How long is a month?

Very long. Too long one might say....

For me it is:

• About 30 days
• Around 9 days of class
• 8 afternoons spent at the pool
• 4 or 5 trips to the library
• 2 visits to the gas station to fill up Cheredith
• About 15 days of work
• 3-4 times at the Draper Temple
•  8 (+or-) Skype sessions
• A book or three read
• A full moon (without my full moon bike riding buddy 
• A trip to Dollar Tree
• 2 trips to get sugar free snow cones
• 12 (+ or -) hours of church
• 2 times cleaning my room
• Around 25 times loading the dishwasher
• 16ishhhhhhhhh showers :) (that is 4 a week, every other day - thats acceptable right???)
• 1 trip to Wyoming (I was there in May and June...I'm going this month, and I will in August as well...WOW I really do go every month...)
• 8 or 9 journal entries
• 2 or 3 times painting my nails
• 15 times I charge my phone
• 10 times charging my computer
• About 12 blog posts

There's much more that happens in a month I'm sure, but these are the ones I could think of. A month is a long time. But at least the months have gone by and I have a thing or two to show for them.

Happy Independence Day everyone!!!
Try not to light everything on fire. We do not need any more of that.

Current favorite song ever

Here's a ton of different versions of the best song ever.

Enjoy!!

General Conference 1971 & 1972

I recently learned that light = truth = knowledge

With that in mind, my dear friend Buber (please do not even ask) and I have been going through old conference talks which provide light in my life. lds.org has all the General Conferences back to 1971 so we have been choosing one talk per conference. I choose October talks and he chooses April talks. Whenever we can fit it in we will go over a talk.

Here are links to the ones we have done so far. I will include the video if it is available.

October 1971
The Purpose of Life: To Be Proved

April 1971
Eternal Joy Is Eternal Growth

October 1972
Hands

(heheh President Monson is so young here in this video of Hands)

April 1972
Joy through Christ


These are all really awesome and I feel slightly cheated that I wasn't alive for these.  But thank goodness for technology we have access to them now. You really should take the time to read them.

“If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!”

The title to this post is a quote by some person named J.M. Barrie.

What prompted this is the fact that I will be living in Laradise in an apartment. Without my parents. Without RA's to babysit me. Without a front desk to let me into my room when I inevitably lock myself out.

My favorite sister & I went & got a bunch of stuff for said apartment and HOLY COW it hit me hard. Not in a bad way. No, I look forward to it. It just became real. And now I have my own vegetable peeler to prove it.

I lived on my own last year but I had RA's to remind me to do things and check on me. Now it's just me & three housemates.

Does this mean I have to grow up? Psh....NO WAY. I mean maybe I should grow up in certain aspects of my life (maybe I should shower more...good hygiene is a grown up thing to do right?) but overall I think I can manage without growing up.


Pardon me, but once farts are no longer funny I have grown up far too much.