you're know you're a nerd when...

I saw this cartoon in my molecular biology class this morning...

and I literally laughed out loud.

yup! #sciencehumor

well I THOUGHT we'd made a pretty good plan...

So remember how I had a plan? And then it changed ever so dramatically? Well yeah.. it happened again :)

I'm getting married in 3 weeks. 

Yep, that's right. As in 23 days... SURPRISE!!!

SO... talk about a major change in plans! As of yesterday Patrick's report date got moved up from May 13th to April 10th. That means a wedding on May 4th is just not an option.

Well I'm certainly not going to push the wedding BACK (I just have very strong feelings about short engagements and not dating long-distance.) That means we have to do it before April 10th. The last bit of April that will be crazy getting everything moved to Georgia and preparing for my finals.... So then we looked at March, but the Houston temple is closed for a good majority of March. February 18th it is. Thank you President's Day Weekend!

And can I just say that it has been REALLY hard to focus on school for the last 24 hours? I really need to study for my pathophysiology test (which begins today) but I'm a little preoccupied...

So much for THAT plan!

I've always thought that I'd be the one to do things differently, break the cliche, and show people just exactly how a REALLY mature and intelligent young lady goes about life... (don't laugh yet) 

Here was the plan:

Graduate from BYU with perfect grades (at least a 3.8)

Get a fantastic job working in Europe/ New York/ LA (maybe Grad school)

Fall in love with a doctor/lawyer

Date for AT LEAST a year

Get married and be perfect

So much for that plan! (now cue the laughter)

Military Ball 2011

I just got engaged... to a boy I met four months ago. What!?! Who is this girl?? Oh he's great. He's an officer in the US Army... (yeah, wasn't that an automatic disqualification 4 months ago? oh yeah totally. so much for rules!) 

OK but the point is, what is it with planning? It seems like Heavenly Father always has something different in mind. How much of it is me and how much of it is Heavenly Father just throwing curve-balls? And why should I make a plan if it's just going to get rearranged?

BUT the truth is that for me there's too much security in feeling like I have a plan. And I think Heavenly Father wants us to make plans. I don't know why, but I do. So I made a new plan:

Speed things up times a bajillion, probably skip the travel & grad school, and go where the military tells Patrick he has to go. 

It's quite the change, but I think Patrick is worth it.

Halloween 2011