Why Hello!
My, it has been a while since I have blogged. I've have been swamped with school so I haven't had much time to think about blogging.
But here is a post about Christmas! Yay! So I decided I wanted to do a Christmas count down thing or more like a Christmas bucket list for the 25 days leading up to Christmas! I found a bunch of fun ideas on Pinterest and came up with a few of my own. So here it is!
25 Days of Christmas Countdown!
1. Write missionaries
2. Paint nails Christmas colors
3. Hot coco party/movie
4. Gingerbread nativity
5. Send Christmas cards
6. Make Christmas Mix CD
7. Bake cookies, take to someone
8. Make paper snowflakes
9. Christmas lights drive
10. Read a Christmas story
11. Paint pinecones for decoration
12. Make reindeer droppings (whoppers)
13. Picnic by Christmas tree lights
14. Scripture chase, scripture paper chain
15. Fondue feast
16. Caroling
17. Go to the Messiah
18. FHE Attributes of Christ (scategories like game)
19. Sledding
20. Shovel snow/rake leaves of a neighbor
21. Go to a Movie
22. Watch Joy to the World DVD
23. Game night, minute to win it Christmas style (mash mallows through a wreath, stack cups with one hand, nutstacker game, cookie from your forehead to your mouth w/o using your hands,open present with ski gloves, etc…)
24. Read Luke 2
25. Write testimony of Christ in Journal
The ideas is to do one of these a day for 25 days until Christmas. Hopefully I'll be doing them in this order somewhat but most likely a few will change. Oh I see one already, tomorrow I'm going to the messiah. :)
So I just thought this would be fun thing to do to celebrate Christmas time.
I'm going to figure out how to put pictures on here soon so I can show you all the fun things I'll be doing!
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Back to life... Back to reality...
One thig is certain; coming home from vacation is never fun.
I just got back from vacationing in Mexico. I love that place. It is a 15 hour drive from Provo but SO worth the drive. I spent 5 days relaxing, playing in the pool and the beach and soaking up the sun. What could be better? I just don't know. Well if you haven't already check out the photos on fb do, and you can see it all. I am new to this blogging thing so I haven't even tried to figure out how to put pics on here. Anywho, Mexico was fantastic and I did NOT want it to be over. I didn't want to have to come back. Can't a girl just stay in paradise forever?...
Life as of now isn't too exciting. School is well... school. I have never liked it. I did really bad on my last biology test, which is a bummer. I really don't want to retake the class so I'm going to have to study more. Ugh. I felt like I studied just as much on the first test as I did on the second. I did really well on the first test so I felt like I would do ok. But no. All my other classes I though would be ok but I just don't enjoy them. The only class I remotely like is my Children's Lit class. But that class is very demanding. So all in all, school... not my thing but I'm going to keep doing it anyway.
Work. Oh work. I hate work. Well I like working but I don't like my job. Its boring, tedious, repetitious, unfulfilling and full of drama. If you know me at all you know that I don't do drama. And it's not even my drama at work. All my co workers come to me and complain about everyone else in the office. I don't care, just get over it. So I'm going to start looking for a new job. I've seen a few things but it would be a cut in pay so thats not going to happen. I'm barely making it as is.
Social life. Not so great. In my "old age" (haha) I've become a boring person. I hardly have fun anymore and when I try to have fun I just become an awkward person. I feel like all of my social skills have gone out the window. Well I don't know if I had any to begin with. haha. I have a lot of friends up here but not a lot of close friends. Its been a struggle for me to make new friends so I just hang out with people from Cedar and my roomates. Luckily I have awesome roomates or I'd probably be a hermit.
Well that's life as of late. Not too much to come home to after a fun vacation. Hopefully things will start to get better soon.
I just got back from vacationing in Mexico. I love that place. It is a 15 hour drive from Provo but SO worth the drive. I spent 5 days relaxing, playing in the pool and the beach and soaking up the sun. What could be better? I just don't know. Well if you haven't already check out the photos on fb do, and you can see it all. I am new to this blogging thing so I haven't even tried to figure out how to put pics on here. Anywho, Mexico was fantastic and I did NOT want it to be over. I didn't want to have to come back. Can't a girl just stay in paradise forever?...
Life as of now isn't too exciting. School is well... school. I have never liked it. I did really bad on my last biology test, which is a bummer. I really don't want to retake the class so I'm going to have to study more. Ugh. I felt like I studied just as much on the first test as I did on the second. I did really well on the first test so I felt like I would do ok. But no. All my other classes I though would be ok but I just don't enjoy them. The only class I remotely like is my Children's Lit class. But that class is very demanding. So all in all, school... not my thing but I'm going to keep doing it anyway.
Work. Oh work. I hate work. Well I like working but I don't like my job. Its boring, tedious, repetitious, unfulfilling and full of drama. If you know me at all you know that I don't do drama. And it's not even my drama at work. All my co workers come to me and complain about everyone else in the office. I don't care, just get over it. So I'm going to start looking for a new job. I've seen a few things but it would be a cut in pay so thats not going to happen. I'm barely making it as is.
