So our last semester up at school was kind of a boring one. Well, not boring necessarily, but very chill and…laid back. Basically we had no lives whatsoever, and you can really only spend so much time on Facebook. So as we were talking about this, we decided that we were not going to let another semester go by with us just sitting at home all day, especially since this is Maquel's last semester. At the beginning of the semester we did our best to make sure we were making plans to do stuff. We knew we wanted to see the school play, have a Halloween party, and be more involved in our ward and in school in general.
Of course once we make a plan, we go full force to make sure we fulfill that plan. As soon as we got to school we started planning a Halloween party, and joined a few activity committees for the school. It was perfect at first, the committee meetings were about once a week, and the Halloween planning was a perfect distraction that could keep us busy for hours. We were soon both called to be on the night Relief Society committee which is also bound to keep us busy.
Too soon however, it seemed like all of our plans and activities came into action all at once, got a little out of hand. All of a sudden we were busy with something every single day, and we didn’t have time to sit at all, let alone sleep. For the month of October Larissa has 2 weddings and 3 receptions that she has to make sure she gets to throughout the month, and of course her birthday as well. We went from sitting at the apartment all day trying to think of something to do, to running around trying to get commercials scripted, filmed, edited, approved and submitted, posters and fliers to design, meetings to go to, Larissa’s birthday to figure out, and a party to plan.
As we were focusing on our party, we decided to make a trip into Idaho Falls to buy stuff for it. What was sure to be an exciting adventure turned into a well…mess. We got a little too caught up with the ideas of decorating, and food, and games, and prizes…and let’s just say our budgets for the rest of the semester has been greatly diminished thanks to this party. Luckily for now we have the party almost completely ready, and all the stuff for it bought, so hopefully it won’t take up too much more time. It’s in 3 days, and then we can cross that off our list.
For Larissa’s birthday we went to Fong’s, since Chinese is Larissa’s ALL TIME favorite, and then we went and saw Inception afterwards. Maquel made her a super delicious angel food cake, and got her Swan Princess, and a cute stuffed dog that we decided to name Odin. It was a great day, and we were both thankful that we could cross it off our list of things to do as well.
The show that we’re helping with on campus is Magic Moments, which is basically a Disney talent show, and the show isn’t until December, so that’s bound to keep us busy for the entire semester. (We highly encourage any students at BYUI to audition for this, because it’s going to be amazing. And if you don’t audition then you’d better buy tickets to watch the show, or else) We got tickets for the play we wanted to go see, but only had one day that we could even consider going, because all the other days we had meetings of some kind going on. To add to our crazy mad schedules of busyness, we also have a friend Alex, who is currently in Europe with a school group and we decided to decorate his room as a welcome home/happy birthday surprise since he was away for his birthday, and for whatever reason, trying to figure out how to get into his apartment to decorate, and WHEN to get in proved to be a lot more difficult than we ever thought would be. We did manage to get in and decorate though, and we’re both beyond excited for him to get home and see it. Although we’re really thankful that we’re staying active and busy this semester, we’re wishing we had just a day, no…just a few hours of down time that we could enjoy just sitting down and maybe watching a movie…it’s not going to be happening anytime soon though. For some inexplicable reason we’re incapable of ever doing anything in moderation. We are either bored to death with nothing whatsoever to do, or else we’re so busy we have to schedule and plan every moment of every day to make sure we get everything done.
We’ll be sure to let you know how the party and show turn out…if we survive that long.
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