Running

I am so jealous of people who can run, or do any cardio at all for that matter. Some people love it and can run for an hour or more at a time. i don't know how they do it. I went to the gym this morning, and i did an elliptical for about 5 min, and then biked for about 5 min. I just get so bored, but i don't know how to make myself keep going. i guess i need to find someone to go with who will make me do it.

P.S. Lady Antebellum's new album is really good. :D

P.P.S. Megan and Brit, i know this is short, but hey i blogged right?

Saturday night while i was at work, i felt something pop in the right side of my chest/shoulder area. I remember thinks "OW, that hurt" but didn't think anything more of it, and kept working. All day Sunday it kind of hurt to make sudden movements, but still, i thought it would just go away. Monday morning, still hurt, but i was determined to go work out. I got a gym membership to the Sports Academy up here in Logan, and then i went to go run. oh boy......I didn't even make the two min mark running on the treadmill. I was in sooooo much pain! i got to my car, and made it home, thank heaven! Then I went into my room, and got on my bed, and literally couldn't move AT ALL without screaming out in pain. Megan was getting ready to leave for work, but she was awesome, and took care of me. she called mom, and mom said to take me to the ER because she didn't know where else to take me.

At the ER, we told them what was going on, and they immediately took me back, (in a wheelchair), and hooked me up to all these machines. Apparently they don't mess around at all with any sort of chest/back pain. i had x-rays done, blood drawn, and one more thing, but i can't remember what it was called.....oh well. mom came, and megan went to work. Thanks megan for being the best sister anyone could ask for!!

The doctors couldn't really find anything wrong with me, and said that it was a muscular/skeletal thing, that i just had to rest and relax, let the muscles heal. No heavy lifting, and no repetitive motion. That rules out work, where i do repetitive motions for 8 hours, and it's with the arm that i can barely move....great, now i can't work until Friday. Actually i don't really care that much, but that's 3 days of pay that i missed out on.

It still hurts, but i just have to stay relaxed and mostly still, and take TONS of pain killers, and i'm ok. I'm so thankful that it wasn't anything really serious! I've had hurt muscles before, and that i KNOW i can handle. :D

Twinner Moments

Today at church, during sunday school, a member of the bishopric (Bro. Lewis) came up to me and asked me if i would give the closing prayer in sacrament. Of course, i said yes. Then he left, and i thought to myself, does he know which one I am? Megan then proceeded to tell me that if they said her name in sacrament meeting that i would still be the one to go up there and say the prayer.

Sacrament meeting:

A member of the bishopric (Bro. Ziles) got up after the last speaker to announce the song and the prayer, and megan said to me "if he says megan carter, so help me......." and she didn't finish the sentence, because right then Bro. Ziles said her name, so we both started laughing, and i looked and her and asked her if she wanted to say it. Nope, not gonna happen. lol. But THEN, we looked up on stage and BOTH Bro. Lewis and Bro. Ziles are also crackin up because they saw us look at each other and laugh. i literally had to focus on nothing while we were singing the song so that i could go up and give a serious prayer after. It was sooooo funny though! gotta love twinner moments like that!

I LOVE VOLLEYBALL!

Thursday night megan and I had the chance to go down to clearfield and play volleyball with a club team that's coached by Scott Keister. He coached at high country when we played there, and though we never had him as a coach, we still got to know him pretty well. He switched to coaching a new club, and needed players to come help out with his team. I haven't played competitively for about a year, and it made me soooooo sore! the team really isn't that good, but i think doing the things like running and shagging balls, push-ups and sit ups before water breaks, and just all out pushing my body like that, are the things that made me sore. The GREAT thing is..... I love being sore! It makes me feel like i'm doing something good for my body and that i'm getting stronger. It also renewed my drive to go workout more, and eat healthier. That way, if i ever go play with them again, maybe I won't feel like i'm going to die. :D I absolutely loved playing again, and miss it so much!

Brrrr!!

This morning I left my apartment at 7:00, i had a final at 7:30. let me tell you.....it was FREEZING! and then i got up to campus, and the WIND was blowing. sooooo cold! right now my computer is telling me that it is 10 degrees outside.....the sad part is that it felt much MUCH warmer when i was walking home from my final, than when i walked up. so i wonder how low it was this morning. Hopefully i will get used to the snow, and cold soon! walking up to classes next semester is not going to be fun.....but i'm going to try to get rid of my hate relationship with winter. lol. i don't know if that can happen....we'll see. seriously, 30 degrees would feel balmy right now. I am going to die this winter.

"Oh, you don't want to do that"

Lately i've really been trying to decide what i want to major in. It's a tough decision, because i REALLY don't want to be in school forever. I need to pick a major i can stick to and get it done. I've been leaning toward Math Education. I think it would be really fun to teach and to hopefully coach volleyball at a high school.

As you know, i am in engineering right now. I have a lot of friends in the major that i talk to, and i've mention this possible switch of majors to them. They all just say a variation of "you don't want to do that." How do they know? i'm sick of hearing about how i wouldn't make very much money compared to engineering....blah blah blah. They don't seem to grasp the concept that i'm bored out of my mind in my engineering class, and that math is FUN for me. Also, none of them understand the whole wanting to be a mom, and be able to be at home when my kids are at home.....They're all guys. The attitude that i get from them is that teaching isn't a "good" enough profession for someone to actually major in it, and that's frustrating. We're all going to school, we all have teachers, and respect them. I don't know why it's so hard for other people to fathom someone wanting to be a teacher.

This post was basically to get all my thoughts out of my head. If you want to ignore it you can. :D

Computer Science

I LOVE my computer science class.

It's the kind of class where i can just go chill during class and learn how do to the things we're supposed to be learning. It's also the one class that i don't mind doing the homework. Actually, i like it. It's very rewarding when you write a program and it runs....correctly. It can take a long time, and get frustrating when there are errors and you don't know what or where they are.

Today i finished a huge project for my class, and it took me 3 hours to write the program. i had a couple times where i couldn't figure out why the program wouldn't run, but it was awesome to find those problems, and then have the whole thing run, and get the output that i was expecting. I really like doing this. I am already minoring in Computer Science....who knows, maybe if i change my major, i can switch to doing this. :D