Semester Safety Project

Semester Safety Project Part 1

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Semester Safety Project Part 2

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

it's that time again

it's that time again, time to update my blog...that no one reads...which is fine with me. anyways, things are moving along. life is too fast. tomorrow is thanksgiving already. hollie has been in hair school for over two months now and has given me a couple hair cuts. i'm still working on my commercial license. school still sucks. that's the best i can do right now.

BATS!!

these are our bats. they live in our wall next to us. they fly out of the wall next to our window every night and then come back the next morning. it's a little unsettling at times and kinda gross, but in a weird way kinda cool. now that i've recorded them and know how big they are and how many of them are there it isn't as gross or scary. but, as you can see, there are quite a few. i counted at least 15 coming out last night and who knows if they all came out at once. hopefully our management will take care of this fast and it won't be a big deal. hollie doesn't like this so much...but it's kinda funny. i'll admit though, i'm not really fond of it either. i just don't want any in the house or anything to start stinking. the first video is of them coming out at night at 9:20. the second is them coming back at 5:45. enjoy!!

thoughts on life

first, what's with so many friends having kids? seems like all of my friends have jumped onto the train that leads to parenthood. whether intentional or by accident all of my close friends, well i guess most, have or will have a kid within the next month. i am 24, barely. my friends are my age or younger. personally, i don't feel ready or prepared to enter that realm of life. my guess is that none of them felt "prepared" or "ready" either, but apparently more than me. the thing that sucks is that with kids they don't have time to really be friends anymore. now don't get me wrong, i'm more than excited to have kids and happy that my friends are having them. i just didn't think so many would have them as young as they are. at least i'll have someone to get advice from when we start having our own.

second, i hate growing up and not having any friends anymore. seems the older i get the more detached i become with people who i used to have great friendships with and that blows. i guess that is just one of the things you lose as you get older.

next, stupid finacial aid. i hate taking out loans but there's no way i'd be able to pay for school without it, especially flying. i have a very decent job for going to school and we make enough money to meet our needs and still have some left over. don't get me wrong, i'm grateful for the job i have and the money we both make. but i hate that as i make more we get less aid for school. when i plug in my financials into our school calculator for how much our "need" will be in financial aid it comes out to like $28,000 for the next school year. and my grant $ offered went down as well as my total offer. it just doesn't make sense sometimes.

enought of my ranting for today...

the update

so...it's been over a year now. apparently I'm not too good at keeping this up. however, i am going to try to keep this up more or less as a form of a journal. i'm terrible at journals and this will be my feeble attempt.

so, since last july lots has happened. i have since passed two more checkrides for my instrument rating and my multi-engine rating. both were pressure packed but both went relatively well. i'll now be working on my commercial and CFI ratings. pretty sweet and we're making some good progress. i can't tell you the amazing things you can see from the sky. you know it is kind of boring looking when you're in a commercial jet, but when you're the one at the controls it's so much different. the joy that being in the air brings is overwhelming and i am incredibly lucky to be doing this now and in the future. if anyone really wants to i'll have to take them for a rid sometime soon.

hollie is almost done with school. less than a month and she will be a graduate of BYU in the Dance program. props to her and the effort she has put in to get this done. she has worked hard and now that work will pay off. she'll soon be out of a job, so she has a lot of work ahead to get her project done and get a new job. but she'll be fine.

other than that life is pretty much normal. we are still plugging along and living the married student life and enjoying the majority of it. everything has its ups and downs but all-in-all life has been enjoyable.

pizza, pizza!

so, the sweet sisters in our ward have decided to be oh so generous and cook hollie and i meals for the week since hollie had her surgery. first of all we really don't need the meals because she is more or less doing pretty good now. but, the compassionate service girl was successful in persuading hollie to let them bring us meals through sunday. so that was nice of her. the story goes something like this. tuesday i got home from work and flipped the tube on. hollie and i saw a commercial for little caesar's 5 buck pizza. she said that looked good and in an effort to get her to eat we went and bought one so she could get some food and energy. good pizza. the next day was the first day of meals. i was on my way to my softball game and her visiting teach is on the way up carrying what? you guessed it, little caesar's and breadsticks. i laughed and went on my way and grabbed a slice when i got back home, bless her heart. last night we are playing rock band after we get home and at about 6 the doorbell rings. a guy from our ward is standing outside with what? again, little caesar's and breadsticks. he goes on to explain that his wife had left him instructions for a meal which he had botched and he needed to be to work soon so he ran to the pizza joint and picked up some pizza instead. as soon as the door closed we both started laughing. don't get me wrong, we couldn't be more grateful for the help and the food. it's just ironic that they keep on bringing wonderful little caesar's. maybe that's what we get for all being college students:)

the suckiness of surgery

i'm really amazed it has been a month and a half since i last wrote. for that i apologize. much has happened in such a little amount of time.
first, we went on a family trip in june with my parents and sisters to Newport Beach, California. to say that it was fun would be downplaying the vacation. it was awesome. it has been quite a while since i have felt so relaxed and energetic. we did quite a few things ranging from disneyland, magic mountain (which i would say was the highlight), broadway musical "wicked", beach, and lots of food. it was great.
second, i'm finally seeing some progression in my instrument flying. it has been a lot of fun to get into a bigger plane and do some new flying. i love being in the air!! it is stressful but oh so relaxing. gives me a good break in my day. i'm actually going a little bit later this morning, so wish me the best.
next, hollie had her appendix taken out last week. it was not such a fun situation. she woke me up at 4 in the morning last tuesday and we ended up deciding to go to the emergency room because of the sharp pain she was having in her stomach. so by 5 we were at the hospital. two hours later she had been diagnosed with appendicitis and an hour later she was in the operating room. luckily my parents came down because hers were in denver. i stayed with her all day tuesday as we tried to get her up and going. to say the least she was in a good amount of pain and the drugs made her super drowsy. we had her home late wednesday night (after spending more than an hour trying to get her prescription from walmart. walmart sucks at filling prescriptions quick so don't try). i went to work on thursday and didn't do a whole lot the rest of the weekend because i was at home with her. luckily, and unluckily, it was the 4th of July. so at least we didn't have to go to work but it was a crappy weekend. hollie is feeling better now, but not great. she finally got back to work today, but we'll see if she stays the whole day. at least she'll do what she can, which is better than nothing. i just hope she gets feeling better, for both of our sakes.
lastly, i have had a real desire to go fishing lately, for who knows what reason. i bought a pole and like a starter kit of hooks, spinners, sinkers, bobbers, etc. i went last saturday night w/ hollie to the little pond at the bottom of our parents neighborhood. didn't catch anything and had to sort out a few hitches with my pole, but all in all it was a good time. i really enjoy going so i want to make it more of a habit. i'm trying to read up on it so i know more of what i am doing. maybe it'll be my new hobby. :)
anyways, that's that last little while in a nutshell. hopefully next time i post i'll have a lively experience from this weekend's fishing extravaganza.