president's day

See? I'm doing better now I just gotta keep it up. Monday was delightful and lazy and semi-productive. I got up at 8:40ish to an empty apartment (with Dana at work and the rest of the roommates out of town) so I did my Yoga. My shoulder was hurting today as well and I hated it. I really do like Yoga and it makes me want to jus trip off my shoulder. I though that it would be helping strengthen it but now it hurting. I just wanna workout! Is that too much to ask? Well I finished and then played catch up with my blog this morning. I got through with that and made myself look presentable for the day and had some Ramen for lunch. Which reminds me that I didn't really have dinner, hungry, hmmmm.... Anywho, I did my American Usage while watching Once Upon a Time and Downton Abbey (which were both excellent this week by the way). After that I uploaded some picture from our Park City trip and did my reading for American Humanities for the first time in like a week and a half. Then I walked up to work (25 minutes not bad) and go there and was ridiculed that I didn't ask for a ride. I can't win. I worked really hard and got another surprise note saying "Happy two days before your birthday" and such things :) I was smiling alot. And I saw the one who wrote the message too and that was a wonderful early birthday present. I like that kid :) Just saying. I got a ride home form work and went to watch Rise of the Planet of the Apes at Ty and Robert's apartment with the other roommates. It was a good movie and it was funny trying to explain how it fit into the other movies to my roommates, practically impossible. I had fun though. Dana and I came back and did studying (me reading and her doing lesson plans) and ending up looking up stuff about the new temples being built. Now I finished my NT reading and I think I'll look over my American Usage before I go to bed. Can I just say how grateful I am to be able to have the fulness of the gospel and understand that God loves me? I am extraordinarily blessed with the different people in my live and being apart of this wonderful church.It makes everything that much easier to go through because at the end of the day, my Father in Heaven loves me and my Elder Brother, Jesus Christ already did everything for me, what more do I need?

Much love to you all

playing catch up

Gotta catch up from yesterday. I literally had just turned off the light and laid down with my eyes closed, when I realized I had not blogged yet that day. I put it off until today. I was far too comfortable to move at all. So lets see, what happened on Monday . . .

Well to start off, I slept in till 10. Then I got showered and comfortable and started doing my reading (which I thoroughly enjoy by the way). I read and read until Nyc (my aunt) came and took me grocery stopping. I got enough food to last me through the end of school I'm sure and came home and cooked Skillet Lasagna for the first time. And may I say, it turned out pretty outstanding :) It pays off being able to cook well :) Well at least I've been told I cook pretty well and everything's tasted good so far so I'll take that as a bonus! I also got new recipes today for homemade pancakes and waffles from Becca and am very excited to try them out. I certainly hoping they are much better then Bisquick.

Why am I always up so late? I'm always the last one in my apartment to go to sleep and thats probably not a good thing. These posts take place right around midnight every night. I want to make sure its the complete end of my day right before I go to bed, but I suppose I should start getting ready for bed a little bit earlier. Aaaaaahhhh and then I get distracted by quotes, curse my shortening attention span. I need to read more books, they boost your attention span. http://bookreviews.me.uk/rory-gilmore-reading-challenge/ I saw this on Pinterest and thought it was an excellent idea, now I just have to start reading, along with school and work and yeah, I WILL do it. No big deal.

Ok well today I got much of  my reading done and I feel like I'll be nice and prepared and caught up for my classes tomorrow. I'm also trying to use the phrase "a lot" less in my writing because I feel like I do it all the time. (I had to change it at the end of that sentence, to prove my point) I also just did research on that phrase for my Usage class and now I'm just self-conscious.

Work is better nowadays. I'm not looking over my shoulder frightened at who might be around the corner. That probably has to do with the fact that I sent the first of many letters to the MTC today. I also was looking through pictures and printing some out from last semester that just make me smile :) There is no use being sad because that's definitely not the point of this experience. I am diving into life (classes, reading, work, sleeping, socializing) head on and all I can think is, this'll be fun. "May you live all the days of your life." Johnathon Swift was a wise man, and I will take that to heart.

Much love