Really?!?! that's odd!

So, first day back for me except I didn't go. I hate HATE the first day. The syllabus is by far the most boring thing that gets discussed all year and I don't feel like participating when the majority of questions are going to be from the teens who are fresh out of high school. That and I have a legitimate excuse. I was up late the night before hehe. I didn't get home till 3 AM. I will blame that one on my very handsome boyfriend who left the country this morning. He was staying at a friends house in Salt Lake and I was still up that way from having dinner with my parents. That and I had to take a little detour on the way back to Orem to pick up my guitar from my awesome guitar duder guy! Guitar Czar is the best just FYI. Anywhoozle by the time I was done doing that the fella was already leaving Orem on his way up to Salt Lake so I figured I'd hang around and wait so I could see him and say good bye. By the time he got up to SLC at 11:45 I was already exhausted and ready for bed. Physically I could barely find the motivation to move, snowboarding for 6+ hours will do that to a person. So I get there and he see's how tired I am and suggests that I take a small nap before attempting to drive the 45 minutes back to my apartment. I agreed (I'm not about to give up an opportunity to snuggle with my fella) and quickly dozed off. 2 AM woke me with a jolt. I don't know why I just sat right up and was ready to go home. The nap was a good idea because my head didn't bob and I didn't blink my eyes longer than normal the whole way home. I climbed into bed and was out again. I knew there was no way I'd be up in time to go to class.
I got ready for the day and headed out to return a shirt that I got a week or two ago and to my pleasant surprised ended up getting two shirts for the price of one. I was browsing the rack to find a suitable exchange and I grabbed one a friend said looked nice, tried it on and decided it was the winner. When I took the shirt up to the counter the girl rang it up and said "do you want to grab another shirt cause this one rang up for only a penny?" I wasn't about to argue with her so I grabbed another one that I liked and voila two new shirts. WOOT WOOT!
Came home and then headed back out with the roommie and neighbor boy to see a movie. On our way back we hit up the ever so tasty Del Taco and then Spoon Me... can I just say that Spoon Me is DELICIOUS!!!! NOM NOM NOM. Whats even better is the one in Provo isn't full of scenester douchey annoying 19 year olds that just want to be seen like the down town Salt Lake one. Then it was back home. All in all it was a really good day.... except for one thing. He wasn't there. I hate when he's gone. He makes me so ridiculously happy and when he's not around it just sucks! what can I say... I'm in love with the guy!

What a wonder a decade can make.

So it's a few days after the New Year has been rung in and I have to say looking back on the last 10 years has been interesting. 10 years ago I couldn't drive, it was my sophomore year in high school and sometimes I felt like 10 years away was an eternity away. Looking back is another story. I feel like I just barely left high school and all the friends and relationships with people that I had had. High school was fun and I have some really great memories from that time. When I think back on them the majority involve the same people. My friend Jenn and I got into more trouble and did some of the dumbest things I think any two teenagers can do without actually getting arrested. I'm sure we came close on several occasions though.
Since I graduated high school and began my college years (which are taking a REALLY LONG TIME) I started going to Utah State University right after graduation, did that for two years. It was during my second year up there that I received a guitar for christmas and decided that I wanted to start playing. When I started I didn't really know what I wanted to accomplish with the guitar I just knew that I wanted to play. Fast forward to a year and a half later and I played my first gig. I was HOOKED from then on. Since then I've been playing gigs and have traveled a bit to play. I've made some awesome friends and have had some pretty unbelievable experiences because of music. After I moved home from the two years of Utah State I began working so I could save up money to continue going to school at SLCC. I did that for a bit while I worked but while I was there I mostly took music classes, I didn't much care about my actual education. It hasn't been until a year and half ago when I started attending UVU that I really got back into the swing of things. I'm going to school full time now and trying to finish my degree in psychology as soon as possible so that I can then begin working on my Masters Degree. I'm enjoying life right now. WOOOT WOOOOT

So it Begins

I used to blog all the time. It was my attempt at keeping my thoughts recorded. However much of my fervor for posting has left me. I suspect it's all but disappeared because life has managed to get in the way. So much has happened since I first left the familiarity of my parents home 7 years ago and I've traveled paths that I never envisioned myself treading on. I think in the end I've come out of if for the better though. I've recently realized what was most important to me in my life. I've had certain affirmations and I now know more than I ever had before what I want to accomplish in this life and the life to come. Although it took some time to get there and it was a difficult journey, I'm grateful that I was blessed enough to have certain people (who I care dearly about) help me come to this conclusion.

So at this current moment I'm in Texas with family for the Thanksgiving holiday. It was an interesting one to say the least. My little brother Robert is on a mission so holidays for the next two years will be a little different. That was one of the things that things felt so different but another thing is I feel that holidays are morphing into something else now that we're all much older and we don't have a very big family. My close immediate family consists of my Two Brothers Robert and Richard, my sister in law Katy (Rich's wife), my parents, and then my Grandma and my Aunt Cheryl. My grandfather passed away over a year ago and my family on my mothers side is all passed as well. I don't have any cousins, never had, so I've never really had those big family holiday get togethers. Especially since the 5 of us (my brothers and parents) lived in Utah and everyone else lived in Texas and Tennessee. I guess as much as my family frustrates me at times it's nice to have them. I forget sometimes that I'm blessed to have them, ALL OF THEM in my life. I've learned many valuable lessons from all of them and for that I'm thankful.
I moved to Orem a little over a year ago and started going to school at UVU. When I moved down here I absolutely hated it. HATED IT! but that's because the type of life I was used to living was not what you would call great. I hated it so much last year that I tried everything in my power to not come back this year. But I did... kicking and screaming the whole way down pretty much. BUUUUUT I can say that I'm so glad that things didn't work out the other way. I've made so many amazing friends that have quickly grown in to close relationships. My roommates for one are some of the best anyone could ever ask for. We all are so different but we all manage to get along very well. It's always a luck of the draw when you're randomly assigned roommates. It just so happened I lucked out this year (after switching apartments that is) and ended up with some bomb -A- roommates. My neighbors are another story as well... "The Boys" as we call them in our apartment. They're amazing, upstanding, wonderful, gentlemen! A girl would be lucky to call any of them hers. There's one in particular that I am especially grateful for... he's helped me to see my true value and worth and for that I will be forever thankful. It's these relationships that I've been so blessed to have that have made my life so awesome this year. I'm so busy with school and my calling as FHE Co-Chair and my amazing friends that when I have any free time to do whatever I find that it quickly disappears with pure awesomeness. And I'm totally okay with that!
Well... that should do it for now.