Social life. Not so great. In my "old age" (haha) I've become a boring person. I hardly have fun anymore and when I try to have fun I just become an awkward person. I feel like all of my social skills have gone out the window. Well I don't know if I had any to begin with. haha. I have a lot of friends up here but not a lot of close friends. Its been a struggle for me to make new friends so I just hang out with people from Cedar and my roomates. Luckily I have awesome roomates or I'd probably be a hermit.
Well that's life as of late. Not too much to come home to after a fun vacation. Hopefully things will start to get better soon.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
17 Secrets
This past week we had a fun lesson in my Institute class. I'm taking Preparing for Celestial Marriage; Dating and Courtship. Thursday night we discussed what we think the opposite sex is looking for in a spouse. So anyway I just wanted to share this list of 17 secrets. It is about the male and female psychology. I thought it was interesting so here it is.
Male
1. Men seek out relationships that make them feel trusted and respected
2. Men love through sacrifice.
3. Good men are largely logical about their relationships and commitment. Thus they do not commit easily to things they have not invested in over a period of time.
4. Men ad driven to succeed, face challenges, compete and conquer.
5. Men like women who like themselves
6. Men love to be heroes.
7. Men like being appreciated.
8. Men like femininity.
9. Men like women who have opinions and assert their needs.
10. Good men pursue women who are approachable and appear to be available.
11. Good men want sex with a woman who feels good about having sex with them and will wait until marriage.
12. Men need to be needed
13. Men are repelled by criticism, nagging and whining.
14. A man experiences anxiety in every conversation a woman initiates until she tells him what she wants him to do.
15. Men bond through doing activities and talking about things more than they do through talking about people, problems, feelings, or ideas.
16. Good men adore women who give them love attention and affection.
17. Good men are often willing to talk openly and honestly when they fell it will help them or another person to do so.
Female
1. Women thrive when they feel safe and secure.
2. Women love through sacrifice. However, women often love and sacrifice in ways that are not good for the male psychology. Thus, a woman needs a man to communicate about his needs. Not only will a woman love him for communicating respectfully with her, but the more she sacrifices to meet his needs, the more deeply her love will grow.
3. Women read into men's behaviors, get excited, assume commitment, and then get hurt when he pulls away due to the added pressure.
4. Women are critical of their bodies and fear competition from other women,
5. Women are attracted to strength and confidence.
6. women are turned off by men who are too nice.
7. Women often fall in love with friends.
8. Women like to be pursued and to feel wanted.
9. Women enjoy touch, kissing, and affection but feel vulnerable and prone to shame after sexual contact.
10. Women want men who hold off sexually - it makes a woman feel respected and wanted rather than feeling like an object.
11. Women want immediate relationships but trust and value slow progressing relationships.
12. Women long to feel adored.
13. Women are repelled by moping, brooding, and the silent treatment.
14. Women worry. They need to know they are not alone in dealing with the problems of the relationship.
15. Women who don't trust and respect their men, fall out of love, especially if there is no communication.
16. Women like gifts, surprises, reasonable spontaneity, and excitement. The extra effort makes them feel special.
17. Women would rather have open and honest communication about misdeeds than to be protected from the truth.
Well there you have it.
Male
1. Men seek out relationships that make them feel trusted and respected
2. Men love through sacrifice.
3. Good men are largely logical about their relationships and commitment. Thus they do not commit easily to things they have not invested in over a period of time.
4. Men ad driven to succeed, face challenges, compete and conquer.
5. Men like women who like themselves
6. Men love to be heroes.
7. Men like being appreciated.
8. Men like femininity.
9. Men like women who have opinions and assert their needs.
10. Good men pursue women who are approachable and appear to be available.
11. Good men want sex with a woman who feels good about having sex with them and will wait until marriage.
12. Men need to be needed
13. Men are repelled by criticism, nagging and whining.
14. A man experiences anxiety in every conversation a woman initiates until she tells him what she wants him to do.
15. Men bond through doing activities and talking about things more than they do through talking about people, problems, feelings, or ideas.
16. Good men adore women who give them love attention and affection.
17. Good men are often willing to talk openly and honestly when they fell it will help them or another person to do so.
Female
1. Women thrive when they feel safe and secure.
2. Women love through sacrifice. However, women often love and sacrifice in ways that are not good for the male psychology. Thus, a woman needs a man to communicate about his needs. Not only will a woman love him for communicating respectfully with her, but the more she sacrifices to meet his needs, the more deeply her love will grow.
3. Women read into men's behaviors, get excited, assume commitment, and then get hurt when he pulls away due to the added pressure.
4. Women are critical of their bodies and fear competition from other women,
5. Women are attracted to strength and confidence.
6. women are turned off by men who are too nice.
