Boring...

So I like my blog so i am going to make my new domain name helens-hysteria.blogspot.com
then people won't really be confused. I will also update it on my facebook, so you will always be able to get to the right place through that link. I should be writing a paper right now but im not...ugh. I am slowly wasting time.

Jesus wants me for sunbeam!

Oh goodness the sun has been shining in Logan since last Friday and it has made me so so happy!
I feel like a sunbeam! I can't stop smiling! (Oh goodness, it's not like I don't smile enough already!) Despite the still freezing temperatures it is so amazing up her to the north! Although I am anticipating my fingers and toes to fall off at any given moment!

So, this semester has been the busiest for me since my Freshman year. I have kinda been taking it easy for a while trying to situate my life back into some sort of normalcy. I am taking a whole 15 credit hours and loving it! I love being busy! I feel so cool? Ummm...for the lack of a better word. I am looking forward to spring break though! Maybe I will be able to play a little catch up. That would be nice. I am taking a nutrition class this semester and I think it is my favorite class. Although all sorts of foods have been ruined for me. Did you know that RITZ crackers have partially hydrogenated veggie oils in them! I know it is a sad sad truth! Don't cry too much over it I already have!

This is an important announcement for everyone who reads my blog (are there people out there who do still?) I am changing my blog! I am sick of not being able to change anything on it! I need an update! Seriously! So I will chose a new name and let you all know!

Back to the grind! Help Im being crushed!

Back to the grind of things! YAY! I feel like I am already behind! I really am so grateful for the opportunity that I have to go to school! Although I must admit I find it very stressful! It's okay the more classes I take a semester the closer I am to being done!

I just had a need to write. Im sitting here in the library. I just read my first lecture for my interior design class. Now, I don't think that I am perfect; and heavens knows that I make a lot of mistakes when I write...but if I were going to be teaching a class, even if it were an online class i would for sure make sure that it was grammatically correct! Oh goodness! It was all I could do to go all the way through the power point!

I am trying to think if I have any entertaining stories for you all. I slipped and fell yesterday, I wish that someone had had a video camera! I think my finger might be broken, but who knows? I am typing right now so it can't be too bad! Ummm...you know the same old same old. Trying to survive life in freezing temperatures up here! Oh boy!

So I have recently re-found a quote by Og Mandino. Who is just great I think! But it talks bout being yourself and accepting who you are

"you cannot choose your calling. Your calling chooses you. You have been blessed with special skills that are yours alone. Use them, whatever they may be, and forget about wearing another's hat. A talented chariot driver can win gold and renown with his skills. Let him pick figs and he would starve."

Be you! I love it! it's as true today as it was then! lol! I love you all! have an amazing rest of the week!

Nasty Rumors!

So the other day at my family party I was talking to my great aunt Jackie. I gave her a hug and told her I loved her.

She replied with " Don't worry about boys and not being married. You can get married clear up to thirty-five!"

I promptly replied " Well, you know aunt Jackie I heard a nasty rumor that people can even get married after thirty five!"

She looked at me like I was crazy. I just laughed!

I hope you are all doing well! I know I haven't written for a while. This is my recent update for all of you! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Love you all!

What on Earth is going on?!

okay this is going to be really quick because I have to go a pretend study for a Math test. Sigh...I really dislike math.

HELP!
So, I am not computer illiterate. I am really quite good. But I can no longer find where to change my blog spot background. Or how to add people to my list! WHAT IS GOING ON! If you have any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated! I am so lost!

The "Im thankful for" game.

I love this game! Every time I feel down and out my roommate's and I will play or Mom and I will play. It is a sure fire way to get rid of the blues! How blessed we all are! We are loved and no matter what happens everything will come out okay! "Your future is as bright as your faith!" Pres. Monson!

You play by taking turns telling things your are grateful for. Eventually you will realize that everything in your life is amazing!

These are pictures from the surprise party we threw for Britt and the amazing cake I made for her! :)

Crazy, crazy, crazy!

Oh my goodness! Where has the time gone! I feel as though my weeks have been just jammed packed with so many things! One of these being math...it is such a time sucker! I feel all mathed out and it is only the third week of school! Oh boy.

