"MAJOR" Crisis

Well folks. I wanted to update my blog with something super fun and exciting,

but it turns out we just go to school.

And work.

And then school again.

And then work again.

It is great fun, don't let me be the first to tell ya.

But anyways, just thought I would update about our lives at the lovely place we call BYU that abruptly took over our lives.

Well first of all, when the semester started, we both had no idea what we wanted to do as far as school goes (beginning of the semester isn't the greatest time for that I know)

I was one very lost and confused little girl.

Let me tell you my situation.

PS This is WAY long. So i'm sorry. But it all comes to a grand finale point at the end i promise! haha

I have gone to BYU 4 semesters so far and still didn't know what to major in. I seriously went back and forth like every week. I really love family/marriage/home type classes because I learn the most in them and they apply the most to my life. And they just make me a better person I feel like. So I wanted to do Family Studies, but that really just never clicked with me. And to be honest, I just kind of felt dumb telling people i am studying Family Studies. Not the most impressive major ever, no offense to those that have chosen it. But then who cares what people think about what you major in!? And since I've already taken a lot of classes for that major, it would be my fastest way out. But also, like what do you do with that major? Be a good mom i guess.

But then I also love nutrition and would love to major in that, but then there is a TON of science that i would just hate every day of. And i would have to start over fresh, and it would take a long time to graduate. And by the time i finished, Trent and i plan to be okay financially where we could just do what we want and not have to work if we don't have to, and maybe by then we would want to whip out a couple kids..? Who knows. And then there are just a bunch of other majors that i could possibly see myself doing, but I'm not like DYING to study.

(I'm almost done don't worry)

So at the same time, I am a dental assistant, and I seriously just LOVE it. I leave work every day feeling like i just love my J.O.B. (as Trent calls it)! I just can't say enough good things about the dentist, hygenist, and other assistant I work with. Seriously... amazing, awesome, fun, happy, nice, laid back, positive, great people. So i work on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays from 9-5. But the great thing is I don't even mind going to work! I'm coming up on a year and a half working there. Anyways, that's my pitch about how i feel about my job. (And PS it is totally meant to be that i work there, because when I was moving down to Provo, this super cute lady in my home ward told me I should work for her brother down here, and she would ask if he's hiring yadda yadda, but it turned out he wasn't at the time or something so I kinda forgot about it. So I took around a bunch of resumes to all these different dentists, and the LAST office I stopped at, they weren't even there, but I left a resume with someone else, thinking it would never get seen cause i know how that goes! Anyways, I get a call, go interview with this office, and start working there! It wasn't til a few months later, I finally put together that Dr. Packer is that girls brother!!! Crazy!)

Anyways... back to my story...

SO YOU SEE MY DILEMMA!

I didn't know what the heck to do with my life!

One day after the semester had started and we were signed up for who knows what classes, both Trent & I were kinda in the same boat (My version of his version is this: He didn't know what to major in either because he already has expectations of what he wants to do with his life, regardless of school, but still wants to learn and get a degree, so he didn't know if he should work really hard in school to apply to the business program, or do advertising, or what.) I was in the library at school during a break, looking at all the different majors online. I was literally in tears cause I was SO unbelievably sick of this deciding process and so sick of telling people I didn't know what I wanted to do.

Wow this story is WAY longer than i expected and has so many different aspects of it, haha.

