Fall Break - take 3.

It's the end of my third Fall Break and I can't believe how fast time is flying! I was fortunate enough to get to go home for a little bit, but in two days I had a dentist appt, eye doctor appt (that resulted in my first pair of glasses... yippee!), and a physical AS WELL AS having to take Lex in for a tire rotation, brake alignment and check, brake replacement, oil and lube change, AND inspection. It was a crazy two days, but I think I can safely say that I am shiny and new again.

The weather here has been phenomenally gorgeous. I just love this crisp fall weather that hasn't *yet* included snow! The past few days I've been doing some powerwalking/jogging around the Aves and holy crap have I been sore! All those hills are such a good workout.

Oh! So I have figured out what I'm going to be for Halloween this year.... and it's brilliant. But no one (with the exception of my fam who helped think it up, and you priviledged ONE confidant...) is going to know until it's revealed at the work party on Friday, Oct 31. It's gonna be good. :)

Fresh new season. Fresh new respect.

A new football season, a new group of buddies, a new romantic interest, more fun than the year before, same ol' f*cking drinking standards. Gosh, the whole college binge drinking scene plus pressure to drink plus disrespect/intolerance really gets to me... Now, don't get me wrong, I don't want to come off as a prude and say "zero drinking, zero fun." No. These are the college years! Just do it responsibly! This idea that we need to "pre-game" or get smashed in order to have fun is bull. And drinking games are way fun! But if I want to be included and not drink, that should be cool. Respect your buddies and other people's decisions to not drink. Be tolerant of those who both are drinking and those who aren't. And no, "free beer" is not a legit reason for why I *have* to drink your beer.

On the flip side, damn I'm growing up. Each year my new group of friends is more and more mature, more responsible, more understanding, makes me feel so much more comfortable, and in return, makes the new football season the best yet! So thank you guys. On that note, Go Utes! And more importantly... GO COLTS!

Goodbye J :'(

This post tonight is for J - a dear and beloved friend whom I look up to and thank God everyday for - who's time in SLC has come to an end. He requested that I write about our lovely dinner at Squatters tonight!! All I can say is: cheap, delicious food, fantastic friends, booze, "that's what she said," and lots and lots of laughter. Quote of the night had to be "THAT'S NOT CREAM SODA..!!" haha Oh man, how I'm going to miss that guy... ah here come the tears again. So many good times and many more to come. God Bless you J, and best of luck.

Yeah, thanks. Thanks a lot.

I just watched a customer prepare and roll his chew at my checkstand, spilling all over. Really? You couldn't wait like 10 seconds til you were outside? Douchebag.

Saturday

Oh my gosh, okay so today was an utterly fantastic day. Fan-f*ckin-tastic, to be exact!! Gotta love getting up early to shower but not worry about hair or makeup, coffee with the girlfriends, meeting our guy buddies in Bountiful to cheer them on and support them at their morning softball game, a 4-car caravan ride up to Kaysville to this cute family diner where the special was a "Crape Breakfast" and as we were leaving, C managed to erase the 'e' on "crape" (which was AWESOME!), free slurpees at 7/11 on 7/11 day, and back to the great SLC where I did lots of cleaning, took a kick ass nap, and went off to work to make some mulah. If that's not the definition of fan-f*ckin-tastic, then I dunno what is... :)

PS. I don't know what I'd do without C, E, & J. My friendship with them means the WORLD and the times we've had together are priceless. I love you guys!

"...needs?"

From 27 Dresses:
- "Well I mean, what about you? You don't have any needs?"
- "No. I'm Jesus."

Haha That part of the movie ALWAYS - without a doubt - makes me bust out laughing! So I juse made some mac and cheese for dinner and borrowed some milk from my roommate that she thought smelled iffy and I thought smelled fine... welllllllll I'm starting to think maybe she was right. :/ I guess time will tell, and trust me, I'm PRAYING either the milk was fine or I have an iron lined stomach...

Before I TGIF-it and say "later," I just had to say that I have had such a fantastic day today! Simply fantastic :)

Cheers! TGIF!

Enough is enough.

Geez I'm frustrated... Some where, some how I desperately need to figure out how to EMBRACE motivation. What's stopping me?

Junk food.

Junk food. That's about all I have to say. That is ALL I have been craving the past 2 days... WTF. All I know is that it's making me incredibly annoyed and tired and gross. F*ck junk food.

*Summaaa*

Wow it seriously has been way too long since my last post... But since I've been working ~40-50 hours a week this summer, I haven't exactly found time for much else besides work! It's a little unfortunate, but don't feel bad for me. If I didn't work this much during the summer I wouldn't be able to afford to live in the great SLC. And plus, I enjoy both my jobs! I do wish I got so spend time with some of my good friends who I haven't seen in a long while as well as spend some more time with the family, but oh well.

