Friday, July 16, 2010
Yep another post.
Today I was out for a drive and I remembered that the cap to the over flow bottle to me radiator ha gone missing. Which most likely means I lost it. Anyway, I called my Dad to tell him and he said I needed to go get one today. Alright, now I am not car stupid so I knew this wasn't going to take to long. So I headed to car parts store in town. I asked the guy if they had any caps. All he could get me was the whole overflow bottle. I really didn't want to pay 15 bucks for something I really didn't need. So I was off to find a junk yard. The closest one was Rigby. I didn't know where it was so I Texted Brother Boren. He called me and asked what I needed at a junk yard. Well I told him and he got me all hooked up. The place that I needed to go was owned by a guy in his ward. When I got there this kind brother went out and got a cap and all was fixed! Thanks Brother Boren.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
I am not a Blogger at heart.
So I am not a blogger at heart. As you all can see it is hard for me to remember to blog. I do enjoy to read other peoples blogs. So I feel like because people share with me that I need to share with them. I will just give a short story or two from the semester.
I live in an old apartment here in Rexburg. I have lived here for 3 years of school. I have grown quite found of it. The problem is that it is falling apart. Well really we just have a couple of nasty problems here. Earlier this semester our managers, who live right below us, started to notice a leak flowing into there apartment. The leak was coming from our bathroom area. Sick I know. Well they called some folks to come look at it. They found that the pipes were struggling. As Frank our owner gave the okay to get that fixed. That meant that we were going to be down one bathroom for two days or so. Once they ripped out our shower they found a surprise. MOLD!! Ya the black kind. Did you know that stuff can kill people. Well this was making the project turn into a crazy mess. The fix it guys called Frank to tell him they would have to rip out the whole bathroom. Frank told them to just cover it. Yes that is what I said. He just wanted to cover it up. Our manager told him that we knew what was going on and bad things would happen if he didn't fix the problem the right way. So after some thought he told them to take care of it the right way. Good thing because I am sure really bad things would happen to him if he wouldn't have. That whole mess took about 10 days to get fixed. So for 10 days all 6 of us had to share one bathroom. Yes the bathroom that has mold growing on the walls. The housing office knows about that now so we will see if something really happens with that. That is just a taste of how this semester in this apartment went.
Alright so I think you all get to deal with just that story. I can't tell all my stories in one day. Remember I am trying to write on this more often.
This is just a picture from the Basic Skills trip I went on this semester. I was a TA.
I live in an old apartment here in Rexburg. I have lived here for 3 years of school. I have grown quite found of it. The problem is that it is falling apart. Well really we just have a couple of nasty problems here. Earlier this semester our managers, who live right below us, started to notice a leak flowing into there apartment. The leak was coming from our bathroom area. Sick I know. Well they called some folks to come look at it. They found that the pipes were struggling. As Frank our owner gave the okay to get that fixed. That meant that we were going to be down one bathroom for two days or so. Once they ripped out our shower they found a surprise. MOLD!! Ya the black kind. Did you know that stuff can kill people. Well this was making the project turn into a crazy mess. The fix it guys called Frank to tell him they would have to rip out the whole bathroom. Frank told them to just cover it. Yes that is what I said. He just wanted to cover it up. Our manager told him that we knew what was going on and bad things would happen if he didn't fix the problem the right way. So after some thought he told them to take care of it the right way. Good thing because I am sure really bad things would happen to him if he wouldn't have. That whole mess took about 10 days to get fixed. So for 10 days all 6 of us had to share one bathroom. Yes the bathroom that has mold growing on the walls. The housing office knows about that now so we will see if something really happens with that. That is just a taste of how this semester in this apartment went.
Alright so I think you all get to deal with just that story. I can't tell all my stories in one day. Remember I am trying to write on this more often.
This is just a picture from the Basic Skills trip I went on this semester. I was a TA.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Alright Already
So as you all can tell I have not been blogging at all. I have done so much that it is going to take me forever to catch up. In this post I am going to share about Summit. If you don't know what that is let me tell you. Summit is a program through the Rec department at BYU-I. In this program two teachers (Steve and Melissa) pick 13 students to come alone for the fun. What fun you ask? Well once we were picked we had meeting together about once a mouth in winter semester. They got more frequent as the semester went on. We then got to start Spring semester about a week to 10 days early. We met every weekday at Steve's House. (His family rocks for letting us be there.) In this time we talked about all the things we were going to get to do. We split up in our LOD groups (Leaders of the Day) and planned those days out from start to finish. We also learned things to help us out. Anchor systems, asending a rope, stemming and brigeing are just a few things we learned. (Those mostly would help us in canyoneering.) We also got to give lessons to everyone. So most of those were done at Steve's. We then spent a weekend up at Badger Creek. We mostly worked on team building things. It was great. The weekend before we left we did baptisms at the temple. It was wonderful. K so now the real party. Monday we met early and started our drive down south. Here are some picture from this first part.
