Permanent Mistakes

Tattoos have the the hot topic of conversations lately.  I have no idea why, but this past week the idea of tattoos has basically been haunting me.  Maybe I'm just hanging out with the wrong people.  I don't really think that tattoos are a good idea, they are permanent, and most people get them when they are 18.  Some tattoos are really cool--and they mean something to the owner, so I'm not intending to offend anyone.  I'm just talking about those stupid tattoos.  Like Tiger swinging a golf club on the ankle of my 8th grade gym teacher.  She was a lesbian too.  Disney characters should not be permanently stamped anywhere besides maybe on your day pass to the park.  The other day I was dropping kids off at school and a mom bent over, out poked a rose with some old english writing from the left side of her chest, like it basically fell out, how embarrassing.

The main reason for not getting a tattoo, on the lower back in particular, is shown below.





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Modern Day Inconveniences

My life goal is to invent something, preferably an app for a phone, so that I don't have to work hardly at all for the rest of my life.  Inventing anything would be an awesome achievement though.  There are just a  few things that I am glad I'm not responsible for.

1. These new toilet paper dispensers
1. You may not have seen these yet, and you really don't need to.  They're the most inconvenient and awkward step in the bathroom department.  My cousin used to joke that her parents used to only let their kids use one square of toilet paper each time they went to the bathroom.  I was 5 at the time and you know that bathroom talk, no matter what, was so funny.  Try these new dispensers and you'll literally be getting one square at a time.  It's so annoying and weird like a tissue box. 
2. The all in one hand washing and drying stations
1. If you attend the U and have never tested these out you need to.  Don't cuss me out though when you leave looking like you ran into a hose.  It sprays everywhere, and sometimes the heater is too hot.  Girls, they are in the West end of the Union building in the basement and boys, I don't know how to help you out on this one.  I know they're for sure not on the main level by the Saltair room because I used that bathroom last week.  There was a long line for the women's :/
3. Automated parking garage attendants
1. Today at City Creek I lost my parking stub.  I had to get out of my car, ask the boy behind me if I could follow him out, back my car up, get in line behind him, and zoom out of there after he paid just PRAYING that the pole wasn't going to slam down on my Cute Recreational Vehicle---all of this because there was no real live attendant to talk to.  First flaw of City Creek.  

A great big thanks to whomever came up with these three things to deter me from heading down the same path with my invention (someday).

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Wait I Just Said That

What's up with Wonka anyway?

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I think Alex Baze read by blog yesterday, because he just tweeted this.

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Dear Diary

Some people, my mom in particular, tell me that I "put way too much out there".  She is referring to the amounts of information I share online and just the fact that I tell just about anyone the most embarrassing things about myself because I just don't really care.  Yesterday the kid across the street encouraged me to be a little more positive.  What?  I smile so much everyday I already have crows feet.  I just say a lot of things that could be taken in a rude way I guess if you can't see the smile that I'm saying it with.  So, my apologies.

I don't pour my thoughts and heart out onto the Internet though.  Somewhat? Yes. Only the things that can be public.  Those blogs that talk about certain personal matters are what are weird to me.  I want to send my mom to those when she tells me this.  Love you Mom.  I have a journal for that stuff though.  (It's like the cutest journal too guys).  It's full of UVU and UofU experiences, scriptures and testimonies, a couple of different living situations--good and bad, my worries, tickets to places I've been, stories about a handful of boys, happenings with the different roommates I've had, and probably more but that's just too private and I've got to draw a line somewhere right (just kidding that's everything)?

Some of the things I see online or hear people talking about out loud in public could definitely be labeled as TMI, or just pointless.  You tweet 50 times/day exactly what you're doing?  Blog about your everyday activities?  Tell the girl next to you in class about what you're boyfriend does?  It's weird.  And I'm not name calling, I'm saying with a smile like this 

plus  one more tooth.

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The Real World (not MTV style)

I am a 21 year old girl working two jobs and attending college, and the grill fell off my car a few weeks ago.  HA! That made my life sound pretty hard.  I'm grateful for my life and the ease/challenges of it.  Even though I'm not graduating any time soon I have been thinking about those who ARE graduating soon and WILL be 100% adults in the real world.  As a girl, if I'm not graduating as a school teacher or a nurse I don't know what I'm doing with my life.  Kidding.  That's too generic.  I don't know if what I will be doing when I graduate will be making a substantial amount of money or not.  I'll work hard enough to survive and maybe I won't be eating at Chick-Fil-A anymore if I can't afford that.  But I'll be happy with my work, and that's what's important to me.

Some people might say that I'm a little bit sexist or stereotypical (I hope I'm using the right words) for saying that I don't plan on being the breadwinner for my family, but I want to be a mom instead.  And I should be.  I'll probably have about 9 kids and they'll be adorably dressed in clothes that you can BET will have be purchased for a good deal. My degree will allow me to make money as needed and hopefully work a desired amount of hours.  AND I'LL BE HAPPY. But boys?  I feel so sorry for them!  As soon as they graduate high school they go to college.  By their early 20s they are working on a degree that they most likely chose to pursue before they were even an adult.  Men plan on providing for their families, but how do they know they'll be happy with their work for the next 40 years?  They don't.  It would be scary to be a boy, to dive into a job or career and consider sticking with it for the rest of your life, and crossing your fingers that it would make you happy, and it could support your family.  I would rather have a happy and healthy family than have a lot of money but uptight relationships.  Family is important, and it will all work out.

I'm grateful to be a girl, sorry boys, I hope it all works out, but if not--you could dress up and charge for pictures like this guy.

Obviously I snuck this one. 

BUT NOT THIS ONE!

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