So, I know I already posted today...or I guess it would be yesterday but given the time it feels like it's still the same day.
It's funny the way that life/the Lord can put you in your place sometimes. At work there is one unit that I really am not a huge fan of. Mainly because of one patient who I have just found to be rude and uncooperative.
But tonight as I was sitting at work she came up and said hello to me. A few minutes after that I witnessed her changing her clothes and putting on her make-up. And then after that she asked me to help her decide which shoes she wanted to wear and if I would help her put them on.
I realized tonight that as frustrating as this patient might be sometimes, she is still a person. She has the same needs and wants as me. She still wants to look her best, she still wants to talk to people, etc. And yes, some days she might be a little bit ornery, and rude, and impatient, and difficult to work with/help. But aren't we all? Especially if we have been put into a situation like the one at my work. Where basically all of her independence and freedom has basically been taken from her. Where once she was use to going where she wanted when she wanted and doing things herself, independently, she has to look to the staff for every little thing, even something as simple as opening up her closet? I can't say that I would handle that sort of situation any better.
It just gave me a bit of insight tonight, and while I'm sure that I will still find myself getting frustrated at times and dreading working with her, hopefully I'll find it in my hear to be a bit more understanding as well. She's still one of God's children, all the patients are, and they require a little extra help. So it is up to me and the rest of my coworkers to provide them with the help they need and do our best to love them the way that the Lord would.

This morning when I got off work I showered and went to sleep out on the couch thinking that I might hear my roommates when they got up and started getting ready for church. I had hoped it would help get me up earlier and get me to church on time....it didn't. Today was fast Sunday because we have stake conference next week. Which, since the Provo Tabernacle (where we traditionally held stake conference) burned down in December we have to find a way to cram ourselves into one of the buildings on campus! Our stake conference isn't until later in the day on Sunday. I think like 1-3 or possibly even 3-5...I'm not sure which. It's lame but what can you do?
When I got back from church at 2 I noticed that I had missed a phone call from someone and that I had a voice-mail. When I checked it it was someone from my work saying that they knew it was my day off but asking if I could work a shift tonight anyway. This was news to me since I'm traditionally schedules to work Sunday nights. I called back and apparently someone had made a scheduling error. Woops.
Speaking of work I think I might try to get into what they call the HV Pool. It's basically the same thing that I do now but I cover extra shifts instead...the bonus is that I get to make my own schedule which is nice because I wouldn't have to go to work at 10pm every Friday night right when people are in the middle of activities.
After that I tinkered around a bit longer before finally laying down to take a nap. It didn't really happen though. Pretty soon my roommates home teachers stopped by and then a million people came to the door...
Dave showed up not long after that though and told me that dinner was going to be ready in like 5minutes anyway so it turned out kind of provident that I didn't actually get the chance to fall asleep. T did dinner today for dinner group. He had gone out yesterday afternoon and bought a couple of pizzas from Papa Murphy's. Needless to say we were all very happy people. After dinner I finally laid down to take my nap and Dave joined me.
I had been asleep about an hour when I heard a knock at the door. My natural tendency was to just ignore it as I was in the middle of some intense z's but I decided to answer it anyway. Good thing too, it turned out to be Allen and Jim asking to see if they could use my apartment to give a girl in lour ward a blessing. I guess her apartment and theirs were both busy? In any case I was happy to oblige. I nudged Dave and we maintained consciousness long enough for them to give her the blessing and then I fell back asleep and I'm pretty sure Dave did as well.
We woke up about an hour later. We went over to Dave's to see what everyone was up to, which was really not that much. We ended up catching a bit of the Oscars because Lacey wanted to see them. Eventually though Dave said that the awards were kind of bugging him because he didn't really care and he changed it to Pearl Harbor instead.Good movie.
Other than that it's kind of just been an off day. I'm sure I'll get over it but for right now I'm a little concerned.

Today was pretty boring....
I woke up around noon ate lunch and then hit the gym. I don't usually do the gym on Saturdays but I missed going Wednesday because of work, so I needed to catch up and pretty much everyone was gone anyway.
I came back from the gym ready to get in the shower and get the filth off me only to find much to my chagrin that my roommate had stolen all the hot water. I was pretty frustrated especially seeing as how I had just asked not even a month ago if we could refrain from having one person expend all the hot water on themselves. I had to wait an hour wallowing in my nastiness before the water heated back up and even then it was only warm for like 5min before it turned cold again.
