baseballin' nerd

I don't know about you, but I LOVE baseball. Please tell me I'm not alone out here. I always feel like a few of my close friends don't really like baseball, know about baseball, or care about baseball besides my family and my BFF.About a week and a half ago I went to see my first baseball game f the season and it was amazing! My dear friend Jake offered his family's season tickets to the Bees game so Jake, Andrea, her BF Josh, and I went. Let me just tell you I was expecting okay seats and maybe we'd end up sitting on the grass just for fun. Oh no! These tickets were THIRD ROW seats righ next to the visitors team dugout right by home base. The best seats you can possibly have! In my opinion at least. Jake and I bought our mandatory hot dogs and enjoyed an amazing game. Jake was talking about how the Bees are not that great and he's probably never seen a homerun either, when low and behold the Bees hit a grand slam in the third inning leading the Bees right into the win. Thanks to a little help from Andrea crossing her fingers. I'm pretty sure I was the most excited one about going to the game. Just walking into the park made my adrenaline run up a hundred notches. The smell of hot dogs and popcorn and the security people in their tacky orange jackets, which I'm sure cook them alive. I just can't get enough! I love the feel and excitement that you feel at a baseball game!
P.s. I may or may not have flirted with a visiting baseball player. Okay, not really. I only smiled at him and he smiled back. But I'm counting it!

GRAND SLAM!

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Today, I'm grateful for the cute little quail baby birds that I watched running around my yard.

 

P.s. Prepare for a little bit of an emotional blog post tomorrow... Saying goodbye for two years is kind of hard. That's all.

an attitude of gratitude

I've decided that everyday I want to challenge myself to find something to be grateful for. It can be the slightest thing like catching the TRAX train on my way to school, therefore not making me late to class which I hate. President Thomas S. Monson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints said in General Conference "Our lives are blessed in countless ways. We can lift ourselves and others as well when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE... President Joseph F. Smith,... provided an answer. Said he: "The grateful man sees so much in the world to be thankful for, and with him the good outweighs the evil. Love overpowers jealousy, and light drives darkness out of his life.'" During the school semesters, some days would become the best days because of the slightest things like running into friends and talking for a few minutes or being able to turn in an assignment that has been causing me great amounts of stress. Since I'm a little quirky, I would then write down all of the things that made my day so wonderful on little sticky notes and keep them in my backpack to read on a really bad day. I now want to extend that idea on to my blog. So now after every post or message I am going to write a little thing I'm grateful for. And I challenge you to do something similar by recognizing things you are grateful for in your day, be it great or small, and writing it down somewhere!

 

Today I'm grateful for being able to move into my own room and having to clean it. Let me tell you, it's disgusting work!Dust-filled lungs and dust bunnies galore, but I still enjoy it for some reason... I guess it gives me something to do!

 



backstreet's back

Remember when boy bands were so cool and amazing in the '90s? And then they're pretty much coming back because of the new kind of boy bands with One Direction and all that crap. Well, let me just say that the classic boy bands from my childhood can never be redone or compare to the new form of fake boy bands. And let me just tell you in case you didn't know, The BACKSTREET BOYS have reunited!!! Yes! All of us '90s kids waiting for this day can continue living and maybe even buy tickets to their tour, whenever that's happening. (I swear I heard that on GMA...)
A few weeks ago I saw them perform on Good Morning America and it took me back to when I was about 5 years old and my sisters and I were dancing in our front room to Backstreet Boys. It's almost the same experience, we're all just a little bit older, including the boys! Flash yourself back a few years...

my 19th birthday

Alas, my birthday is coming up once again! (Apparently I like to use collegiate words like alas. Who knew? I think I just use words like that to make myself feel a little bit smart and that I actually do belong in college.) Tomorrow is in fact my birthday! Yay! I actually really do like my birthday a lot for some reason. I like one day where people say hi and wish me happy birthday. Even if it is on Facebook. I still really appreciate the birthday wishes and messages.  And the gifts. They're pretty nice too.

