20 for 20

In honor of it being May, and my birthday month, I thought we'd celebrate with 20 things about me in honor of me living on this planet for 20 years.

1. As a kid I thought 16 was the pinnacle of a human beings existence. Because prom, duh. What more could you possibly get out of life? So, pretty much anything beyond 16 was downhill. Thankfully (like can I get a hallelujuh up in here?) that is not the case. 
2. Because my mom got married at 19, I really thought I would too, because obviously you always follow exactly in your parents footsteps. ;) If that's actually a thing though...I'm very behind schedule. 
3. I've spent 19 and a half years thinking that gogurt was special yogurt, or at least different than yogurt in some way. It's not guys. It's seriously just yogurt in a tube. 
4. I think dark nail polish is beautiful and classy...until it chips. After that, it looks like a middle school-er going through their 'emo' phase. 
5. Thought Catalog is a huge guilty pleasure for me. Reading pointless humor or advice articles is like  cocaine to me.
6. I love that getting older has allowed me to have more of a friend relationship with my parents. That Mike and Connie, they're real cool cats. (Parents..sorry I called you Mike and Connie on the internet. I'm not sure if we're close enough for that yet)
7. Texting has ruined my ability to type on keyboards. What do you mean you can't double-space to put a period?
8. I have a nearly constant monologue going on in my head. I'm convinced it's a blessing that only I can hear my thoughts. 
9. If I find a song I like, I will play it repeatedly, until I hate it. (I have ruined Love is Blindness by Jack White this week, and I am not sorry.)
10. I refuse to be ashamed that pink is my favorite color. 
11. Cat jokes, mullets, beards, any meme with Leonardo DiCaprio, and The Mindy Project are pretty solid reasons for happiness in my existence. 
12. I kept my hair short for years, because of one girl who told me 'my face was like totally too round for long hair'. (jokes on you random girl. Jokes. On. You)
13. I refer to almost everyone as my best friend. It seems mean to categorize people into friends and best friends. I throw around the friend word the way Oprah gives out cars to her audience, everybody gets a car. 
14. I'm highly opinionated, but I hate arguing or debating with people. 
15. Regularly, I get embarrassed for other people when they do something embarrassing. I still can't watch Anne of Green Gables without feeling highly mortified the entire time. That girl seriously is too much for me to handle
16. The best book I have ever read in my life is Life of Pi. It's the most different and unique book I've ever encountered, and not at all predictable.
17. I think love triangles in books, tv shows, or movies are highly annoying.
18. I'm relatively stubborn. Generally speaking, once my mind is made up, it's pointless to try to sway me one way or the other. 
19. I live with clinical depression and struggle with anxiety, usually in the form of obsessive and compulsive behavior. It's difficult,and it's been a major game changer for me. It's caused me to put everything in perspective and decide what's important and what's not. I hate that it makes me have to work harder than others to function on a 'normal' level, but I love that it forces me to constantly actively look for good and positive things around me. 
20. I'm a religious person. I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I don't talk about that aspect of my life nearly enough. I love the gospel completely. It has changed me and shaped me into a better person. I completely respect, that other may not feel the same way as I do, and whole-heartedly believe that whatever believe system a person chooses, is a good thing so long as it makes them fulfilled and happy. 

Welcome home

Hey y'all! I'm back in Ephraim baby!

Aren't long weekends fantastic? I think there is nothing better than a good long weekend. Weekends in and of themselves are wonderful, but then long weekends are like celestially beautiful.

You get to Sunday evening and you're feeling a little blue because you know that you'll have to go back to real life, but then EUREKA! You remember it's a long weekend and you don't have to go to school on Monday.

President's day in a lovely little surprise break I think. Hooray for presidents!

I think one of the best parts of going home and then coming back to my Ephraim home is the drive.

I absolutely love driving past the Manti Temple. Almost as soon as you're outside of Ephraim, you can see it, this beautiful white building up on the hill. The closer you get, the bigger and most magnificent it becomes. And then, by the time you drive past it, you can barely see it because it's so high up and big over you. 

I love driving through Gunnison and thinking about my sweet Grandparents serving their mission in the prison, and of course driving past the Malt Shop. (We did have pretty fantastic feasts there!)

Of course, driving through Salina makes me think about selling our cows. Burns Saddlery with my daddy, and Mom's Cafe will ALWAYS make me think about Grandpa.

I start to get so giddy when I get to Cedar.  Really, Southern Utah is such a beautiful area.

Talking with a friend today, who's going on his mission pretty soon, he's so excited to go, but he's really going to miss going up on the mountain. As we talked, I realized, pretty much everywhere I've been is beautiful in it's own way. 

Don't we live in a beautiful world?

I am so happy I chose to start my 'happiness project' this year for my 2013 goal. The more, I've opened myself up to happiness, the more I seem to find.

It's not the big huge stuff that makes me happy, it's the dumb little stuff that honestly fills me with joy.

Like, a text from someone you haven't heard from for a long time, or burning your favorite candle (Lime Cilantro, weird, but soooo yummy smelling) , or drinking sparkling pink grapefruit water because pink is your favorite.