After I hopped out of the shower and got dressed I ran over to the mall still in search of a tie for Dave. I finally found one that would match well enough and purchased it. He said he really liked it, or at least I hope he did. A bunch of us ordered pizza and so we chowed down and chilled out for a little while. Dave and I took a nap on the couch. Sleeping next to the kid is a lot like how sleeping next to Ben used to be. He's just this solid mass right there next to you, it's almost like sleeping next to a really big dense pillow that gives off heat. It does lead to a pretty good nap though.
Later in the evening a bunch of us went to go play Wal-Mart Tag. Dave and I think still have some communication issues I think. Just in that like today when we were trying to decide if we wanted to join the others for Wal-Mart Tag I told him that I really didn't care one way or the other so he needed to make a decision...if he wanted to go then we could go. The problem is that he says he can be happy doing whatever and so he wants to do what I want to do. He says that he doesn't always want me to do stuff just because he wants to if I really don't want to do them and that it's more fun if we're doing something that we both enjoy.. But a lot of times I'm pretty content to stick to my hermit-ish ways and bum around the house. I know that he likes going out and being active and doing stuff so I go with him. I insist that we go out and do stuff that I know he wants to do because it is important for me to put him above myself but then he says he feels bad because we're constantly going out and doing stuff that he wants to do that I don't really want to do, but I would feel bad if we were to stay. So it's kind of like a stalemate sometimes.  Tonight I finally told Dave how I felt, that yeah, a lot of times I don't want to go out and do stuff, but that it's important for me to do stuff for him because I know that he likes it, and a lot of times I usually end up happy that I did something despite the fact that I didn't want to in the beginning. I also reminded him that I'm pretty good at expressing when I genuinely don't want to do something, which he didn't try and argue with. :) I promised him that that wouldn't change. That being said I hope the situation has resolved itself. I still just think it's sweet that that kid is more concerned about me than he is about himself.
After Tag at Wal-Mart Dave and I dropped by the BYU Creamery and picked up some milk and Oreos then we went back to the apartments and watched an edited version of Terminator 2 before I had to go to work.
One of the things that I really appreciate about Dave is that it doesn't matter what is going on or what he is involved in, when it is time for me to go to work he stops what he is doing for a few minutes and walks me out to my car to say goodbye. It's really sweet of him and I don't think he really knows how much it means to me.  I've tried to tell him but I really just can't find the right words. In any case, that boy really does wonders for me and I feel really blessed that I've gotten to know him, not even necessarily date him but just know him as a person....I just wish I could find the words to tell him.

In some ways I feel like a lot has happened this last week and in others I feel like much hasn't happened at all.
I guess a lot has happened, it's just been a lot of the same old same old.
Tuesday night I didn't have to go into work because I had some reinforcement training taking place Wednesday morning at 8am so they canceled my Tuesday night shift. It was rather nice to be able to spend an extra night at home this week. Dave and I found ourselves watching While You Were Sleeping and then hitting up Baskin n' Robbins afterwards for some Sundaes. While we were there the attendant started talking to her co-worker about some problem she was having with her chemistry homework. Dave asked for some clarification about her problem and then completely answered her question. I'm dating a smart fella' I guess. All our friends found it rather funny when they heard the story because that's just how Dave is. No matter where he goes it seems he finds some way to help someone with their homework.
Wednesday my reinforcement training let out early so I ended up getting done 2.5hrs early. I used that time to go home and watch Sleepless in Seattle and work on knitting Dave's hat. I was doing pretty well on it but hit a snag towards the end of last week and lost a couple of stitches. I ended up starting over completely while I watched the movie. After the movie was over my roommate Jaime expressed interest in watching An Affair to Remember a movie that they talk about quite frequently in Sleepless. It just so turns out that I bought the movie back in December so we threw that one in right after Sleepless finished. After Dave got back that night we made plans to go see the 9:40pm showing of Tron at the dollar theater. Dave said that he needed to do some homework beforehand though so I set myself to making cookies. Needless to say we both got distracted and missed Tron and ended up just popping in The Italian Job instead.
Thursday, was the usual. I had the day off so I puttered around, worked on my knitting more, watched Fools Rush In, and then went and did P90X Yoga with Jim and Dave. Afterwards, Dave came over to my place to hang out for a bit. He worked on some homework while I deep cleaned my kitchen which desperately needed it. Then we ended up making a late night run to Taco Bell/Wendy's with Lacey and Lisa. After that we went back to my place and Dave ate his food while I snacked on grapes and made myself some peas. He helped Lisa revise a Spanish paper, and then he and I gave each other back massages. Can I just say I've never thought massages were anything special, but for some reason they have felt super good lately. I think I've maybe been torking my back at the gym more than I realize.