This past week I had the marvelous opportunity to have two amazing adventures! I hiked White pine lake and Mt. Naomi! They were both marvelous! I wanted to share my joy of them with you so I have posted pictures! GO TEAM!

Mount Naomi!

Me at the top...it was very windy and kinda cold. I sure was glad I had brought a sweater! The view was amazing!
HA ha....this is a picture looking out over what we hiked across. You start at Tony's grove and hike 3.3 Miles up to get to the ridge line, so 6.6 miles in all. It was pretty awesome and it only took us about three and a half hours round trip.

Go team! Ha ha! not the very top but I wanted a picture of me at least close. I could stand up at the top without feeling scared of being blown off the cliff...so I settled for this picture instead.

White Pine!

This sign is welcoming us to our national forest and telling us how to wash our hands and dispose of our waste. I thought it was very cool and informative. So I took a picture by it!

AMAZING! It was so beautiful! I loved it! And yes this gorgeous picture was taken with the self timer on my camera. I just discovered that it had one!

I bonded with this dandelion! I also had a ton of fun blowing the seeds everywhere!

Ahhh...the lake! It was awesome and the local beaver put on a show for us by splashing his tail! IT was so cool! Another self timer picture. I am getting good at this game!

Okay and last but not least. I had set a goal for myself at the beginning of the summer that I was going to run a 5K. And I did! YAY! I ran the whole way and I did it in 32 min. Next stop the Wasatch Back baby! I am so excited! YAY! I really am going to do it!

I hope you all know that we are loved and the Lord created this all for us. Each time I do something new I am reminded of his love for each and everyone of us. How awesome is it that we have the opportunity to go and explore this world he gave us!? And how amazing is it that we have bodies that can adapt so quickly to pretty much anything we want it to! I know I am loved! And I know that I can always ask for help when I need it and he will find a way to be there for me! Have an amazing week everyone! I will try to post again soon!

I LOVE the D.I.!

So, our crappy old couch is leaving our apartment. It doesn't belong to us so...we were in a bit of a pickle. Where were we going to sit now? I had no idea and I was kinda thinking that the whole situation was not going to end well for Britt and I.

But alas! Everything all works out in the end. My most amazing Mother came up for a visit to the good ol' L-Town the other day. (my Mom really is the most amazing person on the face of the planet! I have learned so much from her! Even If we are so much alike but different enough we get on each others nerves sometimes!) And she brought up the green and blue Stripped chair that Matt bought a very very long time ago from the DI. So of course she had the truck...So what else were we going to do but go and look for some furniture at my favorite store! THE DI! Oh happy day!

I walked in and it was love at first sight! I looked and I could feel my heart rushing, I didn't know how I was going to live the rest of my life without Him in it! I was so awestruck! It was like a magnet was pulling me towards him! He looked so good and amazing! I could just tell he was going to be the one for me...And then I looked across the way and I saw that they were a matching set! I was beside myself! HOW IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME! I had found the perfect couch and a chair to go with it! The are butter yellow and so awesome! They look like they were sitting in some little old ladies house and she had them covered in plastic and so they look brand new!

This is the couch! Doesn't it just look amazing! I am so happy!

This is the chair! I was way excited that they both were there! It makes it so much better!

And this is the ensemble! 70 Bucks for both! I am so happy and excited and they make our apartment look so cheery and nice! Thanks to my AMAZING Mother again she made the rug and pillows possible! GO TEAM!

For those of you who know me you know this is not the first DI furniture venture! I love that place! They always have sweet little pieces of gold hiding in there. Or just out in plain sight! I hope you are all doing well! I hope your last week was amazing! Don't forget who you are, it is so easy to do sometimes! And don't forget that you are loved and if you happen to lose your way there is someone always there who is willing to carry you through the rough times! You are never alone!

I love you all! Have the worlds most amazing week! School is about to start up again so enjoy the rest of the summer while you can!

Reflections...

So this is going to be more of a serious post. I will try to throw some of my traditional humor into it so you don't get overly board but...I have something I want to say so I am going to say it.

First let us have a little recap of the summer...we have done more amazing activities that must be shared with the world!

I went and watched a movie in a scouting Cabin out in Hyrum...it was very fun, until the battery on the computer died and we didn't get to finish our movie. Meh, its okay cause in front of the cabin they had a Sinclair dinosaur which I rode!

