Movie: I Am Legend

So I went and saw "I Am Legend" on campus last night for free. USU has free movies every once in awhile. I hadn't seen this yet, so I decided to go. I made Spencer come with me, well, not really, I told him I was going and that he could come with me if he wanted to. I thought the movie was pretty good, was pretty shocked when the monsters first came out, I hadn't really understood what this movie was about, but I liked it. I will give it a 3 1/2 or 4 stars.

Cross Stitch

So I decided today to put up my progress on my cross stitch. As you can see, I'm pretty far along, but not all the way done. The first pic is what it will look like when it is done. I have been working on this for the past 2-3 years, on and off. I have really been working on it lately. I only work on this when I watch tv, so yeah. What do you think?

Movie: 10,000 BC

Spencer and I went to see 10,000 BC today. It was a really good movie. A little slow at times, but then every movie is. I would give it a 4 1/2 star.

Predatory Game by: Christine Feehan (6th in series)

Saber Wynter is running from her past when she meets Jess Calhoun, an ex-Navy SEAL who is physically and emotionally compromised by his own mysterious and violent history as a GhostWalker. What Jess senses in Saber is a kindred spirit, a lost soul desperate for sanctuary. He offers her a home, a job, and a haven where she can safely reveal secrets that shadow her. But danger follows her, too. Now, the riddles of both their pasts are about to collide, shattering the promise of their future with the ultimate betrayal.

Middle Name Meme

Mom tagged me with this Middle Name Meme, which is what I'm going to call it.

Here is how it works: You must list one fact about yourself for each letter of your middle name. Each fact must begin with that letter. If you don't have a middle name, just use your maiden name. After you've been tagged, you need to update your blog with your middle name and answers. At the end of your post, you need to tag one person for each letter of your middle name. (Be sure to leave them a comment telling them they've been tagged and need to read your blog for details).

My middle name is Lynne. I really like this name, I think that it is cute. It is my Grandma Kennedy's name, but her name is spelled Lynne.

L: Loyal-I am a very loyal person to my friends and family. I will never betray anybody and I love being with my friends and family. I am a great confidante for them.

Y: Young-I had a very hard time with this one. I could not really find a word that starts with "Y". I chose to do "young" because I am very young in the way of the world, I am also the youngest out of my group of friends.

N: Nice-I am a very nice person to most people. There are only a very few people who I actually dislike and I am not nice to, but they are few and far between.

N: Neat-I am a very neat person, and by neat, I mean pretty tidy. I almost always organized and I like it when everything has a place and they are there. I don't like it when something is messy, so I am a pretty neat person.

E: Easygoing-I stole this from Mom because I am tired of looking through the dictionary. I am a fairly easygoing person. I don't freak out very often and I am a very positive person.


Ok, I have to tag 5 people, that's a lot. So I will tag Shanna, LeAnn, Shaela, Montse, and Kassi. I don't know who all will actually play, but good luck!

No Humans Involved by: Kelley Armstrong (7th in series)

This was such a good book! Kelley Armstrong is an amazing author and she really wrote a great book here. I found that I was hooked in from the beginning and as it got closer to the end, I found that I was gripping the book tightly and reading as fast as I could to see what happened next. I definitely recommend this book to everybody!!!

In her acclaimed Women of the Otherworld series, bestselling author Kelley Armstrong creates a present day in which humans unwittingly coexist with supernatural beings. Now, in this spellbinding new novel, a beautiful necromancer must come to terms with her power--and an evil she never thought possible.

It's the most anticipated reality television event of the season: three spiritualists gathered together in one house to raise the ghost of Marilyn Monroe. For celebrity medium Jaime Vegas, it's her best shot at the celebrity holy grail: a TV show of her own. Because, unlike her colleagues, who are more style than substance, Jaime is the real thing.

Yet reluctant to upstage her fellow spiritualists, Jaime suppresses her talents, as she has always done. But something is lurking in the gardens behind the house: trapped spirits without a voice. And for the first time, Jaime understands what it means to be haunted. When events culminate in a psychic showdown, she must use her darkest power to defeat a shocking enemy--one whose force comes from the last realm she expected...

