There's a butterfly outside the window. It's just an ordinary, every day, cabbage white. It's beautiful.
    
     Don'tcha just love spring? I do. It's my favorite. It really is. It's so beautiful, I can't help but love it. The earth is waking up and coming back to life, and I'm reminded for like the millionth time why I love nature so darn much! you have winter, and everything is dead and cold and still, and then POWIE! Just like that, the grass turns lush and green, the trees sprout buds, then blossoms, then leaves, the air is fresh and clean and the world has come back to life. Isn't life so beautiful? It really is! All of it. I can't think of a single living thing that I don't like. In fact, there are many non-living things that I like too, I just like the living stuff a bit more. I guess that's why I'm gonna teach Biology not chemisty or physics.This is my passion. This is my joy, and my true source of happieness, and (brace yourself I'm about to get preachy) the original base of my testimony.

     I don't know how anyone can live in our world, see it, smell it, touch it, live in it, and not acknowlege the fact that there is a GOD, a living, loving, real God. He created this beautiful thing for us, and I can't step outside withought my heart swelling with gratitude. Cause I'm greatful. I really am. and I hope you are too.

    Well I've gone and rambled a bit. Sorry. Oh well. Talk to you later.

Employment

That's right! this girl is officially employed! Thank you Vision Securities and friend's referals! so let me tell you about it. cause it's great! I work at the call center. I take and make phone calls. why is this so great? well I'll tell you!

Reason 1: it's inside, airconditioned, and I get to sit on my butt all day! So nice in a summer job expecially since most of the kids around here are going to have much harder jobs come summer time!

Reason 2: it's 5 minutes away by car, and 15 walking! SO convienient!

Reason 3: The down time! Since we haven't gotten to the busy season yet, we get anything from 12 to 2 calls an hour, expecially since I work the late shift. So, I have plenty of time to study, read up on politics, and basically do whatever I need to! now this will change come summer time, but for now it's great!

Reason 4: MONEY!!!! hahahaha!!! I FINALLY have MONEY!!! I know it sounds shallow, but I like money. It makes my life easier, and helps me save up to do fun stuff later!
Yup! so basically, I have the best job ever! so so so so SO happy to have it!

Oh Joy-FULL-ness!

     What a day! can I just say, it was simply amazing. All things bright and beautiful was this day. I mean, it was a GREAT day. It was so good, the only songs that got stuck in my head were about how simply wonderful it is to be alive.Shall I tell you what made it so spectacular? I think I shall.
      Thing One- It was so deLISHously sunny and warm! I wore shorts. yup, it was THAT warm. It felt so good, I could just feel my vitamin D levels rising. I loved it!
     Thing Two- I just had one class. Was this because the computers crashed and I couldn't get my homework for my other class so I skipped it? Perhaps. But I choose to look past that and thrive in the greatness of having the majority of my day off.
     Thing Three- I fixed my bike. yup that's right. I rolled up my sleeves, assessed the tires, filled them with this green gobble-de-gook stuff to fix the leak, shined it up with a trusty rag, and attached the beautiful basket I got from my amazing brother Spencer. It looks great! so I took it out for a joy ride with the last hour of sunlight, which brings me to....
     Thing Number Four- I ran into by best friend who I haven't seen in like two months playing soccer with her boyfriend! YES! forgotten are my grippings about how our spring breaks are this [ ] close to being in the same week, Oh joy of joys! what a sight for sore eyes! I love that girl so much! So of course we stop and visit for an hour and only stop when it's too cold to stand outside in shorts anymore. it was so wonderful, there are really no words to describe it. you just have to imagine.
     So basically, today was the best day I have had in two months and I'm glad I'm where I am with who I'm with. It is such a blessing. 

The Name Game

     I've been naming things. I think that when you spend enough time with something, you get to know it in a way that kind of deserves a name. It's fun cause when you name something, you realize just how much of a personality it has.
   
     For example, my bed. She's always been there for me. She's warm, comforting, accepting, and still dignified. Her name is Beatrice. She's great. and her naming was soon followed by....wait for it....
 
    Gladys the Magic Bullet, Frank the washer, and Orville the dryer, Harriette the sewing machine, and Samantha the Kindle. They're all members of the family now. The big happy family of stuff.

FINALLY!!!!!

