No School!!!

Last night was the best sleep I've had in FOOREEVVEERRRR and its due to the fact that I was emotionally exhausted and physically pooped out. I taught our Sunday School lesson and the spirit was so strong then Emily, Larlee and I had been laughing all day, it was just insane how good of a day it was. Honestly though, the weekend was fantastic! We have so many inside jokes now - "Weenis!!" being one of them. hahaha we are such a good apartment! We get along so well! yayy! Thanks to PIT we've have been making new friends in the ward too! I posted some of the images we took but there are at least 50 more that prove how much fun the three of us had together... hahahahaa our videos are HILARIOUS too and I hope you enjoy them!

new week #2

This week was incredibly busy!!!! Tests, papers, honor week, sleeping, more papers, cleaning checks, basically your typical college life all smooshed into one 7 day period! I wish this hadn't been such a wild week though because I was supposed to drop 3 lbs! Not gain one. Stink!! I need to sleep better (6am-1030pm) and make sure to eat healthy ALWAYS, despite the time or the easiest food choice.

On to other news of the week: I had my first bishop interview for my mission on Wednesday! That's pretty exciting! I can turn my papers in on May 16! Matt goes into the MTC two weeks earlier (May 4) and he's said that I can sing for his farewell. He wants "How Great Thou Art". I'm excited to sing for him and see him off. He will be a fantastic missionary! We were talking about how excited we both are for our missions and how we both get to go to the temple. THE TEMPLE!!! It's fantastic!!

This is the temple in Hawaii where he gets to go to every week. He's so lucky!

This is the Provo Temple that I get to go to! It's not as exotic looking as Matt's but I love it.

We are so blessed to get to do this. Serve missions. I just want school to be over now so that I can have more time to prep and find out where I'm going! Spain is what I'm hoping for but who knows. I'll be happy no matter where I go.

Well, there is so much more that I could blog about but I have a 12 page paper waiting to be written. ='( In an hour I'm singing with my bishop and a beautiful boy in my ward for our stake talent show auditions!! Then it's back home for my paper and hopefully I'll be able to finish soon and then go watch Jimmer and his boys play basketball and whoop the Utes.

leadership

if you ever want to see how i view my position as a leader check out my other blog:

KariElle Leads Now, Not Tomorrow!

Literary Genius

I just had a brief epiphany. The common stereotype for smart people is that they wear glasses. Well, when I wear glasses it's usually because I'm so dog on tired that it hurts to wear my contacts. Does that mean that smart people wear glasses because they're so tired from reading huge anthologies and writing papers until wee hours of the night? I think it does.

Lets Get Our Swimsuits On!

Sunday is supposed to be a high of 42*!! That's great weather this weekend! Woo-hoo! Today was difficult. Cold to the bone difficult. A high of 22* and a low of 1*. Yes. ONE DEGREE FERANHCEIGHT! That's totally freezing. Toottaalllyyy freezing. Sunday will be better though and Emily and I have decided to bust out our suits and hit the pool. Everyone is welcome to join.

First Month

I weighed in at 193 this morning! That's really great since I havn't been at this weight for quite some time [except last week when I lost 4 lbs after not loosing any the previous week]. For the past two years I havn't been keeping track of my weight but now that I am it scares me to think of how much I could have gained! Now that I'm monitoring myself and being better about working out and all that it's fun to eat healthy and go to the gym.

Today I'm working on two projects: 1) my lesson for tomorrow's sunday school and 2) my conference paper for my 295 english class on George Herbert. Both of these things need to be done today or I pretty much fail. Above all else, I hate failing.

Knowing that this month I lost a total of 6.6 lbs. will keep me motivated to getting my work done because only after I finish can I go to the gym. It's still embarrassing that I'm so heavy, but it's something I'm working on. Next month I WILL LOOSE 8 LBS if not more and by February 26 will weigh 184 lbs. I know I can do this. I have to. I will. 184 lbs baby! How pathetic that I still have so much to loose... I have to though or I'll have to pay my mom another $30 bucks because she lost 8 lbs this month and I didn't! grr

gym gym gym gym. cardio cardio cardio cardio. muscle muscle muscle muscle. 184 184 184 184.

Man of my Dreams

What do I do when the perfect guy for me is not the man of my dreams? Even after I've dreamed about him (only once and it was so unexpected that the dream really doesn't matter)? He's wonderful though, don't misunderstand. He's practically perfect in every way: fan of running, works at the MTC, plays basketball really well, likes my singing, loves his family and is one of the kindest men I've ever known. I love hugging him and he lets me hug him whenever I feel like it - I like that too. So why doesn't it feel right to like him? Why do I feel myself holding back? He's not my ideal man but he's FANTASTIC and I tell him all the time.