It's Time for a New Post!

Yes, that time has arrived. I am again putting off studying and this seemed like a good way to do it. I have finals today and tomorrow. I just finished my first one. Tomorrow at 6:30 in the morning I will be sitting in a classroom taking my math final and then at 8:00 pm, I will officially be done with my microbiology class! Yay! I'm very excited. Wednesday I start chemistry and biology and nutrition.

It's been a busy summer and more and more I'm deciding that I can't wait until I graduate. I'm very lucky, however to have the most amazing husband in the whole wide world. He is so supportive and sweet! I was having a stressful day last week and when David picked me up from work, he had roses for me and took me on a date. I'm pretty lucky. The flowers are beautiful and I've included a picture.

So for the past little while, David and I have been in search of something that resembles a piano and today, we got lucky! We found a really cute digital piano at a music store in Orem that was a really good price. So we got it and have been playing around all day. I'm am beside myself with joy! David has decided he wants to learn to play. Probably he will have it mastered in a week. He is amazing on musical instruments.

Speaking of David and his talents...David recently completed a piece of artwork that is absolutly beautiful. I'm not allowed to say what it is yet, because it's for his grandma for her birthday and she probably hasn't gotten it in the mail yet. When that time arrives, I'm going to post a picture of it on here. I am a little covetous and probably some of you will be too. It's beautiful. He's so talented!

There's a songwriting convention in Salt Lake in August and I've decided to go. I'm really excited about it. A part of it is a songwriting competition and I submitted my song this morning. The winner of the competition will get to have their song arranged by Tyler Castleton, who is probably my favorite arranger of all time. I'm pretty excited and keeping my fingers very crossed.

Hmmm...I can't think of anything else. I'll write again soon.

Hey Everybody, It's Family Night

Hello, Everyone!

I'm am back yet again. First of all, I caught David with another fabulous hair-do earlier this week. Don't worry, I captured it for you this time. It's The Superman. And it's probably time both of us got hair cuts.

Well tonight for family night, David and I decided to make Gyoza. David and his family liked to make gyoza on Christmas Eve which is a tradition that David and I picked up on last year. However, we liked them so much we decided we need to eat them more than once a year. They are SO GOOD! So tonight has been spent chopping and mixing and eating. Fun stuff. Now some of you may be wondering what a gyoza is. When David first told me that his family makes gyoza, I was right there with you. I did not know what they were. Don't worry. I found this on wikipedia. (What would we do without Wikipeida?)

gyōza (Japanese transliteration), or pot sticker is a Chinese dumpling, widely popular in China and Japan as well as outside of East Asia, particularly in North America. Jiaozi typically consist of a ground meat and/or vegetable filling wrapped into a thinly rolled piece of dough, which is then sealed by pressing the edges together or by crimping. Jiaozi should not be confused with wonton.

(I like how it says "Jiaozi should not be confused with wonton"...that's very important, folks.) Anyway, I have included pictures because I know everyone wants to see them.

So I'm interviewing tomorrow for a new job...sort of. This should probably not come as a surprise to anyone as I tend to change jobs about once a year. Once I finally finish my degree, this will change. Have no fear. But this is an offer too good to resist. This morning, I got a call from the charge nurse at the surgical center who informed me that there was an opening there for an anesthesia tech. So, I'm interviewing tomorrow! Hopefully I get the position, because I would love a little more patient interaction and a little more hanging out in the OR. Also, I would love having weekends and holidays off again. And also, decontam is getting kind of old and has always been pretty gross. The End.

I'm down to my last week and a half of classes and I'm very excited. If I don't get into the nursing program for Spring 2010, I'm going to have to retake a bunch of classes. So I'm hoping that I won't have any issues. It will be fabulous once I'm actually in the program.

David has decided that he wants to write a computer program that helps organize food storage: when it expires, what nutrients are covered, etc. I'm pretty excited about it! If anyone has any ideas (and wants a copy) I'm sure David would love input on what would be good and useful features.

Ok. I should go do homework.

Wasting Time...

So David's been doing a really good job at posting his summer project and I have not been very good at writing so I thought it was time that I updated everyone again. Pretty much I'm avoiding studying. Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot to update on....but I'll try to make it interesting. And then I'll hit the books.

Mostly we've been up the same old work and school routine. I'm getting ready to finish spring semester and I could not be happier. I'm hating microbiology today and hoping that I can do well on the next two tests. After I'm done with Micro and Math, I'll be taking biology and chemistry and then I'm done with my prerequisites! Yay! Today we started a project in Microbiology Lab where our professor gave us two unknown bacteria and we have to identify them using the tests we've learned throughout the semester. I think it's kinda fun, actually, but it takes a long time. If you can't find me for the next three to five days, I'm probably in the lab.

David has been enjoying his summer break (except for recent visits to the dentist) and has been developing some of his talents. You can see how good he is at computer programming, but he has also been working on developing a new talent...styling hair! As you can see from the photo, he is very good at it (and his serious model face). :) He also styled a mohawk the other day (a fo-hawk to be more accurate...). To my dismay, the camera was not handy so I didn't get to capture the masterpiece. But you can bet I'll be keeping my eyes open for more new styles.

David and I continue to try to "train" for our 10K that is now coming in about 3 weeks. I am feeling very unprepared, but I'm still excited. I think it will be a lot of fun, even if my little brother and sister kick my trash.

Pretty much I can't think of anything else to write about. I should probably go and study. We'll keep you updated!

Use the A and D keys for left and right, space bar is jump, and click the mouse to swing the bat

Here's another fun thing I did in Flash today:

Yesterday I spent a while trying to learn to program games in Flash. This is the first file I've made, which doesn't do a whole lot but I was excited when I figured out how to make something move using the arrow keys. The reason it changes color when you go different directions is because I wanted to make sure I could have it display different symbols depending on what direction it's going. That way a game character can look like they're walking up/down/left/right. I added the little bouncing white circle because I knew that a walking character would need to have a walking animation in each of its walking directions. I haven't gotten the animation to run except when the square is standing still - I still have to figure that out.

Try clicking on the Flash movie and then play with the arrow keys!


Here are a few things I learned: (this was programmed using actionscript 2.0)

• The keylistener.onKeyUp event only tells you that some key on the keyboard has been released, but not which key. At first I thought I could use Key.getCode() to found out which key, but it turns out Key.getCode() only tells you the most recent key that was pressed. This means that if you press and hold the down arrow, then press and hold the left arrow at the same time, then release the down arrow, the Key.getCode() method will tell the the left arrow because it was last key pressed, even thought the down arrow is the one that triggered onKeyUp.
• Hit tests are really easy in flash because movieclips already have a built in method called hitTest. I used it in code for the space bar. If you press the space bar nothing will happen unless you move the red square so it's touching the blue-green colored oval at the top. The code for the hit test is "if (s1.hitTest(npc)){bblHi._visible=true}". You just type the name of one movieclip (the instance name of the square is s1) and then .hitTest(instance name of second movieclip) (the blue green oval is called npc).