I went boating for the first time on Hyrum Dam (not boating for the first time) I have been overly spoiled with Uncle Gems boat cause it has a jet engine, so no prop for us! I was a little nervous to go out on someone else's boat. As it turns out they have a jet boat too!

We went to the Stone Idaho Rodeo! Which was the highlight of the past week. Cause...it had rained before the rodeo started and so the arena was like a mud pond. After everything was said and done, we got rides on a saddle blanket in the mud and then got in the worlds biggest mud fight! Life is great!

Okay so now for more serious.

I have been evaluating life recently and looking at all the paths that people I know have taken. People who, in high school I was a little jealous of. And I look at everything and despite all of my trials and struggles...I am so blessed that my life is the way it is! All of my amazing friends and family have made this possible for me. I can see how easy it is to fall off the beaten path, and I am so glad that I have held to the rod through rough times!

I love you all! Have a great week!

Ummm...the rules.

So on Sunday I met a new person who seemed to be nice enough, and then all of the sudden he started to throw down so pretty mean things. Ie...he told me that I should know that if he doesn't like a person straight off the bat then we won't ever like them. So I should be careful. I know that I am a little over excited about things sometimes and annoying at others, but this was a little much for me to handle. Who says that!? He obviously doesn't have a lot of friends. So my friends and I came up with some rules...it started out with one and went to three or four I don't remember. But I will tell them to you,

Rule Numero Uno- If you are ugly you should never be mean to people because you have nothing else to fall back on. I don't mean this is a mean way at all! I think I mostly said it because he hurt my feelings. I don't think very many people don't like me. It was a defense mechanism. It was also kinda ironc cause no one should be mean ever and here I was saying one of the rudest things I have ever said in my life!
Now you should know that this is not justifying mean people on any level. I think that all people should be nice, it the rule above all, but this is just a good rule for everyone. I know mean.
ANYWAY!

Rule Numero Dose-(Is that how you speel two in spanish? I don't know why I am doing it in spanish, I just am!) If you are socially awkward in anyway you should never ever try to be funny, because for the most part it will back fire on you and then people will think you are just mean! ( I don't know if this is what this kid was doing so we figured we should cover our bases and establish this rule.)

Rule Numero Tres- So I was eating a baked potato at the linger longer and it was so amazing! I like to mash all of my stuff up so it mixes together and is pure amazingness! This is how rule number three came about. A member of the Bishopric came up behind me to ask me if i had been set apart for my calling as i was mashing away. It kinda startled me! I then felt really dumb and really small, like i was five! (for those of you who know me you will know that this is no surprise!) I was telling this to my friend Kellen and he says "Well it's okay if you do it cause is like oh hey look at how cute she is! But if you are a guy like me they go 'oh my gosh that is so disgusting what is that guy doing to his food?' So even though I want to do it i can't because i am a guy." SO...the rule is if you are a cute girl you can do almost anything you want to with your food because you can pull it off as cute. If you are a guy you have so such luck!

SO...if you were there for the rules on Sunday just take a moment and go over them again and have a nice laugh about them.

Second thing to say today...sometimes I look at things in life and how it all plays out and I ask myself, "How did THAT Happen?!" Life has a tricky way of throwing curve balls at you and all the sudden everything is upside down and all backward! President Hinckley has the formula for getting through it all!

"It isn’t as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don’t worry. I say that to myself every morning. It will all work out. If you do your best, It will all work out. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. THE LORD WILL NOT FORSAKE US. HE WILL NOT FORSAKE US…If we will put our trust in him, if we will pray to him, if we will live worthy of his blessings, he will hear our prayers."
President Gordon B. Hinckley

Thank heavens I know this is true or im not sure i would be able to make it through life!
Oh boy...have an amazing week everyone!

How Much wood would a wood chuck chuck...?

Alright so this summer has been jam packed! I cannot believe how much has happened! At the beginning of the summer when Britt and I decided to move in together we made a summer fun list. Now this list has things that are super easy to do i.e. Blowing bubbles (which we have done to some great extent. We both now have bubble wands in our purses, who knows when you will need a bubble fix?) To things that a are a little more difficult. Like boating, or going to a cabin at bear lake. Both of these activities require us to make new friends! Oh and have we ever made new friends! It is so great!



