silly old classes

you know how they say hindsight is 20/20? pretty sure that's the case here. I am currently taking chem 101 at WSU. my lecture period (of which there are three) consists of about two hundred people give or take eh, 30. we hold class in fulmer hall room 226, affectionately called the pit. shaun, i'm sure you know what im talking about. :) i just got back from lab tonight and we had our first chem lab last week. tonight we had a workshop on how to properly write a lab report and answer the discussion portion, post lab questions, etc. i can honestly say that last weeks lab was one of the dumbest ones i have ever done in my entire school career. we had to measure a bottle, put some water in it, and go measure it again, dump out that water, dry it out, weigh it again, put some more water in it, measure it, dump it out, dry it out, etc. like five times. so where does the hindsight come in on this? I REALLY WISH I HAD TAKEN IT AT WALLA WALLA. :) but i cant really change anything now and just have to remember, its only till the middle of december.

on another note, im kind of excited for this weekend, zach, my friend jessica that i think everyone has met, zach's roommate and his girlfriend are all coming over for the weekend. we have a home game against portland state on saturday. i think we're all headed to the beach friday night and then the game on saturday. oh yeah, the beach is a dance club in moscow, not the actual beach. :) i've heard that if we dont win the game on saturday against portland state, any hopes for any wins other than that one are pretty much dashed. and even if we do win agains portland, it will probably be the only win for the year. :( great first year of getting to experience cougar football. so everyone cross their fingers!

hi! its been awhile!

so, lets just say that i'm definately not the best blogger in the entire world. i end up getting caught up in everything else and dont have much time to hang out on the computer. at least during the summer. now that im back in school, it should be better again.

so this summer, i worked for the pest board. it was definately an experience. i got to meet a really neat lady who was my boss and we had a lot of fun working together. shes in a tough environment and i respect her for what she's trying to do. it was a job, definately, probably not something that i would want to do again, but an experience.

im back in school, at WSU this time. just finished my third week of classes. thankfully, the night before the first day of school, i wasnt nervous. about my classes anyways. the thing i worried about the most was how i was going to get to school. a campus parking pass is about three hundred for the year, so most people just opt to ride the bus from their home to campus and then just walk everywhere from there. lets just say that i will definately be sporting "cougar calves" by the end of my two years here. hills everywhere! :) its really nice having people here that i already know. some of my really good friends from high school as well as from walla walla are all here, so its been a pretty simple adjustment. the hardest part has been leaving zach every weekend. but i'm for the most part enjoying my classes. nothing to far and different than anything that ive done either in high school or at walla walla. i think my favorite ones are my world crops class and my turf management class. oh yeah, and by the way, did everyone know that we apparently, in wenatchee, are a large barley producing region? *cough cough* story goes, i have this really super know it all kid in my crops class who has to put his two cents in at every possible instance, whether its relevant or not. but we were talking about crop producing regions one day, and he pipes up with, yeah, i have a lot of friends that live in wenatchee, and they grow a lot of barley there...the whole time im thinking to myself, hunh, thats funny, pretty sure ive spent my whole life there and never seen a barely farm! :) its been nothing if not entertaining.

anyways, thats about all for now.

one more week!

so, i only have one more week of school here at walla walla left! I'm really excited to be done with school for awhile and just be able to come home and work and hang out with friends and family and then not have to leave for the week. this past month of coming home every weekend has been nice on one hand to be home, but not a lot of fun on the other cuz i was was driving at least four hundred miles a weekend. but just to let you all know, my graduation is saturday for my deere stuff and then the actual college graduation is sunday. i didnt get a chance to send out invites, so those will probably be sent out after the fact. :) kinda tacky i know, but eh, do what ya gotta do. but work has been fun. this last weekend i worked by myself for the first time and realized that once we hit the mexiville part of wenatchee, i'm kind of out of my element and really dont want to be there. thankfully, my boss said that was perfectly fine and my coworker who is hispanic and can talk with them, will be visiting those places from now on. i'm still kinda up in the air about what i want to do next summer. i may end up with the chance to do an internship with deere if they like me when i meet with them in the fall. they'll be coming to wsu and interviewing possible kids for jobs and such. also, i'm kinda up in the air too about whether or not i want to work for deere when school is all said and done with. though thats two years away, its still kinda scary to think about being a bunch of states away from everything and everyone i've ever known. but like i said, thats two years away. :) anyways, everyone hope and pray that i can find a place to live in pullman next year this summer, it would be a great weight off my back if i can!

family

so, i was home this last weekend, and was waiting for zach to come and get me because we were going to go yard saling to look for a dresser for him since he's just moved. I was talking to dad in the family room and cassandra was sitting there too. I had asked dad a question about where an address was and dad didnt exactly know, so he turned to cassandra to ask her. she knew where it was, pointed it out to dad, and then dad turned to me and basically just reiterated what cassandra had told him. It is ALWAYS like that. if i'm ever talking to dad and cassandra is there too, i might ask a question that dad doesnt know the answer to, he will ask cassandra, she'll tell him, and then he'll say something like, did you hear her? or yup, like cassandra said. she cant even answer a question directed to me, even though i was the one that asked it. i guess at any rate in the past six years or so now, i've at least come to really appreciate the people that are mother figures in my life, since i really dont have one thats at home with me. I have people like my friends devon and diana's mom, debbie, who is truly like my second mother. though really, that whole family is like my second family. i can also really appreciate zach's mom. she is such a sweetheart and its definately always a plus when you can get along with the boyfriends parents. :) but thanks to grandma and amy, and debbie, brenda...i really appreciate you guys and i hope your kids do too.

boys...

So I'm in class with twelve boys. I can honestly say that most of the time, they are more girly than I am! :) As much as those boys complain about everything and gripe and such...I'm surprised we ever get anything done! lol. no, they're good guys and its a lot of fun being the only girl. I like to think that I'm atypical and have given them a view of a different type of girl than the super girly ones that dont ever like to get dirty and all that. I'm pretty mouthy, but I've learned to be in class. If you can take it when they dish it to ya, or ya cant dish it back, you just about get eaten alive. that happend to another kid that was in our class and he ended up dropping out. they were pretty harsh on him, but he didnt handle it well either. The other thing ive learned being in class with all boys the past two years is that when it comes time for me to find someone to spend the rest of my life with, they cant be a jealous person. they have to be able to trust me and the fact that though i work with guys, am with guys all day, that the one im with is the person i care about. Both john and nate were jealous of the fact that i have guy friends. I'm im a male dominated field and will continue to be for the rest of my life. I cant change that and dont think that its fair for someone to ask me to because they're insecure with that fact. thankfully, i have found someone that isnt like that. :) i really appreciate zach's ability to trust me even though i hang out with specifically two guys just about every night. you cant have a good relationship without trust, so by the looks of it, we're off to a good start.

okay fine! :)

so, i realize that yes, i am the last and only one to have a blog, but better late then never, right? :) i'm in the last month and a half of school here at Walla Walla. i graduate the seventh and eighth of june. and then off to wsu next year. i can definately say that i probably wont be doing this terribly terribly often, but will try and keep it fairly up to date. but lets see, whats new in my life...i have a new boyfriend, his name is Zach Pieratt. anyone coming to Apple Blossom this weekend will probably end up meeting him. he's a really good guy and i actually have things in common with him! but anyways, i'll be coming home every weekend starting this weekend do start my summer job this year. i'm going to be setting traps for cherry fruit fly and codling moth around some of the orchards in wenatchee and east wenatchee. it'll be something different than what im used to, but another something to put on a resume and i'll get to be outside all summer, which will be nice. but yeah, thats about it for now...hasta!