Dead Week

In college the week before finals is commonly known as "Dead Week." Which describes it perfectly. I have been up past 2:00 am every night this week. CRAZY! Mostly I have been working on my American Culture Research Project, in which I am compiling a book of watercolors I have painted, and pieces I have written about the early mining community in Park City. Here is a sneak peak...


It's bad quality and backwards, but in case you can't tell it's the Egyptian Theater haha.
Somehow I will get the eight paintings done by tomorrow, and take a Creative Arts final! Who says college students can't be superheroes, with all the things I am accomplishing with my lack of sleep, I might as well be.

AHHHH Finals!

As you can see from the picture above, my head is about to explode. It is the last official week of the semester, and I have more to do then I have time. C'est la vie, I guess it comes with the territory of college. I will just be overwhelmingly happy when my research project for American Culture is done. I thought it would be a good idea to make a collection of watercolors...let's all pray I get done before Friday. Then finals are on Monday...so this weekend= STUDY TIME! Come Monday night, I will finally be FREEEEEEEE!

College

College is hard
It is the snow seeping into your shoes
Heavy eye lids drooping with the passing day
It is Ramen sizzling in your red pot

College is missing home
It is the absence of time
Icy winds rushing on your sleepy face
It is life lived day by day

College is me.

I LOVE Betty White

Only one more month left of my Betty White calendar! That makes me so sad! This has been my favorite calendar...ever. I only hope that my next year's calendar can have the awesome caliber that this one does! I also have Spongebob and Phineas on my calendar...it's how I do. But at least I get to bust open day one of my Christmas chocolate calendar today! Yay for Christmas.

Everything and Nothing...

I should be doing my homework...but I did this instead

Take that Geography homework!!

The Faab Five

Lately I have been missing these kids a ton! These are my writing buddies, Jonny, Erika, Jennie, and Thomas. I took Creative Writing for all three years of high school, and a big part of why it became my favorite is because of these kiddos! And of course the wonderful Mrs. Horstmann (aka the greatest teacher of all time.) We actually framed this picture for her, and wrote on the frame, "Mrs. H's Favorites." And of course, it still sits in her classroom, because let's face it, we really are her favorites! On top of them being my writing buddies, they were also my Golden Leaves staff when I was Editor. It is a good thing we were Horstmann's favorites, because we REALLY were crazy. We spent most of our time in the back room, where we pretty much did almost everything except writing. We jousted with rolling chairs, quoted Phineas and Ferb, had dance parties. But when we did write, it was always something great! For our last project, we were allowed to do a project together, in which we wrote a play about Green Jello taking over the world. To simply put it, it is probably one of the most epic things ever written, no big deal. We are going to make it into a movie. So expect us to be making an appearance at the 2013 Oscars!

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like...

CHRISTMAS!!!

For my entire life, my Grandma has made it a Thanksgiving tradition to give each member of my family a new ornament. She has worked at Tina's Hallmark for as long as I can remember, so every year we get our very own brand new ornament to hang on our Christmas tree.

Here is a portion of my collection!

I have a lot of fairy ornaments,

Each year I get a new one to add to my series.

But my favorite ornament is the Alice in Wonderland teapot!

Alice is actually inside the teapot!

Then of course there are the ornaments of my childhood,

My American Girl ornament, Molly.

The vintage Barbie.

I absolutely love them all.

And this year my Grammy gave me a Michael Scott bobblehead ornament!

He talks and everything!

He came to school with me.

The rest are on my tree back in Kaysville.

My mom actually puts up two trees.

One for our Hallmark ornaments,

And one with our fancy ornaments.

It can be said that we definitely have the Christmas Spirit in the Jackson House!