I Moved

Don't know why, I guess I was bored with Blogger and my long address.

This isn't much shorter. Oh well!  Read if you'd like.

It's Not My Diary

Christmas Around the World

After opening gifts Christmas morning it was hard to imagine that anything could beat my new socks, but this kid did it.  I am so grateful for my little brother, Cade, and his choice to serve a mission in Chile!  I love hearing from him each week.  He's still normal, thank goodness.  Christmas is such a fun time of year and I love spending it with my family, even if it is via Skype.

Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animal

One of my better purchases of the season.

www.uncovet.com

Confidence

I found this blank page titled "Confidence" in my drafts tonight.  What was I thinking about when I started writing and quit after the title?  No idea.  But you know what?  Confidence is key.  It will get you places.  Nothing is less attractive than a lack of confidence, whether it be a boy or girl.  It's hard to be friends with people when they don't have confidence.  I think that the two biggest acts that radiate confidence are:

1.  Eye contact. Nothing makes a conversation more uncomfortable than if they other person cannot look you in they eye.  BE GENUINE.
2. Saying things simply to say them, and not repeating them to be heard.  I never can quite explain this one, but it's what I look for in people.  My favorite people are those who say a joke once, no matter if it's heard.  If I hear someone repeat their joke/comment two + times because they didn't receive the reaction they hoped for....I ignore it.  Rude?  SORRY!  You don't need social validation for everything you do though! So I won't give it to you.  I'm mean :/


(No really I try way hard to always be nice.)


So yeah, confidence.


And here's a quote from my fridge.



"Sisters, wherever you are, whatever your circumstances my be, you are not forgotten.  No matter how dark your days may seem, no matter how insignificant you may feel, no matter how overshadowed you think you may be, your Heavenly Father has not forgotten you.  In fact, He loves you with an infinite love.  Just think of it: You are known and remembered by the most majestic, powerful, and glorious Being in the universe!  You are loved by the King of infinite space and everlasting time!"

-Dieter F. Uchtdorf


(bold and large fonts are as they are printed from my ward's compassionate service committee, this quote has not been altered by the blogger)


CURRENTLY LISTENING TO:

Eyelash Extensions

I have gotten eyelash extensions a time or two.  And I've loved them!  I paid $25 the first time I went.  A year later I wanted to get them again so I went to the same girl thinking it would be $25.  She finished in about an hour and said it was $50.  Excuse me?  Ok, so I paid.  Then a few months later I finally let them all fall out.  It's a sad day when your eyelash extension all fall out.   It's like you don't even recognize yourself when you look in the mirror.  You look like a boy with puffy eyes just woken up from a nap following a fist fight.  I'm not exaggerating.  Aside from the fact that some eyelash extensions can look....bad.  See below:

They look like crunchy plastic and it's disgusting. 

Girls pay up to $150 a month for this. My tube of mascara is $7.99.

Sometimes people just choose the wrong length too, but to each her own, I'm not judging.

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO:

Hurricane Sandy

Relief efforts by the LDS Church.  I'm obsessed.

Politics 101

1. People will post their political views online because they want others to know, possibly hoping they could be an influence for their own candidate.  Those who complain about one day every four years when they see an explosion of political posts should instead develop some of their own and share them.  Politics are an important part of our country, become educated and please do share.   
2. Race does not matter.  Fingers can be pointed at every white American who did vote for Mitt Romney because Obama is African American.  Fingers could also be pointed at every African American who did vote for Obama because their skin colors matched.  Either way--don't talk about it if you'd like to see skin color eliminated from the political race, because the people expressing this and fueling the fire are making the racism exist.
3. There isn't much of a point in attacking your friends or supporters of the other party.  You do nothing but represent your party, yourself, and everything else that you are in a poor manner.
4. Do not say that "your vote doesn't count".  Because it does .  If you have that mentality, or would like to share that mentality then I would suggest trying to survive in a country where your vote does not even exist because your voice literally does not matter and will never be heard.  In America there is a voting system, use it, it's a privilege.
5. Lastly, don't think I'm psycho. Call my hypocrite though because sometimes I do say negative things, sorry.

Valentine's Day is in February

It may seem crazy to be talking about Valentines Day in October, but I want to.  Valentines day is a time of the year where you brag about your boyfriend and what he does for you.  Post as many pictures of your romantic date online so that EVERY other girl is jealous.  Way jealous.  That is, if the other girls have time to even look away from the pictures they have most recently posted of their romantic Valentines Day date.  Or week.  Some go a little over the top.  Anyway--in February us innocent bystanders are at least prepared to see all of these posts all over the web.  There are even e-cards and jokes (nobody thinks it's funny anymore) that actually refer to Valentine's day as "Singles Awareness MONTH".  In October though I feel that my eyes are safe, they will not be infected with the sights of cute couples kissing anytime I look online.  WRONG.  It's October, the month of Halloween, the NEW Valentines Day, kind of.  This was brought to my attention this morning by my extremely observant and Instagrammaholic roommate, Tehya.  We both agreed that all we have seen are pictures of couples on Halloween dates!  Which is fine, because we do it too.

(I imagine all of the following said in this voice.)

"Let's carve pumpkins!"
"Let's dress up as a couple!"
"Let's dress up as a CELEBRITY couple!"
"Wait, I want to look pretty!"
"Let's go to a haunted house!!"
"I want you to take me to a haunted house because I would act really obnoxiously scared at an unrealistic level so that I can hold your hand!  And that would be romantic!!"
"Let's take a picture!"
"Oh that was bad, ANOTHER!!!"



And then my roommates and I do this.

Old McDonald and Her Farm.

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO:

The Controversial Campaign Add

...watch below...

This is Lena Dunham.

And this is a funny parody.

The Final Stretch

I title this blog post The Final Stretch for two reasons.  The first and best is in reference to that final stretch you do before you get out of bed in the morning.  Is that not the best?  Once that final stretch and loud yawn are given you're forced to get out of bed.  The second reason I title this The Final Stretch is because I have reached that dreaded point in the semester.  The Final Stretch.  It always happens to me right after Fall Break.  When the semester began I actually did my assigned reading and sat through every class.  Now I am more likely to work on a way to get out of going to class than simply just going.  In fact, today I went to school and parked my car, got all of my belongings situated in my backpack and popped open my umbrella.  I was ready to walk to class during the first storm of the year.  I hopped out the driver's door and didn't even make it around the front of my car and to the passenger's side before I turned around.  I didn't want to go to school, and I sure didn't want to walk through the snow.  I got back in my car, called my mom, and drove 30 minutes to meet her for lunch at a greasy Mexican restaurant.  It was such a good day!  Once this weather hits is about when the final stretch kicks in.  I feel just the right amount of behind in some of my classes to be a normal student, just getting by by the skin of my teeth.  It's just these last few weeks that doing so becomes very difficult.  I can always get a good grade out of class if I just go. Assignments are done on time and in class work is completed.  Outside studying?  Woof.  Such a hassle, not happening.  I would like to think that before finals week I would dedicate a few nights a week to the library, but I'm not guaranteeing it.  Assignments?  Those will be done during the lectures.  I mean I have a plan, it just needs to end.  TWO MORE SEMESTERS, but then I'm graduated.  And what do you do for fun once you're graduated?  Oh stress.


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