Christmas Break!

This break hasn't been very long at all. In no time at all I'll be headed back to Utah and that means school. I swear i just finished last semester and I'm already going back. I'm not even totally sure of which classes I'm taking. I'll figure it out though because I always do somehow. I just have to sign up for the rest of my classes. I think I'll end up just taking a bunch of classes for my major, so that means lots of homework.

This break has been pretty good. I got home at about 10 pm on Christmas Eve. I've been spending most of my time with family. I've especially enjoyed spending time with the niece and nephews. They use me like a human jungle gym and I'm ok with that cause they are just so dang cute! It's so crazy cause they have grown so much in the short time since I've seen them last. It makes be feel so old.

I know I just turned 22 at the beginning of the month, but I'm still starting to feel really old. I'm doing winterguard this year and this is the last year I can do it before I 'm too old. And one of my friends recently got married and I remember when I was graduating high school and she was still a mia maid in young womens. And a bunch of my other friends are getting married too and they're all younger than me too. So basically I feel old even though I'm young and in the prime of my life.

Well I think that's enough of my whining. Christmas break has been fabulous. So, till next time!

SO TIRED!!!!

I feel like I'm just constantly tired. I'm exhausted as I'm typing right now. I really need to just shower and go to bed but I swear that I am incapable of making rational decisions and going to bed at a decent hour. And it doesn't help that all I can think about is that I have SIX straight hours of class tomorrow. I have so much homework all the time this semester. All the people that I talk to that have taken both chem 105 and physics 105 have told me I'm crazy for taking both of them this semester. And I have two test this week to and so many other things to do as well. I'm so eager for this week to be over.

Thanksgiving is just next week and I could not be more excited!!!!! And that means I can start listening to Christmas music very soon. I think I scared Kat today when I made that realization and got really excited. Granted it's not very hard to scare her. She jumps when someone knocks on the door.

Since I haven't been on here in a while I'll just do a quick highlights of my life.

• Back at BYU
• Decided to major in Exercise Science
• I have 6 AMAZING Roommates!
• My best friend is on a mission and I have some how figured out how to manage my own life without her.
• After getting my bs the plan is to go on to study Physical Therapy
• Still doing the colorguard thing
• I'm serving on the service committee in my ward
• I try to make it to the temple as often as I can which unfortunately isn't very often
• Thanksgiving is next week!!!
• 23 days till the last day of class and my 22nd birthday!
• The fact that I'm generally surrounded by amazing people

Well it really is time for bed. Sweet dreams everyone!

Life is Good

I love life! I may not be going to school right now and am currently jobless but I'm loving life. I'm surprisingly content with life and I'm actually looking forward to going back to BYU in the fall. I'm actually not sure why me and BYU didn't get along in the first place. I think I'm more excited because I think I have found something that I might actually enjoy majoring in besides my unattainable dream of being a professional dancer. I haven't really looked into it much but I have discussed this with Ashleigh and we both think that I would be very wise to pursue physical therapy.

That brings me to another point. I'm going to miss Ashleigh so much!!!!! I'm so happy that she's going on a mission and i just know that she will love it so much but I'm selfish and I want her to stay just so I can talk to her everyday, or when I freak out and need my best friend to talk to. Noone else really understands the weird, crazy thoughts that run through my head that I just have to tell someone else. I'll live somehow. I did manage to survive life somehow for 18 years before I met her. And I guess letter writing will suffice.

Since this is a life is good post I guess I might as well make a list of things in my life that make me happy.

• The gospel
• Ashleigh
• My other friends
• My family
• My boyfriend
• Puppies
• Shoes
• Maybe finally deciding on a major
• Flowers
• Kisses from Tory
• Hugs
• Being healthy and free of sickness
• and lots of other things
  

Christmas Lights

I swear I'm not afraid of heights but after I'm finished you may be convinced otherwise.

Earlier today I was throwing a football with Sandra and she got tired and left me outside. I wasn't ready to go inside so I was laying in the hammock deciding what I wanted to do. It would take too long to find a basketball to shoot some hoops and then I realized that it was six days into the new year and our Christmas lights were still up. I go into the garage and get out the ladder and start with the lights on the side of the house and after I was done with those it was time to get on the roof to get the ones on the front because you can't reach those from the ladder. So I positioned the ladder near the porch where it makes a corner and it's the easiest to get on right there.

As soon as I was on the house I could tell that the roof did not look this steep from the ground. I was able to make it from the top and I was fine just sitting there overlooking the neighborhood. I really like being able to look around from up there because you can just see so much more. Then I realized that to actually get to lights off I to venture down the roof and there is just not as much to hold onto. I set out to take the lights down so I was going to do it. I just sat there for a little while trying to prepare myself but I could tell waiting wasn't going to help as my heart rate increased so I just went after it. I went down the one side and made it without dieing so I was feeling good. I sat there on top and enjoyed myself a little more. After I conquered the other side I was done. I got off the roof and decided that my dad could tackle the garage side of the house because that side is a lot worse.

I think the incline just freaked me out. I haven't been home around the time that we put up and took down the lights for the last couple of years. But I do remember always being excited about getting on the roof. When I was little I would actually climb up a tree to get on the roof at our house back in California to just get away. I could could actually hide up there for hours without anyone finding me. Then again the incline on that roof was next to nothing. I also loved to help put up the lights at my Grandparents house but the roof at that house is flat. The scary put about getting up there was you got on there from the patio of the apartment above the garage and the wood was rotting really badly in some places. There was actually a piece of wood covering a hole in the wood. I've heard that the patio has actually been redone since the last time I was in California.

So I have decided that I am not afraid of heights but I definitely do not like steep inclines when I have nothing to hold onto.

I have also figured out a few options that I have for when I have a house of my own.

1. My house will just have a flat roof.
   
2. My future husband can just be in charge of putting up and taking down Christmas lights on the outside of the house.
3. I could pay someone else, or they could just do it out of the kindness of their heart.
4. Christmas will just not be celebrated at my house because you can't have Christmas without Christmas lights. And plus it can't be that hard to be a Scrooge.
   

So this isn't my house and not the same incline at all but this is what it seemed like when I was up there today.