Monday, December 24, 2007

I Survived!

I made it through finals week! Yay! I do not like finals, not even a little bit! If you have gone to college you know what I am talking about.

I am feeling much better now. I am still getting headaches every day, but not the migraines I was getting. I am very grateful for that! On Wednesday I got so sick again from the migraine that I was throwing up. So I made my wait to the health center and saw a doctor. She pulled up my CT scan and blood work from the hospital visit the previous Friday. My white blood cell count was high, and the scan showed that I probably had sinusitis. She prescribed an antibiotic and decongesting medicine for me. I went home and took a long nap (sorry I missed you call Sadie, and that I am a slacker and haven't gotten back to you yet. Thank you for thinking of me!) I have seen improvement in the intensity of my head aches since then. My mom knew I probably had sinusitis all along! Too bad those stupid ER doctors didn't figure it out. It would have saved me 5 days of being miserable!

On a more exciting note...after finals were finished I got my hair done. I dyed it darker and cut more layers in it, but it is still really long. It's kind of fun! A nice change. My mom flew down to Utah on Friday morning and she got her hair done too.


On Saturday morning we woke up and got ready to take off for Idaho. On the way home to Boise we stopped along the way to see family. First we stopped at Jon and Gina's house. Brian and Liberty were there with their kids also. It was fun to see everyone at once! I absolutely love Jon and Gina's girls they are so fun! When we came to the door all of them ran over and gave Mom and I big hugs! They immediately offered us some cake, they are so cute! I haven't seen Brian and Lib's kids in so long! They didn't remember me at all, but that is ok. They have grown up so much! All of the adults sat around and chatted and caught up on each other's lives. It was really fun. I love my family! We continued on our drive to Boise, and then a few hours later stopped in Gooding. We drove thru town and saw the round building and guessed that Aunt Kay Lynn would be there. Sure enough she was! haha. We went in and visited while Kay Lynn was finishing up a quilt that she was making. Klyn came by and visited with us. It was really fun to get to see so much family in one day! I love the Cheneys!

I am home in Boise now. Yay! We were lucky because we beat the snow for the most part. The last 20 minutes of our drive was snowy. Since we have been home in Boise it has been snowing off and on. It will be a white Christmas! I hope all is well with each of you. Peace and Love!

Sunday, December 16, 2007

What a headache...A Really Bad One Too!

So I started out super motivated with my new blog, new goals, new motivation for consistency with my routine. This week was the last week of classes for the semester so I have been extremely busy, but I did not want to use that as an excuse. Then I stared getting these headaches around Tuesday. They were frustrating and at first only lasted for about an hour or two.

Then by Thursday around noon I suddenly had this really intense headache just come over me all of the sudden. It wasn't gradual at all. I tied to tough it out and go about my day writing papers for the end of semester in my classes. Then by Thursday night my headache had gotten so mad it actually made me nauseated. I actually ended up throwing up. Right after that I went to bed (didn't get to finish the paper that was due that night). It took me a while to fall asleep with the pain, the over the counter stuff that I was taking wasn't helping at all.

When I woke up Friday morning I felt much better. But after just two hours went past my intense head ache came back again. I went to the Urgent Care center to be seen. The doctor asked me what was going on, when I told him this was by far the worst head ache I had ever had he refunded my co-pay and told me that I had to go to the hospital. Now, I had a VERY important meeting that I absolutely could not miss at 3:30PM so I waited until after my meeting to go to the hospital. I was not feeling well at all before the meeting. I was counting down the minutes until it started. But strangely when I got into the meeting I was doing just fine. Eventually I could feel myself getting sick again so I excused myself from the meeting about an hour and fifteen minutes later. I was walking to the car and (this is really gross I am sorry to share this with you skip ahead if you would like) suddenly this sick feeling in my stomach came over me and I couldn't hold it. I had to lean over in the grass, luckily it was in a corner where no one else was around and it was a Friday afternoon when no one was on campus. But still! Gross! I hurried straight home with my intense headache getting worse and worse. When I got home I brushed my teeth and rinsed with mouthwash a few times. Then went back to my car and drove to the hospital.

