Baby it's cold outside!

Welcome to the inaugural post of "Life by Crazy Whitney"!  I'm Crazy Whitney, and this is my life.

First of all, its cold outside!   With only 18 days until Christmas Provo is throwing itself into its role as a frozen wasteland, er... I mean winter wonderland.  This is what weather.com has to say on the subject: 

This is what it looks like outside my front door. 

All of you Moose-esque dyed in the wool Utahns are probably rolling your eyes and saying "Hey, that's nothing!  You should see it when it is negative five billion degrees! THEN it's cold outside." To the Moose herd I say this: that's all good for you, but I am not a Moose- I am a desert lizard mistakenly imported to ice-ville as a baby. And no, sticking this (albeit awesome) antler headband on me isn't going to change it!

  Here is the weather in my preferred Arizona desert environment:

  That is a 15 degree difference at 9 am and a 31 degree difference in the daily highs. So you'll have to excuse me for a moment while I go bask under my heat lamp.

Ok.  Enough about the weather.

I'll finish this post with a brief overview of  some of the highlights from this past week:

1- Christmas shopping with Mom!
Mom called me out of the blue earlier in the week wanting to know if I wanted to go Christmas shopping with her.  I, of course, said yes because I really miss her (and the rest of the family) but life has been so crazy that I haven't been able to visit them in Heber/ North Salt Lake for a really long time!

We went to two dollar stores to get the stuffing for gift baskets for widows in my parent's ward and then to TOYS R US and finally to... the mall!

At the mall we bought some things for my little sisters, and then my mom spoiled me rotten by buying me the first new- new clothes (usually Seth and I buy new clothes from the DI) that I have owned since I got married!  I know I am so spoiled, but when I got home the outfits made me so happy that I cried while putting them away.  I wore one of the outfits the next day.  Here is the picture I sent to Mom:

I have the best Mom in the world and I love her so much!

2. Seth Christmas theater+ last week of class= crazy sleep schedule. 

Seth is working two (soon to be three) Christmas shows right now: Christmas Around the World at BYU, and Liken's the First Christmas at the SCERA.  Monday he will join the lighting crew for The Nutcracker at the Covey Arts Center. As you can imagine, he is extremely busy!

Because I love you all so much I added links to where you can buy tickets underneath each picture. Also I really want people to support the theaters so Seth can continue to have a job:) Just sayin.

http://www.scera.org/events/view/285



http://arts.byu.edu/events/2553/



http://www.provo.org/community/covey-center-for-the-arts/purchase-tickets.863

On top of all the work, it is Seth's last week of actual class before finals.   Basically that means he hasn't slept much!

I am extremely proud of him and grateful to be married to such a hard worker.  Seth is amazing!

Also, he found time to buy and wrap a gigantic present for me and then stow it under the tree!! I am very curious and excited to find out what it is. The tiny cd sized present sitting on top, mostly hidden by the tree branch, is mine to him so...

3. Sarah's Birthday!

My youngest sister Sarah turned ten!!  Wahoo!  I love her so much.  I got to talk on the phone with her for only a few moments because she had to go to the Ward Christmas party and do her part in the primary play but I did find out that Mom did a crazy "heavy heavy hangover" present drop on her head and that she got a red 3ds extra large with Pokemon X&Y.  Also she brought Capri Suns to class for her birthday treat.  My present for Sarah will hopefully arrive via mail in Heber on Monday! I don't want to spoil the surprise so I'll tell more about it in next Saturday's post :)

I don't have any recent pictures of Sarah, but here is one I took when we went to Disneyland this summer:

I love the glasses and the "oh yeah!?" jaw.  She is adorable, smart, kind, and funny. I LOVE YOU SARAH!!!

4. Finals Week
This week was final exams at Salt Lake Community College. Oddly it was a lot less stressful than last week for me.  I think it must be because there is no longer any catch- up work that I can do.  I only had three actual tests and the rest were projects. Two of the tests were for macro and micro economics and were open book so that was nice.  The only really stressful one was accounting and now it is all over! YES.  I am so relieved to be finished with my 21 credit semester.  It was brutal and I am not going to attempt it again. I am thinking 15 credits max for Spring.

5. Deep Cleaning the Bedroom

Part of the problem with taking 21 credits was that I never had time to really deep clean my house. I surface cleaned but did not get in there and purge the drawers and then wipe everything down clean. So, as soon as I finished my last exam I launched a cleaning crusade.  It will probably take me weeks!  Still, I purged wiped down, and then organized the bedroom this week. I am pleased with the results.  I am especially proud of the updated desk area.  It should make next semester a lot less cramped!

6. Creating an Amazon.com storefront
While cleaning everything out I discovered that I have a ton of leftover book inventory from my failed business venture last year!  I decided to try to make some extra cash and sell it on Amazon.com.  I doubt I'll make more than $400, which is the limit you can make before the income becomes taxable and you have to declare yourself as a business.  Also I intend to try out my new ninja accounting skills in an actual business situation and have been playing around in excel for several hours prior to writing this post :)

I called my storefront Whitney's Bookshelf.  Here is the logo:

Here is the actual physical bookshelf that has all of my inventory, office and shipping supplies on it :)

Notice the awesome purple tape?  It says "For Whitney school/ moneymaking schemes only. Do not put anything else on these shelves please!"

If you are curious you can visit my storefront on amazon at www.amazon.com/shops/whitneysbookshelf.  It is pretty sparse right now, since I am still working on sorting through and then  listing all of the books that I have for sale.

7.  Last but not least - Korean Dramas.
I'm addicted to Korean soap operas.  Yes, they are cheesy.  Yes, I do have to read the subtitles because ,no, I don't speak Korean.  But I love them anyway!  I feel like they are a cross between a tv show and a book. As a reward for finishing a semester I got on dramafever.com and watched the entire series of "Her Legend".


Bonus: Disney's Frozen!
So this happened two weeks ago, but I am so excited about it that I'm going to include it anyway.  Seth got us in for free to a midnight screening of Frozen at the SCERA!! I am lucky that he is an employee of a place that has both a regular and movie theater.   I adored the movie and I want to see it again. It is definitiely one that I will need to own.  Also Disney animation just posted my favorite song/sequence from the film on youtube!  It is "Let it Go" which is sung by Queen Elsa in the movie and Idina Menzel (the original Elphaba from Wicked) in real life. You NEED to watch it:




If you haven't already GO SEE THE MOVIE!! It is worth it, I promise.



So that is pretty much it!  I am going to try to post once a week on Saturdays so I don't get too overwhelmed by this blog.   Lastly, dear reader, remember that there are only...

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