Changes

This past week sucked. Therefore, I have decided to make the following changes to ensure it never happens again:

1. Drink a LOT less caffeine. I took a break from it completely for a few days to see if there would be any physical consequences, and there weren't really. So I am allowing myself to have a diet coke every so often. I experimented with energy drinks lately and I am cutting those back out of my life. I kept away from them for a reason.

2. a) Surround myself with good, uplifting people. I made the mistake of trying to be friends with some of the people I work with, and it blew up in my face. There is no need for that. It all started with what I thought was an innocent staff party... on a sunday... with drinking... I justified it because I wasn't drinking and staff parties are so rare that I didn't want to miss out, even though it was on a Sunday. That was a mistake. Drama ensued. The people I work with are dragging me down and making me into a person I'm not proud of. I wanted to help them become better people, and instead they are making me a worse one. Friday night I went out to Humpty's (Denny's ugly step child) for breakfast with some great people. I laughed like I hadn't laughed in awhile. It was great. These same people are the ones who comforted me out of a nervous emotional breakdown tonight. Linda calmed me down, and Braden gave me a beautiful blessing.

b) In order to help with a), I am going to try to get my schedule changed so that I'm not working until 1am every Saturday night so that I can actually be around these great people more often. Also, I will a LOT less temped to skip church the next morning due to working too hard and too late the night before.

3. Study the scriptures more/every day. I have been slacking in this department. Not cool.

4. Watch my language. The people I work with do not watch theirs. This spreads like a disease and I have caught myself saying things I have never/rarely said before in my life. Also not cool.

5. Laugh everyday. I used to be really good at this. I don't remember TONS about being little, but I do remember I was happy and I had a good childhood. I remember laughing a lot with my siblings. I want to laugh more. It feels SO GOOD when I do.

6. Take the pursuing of my second degree more seriously. It is not just a hobby, even though I have been treating it as such. I got fairly good grades, but I could've done better. I'm going to look into taking a co-op this summer. This would give me some GREAT experience, help me build some useful skills, and give me an excuse to quit my current job.

7. Be happy / Try my HARDEST not to compare my life to others.

Wish me luck.

'Tis the season!

It's been a pretty fabulous last few months. Not sure why exactly, I've just been fairly happy which is always a good thing. Halloween was pretty fun. My costume was pretty boring, but I wanted to be able to dress up at work so I had to pick something pretty simple..


As you can see, my roommates (Linda a.k.a. Lady Gaga and Erin a.k.a. zombie?) put much more effort into their costumes. I was a cat. Meow. We all went to the ward Halloween Dance which was actually pretty great compared to previous dances... Plus I ran into my cousin Katherine who was down from Calgary with a few of her friends! It was nice to see her!

After Halloween came preference. This was my first preference I've actually been to! I was quite stressed about it actually. I had heard stories about girls having to ask multiple people until they find someone who hadn't been asked so I decided to be on the ball and snag my date a little early. It worked. He said yes. This is me and Braeden! (p.s. I dyed my hair...)


I think the best part of preference was the group I went with. There was a group of ten of us. We made dinner for the boys, and then wandered around a park downtown which was decorated with christmas lights and they were showing christmas movies outside and had free hot chocolate. It was quite lovely. It was at the park where I found the true love of my life....




That soldier swept me off my feet... but I had already promised Braeden a fabulous evening so I had to leave him at that park. The dance was quite spectacular all thanks to the musical stylings of DJ Lindy.. She did a fantastic job!

Work is going well. I got a raise! My boss pretty much loves me.. He gave me a week off for Christmas and gave me the extra shifts I asked for. I enjoy working there most of the time. (Shout out to my bestie/homie Matt!)

The semester is coming to and end! I'm doing fairly well. I think I'll do better once I start taking the marketing classes that actually interest me. Let's just say I never plan to be an accountant OR a statistician... barf.

SO excited to go home for Christmas :D I've always known that I loved Christmas, but I've come to realize how much I truly truly TRULY love Christmas and everything about it!! I'm very traditional and I love how Christmas is full of traditions! I can't wait to be at home for a week and stay in my pj's the whole time being a kid again with my siblings, eating nothing but homemade "nuts n' bolts" and caramel corn... with a turkey dinner thrown in there for good measure!