Today, after Dave got back from campus we went out sledding and to dinner at a place called SmashBurger with some friends. I was just in one of those quiet moods, which I feel bad about because I know that Dave has less fun when I am because he feels like he has to cheer me up. It's not that I'm even in a bad mood really, it's just that I'm a little more quiet, but Dave I feel like then hangs back with me and doesn't have as much fun as he could or would like. He tried to bring me out of it a couple times, but sometimes I'm just in a mood and it's kind of difficult to extract myself from that even though I really did try for him. After dinner I took him up to Draper so that he could spend the night with his cousin/best friend who is getting married a week from tomorrow. Dave is pretty sad about it. He says that he is happy for his cousin but sad for himself. haha He's a funny kid.  I spent the rest of my night before work looking for a tie.
Dave has this light celery green shirt that he really likes and that he looks really good in. The only problem is that he doesn't have a tie to go with it. He says that his old roommate had a tie that was a darker green that he use to borrow that went really well with it. Dave has a internship interview with Raytheon down in Tucson this next week and I know he's a little nervous so I was wanting to get him a tie to match the shirt but will still look good with a white shirt just as a kind of good luck/knock 'em dead present. However, I'm having a dickens of a time finding one that seems to be the right shade of green. I got in touch with his old roommate tonight though and he's going to bring the tie that Dave use to borrow by tomorrow so I can take a look at it and get a feel for what color/shade of green I'm looking for. Hopefully I'll have some luck tomorrow finding one that will go well with this dadgum shirt of his.

Today was a pretty awesome day, Sunday's usually are though I have to admit.
I got back from work and slept for an hour or two before waking up and rushing off to church so that I could make it in time to teach my RS lesson. I went a little over, but there was a fair amount of participation and the EQ lesson went even longer than ours so I was pretty ok with it in the end. I'm really trying to stop being so critical of myself when I teach a lesson. The rest of church was good. We went to Jaime's preach my gospel class to support her and Lisa played a musical number in Sacrament. She did her own rendition of All Creatures of Our God and King. It was really good I only dream that I might learn to play an instrument that well. I know what you're all thinking "You can. If you just work at it and practice hard enough." which is true. But you have to admit that some people just have a natural musical ability/ talent that I don't. But I really am going to start trying to learn.
After church Dave received a text message from his old roommate and our mutual friend Cody asking if we wanted to play games or something I don't know what Dave texted him back but Dave came over and we had some lunch and then we laid down on my living room floor and took a nap. I don't usually nap during the day but I was so tired and I really needed it. It was glorious. :) Two hours later we awoke to a knock at the door. It was T wanting to know if we wanted to play some board games. We agreed and went over to Dave's because Allen had likewise agreed. Dave at this point texted Cody and asked if he would like to join us for games.
However, right as we got to Dave's Allen informed T that there were some new updates for a computer game that they play but that they were only lasting for the next hour or so (or something of that nature). T promptly postponed all game playing. With the delay Dave and I decided to bake some cookies so that we could give some to our friend Dallin.
I don't know if I wrote about this or not, but on Valentine's Day I got a text from Dallin saying that he had tickets to go see True Grit at 7:20pm but that he couldn't make it and he wanted to know whether or not Dave and I wanted them. The reason he was giving the tickets away was because he works at a silver refinery and apparently had some blowback from one of the furnaces and ended up with some hot plastic burning his face around his eyes and nose. He got a blessing and went to the hospital. We saw him today and the scabs from the burns are already healing over nicely (just another testament to the power of the priesthood, modern medicine, and a lot of faith I suppose.) Also, Dallin found out earlier this week about the troubles that Dave was having with the gas leak in TJ. He has gone above and beyond to help Dave figure out what the problem has been exactly, he even called one of his cousin's to get his advice and called in a favor so that Dave can take TJ in and have the leak looked at if need be. We thought all that was pretty cookie worthy.
After cookies and dinner Cody showed up and we were finally ready to start playing the much anticipated games. Lacey somehow roped a T and a few other people into play Settler's of  Catan even though she knows I hate that game. However,  Dave and Cody were kind enough to play another game called Dominion with me.
