seven facts huh...

so i just realized that i was tagged by wendi and now have to do another post.  so here are seven interesting facts about myself.

1.  i absolutely do not like mushrooms or spinach.  they both just gross me out and i will not eat them. 

2.  when i run and jump i do it on my toes.  i can not run or jump flat footed.  it even takes all of my concentration to go up and down stairs flat footed.  i just do it all up on my toes.  i think this comes from years of dance.

3.  i have hit an island in the parking lot and taken out a fence in our driveway and gotten a citation for not having my lights on, but i have never gotten a ticket.  

4.  i have a weird love for the sensation of pain.  i know..crazy.  but it is true.  i like the feeling of it .. at first anyway and only when it is not horribly bad.  but i do like that feeling.  like when you pull out a piece of hair or pull off a scab..that kind of feeling. 

5.  i am the only child in my family who does not have a middle name.

6.  one thing that i absolutely love to do is watch the sun rise.  i love to watch the first rays of light come over the mountain and touch the valley or the waters edge if i am on a lake.  

7.  and last but not least...i love to be a kid.  i love to play in the sprinklers, play at a playground, build sandcastles on the beach, finger paint, draw in the driveway with chalk, and so forth.  i think i will always be a kid at heart.

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sorry...i forget

so i realized that i have not posted anything for awhile.  i sort of forgot that i had a blog page.  i guess i am not really used to it yet. 

i lot has been going on in the last month.  school ended, which is a major plus.  and i passed all of my classes so i am extremely happy about that one. but that also means that sorority ended as well.  that one i am not so happy about.  i am now no longer an officer and that makes me sad.  i loved being one and serving those girls for the past year.  people always said that it was such a sacrifice of time and energy to be an officer.  but for me i never felt that way.  for me it was never a sacrifice because i loved doing the work.  i loved being involved and spending time with all of the other girls.  i will truly miss it. 

so now, i just have work left.  which is not half bad.  i am riding the train to work now and i actually like it.  i do have to leave about a half an hour earlier, but it it worth it not having to pay for gas.   and for the first time ever, i am taking a summer class.  according to ben, it is not really a class though because it is only two weeks long from 8:30-12:00.  it still counts though.  i figured that i could handle a two week class to get it out of the way this summer.  we will see how it turns out.  i might not ever be doing it again. 

Journal Writing

today in church someone mentioned journal writing in the lesson. it wasn't event he basic topic of the lesson, but it got me thinking. probaly because i do not write in mine very often. maybe once a month if i am lucky. i was thinking about the things that we write in our journals. about the stories that we tell in them about the thoughts that we have had.

i realized something. it is something that i have realized before, but i thought about it once again. every story we live through and write down is not our own. yes, we do all have our own experiances and things that we go through that make us who we are. but what turly makes it our own experiance is how we viewi what is going on. someone else can view that same event in a toal different way and come out thinking something diferent then you. but our experiances are not just ours. our lives are all intertwined with each others. everything that we do and what we experiance is shared with someone else. even if you don't recognize it, your life is made up of others. when you tell a story it usually involes other poeple. those people have that same story to tell to others as well. most of the things that we choose to do in our lives invlove other people. and therfore, what we do effects other people.

all of our lives are entertwined with each others. by being connected to the people around you, you are then connected to the world. for the person that you are connected to is connected to someone else, and they are connected to someone else as well, and so forth until we are all entertwined into one world.

but the thing that gets me the most is that we need to be connected to all of these people to survive. man was not ment to stand alone. man was not ment to live alone or to do everything by himself. that is way god granted adam a wife. he granted adam a partner to share life with. it is only by being connect to others that we turly live. we were all put on this earth together to teach each and to help each other stand through life. god never intended for man to try to survive on his own. no man ever could. it is only by living our lives with others that we turly learn to live.

our stories are not just our own. they are those who we live our lives with. they are what makes us all who we are.

Thinking...i know it is a surprise

well..the first thing that i was thinking about today was that i needed to finally create a blog for myself. i was in my technology class reading everybody elses pages and figure that i really should just make one of my own. i didn't think it was fair to look at and read everybodys when they couldn't look at or read one of mine. so wendi..this is for you. even though i am single and don't have an "and" in my heading i figured why not. i hope you enjoy it.

the next thing that i thought about today a lot was how much i need to do for school. i can not believe that there are only three more weeks of the semester left. it has gone by so fast and i can't believe how much i still need to do before it can end.

along with this i was thinking about my plan for life. about where i want to go and where i want to end up. i can not believe that i will graduate in two more years. then i will become the teacher with studetns of my own. it was exciting, yet incredably scary to think about. after i graduate i will hopefully be able to find a job here in the Salt Lake area. i want to be able to teach for a year, and then work on getting my masters in technology education while still teaching for the next two years after that. beyond that i really can't say that i have a plan. everything else i want to happen envoles other people. since i can not plan other peoples lives for them, this is as far as my own plan can really go.

on the drive home tonight i was thining about how things end everyday. each day that we live something ends. something is over. but, on the other hand, something new begins. each day is an end to yesterday and a beginning to today. each day is a new day. a day to live how you would choose. you can not change what happenend yesterday. you can not determine all that will happen tomorrow. all that you can do is live in the moment that you are in. i diceded that life is like a puzzle. you are putting pieces together in that puzzle every day. the thing is, you don't know what the puzzle will look like when it is finished. therfore, you just have to pick up the pieces around you and place them where you think they ought to go. along the way you will find that some of the pieces that you picked up will not fit at all. some will seem like they fit, but then they will fall out and no matter how hard you try, they just won't connect. you will also find that other pieces will just fall into where they belong, even if you didn't realize that it would. pieces are falling in and out of your puzzle everyday. each day the puzzle becomes clearer or more confusing. each day your puzzle is one step closer to being complete. one step closer to completing the picture. the picture that is you life. the picture that is who you are. the puzled is only finished when your life is comeplete. when it reflects who you are and who you have become from the life that you have lived. each day we decide what pieces to put into our puzzles. each day we are choosing who we want to become and where we want to be.