This is at Badger. It is Steph raping.
Here are all of us students in front of the Temple in Rexburg.
We even had time to slack line.
Here I am learning to asending a rope.
This is uncle Kuggie (Steve) teaching us anchor systems.
We even had time to stop by a thrift store. We got the best deal ever. Everything we could stuff in a bag for 3 dollars. Oh let me tell you we got some very good things. You will see that later on this summit trip!!
Yes that says, "We will trade Marlayna for Steve." No feeling the love.
Here we are bright and early all pumped to head down south.
Once we got there we set up our camp. We were going to be there for just about a week. One of our longest camp places. Oh by the way this camp was just south of Hanksville Utah. Look it up. (it is west of Moab) We got to bed after a short dance party. We needed to get all the rest we could. Our next three days were going to be spent on survival. Dave our guide got there Tuesday morning early. We ate breakfast and then gathered together for a talk and prayer. We were then buddied up with someone. They were to know where we were at all times. My Buddy was Dave. I also had to learn about him and tell everyone about him at the end. I was super lucky to have this chance. So we then set out. We just started walking. We headed into the desert following Dave. He would stop every so often to teach us things. We learned things like to sleep on juniper bark. It is kind of soft and it will help you keep your heat in. As we followed we started down into this big canyon system. We got to do some short down climbs. As we dropped into the bottom we came across our first pothole of water. Once Dave checked it we all drank what we could. Man it was good!! Then we walked down the bottom of the Canyons. Then we started a very long drawn out climb out. We found one more pothole of water. This was to be our last water for about the next 16 hours. Our last bit of the out climb was long and very straight up. It took a lot out of all of us. Once at the top we had to make a choice. We were looking for a spot that we knew was water. So it was either stay where we were or go to the water. It was to the water we wanted to go. Once we hit the dirt road we to a right and started walking. In about 2 miles we hit a fork. We went left thinking this was were we needed to go. We started walking again. At this point it was dark we didn't know exactly where we were now and we were starting to slow down. It seemed like we walked for ever. I even threw up because I was dieing or at least felt like it. We finally stopped. After talking for a bit Dave told us to put down our bark and start spooning. So we did it. All 16 of us started spooning. Man it was a long cold few hours. After a few songs and one sweet steam roll we knew where we were and it was time to walk back in the dark about six or seven miles to water. It took a long time to get there, but once there they gave us our water and blankets that we got for the next night. We all crashed at that point. Who knows for how long but it was great. they even had some food there for us. Blisters and everything else was taken care of. It was time to make a choice again. Ater a summit record of 26 miles walking in the first day many were struggling. They were more than willing to go get the van and come pick up who ever wanted to quit. We all made the choice to keep going. It was a very proud moment for everyone. Our next part of the this three day party was going to be us students finding our own way. They pointed us in our way and we started walking. Once we can to the down climb we had a storming period witch i played a part in. (All apart of learning.) We finally made it back with our teachers and Dave. We got a fire and ash cakes that night. WOW!! Never have I been so happy. The next morning we got up, washed in the creek and started our out climb of the canyon bottom we were once in. It was super hard to do. With every step I thought I was going to die. I had no clue how I was going to make it to the top. Well it took many brakes and wonderful people to push me on. Once out we stopped and talked for some time while Steve and Melissa ran back to camp to get food ready so we could have it once we all got back. Finally we got back to camp after about an hour looking for it. Food, fire, and a sleeping bag have never been so good.
This is the second morning at a water troff. I didnt care!! It was the best water ever!!
This is at the base of the long steep part on the first day.
Here is one of the down climbs we got to do.
Here we are with our bark that we would be sleeping on.
This is Dave. He is one of the most amazing people ever.
This is one of our rests. Man I was grateful for each rest.
This is the out climb. As you can tell I am dieing and I can't really walk all that well at this point.
Fire!!!!
Making fire.
This the down climging we did on the second day. It took a bit for us to get here without our teachers.
This is the road we slept on.
K so this is going to be the end of my first telling. I know this part was long but I love survival. A lot of the other stuff wont be. But stayed tune if you want to find out more about summit.
This is at Badger. It is Steph raping.
Here are all of us students in front of the Temple in Rexburg.
