Well I finally got sick. I started feeling sick on Sunday, but not bad enough to really matter. Then yesterday it hit me hard and I had to come home early. I didn't even make it all the way through my first class. On my way home I slipped and fell twice, which just made me feel worse. I came home and went straight to sleep. I called in to work, took antibiotics, and slept some more. I slept somewhere between 20-24 hours. Now I feel great. I think I had strep throat but with lots of sleep and antibiotics, I seemed to have beat it. I didn't see Aaron at all yesterday except when he walked me to school, I missed him:(. He brought me cookies though, with a cute little note. He is so adorable. I'm falling behind in my classes. I have a science test tomorrow, and I don't know how I am going to do any good seeing as I haven't been to that particular class much in the last few weeks... Luckily I do my homework, so hopefully I'll do ok. I'm just going to have to study a lot. I haven't quite gotten a good hold on my life and getting Aaron, school, and work in a rutine where I can get what I need done. It wouldn't be so hard if I could do homework while I was at work, but everything is online, so I can't just bring it in. Blah. Here's to lots of homework and overwhelming school!

Hey:)
I got to class 15 minutes early today, which is not unusual for fridays since my class doesn't start until 8. Anyways I thought I'd take a minute to blog. Last night I played raquetball with Aaron and I actually didn't do too bad. I did a lot better than last time thats for sure! I really enjoyed raquetball, its a pretty good workout believe it or not. After raquetball we got pizza and did homework till like 11. I got my english homework done, and all 3 math assignments. I was super proud of myself. Aaron read this really weird story for english and he was cracking me up the whole time! Lol, it wasn't that great of a story but he read it with such animation, using different voices and cracking jokes, so it turned out to be quite interesting, though I am not sure what he would say about the story cause it was just so weird. This morning I got up at 7:10 and Aaron got there at 7:20. Yes thats right, I got ready in 10 minutes lol. Aaron walks me to school every morning, and Haley walks with us on MWF's, so I am never alone when walking to school. I love walking to school with Aaron, it just starts my morning out good you know. I won't get to see him again until like 9 o'clock tonight, I don't know why but that feels like a really long time lol. It'll pass by though because I have a lot that I need to do before then. Plus I work from 4-8. At 9 we are going to a comedy show together and he says we are going to laugh whether it is funny or not. Last night as we were doing homework together he reminded me so much of Alex because he was just sitting doing is homework, and cracking himself up. He just thought he was so darn funny, at the same time he reminded me of my dad because of the way he was reading his assignment. It usually drives me crazy listening to people read out loud, but I love listening to my dad read. Aaron has the same way of reading it is almost mesmerizing. It's really weird but I could totally listen to him read a book and enjoy it just as much as if I was reading it myself. Everyone says that I am addicted to skype, and they are constantly making fun of me lol, but I just have to say it is because I love my family sooo much!! ok class is starting now, g2g! Love ya'll :)

Dear Blog,
This week has been a tough one. It's been my first week on the job. That means less time with Aaron, and less time to do my homework. I made this plan for how I can get everything I need done in a day. I haven't been able to follow it. I don't have the time or energy. I am frustrated at the way things are looking lately. I think I am developing my mothers famous anxiety lol because I am worrying about everything! I just don't know how I am going to do it. I wish I could just live like the pioneers and go find land, build a house, have a garden and animals, and that would be my life. I wouldn't have to worry about house payments or taxes or how to afford to put my chilren in sports. Life is so much more complicated now a days. Blah. I am sure I will figure things out, and I will come up with a rutine that works for me, and everything will be like I want it too lol jk, I know life will never be like I want it to, but one can hope right? Well today is thursday and that means one thing. I don't have to work!! You have no idea how happy that makes me! So Aaron and I are going to play raquetball and maybe basketball I'm not sure. This morning I missed 2 classes... I literally couldn't wake up. I remember opening my eyes enough to look at the clock but then I was out cold again. My body just can't handle this strenuous college life. Idk how Haley does it, or my roommates cause they get so much less sleep than me but they seem to have all the energy in the world. Well I am going to make myself look pretty because that always seems to make me feel better:P Love ya!! -Emily

