Ice.

So, it snowed the other day and this morning everything was iced over.  At least it was where I was at [which was in Provo].  So as I go out to my car, my windows are frozen over in ice and my door took great effort to get open because it was also frozen shut.  Anyway the best part was that the latch was frozen so when I got my door open, it would not shut.  I had the wonderful opportunity to hold my door shut all the way to work today. That was a first.  Anyway, thats all.  I love ice.  You can ice skate on it and fall and break your wrist on it...but that has never happened to me of course.  :)

General Conference

Prophets in the land again. 

So this upcoming Saturday and Sunday, the world had the opportunity to hear the voice of a living prophet and apostles!  

For information about what a general conference is, how and when you can listen click here.  It is worth your while!  

"5"

My sister did this, so now I want to.

5 Things on my "ToDo" list today:

1. Take my car to the shop. 

2. Mail a check to Scott for my tent and climbing shoes! wooohooo

3. Finish my homework for the week

4. Go to work

5. I finished everything else that was really pertinent so I guess, enjoy what I still have to do.  I mean I will do other things and I could do other things and I want to do other things than I have listed but I do not think I will.  [Sigh]  :)

5 Snacks I enjoy:

1.  Almonds (All kinds)/Hot peanuts/Granola

2. Fried Rice

3. Slurpees/Orange Dream Machine from Jamba

4. Chocolate Milk!

5. Oranges and Bananas

5 Places I have lived:

1. Fontana, CA

2. Redlands, CA

3. Rexburg, ID

4. Oaxaca, Mexico

5. Provo, UT

5 Places I have been:

1. Europe: Sweden, England, Germany, Holland, France and Denmark

2. Costa Rica

3. Cayman Islands

4.  To the finish line of a marathon

5.  California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Montana, Idaho, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, Nevada, Arizona

5 pet peeves I have:

1. Bad Driving (I am sure I fall into this from time to time myself..but still)

2. People that are rude to me before they know me

3. Yes busy work is ridiculous!

4. People that manipulate [and/or take advantage] to get what they want.  I hope I do not do this! If I ever do, tell me so I stop. Yuck.

5. I cannot find a way to say this so I am not going to.

5 Things you may not know about me:

1. I have been to 6 different schools in six years. Palmetto(5), Mariposa(6), Moore (7), Cope(8), RHS(9), REV(10)  Also through high school I never did the same extra curricular activity twice. 9th: Water Polo, Soccer, Track, ASB 10th: Cross Country and Golf 12th: Tennis and Year Book

2. I was a certified life guard

3. I am not right or left footed.  I can use them both equally well.  I am right handed but do many things left handed such as play hockey, sweep, bowl (I could go either way but that is probably because I am not good at either)... 

4. I had to take a growth hormone to make me grow [I was 4'11" when I was 16 and 92 lbs  yikes!)....I am still short though.  Along with this, I had to stuff my shoes at Magic Mountain to get on the rides. haha stupid 54" rule!

5. Haha I am listening to the news right now and they are talking about having more regulation of the market.  I am totally against this!!!!!!!!  Can I emphasize this enough?!!!!!!

Soup of the Day!

This morning I was preparing the pasta side of the kitchen for the day and a part of those responsibilities include making soup.  Today it was some sort of Potato Cheddar something.. I don't know but it is pretty good.

Anyway so I go to put it out by the salad bar and I did not realize that the floor was still wet from being mopped.  As I turned the corner, my feet flew from under me and as if in slow motion I focused on the soup and was thinking " The Soup! Don't lose the soup!" and then I hit the floor.  My first thought afterwards was, I hope I didn't lose all of the soup, my second thought was, it is all over me and it is burning and my third thought was, ouch my knee hurts but I have to get this soup off me.  At least Kendall was there to witness the whole event so someone else beside me can really appreciate this.