Today was a fantastically productive, interesting, kick-ass day!! Not only did I make the most delicious antipasto pasta salad for the first time ever, but I went on a major, long over-due cleaning spree, watched some FRIENDS, went to work, got to spend the whole evening with my besties, and the rest of the night relaxing with my roomies. It was a great day! But I think I'm finally off to bed now... I'm working back to back tomorrow and will be spending time with the buddies after work, as planned every Friday night.

Oh, and for the record, I totally won Mr. Lincoln from B today, due to the death of MJ... may he RIP. "Because Michael Jackson was made of 99% plastic, it was decided that he would be melted into Legos after his death so children would have the chance to play with him for a change." haha :) TGIF. Cheers!

Monday Monday...

Today is my dad and little brother's BIRTHDAY!! And I didn't get to go home to celebrate with them last night, but I did get to see my dad today, which was so nice.

My grades this semester are EXCELLENT so far. FIIIINALLY!!! I've got two A-s and an A and I'm looking at another A in Architecture. Sweet!

So I've got to just push the pain in my knee aside and start getting back into my workout routine. Not kill my knee or anything, but no baby-ing and just push it a little. Don't get me wrong, walking is nice, but oh my gosh I just want to do more!! And I want to start hiking again, the weather is just so beautiful for hiking and I need to start getting in shape to climb Mt. Olympus again this fall.

I just ate the most delicious chocolate ball that Cameron made. Wow. It was like a little drop of heaven... Delicious :)

Blah.

I'm at work right now and I honestly couldn't be less enthused. This week has just exhausted me! And I didn't have anything school related to do! But man, what a great start to this summer...

Yesterday was Talk, I'll Listen's benefit concert and it went AWESOME! Though I was so tired by the end of the day I had a great time, met some really great people, got to know some people a little better, listened to some wonderful live music, and just had a blast! Oh, and I was on the news! It's pretty cool, check it out! http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=6424628

Halfway, Baby!

I realized it's been quite some time since I last wrote; April was a very busy month for me! It has been quite the eventful semester end this year! Half way done with my undergrad, baby, HELL YEAH! Not only did I only have 2 finals (and 6 total papers), but I was finished on the last day of classes this year... no finals on Finals Week for me!

I ran in the Salt Lake Half-Marathon on the 18th and did AWESOME. For my first half-marathon, I got a time of 2:49:55 and ran ALL BUT 1 mile!! Go me! I was so proud, prouder than words can say. It was one of my best accomplishments EVER and I simply can't wait to run more half-marathons. I also was hardly sore the next few days and was just feeling great. Aah.. it was just so exhilerating... Although, on an interesting note, the only thing I couldn't help thinking as I was completing the last stretch was how much I wish someone was there for me at the end to see me finish.. anyone I knew, but especially my parents. And then was when I heard it, Cameron on the sidelines yelling my name, snapping some pics, and cheering me to the end! He was a gift from God, and that was one of the best moments of the whole race to see him standing on the side! It was a wonderful day! :)

Unfortunately a few days later I was running around campus at night when I felt this excruciating pain in my left knee... so I walked (hobbled haha) home and went to bed hoping the next day would be better. It wasn't. Nothing would really help it, and I tried everything. It got a little better the first few days but after that the pain seemed to just plateau. After a trip to the doctor, I learned that I have bursitis, tendenitis, and a knee cap tracking dysfunction that needs PT. Great. I've never done any PT before, but I start that this week and I dunno why but I really am so mad at myself for going out running that night. The weather has been wonderful and after seeing myself at the most fit I ever was 4 years ago, I am going to get in shape and lose some weight this summer, but because I made the stupid decision to go running that night I can hardly power walk for more than about a mile on a flat surface. F*CK. I'm really hoping my knee gets better asap cause though I'm trying not to baby it and keep moving, I still can't do much and that just kills me.

I decided I'm not going home for the summer and couldn't be more psyched about staying here!!! I love it here and it's going to be a great summer. I have to finalize my summer goal list, but I want to shape up, get more reading done, and better manange my monies... there will be more and they will be more detailed, but that's the jist for now. I started reading the book The Shack that is just FANTASTIC so far! I seriously can't put it down, I started it yesterday and am already more than halfway done with it... It's amazing. Though I already have gotten a few suggestions over the past month, I got another suggestion today from Drew at work for a book called The Well and The Mine that sounds awesome! And I'm always open to new suggestions!

