New Semester!

WEIGHT LOSS UPDATE

Sitting here on the couch eating Footsies is not how I intended this semester to go with the whole weight loss situation. I started going to the gym on Monday but I am going to start going today more. At least twice a week! I will have at the beginning of each blog this segment (weight loss update) before the actual blog. So far I have stopped (with the exception of these stupid Footsies), eating different things for meals. I have stopped going to McDonald's all the time (which is hard when you are on the go like me all the time). I have started making dinner (Example: Steak and green beans). There is still just one thing I cannot seem to give up and that is Coca-Cola. But I have made a compromise. Instead of drinking it ALL DAY I have to drink two things of water (in my water bottle that I have) then I can have a 32 oz (at the biggest size) only once a day. Then i have to go back to water. I think if I can cut it down slowly, I can maybe cut it down to one small one a day at THE MOST. I am trying though! I am going to start going to the gym, because Zumba is every day and I LOVE Zumba! It is so much fun! I have missed going. CONFESSION TIME: I haven't been to Zumba since July... better yet I have yet to go to the gym since August. So I need to make some MAJOR changes in my life. I have some goals. I want to be down by Red Dress Gala (in two weeks) I just want to feel better in a dress! Then I want to feel and look thin by Spring Break and then Formal and stuff. Spring Semester has a lot of mile markers that is good. So I apologize, not all the weight loss updates will be this long!

ACTUAL BLOG

So this semester has been a pretty good semester, my classes are okay -- they are level 4000 classes but if I just put forth the work it will all be alright! Yesterday I started filling out graduation papers! THIS IS SCARY! I was very nervous when they handed them to me! It is so exciting and very out of body lol. This semester I put some pictures on my wall to add to the awesome decor of my bedroom: 

I still have more to put up, but I had this blank wall and nothing do with it! 

The roommates and I are getting along, the only thing that is different is that Kim and Tim are together YAY!!!!! Its about time! But we did a face mask to try and be funny! 

My babysitting job is so much fun! His name is Connor and he is just a sweet little boy! The dog however just watches me like "Don't you dare do anything stupid or I will bite you" -- even though the dog is nice, it still is very protective.

And as usual Maverick runs are a must in this apartment! It just isn't a normal day with out at least one! Oh and the girls below us are nuts. I will just say this now. I was cleaning out the filter to my vacuum (at THREE in the AFTERNOON!!!!!!) and the mean one with the rats nest in her hair came up and banged on our door SUPER loud, and was like "can you please stop making noise, one of us is studying... thanks". So we said sorry, informed them I was going to vacuum and then told her thanks for coming up and not hitting the ceiling. It was the second day of school. Hello SPRING! 

Anyway this semester I am also taking an institute class and I like it. I am taking it with Kim and Paige and it is "Keys to A Successful Scripture Study". I guess the first presidency does not like the fact Bishop Heuett took my roommates and myself into his ward. I guess its looked down on in the church to go to a ward not in your stake or boundaries. Which I guess I can understand and I am not bitter, we just have to go to the ward here for the apartment complex. I was mad, and I am a little, but I will do as the Prophet and the leaders say. Even though the logistics of the church do not make sense... you gotta do what you gotta do even if you don't want to sometimes! 

Well this is all for now!

Until Next time.....

I never was really good with goodbye :(

I AM SO EXCITED to get back to Cedar and get this last year OVER with! I think after this longer of a break I am ready to move back to SLC but get my own place. This is explained because I want to go to Cedar because I want to be back on my own with my own rules, but I am not wanting to start classes again (I have liked working) and I also like being close to my family. I have a lot of thoughts that have been running through my head (like they always do before I go back after summer or the break), and I know its always a night before kind of a deal -- but I am actually sad. I want to go back tomorrow but a part of my thinks that I should go Friday because my mom has work tomorrow and has to leave really early and gets off at six. I would hate to have our last moments together be like two hours (before she falls asleep). But it is not like I am never coming back home either. I think tomorrow all my thoughts will change and I will be ready to go back. I also feel like I do not have a lot of friends in Cedar, but thats dumb I have Alpha Phi and my fabulous roommates, and I think once I get back into the school norm and get a job and stuff, it will be simple to get back to how I felt before the break started.  I usually feel this way before the break starts... so we will see!