     First the background information.
     So I go to UVU and all but one of my classes are in the Pope Science building so of course I spend alot of time there. This building is 3 stories tall, and in the middle of it, there's a big open area with a couple of flights of stairs and in the middle of this vast space is a giant pendulum. it's an enormous string with a big christmas ornament looking thing hanging on it. it swings all day long and is supposed to show the movement ofthe earth in the way it's plane of swinging rotates. underneith it is the big pedistal with pegs lined up around the perimiter which the oniment knocks over every so often. I believe the the earth rotates, and I've seen the pedistal with half of the pegs knocked over, but i've never actually seen any of them get knocked over. I've HEARD it happen, but it could be some random guy doing it to trick us! so it's been a goal of mine to see it happen for real. I've tried to see it a few times now, but evey time I did, I'd run out of time and have to leave before it happened.
     So that's the backgraound, now here's the story.
     Yesterday was stupid. i don't have any good friendsin any of my classes on tuesday, so I'm always bored out of my mind, and I had a test in Chemisty which I just knew I bombed. I was cold for no reason at all, and  just in an altogeth crappy mood. I got out of my chem lab half an hour early and on my way to the library to mope, I noticed that the pendulum was about to knock over a peg! "Awesome!" I think, "Today's the day! i have nothing to do so I'll just stick around for a few minutes and then I'll be able to knock that item off of my bucket list! Great!"
     So I stuck around and watched. I couldn't do homework or anything like that cause just as soon as i looked away it would be sure to happen so I just stood there staring at it as it swung back...and forth...and back...and forth...and back...and forth...........on and on it went swinging back...and forth... after five minutes I started getting bored. "What's the dealio? come on! it's so close!" Back...and forth it goes. I'm stuck on it. after ten minutes I start to think about going to the library afterall and saving this for another day. but I can't do that because as soon as i turn my back it'll hit! so i keep watching it going back....and forth...and back...and forth...and back.. and forth. after twenty minutes people start getting out of class and the hallways are getting full. I'm sure i look stupid just standing here watching theis stupid thing! but I couldn't leave cause I had already spent so much time waiting for it, it's SO CLOSE!!!! "come on!" "Just HIT IT!!!!" I'm sending all these brain messages to it but it doesn't speed up. it just keeps swinging back...and forth...and back...and forth...and back...and forth...and back...and forth.........!!!!! EERRGG!!! after twenty-five minute I've decided that it doesn't really move. It just always swings right next to the same pag and someone sneeks into the exibit and knocks over the other pegs. It's time for me to get to class so I start to get ready to leave and THEN! it nudged it! it swings back... and nudges itagain . YES!!! it's gonna happen! it swings back... and nudges it again! "come on!just DO IT!" it swings back..... and nudges it AGAIN!!!! "PLEASE!!!! I have to go to class!" it swings back... and knocks it clean off the pedistal! FINALLY!!!!! THANK YOU!!! that was so worth it! Item number 5 on my bucket list, CHECK!  thank you very much! I feel so accomplished! 
     Anyway, that saved my day and made me super happy. It very well may be the highlight of my week. oh what a good week! wow that was super long. Sorry. maybe now you'll understad just what it wa i went through.

The Eye of the Beholder

     Just the other day, my sister was complaining to me about how drab and ugly the world is in winter time when it doesn't snow, and I realized that I don't have a stance on the matter. So I decided to have one. This is it. I like it. I do, I'm not just trying to be "accepting" and "open-minded". I really do think that it has a beauty of its own and that it deserves to be recognized even though we're disappointed by the lack of precipitation. Just look outside for a minute with a critical eye, unbiased by your desire for snow. Then consider who made all this. The sky with the sun and the clouds, and the mountains with their trees, snow-capped peaks, frosty rivers, and everything that lives on them. Consider who made it all, and then consider why. Now tell me it's ugly.

      I believe that when one takes the time to seriously consider the world, the complexity of it, and the tiny pieces of it that fit so perfectly together... it's impossible to see anything but beauty.

     So I guess what I'm getting at it that we should quit complaining. The next time you're about to whine about how "drab" that world is, stop yourself before your ingratitude gets the better of you.

I have a blog!

Okay, so now I have a blog. I don't think it'll be that interesting to anyone but myself but hey why not. Anyway, here's the disclaimer. I am not responsible for any of the many many misspellings that will no-doubt-ably apear here. It's not my fault. Really. It's not. So bare with me.
 I'm not really sure how this is going to turn out. my goal is to make this a happy place. To find happy things that happen to me and tell you about it. Serendipitous things I guess. I guess that's that. Enjoy!