Let's Play Ketchup!!!

So, it's been ages since I last posted. But I told myself that I had to post today or else! (or else what, I'm not sure). So this is me playing ketchup (get it?) on my life!

Last Tuesday was Valentines Day. For those of you who know me, Valentines Day is not my favorite holiday. I find it kind of useless. It's all a scam to get people to buy cards and flowers and chocolate. BUT, my family has had a tradition where we come home from school to find candy on our beds from our parents. However, I'm not home. I'm 700+ miles away and was not expecting to get anything, because how could I? Fortunately for me, my mom is a genius. She sent me a package probably two weeks before with stuff I had left home over winter break. In the package was a lunch bag full of stuff and on the outside it said "Do not open till Valentines Day". My mom then told me that my roommate, Emily, had to put the contents of the bag on my pillow while I was out at class. It was tough holding myself back so I wouldn't open the bag early. But I managed and Valentines Day came. I came back from class and my candy and a little stuffed bear was sitting on my bed all spread out the same way my mom would have done it back home. It was nice to fell like, even though I am miles away, I am still connected to my family.

The following weekend was President's Day Weekend. Emily's dad came into town and took Emily and I up to Sundance for two days. There we skied and ate way to much food while we enjoyed the weekend. Unfortunately, my ankle, which is still causing me problems since I fell down the stairs on the way home from church, hurt me more than I was hoping for and there were quite a few times where I had to stop and just wait for the pain to go away. But other than that small inconvenience, the weekend at Sundance was tons of fun and was a good break from daily life in Provo.

There was a day last week where our fire alarm actually went off, like for real, not for a fire drill. I was just sitting down to watch something on my computer when this sharp noise pierced my ears and caused me to jump. There is no way anyone could sleep through the alarm. It is the most painful noise I have ever heard and after a few minutes, I was outside in the cold with the rest of the hall waiting to hear what happened. Our RA Katie came out and told us that someone had burned chocolate. There was no actual fire but the smoke cause the alarms to go off. Who burns chocolate badly enough to make the alarms go off? Really? So because of the chocolate, we were stuck outside, in the cold for an hour waiting for the building to be cleared. The moment we walked in the door, the smell was unbelievable. The burnt chocolate had made its way up to the third floor and everything smelled horrible. We all ran back to our rooms and closed the door just to get away from the awful stench. The rest of the night was pretty uneventful.

So in case you don't know, my roommates and I have fish in our bathroom. (SSSSHHHHH, don't tell). Every time we have a cleaning check, the fish have to hide in a drawer of some sort until  the check is over. Hopefully our fish aren't traumatically disturbed from the movement into a dark space... This last cleaning check, my roommates and I were talking about the fish and Shanna walks up and says "You know, I had them fight each other when we first got them!" Shanna hadn't been with us when we picked out the fish but she saw them when we got back and took it upon herself to test the theory that male beta fish fight each other. She removed the divider between the two tanks, and the fish attacked. Luckily, the fish designated as mine and Emily's (the Brain part of Pinky and the Brain, which is their names) bit the tail of Pinky and our fish won the brief battle. Shanna didn't expect the fish to actually eat each other so she freaked out and grabbed the lid of a container to try to separate them. In this fiasco, Brain ended up on the countertop, out of water, and Shanna was rushing to get the divider back into the tank so Brain could go back in. Let's just say, this explains why Pinky and the Brain are constantly banging the divider between them with their heads in order to try and get at the other. They have a fight to finish! And who knows, perhaps at the end of the semester, we may let them duke it out for the All Around Beta Fish Champion!

I am now all caught up. And hopefully, it will only be a few days before I blog on here again!