I love Break!!!

Dear Arizona... Thanks for having the best winter weather EVER!!!

Dear Romy's... Thanks for having the best sale on dresses ever! I loved spending my money at your store!

Dear Walgreen's... Thanks for selling a bunch of Christmas Candy for $1 today!!!

Dear New Wireless Mouse... YOU ARE THE BEST!!!

Dear Snow... You don't scare me anymore, now that I have a SUPER CUTE new jacket!!!

Dear Gaby Judd.... I Can't wait for our sleepover! Just a few more hours til you get here!!! :) :)

Dear Roommates... I miss you guys a lot, but am so not ready to be back at school.

Dear New Wallet... You just make me happy!!!

Dear Student Health Center... I cant wait to come to work again... now that I got a bunch of cute new scrubs to wear!!!

Dear Snowboarding class... you are the ONLY class I am excited about starting!

Dear Dorm Closet... you are going to need to be a lot bigger this semester on a count of all the Christmas clothes I got! Maybe we will give some old clothes to DI...

Dear Rubios... I am sorry I have yet to get over to you... I want to so bad, but I haven't had anyone to go with. I promise before I leave I will go to you and have a big ol burrito and chips and pinto beans on the side! I love you so much!!!

Dear Guest Bedroom in my house... I must admit I didn't like you at first because you weren't MY room, but I am really warming up to you! I love your bed (much better than the bunk bed back in Idaho!) and I love having my own bathroom! THANKS!!!

Dear Anika... HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY!!! My little baby shouldn't be three already... its just too weird! haha!

Dear York Peppermint Patties... I LOVE YOU!!!

Done!

I am officially DONE with the semester... I finished with my finals last night, which was very exciting. And then I finished up work for this semester, also exciting! And now I have nothing to do and wish I was going home right now instead of 12 hours from now! haha!

Fun Story: So I was taking my last final, for my health administration class, and the teacher had said how during the midterm he thought he made a really hard test and was offended when people finished way fast, and I was one of them. So he said he was going to take points off for each minute that you left class before an hour had been up. Well I couldn't tell if he was joking or not, and I finished in like 2o minutes. So I am sitting there, not wanting to be the first person to turn in the final, and just looking over it... and then he leaves. So I am thinking, should I turn it in now, just put it on his desk and leave. Was he serious about taking points off, because if so I will sit here for another 30 minutes. And while this debate is going on in my head, the lights turn off. We all sit there in the dark for a little, some people get there phones out and use them as lights to finish there tests. My teacher come back and tells people to go into the hallway where the emergency lights are on. Well I am done so I put my paper on the front desk and leave. Once I got outside, it is like pitch black. I didn't have my phone and I had to walk back to my dorm. Luckily it was way close, but I was still way scared. I get back to my dorm and my roommates were freaking out. The whole city had lost power, all the way to IF, which is like 30 miles away. I was thinking the power would be out forever... but it wasn't. That was about 8ish when that happened, and we went to bed at 10. Not much to do with no electricity. We sat around and talked for a while, and ate some ice cream, and then went to sleep. I called my boss last night asking her what to do if the power was still out, and so she said she would call me if the electricity came back on, so she did. So at like 7 this morning she calls and tells me that work wasn't cancelled cuz the power was on, so I get in my scrubs and head down there. What seems like 2 minutes later (really 7 hours later) I walk home and find all my roommates asleep... its 3 in the afternoon, why are they napping! Im so bored!! haha
So ya, that was my little side story for ya! :)
Tara

STRESS.......

The title basically says it all. I spent all day cleaning for white gloves, I have one final tomorrow and 3 on Thursday... and I have hardly studied at all, because I have been so stressed with everything else. Trying to take one day at a time but everything is catching up... I'M SO STRESSED!!!

Only 4 more days and I will be home... my favorite Christmas present will be my 2 week break from school and work! PARTY!!!

~Tara

Busy Busy Week!!!

