English SUCKS!

I seriously hate it so much. Since I graduated high school, I've continually said, "I'd rather shoot my eyeballs out than have to take another English class again." .. And then I realized I had to take English 2010 at UVU. So of course, I put it off for 2 and a half years, until now. And it actually hasn't been TOO terrible yet, but we hadn't been required to write a paper before. It's all online, so you can work ahead, or go the regular pace, but you never meet in a class. Well, I knew there was a midterm that was coming up, and it had to be 3 to 5 pages. Let me tell you, I just about had a panic attack every day for the two weeks before it was due. I cannot write a good paper, let alone a research paper that has to be 3-5 pages! And I'm positive that the only reason that I passed all my High School English classes was because the teachers didn't want to have to read another one of my papers, so they passed me with the lowest C that I could get by with.

Thank goodness I have my amazing husband who was there to calm me down everyday and assist me in writing my paper. Luckily, the paper was on something that I really enjoy reading about, so once we got started, it wasn't too bad. When I finished the paper at 4 pages, I was sick of it! I didn't want to look at it again, and I kept saying that I'm not trying to ace this class, I'm only trying to pass it so I never have to take it again. Well, I turned the paper in online at 5:00 on Friday night, and my teacher had it graded by the time I looked at my computer on Saturday morning. Talk about nerve wrecking!!! It was so hard to open the UVU website so I could see my grade and her comments on my paper!!!!

AND to my surprise, here were her comments:

Shaylin,
Nice work on your paper. Here are some suggestions for revision as you works towards the final paper in lesson 13:
MLA: Just a few minor details--your last name and page number should be in the upper right corner of each page. The entire page is double spaced, including within the works cited page and paper heading. You also need a title--see the sample MLA paper in the text. 35/40
Standard English/formal style: Well written with few errors. 20/20
Organization: Clear focus and support. 40/40
Evidence: 50/50
Persuasive: You need more discussion and debate of opposing views. Who disagrees with you and why? If no one disagrees with you, then you don't need to persuade anyone, and this is a persuasive paper. 35/50
Total: 180/200


DID you see that?!??!?! 180 out of 200?!?!?!?! ON MY FREAKING MIDTERM?! For those of you who aren't good at math, that's a whopping 90%!!! Yeah buddy, I got an A freaking minus on my English 2010 midterm!! Woot Woot!!!

Dinner & Movie

Cody and I are so lucky to have some really amazing friends! A couple of them, Taylor & Lance, had been asking us to have dinner and hang out with them for quite a while now, but our schedules just wouldn't work together! So last night we finally did something! We all went to Cafe Rio and ate some of theeeee most delicious food on the planet. We got to talking, and 2 hours later, we realized we were still in the restaurant! So we headed over to their cute apartment and decided to watch a movie.. The genre that we were looking for was Action, and all three of them kept saying how good the movie "The A-Team" was, and to me, the first thought that popped into my head was "Spy Kids"! I'm not going to lie, I judge movies very strongly by their title, and if the title sounds lame or the cover looks too.. weird, I have the hardest time watching it! But boyyy was I wrong about this one! Nothing like Spy Kids (: It was thee funniest action movie I've ever seen!! And the action was very well done too!!

Needless to say, it was a very successful double date night (: THANKS Taylor and Lance!

This will make you chuckle (:

Cody was helping me write my English paper today when all of a sudden, we hear a knock on the door. I was very much un-presentable, so I ran back to the bedroom as he opened the door. It was our Relief Society president, who stayed for freaking ever! When she left, I came out of the bedroom to see what the reason for her visit was, and this is what Cody said: "She just came over to find out about us." So I said that was very nice of her to do and his response was "Yeah.. it would have been better if she brought cookies.. But whatever. We have crappy neighbors."

Oh my goodness, I love my husband (:

School, school, school.

Or as Megamind would say it, "shool". (If you don't know what I'm talking about, go watch Megamind.) Anyways, I've never been a good studier. I have too busy of a mind and the attention span of about 12 seconds to a minute... If I'm lucky. So, when I tell you that I've been studying for 2 and a half hours straight, you are obligated to feel shocked and proud of me. (except for the fact that I'm now blogging, and no longer studying..) Holy goodness gracious. Talk about the almost death of me! I have a midterm paper that I'm going to turn in on Monday (not due until Friday the 2nd, but if I turn it in on Mon, I get 10 extra credit points! holla!) and it has to be 3-5 pages with at least 5 sources. But I've decided to work even further ahead and find more sources that I will need for the final 10 page paper (SLA;FDLASK. I MIGHT DIE.) that needs at least 12 sources. Luckily, I'm writing on a topic that is actually interesting to me and is going to help me in the future when I'm a Mom and also for my Early Childhood Development degree. My paper is on the importance of parental involvement in a child's education.

WOAH! Sorry.. I'm not going to write my paper here, although I scared myself when I read that first paragraph! The point of this is.. I don't like all the studying that I'm doing. Not a fan, never have been, never will be. BUT, hopefully it'll pay off. As long as I pass my classes this semester, I will only have ONE MORE GENERAL EDUCATION CLASS TO TAKE!! HALLELUJAH! Then it's just two more semesters of ECD classes and I'm done!!