Anyway I am dumb being a complainer!
Until Next time!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Christmas, New Years, and more.

Okay so as promised from my last blog:  Here is that list I was going to talk about! Here are the pictures from Christmas:

My mom got a gun for Christmas

Me opening my Kindle. Totally surprised for real!

So Christmas was fun! I got my kindle, jeans, a shirt, a purse, a coat, makeup, warm socks, headbands and it was just a lot of fun oh and I got one of those head wrap things that cover your ears: 

Like this! 

Christmas was wonderful! I love being home with my family! This is my last Christmas as a college student! WOO! Kinda sad. Because then I will be all old a responsible for my life.

NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS

More to come

• Okay so I want to lose some weight. I know that this is the typical resolution that most everyone has, but I just need to get back to the gym. So I am not going to diet, I am just going to go to the gym a lot more this semester. 
• I am going to read a lot of books, and now that I have all these classics and stuff -- yeah baby! MORE BOOKS! 
• Get a job, oh yeah -- in Cedar! 
• THEN GET A BIG KID JOB!!!!
• No more family members passing away. 2010 had a lot of rotten things, I am going to make this year better! 
• Read the scriptures and study them more! (I have kind of started this, but I have them on my Kindle now)
• Get kissed. (I am sadly a VL)
• MORE TO COME (I cannot think of more)

MY NEW LIFE PLAN!

Bassically become more spiritual and healthier and just being happier. I know that I am usually a ridiculously happy person, but, I need to really do this. Be happy. 

2011 better be a lot better than 2010. I am going to make it this way! 

I have a mini job in Cedar. Every Tuesday and Thursday I am going to Tend my friend Kirsten's little son because her and her husband both have class at the same time these days. So I am going to get paid about $100 a month. So I am pretty excited. It is from like 8:30-10:00 and I do not have class until 1 I do believe. I am still going to look for a job, and try to stay the summer in Cedar. So we will see how this goes. 

So basically this is all I can think of right now. So I am going to log off for now. 

Until Next Time...

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ME!!

I hope everyone had a LOVELY Christmas time with their loved ones! I hope everyone received and gave everything they wanted and needed! I got lots of fabulous things and gave some good stuff too! Me and other people in Cedar and friend wise will be giving later on! I don't have a lot of money, and I get paid Thursday so that seems about right! BUT this ....

WAS MY GIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love the kindle! I suggest it to EVERYONE!

Until Next time...
Here is a preview of the next blog (just not a lot of time to write it all tonight):

• pictures from Christmas
• New years Resolutions
• New life plan
• My thoughts on 2011 and how it better be great compared to 2010
• and many more including my "mini" job! 

Eventful weekend.

This weekend in Salt Lake I had the viewing for my Granny... and that went well. These things are never easy despite the circumstance. Friday we had the funeral, and that was nice as well to see people and also bask in the happy memories, but sad all at the same time. Yesterday I went to Timian's wedding and that was great! It was fun and a nice break from all of the depression this past week with the family. Today I hung out with my friend Crystal which was nice. It is nice to be back at work, however -- I do miss my roommates and Cedar and Alpha Phi a lot. I just need to cherish the moments while I can, cause in a year I am done! My how time flies! Anyway here are some pics!
Until next time...

Goodbyes are never easy…

This morning my beautiful granny Valarie Steadman passed away and returned to our Father in Heaven. She had a joyous reunion with my granddad Calvin Steadman. She also got to greet my grandma and grandpa Paul and Beth Nielsen at the gates of heaven on their anniversary. What a happy reunion that must have been for her. She passed away with Alzheimer's and it is better that she is no longer suffering. I loved her very much, but for the past ten years or so, she had the disease. It makes it hard to deal with loved ones when they have this. But I know that now she is in heaven rejoicing with all of those that have passed on before, and I know that she will be greeting me with open arms when I arrive later on in my life. I love you granny, save a place for me!