New Job

Hey everybody! I am in a great mood today. We had a three day weekend and I spent most of it with Aaron. The other part of the weekend I was sleeping and working lol. I got a new job, and I really love it. It is not physically demanding and time goes by. Plus I get money:). For those of you who I haven't talked to yet I'll tell you a little bit about what I do. I am a credit consultant. I talk to people who have low credit scores for various reasons, and give them suggestions on how they could improve their scores. 70 percent of credit reports have mistakes in them. If the people I talk to have negative items on their credit reports, and they have some form of positive credit(checking account, debit card, credit card) then I refer them to Lexington Law Firm. Lexington challenges the credit bureaus and if in 30 days the credit bureaus can't prove the validity of the things Lexington challenges, then they must remove the items from the credit report. I like my job because there are a lot of people who have been screwed over when it comes to their credit report, and I really feel like I can help them out. If they don't qualify for Lexington then I can connect them to someone who can help them through Debt Consolidation, Debt Settlement, Bankruptcy, Tax Relief, etc. I had to take a week of training and pass a test to get this job so now I know a bit about credit:) enough to be a credit consultant anyways. Negative Items on your credit report make up the biggest percentage of your score. New positive credit only makes up 10 percent. That's crazy isn't it. I think the positive should have more effect on your credit score but whatever. There are three credit agency's. Transunion, Equifax, and Experian. Your credit report is the average of these three scores. Anyways enough about credit I am sure I am boring you. I am in American Foundations right now and we are watching a movie. We are half way through the semester. I have got to get my grades up. They are all pretty good online but I fear they will go down if my teacher ever updates the scores. For my candy-making class I have to make a centerpiece project. It is due in two days and I haven't even started. I couldn't decide what I wanted to do, but I think I know now. I am going to make a vase with roses in it. Hopefully it will turn out and not look too bad. It is definitely going to take some after class extra work though. I think I am going to do the roses at home, and get my roommates to help me out. I'll make the plastic chocolate and they can help me form it into roses. I think I will use Marzipan for the vase. Well I seem to have gotten two new best friends while I have been here. I get along with both of them so well I wonder how I went my whole life without knowing them. Tauni Ackerman is the first one. We have a lot of similarities, and she is just so fun to hang around with. She is super loving and accepting. The other is Aaron. I know I have talked a lot about him so I won't say much but let me just say that I don't think I have ever gotten along so well with anyone in my entire human life. You would like him a lot. I don't think you could not like him, he is just that awesome. :) Well I have another hour in this class so I think I will work on my science homework for tomorrow. Love ya!! =D

