Smile

Overheard advice in the halls:

Smile! It's what's in style. What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.

Smile! There you look better that way.

I love chemistry!

Ok so I haven't decided if I love chemistry or if I just love my classmates and my teacher but really what difference does it make??? It is really quite a difficult subject for me to grasp and it's only just now starting to happen but my is it fun! I find myself constantly thinking about chemistry and asking questions like, "Oh i wonder the equation for that is?" Or "I wonder what that would look like under a microscope?" "Why does this happen when these two things are mixed together and what would the moleculer structure be if this was boiled and then cooled?" or even more exciting "I wonder what those to things would do if I mixed them together? Would they explode?" I just heard about a reaction with clorox and brake fluid that creates lots of noxious smoke and can explode supposedly and I REALLY want to try it but I will probably chicken out for fear of damaging myself! I think my teacher will let me use a bunch of different chemicals to grow different crystals which we can then look at under a microscope. She said we could and I hope she really means it because I found some crystal recipies out on the internet that I want to try out. This last week in lab we "grew" these awesome crystals from KNO3 (Potassium salts) and I would have loved to look at them closer but unfortunatly they only grew when the solution was cold and were too fragile to remove from the solution so I had to settle for inspecting them with a little magnifying glass. Oh my I fear I am becoming even more of a science geek than I ever imagained I could be. I find myself drawn to the internet looking of formulas or info about reactions I have heard about or just googling chemistry and seeing what I find. For fun check out these videos of Mentos in Diet Coke. This experiement we did do in class I had the privilage of getting to drop the mentos in the bottles! Great fun. Ours wasn't nearly so elaborate but it was sure fun anyway. Or try your smarts at some of these little chem quizzes.
I have the most incredible teacher, someone I hope to know for a very long time, and my classmates are fabulous. I wouldn't trade my lab partner or any of my classmates who work near us for anything. I am just really starting to get to know them and we sure do cover the ground when it comes to topics and they hardly include chemistry! We have a lot of fun and share a lot of laughs in what could be a very dry and boring place, "The lab". I look forward to class each week and I will so miss these people when I no longer see them twice a week.
Ok enough sentamental rambling...did I mention I love my chem class???

Valentines day belated thoughts

I kind of have a love hate relationship with Valentines day if the truth were known. I used to share the annoyed, single woman's view, "just a stupid holiday to make me feel bad because I am home alone" but today I find it frusterating for another reason. I love all the hearts and flowers and I would send all my friends and family something red and sweet if I could but alas it's too close to Christmas and just always sneaks up on me. This year was no exception. I had plans and thoughts of sending come flowers and trying to get cards, even e-cards out to people, but when the day finally arrived I was working, was tired and had no time. And so another valentines day has come and gone and I didn't get a note out to everyone like I had planned. I did get one thing done though and had lots of fun with it along the way so it wasn't a completely missed day for me. I have chemistry class on Tues. and Thurs. so I made cookies for my class as seen below, with a chemisty theme of course! The writting on them is chemical formulas, equations and symbles. They seemed to enjoy them.

So no I didn't get any flowers or candy but that was ok. I worked all day, came home, ate dinner and fell asleep with the cats by 8pm. Good thing I didn't have plans for the night, I might have fallen asleep in my plate!

I did think of all my friends and I hope you had something happen to you during the day that told you you were loved by someone special to you. Love is such a many splendered thing! It truely is. To say "I love you" is looked up as so scary and something you wouldn't say to many people but yet the Lord says that He loves us all. And we are to love our enemies, and we love our pets, and our parents and our lovers. What is a lover anyway? Someone that we love or someone that loves us? Ah so many uses for the same word and yet what does it really mean to love??????

I am still alive

No Abbie I haven't given up on blogging just haven't had the time or I guess made the time. Things have been happening, I witnessed a car accident (the woman was ok but not the truck) I have been working, working and working some more, Chemistry goes on and choir started. It's not that I havne't wanted to tell you some interesting things but everytime I think to sit down and write I am too tired or too frusterated with life to really make it happen. I have some to the conclusion that life is messy and I just don't know if I like how mines going. Oh well that's something another post sometime later. I will try and give you an interesting update this weekend.

Over and out,
Crystal :-)