CrAzY dAyS

So pretty much I am in love with three-day weekends! Yeah for Utah and Pioneer Day! Thursday night my ward went to Jump On It! It's basically a warehouse with a ton of trampolines all connected. There were even trampolines slanted against the wall so you could like run into them and then fling back into the the middle of the room! I hurt my knee pretty badly, but man it was so much fun! And yes, my entire apartment dressed up. I wore my gold metallic swimsuit, purple leggings, soccer shorts, and a lime green sweat band! Yeah we were stylish!

On Friday I finally got to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!!!!! It only took forever! Well of course I wished there had been different scenes, but overall I was pleased with the outcome. Oh then my roommates and I went to Becci's sister's house for our weekly date with TIVO and So You THink You Can Dance. Ya we were really disappointed in the results! Jason is our ultimate favorite and Jeanette should have won the show! We were quite broken hearted. Oh Tear.

Oh but the fun doesn't end there my friends, oh it doesn't! So one of the perks of living with 5 other girls is the massive amounts of chick flicks you have the opportunity to watch. Thus far this weekend, I have watched 5, yes 5, chick flicks. And here are my ratings of the viewed films.

1- French Kiss: Really adorable

2- What's Up Doc?: Makes no sense but I loved it!

3- Stardust: Just Love IT!

4- The Wedding Planner: cute, what else is there to say

5- Love Story: Ok so pretty much the most depressing movie I have ever seen in my life! But I'm so glad I saw it! Cried my eyes out at 2 in the morning with Aly and Lacey which then turned into hysterical laughter. So ya, it was a fantastic movie, but i highly doubt i will ever watch it again. Too sad :(

Ok so that's been my weekend thus far. Check back for updates

Oh ya I did do some homework too, don't worry. I'm a good college kid, I am!

It's Official--I'm Homesick

In all honesty I have missed my family, but not yet have I experienced true homesickness. I don't know why, but I have missed home terribly over the past few days, especially today. Things I miss:

Getting ready with the girls in the bathroom blasting our iPods
Sunday dinners (need I say more)
Singing with Schae
Fighting with Dani (or avoiding being killed I should say :) )
Talking with Ashbie-- she's starting to really grow up and I miss her
I miss late-Saturday-night grocery shopping with Mom
I miss Dad's "Brianisms" hehe :)
I miss Bobbie and her wealth of knowledge and wisdom
I miss home.

One of the members of our Stake Presidency gave a really good analogy tonight at a fireside. He said that when we feel alone even though we still have our families and friends, and Heavenly Father, he likened us to a tiny toddles and a parent who is trying to teach us to walk. I've been carried my whole life and now the person (or I should say people) who have held me thus far have set me down on my trembling feet, walked to the opposite side of the room, and then turned to me and said "Come on, Come on, you can do it." Isn't that so true to life? When we feel alone we are not truly alone, just distanced, so that we may learn to walk on our own now. We must learn to walk.

The Faults of Procrastination

Today's weekly devotional was something I wish I had learned a long time ago. The devotional was given by a professor in the family sciences department, and he specializes in marriage therapy. He taught us about some major thinking flaws one of them being perfectionism. He told us that Perfectionism leads to Procrastination and that leads to Paralysis. This is so me! We build up this grand idea of what we want the final product to be and then we freak ourselves out over achieving that ideal and we become incapable of beginning work on such an overwhelming task. Brother Larson taught us that it's all about the Process not the Outcome. We need to focus on what we are doing with our lives now, not just a pituresque outcome. So this is my new motto in life and maybe you learned something too.

Just remember:
Perfectionsism--> Procrastination--> Paralysis

Procces not Outcome!

Midnight Thirty Madness

Ok so I got up super early to work on my research paper and then I've been pretty lazy in the homework sphere after my classes so today's been interesting. Heidi and I taught our FHE groups how to index tonight and it was a major success!!!! YAY go indexing!!!!!!! It's so awesome I love. Then Heidi and I like talked for two hours (both of us were totally ignoring our papers.....). Then I worked out with Lacey, MaCall, and Ally-- hehe it was funny. Now I'm just super wired and really need to sleep, but hey it's college, who sleeps. Ok so college kids totally sleep, during class! No I did fall asleep in American Heritage today, BUT it was in out ten minute break- it was a totally planned nap I promise! Haha.

Indexing

I was called last week to be an Indexer in my ward and today I completed my first batch. At times it was hard to read handwriting from 1920, but it was a rewarding experience. Ever since I went to a family reunion in Bear Lake a few weeks ago I have been very intrigued by family history. I was even hoping to be called to the index committee way before I actually was. It's an odd experience to feel connected to our ancestors, to people we have never met. But do we take the time to realize just how similar we might be. Not a day goes by here at college that I don't perform some act like cleaning the kitchen or doing my laundry and think of my mom and the way she taught me to do these things. Each of my roommates and I perform the same task but all in different ways. Why? Because how we have been raised. And who taught our mothers? And our mother's mothers? Even something as simple as doing the laundry can be attributed to people we have never met.

But spiritual habits may also be passed on through the family tree. The way we pray, the way we study the scriptures, our attitudes regarding gospel principles like fasting and tithing can be inherited attitudes. Never forget this as you raise your families. What you do and the habits you now have may dictate the habits of your posterity for generations to come.

I encourage you all to participate in indexing. You may do so by going to http://www.familysearchindexing.org. Here you can take tutorials on how to index and then join the process! The records you index will then be available through the Church's family history sites allowing people to quickly locate their ancestors. And remember if you aren't a member of the church please join in! You too can learn so much about your ancestors, and consequently better understand yourself.

Sorry if this post is a little, ok maybe a lot, cheesy and corny but check out the site and join in the work!

Hello World!!

So in the crazyness that is my life, and the intense insanity that is my college life, I have decided to create my own blog so that all my friends and family, should they so desire, can keep up to date on the many adventures of me!!!

Besides I love writing, and it's easier to love it when you're writing what you want to write and not millions of annoying essays!

Love you all!!!