A gem Bry found on the internet

"If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candle light."

Beautiful Spring

This is us. We're good. Still standing after another semester. The good weather came just in time for those graduating, and I must say it is beautiful outside.
Thanks to our friend Brynn who took the pictures. :)

That's all. :)

Dinner with the Binghams

(last night at the dinner table)

Mandy: "Sick. Your burger has so much mustard that the mustard almost looks like a slice of cheese."

Bry: "I'll take that as a compliment."

Ew.

Bacon, bacon, BACON!

So, it isn't technically Canadian bacon he's cooking, but since he's a Canadian cooking it, could it be called Canadian bacon?

Also, after cooking up this bacon, he was sad to find out that it was the last of our bacon because, it being a Tuesday or Wednesday, he had hoped to make me Egg McMuffin like things over the weekend. =) He's great.

So we bought more bacon and he created these beauties last Saturday. They were DElicious.

An appliance to match

I've been meaning to do a post about this since around the end of November. We finally got an appliance that matches [the decade] of our apartment! [Or is closer than anything else we own, anyway.] Thanks mom and dad, for this blender. =) It works just swell.

Notice our lovely oven. :)

A pleading letter

I am very passionate about the following topic I am going to discuss, but I am going to try to be calm and make sense.


Dear people-who-are-on-their-computers-phones-or-iPads-who-aren't-typing-notes-in-class,

You are distracting to the students around you. Even when you try to be sly, it is easy to tell when you are not typing up notes during a lecture. When you stare super focused at your device, you're clearly not paying attention in class. Professors, teachers, and speakers spend a lot of time preparing lectures. They spend their lives studying the subject(s) they teach and have a goal to teach you and to help you learn what they have been able to learn. They commit a large part of their time to figuring out how to best communicate to you, and you shun them by ignoring them and not giving them your attention.

I understand how easy it is to not be taking notes on your computer. To surfing the internet, checking your email, sending emails, looking at facebook, reading articles, playing solitaire and whatever else. I have been guilty of doing a couple of these things in the past on a couple of occasions, but I regret it and have determined not to do it ever again. Remove the temptation if you have to. Notebooks cost a matter of a few dollars, and could help you to show more respect, and not distract others.

You can justify your non-class related actions all you want. Keeping yourself awake or whatever. However, you cannot justify away the distraction you are to everyone around you, and the inattentiveness you show to a teacher.

How would you feel, if you were standing in front of a group of people, large or small, and only 5% of them were actually looking at you and seemed to care about what you were saying? Wouldn't that bother you? Wouldn't that make you feel sad? Wouldn't you begin to wonder if you should continue to bother trying to communicate to groups of people?

Thank goodness for the teachers and professors in the world. Thank goodness there are people willing to take the time to teach others and to spread their knowledge. Thank goodness they care enough about others to promote learning by dedicating their lives to understanding how to teach people.

No, teachers are not perfect, and no, we may not like every single teacher we have had or will have. But that does not make it okay to be rude and inconsiderate. They still deserve respect and consideration, as do your classmates. If you need to take care of something ACTUALLY REALLY IMPORTANT and time-sensitive, do so as quickly as you can. And if you can't do it quickly, step out swiftly and respectfully.

Please and thank you,
A student who cares about learning and has been frustrated by distractions many times

Letters with questions to no one

Dear spring (the season),
I love you and I miss you like crazy. Could you please come soon?
Love,
A California girl who is sick of being cold


Dear midterms,
Do you have an end?
No love,
A sleepy student


Dear Bookstore,
Really? A work shift starting at 6:30am on a Saturday?
Confused lack of understanding,
A wife who wanted to sleep in tomorrow


Dear life,
Must you really get harder in the future? How will I manage you?
Sincerely,
A lover of living


Dear creepers trying to break into Wymount apartments,
In the words of President Dieter F. Uchtdorf: STOP IT.
Again- no love,
A slightly paranoid woman


Dear girl typing to no one,
Go to sleep.
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