7. Women often fall in love with friends.
8. Women like to be pursued and to feel wanted.
9. Women enjoy touch, kissing, and affection but feel vulnerable and prone to shame after sexual contact.
10. Women want men who hold off sexually - it makes a woman feel respected and wanted rather than feeling like an object.
11. Women want immediate relationships but trust and value slow progressing relationships.
12. Women long to feel adored.
13. Women are repelled by moping, brooding, and the silent treatment.
14. Women worry. They need to know they are not alone in dealing with the problems of the relationship.
15. Women who don't trust and respect their men, fall out of love, especially if there is no communication.
16. Women like gifts, surprises, reasonable spontaneity, and excitement. The extra effort makes them feel special.
17. Women would rather have open and honest communication about misdeeds than to be protected from the truth.
Well there you have it.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Flirting Tips
I am a terrible blogger. Its just that I have been so busy. By the time I actually have time to think about blogging, I just want to sleep or catch up on one of my many favorite shows.
So this school thing is exactly what I thought it would be. Lots and lots of homework. All last week I feel like that is all I did. And it doesn't help that I'm the worst, or should I say the best procrastinator. I always wait until the last possible second to do things. I could be a better student by not putting off my reading my text books but I'd rather not spend all my waking time reading about biology and ethics, you know my favorite subjects.
I have been enjoying reading for my children's lit class. Who wouldn't want to read books like The Hatchet, The Giver, Harry Potter, Holes. Yeah it takes a lot of my time but its fun and entertaining. I also started my voice lessons. I was a lengthy process to get it all worked out but It finally happened. So my first day my teacher loved me. Haha. Not that I have the best voice but she loved that I was experienced somewhat. I love to sight read so all of the music she had me sing through was way easy. All that is required for this class is to memorize 3 songs. Yep that's it. I'm doing a french piece that is not like anything I've ever sung before. I also am hopefully going to sing Gravity by Sara Bareilles. I am absolutely OBSESSED with this song. I have been listening to it since saturday non-stop. I even bought the sheet music on line. Its pretty hard to play and sing at the same time but with practice it'll come.
Thursday I met with my bishop to say hi I'm in your ward. He asked me a few questions about where I was from and if I'm working or going to school then he asked me if I was dating anyone. I said no and then he goes off on a tangent of how to flirt. HAHA. I was trying so hard not to laugh out loud when he was giving his monologue. He was telling me that a persons favorite subject is themselves and if things are going well to lightly touch their arm. My bishop is like the classic singles ward Bishop. All he ever talks about is dating and marriage. Haha. He looks like Steve Martin and talks like a radio announcer. Pretty funny but you've got to love the guy.
Last night was our ward talent show featuring my roommate Nellie and I on guitar singing White Horse by Taylor Swift. My ward, the 217th ward, is very talented. Almost like 2/3rd of the talents were guitar/singing. Every sunday when we sing hymns in sacrament meeting, it is sooo loud. I can't even hear myself. And we always have 2 musical numbers in each sacrament. Love it.
Once again I am a member of Gold's Gym. It's only 10 bucks a month with no contract. And its a way nice gym. There is a Cardio Cinema where its a big theater with the lights off and treadmills everywhere. Legit!
Well my battery on my laptop is about to die so that'll be it for this time.
Till next time :)
So this school thing is exactly what I thought it would be. Lots and lots of homework. All last week I feel like that is all I did. And it doesn't help that I'm the worst, or should I say the best procrastinator. I always wait until the last possible second to do things. I could be a better student by not putting off my reading my text books but I'd rather not spend all my waking time reading about biology and ethics, you know my favorite subjects.
I have been enjoying reading for my children's lit class. Who wouldn't want to read books like The Hatchet, The Giver, Harry Potter, Holes. Yeah it takes a lot of my time but its fun and entertaining. I also started my voice lessons. I was a lengthy process to get it all worked out but It finally happened. So my first day my teacher loved me. Haha. Not that I have the best voice but she loved that I was experienced somewhat. I love to sight read so all of the music she had me sing through was way easy. All that is required for this class is to memorize 3 songs. Yep that's it. I'm doing a french piece that is not like anything I've ever sung before. I also am hopefully going to sing Gravity by Sara Bareilles. I am absolutely OBSESSED with this song. I have been listening to it since saturday non-stop. I even bought the sheet music on line. Its pretty hard to play and sing at the same time but with practice it'll come.
Thursday I met with my bishop to say hi I'm in your ward. He asked me a few questions about where I was from and if I'm working or going to school then he asked me if I was dating anyone. I said no and then he goes off on a tangent of how to flirt. HAHA. I was trying so hard not to laugh out loud when he was giving his monologue. He was telling me that a persons favorite subject is themselves and if things are going well to lightly touch their arm. My bishop is like the classic singles ward Bishop. All he ever talks about is dating and marriage. Haha. He looks like Steve Martin and talks like a radio announcer. Pretty funny but you've got to love the guy.
