Progress

last year i only posted 15 times, this year im at 29 so far! 30 counting this one.

i need to run more. well, i need to run period. it will help my body get into shape and help my core, and my heart, and my back, and my arms, and my legs, and my soul. running is just all around good for me. when i start my gym membership again in january im going to do 20 min running and then cross train with weights and plyometrics. i also want to start biking with a cyclist team. i hear its a killer fat burner because there's no option than to sweat it all off. if there's one thing im a natural at it's sweating. i get it from my dad. thanks pops.

a woman came to our door tonight selling baked goods. she's working to make money so that she can buy a plane ticket to Ohio to be with her kids for Christmas. Courtney's not here or im sure she would have gave the woman some mon

ey like the rest of us did. I hope she earns enough money to be with her family.

im currently working on a paper for my english 293 class. its due on friday at 5 and as always there is a cleaning check that day as well. at least there's no office hours. i have an interview tomorrow with a girl who wants to be an ED for me next year and two more on thursday, plus another girl who hasnt set up a time yet. anyway, my paper is about the relationship between a piece of art correlates to my choice of text and what that text's message is. im writing it on A New England Nun and using a watercolor by Dorothy Weir titled Old Woman in White Sewing. It fits with the story unbelievably well. youll just have to read it by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman to find out how cool it is though. Or read my essay. I will leave you with one word however: domesticity.

well, its 45 minutes past my bed time (10 pm) and i need to wake up, exercise, and get a solid portion of my essay done in the morning. thanks for visiting.

family. dinner. guests.

My FOL kids and husband came over for dinner tonight and we a fantastic time chatting and just laughing together. it was good to be with them again. kind of like an emotional rejuvenation. after dinner - italian night - we took some pictures then as we were about to begin a game some of my roommates friends come home with her from work. their first impressions were horrible and they completely ruined our positive evening. well, i wouldn't say ruined but definitely made it more lively. after most of my kids left the two boys became more bearable and i better understood why my roommate let them come over. a little forewarning would have been nice though.

later, i told one of the boys all about how i heard jimmer's girlfriend only liked him because of his status only to find out he's her brother. i felt like a complete idiot. i will never talk about someone ever again. never. i did it once and it bit me back. hard.

i realize now that i need to not let other people affect me so much. it really doesn't matter what other people say or do - i decide my mood and attitude. it ain't no big thaang! life is good.

thinking about things

When you learn from your past you better prepare for success in your future.

A comic from Bill Watterson illustrates this thought. But of course I can't find the comic online. It's from his 1992 editions thought and in my english text book.

posting for the sake of posting

i feel like i need to stay current on my blog. im doing better at writing in my journal about the atonement and such but right now its too dark to write by hand. Satan is so tough! he does things to make me feel like doing bad things are ok when i know they arent. hes such a poop. i saw my friends today: bj casie and iris. we went to chipotle and had a great time just chatting about life and the people in it. it was fun. then i went shopping with edison to our favorite places: target, barns&noble, ulta, starbucks, yummm. it was a good evening with my sister. i love my family.

ive officially decided im serving a mission. the study abroad is out. im going to work during spring/summer so i can help pay for mission stuff. im sooooo tired and will sleep now. thanksgiving is tomorrow!

saturday saturday

I'm at the Honda dealership and as I'm sitting here, waiting to get my wheels rotated and oil changed, I've stumbed upon a few interesting facts of my current life.

1) my workouts need to be a million times more intense if i want to get back into shape

2) clothes cost way too much money

3) i have possibly ruined my chances of passing my thursday night english class. i turned both of my essays into a program called digital drop box instead of turn it in. if my professor doesnt accept my papers then ill have to withdraw from the class and take it again next semester. i do NOT want to do that but if i have to then i have to. i retake too many classes in college. econ: 2x so far. blehh

As to other developments in my life I've planned out a few options for the next 3 years. If I do according to my plan I'll leave for a mission mid Fall or the beginning of Winter term. Till then I'll go home and work for the spring and do a study abroad in England for the summer. It looks really cool and interesting and definitely worth my time and money. And let me tell you a trip like this one requires a few bucks... I plan on doing more research so that when I talk to my family about it come Thanksgiving (2 more weeks!) I can give them accurate information. I don't know when else I'll be able to go on something like this. The summer is the only time I have to actually go exploring with a group of people. By the time I get back from my mission I could get married and by then I'll have less money and time than I do now! Growing up is expensive.

Last night the girls and I went to the dollar theater, a movie fanatic/college student's saving grace, and finally saw Inception! It was amazing!!! I need to see it a few more times to fully be blown away. I was pooped by the time it started at 10:30 and it was 1:00 when we got home so all that I did see wasn't nearly as mind blowing as watching amazing entertainment and Joseph Gordon Levitt. He's so attractive.

LIFE!! which always includes a bit of boy info...

I miss Kirt!! Is it kind of pathetic that I look forward to Mondays because I'll get to read an email from him? Slightly, yes, but I miss him. Last year I was scared at how much I liked him and so fast too. Now I'm scared that when he gets back I'll be gone and I'll loose any chance with him! What I'm trying to remember is that he is someone else's husband and it doesn't help to get emotionally attached to a missionary. What ever happens, happens.

David is out. Our trip to the president's box was good but I felt like he thought it was a date and he was definitely pushin those "bf/gf" vibes which is not the direction I was looking at. Plus he made us late because his socks didn't match. Sorry, but I'm already a late person and if a guy takes longer to get ready than me then I know right away it would never work. He doesn't take place of Matt in my life AT ALL so idk why I felt like he could...

All this reading is kicking me in the hind parts!! There's so much all the time! Dad and I were talking yesterday while we waited for conference to start and he thinks i should just switch over to English Teaching if I want to be a teacher. He doesn't understand why I'm doing plain old English if I want to teach - which is true. I don't know for sure what I want to do but I do know that I do want to work all day! I want to take care of my kids! If I become a Sales Rep. then an English degree is perfect so maybe that's what I'll do... I just don't know for sure.

good music as of 10.1.10 at 9:10 pm

Whisper - Ernie Halter

Crazy Love - Van Morrison

Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

Here Come Those Eyes - Chris Rice

Industry - John McLaughlin