It turns out that I saved almost all the soup except for some that got on me and just a little on the floor so I did not have to remake it which was to my delight.  My arm only stayed red for a little while so no severe burns.  My knee is a bit bruised but function-able and I hurt my finger a little
but should heal shortly.  I guess I lost some of my pride as well but I do not know if I want that back anyway. HA!  The worst part is I usually get stuff all over me so I was trying really hard to not have that happen and I always let the water over flow and I was focused on not doing that as well and yet today they both happened once again.  When am I ever going to learn? 

So yeah, good times!

Fruit Snacks!

Today I got into my car and saw a bag of fruit snacks!   Yesterday I was offered a bag of fruit snacks and I excepted them and then forgot about them.  So when I saw them there, it was very exciting and they were good..all of them! It is something so small but yet it was like one of the best things about my day soo far.  

How would I be different had I not accepted them?  Well, I'd probably be fine and move on with my wonderful life but I would have missed something.

 

I love to do things for people but sometimes have a hard time letting others do things for me. I kind of realized that yesterday. Hmmm, interesting...  

Why?

My sister Kerri, was complaining that I have not posted in awhile, so here you go.

This week I was able to help work on Kerri and Kendall's house.  Well I taped dry wall and scraped cottage cheese off the ceiling so not much but it was fun.  I was covering one of the corners and ended up leaning into wet compound which was quiet messy to say the least.  But at any rate I am excited.  I will probably get to stay in one of their rooms for awhile.  So I think that will be fun!

Yesterday, I was managing with Taylor.  I am not going to lie, work is always more pleasant when working with him rather than without.  He is awesome.   The waitresses were also more pleasant than normal.  Heather hid under the counter and they told Taylor that there was another leak at the wait station.  When Taylor went to check it out they scared him pretty good.  We also decided that we wanted food (not from the Pizza Factory) so we called up PF Changs (One of my favorite restaurants mmmmm) and we made a trade.  Two pizzas for some really good food.  It was surely one the the best parts of my day. Yes...

So other than that, my day was pretty ordinary but good none the less.  I finished some school work and actually went to a BYU dance since I had the night off.  The friday dance at the skillet was actually a lot of fun.  Jon was the DJ and played good music.  I felt like I danced a lot better than I normally do as well.  That does not mean that I did, I just felt like it so I had a good night.  And I am really looking forward to this weekend.  I am going to the Sacramento Exchange and I suspect that there will be good music and good follows.  Hurray!  I am headed down I think with Ryan and Jon and maybe Sabra if she gets her act together and decides to come.  :)  So yeah, good dancing + good friends= Good Weekend! Oh yes, I am excited to say the least.  Hmm.. it appears that things are going well for me.  I had a good week.  What more can I say?    I mean I could go into detail but I am not going to.  If you really want to know then feel free to ask.  One thing that I did not do much of is sleep though.  I am tired and I am going to try to take a nap.  That generally consists of me lying down and not sleeping.  So if you are really good at taking naps, I think I need a few pointers to help me get more out of it! Please.  

But before I take a nap, I just wanted to share some things that my Bishop talked about in church today.  He wrote two talks and decided to combine the two of them.  One was on being happy and the other was about commitment.  He kind of combined the two in a short phrase 

"Happy...to do it" 

I just liked it, so I thought I'd share it.  Also he said that we need to spell out happy every day.

Have a grateful heart

Attitude

Ponder the Lord's tender mercies

Pray

Yern to serve others

I think that this is a pretty good pattern to follow in order to be happy.  What do you think?   Maybe easier said than done...? Maybe not but I do believe that we should be happy.  Happiness is pretty much  what drives us to do what we do.  For example, actually this is not really an example but more of a thought.  Let's say you have a lamp and a genie and you have one wish [excluding the wish to have infinite wishes].  What would you wish for?  :) Then ask yourself, why?  If you continue to ask yourself why enough times, I am sure you will end up with something to the effect of "because it would make me happy."  I only had to ask why once before I came to my conclusion...