The beginning of the end

We believe it is a good sign about this semester that we have been able to play games most every night this week as well as sleeping in a little bit on some mornings. That is a good start. However, this semester is going to be one of our last here at BYU (as far as we can tell at this point), which means finishing off MFA applications as well as applying for graduation here. We took very close care of my CMU application and now we have to wait until April or May to hear back from any of the schools on the list that I applied for. So, now it's the waiting game. Rebecca always mentions how she's so excited to find out where we're going "for our next adventure."

Sunday and Monday we played games with Karl and Angela. We got them hooked on Scotland Yard because they overdosed on Carcassone. But while we were doing that, we were attempting to figure out what was wrong with our desktop computer. Over the past four months, it has been acting really poorly, turning off, crashing, not installing, etc. However, we pulled out the hard drive and tried a fresh install. Everything seemed to work fine, so we were thinking that maybe the motherboard wasn't bad and it was just the cd drive that was bad. However, we have since had the computer have the same problems again: problems installing programs we downloaded, sudden crashes, automatic restarting. Motherboard? Probably.

My friend Jamin came over on Saturday and we tried to come up with movie ideas that we could film. Both of us were really involved with acting and movie making in high school (and later) so we've been itching to get back into the creation process. However, we realized that since we've been out of the loop for so long, that the initial idea process didn't flow so easily for us. Not as easily as we could back in the day. The best idea we came up with: find a homeless man who calls himself "the General" and talk to him. Not the greatest idea in the world. Plus, when we found him in the library, we were too chicken to bother him. I guess it's back to the storyboard.

Congratulations to Jessica and Martin for their new addition. We hope that Elena Joy Madsen is doing well.

We went to Sara and Jarem's house last night and played games. They are leaving for McMinnville, OR in a couple weeks and we're sad to see them go.