Last night was our ward talent show featuring my roommate Nellie and I on guitar singing White Horse by Taylor Swift. My ward, the 217th ward, is very talented. Almost like 2/3rd of the talents were guitar/singing. Every sunday when we sing hymns in sacrament meeting, it is sooo loud. I can't even hear myself. And we always have 2 musical numbers in each sacrament. Love it.
Once again I am a member of Gold's Gym. It's only 10 bucks a month with no contract. And its a way nice gym. There is a Cardio Cinema where its a big theater with the lights off and treadmills everywhere. Legit!
Well my battery on my laptop is about to die so that'll be it for this time.
Till next time :)
Thursday, September 8, 2011
5 Things
It's been a while since I have blogged. I'll explain why later in this blog so you'll just have to wait for it.
I have been thinking about things I'd like to blog about, things I have an opinion about. Since my memory is not the greatest I started making a list of things to blog about in my phone, the only thing I know I'll always have on me.
(Not in any particular order)
1. Sweats and flip flops. When I think of these two things I can't help but smile. But on the other hand when I think of not being able to wear them I get a little bit upset. I don't like being told what to do. Today after I got home from class I changed into my comfortable sweats and a t-shirt. I had a full day ahead of studying and wanted to be content. While I was working on assignments I received an e-mail from my teacher that said I had to drop my current voice class and register for a different one. Being the 2nd week of school this required that I get an add card signed by my professor. I found that I needed to go to campus to obtain an add card before that office closed. So I just hurried and found some flip-flops and ran out the door to make it in time. As I was walking to the building from the parking lot I thought how grateful I was that I was at a school where I wouldn't get in trouble for wearing my sweats and flip flops. Not to point any fingers at any of the fine institutions we have out there but I just don't like being told what to do, especially about things that I love; sweats and flip flops.
Also in my Children's literature class we were discussing books we read when we were in elementary school. I couldn't remember any of them. I do remember that in middle school we were required to read the Hobbit. I hated it. Not because of the content but because it was required. Later in high school I read it again an absolutely loved it! It was because it was my decision to read it and mine alone. I have somewhat adapted seeing that I know that usually required texts will spark a little interest.
2. Is she or is she not? My ethics professor is someone who I have been studying very carefully these past two weeks. First off she is an ethics teacher so she doesn't exactly come off as 'cool'. She is quite the quirky woman so she didn't give off the motherly vibe. When she introduced herself she said that she "escaped" from Utah when she was 19 and has traveled and is currently writing her thesis on Mormonism. You may now see why I have been studying her. I wanted to know if she was of the LDS faith or not. She didn't seem the typical mormon but you never know do you. I listened for her opions about religion since we are able to talk about it in class, I looked for signs like, drinking coffee or immodest clothing to give it away. Not to say that all Mormons are perfect but you usually can tell if someone is not in this culture. She is not unfortunately. It's not a proven fact but I am pretty sure she either isn't LDS or just isn't active. Now to find that out... Was she?
3. Working part time is fabulous. So I have come to the conclusion that working part time is like playing infield in softball/baseball. When the ball is hit in your direction if you don't get it, the outfielder will. When I don't get something fully finished at work because I'm waiting for a call back or a e-mail to confirm a go ahead, I just tell my co-workers about it and when I leave at lunch I give them a piece of paper of what I still have to accomplish for the day and then it is their responsibility. I love it. Ha.. Not really a good thing but its something I am appreciating at this moment in time for this next reason.
4. No Time. I am a full time student and working part time. I don't think some professors think that their students have other things to do. My children's literature class is a prime example of this kind of thinking from a professor. Lets start out with reading. Of course we will be reading in a children's literature class so I expect that. We have the assigned reading from the text book and oh lets say 8 novels that we have to read in the semester. I thoroughly enjoy reading novels but its such a time consuming task. Not only on top of the 8 novels we have to read we have to do a bajillon assignments to go along with each book. We have group assignments, papers, activities we have to plan, poetry to read, and on top of it we have tutoring hours we have to do as well. There are many things I have left out but if it has to do with children's literature, we will be doing it. And last week I said I liked school. How quickly it all can change.