Well.. back to homework I go..

American Sign Language

Cody and I are taking the second level ASL class at UVU together, and it's every Tuesday and Thursday night from 6:30 to 8 and it's so incredibly fun! The people in our class think we're geniuses because we can read fingerspelling, and learning this language makes both of us so happy! So last night when we returned home from school, we decided to only communicate in ASL! So freaking cool! We had to look up a few new words, and fingerspell a bunch, but totally worth it! And when we had our dinner, I even prayed in ASL! This will hopefully help us develop our skills even more than if we just signed in class, and someday we'll be professionals!!! So if you see us around, not saying any words, but talking with our hands? You'll know why. And you'll probably be jealous (:

Here, learn the alphabet!

Word of advice: .. and other random words.

Do NOT watch Cake Boss after going to the gym. You will end up making 3 dozen chocolate chip cookies.. and eating half of the batch of dough before it even gets to the oven.

On another note, I'm really frustrated. I follow Elise Blaha's blog, and she inspires me like no other!! But I don't have enough time to do all the stuff that comes into my head when I look at her blog, and it's irritating!! Can't I just forget about school, cleaning my house, and life all together and just create things?!?! Please, oh please?!

Like this Project Life thing she's started.. I'm going to do it! I hate scrapbooking, which is why I started doing Altered Books a few years back.. But then I stopped doing that because it takes a lot more time than I've had access to lately. But this project is absolutely perfect for me! Print off a few pictures, write a couple words, and you have a beautiful book that holds memories that might be forgotten in a few years. I. AM. SOOOOOO excited to start this!! I just need to find a way to make a couple bucks to buy it so I don't have to spend our money and feel bad about it (:

Also, Friday's have a completely new meaning now that I'm married to my favorite person in the entire world. Friday's mean that yes, I have to say goodbye to him in the morning, but when he comes home, HE'S HOME FOR THE WEEKEND!! I get to spend every second with him from 4:25ish until the following Monday! Love love love it!

Happy weekend everyone! Grab your lovely and do something amazingly simple and fun!

I'm so lucky!!

Sidenote: This is our first official holiday as a married couple!!!

My husband is thee most caring, loving person I've ever met! Whenever he does anything for me, it always has the most personal reasons behind it. Like Valentines Day this year! He came home from a long day of work with the cutest teddy bear that had a sweatshirt on that said "Good morning babe! I LOVE YOU!" on it, and a white mixing bowl on his head.

This was not the normal "stuffed animal for your lover on valentines day". He got this for me because he has to get up at 5:30 in the morning to get ready for work, and he leaves shortly after. And it's the hardest thing in the world for him to leave me, and for me to let him go. I just want to be with him every second of every day, and saying goodbye is so hard! So he got me the bear to cuddle with when he leaves, so it's kinda like he's still there with me. He got the sweatshirt for the bear because he wears sweatshirts to work everyday, and the mixing bowl was the bear's hard hat, because Cody wears hard hats every day at work. Plus the little inscription of Good Morning Babe! I LOVE YOU! Is because I can't even text him when he's at work, nor can he tell me good morning when I decide to wake up, so this is our way of communication until his lunch break (: So not only do I get a cute, super soft cuddle buddy bear, but it's a mini Cody!!

And the flowers he got me were not only gorgeous, but also had a cute meaning to them! I don't know exactly what kind of flowers they were, but he said that he was looking at all of the flowers in the store, and there were boring roses, that most likely everyone was going to get for their wives. But when he saw these flowers, these thoughts ran through his head:

Haha, we don't have any vases yet..

-These flowers are unique and I haven't seen very many if any at all like these. That's how Shaylin is.. unique, and unlike anyone else.
-They are purple, and Shaylin wears purple a lot, and it's one of her favorite colors right now.
-There are some that are all the way bloomed, but there are some that are still buds, but are going to grow. This represents my love for Shaylin, because I feel like I love her so much, but everyday, my love grows bigger and bigger and will never stop growing.


Um.. If this isn't the cutest thing in the world, I don't know what is. And I LOVE that he didn't get me chocolate!! I really really HATE Valentine's chocolate that comes in those heart shaped boxes.. Bleh! Plus, we have tons of left over candy from our reception (:

I got him the Usher Black cologne.. although he already kinda knew he was getting it. We had 25 dollars of in-store credit at Kohls, so we went there the other day and found this delicious smelling cologne. They didn't have any in the back though, so we didn't buy it. But I surprised him with it on Tuesday! I also got him a head massager/spider looking thing! When we were in Mexico, we saw this at one of the street vendor's shops and Cody fell in love with it! But we didn't get it for some reason, and he was really really sad! It's so cool feeling, and I'm super glad we got it! I also wrote a bunch of sticky notes and put them on his side of the headboard that had cute sayings on them like "Marrying you was the best idea I ever had" and "You are my best friend" .. etc. (:

Then we decided to stay home from our Sign Language class and enjoy a yummy Poppyseed Chicken dinner and start Season 1 of How I Met Your Mother, which by the way, is freaking hilarious! And the first 6 seasons are on the watch instantly section of Netflix! Cuddling with my man and watching a good show = perfect way to end our Valentine's Day together(: