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Provo, Utah, United States
Welcome to "Miss Mighty Midge" - A place I can share a piece of my heart with the world. Blogging is my joy. I'm a college student trying to carve myself a place in life. I'm small, funny, passionate, and a little shy. Welcome to the stories of my life...

Monday, April 30, 2012

Mighty Midge - Melting in El Mirage

Last year I spent the summer in Alaska. Can't believe that was a whole year ago! Well, this year I'm living with my grandparents in El Mirage, Arizona! Talk about one extreme climate to the next. It's been great so far and surprisingly, I love the heat!

So my best friend is getting married. It's been killing me having to wait to post it! Beaves is getting married and I'm the Maid of Honor! I'm excited with the planning and coordinating for an August wedding.

Keep checking for more details about the wedding!

Monday, April 16, 2012

Laundry Day

Dearest Laundry,
        I hate you.



Thursday, April 12, 2012

Ode to BYU Reading Days

Today is the first day of Reading Days. Two days where BYU students basically get the day off to study for finals. Do we really use them to study? ... Good question. Let's take a look at BYU's daily newspaper, The Daily Universe.


Are reading days for reading?

BYU sets aside two days for exam preparation, but students don't always use the day for what its intended

BYU sets reading days as a time for students to go to review sessions and prepare for their finals. Rather than studying during reading days, Stephanie Lee has decided to jump out of a plane.
Reading days offer students a great deal of time for exam preparation, but many students choose to disregard the invitation to study for other pursuits. Some students use it as a day to rest and recharge, while others use it as a chance to play.
Previous to this semester, Lee, an economics major from Calgary, Alberta, used reading days in the conventional manner. She slept in, attended review sessions and set up study groups to get ready for exam time. This semester, she and her roommate found a Groupon deal for 50 percent off on skydiving.
Chris Bunker
The Daily Universe takes an inside look at what students do during reading days.
“This is probably the first time I’ve made plans to do something other than study on reading days,” Lee said.
Lee isn’t the first BYU student to go skydiving during reading days. Last year a group of her friends went skydiving and this year they are going paragliding. Lee believes the lack of holidays in the second half of the winter semester contribute to students’ desires to go out and have adventures.
“Especially in winter semester, your reading days are really the first break from school you’ve had in a couple of months,” Lee said. “When the weather starts getting nicer you really want to take advantage of being outside, and the last thing you want to do is study.”
Whitney Hanks, a senior studying linguistics, said she believes students use reading days for fun because BYU doesn’t offer a spring break. While other people go out and do crazy things, she prefers to use reading day for reading non-academic material.
“I kind of like the chance to read a book for fun that’s not a school book,” Hanks said.
While other students are out playing, Brad Nichols, a student from Lindon studying accounting, tries to spend as much time as he can studying during reading days. While his roommates try to put in about four hours of studying, Nichols nearly doubles that number, doing seven to eight hours of studying each day during reading days. Rather than staying at home and watching people around him go out and play, Nichols finds a study room on campus and gets to work.
“Most of the time I just get a study group and we’ll study pretty much the whole time together,” Nichols said. “I guess it makes it easier.”
Trevor Bateman, an economics major from Colville, Wash., has spent every winter semester reading day on the golf course since coming to BYU. While Bateman enjoys his time on the golf course, he would rather either substitute reading days for a spring break or cancel reading days altogether.
“I personally would be OK with cutting down reading days and having finals right after classes,” Bateman said.


So what did I do today? I slept in until 11:30, went with Beaves to get her hair cut, watched a movie, and went to work. I had intentions of studying at work today. But now it is nearly 7:30PM and I have completed 5 questions for my New Testament Study Guide. But, Hey! I feel more productive than the girl that went skydiving today so I think I'm in good shape ;). 

Krispy Kreme Guy

I finally did something that is worthy of making my "Stepping Out of the Ordinary 2012" page!

This past Sunday my best friend, Sarah realized she forgot all of her research materials in South Jordan at her grandparents house. Unfortunately she needed the research for her class the next day! So at 12:30am we decided to make our sojourn to South Jordan. (It's only 30 minutes from us, no big deal at all.) So I'm driving us up and we get back into Provo at about 1:30am. I look over at Sarah and asked her if she wanted to eat anything. I mean... we just drove for an hour. I definitely think that's deserving of a cheeseburger! But being the responsible adult Sarah is, she replied, "Well everything that's open at 1:30 in the morning I shouldn't be eating at 1:30 in the morning..." So naturally I proposed that we go to Krispy Kreme.

We pull up to the drive through and tell the guy that we need a couple minutes. After about three seconds of deliberation we decide that we only want two doughnuts. So I start my order and ask the guy at the drive through for two doughnuts... to which he replied, "Seriously? ... It's 1:30 in the morning and you only want two doughnuts?" I retorted with, "Yupp, that's all I want." He then asked at least two more times if I wanted more doughnuts. Sarah and I were laughing so hard we could barely contain ourselves. Why? I think it mostly had to do with the fact that it was nearly two in the morning! So while we're pulling up to the window, I look at Sarah and say, "Sarah! If this guy is cute, I should totally give him my number!" She screamed, "DO IT!" We get up to the window and I give him my card. He gives me the receipt that I need to sign and Sarah keeps telling me to put my number on the bottom but I'm too chicken so I can't do it. I give him back the receipt and he gives me a box of doughnuts and says, "Alright ladies, I gave you six doughnuts for the price of two. Just don't tell anyone! Have a great night!" At this point Sarah is inches from punching me in the arm for not giving him my number haha. I pull out of the Krispy Kreme and stop at the stop sign. Sarah is yelling at me to turn around so we sit in the car for literally ten minutes deciding what to say when we go back through the drive through! We came to a conclusion and I turned the car around! We get up to the intercom and he asks us how many doughnuts we want and that's when the following conversation transpires:

"Hey! It's David right?!," I said.
"Yeah it is!," says David.
"Well, David, we just came through here and I realized that I forgot to give you my phone number. I was wondering if you wanted it!" (my silky suave reply!)
"Oh you forgot, huh?!"
"Yeah! I did!" I said.
"Haha, well why don't you pull up to the window?"

Sarah and I are laughing so hard at this point that I'm pretty sure Beaves has pee on the front seats of her car! We pull up to the window and I hand him the receipt that has my number and name on the back of it. He says my name is pretty and then tells me he's glad I remembered to give him my number. We say goodbye and Sarah and I pull away screaming and feeling like we're invincible. (This is why we shouldn't be allowed out of the house after midnight haha).

As we're driving home David actually texted me! We screamed so loud I swear you could have heard us outside of the car. The next day David and I continued a pretty lengthy conversation and I think we might go on a date sometime next week. Needless to say - it was the funniest night of my life and I'm so proud of myself for actually turning around and giving my number out haha.