Thankful

Yeah I didn't write a Thanksgiving message. Oh well. Thanksgiving was AWESOME. Spending time with my family. AWESOME. Sleeping on an air mattress. AWESOME. (ok, not really go back and say that really sarcastically for me ok?)

I love my family and am thankful for them. . .even with all the quirks that exist. As my fabulous sister says "mom is adorable" and she really is. Dad even with all his craziness that I don't understand is willing to help in whatever way he can. Steph is the greatest sister I could ever have or want. You know we all get on each others' nerves and stuff but I love my family. I'm thankful for their support in my craziness.

That is all.

Happy late turkey day!

Against "Tradition"

So my mom's rule has always been no Christmas stuff before Thanksgiving. Well. . .I'm throwing that out. I am SO VERY excited for Christmas this year. . .I've said before I get to decorate all on my very own. Make my house mine and cosy for Christmas. My tree will be in my bedroom this year since it is the biggest room in the house. I hear Christmas music in stores and have been waking up with Christmas music in my head. Fine with me! Time to click all of the boxes for Holiday music on my itunes. Los straight jackets here I come!!!!

This year I even bought those cinnamon scented pine cones. The smell fills my whole house and they are just in a bag hanging on a door handle. It smells like the holidays in my house. My ribbon lights came yesterday and I also bought cardinals. . .although I am allergic to birds Cardinals are my favorite and I found a set of 6 on clips to put on my tree. I am so very excited. VERY. On Monday I go with my friend M to Color Me Mine to pick up our painted and fired ceramics. I made 2 ornaments. SUPER CUTE. I will be taking pictures and posting them. . .I don't know how thought since my camera is broken :( but it will happen some how.

Here we go again

I am out to get another Bachelors degree. . .this time in Spanish. I don't know what I'm gonna do with it but I feel like I need to. So I guess I'll see where life takes me.

I also got to go with the Hermanas (Spanish Sisters) tonight. LOVED it!!!

FANTASTIC

I had a fantastic evening last night.

On a whim I went shopping at Dress Barn. . .I know. . .you're probably thinking really, there why? Cause I thought it would be a good place to go. It WAS!!!! I found a dark blue sleeveless dress for $16. . .no kidding $16!!!!!! Then I had to try to find something to wear over it. . .Lane Bryant came to the rescue with a gray/silver shrug.

I felt BEAUTIFUL. . .that is the first time in months that I have felt beautiful. The dress made my eyes pop and the lipstick helped with that. . .the only make up I wore as mascara and lipstick. I wore my favorite dove earrings. nylons and black heels.

He opened doors for me offered his arm. The best part? He isn't a huge dancer. . .bonus cause as much as I like the idea of dancing I don't like doing it much. We danced but also spent time talking about life and movies and such. It was super fun. YAY!!!!!!!

Christmas tree

This
Plus this (the gold ribbon lights)

Equals my tree this year with some ornaments yet to be discovered.

Sadie Hawkins

this friday. . .I have a date. . .cute nice guy. . .who is actually my age. . .it would be nice if he reciprocally liked me. . .but you know what. . .doesn't matter if he doesn't because we are going to have a BLAST!

Amazing

This week has been really difficult for me. At the first of the week I didn't know if I would make it through. I really just wanted to crawl under a rock and die. You know. . .give up and not deal with all the crap that happens on a daily basis?

Well, I know I am where I should be because there are some people who have come into my life that have helped me see so very much what I need this week. Come Friday night I was a mess. . .I managed to get through a wedding and reception without crying but that night I went shopping with my friend and afterwords we went to her house and talked about life and what has been happening in my life. That is when I broke down and cried and couldn't stop. I had thought I was over it and that it was tied to "hormonies" but now I realize that it isn't at all that.

Life is never easy, but it sure beats the alternative.

Tonight I went over to that friend's house to have some fun and do some crafts. It was really fun, but the night before she had told me that if there was anything that I needed her to do even if it was make an appointment to please ask her. She set it up so that I could have a blessing I needed so much. It was wonderful. Her willingness to help has helped me so much.

She also gave me a poem or quote or whatever you wanna call it. . .called Girls are Like Apples

Girls are like apples on trees, the best ones are at the top of the tree. Boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they're afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead they just get the rotten apples that are on the ground, that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think that there is something wrong with them, when in reality, they are amazing. That is why we just have to be a little patient and the right boy, the one who takes a chance to find the good, right apple, will come someday.

Jewelry work

It is always kinda scary to me when the head of the library comes looking for me. . .it was a good thing though. She just wanted to see if I could fix a beautiful necklace for her sister. Of course I said yes!

