It's snowing outside right now. All the snow is piling up and is all light and powdery. We might have a white Christmas this year. Tomorrow the high temperature is supposed to be 10 degrees and isn't supposed to snow. All of the snow on the roads will freeze overnight, which could hinder the professors' ability to get to class tomorrow. Especially the ones that live in Cedar Falls and Waterloo. Too bad every assignment is due online so I won't be able to "snowball gamble" on doing my assignments. Snowball gambling is the act of not doing one's homework in the slight chance that class will be cancelled. This is my last required blog, so I have that going for me.

The semester is almost over. I only have one more day of class and then finals begin. It arrived so fast, I don't know if I'm ready for the semester to be over. I am ready for Christmas break to begin. It will be nice to have a couple weeks off without having to worry about school and what I should be doing, but am not. I need to study for my finals now, although the only ones i"m really concerned about are Chemistry and Biology. My Spanish final won't be too bad, But I will experience my first college finals and will be able to mentally prepare myself later for finals to come. I'm getting ready for the shock that will come from my first tests.

Last Thursday, my future roommates and I gave our presentation to live in Löhe next year. I plan on living with Alex Gheysens, Jesse Kielman, Michael Bowden, Jesse Smith, and Brandon Hornback. We gave our presentation on Holiday Shoppe and our project plan for next year is highlight local non-profit programs. Like most busy college guys, and in my own personal manner, we put off working on our project until the night before we presented. We also went to the movie night on Wednesday and didn't get much sleep. We still delivered our presentation well. We find out on this Wednesday if we will live in Löhe nest year or not.

I'm realizing how hard getting behind on work is. I still have four blogs to write before midnight. It turns out, life would have been easier if I would have written the blogs when they were due. The problem was that my life is boring and I find it hard to think of something to blog about. Most of the time I just procrastinate and don't have a lot of free time to do fun things because I would feel bad about not doing other work. I also tend to prioritize work wrong. I do the easy work first or very last and no matter what I tend to get bitten by my lack of motivation. I need to continue to work on this problem.

I work at Crawdaddy Outdoors in downtown Waverly. Normally I work two hour shifts two days a week and a four hour shift one day. Once a month I work a seven hour shift on Saturday. My Saturday to work was the last one. It was the busiest day I've ever worked. I woke up at 8 and biked to work. it was so cold I felt like I would freeze 'Day After Tomorrow' style on the way. There were constantly people in the store and we never really seemed to get a break. One of my co-workers and I also had to build a trailer in the back room, which took all day and still isn't finished. We went back and forth between building the trailer and helping customers. When we tried to close at 4 o'clock, there were still customers in the store who thought that their shopping was just beginning. Luckily they left and the day ended. It was a little stressful.

I went and saw Hunger Games: Catching Fire with my sister on the first Saturday of Thanksgiving break. It was one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. Catching Fire was my favorite book of the Hunger Games trilogy and I was looking forward to the movie. My sister was excited to spend time with me when I came back and I was excited to spend time with her too. We went to the movie and the theater was packed. It was the busiest theater I've ever been in. At the end of the first book, there are the beginnings of uprisings in some of the districts. Catching Fire picks it up from there. President Snow goes out of his way to try and kill the main character, Katniss Everdeen, and she makes him look like a fool again. Of the few good movies I've seen recently, this was the only one that made me forget I was watching a movie and immersed me in the storyline.

Thursday was Thanksgiving. My family and I went out to my great-aunt's house like we do every year. We arrived at around 12:30 so I was late to lunch. I still ate the delicious food that was already on the table, I just didn't eat with the rest of the men as is the norm in my family; men eat first, women and children second. After I finished eating, I went upstairs to hang out with two of my cousins that I always hang out with. We talked for a long time and then got bored. We decided to walk around the farm fields. Eventually we found a storm drain that went under the highway. One of my cousins and I climbed all the way through to the other side. We went back to the house until we got bored again and went to Wal-Mart. The black Friday sales didn't start until 6 pm, but people were lined up at 4:30 when we went. It was insane. I went back to the house until my mom said we needed to go so she could do some shopping at Younkers. She dragged the rest of my family to go black Friday shopping. It was a good Thanksgiving, until, of course, the black Friday shopping.