Warning: The following is a rant. Don't read if you don't want to hear Lauren complaining.
Stupid FAFSA and UVU.
I guess I should start at the beginning of the story. For those of you that don't, I transferred to UVU this fall from BYU to study Dental Hygiene. I didn't think that there would be any problems with this (money wise) because I'm now a Utah resident, and as such would get in-state tuition. I was wrong. I found out just before school was set to begin that I would have to pay out of state tuition this semester, even though I am a Utah resident now. The reasoning for this, given by UVU, is when I applied to the school back in December of last year, thinking that I would be starting classes in January, I wasn't a Utah resident. Well, I didn't start back to school in January for various reasons, but I didn't think that this would be a problem either. Well, turns out that I can't be changed to Utah residency until I've taken a full semester of classes because when I applied to the school I wasn't a resident. Basically this is a stupid, retarded technicality that I loathe a whole lot right now.
Well, while this was a minor setback, Tucker and I didn't think that it would be too much of a problem because we could get financial aid and it would completely cover my tuition. Wrong again. I found out today that I would only be awarded $2,241 this semester. So out of a $5,600 tuition, Tucker and I still have to pay for a majority of it. RETARDED!!!!!!!!!!!!
We will be able to pay for it (actually about $2000 of it was already paid by us), it's just retarded that it didn't cover everything, which we assumed that it would. Tucker's tuition will be covered, and we'll even get a little extra for him because of the SMART grant (it equals out to about $4000), so we'll stay afloat... but this whole thing is just really frustrating.
Stupid UVU and FAFSA!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Bus Rides and Football Games
This past Saturday was the BYU-Wyoming (second shut out in a row!!) football game, and Tucker and I were stoked to finally go to a game. We weren't able to go to the UCLA game because of work, so I made sure that I had this day off so we could go. We decided to make the day a little more interesting by riding the bus to and from the game.
So, with bus passes in hand, we got on a bus in Springville and headed up to Provo. It wasn't a very long ride, but because of the limited bus schedule on Saturdays, we got to BYU really early. This was good though, because we were able to get lunch before we walked up to the stadium. After lunch, we walked up to the stadium and found our seats, which weren't horrible, but we are in an enzone, so not the best seats we could get either. We were pleasantly surprised to find out that Scott and Dave Allen have their tickets just a couple rows in front of us; crazy!
Anywho, the game was great, but it was hot being out in the sun (both of us got sunburned), and so we left at half-time to go to Tucker's old apartment to watch other games with his ex-roommates. It's always fun to go see those guys. They were all pretty much my roommates last fall before Tucker and I got married because I spent all day, every day there with Tucker. I managed to squeeze in a nap while we were there too, which was great.
Around 530 we went and got dinner, and we were going to stay on campus to watch a movie at BYU's International Cinema so that I could get extra credit for Russian, but decided that we were ready to go home. So we didn't get to do that last part of our day, but I'm kind of glad that we skipped it cause I was asleep about an hour and a half after we got home. I would have never made it through a movie and a bus ride home.
Oh yeah, and I would have put pictures up, but of course I forgot my camera.
So, with bus passes in hand, we got on a bus in Springville and headed up to Provo. It wasn't a very long ride, but because of the limited bus schedule on Saturdays, we got to BYU really early. This was good though, because we were able to get lunch before we walked up to the stadium. After lunch, we walked up to the stadium and found our seats, which weren't horrible, but we are in an enzone, so not the best seats we could get either. We were pleasantly surprised to find out that Scott and Dave Allen have their tickets just a couple rows in front of us; crazy!
Anywho, the game was great, but it was hot being out in the sun (both of us got sunburned), and so we left at half-time to go to Tucker's old apartment to watch other games with his ex-roommates. It's always fun to go see those guys. They were all pretty much my roommates last fall before Tucker and I got married because I spent all day, every day there with Tucker. I managed to squeeze in a nap while we were there too, which was great.
Around 530 we went and got dinner, and we were going to stay on campus to watch a movie at BYU's International Cinema so that I could get extra credit for Russian, but decided that we were ready to go home. So we didn't get to do that last part of our day, but I'm kind of glad that we skipped it cause I was asleep about an hour and a half after we got home. I would have never made it through a movie and a bus ride home.
Oh yeah, and I would have put pictures up, but of course I forgot my camera.
Making a Couple Goals
Lately I've been trying to be better about exercising and such. I swim a mile twice a week, and I've started running again.......... which I'm not the happiest about, but whatevs. I've never really been a big fan of running, as is apparent by my choice in sports in high school: swimming and softball (in which running was for very short distances). But since I've been out of high school and am not actively training myself for something, I have gotten "soft", which bothers me a whole lot.
So, I've decided to set a goal for myself that will keep me motivated to exercise. I'm going to run in the Rex Lee Run this next spring at BYU. I've never really run in a race like this before, but it's always been something that I've wanted to do. So I'm going to do it. I'll only be doing a 5k (about 3 miles), but that's farther than anything I've run in one go ever.. should be fun.
