OH happy day!

Just some of my reflections about things that have made me happy lately. Not big things, just little things that make you feel good or content or whatever. Little simple happy moments that I thoroughly enjoy.

Wearing sandles for the first time this year. It has finally started warming up a little here in Utah, and on Monday I actually wore sandles ALL DAY long. I emphasize "all day" because if you know Utah then you know the weather can change in a matter of hours during the spring. But not on Monday! It was a 64 degrees and sunny. Now today on the other hand it is most likely going to snow/rain same as tomorrow. But still I had the one pure day of joy of not wearing socks and letting my toes wiggle out in the fresh warm air yay!

Three songs in a row on the radio that I blasted and sang my little heart out to. They just make me smile and even tho passer bys may be looking at me funny that's ok it's all about jammin' out in my car on my way to or from school. What songs are they you may ask? Well you should definitely look them up and listen to them if you have never heard them before they will literally put a smile on your face especially if you picture me dancing and singing in my car :) Said songs: Hey Soul Sistah, by train, Party in the USA , by Miley Cyrus, Just Haven't Met You Yet, by Michael Buble. Also just announcing those in my mind as I typed them out made me feel a little like a radio station DJ calling out my favorite hits.

Going to Macey's grocery store and buying almonds. My new favorite salty snack food is almonds. But not just plain almonds those are not so good....they MUST be flavored. And I found a new flavor to try out: Salt and Vinegar. Now I love me some salt and vinegar chips they are delicious and so are these almonds, absolutely delicateable! My other favorite flavor of these little nuts of joy (almond joy, get it, cheesy, oh well) but the wasabi and soy almonds. If you have not tried these go to your closet nut aisle and purchase some they are only 3 dollars for a good size container. And being the health ed. major that I am let me educate you on the benefits of almonds. They lower your LDL cholesterol levels (this is the "bad" cholesterol) and reduce your risk for heart disease WOOHOO! Delicious and healthy, go almonds!

Last little bundle of joy I have recently experienced is showers. Ok yes, showers are wonderful and fantastic ya da ya da. My family can testify that I love my showers and even when I'm trying to hurry they never are less then 15 minutes. But showers after you work out are probably 100 times better then normal everyday showers. Yesterday I went and did my work out and afterwards you feel gross and sweaty and your sweat is even crystallizing on your face into gritty salt, this may be a little too much info but oh well. And then I hop in the warm shower and clean all this gritty, dirty, yuckiness, off of me and BOOM! I'm super clean, I feel so much cleaner then I would if I had a regular shower. Just sitting there in my pajamas freshly clean is a simply wonderful feeling.

So there you go a little snap shot into my life of little things that really put a smile on my face.

Nancy, George, Bess

I would hope these names mean something to you. In case you are ignorant and missed out on amazing chapter books when you were in second to fifth grade these are the main characters in the greatest mystery books of all time! Nancy Drew! Of course she always has her trusty sidekicks and best friends, George and Bess who are cousins that always come with her on her trips. Bess was a tall, attractive brunette, and her cousin George was always described as slightly plump? interesting...

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Anyway, why am I rambling on about books from my childhood? Well you see, my family is moving and I have been packing up my room. It is amazing how much stuff you can accumulate in your room over 10 years. But as I was getting things out from under my bed, because that is clearly the superior way of storing things, I happened upon a white plastic bag. What was in this bag? Nancy Drew books! Books 1-50! Now you may be thinking there are 50 of those books? Well you would be wrong there are actually many many more. And I have probably read most of them. I would sit engrossed for hours reading about Nancy. Yes the books are probably only 180 pages long but that is a long book for an 8 year old.

For some reason my sister and I loved the mystery books. Without fail Nancy Drew would get kidnapped by the culprits because she would get to close to finding out the truth. Now she would either get rescued by her boyfriend Ned, or she would somehow daringly escape and expose the crime and save the dude ranch/hotel/old lady/haunted restaurant/etc. She also for some reason took a lot of showers in the books. She was always taking showers and getting cleaned up for something they were going to do later. Anyway Nancy Drew was amazing!

Another fantastic book series was the Boxcar Children. Also mystery, and my older sister and I loved them. There were many a times when instead of playing with our mega-mansion barbie house we would play with a shoe box. But not just any shoe box. This was a boxcar and we would play boxcar children with our little Kelly dolls that lived in the boxcar (shoebox) Oh the adventures of childhood. I'm a little tempted to read all of these books again. It definitely would beat reading my Athletic Training Text book. And no I have not seen the Nancy Drew movie, I'm scared that it will crush my longing to secretly become a red headed, crime solving, Ned Nickerson kissing, sleuth. Maybe this weekend I'll give it a go?

Once again I am going at this blog thing. Somehow I have never been able to keep this commitment so maybe this time is the charm.....maybe.....we'll see. So this last month-ish has been interesting, I can pretty much sum it up with a list so here goes:

1. family decides we are moving

2. we sell our house

3. I get mistaken for a student at a junior high school (what?!)

4. Lady at furniture store thinks I look much younger than i told her I was (I'll love this when I am 40 right?)

5. Go on a date with a 33 year old. This means he was entering junior high when I was being born!! Don't judge me I got to go to a Jazz vs Nuggets game!

6. buy mom jeans (You know bleached, tapered at the bottom, make your bottom look like it consumes half of your leg, and a zipper that is 9 inches long)

7. go to a BAJILLION!! mission reunions. Yay for friends coming home!

8. Go on lots of dates and have lots of fun

9. Find a house to move into

10. Enjoy the crazy weather that is Utah spring. Warm 47 degrees one day freezing death the next day.

11. Go disco skating and ice skating in the same weekend- never fall down

12. watch my mom start packing up our house

13. Observe high school health classes and realize that this is exactly what i want to do!

14. First block class over! Everyday from 7-11 in the morning....it is now done!

15. Eat the best cupcake in the world at the Cocoa Bean cafe (Raspberry chocolate cheesecake delicious!)

16. Get a calling- ward activities co-chair. Guess who the chair is......33 year old date boy

17. Just enjoying school, singles ward, family, friends, and trying to fit it all together

First blog post in a year done! let's see how this goes :)