Enna Burning by: Shannon Hale (2nd in series)

OMG this was a good book! I could not wait to finish it and yet at the same time, I wished that it would never end! This was an excellent book and I definitely recommend it to everybody!

When Enna's brother, Leifer, brings home a mysterious piece of vellum that teaches him how to set fires--without a spark, without flint--Enna cannot determine if this power is one she wants for herself, or one that should be extinguished forever. But when their home country, Bayern, goes to war, Enna must try to save Bayern and herself before fire consumes her entirely.

New Apartment

Just to let everybody know, I now have an apartment/dorm for this summer and fall. It is at the "Student Living and Learning Center" and it is one of the brand new on-campus apartments and it is supposed to be really nice. For the summer, it will cost $575 total and for the fall, it will cost $2600 total, but that also includes 10 meals a week. The ladies at the housing office were really nice and clarified everything for me.

Donated Plasma

So I donated plasma for the very first time today. It was really cool to do, but I was there forever. I got to the plasma center at about 1:15 pm, and I didn't leave the plasma center until about 6:15 or 6:30 pm. One reason why it took so long was that I was a new donor, so I had to go through all the questions and I had to get a quick physical done to make sure I was healthy. Before I got to the physical, I probably waited for a good hour and a half. Then when I finally got to the room where they pull the plasma out, I had to wait another 20 minutes. They liked to make you wait there.

When I was finally told it was my turn, I was like "sheesh, finally", in my head of course. So they hooked me up, put the needle in and explained everything to me and told me that if I needed help, to just call and one of the 5 people working there would be there immediately. So I was doing great, I got in a session of pumping, relaxing, and pumping again before I started to feel sick.

Now, I hadn't eaten since 12 or 12:30, and by the time they put the needle in me, it was 4:15. Now one of the questions that they ask is if you had eaten within the last four hours, when I had answered that question, it was 2, so I was like, "yeah, i'm going to be fine". Not exactly.

After that last session of pumping, I started to feel light-headed. I soon started to see little white dots everywhere and I was losing feeling to my hand that had been pumping. I immediately knew that if I didn't get help, I was going to pass out. So I tried to say "excuse me", but my throat was too dry and the guy next to me didn't even hear me. So I wet my throat with my spit and called out again. By this time, I was having a hard time seeing anything because of all the white dots. The guy next to me heard me and looked over, I saw him looking and told him that I needed help. He immediately called out and someone came over quickly.

The guy that first got to me asked if I was ok, I said "no" because I wasn't. I told him that I was really light-headed and kinda dizzy and that I was really hot. He had one of his coworkers grab an arm rest and they put it under my legs to elevate them. Someone grabbed me an icepack and they put that on my stomach, because that is where I wanted it so I wouldn't feel like throwing up. By this time, I was feeling better because of them elevating my legs. They gave me water once they found out that I wasn't nauseous anymore. I sat there for about 5-10 minutes before I continued.

Now this whole time, the workers there told me that this was a normal occurence. Especially since this was my first time and because I am so little. It also didn't help that it had been awhile since I had eaten. After I calmed down, I guess that's what I will call it, about every two minutes, I had somebody coming over to make sure that I was still ok.

Once I felt better, I told them that I was ready to go on. I got in another pumping session, but by the end of it, my hand was all tingly and I was having a had time pumping because I couldn't feel my hand anymore. I also started to feel really hot again. The guy that had first gotten to me the first time came over to see how I was doing and I told him that I was having problems feeling my hand and that I was really hot again. He paused the machine, maybe (I don't know what he really did) and he got me another icepack for the back of my neck.

By this time, the supervisors were brought over and they debated stopping the machine altogether, which they ended up doing. It was ok though because my bottle that I was filling up with plasma was basically full. The head supervisor, came over and told me that they were going to give me some saline (I think that's how you spell it) to help me feel better faster. So they put me on that, and it was really cold. It felt really weird. When they first put me on it, it felt really good, and it made me feel better a lot faster. But by the end, I was feeling really cold, like I had started to shiver.

