A Last Chance For Everything!

Wow... school starts tomorrow! What a LAME summer it has been... not gonna lie! As I sit here in my room contemplating life... I have an epiphany! TOMORROW IS MY LAST  FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL AT SUU!!!!!! I am having all these crazy thoughts running through my head! It is my last chance to get a 4.0 here, my last chance to make Alpha Phi count (which I feel I always do!!!), last chance to do crazy undergraduate stuff! I want this semester to be so worthwhile!!! I honestly CANNOT wait to graduate, but at the same time I am sooo sad that it is the last semester to live it up!
My classes are all independent study and then there is mentoring and alpha phi! I think I am going to take an Institute class! On my mirror I have my last semester goals:

• Get thin
• 4.0
• Go to church every sunday
• LIVE IT UP!

I am going to hang out with people I usually wouldn't, try some new things to do... and other stuff... I dunno! All of it will be blogged! 

Anyway I am gonna head out for the day, but I will talk to you later!

Until Next Time!!!

Toadz is where the cool kids hang

The List :-)

I am not a Mormon Novel fan, it seriously has to grasp my attention. I have read a few Jack Weyland novels in my time, but other than that... they just do not seem to strike my fancy! Well I went home a week ago and my mom has been dying to buy me this book, but the fact was, she never told me what it was! So I could not get it on my Kindle. We decided one day to go to Seagull Book and Tape in Salt Lake, and get it. She got it for me. Well this is the book:

Here is what the back says:

"Ashley Barrett doesn’t want to get married. At least, not anytime soon. She doesn’t care how many of her friends and family members and fellow churchgoers had weddings before they finished college — the last thing she needs in her fun-loving twenties is the dead-weight of some guy. And that’s why she created The List. By the time she completes all twenty-five goals — from learning a language to skydiving to perfecting the art of making sushi — she’ll be more ready to settle down. Maybe.

This summer in California is a prime time for Ashley to cross two items off the list: learn to surf (#13) and have a summer romance (#17). And Matt Gibson, the best surf instructor in Huntington Beach and the most wanted guy in the singles ward, is the perfect man for the job. Ashley hatches a plan to love him and leave him before heading off to grad school in the fall (#4, get a master’s degree). But when Matt decides he doesn’t like the “leaving” part, Ashley’s carefully laid plans are turned sideways. Now Ashley faces an unexpected dilemma: should she stick to the safety of The List, or risk everything for a love that may tie her down — or might set her free? "

OKAY so now you can probably guess where this "Mormon Novel" is going to go, and I can too. I am only barely in the middle of the book, but it seriously is one of the better Mormon Novels of my time. I have never been able to really relate to a character so much as this one. She has ambitions and does not want to get married... or so we think. So therefore she made a list to complete before she gets married.

It has inspired me to begin a list of my own to complete before I am married so this is what I have so far! 

*My List*

1. Make Life More Peaceful
2. Enjoy Life More
3. Get Thin
4. Become More Spiritual
5. Do Something Unexpected
6. Finish the Book of Mormon
7. Graduate from College (simple that is in December!)

That is my list for now, more can always be added!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway that is my thought for now! Until next time! :-)

Summer fun!

I have been here and there and everywhere! So here are some photos of Harry Potter, and visits from the three best friends.

So pretty much its all been fun. I am headed back to Cedar, and back to the grind... then my next visits will be for weddings... and being a bridesmaid for one of my truest and dearest friends Megan. Here is a flash from to the past... my Sophomore year of college where I met this lovely gal!

Until next time....

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay so I am going to make this a quick post! BUT

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today I ran the Murray City 5K and I actually managed it! I mean I did not literally run, only for a total of 5 minutes of the whole thing, but the fact that I finished it, is just amazing! Ashton found me at the end and walked/ran the rest of the way with me then my uncle meade showed up and helped out too. I felt like throwing up after, but once I got some water and a banana, I felt SO accomplished! It really makes me want to work on the next year. But one thing I do not suggest... wearing shorts that are too shorts, or you will chaff! So I have been inspired to write what I suggest for FIRST time 5K people who may only be walking it at the least:

1. Work out at least twice a week. Start out at least three months before the actual 5K that you intend to do. For the first 2-3 weeks walk/run a mile. For the next 2-3 weeks walk/run two miles. Then the last couple of weeks before do 3.1 mile walking/running. You know that you do well for your first time if you can walk it in under 1 hour. I did it in 50 minutes and I ran about 5 minutes or so. (but I was also chaffing [tmi i know] and got water in my shoe somehow and I got a blister on my foot, so I am sure had these two factors not been in I would have cut at least 5 minutes of my time off). 
2. Its OKAY to walk! I mean I read about it everywhere, seriously I was in panic mode because I did not train AS much as I would have liked to, but it is OK! Just speed walk! 
3. You are NOT going to be the last one to finish, there are always those couple of people who just stroll the 5K! 
4. HYDRATION!!!!! Seriously the day before NO soda and the morning of drink some water before and after, but not too much, you do not wanna get sick!
5. Stretch BEFORE and AFTER! You will thank yourself later! Stretches to do: Promise you will like them!
6. I would go for one last training run/walk two days before, and take a break the day before. No heavy working out or anything, just hydrate yourself! 
7. Mentality. YOU CAN DO THIS! I found my downfall when I said I was not going to be doing it. Just tell yourself that you can do it. Even if you think you can't, trick yourself into doing it! Its the THE SECRET! 

If I can do it, you can too! I am not the skinniest chick on the block, and I hate exercising, it seriously takes a LOT of motivation to just go out for a 15 minute walk! But I did it! You just have to tell yourself that you love walking/running, and then afterwards you will be so high on life, that that doughnut that you wanted 30minutes prior... seems like nothing! 

Don't be a Homer Simpson...

Until Next Time!

Somethings I have learned from being a superhero GEEK!

I am a NERD! But not like this guy from The Simpsons!!!

I just saw the green lantern (LEGIT and Ryan Renolds is so hot, and totally deserved sexiest man alive), and some of my best life lessons that did not come from family or friends... came from superhero and action and fantasy movies and comic books. Now This is a side that people may or may not know about me, but superhero movies and action movies like Transformers and Fast and Furious, really make me more excited than a chick flick!!!! So I may miss some, and I will probably edit this post throughout time but here they are (some are my interpretations, feel free to add more):

• Green Lantern: WILL is stronger than FEAR! 
• Superman (Smallville): Sometimes the best hero is the hero within yourself! 
• Harry Potter: The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself! 
• Thor: Sometimes it is best to fight for what we love, even if they may contradict what our family and loved ones think! 
• Batman: Darkness never prevails in times when life needs a beam of light, even if that beam of light evolves from our darkest time. 
• Fast And the Furious: Sometimes you gotta have the drive to stay alive! 

There will be more as I think of them! But this is it for now! 

Until Next time... 

Just a little follow up on the last post! [read the last one to get this one]

I just wanna put a disclaimer : I LOVE SUU and Cedar and I am not trying to wish my life away, there are just moments (like with the whole roommate issue) that I am really excited to go. You cannot tell me you have never wanted to leave a place when something bad happens right?

Well I will update after the 4th of July... if I am still alive after the 5k! :-)