February, just end already

Hi
been a couple weeks, what's been going on hmmmmm
- Started my volunteer service with the American Cancer Society's Road to Recovery Program, I drove a man to Murray which went well thanks to a practice run I did beforehand so I knew where to go cause i'm not familiar with Salt Lake County. I got about 16 hours worth of driving left to do and hopefully I can take the same man several more times in the next two weeks.
-FINALLY watched Dexter Season 2 and loved every minute and went through it in four days, now to stalk the library's copy of the 3rd season
- Saw The Princess and the Frog and liked it, not so much for the movie Leap Year which was really boring and lame compared to other romantic comedies and other Amy Adams movies. I also saw Percy Jackson and the  . . . . . and it wasn't really my cup of tea and certainly wasn't funny when it tried
- Went to the Diabetes Expo for the 4th or 5th time, not so many freebies this year, bummer. My dad has Type 2 so it's always good to go with him and be aware of what he has to deal with.
- School's going OK and I will feel better once I present this Wednesday for a group Positive Psychology Group Presentation. 2 months until I'm done
- watching American Idol and ready for the Top 12 to start, ugggh I hope the horrible people keep getting voted off, half of these people suck

besides that, just been doing the same stuff mostly
we added another TV in our house, so I got a better one than before
Excited for March, not for any particular reason, just because

Lazy Saturday

Hi

I've been kinda waiting to write a blog when I was feeling good, my head has been so cloudy and foggy with not so nice thoughts about everybody and everything. Anyway today is a lazy saturday cause I have nothing to do, my parents went to a funeral of a relative I didn't really know at all, and everyone is probably out having a great Valentine's Day Wekend.

Lately I've been watching a show on Hulu called The Loop (another show with Bret Harrison [seen above] of Reaper and Grounded For Life umm fame I guess) I watched the first season which was pretty funny and amusing. The second season however is really lame cause they gave a bigger role to some of the dumb characters and got rid of the two female lead characters from the season before.

In movie updates, I saw Avatar in 3D last Saturday with Anna and I thought it was visually amazing and not too bothered with the story so it was a good ol' time. Also I saw Armored at the dollar theater which wasn't that good or exciting, it's a case of seeing how it ends since the trailer gives it all away anyway.
School's going okay, I'll be more excited in a few weeks when some major assignments are out of the way.

Looks like I will start my volunteer hours on the 18th for the American Cancer Society. More on that later

Not much else going on
later

February's Finally Here

Febraury's here! That means I celebrated my birthday yesterday. For the fifth year I did a birthday tradition of going somewhere I've never been to eat lunch and going to see a movie, usually a mindless shoot em up movie of some sort. So this year I went to the latest competitor in the Burger War, Smash Burger which is appearing in the same cities/areas the other competitors (Five Guys and In-n-Out) have been popping up for the last couple years. It is comparable to a place like Fuddruckers, which to me means it's a higher qaulity burger compared to the top names in fast food. It was very delcious and can't wait to go back cause I had the most interesting items on the menu- The Beehive SmashBurger and their Smash Fries and I'd like to just try the avaerage items next time especially since I have the option to choose all the toppings you want. The movie I then saw was the latest Mel Gibson flick Edge of Darkness which was OK and had me leaving the theater quoting and giggling at Gibson's boston accent in the film.

Speaking of movies, as I write this I have seen 5 of this year's Best Picture nominees, I was stoked to see District 9 was one of them.
I've also seen a couple other films recently.
The Fantastic Mr. Fox- Very odd/strange but did have me laughing even when I didn't know why (which is the impression I get from all of Wes Anderson's movies). But I really appreciated the animation and some of the voice acting.
Everybody's Fine- A little better than I thought it would be story wise but was still just OK. I could see people of different ages finding at least one thing relatable to the family portrayed in the movie.

From my recollection, the last week of January was just a dull week, nothing much to say. I went to my little orientation for the Amercian Cancer Society last week which went well, now just have to wait for the background checks to end and then I can start my volunteer work. Besides that I continued to watch Reaper, went out and walked a bunch, got my hair cut, continued to put coins in my little piggy bank, etc.

One last little note, things are starting to look up when it comes to my search for some happiness. Not to say that I've been totally depressed recently or anything. I'm just saying that compared to other points of my life I've just felt kinda down at least in the month of January. It may be the fact that it's winter or cause of my lack of employment. My answer is always along the lines of my friends aren't talking to me as much as I would hope but at the same time I'm not totally putting forth the energy to commincate either. I just try to have a little understanding each day that most of my friends have lives which I always feel is something I don't have. But I really do appreciate my friends who follow this blog (comments would be nice by the way) and the ones who wished me a happy birthday yesterday. What I'm trying to get to in this paragraph is the readings from my Positive Psycholiogy class have really got me thinking about how to find some happiness. An assignment due this week for the class is a list of three good things that have happened for every day in the last week and getting over 20 birthday wishes is defintely on there. Some movies I've watched recently have also got me thinking that beling alive is great and that I should stick to some goals I have come up with (also an assignment for Positive Psychology) such as writing more to my friends. So even for all the busy work there is for the class, I'm really trying to put forth the effort it takes to live happily.

Peace out peoples
Thanks for reading