"I do love my ma and pa, not the way that I do love you"

I always forget to post on this thing. I always think, "Oh! I should blog this!", but I always forget or something comes up or let's just face it, I get way too lazy. But as I'm sitting on the lawn of this beautiful school, with a few minutes in between classes, I decided right now would be the perfect time. It does also help a bit that on my exam that I just took in my dreaded math class, my teacher posed us a delightful question. "What in life is making you happiest?". Weird question for a math professor to ask right? One of the only upsides I see to this professor (to me, personally, there aren't many), is that she gives away a lot of extra credit points on exams to help boost grades. Anyways, for some reason this is the question that I thought hardest about on the exam.

I love questions that will make you think. But at first I just started writing a list of things that I thought made me happiest. But then I felt like that wasn't right, like something about that answer was wrong. I realized that it was because those really weren't the answers, by all means, they definitely were a part of it, but I realized that it was life, life and all things that encompass it, made me happiest.

I walked into work the other day dressed all cute and I was asked why I was all dressed up. Everyone else then decided to give their answers before I could. But really when it came down to it, my answer was "Life, I'm dressed up for life."  I don't know why most people can't accept that as a legitimate answer, but I think it is. Some days you just love life a little bit more than other days, and you just feel like "getting all dressed up with nowhere to go." I really love that answer though. I think it makes complete sense to be dressed for life. We have life so why not live?

Going back to the posed question, I believe my exact answer was "Life in general makes me happiest. Life is the greatest thing that you own, so embrace it." I wholly, honestly, and completely believe in that answer. I really do. Some people may argue, but everyone can have their opinions. I think that life encompasses so many different things that it's hard for that not to be my answer. Of course it can be broken down into so many different parts but I think that it's okay to answer each question posed to you in your own way, and not what you think other people want to hear. It also always helps to have an answer when people pose questions about why you think the way you do. But even if you don't have a whole answer, as long as it makes you think about why you believe that way, it's a perfect answer.

Anyways, after a long and definitely not complete answer, here are 20 aspects of life that I really do just love:
1. Getting very unexpected bouquets of beautiful flowers.
2. Living with two beautiful roommates and the friendships I've formed with them and the various people they bring into our little house.
3. Working in a chocolate shop (self-explanatory I think)
4. Game nights each month.
5. Pinterest! bahaha! Sad but true.
6. My wonderful family.
7. Long talks at night when I know I should be sleeping, the kinds of talks that make you think about life, that make you laugh and cry and tell way too much but it's okay because for those moments of time, no matter how long or short, you completely and fully trust those who you are talking to.
8. Walks, on these gorgeous nights, in this city.
9. Meeting new people on the train and the conversations you have with them even though you will most likely never see them again.
10. Surprise running intos? of people you never see in those places. Those almost always make my whole day.
11. The funny things that go on after about 10 o'clock in my apartment.
12. In any sort of louder conversation and Ashlie exclaiming that she "only likes rainbows, and butterflies, and unicorns." and that is her view on life.
13. Driving back into the city, especially at night, from anywhere else I've been, and seeing the city laid out before me.
14. Speaking of the city, riding my bike around downtown and watching as the buildings, people, and cars fly by as the city continually changes but knowing that you are apart of that changing life.
15. When me and Abby make HIMYM references to everything and laugh so hard every time.
16. Nerd Jokes!
17. Hand written letters.
18. When a phrase is said, that is a line in a song, and Abby, Ashlie, and I ALWAYS sing different songs with the same line.
19. Things that remind me of fond memories.
20. Music, and the many different types of music that is on this earth. You can always find music to fit whatever mood your in.

Anyways, sorry for the long post but I just love life today and everyday and thought I should share.

P.S. This list moved from first only 10 to 15 to then 20 things that I love about life because I jsut couldn't stop.

Also! This song is just one of those that you can never be sad while listening to. Love it!

Oreos, Peacocks, and The Hunger Games

So I had made a goal to blog all the time when I moved up here to school and it's not that I don't have to time and it's not always about not having the urge to, I just don't for some reason.

As I was sitting on my couch after finishing some homework I have finally decided to. Once every two months is okay right?

I feel all writerish and such right now but probably at the end of this blog I will be dead tired as it is 2 in the morning and I have to be up for class at 6. Probably a dumb idea to be up this late but maybe I just won't sleep tonight.

In the very first weeks of September I realized that it was very important that I decide what to for Halloween, I search all over the internets and came up with nothing. Then one day it hit me! A peacock! I should be a peacock! Now don't ask where this grand idea came from but I deduced that it could be an awesome idea, it is just about execution of the costume. All of the costumes that I could buy were ugly and normal, cheap looking costumes so I have set out to make my own!

Lame right? And I really don't want to have to be worrying about hitting everybody with a massive tail all night either. So here are the pieces that will soon be my, original, peacock costume!Of course Tommy Boy and the oreos aren't part of it but they kept me company while I started the costume.

Since I started my costume I , of course, have thought of many other brilliant ideas. Ramona from Scott Pilgrim and the internet sensation Nyan cat to name a few but I still very much like my peacock costume idea.