Alright, well I think that's enough for now... I'm without my laptop for the time being because it has been needed to be repaired for about a year now, but I didn't have at least 2 weeks worth of time to give it up with school work and such. So it's finally getting fixed! But that means less computer for me, which is wonderful cause I use it too much for facebooking and such. Until later!

And in honor of Cinco de Mayo (which most Americans don't know that it IS NOT Mexico's Independence Day.. ignorant fools), hasta la vista, baby! ;)

Test post from cell.

Holy Thursday

It's been a little while since my last post... so hello! I got a new cell phone for my birthday. It's my first new phone in like 2+ years since my family got Cingular (at the time), so it was pretty exciting! Today was Holy Thursday, the first day of the Easter Tridium and I can't tell you how fast time flies! It seems like just a few weeks ago I was getting ready for Ash Wednesday and now it's already Good Friday... Goodness. I'm going home this weekend to celebrate my birthday, ,my parent's anniversary, AND Easter!! It's going to be one heck of a fun-filled weekend. Okay well, though I am wide awake, I think I'm going to try to go to bed... 6:30am comes a lot faster than it should these days. Night! :)

F.R.I.E.N.D.S.....

Okay... in case you didn't already know, I LOOOOVE FRIENDS. It's my all-time favorite tv show! I had some time today and didn't feel like studying so I popped in a disk of FRIENDS and oh my God I still laugh out loud!! So funny... I love it.

Smitten

So... I feel like such a dumbass cause I've been pretty smitten the past few days... :) But, what can I say, life his been simply wonderful. Oh, and I'm not talking about all this !$%*ing snow haha It's a good thing I have the courage to work for what I want and make it happen. :) Now if only I could figure out how to incorporate that into other areas of my life. Hmmm

Back in the groove... and Utah frustrations.

Ugh... snow after 4 days of 60+ degree weather?!? Welcome to Utah. Other than the disappointment with Mother Nature, whom I'd like to exchange a few strong choice words with, today was a really good day! I got a TON done, with the exception of going running. Damn. I've got to get BACK IN MY GROOVE tomorrow. I don't have class until 10:45 and I shouldn't be rushing around in the morning and I'm totally not allowed to sleep in! So yeah... tomorrow - back in the groove!

Alrighty, time for bed. :) Night!

Rainy Day :)

Today is a beautiful rainy day!! I love it. :) And right now I'm listening to Wet Sand by the Red Hot Chili Peppers... the song that has my all-time favorite quote that's the name of my blog "I'm motivate by the lack of doubt...." It's a fantastic last day of spring break!

SPRING! Again!

It's finally spring again and a high of 74 degrees today... with snow in the forecast for tomorrow. Damn. Oh well, welcome to Utah! My spring break has been pretty awesome, even with working 21 hours in 3 days. I haven't gotten too much running in unfortunately, which is going to come back to bite me in the long run (no pun intended haha) but it's all good.

So the University has a new student group this year called Talk. I'll Listen. and it's made so students know there's always somebody to talk to that will listen without bias. Because of the high suicide rates of young adults, they are striving to reach out to those in emotional need and encourage friendships. Anyways, I think it's great that our University has a group like this, especially cause it's close to home for me; it's a group I wish was here last year so I could've used it as a resource. I'm working on getting involved and getting set up to be trained to be a member and team leader. I still have yet to get in contact with the creator and leader, but the more I think about it, the more I SO want to get involved and give back, especially after my own hardship. I love to listen and I'm still not the best at the talking part, after 19 years of keeping to myself, it's been a very different, but such a relieving change. I also haven't gotten into being very involved with the University so this would be beneficial and fulfill that part of my wanting to be involved. (Wow I've said "involved" a lot in this paragraph haha I guess I ought to pull up a thesaurus.) Oh! And I also want to become a part of this group because I feel like I am a good listener and I'm not judgmental, but I genuinely care. AND because I've always thought about doing something like this with my Sociology major so I'm hoping be involved will help me figure out if this is something I want to pursue. Okay, sorry to ramble on... If your interested and want to know more, they do have a website: http://www.talkilllisten.org/ Check it out! :)

As you can maybe figure out, I thought I'd write this post in pretty spring colors. I can't believe there are only 5 more weeks of school. Time goes by fast these days and I love it!! Oh I wanted to mention I have made a couple more really good friends who I absolutely love. It is so nice to finally have someone to talk to about life and relate to and laugh with and who I feel like I can truely be myself around. You three know who you are and I appreciate your friendship more than you know J, C, and E. :) Well, back to homework I guess... Later!

One Year

One year later... here I am!! :)

March 1st!!

It's March 1st... already, oh my gosh time flies! Today has shaped up to be such a fabulous day. I learned that it only takes 15 minutes to jog to Smiths and 25 minutes to power walk back and now I'm just hanging out and watching Friends... life is GOOD.

