To Prove I Am Still Alive

I am blogging for the first time in 3 weeks.

Sorry for the delay. School, work, and wedding planning are drowning me. Sadly wedding planning is the only part that is pleasant.

So I guess this will be a quick little update:

• Color Photo has unrealistic expectations that I can take pictures ANY TIME of  the day. But I can't. This makes assignments hard.
• Printmaking is fun, and I am not the only one that stinks at it. 4/5 of my class does. Given there are only 12 of us in the class, if that.
• If I ever remember to scan them in, I will show you my prints.
• Graphic Design is getting easier, I am kind of bad at that too.
• Marriage Prep is AMAZING and I actually want to keep the books from my class. Weird never thought I would say that.
• New Testament. Awesome.
• Work is of the devil, I think they honestly secretly hate their lives.
• Anyone have a cure for a constant headache?
• (sorry those all sound like whining)
•  On the bright side, for my sanity's sake I go to the Temple twice a week with Haley! =D =D
• 79 days until I am Megan Bonds (And I can spell it cursive quite fluently, thank you photo lectures for giving me this practice)
• I have awesome home teachers
• I miss FHE (weird!)
• Rexburg is warm
• Garett and I are eating egg salad tonight YUM!!! (I could eat it by myself...)
• And I get to teach Relief Society for the first time ever on the 27th! (poor girls!)

That is my life. Great huh?
Also Garett and I are going home this weekend for our engagement pictures and my dress fitting. Gah I can't wait to go home! I never thought I would be so happy to see Utah in my entire life!

Now a random picture of my nephew Nikolai.

 Who happens to be the cutest little boy in the entire world!

 Time for sleep.

Egg salad: how heaven tastes

Marriage: how heaven looks

Megan

 

Better Late Than Never

Here are some pictures from California

Our hike.

Our goofiness.

Houses that I don't want to know the price of.

My super handsome fiancee (101 days till he is HUSBAND) =D

The pier.

We were lucky. This place is normally PACKED.

Dolphins!

I didn't realize there were SO many types of palm trees.

I touched the Pacific Ocean!

I strangely love this picture of Garett.

I look pretty silly in these pictures.

But Garett just looks SOOO good!

Look how long and leggy he looks.

Maybe I am biased. 

You caught me. 

This post is really to brag about how handsome my fiancee is.

So many palm trees!

Narrow houses.
It reminded me of Full House.
But better because this is Southern California.

Confession: This post has been sitting as a draft for a week or so.
I've been busy.

Printmaking is as awesome as I originally thought it was going to be!!!!
So is marriage prep and Color Photo.
And New Testament (part 2) is a given AWESOME.
Intro to Graphic Design however MIGHT be the death of me.
So 4 out of 5 are awesome.
Those are good odds right?

Off to class.
Summer has come early with the 80's.
I will miss it this weekend. =[
Have a lovely day!!!

I am getting married!

It is starting to feel more real now!

Eeeeek!!

Megan

LOST!!!!

Ever have those teachers that confuse the poop out of you? You don't know what I mean? I shall give you an example.

Example: Teacher that LOVES technology and everything they do is online or maybe it is just an online class. Teacher is says "Go post 3 times over the next week in your "groups". Sounds easy enough but then you remember to ask "Where??" You dig around and find maybe 4 possible locations of where this "group board" might exist. But after checking one after the other they all lead to dead ends.

Shortly after your digging around your teacher sends out another 2-3 reminders to GO and post in your groups, but continues to fail to mention WHERE. Also this assignment does not show up on your "assignment list" where you could normally click and it would show you where to go. So where is it???????? Why do some teachers think we are mind readers? Why do they fail to respond to emails? And why do teachers like technology so much?

Does anyone miss actually turning in hard copies of assignments? Does anyone miss the fact that their papers used to not "get lost in cyberspace"? Anyone? Oh just me then? Oh well. 

Oh how I miss the days when you had to learn cursive because that was what you would "always" being using to write your papers in the future. Life was simpler back then.

Let us enjoy that most classes are STILL in actual classrooms for now.

Sometimes technology makes
things more complicated
rather than less.
-The Confused Meg

I Only Have One Thing To Say

Psh yeah right, I never have JUST one thing to say. Here are a few findings:

1) I am exhausted! My classes are not hard, just long. I have 3 hour and a half classes all in the same room. Spori Room 035, you are now my new home.

2) My biggest stress is time and work. I feel I only an hour here and there to spare.

3) You can call me on Fridays. TGIF has never been so true and so wonderful in my life!

4) If I start sounding loopy, I apologize. Bare with me, like I said, I am tired. Give me a few weeks and I should be ok.

5) Sudoku and Disney movies are a perfect way to end the day. Joyful, happy and peaceful.

6) I feel like a little kid again having to pack my lunch in the mornings. Like I said, I spend from 9:45am to 1pm in the Spori most every day.

7) And finally, I am excited for my FHE this semester. I am the FHE mom. Though now they call it the HE group assistant.....still meane FHE mom. We have 6 girls and 6 guys; finally we have a balance!! (It used to be 12 to 6. Not in my favor). I hope it will be a fun semester. =]

Well off to do some homework, maybe get in a little power nap and then off to work.

Also Henry J Eyring (Henry B Eyring's son) spoke at Devo today. It was really good. He looks JUST like his dad. I'll tell more about it later.

Keeping you on your toes
& keeping your eyes peeled
don't sounds pleasant at all
if you think about it.....
Meg

Short and Simple

Classes start in the morning. I am a TAD nervous, but mostly for the fact that I think I might die of hunger tomorrow. I have class for just over 3 hours tomorrow in one room in the basement of a building. I don't get out of there until 1pm. I think I might just pack a sandwich and eat it between Art History I and Art History 2.

I hope I am not the ONLY crazy person who signed up for both history classes at once.

But I have 3 classes in that room, totaling 9 hours in a basement. Awesome huh? You could say I have a new home.

Work is.......work. Not thrilled, but to make me feel better, I remind myself that it keeps me here on my offtrack. And I like to eat. And have an apartment. Oh curse these luxuries I enjoy....

Friend-wise things are AWESOME!!!

My roommates are pretty much the BEST THING EVER! I love them all to bits and I think we are going to have a blast this semester.

Haley Nicholas has come over every day since she got here. She can talk MORE than me. I kinda really love it! She's a doll and she gets along with my roommates perfectly. I'd say she is a keeper!

Everyone is settled in now and today I realized I have no "fun" classes. My "fun" and "hard" classes will PROBABLY be art history......yup.......art major.....woohoo!

Also scripture study is AMAZING and has really made a difference in my days. The CES fireside was REALLY good tonight.

My ward seems nice. LOTS of cute boys!!! *Praying that the cute boys from Harris are in my FHE!!!*

Saw Jason Hiatt today and screamed his name loudly. =] Yup I think he appreciated it....haha

And I love my roommate Nikki. She is a doll and the sweetest person ever! Love you deary <3

And I got to skype Hannah and Lizzy! That was lots of fun =]

I think that is about it. If you wanna know more, ask. If you comment on this post saying what you want to hear more about, I'll do a little longer post on that stuff later.

I got another letter from Michael Gmeiner; he is doing well. And I am expecting a letter from Rachel! I'm excited!

That's all for now.
TTFN! Ta ta for now!

Frozen banana
slices are delicious!
Meg