Aaron Brent Vernon is absolutley adorable!! =D

Ok this is going to be a quick post because I am really tired and have plans in the morning. I was about to go to bed when I realized that I hadn't really blogged about Aaron yet. I thought to myself 'my poor bloggers have no idea about Aaron!' SO I thought I would tell you about him.
Aaron is a boy who seems to have captured my heart. The best word that comes to mind when I think of him is absolutley "adorable". He is the sweetest thing in the world. He is so genuine and innocent. Today we hung out after work at his place and made cookies blindfolded lol. Let me tell you, he was adorable. I was trying to figure out what exactly it was that made him so different. There are many things let me assure you, but I finally realized what was so different about him. He has never had his heart broken therefore he trusts completely. He gives his all. The thing that makes me like him the best is that he likes being with me. We hold hands when we walk but he is not one of those guys that has to be touching all the time. I can't even explain him because he is so utterly different from EVERY other boy I've met in my life. Even though he is really innocent and inexperienced, he is really thoughtful and considerate. His Valentines Day present was SO awesome and thoughtful and he came up with it all by himself. I can't explain how much he wows me. Today I didn't even wear make-up around him and it didn't bother me at all. He doesn't really wear name brand clothing which I LOVE about him, everything about him shouts how perfect he is. You can tell that he is not big on material things but on things like family and traveling and stuff like that. He is so amazing. Best thing of all, he doesn't scare me, or drive me crazy lol. The other day I stuck out my hand while we were walking, in an obvious motion for him to hold my hand and he high-fived it lol. Then I told him to hold my hand and he was embarrassed, it was so cute. It just shows you how his mind works. He always makes me laugh. And most importantly he respects me. He is super patient when I don't understand something and helps me figure it out. He helped me study for a test the other day and can I just say: Best study partner ever!!! Not only did he help me remember things but I was super nervous and he made jokes, making me laugh and lightening my nerves. He doesn't try to impress me, at least not obviously lol, he is just straightforwardly himself. I love everything about him. Tomorrow he is going to make me breakfast, help me write my talk, and play badmitten. We started going steady and hanging out every day, and usually if I hang out with a guy consecutivly they drive me crazy but suprisingly the more I hang out with him the more I like him. Today we skyped my family and he loved them, he thought they were hilarious, I couldn't help but think that he would fit right in. I am pretty sure they liked him too:) Well I could go on for hours but I really am tired. The poin I am trying to make in this blog post is this: Aaron is absolutley adorably amazing. I like him a lot! I don't know how I got lucky enough for him to like me but he does and I am welcoming it whole-heartedly! I really hope nothing goes wrong because he is so amazing I honestly don't want to lose him. Well Love ya'll! Good Night!

Its already half way through the semester believe it or not. I have 4 A's and one B at the time. I am pretty sure I'll have 2 B's by the time my teacher updates our grades though. I have learned something about myself. I can not really be happy without my depression meds. I went off it hoping I could be like a regular person and just be happy with life. It didn't work. I was a complete wreck. I noticed that every single day I was down. At first I just thought it was because of certain events but then I realized that every little thing made me upset. I thought about how depression has to do with your brain and automatically looking at things negatively. So I begrudingly took it again on thursday night and the effects were immediate. Friday I was in a great mood. Today was good too. I hate that I have depression it makes me feel weak, but I do have it and the only thing I can do about it is take medicine to even out the chemicals in my brain.
On friday Aaron taught me how to play raquett ball. That was way fun, I think I need more practice though. Afterwards we ate Taco Bell and then watched my all time favorite movie Fireproof. It was his first chick-flick. He seemed to like it well enough. He is a complete guy. He has 3 brothers and one sister. I personally think he is cute. He has green eyes, his skin is olive toned, and his hair is brown with a little sandy blondish look in it(just a little). He is about 5'8" so not the tallest guy in the world but I like his height. I think I like him but different than the other guys I've liked before. I always thought he was cute for one thing. But I don't look at him and get flattered or nervious or anything. I just have fun with him, like a good friend. I feel like I can be completely honest with him because he likes most of the things I like, like Harry Potter and fantasy books. He is big into Star Wars which reminds me of my dad for some reason. He has a cute sense of humor and we are always joking and laughing. Today I looked at him and asked what time church started for him. He looked at me for a second then said "Are you serious?!" Then I suddenly remembered that we were in the same ward... and the same FHE group. I was SOO embarrassed. We were laughing for quite a while. Lol I can be stupid sometimes but thats ok. Today we played human clue, and then went back to his apartment and played games and ate icecream. We had a lot of fun. He walked me home and once again reminded me of my dad when I went to give him a hug, he gave me a side hug. He is adorable. All my life I've loved those people whose faces blush and get red super easy, and he has one of those faces. He has green eyes too. Anyways, believe it or not I am not obsessed with him or anything. Infact I just love that I get along so great with him. We would have been best friends in high school. I just figured I'd tell ya'll about him since you can't meet him yourself, being so far away ya know. Well church in the morning so chow!

