stressed

My life has been really crazy lately. I've had a hard time sleeping and my stomach always hurts. The joys of stress! Work used to be really nice and relaxing, now it's contentious and demanding. School has always not been that stressful other then the fact that I have to spend every night there. But lately we've been trying to plan out how we're going to get everything done before we graduate in 5 months and it's stressing me out. I still have about 10 treatments that I'm not passed off on, which means I have to do that still, then we have a test today (that I'm praying I pass) and we have 15 more tests after that to finish. We have to prepare a 2 hour lesson by next month on one of the chapters to teach to the class. We also have to do this project where we work on one person every week doing different things to their skin like Micros and Peels and stuff and record how their skin is changing and take pictures and stuff. That is due before we graduate along with a huge spa project where we have to pretend like we are opening our own spa and we have to design it (down to the color scheme), find out how much it will cost to build, what the monthly and yearly expenses will be, etc...it's crazy. On top of all of this, I worry about teaching Sunday school and getting my lessons done for that. And then I have to worry about how I'm going to make ends meet with trying to save for Vegas and how I'm going to pay for school. AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! I know everyone has stuff going on and I'm just whining, but it feels a little better to let it all out. Thanks for letting me vent!

too long...

Alright so it's been an amazingly long time since I last blogged. So sorry friends. Truthfully my life has not been that interesting and that the reason for my absence. I did go to Chicago last weekend for a huge craft show for work. It was all work work work, eat out, come home. Oh and sleep in an WONDERFULLY soft king size bed. I have to tell you that I LOVE having my own hotel room. Have you guys ever had one? I mean think about it, you are usually traveling with people and you usually stay in the same room, well Provo Craft actually forked out the money to have each of us stay in our own room. I loved it. I could stay up as late as I wanted or go to bed as early as I wanted, and watch whatever I wanted. It was great! I could probably spend 3 paragraphs on my new bosses and how horrible they are, but I won't depress you guys. Just pray that these last 5 months go by fast.

So I've now learned all the procedures in school that we have to learn to graduate, I just have to practice them. We have to do 5 of each procedure to be passed off in it. I have a lot to go on some things and others I'm already done with. Anyone want a chemical peel or a body treatment? :) I think I'll be done in December, I have 450 hours left.

I have to teach my first Sunday school lesson this week. I'm nervous but I'm sure it will go ok, I just have to make some cookies or something and then everyone won't care how bad the lesson is :) . I should have been working on my lesson all week but instead I was reading Harry Potter. I'm almost done but I have this fear that I'm going to overhear someone talking about it and it's going to ruin it so I've been reading every spare second I have. So ya, that's my exciting life :) Maybe soon I'll have something worth writing about :)

the 4th

This 4th of July was really fun! It kind of started on Tuesday after work when the whole family came over to stay the night. I skipped school to hang out with everyone so that was nice! We had a big dinner and played games and then went and played mini golf. It was SO funny watching the kids putt (Beckham fell on his head one time trying to pick up his ball (: ) . Oh and we got some big news before we went golfing, Amberlyn, my oldest brothers wife is preggers again. This will be their 6th. The oldest is 9 and the youngest is 3. We all thought they were done, and they did too but I guess they decided they needed to have another one so she's due in Feb. Kelli, my other sister-in-law is pregnant right now too due in Dec. so we're adding on a lot to our family :) . Anyway so that was cool. Mini golf was fun and then we came back home and played more games and went to bed kind of late. Wednesday we woke up and had a big yummy breakfast and hung out playing guitar hero till 1:00 when we went to see Transformers! That movie was awesome! Go see it!!! After that was done we still had the Stadium of Fire to go to so we went home, ate and got ready for that. The Stadium of Fire was fun! Brooks and Dunn performed and the fireworks show was really good! I got home pretty late but it was just a really fun day! I love the 4th! Spending time with family, eating good food, playing games, fireworks, patriotism...fun times!!

Don't complain

Right now I'm co-chair in the Education/Housing/Employment calling at church. Surprisingly this is a stressful calling that I don't have the time for. So I went and talked to the bishop about changing my calling. He said he would try to get me a calling where I could do it on Sundays and it wouldn't interfere with my crazy schedule during the week. I thought, "Great, something small in the Relief Society would be perfect." But for some reason the bishopric in my ward seem to think that I'm this powerhouse person who needs to be utilized in an important calling or something. So last night at ward prayer I was pulled aside and asked if I would take a calling as a...dun dun daaaaaaaa Gospel Doctrine Teacher. Oh crap, what have I done? Why wasn't I just settled with the calling I had? Now I have a much more stressful calling. I actually taught G.D in this ward before I moved to Switzerland, so it's not completely new, but still scary. I just feel like there are other girls in the ward who have been on missions and who know more then me who would be better at this, but I guess I'm supposed to be there. Pray for me everyone :) ! Moral of the story, don't complain, you'll get something worse.

Yesterday was a "talkin-on-the-phone day". Do you ever have those Sunday's where you feel like you're on the phone all day long? I always did in Hawaii and Switzerland, that was when I talked to the whole family. Anyway I called my cousin/best friend in Jr high yesterday and we aren't really that close so we had a lot to talk about. I was on the phone for 4 hours. It was SO good to catch up with her since we were at one time inseparable. It was interesting because she asked me if I could choose one time in my life where my life totally changed and was never going to be the same when would it have been and I said when I moved from California (where we were best friends) to Washington my Sophomore year of high school. She said that was hers also. After I left everything changed for her and everything changed for me. I can't even imagine what my life would be like if we hadn't have moved. I wouldn't have gone to Ricks and met my friends there who convinced me to go to BYU-Hawaii and who also started my love for travel. I'm sure I wouldn't have gone to Switzerland. It's crazy how things affect your life, and you don't even realize it. Anyway, it was good to talk to her. She's in the Navy and ships out to Kuwait this month. Scary.

