sleep?

sleep has become a foreign concept yet a much longed for thing for us the last couple weeks. joe is a full time student and basically working two jobs because he got roped into doing sound for a show and his normal job is master electrician. all of my teachers are suddenly realizing what little time we have left in the semester and trying to catch up by throwing everything on our plates... needless to say we are a couple of very busy sleep deprived people! we will survive.... somehow... right now i am just going to enjoy the lasagna i made (that's right, homemade with mom's spaghetti sauce!)

People of the World

People of the world. Stress for me = weight gain and retention. I am stressed. Not pregnant just stressed and always an emotional person. Not really sure why strangers and even some acquantences feel the need to ask me if I am expecting but no I am stressed and that is the cause of my pudge. I am stressed and being stressed only makes me more stressed. And what may you ask do these questions and implications do for me? Make me more stressed. Consequently no matter what I can manage to do (while keeping in mind that both my husband and I are full time students and do have to eat even when I can't create a 100% healthy meal) the weight stays and creates a pudge that apparently looks to some people like a baby bump. No thank you very much that is not and even if it were (which let me make clear it is not) what do you think gives you the right to ask?! IF i were and wanted to let people know i would! But since I am not pregnant there is nothing to tell other than I am stressed!!!! (which if you know me is nothing new!)
Dear Blog, thank you for letting me rant =) as i sit here writing this i can't help but laughing at it all yet still wondering what goes through some peoples minds to say the things they do...
Have a wonderful day all!

life

So both of us being full time students keeps us pretty busy but add in add in Joe being master electrician for the theatre department and now also doing sound for the upcoming show we have a pretty crazy life! As of this week we are back to eating our dinners out of tuperware- i make it then bring it to joe at the snow so we can eat dinner together. it's an interesting wat to do things but it works for us right now. School is pretty crazy but still going well it's crazy to think that we only have 6 weeks left of school including thanksgiving break! yeah!!!! yet somehow at the same time it feels like an eternity. We registered for classes this last week for next semester and i am going to take english 101 online so that i don't go crazy and bored out of my mind sitting through a class on the basics of how to write.... ummm yeah i know how to do that. but because i haven't taken it yet and they won't waive it i couldn't register for the other english class i need to take since 101 is a prerequisite for it- dumb- anyways i'm pleading with the teacher to just let me take them concurrently, lets cross our fingers that they will let me! If i can get into that class and a cultural diversity class i have to take but is full ( no joke the girl who grew up overseas, went to an international school in thailand and whose graduating class had 38 different nationalities in it has to take a cultural diversity class...) then i will only have two classes left to take after winter semester and then student teaching (one of those two classes is a 6 credit class and the other which is supposed to be taken concurrently is 3 credits so it's not exactly nothing.) I'll still have to work in taking my praxis tests probably end of next semester is what i'm thinking but i don't know. ok so it sounds like alot when i write it all out but it feels like there is finally going to be an end to all this school at some point! We still don't know what we will be doing next summer but we'll let you all know when we have an actual plan. if nothing else pans out i think i will do school. we do know that for thanksgiving we're going to west yellowstone to be with joe's parents and for christmas we're caravaning down to alb. to spend it with my family in our old house- it will be fun to show joe another place that i grew up.
WE love our new ward and have now been called as assistant pack leaders which basically means we help with pack night. We got called two sundays ago and then that wednesday they had us lead all the cheers at pack night which we found out about the night before, it was well interesting. If you know me you know how i like to plan.... i survived. We have also been asked to help the activities committee with the ward Christmas party- we're not actually on the committee but kinda are for this one. Today in our meeting for that we were put in charge of the entertainment for the party. they want it to be fun and funny yet they also want a nativity..... uh... ok yeah sure no problem. well when we got home from church joe and i worked on ideas and i think we have something they might like but we'll have to see, it's a delicate balance. Anyways we'll see!