AHHH! It's Monday.

It's Monday! The worst day of the week.  I remember watching this Garfield cartoon when I was little and he was trying to escape Monday because he didn't like Mondays.  He was trying to get to a different country with a different time zone so he could skip Monday all together.  All this bad stuff happens to him on the way to the country and by the time he gets there, it's just barely Monday there so he has to go through two Mondays.   That is just a bad day right there.

But, on a much happier note, I am 1/2 way done with my finals. YAY!  I have my two hardest ones out of the way: Math and Children's literature.  I just have my project for my Technology in Education class and my test in Exceptional Students.

And on an EVEN happier note: Briar comes home in 2 days. 2! That's it! I can't wait to see her!

So I saw this on someones blog and busted up laughing because it's pretty much hilarious.  If you haven't seen Inception you won't really get what it's talking about.  And also, if you haven't seen Inception you really should go see it because it is AMAZING! Capital amazing. That's pretty amazing.

 

Isn't that just great?

Fill in the Blank

So yesterday I was visiting a blog and saw where it said "Click here to enter." So I did. But I'm thinking now I should've done the Fill in the Blank, and then entered it.  So here it is:

1.  I wish my car was fixed.  It's been out of commission since August.  The engine is sitting in our garage.  I've been driving the mini van lately, and I have to say, I hate it when I pull up and there's a cute guy next to me and we make eye contact and then I remember I'm in the minivan and he probably thinks I have six kids or something.

2.  Yesterday I  went to class and worked. I also  procrastinated studying.

3.  Today I will  do the studying I procrastinated yesterday. 

4.  Tomorrow I will  go on a blind date. That's a funny story.

5.  Maybe  it will snow! I sure hope so because I want a white Christmas.

6.  Someday my prince will come :)  

7.  I love our family quote wall.  It makes me happy everytime I read it.

Santa drives my bus.

I sneakily took this picture of the bus driver today.  He looks like Santa! I wanted to pull a buddy the elf and yell "SANTA!!!"

like this:



But don't worry. I refrained.

2010 statuses

A year in facebook statuses.

You were only waiting for this moment to arise

This is what I did when I was supposed to be studying for a final.  I don't know which one I like better.


This one:

Or this one:

7 days until Briar gets home!

What goes around comes around: we all need a push sometimes.

If you're the one pushing others up the hill,
there may come a day when you need a push, too.

Maybe when you help someone,

you're that much closer to the top yourself.

Lance Armstrong

(This is from his book "Every Second Counts."  If you haven't read it I would recommend it.  It's a great read.)



How many until . . .

 

1.
The number of times I have to go to math again.

8.
The number of days until Briar comes home.

10.
The number of days until I am officially done with this semester.

18.
The number of days until Christmas.



Here's some Christmas tunes from Weezer for your listening pleasure:







And when I have my own house I'm totally doing this! #1 because I love this song. and #2 because this is just cool!



It reminds me of my first date. So for my first date it was around Christmas time so we went and saw lights and did a couple other things, but that's not the important part of this story. So afterwords we decided to give awards to houses for their Christmas decorations. So we got a notebook and tape and would write things like:

"Congratulations on winning the best blowup Santa.
From the First Annual Christmas Decoration Commitee"

or

"Congratulations. You have won the best lights on the garage award.
From the First Annual Christmas Decoration Commitee"

On one of the houses we wrote:

"We apologize to inform you that you have placed 56th place in the First Annual Christmas Decoration Contest because of the lonely wreath on the door.
Better Luck Next Year.
From the First Annual Christmas Decoration Commitee"

I kinda feel bad about that one haha.

Everythings Amazing & Nobody's Happy

This is so true! We have it so good. Love this :)

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found
that we were one tree and not two.

-- Captain Corelli's Mandolin

(I really just wanted to use this picture for something because I took it today and liked it, but I absolutely love this quote. I've been on a quote kick lately)

Briar

Today I want to dedicate this post to my sister Briar.
Because I miss her.
A lot.