So also, another little tidbit about me... This is gonna sound so weird, I know, but I have always been SO captivated by stories of missing women. Let me explain. Like when Elizabeth Smart got kidnapped, I have seriously never been the same (probably like every other teenage girl or worried mom). I hated not knowing what happened to her, or where she was, and I would always be into the news to hear any updates. No joke, and maybe I shouldn't admit this, but one time my mom & I went to find her. Another side WAY creepy story, (I'm getting to the point in all this, I promise! I am totally surprised if you all have made it this far in my story!! haha!) It was at the point of the whole story when they thought that random Edmunds guy had kidnapped her, because they had seen his green 4-door Saturn sedan randomly parked by their house all the time, so they were telling everyone to watch out for this car. So for some reason, my mom thought we should go look at the dairy in Draper for that car. It was this random, not well known dairy, that was down a dirt road. I will never forget the way my heart dropped when we turned the corner and there was a green Saturn sedan. Oh my gosh. Such a scary moment! But it turned out it was a 2-door Saturn. Or else we would have had the case cracked!! Anyways, I will never forget the day she was found, running like mad to the church to tell my mom, totally out of breath, that Elizabeth Smart was found alive! And even in the last year when all the trials were going down, I totally caught myself reading all the court transcripts and everything. I'm not sure why, and I know that sounds so weird, and it totally freaks me out reading about it all, but at the same time I am so interested in knowing all the details and updates and everything.

And then Susan Powell comes along.

She has been missing since December of 2009, also from Salt Lake. And Trent will tell you how weird I am. I am always checking KSL to see if there are any updates, and I think about it all the time! I try not to, but the same thing, I just hate not knowing where she is or what happened to her! I hate it hate it. It makes me want to like be an investigator so i can figure it out, dang it! And then since I think about it all the time, I've had a few dreams about it! Ah! So weird. So for some reason, this thing about missing people just like really gets to me.

SOOOO... Continuing on 8 hours later haha...

i'm in the library stressed out about what to do, with all this going through my brain. I said a prayer to just let me please figure this out so i can move on and not be so stressed about it anymore! A few minutes later, my mom calls me, so I walk out of the computer lab so I can talk to her. And I'm not kidding, Elizabeth Smart walks past me!! She goes to BYU, and ya know that feeling when you see someone you recognize but you try to hurry and figure out how you know them or what their name is? Well that was going through my head, I was seriously about to say hi thinking she was like a friend, and I was also on the phone in midsentence to my mom, so she walked past and I didn't say anything. It took me a second after she walked by to realize that was Elizabeth Smart. Anyways, so I felt like that was kind of an answer to my prayer, because what are the odds I would see her - I've never seen her on campus ever! - that maybe I should work for a police department and be an investigator or something?! Ah! Then i went back to my computer, kept looking at the majors, and as I was looking down the list, I noticed the Family Studies: Human Development Emphasis one, and for some reason had skipped over it in the past. So i clicked on it, and realized that i was further in that major than i was in the other Family studies one! I already had 17 credits done, and only 12 more classes to take! I figured if I did that one, I would hopefully have 3 more semesters after this one, it would be my fastest way out, and still the classes i like, but a little bit better sounding than Home & Family I felt like haha, and if i wanted to later in life, maybe i could do something with it to help find missing people or something, knowing how humans think and develop & such!
So i still haven't declared it officially, but i think in writing this I've talked myself into it. Yep i think i have. (Can you tell how indecisive i am?! Geez)

As for Trent, the same day this all happened he talked with an advisor at the business school, and decided he wants to go for the business program to do Entrepreneurship, figured out what classes he needs to take to be able to apply, and figured out what classes he would take every semester until he's done! Which is probably about 4 more semesters.

So we woke up so stressed and confused, and I'm proud to say we both went to bed that night feeling so much better, like we had direction and knew what we wanted to do! YAY!

Well my point in doing this post was to tell about the classes we are both taking, and i obviously got very very very side tracked.

So here is the short version:

I have been pushing off some of my generals I have been needing to take, so I kind of decided this semester I'm just going to get some of them over with. So I am taking Geography, Marriage & Family (one class for my major), Biology, Art History w/ Trent, and New Testament. And it turns out, so far it's actually not too bad! Definitely better than what i was expecting. I'm just excited to see a green "Complete" next to their names :) And as for Trent, he is taking Econ (HARD!), Stats, Book of Mormon, Art History w/ me, and Geology. I would talk more about them but i feel like i have reached

your maximum attention span limit.

WOW ...

That was all probably WAY too much information. But like I always tell myself, this is like my journal, for me. So it was good to get it all written down :) So if you made it this far, congrats! haha! Tell me what you think about my "major crisis" (haha get it!?)