Happenings

Lots of stuff has been going on. Here is a quick summary, in no particular order:

• I moved this weekend. YAY! Thanks to Somebody's Parents and Somebody's Mother for all their amazing help. I have no idea what I would've done without them!
• Sadly, somehow during the move, I injured my knee. It hurts quite a bit. This is unfortunate timing, as I am supposed to be hiking the Grand Canyon with my parents in three weeks. Yikes. I have a recurring knee condition that is more common in women and in people with flat feet. I am both of those things. Shoot.
• I am the queen of awkward. I have had approximately 45,836 awkward conversations over the past week. If being awkward was an olympic event, I would be its Michael Phelps. Yikes again.
• I am going to get rid of some stuff. A lot of stuff. I have WAY too much stuff for one person. After hauling a bit of that stuff up several flights of stairs this weekend, I'm feeling less attached to most of it.
• I am going to buy a new TV. My TV is wonderful, only cost me $25, and is a fabulous piece of equipment that works like a dream. However, it weighs about 200 pounds (give or take...feels like about 2,000 pounds) and is very difficult to move. It is difficult for me to move because I cannot lift it, so I must find and/or bribe people to move it for me. This last move was the last time I will take it with me. It's just too impractical. Now I'm in the market for a new TV to be purchased before next June when I have to move again. The old TV will be given away to someone who is willing to haul it out--I'm not trying to move that thing again!
• June seems WAY too soon to have to be moving again.
• In my enormous amounts of stress over the past few weeks, I have eaten a bit of candy. It's not good for me, and makes me feel a bit shaky and jittery since I really don't eat a lot of refined sugars. But I still eat it, mostly because I'm in distress and having something to munch on makes me feel better.
• I got an A in all three of my classes this semester. How did that happen??
• I still have to clean my old apartment. I hate cleaning. It seems especially stupid since the people who lived there before me didn't clean it before they moved out.
• This is a horrible time for me to work in a building with no elevator where my daily work is requiring many trips up and down two flights of stairs.
• The Timpanogos Storytelling Festival is coming up in a couple of weeks. I have only been once, but have very fond memories of it and always mean to go back. Maybe I will this year. I should do something fun before school starts again.
• Most of the people in my new ward are school teachers. I know that they all had the summer off of work, but I still feel a sweet sense of justice that they all had to go back to work this week. I know, I've had to work all summer, but it's true--misery really does love company, and I'm glad they're all working again.