5. The spirit. Oh I love the spirit. I have missed him dearly. Earlier tonight I was studying and my roommate invited me to come along to institute with her. Desperately needing a break I decided to go along. The institute class she is taking is Dating, Courtship and Eternal Marriage. I was terrified to go but I decided to be brave a just do it. We get to class and there are not many there. A few weird looking people and couples of course. I thought of course the usual institute group especially for this class. Well we were a few minutes early and when the hour came people just started rushing into the room. When it was about 5 min after the hour the classroom was so full people there weren't room enough for everyone. I was pleasantly surprised. As our teacher started the class I was a little weary as to what was going to be required of us to do in class or what she would even teach about. I also though she was trying a bit hard to be funny before class started. She stared off the class with a funny story about herself going to the eye doctor and how she couldn't even see the big E at the top of the reading chart. Well her story turned out to be very funny and I fell in love with her teaching right off the bat. Anyway she related the story to our perspective. There was nothing wrong with the chart but from her prospective all she could see was a blob. Heavenly Fathers prospective is so much larger than ours because he can see past present and future. If we can start to open our prospective we wont compare ourselves to others. So as in marriage we wont think EVERYONE else is getting married. Not everyone is. But our perspective is so focused on the present that that is all we see. So our teacher told us a story of how she had tumor that inabled her to have children. She is not married. Just like most of us it was one of her greatest desires to have children. She was 37 at the time that this happened and now she is 46. She said the only reason she made it through this time in her life is that she changed her perspective to be more like God's perspective. She knew that if God knew it was best for her to have children she wouldn't have had the complication in the surgery. He could have even made so that she never had the tumor. She knew that her Heavenly Father loved her more than she loved herself, that he wanted her to have children more than she wanted to have children, that he wanted her to have her greatest desires more than she wanted her greatest desires. All the things we go through are for a reason. Our Heavenly Father knows us and he knows what will make us into who we have the potential to be. We might want to plan when we want to be Married but the Lord knows whats best. We watched a video of Elder Oaks who talked about how his plans were not what ended up happening as good as his plans were. He and his wife planned to serve a mission together after he retired. Well Elder Oaks was called to the quorum of the 12. Sometime later his wife passed away and he remarried. He knew that this was the lord plan because he had done what was asked of him. Elder Oaks put it this way. If I put the Lord first in my life and keep his commandments everything will be ok. Faith and trust in the Lord gives us strength to accept and persevere through whatever comes our way. The woman he married had been single all of her life until she married Elder oaks in her 50's. She had filled her life with service and had done the best she could and the lord blessed her with a husband. An apostle :) Our teacher said theses are all extreme cases but we can learn from them. If we do what the Lord asks of us and trust in him, he has promised us an eternal marriage.
Just a side note. All of my friends including me, excluding the ones already married, all want to get married, to be loved and cared about and to have a family of our own. This has always been one of my biggest worries in life. That I won't ever get married. It seems to be a worry for a lot of us. I was so grateful for this lesson because I was feeling it again. I was worried it was never going to happen for me. When I first moved up to Provo I was excited. A new start, new friends, new boys... But none of that has happened yet. I know it has only been 2 weeks but I was expecting a little more. I am still my same shy self, who is not the best at making new friends. We'll heavenly father knows me so well that he inspired my roommate to invite me to this wonderful lesson to give me comfort about this whole marriage stuff. I felt the spirit testify to me through this whole hour and a half. I was crying, I was laughing and I was so grateful. Sister Oaks said, Come what may and keep going, fill your life with service, if your busy doing good things you don't have time to sin. My teacher said that every relationship has to fail until it its right. I hope my eventually is coming soon, even though I might have to fail a few more times it will be worth it.
Well that is my 5 things for this week. WOW that was long. Sorry.
I have been thinking about things I'd like to blog about, things I have an opinion about. Since my memory is not the greatest I started making a list of things to blog about in my phone, the only thing I know I'll always have on me.
(Not in any particular order)
1. Sweats and flip flops. When I think of these two things I can't help but smile. But on the other hand when I think of not being able to wear them I get a little bit upset. I don't like being told what to do. Today after I got home from class I changed into my comfortable sweats and a t-shirt. I had a full day ahead of studying and wanted to be content. While I was working on assignments I received an e-mail from my teacher that said I had to drop my current voice class and register for a different one. Being the 2nd week of school this required that I get an add card signed by my professor. I found that I needed to go to campus to obtain an add card before that office closed. So I just hurried and found some flip-flops and ran out the door to make it in time. As I was walking to the building from the parking lot I thought how grateful I was that I was at a school where I wouldn't get in trouble for wearing my sweats and flip flops. Not to point any fingers at any of the fine institutions we have out there but I just don't like being told what to do, especially about things that I love; sweats and flip flops.
Also in my Children's literature class we were discussing books we read when we were in elementary school. I couldn't remember any of them. I do remember that in middle school we were required to read the Hobbit. I hated it. Not because of the content but because it was required. Later in high school I read it again an absolutely loved it! It was because it was my decision to read it and mine alone. I have somewhat adapted seeing that I know that usually required texts will spark a little interest.
2. Is she or is she not? My ethics professor is someone who I have been studying very carefully these past two weeks. First off she is an ethics teacher so she doesn't exactly come off as 'cool'. She is quite the quirky woman so she didn't give off the motherly vibe. When she introduced herself she said that she "escaped" from Utah when she was 19 and has traveled and is currently writing her thesis on Mormonism. You may now see why I have been studying her. I wanted to know if she was of the LDS faith or not. She didn't seem the typical mormon but you never know do you. I listened for her opions about religion since we are able to talk about it in class, I looked for signs like, drinking coffee or immodest clothing to give it away. Not to say that all Mormons are perfect but you usually can tell if someone is not in this culture. She is not unfortunately. It's not a proven fact but I am pretty sure she either isn't LDS or just isn't active. Now to find that out... Was she?