I went to Wal-Mart today, because,

1. I like food, it is essential to life.

2. I live in Ephraim, and there is not many places to go.

I won't even lie to you, I started laughing more than was probably healthy. There were huge signs everywhere about all the Valentine's Day paraphernalia 75% off. Flowers, candy, cards, cheap jewlry, you name it.

I was pretty tempted to buy me some Transformers Valentines, you know, cause you just don't know when you might need one of those. Actually now that I think about it, I could just start passing out those bad boys out to everyone on campus. This feels like a really good idea.

But anyway, call me unromantic, but personally, I think if men were smart they'd buy their significant other's Valentine's gifts after Valentine's. Kills the romance completely, but it would save you lots of money. 

Just a thought.

Anywho. I'm going to take a  power nap. Which is actually when I lay in my blankets, hold a stuffed monkey, and squeeze my eyes tight and pretend like I'm going to fall asleep. 

And on Wednesdays we wear pink

This girl. I love this girl :) This one is from our random adventure up Ephraim Canyon, way back before it became a wet wonderland in E-town.

BUT, like in the classic teen comedy, "Mean Girls", on Wednesdays we wear pink. Or at least we do for pink photo-shoots.



Speaking of pink. Today Cayley bought me a pink ring-pop. And then at a sorta ghetto-tastic and mildy creepy Downeast outfitters warehouse she got me a pink watch. for $3. Clearly she is not only a bargain shopper, but knows of my obsession with pink.

Except its not really an obsession. It just sorta happens tat I pick pink things a lot more than I realize. Subconsciously.


I love that girl :)

Come on get happy!

First of all, welcome to October, month of bloodthirsty killings of deer and Halloween.

While Halloween has lost its luster for me, since apparently there is an age limit on trick or treating, (Oh the humanity! Or lack thereof that prevents me from dressing up like a princess and exploiting people for free candy) I can assure you the deer hunt just gets better with age. I apologize to those who believe running around the wilderness for the express purpose of killing an innocent animal is wrong.
You clearly are missing out.

But moving on. Today I am happy. Because well, actually MOST days I am happy. Except for on the rare occasion that I am not happy.


So, as you may have gathered from the title of this post, I am going to attempt to bring a ray of sunshine-y happiness of my life to you!

This is the poster of a party that occured on my street! Unfortunetly we did not attend. Although let the record show, that we are indeed, Superfly Honeys.

This is a sign I found on the bell tower while I went to visit Cayley at the library. I'm really not sure which made me happier, the fact that someone else out there shares my obsession with mustaches, or the fact that mustache duct tape exists.

I mean really? Mustache duct tape-mind blown.







Nextly I will share with you 23 ways to make your day better.
Personally I like #3 and #14 the best. Although really all of them are precious little gems in and of themselves.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/steps-to-instantly-make-your-day-better

Click on it ^^ You know you want to :)

It's Snowing...

Homework. Its snowing homework. At Snow College.

Do you get my poorly executed pun? It was pretty great.


I'm home for the weekend. Partially because I want some peace to do my GTL routine. But also because somebody is finally home from Germany

Thee one and only Ronald.

We have been separated far too long. Thusly I must see him. He went to Germany with...actually I have no idea. BUT it was a glorious experience unmatched by anything he'd ever experienced. Including cake. But being in a foreign country for 3 1/2 weeks nearly killed me of loneliness. But worry not kids, he took pictures of all the castles for me. He's a keeper.

Also. I am getting a Skype account. Because all these hipsters in  my poetry class have informed me that Skype is so uncool and outdated that it might be cool. While I don't understand the logic, I figure I can call my friends on there every once in a while.

Have you been enjoying lovely little afternoon rain showers? I have. They are so wonderful. It freshens the air and washes away my grouches of being overheated and exhausted. But at the same time, the rain has increased the humidity in good ol Ephraim Utah. Which means, while I go to school in the morning with luscious hair like this

I generally end the day looking something like this.

Mind you, this is only a tamed down picture of the actual event.

So, while I begin the day looking like a pretty decent human being, I generally end it looking like a zombie.

I'm getting a little too hobo to be chic.

But at least I'm getting an education right?

Oh ps. GTL? Gym Tan Laundry. Thank you Jersey Shore.

Pink is a mature color

Pink is the color of Barbie, who we all know to be a highly successful plastic woman. She has many different careers, friends and boyfriends.
Pink is also the name of a pretty legit woman rock star.
Pink represents girls
And breast cancer awareness.
And overall happiness and joy.


There is nothing wrong with pink. I have a pink cell phone. And a brand spankin new pink laptop.

But when we bought the laptop the salesman made it a point SEVERAL times to point out the color of the laptop. i.e- you can do everything on this other computer that you can on your little pink laptop. Guess you're gonna be typing alot of papers on your little pink laptop. Have fun with your little pink laptop.

All I really wanted to say is ' Sir, have fun with your unhappy life at this very sad and depressing and overly nerdified computer store. I AM going to enjoy this little pink laptop.'

People these days....

Haters gonna hate.