Balancing work and fun and school is quite a juggling match. Get too much of one and every other part of your life is out of whack but if you don't get enough, same problem. I think I am learning better how to manage my time, at least it feels like it. This week I managed to complete all my homework in the early afternoon or later at night, but always managing to get it turned in on time. I wrote three papers (two of them were the same, just differently formatted for different classes). I studied a lot of hours for some major tests next week and managed to do my econ homework (never an easy task considering my teacher never really seems to teach us enough to understand how to do the math). My work schedule is going to get easier soon and I will only be working three days a week instead of four, which shouldn't be too bad. As for the fun this week....there was tons of it. Considering I had to stuff in family home evening, watching a movie for humanities, Joe's mission call,and other things. For family home evening, we made play-doh. Yes, we are extremely mature college kids. We had to use it to sculpt the other people around us in order to get them to know them better, making something that was unique to them. Needless to say....mine was an Xterra that had been flipped over. I guess you can't get more unique than that. Tuesday night was a homework night, but people still came over (people always come over) and we talked and had popsicles and got in some stress reliever stuff. Thursday night I broke in my projector watching The Kite Runner for humanities ( how cool of class is that, you have to watch amazing movies and he wanted them on a big screen)! I also go to go visit Karsten, Julie, Brynn, and Brooke and get some good food, do laundry, and take a huge dent into my ever growing mountain of homework. Friday, I made pumpkin spice cake. I didn't even stick to the recipe, I experimented. Kind of a scary thought, I know. But it turned out amazing. So somehow I figured out how to cook between getting up here and not having a clue at home. I think it was because I always did watch you cook mom and I kind of absorbed it subconsciously. Thanks for that. Friday night we went on my first completely random adventure and saw Kung Fu Panda at the dollar theater. Best movie of my life. I think the panda couldn't have been more like me even if he had my reddish brownish hair. After that we ran to a 24 hour IHOP (an amazing invention) and played around at a park for hours and hours until it was almost Saturday morning. Last night, Joe got his mission call to Ecuador. It made me realize that all my friends are actually going to start leaving soon for two years and come back complteley different people. David leaves in about a week and a half to get up here. He will soon be out there preaching the gospel. I know that they are all ready to do it, but at the same time it kind of makes me both excited and scared to think that mine is approaching ever closer. It seems to be the constant question up here as to where are you going on your mission, or when are you turning in your papers, etc. I am one of the youngest by far, so my answers are always the farthest away of anyone. But at the same time it feels like there is not enough time to be prepared. Not enough time to get to know the scriptures well enough, to develop all the people skills I will need, to get the rock solid testimony I really need. Im praying I will be ready and my faith is that the Lord will help me to get there. Well, I think that is enough rambling for one week so I will write more a week from now after the marvelous start of General Conference.