This week has been a weird one for me. Today at dinner I was thinking about how it has gone super fast, but at the same time, Monday seems like it was forever ago... Working puts a weird twist on school. I go to classes in the morning, go to work in the afternoon, come home and study, then go to bed. There hasn't been much break time for me this past week, and I think thats why it seems to have gone by so fast, and so slow!

All I know is that I hope next week goes this fast, because a week from today I will be done with my first semester! I have really loved this semester though. All my classes have been good, and I have made a lot of good friends, lots of which are leaving this winter. But I am way excited just to be done with it. I was looking at my graduation report, which feels like will never be completed, and I was just thinking about how exciting it will be next week when I actually have 14 more credits done with! Hopefully with a 4.0 GPA to go with it!

Next week I only have 3 days of classes, and 1 final day! Then next Friday I work from 7:45am to 5:00pm, basically every second the health center is open, I will be in it! WOOOHOO!!! I really do love my job actually. Its way fun, and the people are all way cool, and its not too hard! Plus I just love being in the health field, I keep learning new things and it makes me more excited for my major in health! I was actually looking today at Health minors, which I haven't decided if thats a good idea yet, to major and minor in the same thing, it might be a Health overload. Anyway, I think a sports medicine minor would be way interesting. The only thing holding me back from that is the 2 semesters of Anatomy/Physiology I would have to take, and that does NOT sound like a good time to me. Maybe I will just take the Sports Med. class without taking the whole minor! Who knows! haha!!!

This turned out being a lot longer than I expected. I don't expect anyone to really read this, its more like my online journal.... anyway....

I love snow, and Christmas, my tree that I put up, my funny roommates, my family, and most importantly, my ticket home! CAN'T WAIT!!!
~Tara

Some Questions to Think About....

Today in my Book of Mormon class my teacher gave us these questions to think about, and I thought they were so good, I wanted to share them with everyone!

• God won't ask what kind of car you drove. He'll ask how many people you drove who didn't have transportation.
• God won't ask the square footage of your house. He'll ask how many people you welcomed into your home.
• God won't ask about the clothes you had in your closet. He'll ask how many you helped to clothe.
• God won't ask you what your highest salary was. He'll ask if you compromised your character to obtain it.
• God won't ask what your job title was. He'll ask if you preformed your job to the best of you ability.
• God won't ask how many friends you had. He'll ask how many people to whom you were a friend.
• God won't ask in what neighborhood you lived in. He'll ask how you treated your neighbors.
• God won't ask about the color of your skin. He'll ask about the content of your character.

Just something to think about.....

Pictures from the concert!!!

Ok, So I typed up a SUPER LONG story of basically every detail of the night, and put it on facebook as a note. For some reason it wouldn't let me copy and paste it on here so it could be a blog too, so here is the link if you feel like reading my 2000 words (NO JOKE) on the concert. But if you are anything like me and DO NOT like to read a lot, you can just look at the pictures!
http://www.facebook.com/notes/tara-cordner/meeting-the-man-of-my-dreams/230954163792

Our First Picture Together!!!

Benton Paul = THE MAN!!! He rocks! Like so hard!And then THE MAN HIMSELF.... David James Archuleta!!! After 8 pop songs, he changes into a more formal outfit for his Christmas songs!

Maybe I will try to upload some of the videos later! Love ya!

Tara Cordner

I'm A Working Women!!!

Today I had an interview at the Health Center for a job as a receptionist there. I sent in my application 2 weeks ago, got a phone call about it last week, had the interview today, and then was hired only 20 minutes after my interview! It was the best! I was way nervous for the interview, but I think my experience in a health office and the fact that my major is HealthCare Administration gave me an advantage for this job! Tomorrow I will go in and fill out some paper work and officially get hired, and then my first day is this Thursday! I can't wait! Its going to be way fun, either that or way stressful with finals coming up in 2 weeks! AHHH... what was I thinking gettin a job right now! Im already crazy busy as it is! Oh well! I will find a way to work it out!

Davids concert is Friday, I am pretty sure you can all expect a VERY long blog about every detail! :)

Love ya!