In other news, my friend from Hawaii, Corey, is in town and called me last night because he wants to get together while he's here. He's so weird. When he's in NY (where he lives) we barely ever talk, if we do it's because I call or email him. But the minute he gets back in Utah he calls me. But anyway, I'm really excited to hang out with him...I'll let you know how it goes.

p.s I've realized that I blog more in a journal style then just about random stuff like most people, so I hope it's not too boring or anything. :) Laters!

I'm a winner!

Yesterday was our company picnic. Tons and tons of people were there and we were all given two raffle tickets. All throughout the day they were drawing names and giving out little prizes and Kelli (my sister-in-law) won with both her tickets. So we were joking all day that it was good that I didn't win a little prize so now my tickets are in the drawing for the big prizes at the end. We were joking how I was going to win the big prize which was a Cricut Expression machine. It's a scrapbooking machine that Provo Craft makes and it just came out and sells for $500. They had some other big prizes like tents and stuff like that and they went through all of those and I didn't win anything so when they got to the Cricut we were packing up our chairs and getting ready to leave when they announced " and the winner of the new Cricut Expression machine is......Brooke Wood". Cory, Kelli and I started screaming so loud and I ran down there and got it from the guy! It was more funny because we had been talking about it all day and right before they drew the name I was saying "Please bless that I win this machine (joking of course)." And then they called my name. Anyway, everyone was joking how they hated me that I won and telling me congratulations and stuff. The moral of the story kids is to always go to company parties and stay till the very end, you never know what can happen. Now I'm thinking "I could sell this machine and have $500 that I really need right now, or I could just enjoy that I have it, and I will use it a lot so I should just keep it." What would you do??

a few different things

I'm a little fired up this week. So we are getting two new people in our dept in the next few weeks. My two bosses Darwin and Suzanne are quitting so my new boss is Donald. Donald decided to hire another girl, Gisella, (who has worked for the company for like 2 months) just because they were trying to move her around since her current job was no longer needed. So we found out that Gisella is now taking Suzanne's spot and being promoted over Sara and me. ??? does that make any sense? She doesn't know anything about the international dept and doesn't even know that much about Provo Craft for that matter. I don't think I would want Suzanne's job anyway, but the fact that they didn't even offer it to Sara or I really ticks me off. Wouldn't you want someone in that position who actually knows something about the dept and company? Provo Craft is such a joke. And now Gisella is totally acting like she's above Sara and I, like asking us if we need any advise from her or something. Sara and I can't stand her, you don't just come into a job and start stepping on people's toes. Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Anyway, ok so on to a more fun note, I'm going to copy Cassidy! :)

25 things I love
1. traveling
2. Sunday dinners with my family
3. going out to dinner
4. The Office (even the theme song makes me happy)
5. The Vegas roll from Happy Sumo
6. driving with the windows down listening to music
7. The ocean/beach
8. fireworks
9. That feeling when you first start to like someone
10. photos
11. reading old journals
12. having a little drama in my life
13. my cat Sophie
14. twilight
15. deep conversations
16. The Format
17. reading a good book
18. getting actual letters in the mail
19. a clean car
20. taking naps
21. big cities
22. half smiles on a cute boy
23. sweatshirts
24. cookie dough ice cream
25. art history

25 things I hate
1. stupid drivers
2. being cold when I sleep
3. complainers
4. working out
5. People who think they are above you
6. onions, lettuce and tomatoes (sad I know)
7. Mondays
8. empty gas tanks
9. losing contact with people
10. stupid boys
11. going to school and finding out I have a pedicure to do
12. long plane rides
13. when my nails break and I don't have a file
14. yogurt with fruit in it
15. when people fart and wave it (SEAN!!!!!)
16. when people don't post a new blog for a LONG time (Mindy Lou Who :) )
17. BBQ flavor chips
18. waiting in line for anything
19. when tv shows go on break for the summer
20. losing my watch and never knowing what time it is
21. spiders
22. that low fat food usually tastes nasty
23. how anticlimactic your birthday is
24. getting into a hot car
25. getting into a cold car

THE movie

I know Cassidy wrote about the movie Waitress in her last blog, but I need to write about it too. I LOVED it. I consider myself kind of picky when it comes to movies. I don't like anything too corny (I love romantic, but not corny) and I don't like a lot of movies that have "laugh here" moments. I loved Waitress because there were a few times I was laughing when few other people were. I knew I liked the movie cause in the end I left smiling and I was in a good mood the rest of the day. The movie is a little different and I can see a lot of people not liking it, but I really like Keri Russell, I think she's an amazing actress, so I would recommend it to anyone. Also with the terrible thing that happened to the writer/director and who plays in the movie, like Cassidy said, it makes me want to support the movie. It makes me happy that it's number 5 in the states right now. The writer was murdered before she even found out that her movie was accepted into the film festival. Google it and read about it, it's a horrible story. Anyway, go support this movie, even if you don't end up liking it :)