I checked into the hospital with what was expected to be an hour wait. Which I was waiting for a room to open up for me I had to go to the bathroom and throw up again. Finally I was placed in a room. I was in so much pain from both my headache and nausea by this point I wasn't functioning well. Before the doctor got to me I threw up again. Finally he saw me and said he would order some meds to help me out. I was sent to get a scan of my head to make sure everything was ok. When they got me back in the room I was throwing up about every 15 minutes. Originally I thought they would do a scan of my head, see everything was ok, give me a shot and send me home. I was not realizing that this was a much bigger deal than that! So I called my aunt to come help me. I am sooooo lucky to have relatives that live near me! She made it to the hospital and rubbed my neck for me and comforted me. The results from the scan came back clear, and the doctor finally put an IV in me and gave me the real medicines to help me out! Within an hour I was free of pain and nausea, but totally out of it, haha.

We discovered that I had my first migraine ever! Man those things are absolutely miserable! Now when people say that have a migraine I KNOW they are not just complaining they are really going through some intense stuff! I was hospitalized because of a migraine! They think it was caused from a tension headache that built into a migraine. I have been having headaches all day today, too. But I am trying to stay on top of them with medicines so that they don't get out of control and turn into a migraine.

The moral of the story is, TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY! If you have stress or tension in your muscles, invest in massage therapy or physical therapy. Your body needs to be taken care of, because if its not then your aches and pains will become unmanageable.

So that is my excuse for the week! I worked out faithfully Monday and Tuesday, then the rest of the week I was in a lot of pain and not able to get to the gym. Will you guys please forgive me and let me repent next week? Even though next week is finals so I might not do that great then either... I have also slacked on reading my 26 pages of scriptures every day to accomplish some end of the year goals I have. Oh well, I'll just have to play catch up with that too!

I love you all. Hope everything is going well!

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Good Conversations...That Each Connected To Hawaii

Today has been a great day. I had the opportunity to talk to some people that I haven't talked to in a long time. First I talked to Karly Jo, my best friend. I met Karly the first time I lived in Hawaii, we were random roommates. Karly and I have been each other's other half ever since. Right now we are in different states. We are pretty good about texting each other frequently but it is good to have a real conversation over the phone sometimes. We talked on the phone for a couple of hours. Some of the time was spent venting, which we love to do with each other. We're pretty good at holding things in and saving it for the best friend, haha. But the best part of the conversation was spent talking about what we have been through since we have known each other. We have both had some of the highest and lowest points of our lives since we have known each other (probably not THE highest and lowest but some definite ones). It was very uplifting and inspiring to look back at the stupid things we have done and just laugh about, well, how stupid we were. We have so many funny memories to share, and so many obstacles that we have overcome. We decided we should co-write a book together. It would probably be pretty good. Maybe a National Best Seller? haha.


Goofing around in Hawaii.


Our House on North Shore.


Turtle Bay Resort


I also had the chance to talk to another good friend Carter. I also met him when I lived in Hawaii, but it was the second time when I was doing my internship. His parents were some of the first people I met on the island of Kauai and their family became some of my best friends. Bruce and Ellen took my co-worker Katie and I on an amazing airplane tour over the island. They have their own business, Wings Over Kauai, you should check them out if you ever go there! But anyway, that is how I met Carter their oldest son. We had a lot of good times over the summer, hiking, camping, chillin at the beach, singing, laughing, talking. I haven't seen him since August. He goes to school in Montana. We call each other a few times a month. We usually talk about our great memories and how cool it will be when we meet up to go snowboarding together. Today when I talked to him he was in LAX on a layover on his way home to Kauai. I am so jealous of him! I wish I was from Kauai so that I could go "home" there for Christmas.