We even had time to slack line.
Here I am learning to asending a rope.
This is uncle Kuggie (Steve) teaching us anchor systems.
We even had time to stop by a thrift store. We got the best deal ever. Everything we could stuff in a bag for 3 dollars. Oh let me tell you we got some very good things. You will see that later on this summit trip!!
Yes that says, "We will trade Marlayna for Steve." No feeling the love.
Here we are bright and early all pumped to head down south.
Once we got there we set up our camp. We were going to be there for just about a week. One of our longest camp places. Oh by the way this camp was just south of Hanksville Utah. Look it up. (it is west of Moab) We got to bed after a short dance party. We needed to get all the rest we could. Our next three days were going to be spent on survival. Dave our guide got there Tuesday morning early. We ate breakfast and then gathered together for a talk and prayer. We were then buddied up with someone. They were to know where we were at all times. My Buddy was Dave. I also had to learn about him and tell everyone about him at the end. I was super lucky to have this chance. So we then set out. We just started walking. We headed into the desert following Dave. He would stop every so often to teach us things. We learned things like to sleep on juniper bark. It is kind of soft and it will help you keep your heat in. As we followed we started down into this big canyon system. We got to do some short down climbs. As we dropped into the bottom we came across our first pothole of water. Once Dave checked it we all drank what we could. Man it was good!! Then we walked down the bottom of the Canyons. Then we started a very long drawn out climb out. We found one more pothole of water. This was to be our last water for about the next 16 hours. Our last bit of the out climb was long and very straight up. It took a lot out of all of us. Once at the top we had to make a choice. We were looking for a spot that we knew was water. So it was either stay where we were or go to the water. It was to the water we wanted to go. Once we hit the dirt road we to a right and started walking. In about 2 miles we hit a fork. We went left thinking this was were we needed to go. We started walking again. At this point it was dark we didn't know exactly where we were now and we were starting to slow down. It seemed like we walked for ever. I even threw up because I was dieing or at least felt like it. We finally stopped. After talking for a bit Dave told us to put down our bark and start spooning. So we did it. All 16 of us started spooning. Man it was a long cold few hours. After a few songs and one sweet steam roll we knew where we were and it was time to walk back in the dark about six or seven miles to water. It took a long time to get there, but once there they gave us our water and blankets that we got for the next night. We all crashed at that point. Who knows for how long but it was great. they even had some food there for us. Blisters and everything else was taken care of. It was time to make a choice again. Ater a summit record of 26 miles walking in the first day many were struggling. They were more than willing to go get the van and come pick up who ever wanted to quit. We all made the choice to keep going. It was a very proud moment for everyone. Our next part of the this three day party was going to be us students finding our own way. They pointed us in our way and we started walking. Once we can to the down climb we had a storming period witch i played a part in. (All apart of learning.) We finally made it back with our teachers and Dave. We got a fire and ash cakes that night. WOW!! Never have I been so happy. The next morning we got up, washed in the creek and started our out climb of the canyon bottom we were once in. It was super hard to do. With every step I thought I was going to die. I had no clue how I was going to make it to the top. Well it took many brakes and wonderful people to push me on. Once out we stopped and talked for some time while Steve and Melissa ran back to camp to get food ready so we could have it once we all got back. Finally we got back to camp after about an hour looking for it. Food, fire, and a sleeping bag have never been so good.
This is the second morning at a water troff. I didnt care!! It was the best water ever!!
This is at the base of the long steep part on the first day.
Here is one of the down climbs we got to do.
Here we are with our bark that we would be sleeping on.
This is Dave. He is one of the most amazing people ever.
This is one of our rests. Man I was grateful for each rest.
This is the out climb. As you can tell I am dieing and I can't really walk all that well at this point.
Fire!!!!
Making fire.
This the down climging we did on the second day. It took a bit for us to get here without our teachers.
This is the road we slept on.
K so this is going to be the end of my first telling. I know this part was long but I love survival. A lot of the other stuff wont be. But stayed tune if you want to find out more about summit.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Help Megs!!
I have a dear sweet friend who really needs help. She has an eating disorder and needs to go to treatment. We are trying to raise all the money we can to help her out. If any of you want to help please let me know. She really needs to go and is willing to do so at this point. Please help us!!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
I have a date!!
Yes I have a date. Don't be to surprised. I know it only happens once every 5 years. I can't wait!!
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Blessings
Today I am feeling very blessed!! I just want you all to know that I love you and I am grateful to all for all you have taught me!!! So I wish to ask you if you would tell me what you feel is your greatest blessing! Thanks so much!!
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