Stop counting down the events in your life. Slow it down and take this mortal existence one day at a time. Enjoy the small moments that have always made you smile and remind others to do the same.
Yesterday was Groundhog day and pretty much everyone who knows/loves me knows that I adore that day with kind of my whole heart. I celebrate hardcore. I bake a cake. I watch the film 'Groundhog Day' with my fam bam (or friends) and love the heck outta that day.
Yesterday it was definitely overshadowed by what we civilized homosapiens like to call
Le Super Bowl XLVIII
(that's 48 for those who do not read Roman numerals)
I don't mind. My loving roommates baked a cake for the groundhog with me (by with me I just mean that M baked and frosted it while I devoured literally 1/6 of it) and we watched the game. So it was not a bad day at all.
**NEWS/SPOILER ALERT FOR TIME TRAVELERS COMING FROM PRE-2014:
The Broncos lost and Punxutawney Phil saw his shadow.
Future prediction (I hope that time traveler will leave me a comment if these are true):
Sad Coloradoan's. More winter.
Speaking of Bill Murray...poor transition, but I want to get on with this thought before it leaves me forever.
What would you do if you had a certain amount of days that would just restart and repeat exactly as it happened that day and the only thing that changed it was your choices?
I thought about this as I did my homework this morning- I'd probably do all of the homework for the semester until I got so good that I could just test out of the class.
I would also tell people a lot of things just to see how they would react.
I wouldn't run a muck on the town of Rexburg, but I wouldn't be satisfied with sitting at home doing homework all the time.
In the end...I would act as Bill Murray did in my favorite 90's flick 'Groundhog Day' and explore selfish wishes, but eventually learn to be there for others and become the most selfless person in the whole movie (except for that camera guy- he literally gets no cred).
Good thing I'm so humble, right?
I would also become incredibly skilled at everything I have ever wanted to be skilled at.
So now I thought as if it were profound- what is stopping me?
My challenge is to be more Phil Connors-esque this month.
I'm living on the edge (within reason) and you can't stop me (although I don't have much strength you probably could physically stop me, but that's not the point)!
This week has been the week of all weeks so far this year.
So many good, funny, stressful, and wonderful things have happened. To me. Yes, to me.
I am blessed.
How about some cherries of the week?
First: I got to pretend to be in a horrible marriage to a woman who was selling my violin because she hated my "Classic Dubsteb" band named Beethoven liked the Bass Down Low...we had so many hits.
Second: On my way to study in the library my roommate K and I won tickets to a performance this week!
Third: I fell in love. With study rooms. Also, with kicking people out of my reserved room. #itsthebest
Fourth: I went to the temple here in
Rexburg with some wonderful friends.
Seriously, the BEST. K, M, and W
I'm talking about you.
Fifth: Recently we welcomed this handsome fella into our lives here in apt 21. His name is Frederick. <3
Sixth: This is my view almost every single night.
If I am lucky enough to leave campus
before sunsets that is.
Seventh: This kid ALWAYS knows what's up.
I watched this video the other day
and lets just say... I'd vote for him.
Eighth: Today was capped off
with a wonderful walk about that ended at the temple. M and K are the best.
Today was a roller coaster of emotions and honestly I'm glad tomorrow is Monday! Yeah I said it! Tomorrow is Monday and I'm glad!
Since I am not the typical person that writes a blog I waited for the SECOND day of January to reflect on 2013!
Right now I'm packing up to go back to school, and this is hard to do. No, not just because I am leaving pretty much my favorite people in this world, but also because I only have one suitcase and an insane amount of stuff too put in it. Trust me, it currently is all spread on my floor and bed.
The New Year and I have a love/hate relationship. A new "you" is expected to make their appearance from yesterday (January 1st) on through the rest of the year. I feel like a lot of amazing people get down on themselves because they didn't make a contribution to society or change the world in some massive way. I'll tell you what, I think the people I met this year change lives every day without even knowing it. Perk up guys!
YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
New Years is weird like that though. We get a new month ever thirtyish days, we get a new week every seven days, and we get a brand new day to work with every 24 hours.
I'm the weirdy girl who doesn't make resolutions once a year after I reflect on my past year. I like to think I'm the girl who took advantage of every hour she was given in 2013 to become better. I'm going to keep that up in 2014 (that was really weird to type out. 2014...) and I'm going to extend the challenge to you as well! Take every opportunity you are given to be happier, better, and wiser than you were a moment before. Try new things, meet new people, be nicer, love more, and give yourself a good reputation.
I had a lot of disappointments this year, but my blessings far outweigh anything that bogged me down this last year. This year for me was about counting blessings and seeing God's hand in every day of my life. I might be sporting rose colored glasses here, but you can definitely borrow them anytime you want.
If you need wise words from an apostle to help you out with this then listen to Elder Uchtdorf! He tends to be pretty great with the advise stuff.
I like to believe he knows what is best for us. Embrace each and every day in 2014.
I thought about this blog today and the reason I started it (essentially it was for a list of 22 things I wanted to do before I turned 23, but let's be honest-I'm too poor for my list to happen in only one year) and the title of the blog says it all. Enjoy the here and the now. Make your life happen!
Maya Angelou said "Life loves the liver of it."
Don't let life hate you. ;) ...and just so everyone knows she is NOT talking about your internal organ. I just thought I'd clarify that really quick!
Story Time:
I would like to leave you with a story of my "choose your fate" moment.
Once upon a time it was New Years Eve 2013 and there was a very large bowl of fortune cookies (like this bowl was so big a baby could bathe in it) as I picked one up I realized that I could read the fortune without even having to open it up! Good eyes, right? So I stood there for a good solid SEVEN minutes reading and tossing back the lame ones. I even met a few people, showed off my flag naming ability that ends at Brazil and Australia, and I got to snack on some desserts too! Well I finally picked one that sounded interesting, opened it up, and to my horror it was awful!
**DISCLAIMER: This is no dramatization of what happened next.
It read "It is always darkest before the dawn" then I said 'Thanks captain obvious!' and threw the fortune in my bag and left to go dance and meet people.
What a joke of a fortune, right?
Morals of this blog: Don't read this unless you are really bored.
Make sure to be the leader of your life this new year.
Be happy with who you are and be excited for who you are becoming.
