Life Takes Action

Over the last couple of months in my life I have come to a point where it is time to make big decisions. A point where I truly have to decide what I want to do and where I want to end up in my life. I have been able to come to some conclusions and learn a few things along the way. I have learned things about life in general as well as about myself.

The first thing I learned was to keep on dreaming. No matter where you are in your life right now, the best thing that you can do to keep moving forward and to keep life exciting is to keep on dreaming. Keep thinking of what you want out of life and what you want to spend your time doing. Keep on dreaming of new things that you would like to do. Keep on dreaming of how you want to live.

The next thing that I learned was that you are not stuck in life. No matter where you end up in life or what you are currently doing, you are not stuck there. It doesn't matter what job you have of your current state of living, no matter what they are, you are not stuck in them. They all have the possibility to change and the probability to change over time anyway. Some people might see this as a scary concept that things can and will change. But for me, I see this as an adventure of possibilities. I am comforted by knowing that I am not stuck in my current position. I am also comforted by knowing that if I end up somewhere that I think will be good and it turns out horribly wrong that I have tho option to get out of it. I like knowing that I am not stuck. I like knowing that there is the possibility of change. Especially with the things that I do not like.

To go along with both of these things, the biggest thing that I have been continuing to learn is that life takes action. And not just anybodies action, but your action. Life takes doing something. You can dream all you want to in your life but if you never do anything about it, that it what it will always be...just a dream. It will never be anything more then a dream or a wish if you don't take the action to make it a reality. All it will ever be is just some thought that you had once. You have to be the one to take the action. You have to be the one to actually do something about it and make it more then just a dream.

Inside each of us there is a power. A power to dream. A power to do. A power to act. This power is there. It is there to help us live our lives. But the thing is, we have to have the courage and the guts to use it. It is a scary thing to dream and then even scarier to act upon that dream. So many things can go against it. So many things are there as obstacles that already make it look like you are going to fail. This is where we tend to stop. We tend to backtrack when we realize that there is fear within us as well. We tend to give up. but, what we have to remember is that we already have this power within us. We have already been given the strength and the power. The strength and the power to dream, to do and most of all the strength and the power to act.

Don't be afraid that you will fail, because if you stop there, then you will never know if you could have succeeded.

Graduation Day!!

One week ago today, May 7th, I was able to cross something off of my list of things to do. For you see, on this special Friday, I was able to graduate from the University of Utah.

This is something that has been in the works for awhile. Growing up I was always told to go to college and to get a degree. It was something that my mom would always tell me. She always wanted us to succeed in this world and has always felt that getting a good education was one thing that needed to be done. While she was telling us to get a degree she was also telling us all about the University of Utah and how great it was. So you see, ever since I was a little girl I always knew that one day I would go the school that made you bleed red. I knew that I would go to the University of Utah.

Therefore, when the day came that I was getting close to graduating high school I knew that I need to apply to go to college. I took the ACT test, only once, and then prepared my application. I will have you know that the only school that I applied to was the University o Utah. I did not feel the need to apply anywhere else since I knew that that was where I would go. And lone behold, I got accepted for the fall 2005 semester. That acceptance letter was what started my education at the University of Utah.

And now, five years later, I can say that it is complete. After all of the years of random classes for credits, 15 minute sprints across campus, riding the shuttle bus and praying that I would live to get off it, home football games in the MUSS, free food at the institute, sorority days and nights, working in an office for a science program, sweet talking faculty members to make sure I would pass, some random trips to the library just to say that I went there, getting lost in the tunnels that connect the buildings, fighting for parking spaces, and most of all just going to class and praying that I would pass the final, I have finally graduated.

What made my graduation day so much fun though, was the fact that I was not the only one who was graduating. It just turned out that on this special Friday my sister Wendi and her husband Ben where also graduating from the U. Each of us would finally have our degrees. Since all of us were graduating we all decided that we would make a day of it and go to each ceremony. The first ceremony that we went to was Wendi's on Thursday night. It was fun to see her walk across the stage and receive her diploma, well only the cover, from the College of Health.

After the ceremony went all went to dinner with our family to celebrate. then on Friday morning we all went to the huge University wide commencement ceremony. John Huntsman spoke and overall it was really good. From there went to lunch with the grandparents and then decided to kill some time taking pictures until the next ceremony. We had a lot of fun running around campus taking random photos of us all. The next ceremony happened to be mine.

My ceremony was being held at Kingsbury hall. For those of you who know, this building is not the biggest. I told my family that they would have to fight to get a seat and they did. But they all made and I got to walk across the stage to receive y own diploma cover from the College of Education. All in all, I was just really glad that I didn't trip and fall on my face. After my ceremony when run back up the hill to go Ben's. He graduated from the college of Engineering. I have to say that his ceremony was the longest one. They had so many students that were graduating form that college.






Overall, it was a fabulous day. One filled with family, friends, and lots of excitement and entertainment. One that still has not really sunk in yet. So,now I have this lovely piece of paper that says that I completed my B.S. degree. A piece of paper that says I learned and accomplished something. A piece of paper that says I am now capable of doing something... You know, I just might have to go back and get another one.

Random Facts

Have you ever realized all of the random things that you just seem to know? I thinking the other day about what I have learned in my lifetime and what I felt was actually important to know. At first I was thinking about the gospel, life lessons such as honesty, love and friendship, then I was thinking about math, music, schooling in general, and from there my mind then went to the random things that I just seem to know. Now, I don't know why I know these things, but I do. So, listed below are some of the random things that I seem to know that really have no purpose other then to take up space in my head...

*Your ears and nose never stop growing
*the length of your foot and the length from your wrist to your elbow are the same
*No matter how hard you try you can not touch your elbow with your tongue
*A Polar bears fur is clear, not white, and their skin is black
*My hand is the same length as the remote to my stereo
*There are 5,280 feet in one mile
*If you look at a calender the numbers in the columns will always stay the same numbers no matter what month it is
*Chocolate has been used as a drink for most of its history
*Babies are born with wrinkles and then die of old age with wrinkles, but stretch out of them in between
*The average person talks to 30 people a day, the average teacher talks to 120
*TYPEWRITER is spelled with only the top row of keys on a keyboard
*John Hancock signed his name the biggest on the Declaration of Independence, That's why when someone wants your signature they ask for your John Hancock
*The only place ants don't live is Antarctica
*Queen ants will live for 30 yrs, all other female ants will live up to 3yrs, and any male ant will only live a few weeks
*The Quarter has 120 notches around the edge
*When you get a song stuck in your head it is called an earworm and if you were to turn on that song and sing along you would sing it on the right notes
*An ant can lift 20 times its body weight
*After you die your hair still keeps growing for a few months
*Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump
*Stressed is desserts spelled backwards
*It is against the law to fish while on horseback
*State Curfew for people under 16 is 10:00pm, between 16-18 12:00am
*In Georgia it is illegal to walk across the street with a chicken

I figured I would share them all with you so they could then take up space in your head. I hope you enjoy them.