3. Working part time is fabulous. So I have come to the conclusion that working part time is like playing infield in softball/baseball. When the ball is hit in your direction if you don't get it, the outfielder will. When I don't get something fully finished at work because I'm waiting for a call back or a e-mail to confirm a go ahead, I just tell my co-workers about it and when I leave at lunch I give them a piece of paper of what I still have to accomplish for the day and then it is their responsibility. I love it. Ha.. Not really a good thing but its something I am appreciating at this moment in time for this next reason.
4. No Time. I am a full time student and working part time. I don't think some professors think that their students have other things to do. My children's literature class is a prime example of this kind of thinking from a professor. Lets start out with reading. Of course we will be reading in a children's literature class so I expect that. We have the assigned reading from the text book and oh lets say 8 novels that we have to read in the semester. I thoroughly enjoy reading novels but its such a time consuming task. Not only on top of the 8 novels we have to read we have to do a bajillon assignments to go along with each book. We have group assignments, papers, activities we have to plan, poetry to read, and on top of it we have tutoring hours we have to do as well. There are many things I have left out but if it has to do with children's literature, we will be doing it. And last week I said I liked school. How quickly it all can change.
5. The spirit. Oh I love the spirit. I have missed him dearly. Earlier tonight I was studying and my roommate invited me to come along to institute with her. Desperately needing a break I decided to go along. The institute class she is taking is Dating, Courtship and Eternal Marriage. I was terrified to go but I decided to be brave a just do it. We get to class and there are not many there. A few weird looking people and couples of course. I thought of course the usual institute group especially for this class. Well we were a few minutes early and when the hour came people just started rushing into the room. When it was about 5 min after the hour the classroom was so full people there weren't room enough for everyone. I was pleasantly surprised. As our teacher started the class I was a little weary as to what was going to be required of us to do in class or what she would even teach about. I also though she was trying a bit hard to be funny before class started. She stared off the class with a funny story about herself going to the eye doctor and how she couldn't even see the big E at the top of the reading chart. Well her story turned out to be very funny and I fell in love with her teaching right off the bat. Anyway she related the story to our perspective. There was nothing wrong with the chart but from her prospective all she could see was a blob. Heavenly Fathers prospective is so much larger than ours because he can see past present and future. If we can start to open our prospective we wont compare ourselves to others. So as in marriage we wont think EVERYONE else is getting married. Not everyone is. But our perspective is so focused on the present that that is all we see. So our teacher told us a story of how she had tumor that inabled her to have children. She is not married. Just like most of us it was one of her greatest desires to have children. She was 37 at the time that this happened and now she is 46. She said the only reason she made it through this time in her life is that she changed her perspective to be more like God's perspective. She knew that if God knew it was best for her to have children she wouldn't have had the complication in the surgery. He could have even made so that she never had the tumor. She knew that her Heavenly Father loved her more than she loved herself, that he wanted her to have children more than she wanted to have children, that he wanted her to have her greatest desires more than she wanted her greatest desires. All the things we go through are for a reason. Our Heavenly Father knows us and he knows what will make us into who we have the potential to be. We might want to plan when we want to be Married but the Lord knows whats best. We watched a video of Elder Oaks who talked about how his plans were not what ended up happening as good as his plans were. He and his wife planned to serve a mission together after he retired. Well Elder Oaks was called to the quorum of the 12. Sometime later his wife passed away and he remarried. He knew that this was the lord plan because he had done what was asked of him. Elder Oaks put it this way. If I put the Lord first in my life and keep his commandments everything will be ok. Faith and trust in the Lord gives us strength to accept and persevere through whatever comes our way. The woman he married had been single all of her life until she married Elder oaks in her 50's. She had filled her life with service and had done the best she could and the lord blessed her with a husband. An apostle :) Our teacher said theses are all extreme cases but we can learn from them. If we do what the Lord asks of us and trust in him, he has promised us an eternal marriage.
Just a side note. All of my friends including me, excluding the ones already married, all want to get married, to be loved and cared about and to have a family of our own. This has always been one of my biggest worries in life. That I won't ever get married. It seems to be a worry for a lot of us. I was so grateful for this lesson because I was feeling it again. I was worried it was never going to happen for me. When I first moved up to Provo I was excited. A new start, new friends, new boys... But none of that has happened yet. I know it has only been 2 weeks but I was expecting a little more. I am still my same shy self, who is not the best at making new friends. We'll heavenly father knows me so well that he inspired my roommate to invite me to this wonderful lesson to give me comfort about this whole marriage stuff. I felt the spirit testify to me through this whole hour and a half. I was crying, I was laughing and I was so grateful. Sister Oaks said, Come what may and keep going, fill your life with service, if your busy doing good things you don't have time to sin. My teacher said that every relationship has to fail until it its right. I hope my eventually is coming soon, even though I might have to fail a few more times it will be worth it.
