Writing Nerdiness and Someday Lists

I posted over at the nerd blog today. There's really nothing exciting happening to us right now, unless you think loads of homework, Husband Man's impending graveyard shift, and the fact that I've had almost 200 lions cycle through on my zoo tycoon game interesting... (If only earning money was that easy in real life- I'd already be a millionaire!)


You know, one thing that I think would be really cool would be to take a picture every day, just (at least) one picture. Eventually I came to lump this in with the rest of the "Things I Think Would Be A Good Idea But Don't Have Time For" list. It now accompanies things like scrapbooking, making jewelry, sketching, reading novels, and homework. Do you have a list like that? What's on it?

 

[picture via the internet, not mine]

Park to Ice Rink to Swampland

I think I've mentioned before that we live across from a park. We like to walk through the park to get to school because it's more direct than walking all the way around. We weren't able to do this last year because the snow was too deep and it didn't save us any time to walk through it. 

Earlier this year it snowed, and then melted, and then froze over for a few weeks. That made it interesting to walk across to get to campus because we were slipping and sliding everywhere! This last weekend it snowed twice, and we got a couple of inches. Before I could go out and construct my very first snowman of my whole life, however...

...it melted. just about all of it. And all of that snow melted means inches of water, not just soggy grass. It was impossible to walk through without using rainboots, or waders, or a canoe... 

I have never seen the grass so mushy! It was icky! What was ironic was that the sidewalks were still icy and slippery, so we still had to be careful not to fall on our faces...


This morning, however... it went right back to being completely frozen over. Oh, midwest, how bipolar you are! 


In other news... I added penguins and grizzly bears to my zoo last night... hahaha! And my lions keep reproducing like rabbits- I've had over a hundred lions in my zoo, not all at once though because I keep selling them to reduce their numbers... I'm thinking of getting rid of them entirely and putting some other savannah animal in there instead. (I'm not even sure why I'm telling you this. Probably because I just don't want to go to class...)


In other other news... IT'S THURSDAY! Almost the weekend again! And I have the best husband ever! And the sun came out today! Woohoo!

18 Credits... and Zoo Tycoon

18 credits is a bad idea.

TOO MANY THINGS.

You think I'd learn- I've done this at least one or two other semesters prior to this one. I think I've finally learned my lesson now, however- I have no reason to take 18 credits for the rest of my college career, and by golly I'm not going to! Take that, college!

My sister came up to visit over the three-day weekend. Besides leaving all of her bathroom necessities on my counter when she left, she had borrowed Zoo Tycoon from my parents' house over her last trip home. She had it when she visited us, so I might have asked Husband Man to put it on my laptop and let me tell you...

I missed that game!

I played it a lot when I was little, making zoo exhibits with tigers and lions and zebras and giraffes and giant anteaters and bighorn sheep (but not snow leopards or black leopards, because they're always unhappy for no reason).... It was unfortunate because she couldn't find the extended disc with Marine Mania and Dinosaur Digs on it... but while Husband Man was reserving his copy of "Mass Effect 3" on Amazon (the one game we agreed he could buy at $50 because he's been drooling over that game ever since he heard it was possibly coming out and I can't stand any more stains in the carpet) he discovered that we could get the extended disc for $10 bucks.

YES!

I have to wait until March to play it (which is probably for the best, I said, until Husband Man reminded me that it would come just in time for finals...) but until then... I have settled for the original Zoo Tycoon and will patiently wait to have stegosauruses and sea lions in my zoo. I am SO EXCITED to have this game back. I don't even care how lame it might be that I'm playing it. I think it's AWESOME!! Pandas and bears and okapis and camels and hippos!

I'm also not going to mention that I might have possibly maybe played Zoo Tycoon for at least 3 hours today.


I don't ever want to grow up. I think Zoo Tycoon will aid in this.

Valentine's Day... Ish

Yesterday was Valentine's Day- the day of love, the day of obligation, another consumer holiday, whatever it is to you. For the Yockeyites, it's a day of love and affection! 

Some people say Valentine's Day is a hoax, and that you should show love to your spouse/boyfriend/girlfriend/whatever all the time. I like what one of my friends said on facebook though: "Sure some people think it's pointless because we should show love to those around us everyday, but that is like saying don't celebrate your birthday because you should celebrate being alive everyday! Take today to think about those you love and are blessed to have in your life..."

Last year we had too much fun- we played in the park in the snow, threw snowballs at each other, tried to make snowmen, and got soaked by the snow, and had a great day spending time with each other. I think I got flowers too, I don't remember.


This year wasn't like last year. We were up until 1 AM the night before cutting out Valentine's stuff out of construction paper, but it was for heart chains I was making for heart attacks for some of the couples in the ward. I'm on the compassionate services committee at church, and the Relief Society president wanted to heart attack the doors of everyone in the ward. Then we got up and went to school. And then I came home and did homework. And then he came home and did homework too. And then I went back to class. And then I came home, finished the paper heart chains (which turned out really cute, I must admit), and then went out and stuck them on (hopefully the correct) doors. And then I came home... and did more homework, and sat around while Husband Man finished his homework and his resume. And then I took a shower and went to bed. Our dinner wasn't fancy either- I made him hamburger helper and myself grilled cheese and tomato soup.


It wasn't like we were completely lame- I was a little sneaky and I did cut out a whole bunch of hearts and wrote goofy things on them, and when we went to bed I stuffed them in his closed laptop for him to find in class the next morning. He loved that! And last night I got a back massage before I went to sleep, which I appreciated, and we went to bed at around 11, which is the earliest we've managed all week! 


Husband Man went on a field trip today to do some networking to hopefully get a good internship (which is why he needed his resume done). Valentine's Day wasn't particularly fabulous- no flowers, the only chocolate we got was in a box from my parents (thank you Mom and Dad!), but I still love my husband and I would have spoiled him rotten if I'd had the time. I'll make him cookies sometime this weekend to make up for it.


Hope everyone else had a more exciting Valentine's Day than we did! Happy Valentine's Day!

My Sisters

I miss my sisters! (And my mommy too.)

 Spunk and personality...

 The good times never stop when we're together!

 Not even when we were little!

 Yeah, we fought a lot when we were growing up, but we seriously have too much fun!!

My sisters are so gorgeous!

Yep. I miss them. A lot. That's the hard part of growing up.

I love you, seesters!

Question:

Do I have to choose what I want to be when I grow up?

Some days I just feel like I want to do everything... But there also seems to be a lot of pressure to just pick something already!! Why does the world think that we have to pick only one thing?


The Symphony Orchestra just played a concert including pieces by Alexander Borodin, the "Overture" to Prince Igor, as well as "Polovstian Dances" (which I HIGHLY recommend- it's a fantastic piece, so loud and wonderful with the chorus and the orchestra... Yes!). Our conductor told us that back in Borodin's day, he wasn't even a composer first and foremost. (I think he was a scientist? I'm too lazy to Google it right now- I'm supposed to be studying...) Back in Borodin's day, and even beyond, it wasn't uncommon for people to be just as good at their hobbies as they were at their careers.


So I ask again... Why the pressure from the world to just be one person? My trumpet professor once said, in response to my idea that I want to try everything, "I believe that if you commit yourself to one thing, then you'll grow in everything." I politely disagree. What if I want to play in orchestras with my trumpet, and publish a novel? If I study only my trumpet then I won't get any better at writing. If you want to be good at something, you have to do it.

Besides... I don't want to grow up. That's no fun.

Do I have to choose what I want to be when I grow up?