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!
Monday, July 20, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
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! :)
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! :)
Monday, June 15, 2009
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.
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!?
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!?
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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!
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!
Sunday, May 31, 2009
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!
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!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
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...
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...
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