We are never at a loss of people to hang out with. If one group can't do something the other group can! We are having the time of our lives and we are dragging people along with us. We both figure that if we are only this age once, we will only be unmarried and childless for so long we might as well party it up while we can!

So some of the most amazing activities in which we have participated in (Most of these we did together but some not.)

1- Boating/ Wake boarding down at Lake Powell! AMAZING!
2- Floating the Logan Canyon Canal at midnight! The stars were amazing! The giant spider I found on my leg was not. And like ten seconds into the float the raft Britt and I were sharing popped so we had to hop onto others tubes! It was pretty funny!
3- All three of us ( Britt, Becca, our other roommate, and I) Went on a triple date the other day with these really fun guys and they took us to go and see the movie Up. Which is good but made me kinda sad at the beginning. Anyway, we got into the theatre and it was only us in there, on of the boys brought up a good point of the fact that we rented out the theatre for 45 dollars. So we decided to play a game. Every time the words Paradise Falls was said in the movie we had to move around and find new seats. It was the best date movie I have ever been to! And we could talk as loudly as we wanted cause who was going to tell us to be quiet?
4-Hiking the wind caves. I liked this because I found out a very important lesson, it usually isn't the destination but the journey.
5- All of our dinners and pic-nics up the canyon! So so much fun!
6-Our friend Burd has a canoe, so we all took a trip down the Logan city canal. We went from 1000 N to 1400 N and then back up again. We discovered that trees aren't our friends and that we need to practice. Burd said he would help.
7-Bouldering out at the Hannah property. Ben and I went and it was so much fun. It was almost like the old days between us. I don't think it will be a memory I will ever forget. It was like I had my best friend back for two hours.
8-Dave Knightons cabin in bear lake. This is where we spent our fourth of July. It was so much fun! We made new friends and we taught them how to play ninja destruction. And we borrowed our friend Teancums car, which is an old blue station wagon with the fold down seats in the back, and six girls piled into it and headed on up to the cabin. I don't know what was more fun the cabin or the ride home!
9- Okay so this is going to sound silly but we have made a new friend who has really made this summer so much fun! Her name is Sasha and she is amazing! And even though she is not an activity she has made all of our activites fun!

So there you have it folks! Our summer thus far has been amazing! YAY US! :)

Random!

Have you ever noticed how much wind a flies wings give off? One just flew past my head and I was kinda impressed!

Although I must say that I do wish there wasn't a fly in my room.

My life is very much like a soap opera!

So I met someone on Saturday night. He was nice and funny! Not to mention very very cute! SO the whole night we were super flirty and at the end of the night I thought for sure he was going to ask me for my number. Nothing, just sort of an awkward goodbye on both of our ends.

So he leaves and I think to myself : "Wow he was really really great! If I let him go without giving him my number I will regret it!" So I grab my heart sticky notes out of my purse and write my name and number on one and I run out the door into the apartment hallway, I look one way and he isn't there and I think "Crap! I am going to have to chase him down the stairway!"
I then look the other direction and there he is looking at me!

SO, I run to him and I say " I know this is super weird, especially since it is on a heart sticky note, But I wanted to give you my number! " and he looks at me and smiles and says okay. So he puts it in his phone and puts the sticky note on his chest. We talk and chat for a bit longer and he goes to leave and he gives me a huge hug and says "WOW! Your hair smells so so good!" Which is always nice to hear! So I kinda giggle and he ask what do you use and I say oh Lacoste assuming he means perfume, he meant shampoo and conditioner. So he goes to leave and I say "Drive safe!" and he looks back at me and says "What if I die on the way home this could be the last time you ever see me!" And I say " Don't die! Just be safe." And so he leaves

So today I was talking with our mutual friend Cory and I ask " Do you think I made an idiot of myself?" and He says "No I don't think so but I can ask him if you want me to." I say "The high school part of me wants you to but the grown up part of me doesn't want you to! "
Cory "I'm going to ask him."
Helen "Okay but let him know that it was not my idea!"
Cory "Just trust me on this!"
Helen "Im kinda nervous."
Cory (This is the real kicker, the part that makes it a soap opera!) "Yeah maybe you should just leave it cause he is going back out on his mission in a couple of months anyway!"