Deprived

I have been so sleep deprived the past couple of weeks... I wish I had like two whole days I could just sleep. I'm also exercise deprived and have been so very dehydrated. No wonder my way body's off...

Today I'm officially a "Drew-ette!" More on that tomorrow... too tired to explain at the moment. Oh and I'm also so f*ckin' excited for this weekend! More on that later too... Night!

Low Quota?

Wow it's been awhile since my last blog... For whatever reason I was not in the mood to physically speak to anyone today. Weird huh? I wanted to be around people and engaged in people, but not say a word. My talking quota today must have been seriously low...



I have been in the mood for a dance party. Why? I dunno. Not a huge drunken dance party (though those are SO much fun), just a few friends, all hanging out and dancing around in whatever to some great tunes! I also have been in the mood for a glass of wine... haha A bold, fruitful Cabernet Sauvignon just sounds incredibly delightful. Mmm but what's a girl to do?

Running, driving, Buhler, Ian... "oh my gosh!," BOOM

I got in a car accident today. And I just thank God no one was hurt. I'm still pretty shaken up about it and I'm already super sore... but I have a lot to be thankful for! I just can't believe we were doing everything right, and somehow BOOM those cars were completely stopped right in front of us. None of the three of us saw it coming... I just want A not to worry about us, we'll all be fine! I hope I sleep good tonight.

New Music

I got hooked up with some great new music over the weekend! The first two are local Salt Lake bands from Kyle: Royal Bliss and Broke City. I'm absolutely LOVING Broke City! They have a good variety of songs and I caught on to them way faster than I expected to. I'm also really enjoying Britney's Circus. Ashtan and I were listening to it in her car and it really is a FANTASTIC workout song! I love it! Then Bao has The Kooks on his blog and I really liked them, I think I'm going to have to buy their albums here soon... I love new music!

Today is gorgeous out! It's clear and sunny and luckily pretty warm! Thank goodness.... I hope spring is on its way. I'm ready for the cold and snow to be gone til next year. Happy Groundhog Day!

BEST DAY EVER

Yesterday was THE BEST DAY EVER! And the thing is, there wasn't anything particularly special about it, but it was simply an AMAZING day! I had a great day in my classes, in the gym, in the shower, at work, at Casino Night, at the movies, at home... ah it was just fabulous! All the people I saw and talked to and hugged and hung out with just made my day the best it could be. I want everyday of my life to be that great! And I'm going to make it happen! :) amazinggg...

Home

I'm home!! And I'm SO happy! :)

Another nickel...

I LOVE THE RAIN! Allison has always said that if she had a nickel every time I said those exact words, she'd be rich. And it's so true, she would be rich! But I just absolutely LOVE it!!! So Allison, here's you another nickel :)

Sleepless...

Tonight is one of those weird nights... I can't sleep and I dunno why, cause I'm so dang exhausted. I hate it. Oh well.

I officially registered for the marathon today!! It's very exciting, I can't wait! My training officially starts on Monday and I've still got some research to do.

I went to Matt's viewing tonight. I've never been to a viewing before, but my God was it awful. Because the line was so long, we said it was like waiting in line at Disneyland for a ride that we already knew was going to end horribly. It was rough. Made me think a lot though... It's almost been a year. I'm at loss for words...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Okay so I was totally going to be on top of it this year and write on January 1st... apparently no such luck. Good thing I didn't make it my new year's resolution to write in my blog more often huh?

This year has been FABULOUS so far (with the exception of the passing of Matt Buhler, God rest his soul. You will be so missed Matt, but please put in a good word with the big guy for me!). I made up my mind that I'm going to be happy and am going to exude confidence and cheerfulness in everything I do this year. So far, no problemo! A couple of friends and I are going to run the Salt Lake Half-Marathon come April 18th and I seriously can't wait! I officially start my training program next week, so I'm still "training for training," I guess you could call it, and I'm so sore, but am reaping the benefits! It takes me back to my high school days with my best friend (at the time) and how we spent every single day working out together after school... Ah those were good days. Not the high school part of course, but the working out with her part :) Today was the first day of a brand new 4 years with OBAMA AS PRESIDENT!! Yay I never thought this day would come! Ah I just love Obama. (*side note* he's got such lovely teeth)

I wish Arean would get the hell out of my life... Honestly, I'm so tired of it. But whatever, it's not like I can stop him, though I wish I could. Argh.

I'm ready for spring to come! Simplemente se frios con cada dia que pasa y no me gusta. Oh well, not much I can do about that... haha Alright well that's about all I have to say for now. It's officially about ten minutes past my bedtime, so I think I'll hit the hay...