The Happenings of my Life

So I don't really think that my life is all that interesting...but per request, I am going to continue telling stories of the random happenings that is my life.

PENNIES AND DIMES
Reading textbooks is not exactly one of my strengths in life. Quite frankly it's a huge struggle. So naturally i'm not going to want to pay top dollar for a bunch of books that I'm not actually going to read. Yet my darn conscience won't let me just not buy them; there is going to be one time in the semester that I'll need them...maybe...but what if I actually do need it...short story is I buy the books. One of my friends has three classes with me, so we decided to share books to save a bunch of money. I bought them (for great deals might I add) and then told him how much he owed me so he could pay me back. Simple enough yeah? He asked how I wanted to be paid, to which I responded "however, it doesn't matter to me". He said "How about quarters?" Ha funny...I wasn't about to take that sass so I told him that I actually only accept pennies and dimes. Okay good joke, goodnight, moving on. Well a few days later we are sitting in class and he pulls out this tub and plops it in my lap. $87 in pennies and dimes....sass came back to bite me. Darn. Thankfully he took it back and came back with reasonable bills, but for a minute there I thought I was stuck with a whole ton of pennies and dimes. I have to admit, he won that one.

CONGRATS
It was just a typical day in history class; I came in, sat down, and started talking to my friends around me. I noticed a guy sitting by us was wearing a BYU soccer hoodie so I asked him if he was on the team. He said he was, to which I responded, "Wow, that's really cool! Great for you! Congratulations for being talented." Judging by the laughter that erupted from everyone around that was listening, I guess telling someone congratulations for being talented isn't a socially acceptable thing to say. My awkwardness strikes again. Gee dang it. I guess it wasn't too bad though because he is now my friend and the others are still willing to sit by me. (It's still undecided if this is because we are friends or they just like waiting to hear the next dumb bit of commentary I will throw out...either way I don't have to sit alone so no complaints.)

BUT CAN WE SING?
Creativity is part of my studies. As therapeutic recreation specialists we have to be able to think outside the box and adapt to various situations. In class we were doing an activity that demonstrated specific facilitation techniques. There are about 30 of us and we were all blindfolded. We had to find the rope in the middle of the room and untangle it. After that we had to form ourselves into a square. This is a little bit difficult when you can't see...we made what we thought was a square and said we were done. We did great! It was easily recognizable as a square, yay us. Then the professor said okay now I want you to perfect this square. We made a plan and put our blindfolds back on to put it into action. As we were about to start he added "oh yeah, and this time you can't talk" what? how are we supposed to do that? For the next few minutes you could hear coughs, moans, groans, squeaks, giggles, etc. We were trying to get each others attention without speaking but couldn't see what the moaner wanted us to do. It was pretty comical. Then out of the blue one of the guys in my class belts out "but can we sing?" I'm pretty sure half the people ended up on the floor laughing so hard they just collapsed. Our professor thought that sounded entertaining so he let us run with it. For the next few minutes we sung our way through improving our rope square. Let's just say there is a reason we are TR people and not music majors. But boy was that entertaining!

YOU'RE WELCOME
I went to check the mail and came back with only the paper filled with ads. I didn't want it, so as I walked past an apartment full of guys just sitting around I told them I got them something. I explained that I would sell it to them for a steal of a deal of only $1 and described the great specials inside and how much they would benefit from it. Their faces were skeptical as they laughed so I told that just because I like them I would even be willing to lower the price to 50 cents! Now that is a deal that you can't pass up! Amazingly enough they still didn't want it...I mean after a sales pitch like the one I gave they should have been fighting over it. So I went back to my apartment with ad still in hand. The problem of not wanting the ad was still present, so me and my roommate created a solution. They will thank us one day...

The sign says "In case you changed your mind, here are the  best ones..."

SWIMMING ANYONE?
After one of the big storms our complex decided it wasn't worth it to clean the pool again...It glows in the dark...

SNACK TIME AT WORK
I like to snack. That is a fact about me. It is a part of why I have been coined with the nickname of Fatty Natty for the past 2 years. (Don't worry, i'm not offended in the least by the name). But no shame, I will proudly eat my snacks and be happy about it. One day at work my boss was telling me something and then asked if there was anything else I needed. I jokingly told him not unless he had brownies or cookies hiding in his office. A few minutes later he reinforced the fact that he is an awesome boss when he came back with this and told me to enjoy...

ARTS AND CRAFTS
If anyone tells you that you are too old to have craft time in class they are lying. I'm a senior in college and the first day of class we had craft time. It was fantastic. Here are the results.
*there was an actual point to the activity and we had a great lesson associated with it...in case you were wondering.