New Semester, New Home

 The semester is in full swing! It may only be a half of a week into classes, but we already have almost 300 pages of readings and four quizzes coming up next week. Senior year is ON.

This semester I am taking:
  • Hearing Tests and Measures
  • Medical Speech Pathology
  • Intro to Speech Sound Disorders
  • Language Disorders
  • Advanced German I
I am also involved on a research team studying the effects of dyslexia and/or speech-sound disorders on reading skills, and I am beginning to TA for Hearing Science and Acoustics!
COMD girls: Rachel, me, Haylee, McKayla, Riley, Katelyn
 Haylee and I full on NERDED OUT tonight as we studied for a few hours of our Friday evening.  It turns out that all the studying we did to get 100% on our March exam about the inner ear is still paying off -- we can still remember so much from that course!

On other notes, my high school friends and I had a sleep over, the first we've had since all of our boyfriends broke up with us the summer before senior year.  We had more fun than I have had in a long time, watching Criminal Minds, laughing our heads off and playing two hours of the most intense question game I have ever played.  Questions ranged from future dreams to mental health to marriage kinky things to would-you-rather to "were you mad at me about _____ during high school?" Chelsea insisted on staying up for Hayden {formerly Lindsey} to get home from SLC, so we were up past 3 {of course with lots of sugar to help}!

Dallin and I also moved to Wymount, which I couldn't have done without help from Haylee and Lauren and Dallin's friend McKay's truck.  We successfully stocked our new place with  cheap-but-beautiful furniture rounded up at thrift stores and Facebook Marketplace.  Dallin and I had a ball meandering various home decor stores for ideas as well. It seems my adolescent dream of interior-designing my own little home has finally come true!  

With lots of new changes happening anyway, I felt it would be a good time to begin working out daily and eating healthier. On my jog I discovered that our neighborhood nears the temple, the mountains and a gorgeous view of the lake!  Given my history, I have to be careful about my easily addictive attitude surrounding exercise and "healthy foods," since that once led to me becoming very ill. However, with a year of therapy under my belt, I feel that I have learned to find balance. Now that I have relearned how to put variety and appropriate portion sizes back into my diet and have put 15 needed pounds back on, I want to shift that towards foods that will be most energizing and, well, healthy.  For example, I made:
  • quinoa with ground beef, roasted onions, peppers, corn, butternut squash, black beans, taco seasoning, green enchilada sauce and cheese
  • whole wheat pitas stuffed with baked falafel, bell peppers, onions, cucumbers, tomatoes and homemade hummus with lemon lentils on the side


Here are picture's of our old apartment {decor not ours}.  





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