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Please edit your links to go to our new site that we (Alex & Kristen) have created together! This new site has been working for a while and we would appreciate all of you changing your links to link to it. If you need help with that just call me or comment on the new site that you don't know how and I will arrange some way to help you! I will no longer be posting to "Alex Christensens Site" but I will post here:
Christensen Family
www.alexkristensen.blogspot.com
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Our Christensen Family Website is now functioning!

Please edit your links to go to our new site that we (Alex & Kristen) have created together! I will no longer be posting to "Alex Christensens Site" but I will post here:
Christensen Family
www.alexkristensen.blogspot.com
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Our New Appartment

So here's our new apartment! We made it look a lot better than it was and hey for $365 a month with the gas (heat) paid it's a deal... not to mention how close we are to campus... across the street!









9 Feb 2009

Car Health Insurance / Bright Lights

We have all heard of different kinds of insurance... life insurance, health insurance, auto insurance, and many others. There are dumb insurances like pet insurance etc. I thought of something very interesting though... a different kind of auto insurance. Life insurance is to collision/auto insurance as health insurance is to... is to... is to... non existent! Yeah so I've come up with a new kind of auto insurance... auto health insurance. This insurance would pay a good percentage of things like oil changes, new tires, yearly inspection, lights, upgrades for a safer vehicle (for example: brighter lights), and things like that... it just wouldn't pay for gas or bling blings.

I thought of this while talking to my wife about buying some new headlights for her car. The ones on her car are those normal kind that yellow over time only hers are so horribly yellowed that they aren't very bright at all. In my search for headlights I have found out the differences between the different kinds of headlights and their intensities. Halogen bulbs are the kind of bulbs that most cars have. I've known that Xenon bulbs are brighter than halogen but there are some things I didn't know before that I know now. I once bought "xenon bulbs" for my car and yes they were very super bright and incredible compared to my old halogens... but they still didn't have the appearance of the brightest lights that I have seen some people driving with... you know... the kind that are so bright that you are annoyed when you pass them, but if you're driving with them you're loving life because you can see for miles ahead. Yeah anyways those xenon bulbs that I bought were a fake wanna-be xenon bulb. There are so many different things you can do to a car to get brighter headlights! They make Projector Headlights (that's what they are called) that are amazing because they focus light and send it through a magnifying glass... way cool. Anyways... so about those true xenon bulbs that blind you... there are conversion kits (Xenon conversion kits) available on the market so your car can have some of those blinding bright lights. True xenon bulbs need ballasts to ignite just like fluorescent bulbs do. Cool, anyways, sorry about the tangent.

If anyone ever decides to make a million off of my auto health insurance idea and it works... you had better include me in it!
24 Jan 2009

Change in Plans

For a long time now Kristen and I have been planning on going to the University of Utah. Plans have now changed. I was going to go there to study Architecture and she decided she was going to study Early Childhood Education. We have many factors which have made us decide the way we have:
1. We both are not "City" people.
2. The campus is way too big. (Take a bus from class to class; get lost in the library.)
3. We couldn't get housing.
4. They wouldn't accept me for architecture until I waited 3 more semesters and completed Calculus and two Physics classes--Physics not being offered this semester or at any right time. That is still a conditional thing: "if".
5. There are too many students per class.
6. It is very expensive.
7. It just didn't feel right.
8. We don't qualify for scholarships or financial aid/they don't offer it half-way through the year. (Also, according to FAFSA we are single--DUH.)
9. We don't know anyone, with the exception of two people of 29,000.
10. They don't send out information on time or even know how to help us the slightest.
11. Their applications are always missing something (i.e. they forgot to ask your s.s. number) and they realize it a week too late.
12. Links are always changing on their website... you never know if a link will take you where it says it will.
13. We can get what they offer somewhere else for better and cheaper and everything else in our favor.
14. The list goes on but must end now....
9 Jan 2009