twentythree and on

twenty three
i'm grateful for my roommates family who said me and my other roommate could stay for thanksgiving because we got snowed in.
twenty four
i'm grateful for cameras that allow us to freeze time so we can have memories for-ev-er..even if they are goofy and embarassing and never worthy of facebook :)
twenty five
i'm grateful for telephones so i can talk to my mom while she cooks a ridiculoous amount. even though it made me really depressed that i didn't have fruit salad...:)
twenty six
i'm grateful for being able to sleep in but still get good deals for black friday! ..and i'm also grateful that my car was able to start even though it was so covered in snow that it took me over an hour to clean off. awesome.

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Day twenty
Im grateful for those people who are brave enough to pull over and help you out on the side of the road when your car needs some attention. And for the first time it wasn’t mine! I was going with my roommate down to Idaho falls in lots of snow and her windshield wiper popped off. I swear the kid that pulled over was like..14 haha
Day twenty one
Im grateful for having church close, cause then if im running late its not such a big deal cause I’ll be there in like..2 seconds
Day twenty two
Today I went with my roommate Stephanie to a high school to watch her teach them a dance she choreographed..shes dang good. The dance is just over a minute long and their paying her like $3500. Seriously. And I’ve seen her sort of dance before but it was interesting to see her in her element of going through it step by step so they’ll understand, so Im grateful for when people share their talents..

eighteen and nineteen

eighteen
i'm grateful for googlechat. how stinking easy is it to turn on your computer and see that all of your bomb-awesome sisters are on too?? i think its the best
nineteen
i'm grateful for energy drinks. yeah yeah i knwo theyre AWFUL for you. buuut i went and saw harry potter at a theater a half hour away at 12:15 (..couldnt make the 12 or 1201 or 1202 and so on) but anyways..that energy drink is the only erason i was able to make it through the movie (and love it! ..even though i havent seen the 6th one yet) and thenn drive back to rexburg and leave THREE hours later to take my roommate to the airport.
i mean, im dying right now cause im so tired..but at least we didn't die in the process of having fun :)

sixteen and seventeen

sixteen:
I'm grateful that our math teacher lets us out early sometimes. I have class from 7-10 on tuesdays. yep, that means sitting in one place...learning MATH of all things. and im not going to liee, there have been looots of times that i've left really early...cause i knew i would just facebook or look at old pictures if i stayed any longer, but for the past three weeks in a row, my math teacher has let us out EARLY! yeeah.
seventeen:
Today I am grateful for my mom. i'm grateful for her EVERYDAY. but i got to talk to her this morning, when my roommates were asleep and when she was the only one home. I like those times :) Just me and my mom. :) Usually when i call nobody will answer the first time but i just hold my phone causei know it'll start ringing a few minutes after i get their voicemail. BUT ..today, my mom picked up on the SECOND ring..that is monumental. and when i commented on it she said she ran to the phone :) I love my mom. A lot.

fifteen

I'm grateful for old journals from like seventh grade...they make me laugh so hard, and its a good reminder that you really can sum up life in three words: it goes on.

eleven - fourteen

Day 11:

I'm grateful i can run. like really RUN. When i lived in Hawaii it was really easy for me to eat crap. constantly. and i did! So when i got back from Hawaii and realized that none of my clothes fit i decided i should probably do something about that :) I'm cheerful about it now, but at the time when i was trying to squeeze into my jeans..my life wasn't so fun. Anyways, i went to the gym today and ran. a lot. and this may be awful, but i watched lots of people get on the tredmills next to me and have to get off or slow down really fast. I can't judge cause i could hardly jog like a month ago, but i'm glad that i've come this far haha