Tis the season

I know, I know, usually I'm not ready for Christmas to come so early, but, this year I am. . . I think it is because I get to decorate my apartment. . .which also means that I get to buy a Christmas tree!! However, it does not mean I'm ready to listen to Christmas music yet.

Good things come to those who wait.

I have been wanting/needing a nice, sturdy, real(as in not chipboard cheap) dresser for my clothes. I have had my eye on one at IKEA that is $299. . .a little TOO far out of my price range.

Last night at my grandma's house for the last bit of my sister's birthday weekend extravaganza :) Happy birthday sis!(we had such a marvelously fun weekend.) My grandma began complaining about a dresser that she has that is too big for her guest bedroom. I went to look at it and it is a BEAUTIFUL expensive dresser that she bought second hand for a relatively inexpensive price. I told her that it is really nice but I can't afford it. My mom said something about do you want it or something. . .and I said yes. I think she has something up her sleeve to pay grandma for it. The next question from grandma was will it fit in your apartment. DUH! My bedroom is HUGE. I told her that she needs to come see my house. It was cute. Apparently I'm gonna be getting a dresser! YAY!! I am so happy. I will have a piece of grown-up furniture in my bedroom!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!

Deadlines. . .sometimes they really work!!!

I have this deadline on Saturday at 7 pm to have my house looking tidy and neat and more importantly how I want it. You see, I have a couple of friends coming over and I'm tired of people not coming over since I'm still technically unpacking and settling. . .but seriously I moved in MAY. . .6 months should be more than enough to do that and yet I still haven't managed it. So Hopefully by the end of October I will be completely done with this whole rearranging and settling and junk. A few big steps have happened. I moved my bedroom around once and then didn't like it so I put it back the way it was before and I'm gonna move a few more things around and hopefully ta da its great.

My goals tonight have kind of been screwed since I got home at 2:00 and slept until 5:30. . .I woke with a start cause I thought I was late for work and was sure I would be in BIG trouble. . .After frantically searching for my cellphone I saw it was PM and I realized I had already been at work for the day.

Anyway back to my house. . . I am beginning to have a sort of color scheme. . .I have these fabulous bluegreenish (but think more blue) curtains for my large window. They look nice. My mom is fabulous and went shopping with me at Target tonight and we discovered better curtains than I got the night before. I'm so taking the other ones back cause my mom ONCE AGAIN is FABULOUS and said "your other windows are small why don't we take some of the upholstery I have and lets make some curtains to save you money." SWEET! My mom rocks that way! So now I need to plan a trip home for a Saturday or Friday night and go through fabric! YEAH! Fine with me cause I need to pick a few things up from there anyway.

Ok. . .Back to work! :) Sometime soon I expect to post pictures of my place on here.

My totally random life in a chain of events

Yeah. I so don't know why I chose that title but it fits my life. Here is the explanation:
1. I totally randomly went grocery shopping at 8:30 last night. . .I bought stuff to make sandwiches for lunch but totally random thing that happened this morning [see number 2].
2. I slept in until 7 am at which point I did not have time to use my sandwich makings for my lunch. PB&J again. . .
3. The reason I slept in so late was I stayed up past 11 pm playing [which shall now be known as exercising] with my wii fit.(I've never used the excuse that I stayed up too late exercising before. . .that is a first!)
4. I stayed up late exercising because at 9:30 when I was going to start exercising a friend called and we chatted it up for a good 30 or so. . .and some random internet time too. I'm looking forward to hanging out with her in about a week! YAY!
5. I couldn't be late to work today cause I chose to not go to CIMA in SLC. . .(pretty glad I didn't go cause of the weather)so I'm "in charge" until Melissa gets back. . . and who knows what time that will be since she is using public transit to get to work. . .and stopping for lunch on her way.
6. The reason I went to the store at 8:30 was that I had fallen asleep and didn't wake until 7:00 and then I chatted on the internet with my sis and ate dinner which consisted of a pepper-jack grilled cheese sandwich with salsa YUM.

Yeah I know this is a pretty random out of order chain but you got all the facts didn't ya? Don't complain!

In other news I only have 11 ogccla scrapbooks to scan. The End is NEAR. . .ha ha ha and our new student worker makes me laugh. :)And I am sad to report that my chair STILL smells bad. . .I wonder when they are going to clean it?

m'kay bye

I'm Ready. . .please!!!