She is an amazing girl. She is currently going to SVU in Virginia and is on the soccer team there. She is a freakin' amazing goalie! And I'm not just saying that because she's my sister, she really is. She has been blessed with so many gifts and talents. She has the biggest heart of anyone I know, and would do anything for anyone. She gives 100% at whatever she does whether it be with school, soccer, friends, whatever. She puts her whole heart and soul into something and she loves and cares with all her heart. I wish I could be more like that.

She recently had to give a talk in church and she sent me a copy and I wanted to post on here what she wrote because she's an amazing writer too.

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Throughout high school it was difficult for me to focus on heavenly things. There were so many goals that I wanted to achieve; wanted to be good at and I never saw past that. It was my goal to win a state championship my senior year in high school; I think it’s safe to say that it is a lot of high school students dreams to achieve that. To be able to wear that ring that says “I am a champion” to everyone who looks at it. Not only did I want to win the state championships, I wanted to shut down our soccer team rival Timpanogos High. I worked my tail off six days a week during the summer, attended soccer camps and workouts and mentally prepared myself to play the season of a lifetime. Once our season started everything else was placed second on my list of priorities, except for school of course. I would go to school, go to practice, work on homework then prepare for our next day’s game or practice. Our preseason was a bit discouraging for our coaches and even me. We weren’t winning the games we were supposed to, and the games we did win weren’t meeting our expectations. As our season came our progression flew. Finally our team clicked like planned. One of our first games was against our rival Timpanogos and we won with flying colors; a 3-0 game. One of my goals was now met half way; only later on my goal of shutting them out failed with a 2-1 loss on our own field in over time. I felt like my world crashed. I wanted to win; I wanted to be the best. But as a team, we failed.

After that, our winning streak began again, undefeated by everyone in our region but Timp. The relationship between us as teammates grew tremendously. We were always together or at least with one member of our team. We all knew the importance of being cohesive with one another. Our coach preached it to us all the time. And we lived it; everyday. Little did I realize the discipline I was learning everyday at practice, or during every game. Soccer was teaching me lessons on trust, friendship, and motivation; and I couldn’t see it. I didn’t recognize it. I was so focused on the things of the world that I didn’t realize that what was to be the outcome of my season was not a state ring; but life lessons.

Our season was coming to an end quickly, and just as before we were determined. This was it; everything was playing out just how it was supposed to for us to take it all. The third to last week of our season was supposed to be an exciting one; we were scheduled to play Westlake (our newest rival) on Tuesday, along with celebrating three birthdays the same day; one being my own. We were then planned to playing Mountain View that Thursday, a challenging but accomplishable win.

Every team has speed bump in their season; little did we know that ours had not yet occurred. In the middle of our supposed exciting week, I was kneed in the face and had to have surgery with a recovery time of about two to three weeks. Once again, I was crushed. How was I supposed to get my state championship now? What I realized later was that this injury was one of the best learning and growing experiences of my life. I recovered quickly. Being the stubborn person that I am, I didn’t want to miss out on any of our state games, and began practicing as soon as I could.

As our playoff games began, I felt uneasy about playing, but I was selfish and couldn’t give it up to our back up keeper. There was no way. I had worked too hard not to play. It was mine. Win after win after win; we made it to the final four. We were now closer to our final goal then we’d ever been my four years of playing. And as the ball was kicked high into the air, I rose my hands up to catch it. But miss judged. As the ball slipped through my fingers and into the goal, I was yet again crushed. Both of my goals were unmet. And for months after that game I blamed myself for not achieving them.

It was months later that I had realized what it was that my soccer career had given me. It had given me the opportunity to build who I am today. It drew me closer to my family, my parents especially. It created a bond between us through sharing these incredible experiences. It showed me that to fail is part of life and that you become stronger from it. It taught me to look for help from others when it is needed. And most of all, it taught me that worldly things only matter here on earth. I wouldn’t be able to take that championship with me to heaven. But I can take the relationships I gained and lessons that I learned.

