Fun Happenings this past week

Well the first week of school as married people has come and gone. Michelle and I (if you can't tell Michelle wrote last week and I get to write this week's blog entry, which is fine for me because she is doing the dishes now) are trying to get the hang of things at the home and at school, while still having fun. It has been an easy first week. We are getting to school nice and early, from around 7:50-8:30 depending on when class starts and leaving around 6 or 7 pm. It's my fault for the late classes. But once school gets going it will be nice that we will both be on campus for a long time to have good study time there. Michelle is working about 19 hours a week and is taking 15 credits which include: Advanced Writing, French Civilization, French Lyric poetry, Assessment in TESOL (Teaching English to Students of Other Languages), Literacy development in TESOL, the American Studies Capstone Course, and a TESOL internship class. So not too hard for this AWESOME WOMAN. Myself on the other hand will maybe work 5-10 hours a week (it's not my fault; Catering just doesn't schedule me) but I think I will only work an hour this coming week. But I am taking 15 credits which includes: Genetics, Spanish Literature, Gender Psychology (if anybody is reading this and doesn't know me, please guess my major now!!!), Physiology with a Lab attached, and History of Creativity part deux. Oh and I just enrolled in a MCAT prep class that will add on 15 hours of work per week. So the Andersons have a lot to do and it doesn't look like we have much down time for awhile.

Since school has been so calm Michelle and I have watched our fair amount of movies to pass the time. We started this week by watching "THE LAST OF SHEILA" with James Coburn, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," "Morning Glory" with Harrison Ford and Rachel McAdams, "Captain America," and "Never Been Kissed." Michelle watched "Never Been Kissed" while making dinner on Friday night. She had her Kindle Fire propped open on the counter as she cooked.

Those movies seemed to be the most exciting things till we got home from campus Friday night to see 2 police cruisers parked in front of our humble home. When I made the turn onto our street, my heart dropped and I thought that someone had for sure broken into our home and taken everything. Luckily it was a police stop and everything was fine. The next morning we got to go clean the chapel to help our ward out. It was a good experience to get to know some more of the ward members and so they could get to know the Andersons (it sounds funny sometimes to call us that). After we had gotten cleaned up for that we got a nice visit from the neighborhood Jehovah's Witnesses, good people. I took their magazines and they left with a smile. Michelle and I then debated which one was most like our ENSIGN magazine and which one was like our Tracts that we handed out ourselves, that is to say which message was meant for the members of their congregation and which is intended for those not of their faith. Anyways, most of our day after those events was spent trying to figure out our laundry situation. We didn't have a washer or dryer and we weren't too open about going to the coin-op down the street so what did the Andersons do? We went shopping and found a nice washer for 80 bucks and bought a dryer from Dave, Michelle's brother. It took us a few minutes, a couple of calls, and a trip to Home Depot to get the washer running right, but the long and short of it is that it is working just fine.

Church was a nice break. It was fast Sunday, but it never goes fast when you are fasting. We both bore our Testimonies and introduced ourselves to a bigger crowd and I think it was good for us because a lot more people took notice and helped us around more. Hopefully it is appropriate to give a brief introduction before a testimony.

Well there isn't much more to say. Michelle and I are doing well, the apartment is getting cleaner, the cooking doesn't involve a microwave as much, it's hard to cook without any utensils or can openers or peelers and it's hard to eat without plates and flatware....don't worry we have those things now, except the cooking utensils.

Ohh I almost forgot. We had a nice discussion with the Andelins up north about life, home schooling and Ron Paul. Thanks to Quince I don't stab my ears out when anyone brings up RON PAUL. So it's a start :-).

"Don't forget to drink your OVALTINE" and say your prayers.