Day 12: I'm grateful for silent prayer. I know, I know. its one of those broad ones like family..and friends...but heres my story: It's really dark and i'm driving to Wyoming with my roommate brittany..theres a truck pulled over on the side of the road with his hazard lights on and its a tight squeeze cause theres a truck on the other lane coming fast ...i seriously had just gone done telling brittany that the guy on the side of the road is going to get killed when i realized that he had just hit a deer..and it was still HUGE and laying in the road, like LITERALLY 8 feet from my ccar..so i swerved, cause thats just instinct ya know? anyway i swerved twoards the guy and he jumped back and put his hands up cause i almost hit him too. What does this have to do with prayer? Well i had just barely barely barely finished a silent prayer that we would make it to wyoming safely right when i saw the deer..and the man. and i didn't hit either. hallelujia.

day 13: I am grateful for spray 'n wash. i thought i ruined a new swimsuit hot tubbing..but nope :)

Day 14: amazon.com cause i miiight have just bought a $120 textbook for $15 :)

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Day 8: I am grateful for having night classes. I woke up to people scraping their windows this morning cause yes, it has already snowed a buttload in idaho...and i was glad that i didnt have to set my alarm an extra half hour so i could make it to class in time :) Don't worry, i'll get my fix of that winter semester

Day 9: Yesterday i am grateful for snowplows. (are you catching a theme?) Driving in the snow freaks me out. like i have a legit anxiety attack everytime i get around other cars. I tell myself that it must not snow in Korea becasue that is the ONLY possible reason that my car spins out so easily, but today..the roads were plowed. and i made it to walmart and back without dying.

Day 10: Today i am grateful for other friends (and my sista) who are doing this with me. I have a friend who texts me asking me if im still doing this everyday and reminds me not to slack cause i'll start to forget! And im grateful that i log onto my sisters blog a creepy amount so that i can check to see if she is still doing it..and when i see that she's updated it reminds me that i need to also. So i do.

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Yesterday, I was grateful for my car. I like my car…a lot. but if you’ve ever ridden in it in the past like..year you know that it is OUTRAGEOUSLY loud. Like if you want to carry on a conversation with the person in the passenger seat then you might as well wait until you are wherever you’re supposed to be cause theres no way they’ll be able to hear you over my tires. (it isn’t really my tires..its my wheel bearings..the things that spin your tires I guess?) Personally, I’ve gotten used to it..but then whenever I have new people in my car and I see them look around and grab the oh-crap handle like we’re about to take off into outerspace..i remember. Anyways, so I have always been grateful for it but it makes it a little bit hard to be as proud of it as I was when I first got it two years ago. Well yesterday I finally took it in to get it fixed cause it was starting to make a different noise that threw me off.
Yes, it was expensive, and yes it took them a day longer than they said it would BUT the fact is..its perfect again. I re-fell in love. I wasn’t expecting the silence when I pulled out of the mechanics but it was there and it was deafening..but the good kind of deafening! Plus, it made me grateful for my stereo..i had no clue it could be so loud :)
Today, I’m grateful for shoeboxes and baskets and bags and other things that make organizing so easy and enjoyable.

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Today i'm grateful for those times when youre by yourself and you witness something that genuinely makes you smile. Like a legit smile where you start feeling dorky.
When I was living in Ohio, there was a time that a main road was closed and i was so annoyed cause my GPS kept yelling at me to make turns that weren't possible and i was on my way to a movie that was about to start, but then i turned down this neighborhood and saw an older lady holding on to the back of a wobbly bike, and sitting on that bike was a little girl decked out in ever single piece of safety gear imaginable looking terrified...and a few feet away facing her was her dad and he was cheering her on and clapping while her grandma helped push her off so she could try and ride a bike without training wheels. I literally slowed down to see if she'd make it. And she did. but even before that i had that dorky smile.
Then today when i was driving through campus I saw two old people in their driveways that were across the street from eachother...one was a man, and one was a woman..because of the wind, both of their garbage cans had blown over and when the old man saw the old lady start to bend down to pick hers up he started waving his arms saying he'd get it for her. I'm pretty sure it took him longer to cross the street than it would have for her to just pick it up. But the point is, he did it for her and it made me smile.
I really hope i can do somehting for someone else that will make a stranger sitting in their car smile like those people did. :) It's the best feeling in the world..its a good reminder.. :)

Everybody Everywhere

today i am grateful for the weird moods i get in where i feel the need to scrub our entire apartment clean.
I had one of those this morning..so i did it, and i felt gross and grimey afterwards, i even rearanged my room and found new places for old things..but once i hopped out of the shower when i was finished, there was a note on our door saying we have clean checks tomorrow. done and done. :)
I think my roommates are thankful for it too!

