The update you were all waiting for

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Ok, now that you are all caught up lets get going with the post.

I had a dentist appointment on the 20th (I know I waited so long to post. I will get better.) I went in at 9:00 AM (but I am always late so I got there around 9:12 or so haha) and signed in. I was alone in the office so I chose to sit on the side with a tv. Obama's inauguration was on. I sat there and watched 30 minutes of it before my hygensit showed up and esocorted me to the only empty room. It was a full morning. The inaugaration was on in that room as well. She sat me down, put my pink bib on and left. So I watched a bit more tv.

Boring boring boring.

About 10 minutes later she came back and cleaned my teeth. She told me I had calcite buildup on my back teeth and showed me a way to brush to stop that from happening. She said the dentist would be in shortly, he was doing a bridge in and didn't want to come check my teeth in the middle of it. I told her I was ok to sit and watch tv, she said ok and left. I think I sat in the chair for around 45 minutes waiting. But I wasn't too upset. I didn't have anywhere to go and I had comepletely forgotten the inaugaration was that day so I was ok to sit and watch. The hygenist came in at one point and watched a little with me. She said there was only one patient who didn't want it to be on, but otherwise every tv in the place had it going.

Eric came in and quickly checked my teeth. I was crossing my fingers hoping all that hard work flossing and rinsing had paid off.

Dentist: Looks good. (gets ready to leave)
Me: Really? Even the soft spot?
Dentist: Yeah, it is still a stain, but not at a high risk. There is always potential for a cavity there.
Me: Ok, thanks.

I got my things and he walked me out. So there you have it. I am cavity free, with the potential of always getting a cavity. But all my teeth have that risk. So it will be a life long struggle. Go figure haha I never had to worry about cavities. Now I have joined the normal people.

Side note: I am going to add a playlist and update my book section while I am sitting here. So feel free to check them out later.

Flypaper

Wow look at this ... I am writing in my blog again. Something rare.

You guys should know I am addicted to books. Every time I go to Idaho Falls I always spend hours in Barns N Nobel and I never return home empty handed. Dad joked that when we were moving there were tons of little boxes titled Ashley's Books.

Anyway, since Tyson got home I have tried to get him to read some of my favorites. But of course he feels he doesn't have time for this so I end up reading out loud, kinda force feed him in a way.

We've read The Giver (really good book if you didn't have to read it in school you should check it out sometime), and we just started Inkheart. The movie is coming out and I hate watching a movie before reading the book it goes with. I want Tyson to read the book with me so he can be like "That didn't happen that way in the book!" with me.

Click the book to see some book specs on Amazon, and click the trailer link to see the movie preview.

Trailer

So since I haven't read this book for a while I have forgotten the detail the author put into her writing. One line in particular caught my attention and made me pause.
Here Mo and Meggie are packing for a trip and she starts by quoting something he had told her previously,

"If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo has said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper-memories cling to the printed page better than anything else."

With that thought, take the book and start a new adventure, let it trap your memories so you can cherish them later.

Moving ...

I am sure all of you are wondering what is happening. At least those of you in distant cities (Malis ^_^). Some things fell through, some mishaps with families on the other end, and some emotional roller coasters (again not on my end) led me to believe I shouldn't move. Besides I can't get a job just yet with the economy the way it is. I plan to look deeper come Monday (it has been too nice not working I am in no rush).

What have I done in my new spare time? Not sleep in of course. Since Tyson came home he thinks we all need to have a schedule. I am awake at 9:30am every morning. If I get home at 3am I am still awake at 9:30am. Tyson comes in and asks me what I am doing in bed still. A bonus with him home is that I don't have to sleep with Mr. Annoying aka Gus. His cute wears off at 5 in the morning when he wants out.

If you have any questions just email me at geology.ashley@gmail.com I check it several times a day. I am trying to get away from my kin_watashi@yahoo.com, I made that when I was in high school and it is just so cheesy now.

