Avoiding: verb; writing this instead of doing homework

Well I'm doing homework on the weekend again! :) :) :) 

What do I love more than this? Everything.  The answer is everything. 

Please do not think I was being serious about loving my homework.

Once upon a time my great grandmother told me she complained about 

having homework in grade school and she never had it again.

Once upon another time a peer complained about homework 

and we got another assignment that the professor "forgot".

Times sure have changed. 

I just wanted to write something funny, so now that I have failed I will tell you some music to check out.

If you're into that sort of thing. Some people aren't, so don't judge those who prefer the silence. 

Capitol Cities

American Authors

Echosmith <--found them today and haven't stopped listening! 

Passion Pit

A Great Big World

King Charles-Love Lust (I don't know his other stuff, but this song is the bomb.com)

The Avett Brothers (long time love here)

Birdy

G. Love and Special Sauce (First band I liked for a boy. I loved them, but not him.)

Avalanche City

Kill it Kid- Run <3 

Christina Perri- human (another <3)

The Mowgli's

Hillsong United- Oceans (where feet may fail)

Aubrey Hunt- Lovely Love (my best friend D has great taste)

Sea Wolf- Middle Distance Runner

I know. It's a mess, but it reflects me...a little. I'm not quite so "scattered". 

Have a happy Sabbath day! <3

Bill Murray envy.

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)!

Opposition in all things is why I know the cherries in my life.

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!  

Nothing ever goes exactly how you planned it

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. 

Happy Two Thousand Fourteen 

(so much class it had to spelled out)

Enjoy everything from today to 2015 my lovelies.

One week to rule them all...

I thought I would update you all on the goings of my semester...you know, now that I have 8 days left of it. 

Many things are making me laugh these days.  

I wish that meant I had a great sense of humor, 

but I think I should attribute that to lack of unconsciousness.  

That beautiful blissful thing called sleep.

Sleep is like that friend that always comes over at 

all the wrong times.  Like, the middle of the day 

when you should be busy with homework, or 3 in the morning

when you'd rather not have company come knocking. 

My Monday/Start of finals went a little something like this:

Woke up 15 minutes before class started.

Got there on time!

Jessie 1, Monday 0!

Asked a guy in my class 'How was the test?'

Last test was 2 weeks ago, next one is in 3 days.

Jessie 1, Monday 1.

Left a class and told my friend 'Have a great weekend!'

...it's only MONDAY!!

Jessie 1, Monday 2.

Got all my homework done for Monday on Saturday (take THAT, Monday!).

Halfway through the day I realized I had 3 projects due tomorrow.

...this is when I just let Monday have the win for once.  

My day definitely turned around after attending my last class where we read this talk 

by Howard W. Hunter who was the prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the time of the address.

"Despair, Doom, and Discouragement are not acceptable views of life for a Latter-day Saint. However high on the charts they are on the hit parade of contemporary news, we must not walk on our lower lip every time a few difficult moments happen to confront us."

Later in the talk he also said:

"Contrary to what some might say, you have every reason in this world to be happy and to be optimistic and to be confident. Every generation since time began has had some things to overcome and some problems to work out. Furthermore, every individual person has a particular set of challenges which sometimes seem to be earmarked for us individually. We understood that in our premortal existence."

How about that, huh? We all have the right to be happy.

I'm choosing to be happy about the small things today.

I passed 2 tests today.

I'm going home in 9 days.

I'm going to the lake tomorrow night.

I got to talk to Dani last night.

I'm going rock climbing this Thursday.

I went bridge jumping with my cousin and two friends yesterday. 

I have been blessed with some of the best friends I could have asked for this year.

Tomorrow is another day to do better.

 “Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. …

“And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.” (Deut. 31:6, 8.)

The day I publicly shared a haiku on the internet and lived to tell the story.

One thing I will never deny in my college career is food.  If food is offered to me- I will take it.  I hate grocery shopping.  I hate spending money on necessities.  Hate it. So yeah when the bishop offered me the left over burgers, fries, buns, mustard, marshmallows, napkins,  and bowls from our activity. I took them.  Gladly too! :)

No shopping here tonight, yeah! No shopping here tonight, yeah! No shopping here tonight, yeah!

Know what I do love though?  Spending my money on fun things.  I'll always love that.

Today is Monday.  I wrote a haiku about this.

"My life"
It's Monday again.
5am, crash, BEEP, BEEP, whirrr.
That darn garbage man.

I figured out why my Mondays are so weird now. That garbage man has no respect for my sleep!  As my inner Stephanie Tanner would say "How rude!"

And then I found twenty dollars after a little kid gave me a candy necklace.  It was pretty much a great day.

Speaking of great days, last weekend I went to the land of milk and honey, Zion, Deseret, the place where the 'Y' and the 'U' are no longer just letters in the alphabet-if you guessed Utah, then you are correct!! DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER!!! Where are you going to go with this new win under your belt? And don't say Disney World because this isn't really THAT big of an accomplishment.

Utah is a great place.  It's a beautiful state that is now home to my sister and best friend.  I had fantastic times and ate great food everyday.  It was amazing I wrote a haiku about this too.

"What a weekend"
The sun shone brightly
I long for this to never end
You right here with me
we swim, hike, climb, and be.

I also wrote a haiku about this semester of school.  Which I think is 100% appropriate to BYUI students.

I titled this one...

"Date or date not, married is the goal" (is it wrong to like the title more than the poetic part?)

This school is crazy

everyone has envy

it must be the rings.

Obviously I have had some free moments for a quick haiku or two...or enough to fill a smallish notebook. 

I'm tapping out.  This is turning into a rant.  And I only rant when I stand on a chair in my kitchen when I'm looking for food. You'd think I was hungry for how many times I mentioned food in this post.  I'll go stand on my chair and find some food in my cupboard now.  Maybe I'll eat some of the food the bishop gave me. ;)

Amour...amore? I can fix that.

My friend Dani got me started again on making lists of things that I love to perk yourself up-and let me tell you nothing will make you smile faster than counting your blessings like that!

Every list is different and yet the same theme usually hovers around with each one.  They're very therapeutic-make one if you don't believe me.  Last year I tried to not say 'I love [fill in the blank]" too commonly since our blessed English language only chose to have the one word for love! I can't overuse, and abuse it and expect it to still mean something to people right?

Wrong-O! I use the word everyday.  Here is my latest internet love.  This golden nugget showed up on Pinterest as I tried to find ideas for FHE- then this popped up! For you LDS folk out there...enjoy.  I hope your homework, dishes, laundry, and rest of your day is done before you embark on this site of laughter. Because it is relative to the lives we live and modern day saints. 

-->Go here first to get some chill tunes going first. <3 http://8tracks.com/goldsworthing/summer

-->Go here to laugh out loud now. :) http://amenalready.tumblr.com/