Being motivated to eat better is something that both me and Tucker are going to need to work on. We're not very good about getting our veggies and fruit everyday, so I'm going to try to be better about that, and any suggestions for making veggies taste better would be welcome cause me and Tucker are both kind of picky when it comes to the green stuff.
But yeah, I really want any one out there who reads this to hold me to my goal of running in the race. Shun me if I don't keep training for it!
So, I've decided to set a goal for myself that will keep me motivated to exercise. I'm going to run in the Rex Lee Run this next spring at BYU. I've never really run in a race like this before, but it's always been something that I've wanted to do. So I'm going to do it. I'll only be doing a 5k (about 3 miles), but that's farther than anything I've run in one go ever.. should be fun.
Being motivated to eat better is something that both me and Tucker are going to need to work on. We're not very good about getting our veggies and fruit everyday, so I'm going to try to be better about that, and any suggestions for making veggies taste better would be welcome cause me and Tucker are both kind of picky when it comes to the green stuff.
But yeah, I really want any one out there who reads this to hold me to my goal of running in the race. Shun me if I don't keep training for it!
Monday, September 15, 2008
Monday's Suck
Yeah, Monday's are probably my least favorite day of the week. It's on Monday's that my schedule and Tucker's overlaps horribly. I get up and go to school at 7 and get home around noon. Tucker on the other hand leaves around 9 for school and doesn't get home till right before 6, which is just after I have to be at work..... it's retarded. The only times that I see him are when I'm getting ready in the morning while he's still asleep and then after I get home from work at 9. At least it helps me to remember how much I appreciate having him around.
In other news, I had a meeting for Activity Day to think up new things to do. And for those of you that don't know what Activity Day is, it's basically Young Women's but for the girls who are between ages 8 and 11; a warm up for Young Women's, if you will. It's taken me a little while to really get into this calling, though I haven't had it for very long. I think I was just concerned that the girls wouldn't like me, or I wouldn't be able to come up with activities that they would find fun, etc. But I'm starting to feel more comfortable in it, and I think that me and Ashley (the other leader) do a pretty good job coming up with activities. At our last activity, I taught the girls how to do cross stitch, and I wasn't sure if they were old enough to understand it, but it's something they can do for one of their Duty to God requirements, so we tried it out. I challenged the girl's to keep working on it, and told them that Stake and General Conferences were good times to work on it, but I didn't really think that any of them would actually continue with this. Lo and behold though, last week was Stake Conference, and there was more than one girl that came to show me their cross stitch that they had brought with them to work on! It's funny how things like that can make you feel so happy. I'm was just glad that they actually understood my intructions well enough to keep doing it by themselves. But hey, if any body has any ideas for activities that I can do with the girls, let me know!
And to end my little shpeel today, I'd like to recommend to all you out there pandora.com. It's a totally amazing site that Tucker first introduced to me. Basically it's a music site that sort of "creates" radio station for you. You enter a band or a song and the website plays songs for you that are similar to the one that you entered. I love it!! I put it on while I'm at work, and when I'm at home by myself (cause I hate it when our apartment is quiet). Check it out.
Well.... Dasvidania!
In other news, I had a meeting for Activity Day to think up new things to do. And for those of you that don't know what Activity Day is, it's basically Young Women's but for the girls who are between ages 8 and 11; a warm up for Young Women's, if you will. It's taken me a little while to really get into this calling, though I haven't had it for very long. I think I was just concerned that the girls wouldn't like me, or I wouldn't be able to come up with activities that they would find fun, etc. But I'm starting to feel more comfortable in it, and I think that me and Ashley (the other leader) do a pretty good job coming up with activities. At our last activity, I taught the girls how to do cross stitch, and I wasn't sure if they were old enough to understand it, but it's something they can do for one of their Duty to God requirements, so we tried it out. I challenged the girl's to keep working on it, and told them that Stake and General Conferences were good times to work on it, but I didn't really think that any of them would actually continue with this. Lo and behold though, last week was Stake Conference, and there was more than one girl that came to show me their cross stitch that they had brought with them to work on! It's funny how things like that can make you feel so happy. I'm was just glad that they actually understood my intructions well enough to keep doing it by themselves. But hey, if any body has any ideas for activities that I can do with the girls, let me know!
And to end my little shpeel today, I'd like to recommend to all you out there pandora.com. It's a totally amazing site that Tucker first introduced to me. Basically it's a music site that sort of "creates" radio station for you. You enter a band or a song and the website plays songs for you that are similar to the one that you entered. I love it!! I put it on while I'm at work, and when I'm at home by myself (cause I hate it when our apartment is quiet). Check it out.
Well.... Dasvidania!
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Vacation Recap
K, so it's been long enough since the last time that I posted, guess I should get back into this whole thing; I did promise Katie I would, after all.
