What do I do at work????

well, sometimes people ask me what I do at work. The answer that I am supposed to give is this: "I work at the MTC. In my department we try to find ways to help missionaries teach better and just be overall more effective missionaries". Maybe from now on if people ask me that question I will just show them these:

NOW I am not saying that I don't do anything at work because A: I LOVE my job.  It is the best place to work ever and 2: We have been swamped with work lately.  But, we just put our calendar with deadlines for the project we are working on up on a wall in our office a few days ago and I thought it looked rather boring with just a calendar and a white wall- so I decided to put pictures of the people in our department that are working on the project up too- It will look much better now!  

Really- they only hired me so that I could make these pictures.  Actually, that is all we do in our department all day log- we play on photohsop.  All of you who thought you knew what the MTC is all about were obviously wrong! jk:)

SLC trip for Carly

So a few nights ago I went with my roomies and a few of my old roomies to Savior of the World in SLC. We went out to Z Tejas before the show and I had eaten there once before in AZ on Mill, but HOLY COW it was amazing- I didn't remember it being that good the last time. I ordered their chile relleno and was astounded at how delicious it was. Honestly it was heavenly. Everyone at the table had to try it.

Sadly, our roommate Carly sold her winter contract today. She thinks lately that "the SLC" as she so fondly calls it is the place to be. I'll miss Carly!!

But, here are a few pictures of our little excursion that I shouldn't have gone on because I still have oodles of papers to write before Tuesday. ( just like I shouldn't have gone on that date tonight, and shouldn't be writing on here.......... oops!) :)

Note to Self

Never take an independent study class that you have to complete in a week- it isn't fun. Writing About Literature ENG 314=BARF!!!!!!!

She was right!

As much as I hate to admit it- my mother was right. I am possibly the biggest procrastinator in the world. Imagine for a second that you are taking the ACTs again (dreaded day). Fill in the missing blank Curiosity:Cat::Procrastination:______________. If you guessed Brittany, then you are correct! I am almost finished with college. Many of you may be saying, "what is this almost business? We saw your pictures in a graduation outfit already on this blog". To you I say- I lied. I really didn't graduate. I just wanted to feel good about myself and act like I graduated. I still have to finish this stupid writing class to get my diploma. AND what is even worse is that it has to be finished by November 25th to count for December graduation. So- my life kind of stinks right now. I go to work in the mornings, come home to eat dinner, and then go back to the office at the MTC to work on my class because I definitely can't concentrate on it at home. Tonight I wrote 2 papers. Tomorrow I will be there all day long. My goal is to get at least 4 papers finished by tomorrow night. Lately this is what my life consists of:

going to my awesome job in the mornings


then going during lunch to teach seminary


then returning to the MTC to finish the work day and do my homework at my desk until about 9:30 at night


and then coming home to do this (at least my bed is super comfortable since I bought a new memory foam mattress topper!)


Aren't you jealous?!?!?!?! :)

Halloween and roomie fun

I love my roomies!! We have tons of fun together and they are some of the greatest people I know- not to mention HOT!!! Wouldn't you agree??? Here are a few fun pics that we have taken recently together- Halloween and other stuff.

Thriller

Last Thursday we went to Thriller in Salt Lake. For the past 3 years Stevie and I have gone to see that show together. It is always a blast. I usually get super freaked out when the zombies chase me around- I'm talking extremely freaked out! It is so dumb because I know that they are totally fake, but something in me can't handle it. If anyone hasn't seen the show yet, I would recommend going before it ends. Also, Stevie got married about a week before we went to the show. It was so great to be in the temple when Spencer and Stevie were sealed. I just love them. Here is a happy picture from that as well. Today we had a fun missionary lunch with my seminary class. My fantastic friends came in and talked about their missions and answered questions from my students about missions. I have the greatest friends ever. I'm so glad they were willing to come in and do that. The kids loved it!

Beautiful!

I absolutely LOVE being outside. I guess it didn't hit me how much I enjoy the outdoors until I entered the real world and find myself working in a lifeless basement all day every day. Every Saturday I feel like all I want to do is be outside and play. This past Saturday morning I woke up to find that I had fallen asleep on the couch the night before. Anyone that knows me knows that that is not a rare occurance. The thing about it is, I have no idea when I fell asleep or who was here- Also not a rare occurance. Anyways- after I got myself woken up and out of morning mode, I had this overwhelming urge to go and hike Mount Timpanogos. I thought that I'd give Kaity a call and see if she'd want to go with me and lucky for me, she did. It was exactly what I needed. The trees are so gorgeous right now and the weather is perfect. It was a great hike. We didn't have time to hike all the way up to the summit but we went about 3/4 of the way. IT is just so refreshing to be out in nature and just listen to the leaves blow and be surrounded by beauty. IT is also nice to just get away from here and have some wide open space. I hate feeling like I am cramped into all of these little spaces all the time. It was also really nice to get the chance to be with Kaity and just catch up with her. I wish I could do that every Saturday. Maybe I will be selfish and make every Saturday "me" day where I get to just go and play outside. I doubt I could ever pull that off, but it sure would be nice! Plus after our glorious hike, we went and played some tennis- honestly, how much better can it get???? Overall, great weekend with great friends all around. I got to watch a wonderful movie, hike, play tennis, go to church, do a little party- life is just great!