Here's my birthday list for this year. Again, "presents are not required, but are encouraged..."
1. Clothes. Contrary to my family's beliefs, I really don't think I can have enough.
2. The Amazing Spiderman. I'm not sure why I still haven't bought this movie since I LOVE it so much!
3. Wreck-It-Ralph
4. A bulk pack of Sharpies. I have an obsession with school supplies and it's moved to Sharpies too.
5. A gift card to use on my Kindle
6. An LDS romance literature. What can I say? I like a little fluff on the side.
7. Twinkly lights for my bedroom.
8. And according to Josh I want a new puppy.

hello may, we welcome you with snow

First off, I woke up this morning and looked out my window while I was still laying in bed, and guess what I saw welcoming me to the month of May, one of my favorite months?? A big white filled window. Yes ladies and gentlemen, on the first day of May in good ole bipolar Utah, it snowed. Not just two flakes either. It was supposedly some freak blizzard. I immediately thought I was still dreaming. But nope!

 

Secondly, I made it through all of my finals, hence the picture up above. I feel free. I don't have to make sure I can fit certain things into my school schedule for a full three months. It's a wonderful feeling really. I was able to spend all of yesterday with my cute Oma while she recovered from her procedure on Monday. We had a big scare, but she's doing okay today. I've watched at least ten episodes of Psych in the last two days. I just can't seem to get enough apparently. And tomorrow brings another lazy day. I'm loving it!

 

And thirdly, there is officially one week until my 19th birthday. Can't wait, plus I don't have to go to school. I don't know what I will be doing. Probably just sitting at home, but still it's my birthday and I can do whatever I want!

finals equal brain torture

Finals week... shudders... The end of last week and the beginning of this upcoming week is the terrible, horrid finals week at the University of Utah. You know what that means? Stress flowing out of my ears, a lot of sugar and junkfood (and I mean A LOT. Definitely going to have to work out once I'm finished), a crowded library, and constant procrastination. I'm half way there finals wise, but it seems like it might never actually be summer break. Is that poosible? That maybe the school has just been lying to me this whole time? Nah, probably not. The light's there somewhere at the end of the very dark and curvy tunnel... It's just a long ways down there. Let's hope I can make it through Monday with flying colors, and then it's on to finding a summer job, finally reading the many books I have on my list, catching up on my crafting projects that I've wanted to do for so long, playing outside, and definitely hanging out with friends!
And one of the worst things about having finals week right now is that the weather outside here in Utah is BEAUTIFUL! The sun is shining all day with 75 degree weather. My heaven temperature. And all I get to do is force myself to stay inside and study so I don't fail. Not fair.

the untitled

I honestly don't know what to title this post, hence the untitled title. Now that I've used forms of title so many times I'm exhausted, let me just vent to you readers a little bit about some of the things that have gotten under my skin for a little bit. Sometimes I feel like my brain is overwhelmed with so many thoughts and worries that it has become a big bowl of soup with millions of alphabet letter noodles floating around in it. (So much so that I just spelled bowl BOUL. Help me.)
If you don't desire to read about my issues under my skin, just read on. Sometimes a girls gotta vent to something that doesn't respond directly, ya know?
Anyways, #1: I'm getting super sick of people sugar coating things. I mean that in the way that if someone doesn't actually want to do something or isn't excited about doing something, then actually tell me. I would much rather have everyone be honest with each other and face reality. Give it to me straight and I won't be offended. People choose to be offended and if I am offended, it's my own darn fault.
#2: I'm tired of feeling second string. Like a third or fourth wheel. Or like I'm a step down from other friends. Does that make sense? Sometimes I wonder if I'm really that good of friends with someone as I might think...
#3: I'm kind of tired of not planning things. I have this weird issue with having to know what's going on ahead of time. I'm okay with hanging out with friends last minute, but it's when people talk about doing something, but no one takes the initiative or forgets to contact you or everyone else so I end up sitting at home reading a book and actually catching up on stuff that I really don't want to do at the moment. If no one else is going to take charge and make decisions, then I will!
Sorry for boring you with a venting sesh, but sometimes I really need to get a few things off my chest. I appreciate your willingness to listen. ;) Or read rather.

P.s. for those of you really following my blog, I have found plenty of time to paint my nails. Multiple times actually. I think I'm finally physically put back together. Mentally and emotionally, it depends on the day.

P.p.s. Less than a month until my birthday! "Presents are not required, but encouraged..." ;)