Arbor Day! Trees are important too ya know

Today i'm grateful for holidays.

So basically i have these moments of panicking when i realize that i have to have a gift sent out to my sister in ohio in time for thanksgiving..and i haven't even picked one out yet. uhh no big deal, right? But then i have these other moments where i drown out the stress of holidays (which isn't always a great thing..cause i really need to get on that!) and just think of how excited i am for them to happen.

I'm grateful that a lot of my family is going to have christmas together for the first time in a while..and im grateful i'll get to see my fat yellow dog that i've been missing a ridiculous amount. (and my sisters and parents and grandparents)

I am grateful to have been raised in a home where holidays were the biggest thing since sliced bread. And i'm grateful that the love for every holiday stuck with me...so that i could stay up til 3am decorating my apartment for a halloween party and then wonder why i waited so long to do it :)

It's the little things :)

A lot of the things that im grateful for aren't monumental things. And i'm grateful for that in and of itself. (okay, is it just me or does that phrase look really weird typed out? usually i just say innaof-itself)

Anyway, If i'm early for class its not going to make or break my week..but its sure going to make it easier to find a seat...and i'm grateful for good seats.

If I remember to put my phone on silent before class, its not going to help me get an A. but its definitely going to save me the possible embarassment of my phone going off during the prayer and having all of my classmates turn to see who has the goofy built-in ringtone that sounds scary-close to Hannah Montana. Just sayin..i have nightmares about that happening. So i'm grateful for remembering.

Today, i'm especially grateful that BYU takes off their internet restrictions after 5. Don't Judge, cause i know that sounds weird.. but being able to get on Facebook and GoogleChat during a three hour long math class is definitely a blessing.

heres another picture. it makes sense because today was voting day and because i've seen like 28 christmas commercials today, so those two things together make this picture.



"Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order." -David Gerrold :) I feel a facebook status coming on..

Because this will keep me sane..

Marcie suggested a gratitude journal. I don’t know exactly what that means, but im guessing I just say something im grateful for everyday. Like I said before, it will keep me sane.. I had a new years resolution where I would write down one thing that made me happy every single day..even if it was something goofy like a good parking spot at school (which is actually a really big deal) and it didn’t matter where I wrote it...even if it was in the margin of my homework or something. I did it until April and then all the sudden I didn’t one day…annnd that’s all it takes L But that’s okay! Cause this will be like a Part Two kind of thing!

So for today, I am grateful that it is November. I like new months and new beginnings. And im also grateful for when people force you to have fun. I think sometimes my roommates and I will plan something and then I start thinking about it too much and it feels like it will be less and less fun. That’s dumb. I think my favorite memories happened because someone suggested something random and spur of the moment, and I didn’t always want to go..but I went. And it rocked. For example, two weeks ago a couple people came over at like 11 and asked if I wanted to go golfing. It was freezing outside. I can’t golf. and I was being a bum so I said no.. .well then peer pressure happened and next thing I knew I was at a golf course breaking open glowsticks and pouring them on golfballs. It was one of my favorite nights of the semester, and im thankful for those breaks.“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. -Albert Schweitzer
oh ps here is halloween:
We went around scaring people one night
and these are our legit costumes..they doubled as a costume for an 80s party.. we started off as Punkers but then soon realized all the stuff we got was bright colors. i dont know. by the time ahlloween came around i didnt like them anymore but thats okay.
And here are fun things we do: