ORCA grant submitted!

So, this is me trying on a black dress for Ashley's wedding. It's not really a bridesmaid dress but it's the best that we could find that was black without looking for formals. Notice how very very white my chest is from lack of exposure to sun.

This week was all about getting my ORCA grant finished and submitted. It was a lot of work! I hope it gets me something. Dr. Steele seemed pretty positive about it, so that was encouraging. Then the actual experimental stage of my research started on Friday. It was a LONG day of cutting beef into steaks, assigning them treatments and trying to eliminate variables, tenderizing, and vacuum packing with a little vacuum packer from Walmart that is not made to do so many operations at once. It gets tired and has to cooled down.

Weston is gone. : ( But Mindy invited me over to her house so I wouldn't be all alone today : ) It was nice to go somewhere and be able to talk and not focus on doing anything important for a while. : ) Weston arrived safely at the Pendleton's in New Mexico and sounds sufficiently nervous that he'll try to make a good impression in the interview even though it seems that it won't matter anyway. : ( Due to the fact he's not a resident and we found out yesterday that their website says (in an obscure place of course) that non residents can only get in if they filled out the early decision program application (which is pretty much signing a contract that if you get in then you will go there). Of course we didn't do that and they invited him for an interview before they even had a chance to review his application so we just think it's all a scam to get more money from him. Oh well I guess.... good practice right? It's the real thing so you can't get any better practice!

Interviews!!

So, Weston has been asked to 2 interviews!!!!! He has an interview in New Mexico on Oct. 20th and we just got an email today from Arizona inviting him for an interview!!! Yea!!

So, conference this weekend was awesome! For the first time I actually prepared and went to conference with some questions in mind that I had been pondering. Most of them weren't answered or anything but some of them were kind of addressed and I received impressions about a lot of other things that I wouldn't have if I hadn't prepared myself spiritually. I feel like I'm learning to appreciate conference sooo much more than I ever used to.

Other than that the news for this week is that we've been sick and busy trying to stay caught up with things. Hopefully this next week we'll be able to heal up.

Oh, we also got our UofL application sent out! : )