Ok, if you aren't ready for the weather to change stop reading now. . .Or don't get mad at me

I wish the weather would change so that my body will stop hurting. It really puts a damper on things when you have to text or call a friend and say I'm in so much pain I can't go do anything tonight. :( If we could just skip fall and bring on the snow my body would appreciate it so much better. M'kay? Lets just change and stay changed until you know. . .spring? Picky I know but when you have to deal with the fascia tightening on your nerves and muscles because of the crazy weather we are suppose to have this week. . .and it won't stop for anything. . .no heating pad, no ibuprofen, no nothing. . . you just want the weather to stop changing. . .Maybe I need to move to someplace warm. . .I really should but right now is probably not the time to do it. Arizona just sounds so good right now. . .or even a warm humid state like you know, Florida or Hawaii. . .mmmm. . .maybe I need to move to Hawaii. ha ha ha. . .

So now that I've complained I am going to crawl into bed, curl up in the fetal position and whimper until I fall blissfully asleep. . .and hopefully in the morning this "nightmare" of pain will be gone. HOPEFULLY. Stupid weather.

good night!

Never

I never thought I'd say this but I MISS being a missionary. I went with the Spanish sisters tonight. Oh how I miss the missionary mantle and being able to speak Spanish well. Those really were the days. . .but life is good cause there are Hermanas in O-town!!!!!!

Potential

This week had the potential to SUCK bad. Tuesday was the worst. I have learned many things most of which I am not sharing on here because of its nature. I will share with you one little thing that I have learned. I came across it Thursday morning it is a quote from President Monson. "Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved." God sure knew what He was doing when He lead me to that thought cause I ended up needing it Thursday afternoon and it has managed to get me through to today too.

I have been thinking about going to institute in the evenings and so yesterday I went to two classes. Both from teachers I have had before. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I heard many things that I needed to hear. I now have classes on Wednesday and Thursday. It was like filling a cup that had been empty for so long. Like long over-due moisture to a parched plant. I realized that I have just been going through the motions by attending church and activities, there has really been no uplift for me because I haven't been putting in the effort and taking the time. Being stagnant is no fun.

I am also looking at taking some big steps in my life. Some of them are going to happen beginning Sunday. I feel like it is time for me to change wards and attend the one I am assigned to. SCARY and yet I look forward to doing it. It is a step in the right direction.

My life has potential. . .potential to be GREAT!

Back to work

The Salt Flats were FABULOUS. . .minus the rain and ornery people. I'm hooked.

That is all for now since I don't have more to say. Well I do but not here.

How?

Ok, so how is it that I like a guy who HATES camping with a passion and doesn't like cars much? How could this have happened? ;)

Oh well.

Salt Flats in 3 days!!! I'm so not ready yet. . .tons to do.

Holy Hanna

Dude the salt flats are 10 days away (11 if you count today)! I thought they would never come! I guess I should start planning what I need to do and take care of before the 14th. I'm SO excited!!!!!!!!! I found out that the per diem isn't going to change, so that is good, really good. . .


In other news I found out that there is an Archeology study abroad to Greece and Turkey in 2010. I WANT TO GO!!!!! I have been wanting to travel to Turkey forever. Greece will be AWESOME too. I just have to come up with the money. . . some how. OH I just have to plan, scrimp and save but it WILL be worth it. ooooo. . .I wonder if I get a tuition waver if I do it? It is a class. . .I know it wouldn't cover it all, but ooh. . .I hope!!!!

What so you say? (especially if you don't feel that bad)

So, I ran away today. . .and didn't get my laundry started until 10:30 pm tonight. I need undies for tomorrow and today when I left my neighbor was doing laundry. When I got home I discovered that there was still laundry in the washer. Sigh. So I was making a bunch of noise and took ALL of their baby's lovely diapers out of the washing machine. . .and hung them on the rack in the basement. Now, I don't know about what they did all day but I was gone. . .After I had the washer filled and most of my clothes in it she came down and was like: "Oh, those need to be washed again." I said to her, I'm sorry, I do need underwear to wear tomorrow. (Honestly I didn't feel that bad about it but I acted like I did. . .she had ALL DAY to wash those twice. . .oh well.) She said, its alright, I'll just wash them again tomorrow. So now the predicament I'm in. Do I stay up all night and do all of my laundry tonight? OR DO I just wait to do the rest of my laundry tomorrow evening or Monday. I think I'm going to stay up and get it all done. I think I only have one load left anyway if I do a large one with all my darks and lights together.

Oh and today I paid off my car!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It feels kind of liberating :D

P.S. I was thinking that the diapers really stunk when I hung them up. . .cause obviously they did! Just another reason for me NOT to use cloth diapers.

GRE prep time

Yeah, it is finally time for me to get studying for the GRE. Should have been doing it in the summer, but I moved and had SO much fun with my friends. SO in lieu of taking tons of classes for fun I am going to study and only take guitar.

Wish me luck. . .and luck that I can find my GRE test prep book. :)