Our First Adventure Together, Opaekaa Falls


Campfire Adventures


Camping at PoliHale


Thinking about Kauai made me think about my internship with Del Sol, and the fantastic people that I worked with all summer. So I gave them a call while they were at work. I got to talk to my boss Wayne, and my manager Jane. It was so great to get to say hello and catch up! They are both doing well although they don't like the heavy rain they have been getting, haha. Wayne was happy that he at least didn't have to shovel rain. He's from upstate New York so he definitely knows what that is like! Jane is from Montana so she would know, too. Talking to them made me miss working with them. I hope someday that I can make it back to Kauai to at least visit them.


Our Cute Little Store


Left to Right Katie, Me, and Jane Busy Working!


Working By Myself on a Wednesday, No Cruise Ships=Not Busy



It is funny that all of the good conversations that I had today connected to Hawaii in one way or another. Man I love that place! It has become so much apart of who I am from living on both Oahu and Kauai. Don't be surprised when I move there there for good.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Mean People Vs. Nice People

Today started out as a good day. I slept ok last night. I woke up and felt good about things. I got my work out clothes on and went downstairs to the gym at my complex. I speed walked on the treadmill for 40 minutes while listening to the scriptures on my iPod and reading along. Man it feels so good to accomplish both of my daily goals at the same time! haha. Is that cheating? I'm not sure. I hope not because it is sure convenient! After I walked for 40 minutes I ran upstairs to hurry and shower before I need to walk up to campus for class.

When I came upstairs I checked my email really quick. I had gotten an email from a girl who wanted to buy the Linkin Park concert tickets that I had posted an online add for. I had been coordinating with her via email and she turned out to be a really big jerk. I told her that the tickets might not be available anymore because my friend was going to sell them to someone else for more money. She got really mad at me and accused me of fraud, and false advertising. I told her that because she was rude to me I preferred not to sell her the tickets at all. Then she demanded that I sell them to her or she would sue me. I won't bore you with all of the details of the story, but it was the most ridiculous thing ever! It just boggles my mind sometimes how people are so disrespectful and unkind to other's, especially other people they don't even know! I definitely did not want to reward her unkind actions towards me by giving her the tickets! Needless to say, my feeling were hurt (what can I say, sometimes I am overly sensitive) and it reminded me that I need to be more patient, kind and loving towards others.

This reminds me of another story. When I lived in Kauai this summer I had a group of really close friends. For a while we would hang out at my place every night and play card games until super late sometimes. We were never loud in the house, or inconsiderate or our neighbors. But one time after playing card games until pretty late (probably 1AM) I was walking my friends out to their car. As we were walking out one of them had cracked a joke so all of us started laughing really hard. All of the sudden the old guy who lived on the hill just above us yelled out of his window, "shut up you A holes!" Unfortunately sound travels upward, and everyone in Hawaii sleeps with their windows open. I was absolutely shocked that this guy who I had never even seen before was swearing at me for laughing! I felt really bad for waking him up, but I was honestly unaware of how loud our laughing was. It had maybe been 10 seconds. It seemed to me that his reaction was way out of line and the result of a very short temper. He came down to our house the next day an apologized to me in a round-about way. That guy was a jerk to some other people too. The management office had already had some complaints from people about him.

I really do not understand why people are so mean sometimes! As Jack Johnson would say "where'd all the good people go?" haha. I think people that are like that just have something missing from their lives. There is something that makes them not at peace. I pray that I can always keep myself in check, that I will not react. Sometimes it is hard, and I will admit I'm not always really good at cooling off before I say or do things. But in general, I like to think that I respect people enough to treat them decently.


