing. Before going to bed, we played a little game of Skip-Bo…I won.

Yesterday, we made omelets for breakfast, because Diane had never had one. They were really good. Then, later that morning, we took Diane to the airport and dropped her off. I’m a little jealous that she gets to spend Thanksgiving with all of our Fernandez relatives and the little boys! But we’ll have fun here. After dropping her off, we went to Daniel’s parents house, and got NO homework done at all, like we’d planned. We watched Star Trek with David and Dad, talked to the girls (they all were really excited about my hair), and then we had our birthday dinner with Dan’s parents that night. We asked if we could go miniature golfing with them first, which was really fun. It was FREEZING outside, though. But we still had a good time. And that was the first time Daniel and I had ever done that together. Then we went to dinner at Kneaders, and had some really good food, and some delicious desserts (which we all shared with each other).

We headed home after that. We did a little homework. We played for a little bit. And then we went to bed.

This morning, church was really good. It was the primary program today, and since all of the kids in our ward are, like, 2 years old or younger, it was really funny. Only a few kids actually sang, and most of the adults had to fill in. It was good times. After church, we cleaned up our apartment, I got visit taught (which was fun; I like the girls that are teaching me. They are really nice!), Dan left for meetings and home teaching while I put more pictures in our scrapbook and made some food, and then tonight, we had dinner group. We went to the house of one of the families that Daniel home teaches. They are a really fun couple, and we really had a good time with them. We left a little earlier than we normally would because they had to get their little girl down to sleep. It’s been a fun Sunday overall. I’m getting tired though. Ready for another week (or rather, 2 days) of school! The semester’s almost over, and I’m almost done with school! That’s crazy to think about.