It's been awhile...

Well, it's been awhile since I last blogged on here, so I guess an update is in order. I'm still working a lot, and for those of you who missed it I'm working at the front desk here at Wyview Park. It's super awesome, as I get to see a ton of people and sometimes get a little bit to work on homework. So aside from working a ton (which is good and bad), I pretty much just go to class and bake. I hang out with friends occasionally, but more often than not I'm either baking, at class, or working. There have been a few noteworthy things since my last blog, so I'll expound on those, but otherwise it's been exceedingly routine and not too exciting.

Of note since my last blog is a few things (my last blog was like 2 weeks ago so I hope I did at least one thing of note...). According to my calendar, which I try to keep exceedingly updated, I'll go in chronological order since my last blog post on the 18th of things I find noteworthy.

Anyway, first on the list of noteworthy things is my catching up of movies I haven't seen yet. The first movie I saw was Mirror, Mirror (at the dollar theater for $1.25 -> a steal!). It was reasonably good, and compared to Snow White and The Huntsman, which I saw in the actual theater shortly after it came out, I liked this one a ton more. That may have been because I'm kind of a Kristen Stewart hater (I just don't think she can act very well)... but mainly it was because this one was a heck of a lot less dark and morbid than the Huntsman. Overall, I'd consider it a $1.25 well spent for 2 hours of entertainment. Moving on, I recently got a netflix account and have proceeded to watch like 10 movies on there in the last month to catch up on ones I hadn't seen yet that looked good and also to rewatch some movies I really like. So, I've watched Thor, Forever Strong, Transformers: Dark Side of The Moon, A Wrinkle In Time, and The Tale of Despereaux. I really liked Thor, and would definitely watch it again, largely because I have already seen the Avengers (and Snow white and the Huntsman), and rather enjoyed the fight scenes in Thor combined with the reasonable story line. Forever Strong is one of my all-time favorite movies, largely because I admire those people who can play rugby with any skill and not get injured too early in life, and I find the story line almost equal to that of "The Blindside" which is another incredible movie. Transformers 3 wasn't that great, but I liked it more than many other movies I've seen, except the storyline was pretty weak and I still don't understand why they had a different lead female. A Wrinkle in Time was... interesting? From what I remember of the book it followed it about as well as most movie-book remakes, but it was definitely a curious way to play it out. The Tale of Despereaux was probably my favorite movie of the last three (Transformers, wrinkle, and it), due to it actually having a nice story line with different interwoven main characters. It was actually quite intriguing to think of a kingdom built around something, and the effect that making that something illegal might have on such a place.

Moving on from my unusually large amount of movie watching... I had my first BYU cleaning check since I last blogged. It was certainly an experience, made more interesting by the fact it was done by my roommate's boss (since he's the RA who would usually do it...) since he can't do it himself (that may be a tad biased...). Anyway, it was actually exceedingly short in actually checking the apartment being clean, since his boss mainly did a lot of talking with us (she had been on vacation for like a week and a half prior), and catching up on what she missed. The most interesting thing about it though is what they care about being clean... like the bathtub walls and the window track. I dunno, but it seems to me like most people don't actually care that the walls of the bathtub have absolutely no grime or cleaning residue on them, nor do people look in the window tracks.

Aside from that, I've been doing a ton of baking making many different kinds of cookies, from Oatmeal Butterscotch to Chocolate Chocolate chip to Snicker-doodles, to Cookie Cake, and even so far as to make some devil's food cake cookie sandwiches (with icing in between 2 cookies). Along with tons of baking, I've been doing some studying... and I recently discovered the awesomeness of Skype! So I've been able to kind of see my family back home, and talk to them a bit, and I've gotten to talk quite a bit with my awesome little brother who is just totally awesome.

Anyways, I would write about today... but I think I'll use that in it's own post since this one is about as long as I like them already.

And So,
'Til Next Time,
Jordan L. Nielson