Aloooooha!

Okay so I received THE email last night. It reads:

"Congratulations! I am pleased to inform you that you have been selected for admission beginning Spring 2011. You have shown that you are academically prepared, and also committed to upholding the high standards of the university."

Oh thank heavens! Well, I wanted to get in for January, (add in a very long exasperated sigh..), but I guess that's not the way it's supposed to be. Let me tell you... this has definitely been a trial of patience. And obviously I wasn't do very well with having patience because it kept taking longer and longer and longer and it seemed like it was never going to end! I kept telling myself to not worry and that everything with just play out the way it's supposed to. HA! Like that happened-me, not worry? Yeah right.

But one of the first things I thought was at least it's not for Fall Semester... It's not like I'm just dying to get out of Reno. It's really not bad here; I have a great job and now I can work four more months and make more money for school! It's just hard having no friends. The people in my life, make my life. If that makes sense. My friends are everything. The people I am close to in life are the people that support me and comfort me and simply make me happy. So it's just hard not having very many of those friends around. Especially when the friends that are left in Reno don't necessarily do things I would like to participate in on the weekends, if you catch my drift. So April, please come soon!!

Now I have decisions to make. Lots. Do I take classes at UNR for a semester, do I take online classes from Hawaii (which, by the way, I would have to decide and register and pay for by next week), or do I just wait for Hawaii and just keep working? Originally I also thought of returning back to BYU-Idaho for a semester and use my scholarship, but the only reason I would do that would be so that I could be with my friends up there haha. I don't think that will work out because Hawaii won't tell me what classes to take so I don't want to waste money taking classes that might not transfer.

After Christmas I have decided that I'm going to take some kind of break. It might only be for a week but I hope to visit San Francisco, Logan, and Rexburg, ambitious I know. But as lazy as it sounds, I feel like I need a break. Not for the resting purpose, well, maybe for that, but mostly just for a little bit of change. So hopefully that works out! I am loving this whole blog thing and I love that you guys love it too. Ciao!

Why Hello There!

Well, I finally started a blog. Yay for me! I think it's mostly because I'm always buying new journals and such, but I never really get around to sitting down and writing in them.... So here I am. I'm not quite sure it's such a good sign though that I think I'll be more likely to journal just because I can do it on the computer.... oh how I love technology! I also wanted to start a blog because I'm always looking at my sisters-in-law's (you know who you are, Lauren and Merideth!) blogs because they are always so dang cute. My only blogging dream is that I can someday become as talented as them- and I guess keeping a history is a good idea too ;) But I will definitely need some help because I still have NO IDEA what I'm doing!

So I can I can update everyone on the exciting (ha!) life of Caroline Altom... I went to BYU-Idaho from January to July of this year and because of their weird track system I am currently "off-track" until January of 2011. So I came home for the month of August and then went and lived with Blake and Christine in Logan, UT for about a month and tried to find a job there so I could live in Logan for the fall. I had such a blast living with them! Blake and Christine are just so hilarious and so kind and so awesome! And Sam and little Ike are just too cute! I love those boys so much. But unfortunately I was having trouble finding a job there so I prayed about it and knew I had to move back to Reno, which I was sad about because I really loved being in Logan. But the day I got back to Reno I had a job interview at Learning Express Toys and I got the job! So I am currently living in Reno back at home and working about 24 hours a week. I love working at Learning Express Toys, it's always fast-paced, we have such fun stuff, so many adorable little kids come in, and I like the people I work with! So it's turned out to be a huge blessing.

So now the "fun" part... I have decided not to return to BYU-Idaho. I really did like it up there and I made some friends for life, but it's a little too small for me and they don't have any majors I'm super interested in. So after leaving, I decided to look around more at my options and really think about what I want to study. Luckily, when I got home I was hired to work at two wedding receptions. And this changed everything. I really had a blast working at both of them, and after the second one, someone told me "You are such a natural at this! Why aren't you doing this professionally?" And I thought, "Yeah, why am I not doing this professionally?! I love it, so I should do it!" So that's when I started searching around for majors that would help me along that path, and that's when I found the: Hospitality and Tourism Major at BYU-HAWAII! It's perfect because it's like a business degree with emphasis on events and hotels AND I can specialize in food/catering as well! It's like it was made for me. Obviously, I applied to BYU-Hawaii almost immediately in hopes of transferring there in January. But, (ARGH!) I am still waiting and waiting to hear from them. It seems like there has been some confusion and that I might not end up there in January, but all is well because I can always stay home and keep making money and maybe even take some classes at UNR or online... we'll see! This has been hard for me because I'm such a planner and have to always know what I'm doing.... good thing I'm going to study to become a professional planner ;) I guess this is just a hard way that Heavenly Father is trying to teach me patience and trust.

Anyways, that is the dramatic and exciting life I'm living right now! (Exciting right!?) Hopefully I can be more religious with blog posts than journal entries, and hopefully I can become more skilled at the art of blogging!