It was a really fun night and it was really good to see Cody. He and Dave are really good friends, they really enjoyed living with each other and I know that they both would like to be roommates again one day.
Cody and I were talking today and he asked me "Where are you living in the fall? Because wherever you live is probably where Dave will live. So you should let me know so that I can move there and Dave and I can be roommates again!" haha I'm really glad that they have such a good friendship. It makes me happy.

I don't know that much has gone on today to write about.
I woke up at noon and got dressed and worked on Dave's hat some more while he was out working on TJ. I went and hung out with his roommates for a little bit too.
Bad news for Dave. The o-rings he got didn't fix his gas leak. He's pretty sure that that means there is something wrong with his fuel injectors and that means it's going to be a lot more expensive.
After Dave finished up with TJ we went out to dinner at Mimi's Cafe. It's this super good restaurant in Provo, if you're ever in the area I hope you try it. After dinner we had had plans to go swing dancing but Dave said that he was feeling a little too tired/full so we bagged on the dancing and just went back to my apt and played Clue with Lacey and her boyfriend Ryan and basically just sat and talked for a little while. After dinner had settled sufficiently Dave and I went to the grocery store and bought some ice cream sandwiches. When we got back John had arrived with his new puppy to spend some time with Lisa. It was the cutest dog. I'm not usually one of those people that falls to pieces over an animal but this dog was cute. Then we basically just hung out for a little bit before I had to go to work. I have to teach the lesson in RS tomorrow morning, it's on work and personal responsibility. It seems kind of an appropriate topic seeing as how I will have just gotten off work. I finished my lesson tonight at work and was contemplating just staying up until church started so that I didn't risk waking up late and not making it in time to teach when Dave said that he would call me at 10am (an hour before church starts) to make sure that I am awake and won't be late. He really is too good to me.

Today, was actually quite a relaxing one.
I woke up and dinked around for a little bit. Around noon Dave came over and we had some lunch and then I dropped him off at school. Apparently he thinks that his car "TJ" (stands for The Jeep) has a gas leak and so he doesn't want to drive it a lot until it gets fixed. However, seeing as how TJ is about as old as Dave and I are and Dave does most of the repairs himself it could take a while.
After that I went to the gym, which, happy day (!) I'm finally starting to see some improvement! :) When I got back from that Lacey called me and asked if she could get something out of my car. I think I wrote about how she totaled her car last Saturday and asked me if I could take her to get her stuff out of it Monday afternoon. Well, her stuff has been sitting in my car since then. She asked if she could grab something out of my car that she had borrowed from her brother and if I could give her a ride down to Springville to return it to him. I did that and when I got home promptly jumped into the shower. I had just gotten out of the shower when I got a call from Dave asking me if I wouldn't mind picking him up from campus. So I left with sopping wet hair and no make-up to get him.
I picked Dave up from campus and on the way back he asked if we could stop by his work. He said that if he was going to be working on TJ this weekend he kind of wanted to grab his grubby work jeans. He also asked if we could stop by the Jeep dealership so that he could purchase some o-rings that he hopes will help fix the gas leak. We then went home and I finished getting dressed before heading back out to Michael's to grab some yarn.
For Valentine's Day my roommate Lisa made her boyfriend John a hat. When we all went out to Chipotle that night for dinner Dave was looking at John's hat and said "That's a cool hat." and I said "Yeah, that's a cool hat. Lisa did a good job with it." and Dave was like "Yeah, I like it." At this point, thinking that maybe he was hinting at something I asked "Do you want me to make you a hat Dave?" to which he said "I don't know...I don't wear a hats." and I asked "You mean like never?" and he said "Well, I had a beenie once. But, I don't know, I don't have a hat...so I don't wear them." Anyway, I'm thinking that this might have been Dave asking for one without really knowing how to ask and I have a lot of time on my hands at work so I've decided that I'm going to knit Dave a hat. That's what the yarn is for.
After I got back from getting yarn Dave and I went out with T, Jim, and our other friend Bryan and got some Sushi. I know most of you don't like it...or think you don't like it based on some pre-conceived notion about fish....especially raw fish. But it's soooo good. Give it a try, especially the tempura stuff and I think you might be surprised.
After that we went back to my apt and watched an episode of "I Love Lucy" before I had to go to work and Dave wen to go play Sardines in the Library with a bunch of people. I converted Dave to Lucy and I bought the entire series on DVD back in January so we've slowly but surely been making our way through the episodes. And that's life for this Provo kid.