Our trip back to the East coast was pretty awesome, even if it did rain almost every day that we were out there. But we didn't let that get us down. Our first day out there, Lois and Brad took me, Tucker and Scott out to this lake that a couple in their ward lived by. I got my first experience with kayaking and a majority of my time doing it, I was going around in circles. It's a shame that I forgot my camera that day cause I could have gotten some hilarious pictures. Mid-way through this activity it started to rain pretty hard, so we went home.
The following day we went to Chimney Rock, again in the rain, and for all of you from the West side of the country, the mountain range out there is not called the 'Appalasion' mountain range, it's the 'Appalachian' mountains. I've been saying it wrong my entire life. Anywho, Chimney Rock. It was pretty cool being there, we had fun walking around up there, can't say that I've spent that much time up in a cloud before.
After Scott's girlfriend, Stephanie, finally got out to South Carolina, we drove up to Wilmington to spend the rest of the week with the whole Smith clan. I really like it out there, well, if you take out all the stinkin humidity, I would like it even more. But holy cow! That humidity is horrible! I think it's kind of funny that people think I'm crazy for living in Phoenix with the 110 degree weather, but honestly, I can't understand why people don't mind the humidity.
But yeah, we went to the beach while we were there. I got the opportunity to try body-surfing again, I'm still not very good at it. And Tucker got to see a couple of his friends out there. But the main reason that we went out to North Carolina in the first place was to go to Adam Wilson's wedding. He and his wife Wanda were sealed in the Raleigh temple, and it was a pretty cool ceremony because it was done in both English and Spanish. Wanda looked absolutely beautiful, and Adam didn't look half bad either.
We had tons of fun while we were out there; it's always great to spend time with family, especially because we don't get to see them very often. But by the time the week was over, Tucker and I were ready to be home again. The only bad thing about coming home though, was the fact that rain followed us. It was freezing (well, not technically freezing, but it was a whole lot colder than when we had left a week earlier) when we got home, so it made if feel like we'd been gone for a really long time.
But now school's started again, and thus far, things look like they're going to be good this semester. Honestly, I'm just glad to be back in school period; taking a year off sucked big time. I'm taking a beginning Russian class this semester, and me and Tucker are both really excited about it. It's fun to actually be able to learn things from Tucker about the language. I know that it's going to be quite a while until I can actually understand well enough to carry on any kind of conversation, but I think it'll be fun. Maybe someday when we actually have the time and money, Tucker and I can take a trip back to Russia to visit people and places that Tucker knows.
Our trip back to the East coast was pretty awesome, even if it did rain almost every day that we were out there. But we didn't let that get us down. Our first day out there, Lois and Brad took me, Tucker and Scott out to this lake that a couple in their ward lived by. I got my first experience with kayaking and a majority of my time doing it, I was going around in circles. It's a shame that I forgot my camera that day cause I could have gotten some hilarious pictures. Mid-way through this activity it started to rain pretty hard, so we went home.
The following day we went to Chimney Rock, again in the rain, and for all of you from the West side of the country, the mountain range out there is not called the 'Appalasion' mountain range, it's the 'Appalachian' mountains. I've been saying it wrong my entire life. Anywho, Chimney Rock. It was pretty cool being there, we had fun walking around up there, can't say that I've spent that much time up in a cloud before.
After Scott's girlfriend, Stephanie, finally got out to South Carolina, we drove up to Wilmington to spend the rest of the week with the whole Smith clan. I really like it out there, well, if you take out all the stinkin humidity, I would like it even more. But holy cow! That humidity is horrible! I think it's kind of funny that people think I'm crazy for living in Phoenix with the 110 degree weather, but honestly, I can't understand why people don't mind the humidity.But yeah, we went to the beach while we were there. I got the opportunity to try body-surfing again, I'm still not very good at it. And Tucker got to see a couple of his friends out there. But the main reason that we went out to North Carolina in the first place was to go to Adam Wilson's wedding. He and his wife Wanda were sealed in the Raleigh temple, and it was a pretty cool ceremony because it was done in both English and Spanish. Wanda looked absolutely beautiful, and Adam didn't look half bad either.
We had tons of fun while we were out there; it's always great to spend time with family, especially because we don't get to see them very often. But by the time the week was over, Tucker and I were ready to be home again. The only bad thing about coming home though, was the fact that rain followed us. It was freezing (well, not technically freezing, but it was a whole lot colder than when we had left a week earlier) when we got home, so it made if feel like we'd been gone for a really long time.
But now school's started again, and thus far, things look like they're going to be good this semester. Honestly, I'm just glad to be back in school period; taking a year off sucked big time. I'm taking a beginning Russian class this semester, and me and Tucker are both really excited about it. It's fun to actually be able to learn things from Tucker about the language. I know that it's going to be quite a while until I can actually understand well enough to carry on any kind of conversation, but I think it'll be fun. Maybe someday when we actually have the time and money, Tucker and I can take a trip back to Russia to visit people and places that Tucker knows.
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