January Catch-Up!!

I had been doing really well at blogging more often until school got started up and then it all just went right down the drain. My classes this semester aren't hard, it's more that they are just time consuming. This semester I'm in Music 1010 Chemistry 1220 Chemistry 1225 and Biology 2325 which is a Human Anatomy class. The anatomy class is my favorite by far. I've always loved that stuff, this class is basically just memorizing what everything is made out of and I can't wait to take the Physiology class that is more about what everything does and how it works. The Anatomy class has two components a lecture that is the normal class basically and then a lab section too. I was really nervous going into the lab the first time, the cadavers (just a fancy name for dead bodies) really weird me out. The class is only once a week and the first week was about bones. That lab wasn't bad because the bones we were working with and holding didn't seem real or I could at least pretend that they were fake or super super old but this week the lab was about soft tissues and the cardiovascular system :/ I was really nervous when I went in and it was weird that there were bodies sitting on the table but I did ok for the most part. Our first stations were about the heart and we held human hearts! I made it through that just fine and thought that it was actually kinda cool. then we looked at a leg and that was kinda weird cause the skin was still on it and it was all leathery but I got over it. Next we looked at our first full body cadaver that was showing the major blood vessels. I was nervous about that but it wasn't a big deal. I was feeling really good as we headed into the last station that was about joints. We were looking at a knee joint and then all of a sudden the room started to spin. I stumbled back into a table and one of my friends in the class apparently tried to tell me that I looked really white but I couldn't hear him only see his lips move. So I had to leave and go sit in the hall for a second to try to compose myself. I was really frustrated that I got faint and I was in a really foul mood last night until I talked to my mom. She told me that she thinks it was maybe the formaldehyde getting to me. That makes me feel a little like less of a wimp. I feel like that is really all I do down here. School and work. I am kinda lame that way. Nothing exciting seems to happen.

 I had Perri and Jordi down here a couple weekends ago. That was quite an experience. I met my parents at dinner to pick up the crazies and then they went to the Zac Brown Band concert while I took the goobers to the mall. After they shopped around there and bought some sweet nerd glasses we drove back to my house which took about 3 times longer than it should have due to all of the snow. When we got back here we decided to go play in the snow but since we didn't have snow clothes we just wore sweats in it was freezing. When we came back in Per told us that her bum was totally frozen and that she needed to get in the shower IMMEDIATELY so she walked through my house and jumped into my shower with all of her clothes on including shoes!! It's a good thing I found it funny or I would have pounded on her. Then we played poker with the cards and poker chips Per bought. I of course slayed! Then we decided we need to go on a midnight In-N-Out burger run and it was delicious!! When we finally made it home I went to bed and left the crazies in the living room with a stack of movies. In the morning we went and took Jori to meet her aunt down town and then met my parents for breakfast down at their hotel. After breakfast we went on a drive up the canyon to Park City, it was beautiful with all of the new snow. It was a good weekend.

This past weekend my big brother Zach came up to hang out with me. He's going to school down in Cedar City at SUU and he's not loving the super small town feel of it there. So, he came up to hang out in the "Big City" of Salt Lake. I had to work Friday night so he hung out at Erin's house and spent the night there. Saturday morning I went over to Erin's to  go to Brayden's basketball game after that Zach had to go get his oil changed so I rode with him and tried to make myself scarce while he was flirting with the cute girl that worked at Jiffy Lube ( really weird that she worked there). When we got back to my house we did some homework and played Dominos with Whitley. We rented movies to watch that night and just hung out. Sunday morning we made breakfast and watched some more movies. Zach had to head home around 6 and I had to go to a concert for my Music 1010 class. It was overall a really fun weekend.

 Not much is going on this week. I'm just trying to make it through 2 tests and work to get to the weekend so I can go home and see the family and watch the SuperBowl! I don't really care who wins I'm mostly just excited for real food and to see my family! Have a good week everyone :)

 Getting ready to go play in the snow with the girls

 Time to thaw her bum!

Ready to play some poker in their sunglasses

After I poned them at Black Jack

Bring it on 2012

Well, another year has come and gone. I had a fantastic Christmas break with my family, I loved every minute I got to be home with them. Thankfully Santa found the Lindley/Eck home this year. I was a little worried cause us kids had a hard time falling asleep at our sleepover in the basement. I've been back and forth from home and Salt Lake through the whole break. It's been really hard to come back down to my house for work because I just wanted to be home with my family. Hopefully it gets easier once I am back into the swing of things and busy again. I was able to be home for New Years and it was a lot of fun. My parents took Zach, Me, Waylon, Perri, and Miles to the New Years Eve Buffet at the Coppermill. It was delicious! When we got done me Zach and Waylon took Miles out to my cousins house and then went home to wait for my parents to get back from taking Perri to a party. When they got back we watched True Grit (the new one) in the basement. I couldn't have asked for a better way to spend my New Years Eve!! I got to stay in Logan until this afternoon because I had to be back to work tonight. I have to work tomorrow and then I get to go back to watch Perri's basketball game against Logan, and my cousins' wrestling match against Box Elder!!  I am really excited.

While the break has been totally great I am still thinking about how I have to go back to school next week :/ Part of me is really excited because I get to take anatomy this semester and I absolutely love that stuff. Another part of me is scared to death. I have classes that take a lot of time outside of class time and it's going to be hard to make sure I spend enough time studying to do well. Oh well, I made it through the first half of the year, the second half can't be that much worse... I hope