I had to get back on and add another little side note to this blog. I just went to Olive Garden for dinner because I haven't been grocery shopping in forever and I needed dinner! haha. I got the soup and salad meal. The minnistone soup was fantastic and of course the salad is always amazing too! Then I got alfredo dipping sauce for my breadsticks. (I have no idea how many words I am not spelling correctly here, hopefully none hehe). Our waitress was so good. She asked me if I wanted more soup and I asked if I could get some to go. Sometimes they are sticklers about that and only let you have as much as you eat there because it is unlimited. But she totally got me soup to go, and salad, and breadsticks, and alfredo!!! It totally made my night! There are still nice people in the world. I really needed it too. Food makes me happy, nice people make me happy, that's the moral of the story! In case you were wondering I gave her a good tip! :)


Go Me! Workin Out!

I am getting back into the routine of heading to the gym a few times a week. I am really determined to get back into really good shape. I mean REALLY good shape. I want to lose about 20 pounds and 8% body fat. I'll let you know how things are going as I keep working on it. I will be working with a personal trainer, which I think is just the thing I need to get things going. I met with him today for the initial consultation. He said that in order to get down to where I want to be, which he thinks is a really good goal, I need to have between a 500-1000 calorie deficit daily. Which basically means I need to burn between 500 and 1000 calories more than I consume each day. For now, my goal is to do at least 30 minutes of cardio about 5 times a week and to write down everything that I eat. I know right now I am eating WAY more than 1400 calories, which is what he said I should be shooting for haha. I probably eat like 2200, I love food!

I have found this really cool website, thanks to Women's Fitness magazine. It is called RUNNER+. It is a website where you have a profile and you can log all of the runs that you do. It tracks your runs on charts and shows the calendar of how much you ran on which day. But the coolest part is that it has challenges that other people on the site create which you can join. It is really awesome and so far has really been motivating me! I love to come home after I have been at the gym and sign in and log my run and see how I am doing compared to the other people at my level. The awesome thing is that it has people from every level, beginner to very advanced hard core people. Maybe one day I will be hard core, but for now I am just your average Jane trying to get into shape!

Check it out, this is the link to my profile but you can see what RUNNER+ is about from there:

I also want to announce that I have decided to separate my life blog from my fitness blog. So if you are interested in my fitness progress then check it out at GoMeGetFit.blogspot.com Thanks for supporting me!

This will be me!!!

Monday, December 10, 2007

Be Thou Humble, Charity Never Faileth

Today has been a rough day for me. But I have had the chance to think a lot about how grateful I am for my life and my amazing family. Sometimes things stress you out. But you just have to get over yourself. I absolutely LOVE Mondays because I get to email my best friend in the whole world, my brother! He is serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Ventura County, CA. I have decided to share our conversation today:


Hey brother.

Man, I have a lot of lessons to learn. Today I had a moment of emotional weakness and I felt like I needed to talk to someone about what was on my mind. I started going through the list of people that I would want to talk to and it suddenly came to me that I can talk to my Heavenly Father. I always forget that I can talk to him at anytime anywhere. I knealt in prayer, I'm not going to lie it wasn't the most amazing prayer ever or even the most comforting feeling. But it reminded me that I need to call Heavenly Father as often or more often than I call Mom everyday, haha. It is so easy to get truckin through life taking on the world on your own and to forget that you have a "lifeline" or a "fallback" person, that you don't have to do it on your own.

I have overcome so many things. So much of overcoming these things was just overcoming myself. I can tell when I lose my focus because out of no where I will crave my weakness. It will be completely random. I will be driving down the street in Provo and feel stressed out for a second and all the sudden have that craving. I think it is a process to learn how to be so indulged in the gospel and your persuit of the Lord's will that you don't crave your weaknesses.