Well that is my 5 things for this week. WOW that was long. Sorry.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Sweet beginnings
I have completed my second day of this new chapter of my life. Its has been filled with fun new adventures and new people. Yesterday I started my day bright and early at 6:30am just like the good ole mission days("Hit the clock its 6:30"). I did NOT want to get up. I had stayed up way too late the night before blogging and facbooking and of course when I finally got into bed I couldn't sleep. So as tired as I was I got up and got ready for work. I headed out about 10 till forgetting about traffic in this big city. Luckily I arrived to work at the same time as my boss and his family, about 3 min after 8. I thought to myself, "I'll be getting along with them just fine, we can be late buddies." Ha. (I'm hardly ever on time to anything)
Express Employment Professionals is my place of work as it was in Cedar. It is a staffing agency that does temporary work and permanent work as well. I got lucky enough not to have to find a different job just a new job in a different city. Because I had already been a staffing agent I was put right to work. John and Donna, who own this branch of the company, helped me learn who they work with in the area. Then not too soon after they had me fill a job order. I felt like I had no idea what I was doing, though I did, but I didn't know the employees like I knew my employees in Cedar. After some studying I felt better about sending a stranger to a job I didn't know much about. John and Donna are going on vacation on Thursday so they were so happy that I am there to help keep the company functioning while they are gone. They seem to have a lot of confidence in me already. But who couldn't love me. Haha! So work went well then I had lunch at home and headed off to school.
Biology 1010 was my first class. As boring as it was I thought the professor was hilarious so hopefully make that class more enjoyable. After I had Ethic and Values. This one is going to be interesting. The class only has about 20 people which I thought odd for a required general ed class. It is going to be a discussion almost every class time and usually I like to keep my opinions to my self in a class room setting but this one is going to force me to voice it. Overall I quite enjoyed school. Who knew? Me, enjoy school. It did in fact happen. I might not be saying that when I have to spend every waking moment reading one of my freakin expensive books. After class I went to the book store because I needed to read before the next class period. I paid $308 for two books. Ridiculous.
Since moving to a new place one would think I'd be making new friends but I'm catching up with a bunch of friends from Cedar that are up here. I went to Dinner with Kenz, one of my dear friends from SUU and her friend, my roommate, and another one of their friends. We went to Brick Oven apparently a staple of Provo. It was a fun night but I was completely exhausted by the end of it.
Today work was quite busy with filing job orders I wasn't comfortable with. I spent a lot of time going over and over employee files studying their job histories. They do things a little different than we did in Cedar. We would put so many notes in files about what people are willing to do and can do but here they don't have any. I just had to look at job histories. Not much to work with. I feel like there isn't as much working with our associates as there should be. But I'm sure I'll learn soon enough how to do things their way.
My class today was Intro to Education. I liked this class too. We will be doing 20 hours in the field so I need to find a school I can do that at. I really liked my teacher for this class too. Dr. B, as he likes to be called, is about 80 years old, or though it seems. He made lots of joke about getting up set with people and said that he would "pinch their heads" haha. Funny old man.
Tonight I went to a move with another friend from Cedar, Stacy. We saw Paris at Midnight. I liked the story a lot but I felt like an idiot at some parts. It is a movie about a writer who meets famous writers like Hemingway and a bunch of other famous writers and artists from that era. Everyone in the audience was laughing and I had no idea who any of these people were. I had heard of a few but couldn't tell you what they did. Ha. It was a very cute story and had good actresses and actors in it. And it was clean. Yay.
It has been a good few days. I haven't really gotten to hang out with my roommates a lot but I love all of them already. I am going to have a great time with them. Right now we are watching Anastasia. What girl doesn't love that movie. We are quoting all of our favorite parts and singing along with all the songs.
I need to be getting to bed soon. I'm sorry this blog is kinda a play by play of my daily life but soon I'll have something exciting to express my feelings about. (Which is so unlike me)
Peace out.
Express Employment Professionals is my place of work as it was in Cedar. It is a staffing agency that does temporary work and permanent work as well. I got lucky enough not to have to find a different job just a new job in a different city. Because I had already been a staffing agent I was put right to work. John and Donna, who own this branch of the company, helped me learn who they work with in the area. Then not too soon after they had me fill a job order. I felt like I had no idea what I was doing, though I did, but I didn't know the employees like I knew my employees in Cedar. After some studying I felt better about sending a stranger to a job I didn't know much about. John and Donna are going on vacation on Thursday so they were so happy that I am there to help keep the company functioning while they are gone. They seem to have a lot of confidence in me already. But who couldn't love me. Haha! So work went well then I had lunch at home and headed off to school.
Biology 1010 was my first class. As boring as it was I thought the professor was hilarious so hopefully make that class more enjoyable. After I had Ethic and Values. This one is going to be interesting. The class only has about 20 people which I thought odd for a required general ed class. It is going to be a discussion almost every class time and usually I like to keep my opinions to my self in a class room setting but this one is going to force me to voice it. Overall I quite enjoyed school. Who knew? Me, enjoy school. It did in fact happen. I might not be saying that when I have to spend every waking moment reading one of my freakin expensive books. After class I went to the book store because I needed to read before the next class period. I paid $308 for two books. Ridiculous.
Since moving to a new place one would think I'd be making new friends but I'm catching up with a bunch of friends from Cedar that are up here. I went to Dinner with Kenz, one of my dear friends from SUU and her friend, my roommate, and another one of their friends. We went to Brick Oven apparently a staple of Provo. It was a fun night but I was completely exhausted by the end of it.
Today work was quite busy with filing job orders I wasn't comfortable with. I spent a lot of time going over and over employee files studying their job histories. They do things a little different than we did in Cedar. We would put so many notes in files about what people are willing to do and can do but here they don't have any. I just had to look at job histories. Not much to work with. I feel like there isn't as much working with our associates as there should be. But I'm sure I'll learn soon enough how to do things their way.
My class today was Intro to Education. I liked this class too. We will be doing 20 hours in the field so I need to find a school I can do that at. I really liked my teacher for this class too. Dr. B, as he likes to be called, is about 80 years old, or though it seems. He made lots of joke about getting up set with people and said that he would "pinch their heads" haha. Funny old man.
Tonight I went to a move with another friend from Cedar, Stacy. We saw Paris at Midnight. I liked the story a lot but I felt like an idiot at some parts. It is a movie about a writer who meets famous writers like Hemingway and a bunch of other famous writers and artists from that era. Everyone in the audience was laughing and I had no idea who any of these people were. I had heard of a few but couldn't tell you what they did. Ha. It was a very cute story and had good actresses and actors in it. And it was clean. Yay.
It has been a good few days. I haven't really gotten to hang out with my roommates a lot but I love all of them already. I am going to have a great time with them. Right now we are watching Anastasia. What girl doesn't love that movie. We are quoting all of our favorite parts and singing along with all the songs.
I need to be getting to bed soon. I'm sorry this blog is kinda a play by play of my daily life but soon I'll have something exciting to express my feelings about. (Which is so unlike me)
Peace out.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
It's all about to begin
Well... Here it is. My blog. I figured since I was away from friends and family I'd create a blog so everyone is in the know about my life. So enjoy this first post!
As of yesterday I'm officially in Happy Valley. So here is the back story:
When I was near the end of my mission I tried and tried to get back into school at SUU. Neither my mom nor I could get things to work out so I could go back to school for spring semester. When I did get home I was offered a job so I decided to put school on hold until the fall. During this time I had the feeling I didn't belong in Cedar anymore. Almost all of my friends had either gotten married, moved away or just moved on with thier life like they were supposed to. I didn't really tell anyone I wanted to move becuase I had a job, was planning to go back to school at SUU and I had no reason to move. As time progressed I still felt the same way, that Cedar City had nothing left for me. My best friend decided to move up to Orem so I finally had a reason to go up there. Well, as you might know things didn't work out for here and she is back in Cedar. But my decision had been made. I had registered for school and was set on starting something new. So, I started looking for a place to live and somewhere to work. Of course I procrastinated just about everything I could but with ease I found a place to live for much cheaper than anywhere else I looked and wouldn't you know I found a job just as easily. My days in Cedar are over for now and I'm looking forward to this new begining. I will be working part time and going to UVU full time studying Elementary Ed. I am living in a house in Provo with a bunch of fun girls. I think I'm going to like what is ahead. I might be all alone up here but I know that this is where I am supposed to be. I've found the right path and now I just need to follow it the best I can.
It's all about to begin.
As of yesterday I'm officially in Happy Valley. So here is the back story:
When I was near the end of my mission I tried and tried to get back into school at SUU. Neither my mom nor I could get things to work out so I could go back to school for spring semester. When I did get home I was offered a job so I decided to put school on hold until the fall. During this time I had the feeling I didn't belong in Cedar anymore. Almost all of my friends had either gotten married, moved away or just moved on with thier life like they were supposed to. I didn't really tell anyone I wanted to move becuase I had a job, was planning to go back to school at SUU and I had no reason to move. As time progressed I still felt the same way, that Cedar City had nothing left for me. My best friend decided to move up to Orem so I finally had a reason to go up there. Well, as you might know things didn't work out for here and she is back in Cedar. But my decision had been made. I had registered for school and was set on starting something new. So, I started looking for a place to live and somewhere to work. Of course I procrastinated just about everything I could but with ease I found a place to live for much cheaper than anywhere else I looked and wouldn't you know I found a job just as easily. My days in Cedar are over for now and I'm looking forward to this new begining. I will be working part time and going to UVU full time studying Elementary Ed. I am living in a house in Provo with a bunch of fun girls. I think I'm going to like what is ahead. I might be all alone up here but I know that this is where I am supposed to be. I've found the right path and now I just need to follow it the best I can.
It's all about to begin.
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