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Today I am Happy

Today has been a good day. Besides the fact that I have had a headache all day... this seems to happen a lot on Sundays, and I really don't appreciate it. Christmas is in the air and I couldn't be more excited. Here are a few of my favorite things....

- Sacrament Meeting Christmas Program. They really are the best. The primary program is a close second.

- Christmas Trees! My mom and I decorated ours the other day and it is so fun. Although I call ours the Christmas Bush because well.... it looks like a bush.

- Sipping hot chocolate with whipped cream.

- Turning all the lights off except the Christmas Tree and the Village. So cozy.

- Elf, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Tiny Toons Christmas, The Night Before Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, The Holiday, and an array of cheesy Christmas movies on It's a Wonderful Lifetime.

- Santa Hats

-Ice Skating

- Zoo Lights

-Temple Square

- NO SCHOOL (Although I am on Campus everyday anyway)

- All the wonderful food

- Fireplace

- Christmas Decorations. I am probably obsessed. I am going to have such a cute house when I grow up.

- Last but not least, thinking about Christ. Watching the Christmas Devotional was inspiring as always. I love this time of year.

Hopefully in the next few weeks I will take some pictures of all the fun things I have planned. This really is the most wonderful time of the year.

Nostalgia

Do you ever hear a song and you get a wave of memories and feelings from listening to it? I get that when I listen to this song. It brings me back to good old Summer 2009. This was the best summer full of late nights, no summer school, camping trips, St. George trips, New York, chick flicks, Donner Park, side walk chalk, four square, junk food, and fun. So much fun. Mostly it makes me miss 3 certain girls that I pretty much spent every day with. This was the summer we made a list of activities and we tried to do something from it everyday. Basically we're all grown up now and this summer was one of our last hurrahs. Don't get me wrong, we had fun after this summer, but I will always remember this as one of my favorites. Here's to a feeling of nostalgia of the most carefree summer.

One of my favorite memories. We lost the key to the St. George house at 11pm at the park with no wallets, no cell phones, and no car. LUCKILY Jess found it after we searched for 15 minutes. I tackle hugged her when she found it, and we all laid on the ground for quite a while after feeling SO relieved. Then we took this picture.

The Fray comes out with a new album, "Scars and Stories" on February 7, 2012. I can't wait to make more unforgettable memories.

Fall Happenings

Happy Birthday to me! I can't believe I'm 23, it sounds so adult. I basically celebrated my birthday for 4 days straight and was spoiled with too many presents.

Halloween. Neo and Trinity.

I like these two. A nerd and a red crayon.

Pumpkin carving. I carved a neat-o ghost, and Kevin carved a cool monster pumpkin.

Hollywood Connection. (Thanks Mark Todd and Anji for the tickets!) Here we are on the merry-go-round. I am riding a panda bear, and Kevin is riding a dragon. Of course. We look rather creepy. We also played Mini-Golf ( I lost, but had the best hole in one), and went on some other fun rides.

I had a great fall!

Microwave Courtesy

I know I should be blogging about Halloween but I have to complain about microwaves. Yes, they are very, very nice to have at work and in the dance building but they are both SO disgusting. What's up with people leaving their mess? I mean, if your food spills over, it's common sense to clean it up right when it happens, right? No. They leave it for another good samaritan to clean it up hours later, which is 19374862 times harder to clean becuase it's dried on and sticky. Come on people, I'm just about fed up.

Anyway....

Halloween was fun, and I'll blog about that soon. Happy November!

High School Dance Day + Random School Thoughts

Yesterday I taught two jazz classes at Cottonwood Dance Day. It was a mixture of ability and age but it was so fun. I feel so lucky to already have opportunities to teach, especially in High School. All I did yesterday was go to my technique class, then go teach. If only everyday could be like that. It makes me want to fast forward this next year and a half so I can finally do what I want. Too bad I have to sit through all these teaching classes that never reference any sort of art class, especially performance art class. At least I'm learning something, right? Except in Linguistics, I'm positive I have learned nothing in that surprisingly hard, boring class. 6 more weeks of the semester. I think I can, I think I can.