[memorial day]

i'm not going to complain about this on facebook, because everyone else will.

IT SNOWED LAST NIGHT. 

and our basement flooded for the 2nd time in a week. this time it was my bedroom.

happy memorial day :)

[budget]

big news. i'm moving out again. EVENTUALLY. i mean i would gladly move to slc tomorrow if i could.  i love living at home and seeing family, but i love friends in salt lake. so if the house that my friends and i had a move-in date for hadn't fallen through (i'm bitter) then i would be there as of june 1. hello ksl classifieds, i'm back on the hunt.

this will be my 3rd time moving out and i am 100% responsible for all finances. so i made a budget. and it's hard...even though i haven't started it yet, i can tell it's hard :/ i'll start it when i move out. the truth of it wasn't hitting me until i got THIS email. memorial day weekend sale at anthropologie + $50/month shopping budget = NOT good. maybe i can buy a candle. that's on sale. and damaged. sold as is.

i wish i was a trust fund baby.

[temple]

this morning lauren hedin picks me up. i'm not ready. we almost go to bountiful, then she decides to go to salt lake. then we miss the exit. then we can't find a parking spot. then her defrost stops working so we're stranded. then we finally make it into the slc temple. then we see two men in black suits. then we see a man with an earpiece like an fbi agent. then he tells us to wait in the hallway of the temple. then we see president monson, eyering, and uchtdorf walk by. then they waved at us and were so cute! then we cried. thanks to an odd sequence of events it was a great morning :)

she took this pic, she's great.

[we met online]

it's cool to meet someone that you blog-stalk, but also a big strange.  you're kind of nervous that you know too much about them before you actually know......them. but it's fine! my uncle is now friends with a guy who started following him on twitter and coincidentally moved into his neighborhood. so online friendships are fine! online relationships on the other hand......eh. i don't know if that's necessarily up my alley.

my friend amanda went to dixie and met tehya her freshman year.
tehya became my friend.
tehya went to dixie her sophomore year and met haylie.
and now haylie is my friend!
and she blogs!
and her blog is cute. go check it out.

stole the pic from her, we're even fb friends now.

LP

11 things i learned while in lake powell 2011. not lake "pal", please.

1. don't camp on a hill. or a hill of sand for that matter.

2. xi babes are reppin' it and have standards.

3. you shouldn't drive through richfield, joseph, salina or gunnison from lake powell to slc.

4. costco muffins, pb&j, and monster shouldn't be consumed in the amounts that they were.

5. i can still do a toe-touch.

6. free style camp-fire songs are hilarious. 

7.and roasting sticks can brand people.

8. fake tattoos provide hours of entertainment and hundreds of pictures. 

9. the louder the music and the deeper the base the more legit the party feels--haha sadly.

10. fish heads stay alive when the body is gone and you're trying to kiss them.

11. metal tent poles can snap in half due to wind.

[more or less]

quotes for a few things i think everyone could use a little more or less of. this is way too deep for me :/ but the quote garden got me thinking late last night! and i don't even know who some of these people are who said these things, and i might not like the quote so much if i knew more about the person. does that go against everything i'm about to post? ugh, yes.

confidence

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.  

Eleanor Roosevelt

gossip

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

patience

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Mac McCleary

worry

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen.

James Russel Lowell

virtue

Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Hugh Prather

trust

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.

Frank Crane

stress

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.

John De Paola

solitude

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

Lorraine Hansberry

simplicity

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo DaVinci

self-control

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.  No apologies or excuses.  No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.  The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.  This is the day your life really begins.

Bob Moawad

risk

Take risks:  if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.

Author Unknown

purpose

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for new and richer experience." 

Eleanor Roosevelt

politics

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”

winston churchill

perseverance

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

forgiveness

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Paul Boese

friendship

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. 

Dave Tyson Gentry

hate

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Charles Caleb Colton

kisses

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Thomas Carlyle

opportunities

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Milton Berle

kindness

Be kind; for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Plato

exercise

Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

Cher

exaggeration

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.

The Talmud

curiosity

There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. 

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

anger

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Sydney J. Harris

apology

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Kimberly Johnson

teamwork

It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.

Author Unknown

family

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. 

Joyce Brothers

[awesome]

during my daily blog stalking aka work i came across this site:

1000 awesome things

it's just awesome.

my top 10 so far:

1. people who look like their pets.
2. picking the perfect nacho off of someone elses plate.
3. when you pull up to a red light and the guy in front of you nudges up a bit so you can make a right turn.
4. sneezing 3 times.
5. using q-tips the way you're not supposed to use them.
6. when you arrive at your destination just as a great song ends on the radio.
7. using all the different shampoos and soaps in someone elses shower.
8. high fiving babies.
9. finding out your birthday is ona friday or saturday next year.
10. taking the price tag off in one clean peel.

and there are still hundreds i haven't read. i love this.

[FB]

the downfalls/embarrassing/weird things of facebook (yes, they do exist):

• when you get online for 3 seconds to see if there's anyone you want to chat with...and someone you quite frankly don't want to chat with sends you, "hey!!"
• looking up someone you're getting lined up with before actually meeting them in real life.
• typing someone's name in the "what's on your mind" box instead of the search box and NEARLY pressing share. creeping unveiled.
• facebook chat on your phone if you forget to go offline. you realize at the end of the day that you have looked like an addict alllll day long being online like that.
• the fact that you know you get on first thing in the morning and right before bed. aka scripture study time? that's bad.
• always being nervous that the "who views your profile the most" is true.
• knowing facts about someone's fiance like where they're from, what they're studying, where they're studying, their political views, their birthday, where they work, and their religion....but they have no idea who you are.
• the fact that facebook used to be my homepage. i had to change that, now it's just a bookmark. and a top site :/
• discussing facebook outside of facebook. it's always hilarious, but you feel like an idiot.
• the people who tell you "news" like they know it first-hand when you, in fact saw it on somebody's wall 10 minutes before.
• dramatic statuses that you know are directed at people. 
• fb mobile. are we that addicted?
• starting a conversation with someone only to see they go "idle" where is that conversation floating now?
• "liking" pages just because someone you like "likes it. now you'll have more things in common.
• i hate it when i'm up to date on the "most recent" tab of my newsfeed.
• i feel like i must have some responsibilities in life when my newsfeed "most recent" is 300+!
• poking is weird.
• being invited to weddings that you otherwise wouldn't be if facebook didn't have "events".
• wondering what the complete thought process is of someone who doesn't have a facebook?
• what do they do with their time?
• friend requests from someone you don't know.
• knowing ahead of time what someone is telling you in person because you saw it on facebook.
• meeting people on facebook. it's not eharmony.
• the people who claim to have not met on facebook even though they did.
• knowing within 10 minutes of the time someone became engaged.
• being up to date on relationship statuses of people from high school that you will never speak to again or never have.

and this is just too true. hilare.