2013

I love the start of a new year. Everyone is hopeful for their future and most people take the opportunity to assess their life and readjust to become the person they want to be. 

This year I found myself wanting to create some resolutions that would stretch me as a person and hopefully bring me closer to my Savior and help me become a better person. 

I decided to make my personal mantra for 2013 the phrase "Pause, Pray, Go."
So simple and easy, yet so difficult at the same time. 

Here are a few other 2013 Resolutions:

Be more forgiving. 
Ask for opportunities to grow.
Realize that everyone struggles.
Remember that everyone starts out as strangers. 
Take time to be grateful. 
Trust in and accept the Plan. 

What are some other resolutions you guys have? Do you do anything special at the beginning of each year? I want to know! 

Megs

Gold Dinosaurs

This post is about an endangered species. 

Gold Dinosaurs. 

That's right, GOLD dinosaurs. Put another way, gold DINOSAURS. 

GOLD DINOSAURS. 

Get it? 

Not the gold you find in jewelry, and not the dinosaurs you see in a museum or Spielberg movie;

the gold dinosaur you see in this picture:

Still don't get it? (I don't blame you - I'm hard to follow)
Here's the story:

It was the first day of moving in to the new apartment. I was ready to start school, meet the roommates, get back into a routine, ready to meet people and make new friends, ready to room with Markie, and most importantly ready to UNPACK. I however, was the last person in my apartment to arrive, so everyone had already gotten their stuff out and in the open. And what do I walk in to see sitting in the front room?

Gold dinosaurs.

Hahaha, very funny new roommates. Plastic dinosaurs spray painted gold? Is this some sort of post-modern interior design scheme that incorporates prehistoric figures into the decorating scheme?
...Is this a joke?
Maybe one of my roommates has a younger sibling, and they left their toys here. Yeah - that's it.

But no, that was not it. The gold dinosaurs stayed. But not only that, they multiplied. And they all congregated in the front room.
I don't have a very red personality (see: the color code), so I decided to just see how things would play out.

First, I tolerated them.
 - I got used to them.
Then, I started to arrange them. 
I noticed that whenever boys came over, they played with them.
Next we took an impromptu photo shoot with them.
Then they got put away one day and the front room looked wrong. 
Then, I named some of them. 

And then I realized - I LOVE those dinosaurs!

After thinking about it, I came to conclusion that gold dinosaurs were going to be a theme for my life - I just didn't know it yet.
This whole semester has been gold dinosaurs for me.
Things I can't control, that I might dislike, but that I have to come to love. And I DO come to love.

So, this month I'm going to be talking about gold dinosaurs - and trust me, they're becoming an extinct species.

All my upcoming posts will be about experiences where I've found the good in weird / unwanted situations and life.

It's going to be an adventure :)

Megs

No Earlier.

Only 2 more weeks of being home. Am I happy about that? You bet. Am I sad? Of course.

But I really am ready to be back where all my friends are, and back to a scheduled life. 

My life this summer has been reduced to this in a nutshell:

Ok, I seem like a snob for putting that on my door, but people in my house wake up early - especially because school started this week. I am capable of waking up with the rest of the fam-bam at 6am, but my recent addiction to Pretty Little Liars, Drop Dead Diva, and How I Met Your Mother insomnia makes that a terrible experience. 

I just like sleep. And the internet. 

But don't you worry, I am working on getting up earlier so I won't be unprepared for the start of college classes. Junior year college classes. How weird does that sound? 

And how weird does the word weird look? Normally, if I write a word more than 10 times in a row, it starts to look a little funky. Like banana. Or ocean. Try it - you'll see! 

...But with the word weird, it just looks crazy all on it's own. It doesn't need 9 other duplicates. Weird. 

Anyways, here's a little of what my life has been: 

Listening: Safe by Britt Nicole and If You Wanna Go by Joy Williams. Both fantastic. Highly recommended. 

Watching: THE OLYMPICS! People constantly amaze me. And could Phelps get any more phantastic?!

Doing: sleeping in (obviously) and cooking. The occasional cleaning project, but mostly cooking.

Stalking: all my friends back in Provo. Their lives on Facebook are so much cooler than mine right now haha. 

I hope you are all having a great summer! Sleep in while you still can! 

Megs 

P.S. if you see that little astrick by 10:30 am, it's because it leads the reader to a small note at the bottom of the page. It says "I will hunt you down if you wake me before. Thank you, come again."

I am a sleep snob.