This month's visiting teaching message was charity. I did my visiting teaching yesterday. I had the opportunity to sit and think about what the Christmas season is for. The message was from Howard W. Hunter. He talked about how "Those who are filled with the love of Christ do not seek to force others to do better; they inspire others to do better, indeed inspire them to the persuit of God." It made me think about my relationships with my family, and friends. I am fasting and praying that I will be able to have the light of Christ, and be so full of charity that I will be able to inspire the people that I love the most to do better. My mind is just running, I'm trying to think of things that I can do to help others. I think that in order to help them, first I need to be strengthened. I think that focusing on me and what I can do to improve, will help me receive inspiration on how to help them.

Yesterday I went to the church website and downloaded a bunch of stuff from the audio library. I downloaded some music and the intro to the Book of Mormon in Spanish. I decided I am going to try to learn spanish from reading the Book of Mormon. I have also decided that I am going to read the entire Book of Mormon before the end of the year. That means I need to read like 25 pages a day. Mom said she is going to do it with me. I need to ask Dad if he will, too.

This week has been a good week. I have been sick. I don't know what is wrong with my health but it is out of control. I feel tired and sick everyday. I am going to start taking some herbal suppliments and I got a personal trainer at the gym. So hopefully I can start to get a lot better soon.

This week is the last week of classes so I have a TON of school stuff to do. Next week is finals. It is going to be a crazy 2 weeks!

Oh man, I love you so much! I hope that everything is going really really well for you and that you are happy. I think of you constantly and pray for you too. I miss you and love you so much! I am so proud of you. Keep working super hard and doing the best that you can, then rely on the Lord for the rest. Keep the faith!

Peace!

LOVE LOVE LOVE,
Ana Lee



I am completly dumbfounded by the spirit that I get from your E-mails. I love you so much, and yes everything you are saying is absolutly true, about most of our challanges come from changing ourselves. I have learned the lossong of being a light to others while on my mission. We learn very clearly here the lesson of agency. President Ellsworth has told us "you cannot fix the problems of others" It is so true. We shouldn't even try, it is up to tohers to choose rightousness and to fiz their own problems, all we can do is the best we can, and love them. I love you so much. you are an example for me. You have always paved the path to show me what to do..... You're getting a packgage soon :)

Love,
Elder Stephen

Sunday, December 9, 2007

You Tube

Sometimes before I go to bed I watch a featured You Tube video that is also rated high. This is one that I watched the other night. I thought it was cute and clever.

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Where I Have Been



create your own personalized map of the USA


create your personalized map of europe

I have been extremely blessed in my life to travel a ton and see so many beautiful places! I have the best memories from all of my traveling. Before I die I want to see all 50 of the United States of America. I also want to see every European country! I would love to just move over there and live for a year after I graduate, that would bed cool! I also want to go to Asia and Australia. I wish traveling wasn't so expensive! haha

Monday, November 26, 2007

Some Memories

Today I have been thinking a lot about some of my favorite memories. At Sunday dinner my Aunt Laura asked each of us to think of one day that we would go back and relive if we could. We recorded it on a tape for my brother and my cousin Bre Anne who are both on missions. They are going to be sent to them in their Christmas packages. It was fun to sit around and think of memories.

When I was trying to think of one day that I would want to relive I couldn't really think of one day that stood out in my mind. I thought of many many moments. I thought about moments with people mostly. I decided to share a few of these with you. I am going to put these short stories in categories so it will be a little organized because they probably will not be chronological.

FAMILY

I have the fondest memories of my family and I jet skiiing. I remember one time my mom, dad, Stephen and I each were on our own jet ski and were riding around the glassy lake water up in McCall, ID. After we cruised around a bit all of us stopped in the middle of the lake and just had a great conversation while we enjoyed the amazing beauty and peace surrounding us. It was really cool.


MOM

My mom would always do the most amazing things for my birthdays. Every year all of my friends would look forward to my birthday because I would bring the best treats to school and I would have the best parties. Mom would make this really awesome treats that she put in a flower pot. It would have ice cream, with crushed oreo on top, and a gummy worm, then a pretty fake flower stuck in it. It was the cutest and yummiest treat ever! She always put so much work into them. My birthday parties were always so fun, too. A few years we did a Hawaiian theme and everyone would get a lei when they arrived. Then we would have tiki torches around the pool and everyone would swim. It was so fun.