But that is about it. I should have some interesting posts coming up with my job searching. We well see how that goes.

Keep in touch ^_^

Who and I? I am Jean Valjean!

Wow it has been a long time since my last update. Sorry I haven’t written, its just that every time I sit down to write something the task feels so daunting and I find something shiny to lose my attention to.

So here you go, what has happened to me since the Twilight movie was released.

Finals week:

I actually turned my phone off for four days. I had a 10 page paper I needed to get finished and like any student out there I didn’t start working on it until the last minute. It wasn’t too bad though. I wrote about 3D ground penetrating radar (like in Jurassic Park when they were looking at the velociraptor at the beginning) in mines to detect roof cave-ins. I finished it three days before it was due and had plenty of time to study for my more difficult classes.

The whole time I was studying I listed to the Les Miserables soundtrack. And for some reason “Who am I?” stuck in my head and that is all I could hear in my head that whole week. But it’s a good song so I was not too upset ^_^.

My first test was a take home final for Personal Finance due Monday night at 8pm. I went from work to the geology computer lab and worked on my programming final till 8 since I had finished my personal finance Saturday night. But he wasn’t going to be in the room till 8, I didn’t know his name let alone his office so I just took the time I had to wait and started working on another final. I turned it in to him and ran off home to study for my IT4GIS final.

My second test was Tuesday morning at 9am. I made it with 10 minutes to spare and that is rare for me. I was usually 15 minutes late. I was never on time this last semester I am surprised my professors didn’t fire me as a student. It was just so hard and stressful I hardly slept. But I am well rested now. Part of this morning test was to get up get a donut and sit in the back with my test flipped over. He said we needed to get the blood pumping again so we can go over our answers and see what is wrong and right.

So I did.

And when I got back to my test I found three mistakes. I changed them and left that room forever. That was my hardest class all semester, IT4GIS. After that I ran to the administration building to pay my graduation fee, then over to the sub to take an exit exam, then to the geology office to check my status there to see if I had everything in order to graduate and finally to the geology computer lab where I checked my email.

To my surprise he had already graded the tests and given us our final semester grade. I ran home and finished my programming final and turned it in 2 hours before it was due. I looked over my 10 page paper and submitted that on moodle as well, 3 days before it was officially due. And then I started working on studying for my Thursday night final, Science in American Society. I had to finish reading a book called The Black Swan. Wednesday I finished my question sets for that class and Thursday night started the final at 7pm. It took me an hour. After that final I went to the rock lab with Crystal and learned how to crush rock. Interesting and informative.

I got home and wasn’t able to sleep in yet. I still had to go to crappy work. We had our Christmas party Friday night where I won $400 on their wheel of fortune. I spent a lot of it on Christmas presents in IF.

I worked Monday to Wednesday, which was pure torture, I hated that place. It sucks the very life out of you. Wednesday I packed everything up and left at noon. I have only gotten one text from Mandy asking where my key was. I told her I would return it when I got my check.

Holly met me back at the town house and we car pooled it over to the airport. Well it didn’t go like that exactly. We left at 2pm and I drove to Grandma’s house to see if she was going to go with us. She hadn’t answered our phone calls and I called her boyfriend and he said he thought she was at church. She wasn’t at home when we got there so we drove to her church and no one was there. I assume she went to Logan. We haven’t heard from her yet. I left her four messages so maybe she will call me back.

Tyson flew in when he was supposed to, no weather delays and we were so happy to see him. He is a little taller and he has more face hair. But that is about it. He is the same Tyson as before. Since he has gotten home I spend my extra time reading to him while he cleans and organizes his room. We are reading The Giver.

That takes us up to today. Sorry it was a long post. I should be posting more regularly from now on, since I am unemployed right now. Lol. Amanda is looking at some apartments today but I am not sure what is happening as far as that is going. We will see. I will be moved before the end of January for sure. I am most likely moving the first couple weeks.

I better get going, we have a trip to SLC today and I am not even close to being ready. Till next time, ciao.