My 25 Top Played Songs

Lauren posted a blog like this, and I loved it! So here's my list of my Top Twenty Five Most Played Songs on iTunes :D 

1. Easy Lucky Free by Bright Eyes

2. Meet Me In Montauk by Circa Survive

3.  Tonight, Tonight by Smashing Pumpkins

4. Lying Is the Most Fun A Girl Can Have by Panic At The Disco

5. Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet by Fall Out Boy

6. After Hours by We Are Scientists

7. Treasure by The Cure

8. Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits

9. Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis

10. Disorder by Joy Division

11. Intervention by Arcade Fire

12. Army by Ben Folds Five

13. Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz

14. Son of a Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield

15. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk

16. Such Great Heights by The Postal Service

17. I Will Follow You Into The Dark by Death Cab For Cutie

18. Wonderwall by Oasis

19. What's This? by Danny Elfman (The Nightmare Before Christmas)

20. Where Is My Mind by Pixies

21. Say Yes by Elliott Smith

22. Just Dance by Lady Gaga

23. Sorrow by Pink Floyd

24.  The Mixed Tape by Jack's Mannequin

25. Hey Mickey by Toni Basil

Hola

Hello!! Well, where to begin. So much has gone between Thanksgiving and now! I just finished a two week CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) training course, and now all that's left is to take the state test and I'm officially a CNA. I just have to practice taking blood pressure, it's kind of tough!  I'm also having a ton of fun with my ski class that I'm taking through the U. Every Thursday we go to Alta and ski with our own instructor for about two hours. Last week, only two of us showed up, so it was pretty laid back. Class isn't until 1 pm, but I can ski all day for an additional $10. How sweet is that!

I'm going to start up ice skating lessons again, and complete Adult Level TWO ;) There are four levels, and I have a goal to complete all four! I've also been indoor rock climbing three times this week, and it's so much fun! It's such a great way to build strength and have fun at the same time!

Matt, Me, and Lauren rock climbing in Provo

Also, the other night, Kim (my roommate), Nate, Colby, Mattie and I baked a chocolate cake! It was sooo tasty. Here are some pictures of us, and I'm not sure who has or hasn't seen my roommate, but she's in there too :)

The batter is the best part!!

Kim and I on top of the fridge.....

Check out this wall of ice!!

Life up here is really great. So far my classes are going well, and I'm having a LOT of fun hanging out with everyone up here! This is random, but for my political science class last semester, we had to write a paper about our political views and why we think that way (based off of our analysis of how we were raised, what influenced us, etc.) and my professor had this to say about mine:

"Stephanie, 

This is one of the best essays in our class. Your examples are very well selected, and I can see how these examples have directly influenced your political identities and ideas. Your specific examples on abortion, foreign policies, and insurances show that you are very interested in society and politics. You examined problems the U.S. has very well and pointed very well. I really appreciated your essay."

SWEET!!!! I got an A in that class :D Anyway. Sorry about the long post! I'll make it a point to update this a lot more often!!!

Another post!

Hello everybody! I hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving ( I know I did!) ! The food was EXCELLENT as always, and I especially enjoyed the turkey and stuffing. It was great to be back in Bakersfield, even though I probably spent only a total of 60 hours there ;) I didn't bring my camera, so hopefully Lauren will post all the Thanksgiving pictures up! 

As far as this goes, I turned in a five page paper today detailing my political beliefs and WHY I feel the way I do, and on Friday I have a little news quiz in Political Science and a Chemistry test. Tuesday and Thursday I have my ice skating lessons, which will wrap up on the 9th of this month. They're going really well, and I'm nailing the basics :D I can't wait to move on to the higher levels and hopefully someday I'll be able to pull off a spin or some other impressive figure-skating maneuver. I originally wanted to get into speed skating, but I think I'll try figure skating first. 

The two pictures I have posted here are from my Initiation Week at Alpha Chi Omega. It was a couple weeks ago, and Monday-Thursday night all 25 of us new members had a giant sleepover in the basement of the Alpha Chi house. Needless to say, we got hardly any sleep at all! One night, a few of us went out and bought red and green (our colors) plastic cups and stuck them on a fence on a bridge above a freeway in the shape of a lyre (our symbol). It was about three in the morning but it was fun! The picture of that is below. Another night, we went up to the giant U and stuck white trash bags in vertical lines so that the U looked like a lyre...hard to explain but it looked kinda cool. As far as hazing and all that goes, I will assure you all that there was none of that! I wouldn't have stood for something like that. It was just a very fun week and at the end of it we were formally initiated as active and potentially lifelong members of Alpha Chi Omega! I'm still enjoying it a lot, although we haven't done too much lately because it's close to finals. All of mine are on December 16 and 17....whew! It's coming up soon!

Well that's all I really have to say for the moment...it's a busy week so I probably won't update this for a little while, but I love you all and take care! 

Love, Steph

Hello!

Well, Lauren has tried to convince me to create a blog for a year, so I finally decided to give in :)

My first post will be about the Winter Formal hosted by Alpha Chi Omega that was last night. It was a lot of fun! The theme was

 Mardi Gras and we all met at the house first and then took a charter bus downtown to where the dinner and the dance was held.

I went with a RM named Josh who's in Phi Delta Theta. (He used to play football for Dixie State...cool). On Wednesday, we held our annual "Mr Alpha Chi" compet

ition to find our "dream" frat boy, which means we nominated our favorite frat boys from the different houses and then publicly humiliated them ;) We asked them a bunch of random questions and to sing parts of their favorite Britney Spear's songs, and they also had to perform something for the talent part of the competition. The deal was that we wanted all the nominees to be asked to our formal, so I asked Josh even though I didn't know him at all!

Anyway, here are some 

pictures!