This will make you jealous

I got to see mom and dad this weekend, and I only had to drive to St. George to do it! We took mom to Zion because she had never been before. Here are some pictures.
Brandon always loves to stop and ponder the geology.

Mommy and me on the trail!

And a pretty view.

I had lots of fun!

My hero

Yesterday Brandon and I went grocery shopping. Brandon let me buy a huge jar of pickles, grapefruits, burritos, and all the yogurt I could handle. Sometimes I think he'll never understand how much I love him.

Hearing impaired

I'm not a fan of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Some people might gasp and say that I'm going apostate, but I don't care. The reason I don't like it is that it is SO HUGE, I can never hear the words to the song clearly. They also like to divide themselves into tons of parts and rounds and all sing at the same time. This is not good for me beacuse I have a tendency to hear things wrong (Dad will remember me singing "she's got me on the pretzel.") Here are some things I have heard them sing:

Breakfast, breakfast, buns of salt
He's smart, he's smart, he's veeeeeery smart
Ringing in the cheese, ringing in the cheese
Away thy sheets

I did not find out until relatively recently that they are really singing "bringing in the sheaves" and "and we, like sheep." I still have no idea what the first two really say. Until I can read along when they sing, I'm listening to something that's easier to understand.

Pavlovian response

I'm assuming everyone knows about Pavlov's experiment with the bulldogs where he rang a bell when it was feeding time and soon enough they started salivating every time they heard a bell. Well, something similar has happened to me, and it is really annoying. Last semester, I would get home from school every day, take out my keys, go in the house, and go to the bathroom. Apparently I have done this for too long, because now every time I get home from school and take out my keys, I have to pee. Really badly. I am completely fine until I take my keys out, and then it hits me. It doesn't matter what time I get home, either. I don't even notice it until I see my keys. I think I have a pavlovian response to my keys-- they make me have to go to the bathroom because I associate them with the bathroom.

This is problematic because it's February, and our door gets harder to open when it's cold, and I wear snow boots, a scarf, and a huge jacket. It takes me much longer to get into the house, and then shedding all those layers and making it to the bathroom takes even longer. So I am stuck outside my apartment every day doing a "pee pee dance" and trying to get my key in the door. There have been some close calls. This is ridiculous! I am not a bulldog! I shouldn't wet my pants because my keys remind me of the toilet.

I don't know what to do. Should I slap myself every time I see my keys so I associate them with being slapped and not with going to the bathroom? This is annoying.

An update

I went to target and found rugs on sale for $15 each. They were small, so I bought two and put them together to make a big one. It's kind of ghetto, but they are so much prettier than our yucky brownish-gray carpet.

I also found a plane ticket to Houston for $278. I might come the week that Brandon is on his field trip, if we don't drive down before that. I just really don't want to be home alone for 2 weeks in August when Brandon is on his geology outing.

This is how Brandon feels about school right now:

Please help Brandon!

Brandon has a problem. He is double-majoring in civil engineering and geology, but BYU will only award one degree, so when he graduates, he will have a degree in civil engineering with a secondary major in geology. He is worried that any geology company will take one look at his resume, see that he has a degree in civil engineering and not in geology, and throw it out. This would not be good because he doesn't really like engineering and he has done all the requirements for geology, so he should get credit for the major.

I asked him if he could just switch his primary major to geology, and that would be problematic, too. Since geology is a much shorter major than CE, if he switched his primary major to geology, he would have to take a lot of electives to make 120 hours, and he has only taken as many electives as CE requires. In short, he would have to take 2 extra semesters of classes that have nothing to do with either major.

I have now sent myself on a mission to find out how to set up his resume so that geology companies will see that he has the same qualifications as anyone who got a degree in geology. The best format that I have found is this:

B.S. Brigham Young University, April (year)
-Civil Engineering and Geology double major

Would that be good enough? Is it misleading? He is so smart; I would hate to see him not get a job because of a technicality like this. And he loves geology. He even has a blog post about his rock hammer. I need help.