I have the best Mom. I remember in High School I use to call her all of the time and ask her to bring me something that I had forgotten. She was so great, she would always drop whatever she was doing and drive to the school to bring me whatever I needed.


DAD

When we were little kids when were on vacation, Dad would take Stephen and I to whatever long hallway he could find and have us run up and down it for like 5 or 10 minutes. It was his way of having us burn some energy, haha. We thought it was so fun.

My dad use to drive me to school everyday in Junior High. I was so spoiled I didn't have to take the bus to school in the mornings, just home from school. He was going to work so I was on the way. It was really fun. I remember we use to argue about whether to have the heat go on our feet or our faces. He wanted it on our feet I wanted it on our faces. I also remember one morning we were listening to a Beatles CD and "Paperback Writer" came on. I instantly fell in love with the song and listened to it over and over the whole drive until I memorized it.


STEPHEN

Stephen and I are best friends. I have so many great memories with him. One time when my family was in Utah, I think I may have been a freshman, in the summertime (not positive but it was warmer weather), Stephen and I went for a drive in the Yukon. I have a place in Utah that I call "My Spot" and it is an undeveloped road in a neighborhood up on the hill below the "Y" that is a great lookout spot. Anyway, Stephen and I drove up to my spot and parked the car. We opened the sunroof and climbed up and sat on top of the car while one of our favorite bands was still playing. We listened to the music, overlooked Provo, sang, and talked about life. It was a really great time.

Stephen was such a good brother. I use to push his buttons so much and he was always so nice to me. But one time I pushed his buttons a little too much. Then he grabbed my hair and dragged me across the entire catwalk by my hair. I was screaming, but I probably deserved it, haha.


SADIE

When we were younger, probably elementary and early junior high, we use to go visit our cousins in Gooding, ID quite a bit. My cousin Sadie had a horse named Ginger. It was so fun to watch her take care of her horse. Sadie's best friend Amy also had horses. When I came to visit the three of us use to take two horses out and ride them around. I thought it was the coolest thing ever! One time Sadie and Amy made up a story about how I needed to take the horse by myself and go get something from somewhere because it was some sort of emergency, haha. I don't really remember the story. But I remember I was kind of scared to ride the horse by myself. They sent my on my way all by myself. I was doing just fine though. A little bit later I could hear Sadie and Amy walking and talking behind me! Those sneaky girls were following me the whole time. It was really funny though. After I caught them all of us walked together and kept singing the song...oh man I remembered just a second ago but I forgot! Something about moon and stars, it was some boy band song. I don't remember, but that was fun.

I went through a phase where I road tripped to Rexburg a few times to go hang out with some friends that I had going to school there. Sadie was still going to school there at that time. I think it was her last year. I stayed with her when I went to visit and it was so fun to hang out with her! I remember one time we went salsa dancing up on campus. We didn't know how to salsa dance but it was a lot of fun!


BRETT

Two summers ago Brett and I did a road trip to So Cal to help Sadie and Scott move. We left Provo at 2AM and took turns driving all night. We got to Sadie and Scott's place at 10AM. We showered and got ready then took off to go to Palm Desert to hang out with my best friend Jeni and her cute little family. It was August so it was crazy hot. My poor little car's AC was NOT working. So Brett and I were dying from heat because it was like 113 degree weather! We stayed the night at Jeni's and the next day before we hit the road to head back to Utah we dropped by Walmart to get some stuff to fix the AC haha. Needless to say we would have died if we didn't because in the desert between So Cal and Vegas it his 122 degrees outside!! Isn't that nuts!?

