I'm not always good at these things...

First time for everything, yeah? The month of May turned out to be a first time for things I never expected to happen. One: Going over my monthly minutes on my cell phone. In the past, the 450 minutes has been plenty, since after 9pm and weekends are free. In fact, I usually ended up with extra left over. Since going over has never been a problem, I don't normally check to see how many I have used for the month, but I was strangely inspired to look last week, and good thing I did. 595 minutes. I almost fell off my bed where I was sitting. I deducted that not having school or work during the day to distract me, I must have called people more. Two: Having lights flash in my rear-view mirror by a police car. The speed limit on Wasatch Blvd on campus is apparently 25 mph, not 35. He asked for license and registration and proof of insurance. The officer went back to his car, and I started laughing. To my knowledge there is no speed limit sign along that road. Either I deserved to be pulled over for not paying attention to the signs, or there is no sign and the school or the government should put a sign up. Luckily he let me go with a warning only, just to slow down. I can do that :).

Observatory Update

Additional observations available on campus observatory for your reading pleasure. Comments welcome as always.

Fever Dream

I was lying on my bed taking a nap. My mom came in and I asked if she would get me a drink. My eyelids were incredibly heavy and I couldn't budge them. She returned with a drink, and I tasted it. I sat up a little and struggled to open my eyes. I was in a pretty good mood, it was just my body that was complaining. She left to call the doctor, and I could hear her in the next room talking about what she should do. All I heard was "So it isn't spinal menengitis." Then she asked me "Can you open your eyes?" The right eye lid opened a crack, and I could see below me. "Yes!" I replied. It seemed to me everything was fine and my mother was overreacting. I ventured slowly from my bed, trying to open my eyes further. My movements were slow and my eyes kept slamming shut. I made it to the office door. Again I could open the one eye, but then I realized that it had a fixed image of laying on my bed, like a picture was pasted over my eye. This is when I was no longer in a good mood, and I started to fear for my health. I tried to say "I can only see my room!" but my hearing was faded. It sounded to me as if I were speaking through a pillow. I spoke again, louder and slower, as if it were my mother who had the hearing problem not me. Then I woke up. I opened my eyes all the way, stood up and walked outside to find my mother. It was a joy to walk and to see! The dream felt real, but I am grateful it was not. I am grateful I can see, walk and hear. How lonely it would be if I could not hear. How much I would miss if I could not see. Message to the rest of you: Don't sleep in a roasting room, the heat will play with your head.

Summer for Redheads

This is the time for people to show off more of what they've got. For some, it's covering less than their showing. In this life there are some who are blessed with skin that seems to gently tan no matter how long they spend in the direct sun. For others, they burn after long periods of time, but it quickly turns nice and dark. Then there leaves the rest of us. The ones who are so pale, that to wear white nylons or not is not a matter of looks, because you can't tell the difference anyway. No matter how much time my skin is exposed, it will not tan evenly. Freckles are my style, thank you. That is, if I am careful. It only takes 20 minutes of direct sunlight for this redhead to become red on more than just my head. The process has begun. 2 hours in the sun yesterday resulted in this. Pretty ain't it? It will heal, peel, then a nice set of freckles will be left over. It's a fancy way of living, I assure you.

Bucket List

Dance to Celtic music with a boy. check.
Dance to Pirates theme with a boy. check.
Dance to "I hope you dance." _____
Take a carriage ride up Memory Grove. _____
Graduate from High School. check.
Go to Scotland. _____
Go on a church history tour. _____
See the rest of the inside of a temple. _____
Be a mother. _____
Graduate with a Bachelor's Degree in Latin. _____
Marry in the temple. _____
Sing my child to sleep. _____
(not ordered in any way of priority, though marriage comes before child)

A bucket list is a list of things you desire to complete during your existence, aka things you want to do before you "kick the bucket". I'm tagging three people to create one of their own. Laverna. Mara. Muffy.