After everything was done, and they filled out their "incidence report", they gave me some cookies and a capri-sun to give me some sugar. After they were sure that I was ok, they brought me to the front desk and paid me my $30. They told me that next time I donated, I wouldn't have the same problems and that it would be much faster, which I was glad to hear. I left and went to KFC and got a snacker to help me feel a little better. When I got home, I had an apple and a glass of orange juice.

Finding Noel by: Richard Paul Evans

This was a really good book, and a really easy read, I wasn't counting on that. I loved the story and it is a good, simple story about how one simple act of kindness can change someone's world. I definitely recommend this to everybody!

"There are stories, Christmas stories that are stored away like boxes of garlands and frosted glass ornaments, to be brought out and cherished each year. I've come to believe that my story is a Christmas story, for it has forever changed the way I see Christmas."

The Christmas season is supposed to be full of joy, but not for Mark Smart. Life had dealt him one body blow after another: he lost his scholarship and had to drop out of school; his beloved mother had died in a car crash; his girlfriend dumped him; and now, late on a snowy night in November, his car had broken down. Stumbling into a coffee house, he was looking for a phone to call a tow truck. What he found was a beautiful young woman with an unusual name who, through a simple act of kindness, changed his life forever.

Macy Wood had little memory of her birth parents and memories she'd rather forget of her adopted home. A Christmas ornament inscribed with the word "Noel" was the single clue to the little sister she only vaguely remembered, a clue that would send her and Mark on a journey to reclaim her past and her family.

Lessons learned or earned by you!!!

A lesson that should be taught in all schools!Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock , did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom.

When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.Looking around, confused, they asked,"Ms. Cothren, where're our desks?"She replied, "You can't have a desk until you tell me what you have done to earn the right to sit at a desk."They thought, "Well, maybe it's our grades.""No," she said.Maybe it's our behavior."She told them, "No, it's not even your behavior.And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period.Still no desks in the classroom.

By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in Ms. Cothren's classroom to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the deskless classroom.Martha Cothren said, "Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you."

At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it.Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk.The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall.By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.

Martha said, "You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you.Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it."

By the way, this is a true story... .If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you read it in English, thank a soldier.

I got this from my mom, and I took it without asking her and I don't care. I also would like to personally thank my dad for serving 20 years in the U.S. Navy. I would also like to thank every soldier who is out there serving our country! I know that it is a hard thing for you to do, and I would like to let you know that I am grateful that you are serving our country. Thank you and God Bless America and the soldiers out there!!!

The Halfling's Gem by: R.A. Salvatore (3rd in Icewind Dale Trilogy)

Assassin Artemis Entreri whisks his kidnapped victim, Regis the halfling, south to Calimport and into Pasha Pook's vengeful hands. If Pook can control the magical panther Guenhwyvar, Regis will die in a real game of cat and mouse.

Using an enchanted mask, dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden hides his heritage and races with the barbarian Wulfgar to save their light-fingered friend. An unexpected ally arrives just as Entreri springs a trap. But can Regis survive unscathed?

The companions from Icewind Dale battle pirates on the famed Sword Coast, brave the deserts of Calimshan, and fight monsters from other planes to rescue their friend...and themselves.

Streams of Silver by: R.A. Salvatore (2nd in Icewind Dale Trilogy)

Oh my gosh!!! These books are sooo good!!! This book had me gripped from the beginning and it kept me on the edge of my seat at the very end! I almost started crying too, the big baby that I am, gosh I can't believe that it actually happened!!!

"Yer eyes'll shine when ye see the rivers runnin' silver in Mithril Hall!"

Bruenor the dwarf, Wulfgar the barbarian, Regis the halfling, and Drizzt the dark elf fight monsters and magic on their way to Mithril Hall, centuries-old birthplace of Bruenor and his dwarvn ancestors.

Faced with racism, Drizzt contemplates returning to the lightless underworld city and murderous lifestyle he abandoned. Wulfgar begins to overcome his tribe's aversion for magic. And Regis runs from a deadly assassin, who, allied with evil wizards, is bent on the companions' destruction. All of Bruenor's dreams, and the survival of his party, hinge upon the actions of one brave young woman.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!

