Realizations

So lately I have just been like thinking about what I want to do with my life, who I want to be, what I want to become... blah, blah, blah the things every college student wonders about. Anyways today was Stake Conference and it was so good it was way refreshing and totally made me step back and look at life in a new perspective. One of the speakers was up talking and I was just taking notes when all of a sudden he stopped, naturally I looked up and there were all these people surrounding this little old lady in the front of the chapel. I am not sure if she just passed out, had a heart attack or what not but all these men carried her out and drove her to the hospital (I later found out). I am sure she just woke up today and came to Stake Conference not expecting something like this to happen. Life is so fragile. Things can happen so fast. I am so grateful for the amazing people I have met and the things each and every person has taught me. A lot of things that have happened recently have made me realize how precious the relationships we have with each person are. Stake Conference was so good for me- I love the Savior so much. I truly have the best family/friends and I am so grateful for all they do for me!

This weekend we were going to go up to Idaho and visit Grandma and Grandpa but Dad had a lot of Bishop stuff to do so we didn't. But anyways I absolutely love old people. They are so sweet and wise. I am so excited to grow old and have short white hair. When I am old I am going to be on a bowling league, go to water aerobics, book club, shopping with my friends while my husband goes golfing and if I am going deaf I will just smile and nod when people talk to me... ha. I look up to the elderly so much, they have so many experiences and advice to give us younger generation if we just ask.

Just a quick update on my life- I am still going to school and working at Mountain America Credit Union (which I love). Shockingly I am doing pretty good on my New Years Resolutions! I said that 2009 was going to be the best year yet and I really think it will be... ha. I just try to take each day at a time and live moment by moment (sometimes second by second), so I don't get stressed about things that aren't important. I don't really have any serious love interests right now. But I do love boys, seriously- I am way boy crazy. Sometimes it seems like the only ones I want though are the ones I can't really have (no they aren't married... ha) but either they already have a girlfriend and that's why I like them, they are living like 2,000 miles away, or we only like each other when the other person doesn't (I like him when he doesn't like me and he likes me when I don't like him...). Oh well though I guess I am content with life right now, I am still young. When I was applying for the education program I totally freaked out wondering if it's really what I want to do. So I am taking some art classes, creative writing, finance, and some education classes. We'll see how life pans out after this semester. Maybe I'll just go to school the rest of my life, a professional student. When the time is right, I will figure something out. Sorry this is super long... I guess I just started typing and before I knew it I had typed a freaking novel... hey maybe I'll be a writer.

Tagged!

  I was tagged by my cousin Katie to fill out this "I have" list... so here goes nothin'. haha.  The bolded ones are the ones I have done.

1. Started my own blog. 

2. Slept under the stars. 

3. Played in a band (Yay for middle school awkwardness! I played Stephani's clarinet. it was cool to be in the band.)

4. Visited Hawaii (hopefully I will go back someday!)

5. Watched a Meteor Shower

6. Given more than you can afford to charity. 

7. Been to Disneyland (it's free on your birthday this year so I am totally going to go, MOM you in?)

8. Climbed a Mountain (at 2:30 in the morning!)

9. Held a Praying Mantis

10. Sang a solo (I don't sing)

11. Bungee Jumped

12. Visited Paris 

13. Watched a lightening storm at sea

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch

15. Adopted a child (I think it would be way neat, some day I will!)

16. Had food poisoning (I know for sure, but probably)

17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty (I have only stood at the base)

18. Grown your own vegetables (I pretty much man the garden at our house, haha. no really I always pick and snap the green beans)

19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France (but I have seen so many famous paintings! Degas, Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh, Vermeer, Rembrandt... the list goes on)

20. Slept over night on a train. (My mom and I once slept at Starbucks in the airport, that was an adventure)

21. Had a pillow fight

22. Hitch Hiked

23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill.

24. Built a snow fort and slept in it.

25. Held a lamb.

26. Gone skinny dipping. (in broad daylight. yikes!)

27. Run a Marathon. (Just a 1/2... but this year I want to)

28. Ridden a Gondola

29. Watched a total eclipse (I don't think I have been alive for one?)

30. Watched a sunrise or sunset (Both)

31. Hit a home run. 

32. Been on a cruise. (someday my husband will take me)

33. Been to Niagara Falls. 

34. Visited the birthplaces of your ancestors.

35. Seen Amish country. (there was a polygamist community by Cedar City though)

36. Taught yourself a new language. 

37. Had enough money to feel totally satisfied. (yeah right I am so poor it isn't even funny, I am a starving student, if you can answer yes to this please deposit some money into my bank account. I bank at Mountain America Credit Union... thanks)

38. Seen the leaning Tower of Pisa in person.

39. Gone Rock Climbing. 

40. Seen Michelangelo's David.

41. Sang Karaoke.  

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt.

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant.

44. Visited Africa

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight (it wasn't with a boy though... bummer huh)

46. Been transported in an ambulance.

47. Had your portrait painted

48. Gone deep sea fishing.

49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person.

50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (just the Empire State Building)

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling. (I love snorkeling!)

52. Kissed in the rain. (I am still VL, and proud of it, one day though... ha)

53. Played in the mud (I have eaten like a 5 inch worm too!)

54. Gone to a Drive-In Theater. 

55. Been in a movie (my friends and I used to make movies all the time)

56. Visited the Great Wall of China.

57. Started a business (does a lemonade stand count?)

58. Taken a martial arts class.

59. Visited New York City ( I love NY! Some day I will live there. I want to go to NYU)

60. Served at a soup kitchen

61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies.

62. Gone Whale watching.

63. Got flowers for no reason.

64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma. (I always pass out, but I have done it a couple times. I am so poor I am going to start donating plasma twice a week that gives me almost $200 a month, pathetic I know)

65. Gone skydiving.

66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp (I have been to the Anne Frank and Corrie Ten Boom house in Amsterdam and the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C)

67. Bounced a check 

68. Flown in a helicopter.

69. Saved a favorite childhood toy.

70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial. (and all the other Washington D.C. sites, it was neat)

71. Eaten Caviar. (I can't even eat shrimp or fish)

72. Pieced a quilt.

73. Stood in Times Square (I LOVE NY!)

74. Toured the Everglades

75. Been fired from a job

76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London.

77. Broken a bone. (arm, twice)

78. Been on a speeding motorcycle. (to see if I could hear Edward yell at me.)

79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person. (I don't really remember but I am sure we have gone there.)

80. Published a book. (not yet, but I am going to be an author one day)

81. Visited the Vatican.

82. Bought a brand new car. (woot! I love my Yaris. I drove it off the lot with less than 5 mi)

83. Walked in Jerusalem.

84. Had your picture in the newspaper

85. Read the entire Bible. (I think I did for seminary but I think I skipped a lot of Isaiah and Revelations haha)

86. Visited the White House. (Just outside though. We also went to the treasury where they make money which is super cool)

87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating. (never in a million years, I am borderline vegetarian)

88. Had Chicken Pox. 

89. Saved Somebody's life. 

90. Sat on a jury. 

91. Met someone famous.

92. Joined a book club. (when I am old I will be in a book club, bowling league, go to water aerobics, and shopping all the time I am so excited! But right now I just don't have time)

93. Lost a loved one. 

94. Had a baby. (let's hope not!)

95. Seen the Alamo in person. (umm... I wasn't even born)

96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake. (yuck)

97. Been involved in a law suit.

98. Owned a cell phone.

99. Been stung by a bee.

100. One cavity or less. 

This was kind of fun. Anyone who has time totally do it.