La vida es un carnival

So, I would love to be a regular and continuous contributor to the Blog but I generally find difficulty in thinking of something to write. Somehow I don't think posting the mis-matched, silly things that I say wouldn't have the same effect. I guess that changes with age. Sad day. :)

Let's see, I had an exciting weekend. I went up to a cabin out by Midway with the Outdoor Adventure Club; it was incredibly fancy and I am sure very expensive to construct. Downstairs included a pool table, ping pong, air hockey, foosball (and not the dinky kind that we had when we were children), a basketball shooting game, and very nice tv's and sound systems. We arrived at the cabin after it was already dark, so when I woke up in the morning and popped up my all I saw was the wall of windows filled with a view of a beautiful, blue lake. Yeah...

We had a ton of fun and a lot of people. We also got to make breakfast in the morning, which was fun. Of course, I ended up with a lot of it on my shirt. Garrett had a lot of fun pointing that out to me and everyone else - over and over again. (No, Garrett is just a friend from home.)

After we left the cabin, many of us went to go hiking, being the Outdoor Adventure Club. Wanting more attention, while trying to walk up the steep sheet of frozen (pretty much just ice) snow : my feet slipped from beneath me, I landed on my knee which then continued to slide down the hill, I tried to break the fall with my hand which also slipped out and decided to get all cut up and bleed, and I finally ended by slamming my forehead against the ice - leaving lots of really nice marks. Yeah...so I was just kidding about the attention part. I felt like a really big idiot, especially after everyone else made it up the hill just fine. Worst part: the very intelligent, impressive, cute guy was standing right there trying to prevent me from slipping. Anyway, it wasn't actually that dramatic, I just like to make it sound cooler. On Monday, everyone at school (the students with whom I am friends and coworkers) : "Wow! What happened to your face!" Yes, I am cool. :)

I continue to just adore my job. Being a small business and with the economy as it is and with the usual flow of students, things are getting rather tight at Nomen Global. But we still have good times. I am becoming good friends with some of the students, and therefore get to practice my Spanish a lot (nevermind the fact that they are the ones here to learn English). :)

Oh, so my friend Creighton (he has been in some past pcitures) decided to spend his winter semester doing a paid internship is Ghana! So on 10 January he will be leaving us to go build energy-creating merry-go-rounds in small villages there (you can read about it on BYU's website). He currently is the Financeer of the BYUOAC, and somehow without even really asking me, the baton was passed to me. I am now the unofficial Financeer of the BYU Outdoor Adventure Club, with all of my vast knowledge of finances and outdoor adventures. Not. It will be good.

Anyway, hope ya'll 're doin' well. From what I hear down the grape vine, Doug has a post on this blog that he needs to make. I hope he does. :)

Angela