SAY WHAT! Oh my goodness! Cory then explained what he could to me.
He came home early off his mission for medical reasons but he is going back out again. But Cory doesn't know for how long!

I feel so dumb! Oh man! He was so flirty though! Oh boy...

The life of Helen such as it is!

So now I want to know what you think...would it be weird if I wrote this guy on his mission?

I can't stop laughing and I don't know why! I think this is so funny! What are the chances!?

SWEET MOTHER OF MEAT!

My appeal for independent status was approved! Not only that it was approved for the 2009-2010 school year, it was also approved for retroactive for the 2008-2009 school year! Can I tell you how happy I am about this! It makes my life so much better! I Feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders!

Now the next task is to get a job. Because even though I won't be needing to pay for school in the fall I do need to pay for housing. Man can't I live in a cardboard box and still be considered an upstanding member of society? JUST KIDDING!

But there is more good news to this post! I already have been offered another position with the teacher I currently work with. This does mean that I will no longer be working at cedar ridge, but I will be getting more hours (still the same great pay though! YAY!)

It always seems that whenever I can't go on anymore and whenever it gets to hard to continue, if I keep exercising my faith in the Lord everything works out!
What a huge blessing this is to me and a huge boost to continue to be faithful!

The life for me! DREAM BIG!

So on Saturday morning Mom, Ben, Maddie and I took a little road trip to Evanston Wyoming. I know random but Ben had found a table on KSL. Com that he wanted to buy. So we all packed into the truck and took a little road trip to check out this table. Evanston is only 78 miles away from our house so we were all up for the fun.

One thing we didn't expect was the breath taking beauty that was in store for us! OH GOODNESS! The table was at a ranch off of country road 157. We turned down the road and it promptly turned into a dirt dug way! The scene out our windows was amazing, we had a entered into a little ranch valley. In translation we had entered heaven!

When we arrived at the Sexton Ranch four miles down the road we were overwhelmed with the beauty of everything, and there in the middle of the yard was the table. (Which Ben promptly bought!)

I couldn't help but feel great delight at the ranch and the seclusion. And of course, like I have said previously, the beauty was enough to make a persons heart sing with joy!

So my dear friends, you ask "What, Helen, is the life for you?"

I have been thinking about this for quite some time now, I have always wanted to grow up become a cowgirl and own some property of my own. In the past year and a half I have let this dream rekindle! I really started to throw my upcoming idea around while coming home from a recent trip to Lake Powell. The drive down to Powell is almost as amazing as Powell itself...maybe! But there are some beautiful little ranches right up next to the road during that drive.

I have always thought that I would need to marry a man who had this same dream as me. But I have come to the conclusion that this is my dream and I want to make it happen! So I am going to graduate with my degree (which will consist of a degree in Special Ed and FCHD and a minor in Ag science.) Move to a small town and hopefully get a job at a local school and buy up some land. Not much just thirty acres or a little bit more and have my own little ranch.

I know to most of you are now thinking "Oh goodness Helen has really fallen of her rocker now!"
But I assure you that I know what I am getting myself into and I know it will be hard. But I have tasted a life where my dreams would not have been possible to come true. This is what I want. This is what I have always wanted. So this is what I am going to get!

Life is meant to be joyful! DREAM BIG!

SAY WHAT!

I feel as though I have been the worlds worst blogger lately so I am going to find something really really interesting to write about...about my life...which is not very interesting right now. Im sorry!

It was never in the plans for me to not have an interesting life. Oh boy! It's like after you turn 21 your fun level starts to go down hill.

OH! I know what I will complain about!

So financial aid is ridiculous! REALLY! who are they to tell me that I am not independent from my parents! For heaven's sake alive! I haven't been claimed by them since I was seventeen! I don't know what more they want from me! I am really at my wits with these people! There seems to be no way to charm my way with them! I am going to have to do major research and find out stuff! SAY WHAT! I know I am actually going to have to figure this out. There is no way I can continue going to school with out help...oh what to do what to do.

My current POA (Plan of action) is to call other institution in the state and find out their policy on independent status. I am also going to call the federal regulator...sigh.

So the whole point of this story is that the government says that they will help you and then they just jerk your chain.

Is this the beginning of my life with the government! IS THERE MORE TO COME?

IS THIS EVER GOING TO END!