One time when Brett came down to Utah to visit he was staying at John and Gina's. I went over there and picked him up and we went down to the Gateway Mall in Salt Lake. We got some ice cream at the Haagen Daz shop right there. Then we went back to John and Gina's and talked for a couple of hours. We always had really good conversations, he is seriously one of my best friends.

I think it was the second time that we had the family reunion at Alturus Lake we went jet skiing. This was when we couldn't jet ski on Alturus Lake we had to go down the road a bit. But Brett and I rode the jet ski together, we were on the blue one, and we cruised all over the lake taking turns driving. We also went over to the resort lodge that was on that lake and walked around and talked for a while. We might have even gotten some food or something.


I am super tired so I am going to go to bed. But I will keep updated this blog for sure!

Sunday, November 18, 2007

11 Days of Relaxation...I Hope

This semester I have my classes schedule on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursdays. At BYU the week of Thanksgiving we get Wednesday, Thursday and Friday off of school and Tuesday they are doing Friday's class schedule. SO basically I get 11 days of vacation for Thanksgiving!

Yes that is Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday! yaaaaaayyyy!

I am so excited! It is already day 2 of my extra long Thanksgiving break. Friday I slept in until 11:00AM which was amazing because I haven't been sleeping well at night and I needed the rest. Then I cleaned my whole apartment and my bedroom. Then I went and ran as many errands as I could squeeze in before I had to leave town to meet up with my mom! I went to the BYU library and turned in my book only to recheck it out. I was supposed to pay like $20 in late fees but because it was the first time I have had a late fee (and I'm pretty sure only the 2nd time I have used the library's resources in my 4 1/2 years at college, haha) they waived the late fee! Yes! Then I ran over to pay my parking tickets. I got one of my two tickets waived too, which was great. I really am a stinker when it comes to parking illegally on BYU campus. Then I went to the Health Center and filled some perscriptions and made an appointment for a flu shot. If you haven't done that yet you should! Then I ran up to Costco to get this vitamin called BIO 35 which has tons of vitamins, minerals, and omega things that are supposed to be amazing for your energy. I'll keep you posted on how that works for me. After Costco I rushed home to throw stuff in my suit case and get out of town.

I was so excited to finally leave town. If you know me well at all you know that I have a travel bug and I would be somewhere new every weekend if I could be. But this semester I have been SO busy with school I have not even left Utah or Salt Lake counties since school started! Isn't that crazy! So now I am finally out of the state of Utah. I am pretty sure we are going back there to spend Thanksgiving with my Utah family though. Oh well, that will be fun and at least I left the state for a few days :)

I definitely have been able to get some down time in though. All day Saturday I just lounged around and watched TV and went out to lunch with my Mom. I love relaxing and hanging out with my family. It is my favorite thing ever! However, before this break is over I do have several things that I need to get done. Hopefully I don't go overboard on the relaxation and "forget" to accomplish somethings, haha.

Saturday, November 3, 2007

70's Disco Skating!


Friday night was a ton of fun! My ward had a party at the Classic Skating rink. Everyone dressed up in 70's attire and we skated the night away. It was so fun to dance around while we skated in circles. Everyone really got to know each other better too. You could go up to pretty much anyone and hold their hand as you skated around because that is what you do when you skate! Needless to say I held about half of the ward members' hands last night, guys and girls, haha. We had a blast. I wish I had more pictures!

After Classic Skating all of us neighbors came home and swapped massages while we talked until 4AM. I love my neighbors, the coolest guys and girls ever!

Friday, November 2, 2007

I'm a Newby

I have never had a blogspot. I have always been more of a MySpace of Facebook kind of gal, but I think that's just a big part of my generation. I decided to wanted to create a blogspot because there a lot of people that aren't on MySpace of Facebook that may want to see what I am up to every now and then? I am still single and doing the college thing, I don't have a husband or kids to tell funny stories about. But I can do my best to entertain you with my college experiences! I am not sure how good I will be at keeping this updated. But I promise to do my best! I hope you enjoy! Love you guys!