Moving on from that I am reading The Hunger Games for a class and I love it! I can hardly put it down and once I am done with this blog I am picking it right back up and reading it! I know my mom doesn't like the book at all but it is just so captivating! In the 24 hours I have been reading it I have read almost 300 pages, which I think is pretty good seeing as I had class and homework and dreadful bills to pay! Anyways I highly recommend that everyone read this!

But for now I'm done talking about it and just want to read it!

Good night and sweet dreams everyone!

"You Have To Leave The Ground To Learn To Fly"

And that is exactly what I'm doing, I'm leaving the ground and learning to fly. Can I just tell you? I'm so excited to do this. I love the messages of music and this one is just so hopeful. It just builds me with so much hope for the future, hope for what I'm starting to build, hope for life. Life is finally beginning for me and I cannot wait for it to begin. When I moved from California I was so scared to be uprooted from what I knew my whole life until then but now I'm not scared. I'm ready to face the challenges that I know lie ahead of me, ready to start a new school, with a new job, in a brand new city. Life is falling into place. I may not live in the most ideal apartment or have my most ideal job but they're mine and I want to take them as they are and find the happiness in all.

As I sit in my bed waiting for sleep to come I can't help but be just a tiny bit sad to leave this house. But it's okay to feel just a tinge of sadness right. An old chapter in my life is closing just as another one begins, a chapter that I cannot wait to begin. My official moving day is here, I'm packing up the very last things to go. i'm sitting in a quiet house just thinking. I'll miss this house but I know that wherever I go I can always come back, but for now it's time to move on. Goodbye house. Goodbye Spanish Fork. And goodbye to the ones I love here. I'll miss you, but I'll be back to visit sometimes. For now it's time for me to go and start life...

Reasons Why I Love October...

I have been contemplating what to write on this blog for literally months now. So I finally have decided to just step up and write this blog. I may be interrupted by the need to take a shower and go to young women's but this will be finished by tonight!

So the now to that actual point of this blog, to express to you my love for october. While I was writing to Elder Stevens last night I started thinking to myself why I truly do love this wonderful month and I came up with these reasons.

Number 1: The weather. October weather is the most wonderful weather. I think it would be pretty hard to find a person that loves the rain more than I. For some people, rain puts them in a depressed or gloomy mood but not me. I love nothing more than to put on a dress and pull on my rain boots and go out and dance in the rain. Much like this woman:

Needless to say but the rain puts me into a state of euphoria. Also it has now started getting cooler which means sweatshirts. My favorite item of clothing I think. There is nothing more comforting to me than pulling on an oversized sweatshirt and cuddling up.

Number 2:The colors on the trees change which make these otherwise, I think, boring mountains beautiful. Too bad it only lasts for a short while before they just change to brown only to be dumped with that dreadful thing called snow.

Number 3: My birthday. Now that doesn't particularly make or break this month but it does help with the awesome factor. In a few short weeks this little girl is going to be 18 years old. How has that happened, I have no clue but nevertheless I will be that old. But I do know that I am super excited for this whole new adventure that I know comes with growing up.

Number 4: Halloween and everything that it incorporates. This delicious little candy that I know most people hate but it is on my list of my top favorite candies:

Also in the halloween spirit anything that involves pumpkins. Much like my dearest cousin Leigh-Ann's husband Peta's love for pumpkins.I love looking at pumpkins (they are cute),carving pumpkins, pumpkin milkshakes, pumpkin seeds, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies, and last but not least pumpkin patches. I love going out and taking hay rides to the patch to go find the perfect pumpkin to make a creation out of. I could probably walk around a pumpkin patch for hours just looking for that perfect one. I cannot wait to go out and get one and then come home and carve it!

Number 5: I feel a need to make caramel apples. I'm not complaining though because I love them. I feel so very wonderful when I make the delicious buttery homemade caramel to cover the crisp green granny smith apples. Last year I made them with Joseph Adamn and Faith Nicole and I hope to make them with them this year also. Maybe a blog will even come along with doing that.

Number 6: The last one and definitely my favorite out of all of these. You may guess it it but it is without a doubt all of the horrifying haunted houses that I will be going to. Starting this saturday with my ultimate favorite: The Haunted Forest. Some people may disagree with how awesome it is but I have never left disappointed from there and I have been at least 4 times. I say that if you walk out of there and say it is lame it is because you did not get into the true spirit of which the house was intended. In order to truly enjoy a haunted house you must: choose a good one first of all. Second, choose the right people to go with, if you don't they may make fun of it the whole time and ruin the whole experience for you. Lastly, you have to pshyc yourself out even a little bit, allow yourself to get scared and don't be afraid of what other people may think. If you are worried about looking macho or dumb in front of your friends then you don't have cool enough friends, just sayin. One day I hope to go to a haunted house that looks like this:

Wouldn't that be so frightening!

For some reason more than any other year I have been so very

excited for this time of year. But to be honest I love every minute

of it!

Oh P.S. I forgot about this one! Which I have no clue how I

did. I love every second of this movie!