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We celebrated Melissa's birthday today. It was on the 26th, but we didn't do the cake until today. She's turned 18. Legal! I just love her :)

This is Aubrey looking at me eating my cake. She didn't get any cake until she ate 5 carrots. She did not want to eat her carrots, but she sure did want cake.

Quotage.

I made some picture of a few of my favorite quotes or other pictures.

Happy December 1st!

You know what that means?!



Only 24 days until Christmas!



Which is so great because who doesn't love Christmas. It's such a happy time of year.



And I realized today that I only have 1.5 weeks of school until finals. Holy cow!
So, I do most of my blogging at work. Well actually all of it. I'm pretty much getting paid to blog. Saweet. See, what happens is I get sent to the second floor. That means I have anywhere from one to two hours to sit and help the occasional patron that comes to check out a book. Which is actually alright with me.

November 365

First month of 365.

Because Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh.

Hahaha, ok I just think these are funny. Yes I laughed outloud as I read some of these.

Fun Things To Do In A Lift

1) CRACK open your briefcase or handbag,peer Inside and ask "Got enough air inthere?"
2) STAND silent and motionless in thecorner facing the wall without getting off.
3) WHEN arriving at your floor, gruntand strain to yank the doors open, thenact as if you're embarrassed when theyopen themselves.
4) GREET everyone with a warm handshakeand ask him or her to call you Admiral.
5) MEOW occasionally.
6) STARE At another passenger for awhile. Then announce in horror: "You'reone of THEM" - and back away slowly7
) SAY -DING at each floor.
8) SAY "I wonder what all these do?" Andpush all the red buttons.
9) MAKE explosion noises when anyonepresses a button.
10) STARE, grinning at another passengerfor a while, then announce: "I have newsocks on."
11) WHEN the elevator is silent, lookaround and ask: "Is that your beeper?"
12) TRY to make personal calls on theemergency phone.
13) DRAW a little square on the floorwith chalk and announce to the otherpassengers: "This is my personal space."
14) WHEN there's only one other personin the elevator, tap them on theshoulder, then pretend it wasn't you.
15) PUSH the buttons and pretend theygive you a shock. Smile, and go back formore.
16) ASK if you can push the button forother people but push the wrong ones.
17) HOLD the doors open and say you'rewaiting for your friend. After a while,let the doors close and say "Hi Greg,How's your day been?"
18) DROP a pen and wail until someonereaches to help pick it up, then scream:"That's mine!"
19) BRING a camera and take pictures ofeveryone in the lift.
20) PRETEND you're a flight attendantand review emergency procedures andexits with the Passengers.
21) SWAT at flies that don't exist.
22) CALL out "Group hug" then enforce it

19 Ways To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity

1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.
2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice.
3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, ask If They Want Fries with that.
4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label it "In".
5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.
6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write "For Smuggling Diamonds".
7. Finish All Your sentences with "In Accordance With The Prophecy".
8. Don't use any punctuation.
9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.
10. Order a Diet Water when ever you go out to eat, with a serious face.
11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is "To Go".
12. Sing Along At The Opera.
13. Go To A Poetry Recital. And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme?
14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area and Play tropical Sounds All Day.
15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You're Not In the Mood.
16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom.
17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream "I Won! I Won!"
18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking Lot, Yelling "Run For Your Lives! They're Loose!"
19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner, "Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go."

Random Memory

Two of the best people I know. Kiley and Ashley.

This was a fun night. It was when I was at Snow college and this picture is pretty much typical us. I think this picture is from the Easter Egg hunt they had on campus.

I miss living with these girls. We had some good times :)

Friends will share an umbrella with you when it's raining,

but best friends will grab the umbrella from you and yell CATCH UP LOSER!!