IS IT GOING TO BE LIKE THIS FOREVER!

Oh boy, if this POA dosn't work my next one is to continue to pray really really hard and have faith! At least then I know the out come will be what needs to be..

Until next time...

oh goodness sunshine!

So have you ever noticed that when the sun is shinning it is just a better day! I love being able to walk up to campus in just a sweater! I love the sun!

So I haven't done a post in a really long time...we will do a quick synopsis of what my life has consisted of recently.

1-I have worn my Chaco's to school almost every day this month! It has been so amazing!
2-Started to date someone.
3-Broke up with someone
4-Realized that being single is amazing!
5-Reestablished my love of cheese, Feta cheese on a spinach salad with raspberry vinaigrette dressing is so amazing! If you put olives and crasins and almonds in it you will be in heaven! I promise!
6-Do I have a sign on my head that says "PLEASE,PLEASE ASK ME OUT?!" Because I have been asked out more in the past two months than I have in my whole life...I must have a sign and I missed it.
7- Wickedness never was happiness...I have see a display of this in my life, through the examples of others, and I know for 100% that it is true! Oh thank heavens for the gospel!
8- As it turns out...walls do just jump out to get you!
9-KALAI! Oh man! he is so amazing! i love him to death! How have I lived in a world of music without him? Go and check him out if you haven't ever heard of him!
10- I am so ready for this semester to be over! Why is it that spring semester seems like it is so much longer than fall?! UGH!
All is well that ends well.

QUICK!

Just a real quick up date...

Life is good.

School is good, if not a little stressful, I shouldn't procrastinate half as much as I do.

The fam is good. How blessed am I?

My new apartment is amazing More than amazing! I love my roommates!

My ward is the best ward on the face of the planet! I love the people and the bishopric!

I love to snow board! More than anything! I forgot how much I love it!

All my friends are great! So so great! I am so happy that I have such amazing people in my life!

And yes last but not least ladies and gentlemen, even boys are good...

So let this stew in your brains for a while...more to come at later date in time... :)

Ummmm...I got nuthin'

So I haven't written a blog for a while...this is due to the fact that I have really had nothing to say as of late...there are a couple of things that I have seen recently that I have found very very funny...I shall make a list of them...
1) Roommate pictures on campus...I find this so lame. What bugs me even more is that it is always the girls who are like the cheerleader types. How is it that they all end up meeting each other and then living together? It must be a disease! Ugh!
2)Facebook is taking over the world! Everyone is always on it! Including me! It can't seem to break the habit! I think it is of the Devil! Help me! I know that Facebook is a Disease, and I have it!
3)What is up with the couples in the Junniper lounge! oh my gosh! I know they are taking over the world! I go in there to take a nap and all of the couches are being Monopolized by couples! And they are all over each other! Oh man!
4) It must be murphy's law that I am always first Loser! Ha! Just kidding, but really every time there is always someone else who is just a little bit better than me in ever aspect who wins...you know what I am talking about if you talk to me on a regular basis.

There shall be more to come, I have to jet off to class! AHHHHHH! (That is me jetting away!)

5) Have you ever been walking behind someone and they totally fart! This just happened to me as I was jetting to class! Oh man it was super stinky but I couldn't help but laugh a little bit! How old am I again?

6) YAY for "Wicked"! I love this Musical. It is my favorite and I am sure that I have driven my Roommates insane by now. I listen to it all of the time! The best part of all of this is that I think they are starting to like it to! So now we go around singing songs from "Wicked" To each other all of the time!

7) Oh the joys of Kilby Court! I had the amazing opportunity to go there on Valentines ( this shall have it's own bullet) with one of my best friends Christina and...the verdict is! Love isn't all bad. I have restored hope and faith in it! It took long enough! Man!

8)Valentines day is over rated. I obviously don't think that love is I just think that Valentines day is out there. Really, I don't want a stuffed bear shoved in a balloon. No thank you! I don't want chocolates, I just want a none commercialized holiday about love...what ever happened to door bell ditching valentine cards on peoples door step. Do people still do that? I loved that! I think I might go and do that some time later in the month!

Well, to all of you who ever bother to read this (Is there anyone out there?!) I don't want to exhaust my resources and im sure this is a billion miles long...So I will save some material for later.