Here is a very Happy Birthday to Dad today. He is the big 3-9! One more year and he'll be 40, wow, he's old!!! =P Love ya Dad! All I did today was I texted him first, because I didn't know if he was in class, and then when he got back, he called and I told him Happy Birthday again.

And sorry Mom, I forgot to put on here a Happy Birthday for him.

The Crystal Shard by: R.A. Salvatore (1st in Icewind Dale Trilogy)

This was such a good book! I have really enjoyed all of the Drizzt books!

Akar Kessel, a weak-willed apprentice mage sets in motion events leading to the rediscovery of the magical device, the crystal shard. But is it merely an inanimate device . . . or is it capable of directing the defeat of Ten-Towns?

Or have the barbarians already arranged for that themselves? Their brutal attack on the villages of Ten-Towns seals their fate, and that of the youn barbarian Wulfgar. Left for dead, Wulfgar is rescued by the dwarf, Bruenor, in exchange for five years of service . . . and friendship. With the help of the dark elf, Drizzt, Bruenor reshapes Wulfgar into a warrior with both brawn and brains.

But is Wulfgar strong enough to reunite the barbarian tribes? Can an unorthodox dwarf and renegade dark elf persuade the people of Ten-Towns to put aside their petty differences in time to stave off the forces of the crystal shard?

Utah State vs. University of Utah

On Friday, USU played U of U. We beat them 6-3. Spencer and Eric actually got to play this game, although that was simply because this was the last game of the season. Spencer and Eric were on a line with 2 other guys, this was dumb because you are only supposed to have 3 guys on a line, not 4. So it sucked for them. Spencer told me before the game that he was going to get in a fight, he really wanted to. So in the second period, Spencer is skating along, and "accidentally" elbowed some guy in the head. I don't know if it was on purpose, so that is why there are parantheses. After this happened, this other guy, who had also tried to pick a fight with Spencer earlier, came up and cross-checked him in the neck. (Cross-checking, for those of you who don't know, is when they take their stick, put their hands at opposite ends, and then hit somebody with it.) So Spencer nomrally would have just walked away, but since there was 4 people on his line, he decided to fight the kid. Now this kid hurried and jabbed Spencer twice in the side before Spencer wailed on him. Spencer knocked the kids helmet off, and when he tried to drop his gloves so he could fight better, they wouldn't slide off, so he just started hitting. Now this kid is about as tall as I am, maybe a little taller, and so Spencer just started wailing on his face like it was no big deal, he probably got in 3 or 4 good hits before the ref's came and separated them. Spencer and the other kid got kicked out, but the other kid got called on instigating the fight, which he did. Spencer just finished it. I took pics of the fight, but I have to wait till Spencer emails them to me, but I will post them as soon as I can.

The Goose Girl by: Shannon Hale (1st in series)

This is a really good book! I thoroughly enjoyed it and I definitely recommend it to everybody!

Page Excerpt:

She was born Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she did not open her eyes for three days.

The pacing queen directed ministers and physicians to the crib. They listened to her breathing and her hummingbird heart, felt her fierce grip and her tiny fingers soft as salamander skin. All was sound. But her eyes did not open.

For three days the grave-faced attendants came and went. They prodded her, lifted her lids, slipped thick yellow syrups down her throat.

"You are a princess," the queen whispered to her ear. "Open your eyes."

The baby cooed in her sleep.

When the third day had worn away to the lake blue of evening, a hand parted the nursery curtains. All was still for the night. The queen dozed on the bed. The baby in her crib dreamed of milk, her round, perfect lips nursing in sleep. A woman in a fern green robe pulled aside the curtains and tiptoed across the carpets. She slid her callused hands under the infant's back and head, held her up, and grinned.

"Did you call me out of my house to come and tell you stories?" she said. "I will, my fat one, if you will listen."

The queen awoke to the sounds of the rocking chair creaking and a voice singing about magpies and pigeons. She stood up, ready to call to the guards, then saw that it was her own sister who sang to the baby, and that the baby was looking back at her aunt with wide eyes.

It was the aunt who shortened the crown princess's name to Ani.

Work Out

On Friday, Spencer and I went running. We didn't run as long as we normally do, only 18 minutes. I ran 2.20 miles and I burned 182 calories.