One Great Weekend

Well my weekend started out with me going Latin Dancing with some of my roommates. It was super fun. I have to admit I think I actually like Latin dancing more than country dancing which is crazy cause I am a country girl. I danced with lots of people that night. Some really skilled and others... not so much. One boy I danced with the last three dances. His name is Jonathan. He was charming and patient with my lack of skills as far as Latin dancing goes. He got my number and asked me what I was doing the next day. I told him I was free until 7 because I had a date at 7. So he asked me to go out with him at 4. I came home and watched a chick flick, with the roommates, called "500 Days of Summer". It was a sweet movie. I got to bed around 3 and didn't get up until 11 the next morning. Me and my roommates Kayla and Tauni made pancakes, eggs, and turkey bacon for breakfast. It was nice to have something other than a granola bar for breakfast. Then I took my time getting ready and then went and practiced piano with Kayla. She played a beautiful version of "If You Could Hie to Kolob", I cried it was so beautiful. Then I went back to my apartment and skyped Alex for about 2 minutes and then Jonathan showed up to pick me up. We walked over to his apartment a few blocks away and he had cooked cabbage, onion, quacamole, and all sorts prepared. For the main dish he had the ingredients ready so he could show me how to make it. I can't remember what you call it but it was incredibly good. We played a little fusbal in the lounge and looked at some pictures from his mission (he served in nicaragua and I felt like I was looking at pictures from The Other Side of Heaven because it was so similar). Then it was time to go home. Once I got back to the apartment, I made him some hot chocolate to take home with him so the walk wouldn't be so cold, then he was on his way and I was making sure I looked ok for my next date with Aaron. With Aaron it was a group date with 2 of his roommates. We went bowling on campus in the MC. It was actually really fun and my wrist didn't hurt at all. After the game we all went back to Aarons house and played some games and ate icecream. At the end of the nightI would have to say I really enjoyed both dates. The next day was Sunday and I was at church until 3:15. i was supposed to meet him at his apartment to watch the superbowl at 4. So I booked it home, changed my outfit to something more casual and then headed over to his place. Once we got there we all piled into a car and headed to someones parents house to watch the super bowl. Their house was huge and they had a big tv so we were able to get good seats on the couch and a perfect view. They had all sorts of food there such as tacos, pizza, hot wings, sausages, chips, soda, cookies, etc. It was super fun. After the superbowl we went back to campus and went stadium singing which is when you go sing hymns outside at the stadium. This is really fun to do but it is super duper cold! After stadium singing we went back to my apartment and he helped me do my Book of Mormon homework. It was in 2 Nephi, and it was the teachings of Isaiah. I found it quite confusing but he was very patient and helped me understand it. Then he had to head back to make it in time for curfew. So that was my awesome weekend. Lol hope you liked it mom and Alex cause I wrote it for you:)
P.S. Since I know you are asking the question I'll just tell you now that I really like this guy. I know if you met him you would really like him. He is kind and generous. He talks in a cute accent. I can't find one bad thing about him so far, nor have I heard a negative comment come out of his mouth. He is a a little goofy and carefree. Yes he really is from Guatemala. Tomorrow we are going to devotional together which should be fun since I usually go by myself, it will be nice to sit by someone I know rather than some stranger who is looking at me funny. Well I am super tired and have quite the day tomorrow so I'm off to bed. Love ya'll!!

The Truth About College...

The truth about college is this. It is super duper expensive. It is really fun. It is awesome living around other Mormons. The classes are amazing. Mentally college is great. Physically college sucks. No matter how much sleep I get at night I don't have energy for the next day. You get to walk everywhere which is great but can be mighty cold sometimes. I honestly like walking everywhere though. I think my dad must have gotten his love for walking from his college days. Physically I am dying. I don't understand why. I am more exhausted than I have ever been in my life. And it doesn't end. It is so frustrating. I don't know how I will ever make it once I start my new job. Here is to perseverance...