I see it has been a long time since I have posted anything, at least not since we moved. Nothing too exciting has happened. We love our new place and are constantly over at our neighbor’s apartment or there are at ours. We eat dinner together a lot and play games like hand and foot, name five (Christmas gift from my parentsJ), and in a pickle. We spent the holidays with Bryan's family which was a wonderful break from life. I might post some pictures later.
School is going really well. Besides my nutrition courses I am taking piano lessons and really like it. My instructor is focusing on what I want, which is sight reading, instead of just learning pieces. I am also taking the second half of the first year of Spanish. I needed to fill in some more credits for my scholarship to apply and it seemed like a good idea. There is a lot of homework but the class is fun. Bryan likes his courses except for English-Business Communications. He doesn’t like to write to much and so finds it difficult. His advanced database class is proving to be somewhat of a challenge so he’s learning lots of new things. He is also taking C++ but finds it slow because he had already taught himself the basics last summer but that class is where he will learn to write code so it will pick up.
Bryan still works at Best Buy and loves it. The newness of it has worn off so he doesn’t come home talking about great deals they have so much anymore; only when there is something really cool. I still have my job doing research on campus which slowed down over the winter months because I was between projects but has started to pick up again. We are putting the finishing touches on the paper I wrote so it should be published in the next few months. I am also doing a small project for another paper which I will be listed as an author of. So I should have two papers under my belt shortly after I graduate. I am doing a couple presentations on one of these this semester. One at Weber State, kind of a practice run for me; a second at a local competition so I can do some networking in my field; and a third in Cincinnati, Ohio at a national chemists’ society annual meeting. It is four days during finals week so I have to take all my finals early. There are two graduate students going with me and we will each give a 20 min presentation sometime during the conference. It is a very exciting opportunity and I am glad for the practice runs I will get beforehand.
We made freezer jam for the first time last week. Strawberry, mixed berry, and mango. Our stake put on a food storage bazaar. So each ward was responsible for a type of food and was supposed to provide information on how to store it, recipes, and samples. The food was really good, there was enough that we didn’t have to eat lunch. The winner of the recipe contest was a chocolate cake made from black beans. It may sound bad but it tasted really good, kind of like brownies. All the recipes are posted on a blog: bearallthings.blogspot.com. If you need some good info on emergency preparedness this is a good place to go.
That’s what’s going on right now.
