Tagged! :)

TAGGED!! :)

The rules are as follows:

1::Each person tagged must post 11 random facts about themselves

2::They must answer the 11 questions posted by the previous blogger

3::They must create 11 more questions to ask their tagged bloggers

4::They must tag 11 blogs with less than 200 followers

5::The bloggers must be told

6::No tag backs 

11 Random facts about myself:

1. I LOVE caramel apple suckers, crunchy leaves, candles, and sweaters. Fall anyone?

2. I have a secret love for dubstep. 

3. I am a very loud, animated person. You will know when i'm in a room with you. I don't know how to be quiet.

4. I hate library's, they make me hardcore anxious.

5. I love Jersey Shore. Obsessed with it actually. Don't judge. 

6. I played the violin all growing up, and can thoroughly enjoy a good Symphony. 

7. I crack on Theater majors like it's my day job--but I love plays. 

8. I have a slightly large dirty type of humor. This results in being the perma-best friend. I'm the girl the guys fart on and tell penis jokes too. Yay.

9. I would much rather drink my water with an umbrella and fancy straw sticking out of it. I like to add fancy fun to the simple things in life. 

10. I can be the most insecure person you'll ever meet, but I hate showing it. 

11. I will be throwing a party for the World Series because I love baseball more than anything. 

Questions from Jenn to me: 

1:: What is your favorite movie soundtrack? Shoot, that's really hard. If you know me-you know i'm obsessed with movies. Hmm... probably the Juno Soundtrack. 

2::What is your favorite go-to pair of shoes?  Why? My moccasins. They're comfy, go with pretty much everything I own-and I like being called a hipster. :) I take it as a compliment.

3::What is your biggest guilty pleasure? Jersey Shore. It's a problem. I follow them on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. I watched all of the seasons and I can't wait for the last one to come. :)

4::What's your favorite smell in the entire world? A boy type smell. It just does it for me. 

5::If you could take ANY class, what would it be?  (get creative) Honestly? An intro to fashion design. I secretly love fashion and putting things together. It would be a lot of fun for me I feel. 

6::What is your all time favorite junk food? Ruffled potato chips and french onion dip. AND symphony bars. No! chocolate covered cinnamon bears. OOOoooh, no bake cookies. Gosh... just hand me all of it!! 

7::What is your favorite day?  (Could be day of week, holiday ect...) The 4th of July. The mix between the hot summer day, partiotism, popsicles, fried foods, playing catch and the park, the magic and unexpectancy the day entails, and the summer night that usually involves cuddling and watching fireworks. I could live it everyday. 

8::I often say that many things are a "nightmare."  Explain what your absolute worst nightmare would be. Going blind or deaf. 

9:: If you got to live any love story (from history, movies, books ect) which one would you choose? The Notebook. Is that cliche? The passion is incredible and the love sees no limits. 

10:: As of right now, what is your number one personal goal and career goal. To graduate college in what I love doing, and to truly find and be happy with myself. 

11:: List one thing you wish you had the guts to do right now. Walk up and smack (very hard) a certain someone. 

My questions for you:

1. The meanest thing you have ever done. 

2. A form of media (song, movie, ect) that has changed something vast in your life.

3. Best kiss you've ever had.

4. Favorite smell?

5. Guilty pleasure.

6. If you could choose anything you wanted right now-what would it be?

7. If you could pick one person to spend the rest of your life with (just you and them on the planet) at this moment, who would it be? (it can be anyone)

8. Pick a food you'd eat every day for the rest of your life.

9. Biggest pet peave.

10. Biggest fear.

11. What do you do to relax?

Please answer them and then pass it on! I want to get to know my friends better! :)

When life gives you rotten potatoes-find some ice cream. :)

Let me just take this moment to say:

I just kicked my Physiology tests butt. 

Holla!!

Nothing feels better than knowing you studied your hardest and tried your best. Especially in a subject that isn't exactly your forte. 

Yesterday was like, one of the worst days of my life. 

One thing after another went wrong, people who are supposed to love me hurt me the very worst, and I ended up accidentally killing someone's windshield. Good thing he was a huge stud about it. 

Amidst all of this going on--I still had to make sure I was completely ready for my Phys test today. Talk about some serious life juggling. 

I said a lot of prayers, took a drive, bought myself something fattening, and afterwards had the strength I needed to finish studying. 

Oh yeah, and once again-I have the most amazing, consistent, loving, and uplifting friends anyone could ask for. They have been one of the only consistent things in my life, and for that I am eternally grateful. 

I woke up this morning to breakfast and a good luck note, stayed up last night with a stud who helped me study despite his tiredness, and had plenty of hugs and encouragement to go around. 

Friends=family. I've said it before, i'll bear testimony of it now, and I will maintain this view on if for as long as I live i'm pretty sure.

My heart is full, my tummy is satisfied, and my brain is on pause. :)

I hope everyone else's day is a wonderful one!

Rant--over. :)

So here's the thing: I need to vent. 

That's what these things are for, right? 

Physiology is hard. My brain wants to just shut down--and i'm not even close to being ready for my exam next Tuesday. Eff..

I'm sitting in my apartments' laundry room using the internet connection because after many phone calls to our managers and the IT guy-the internet still doesn't work for me in the comfort of my own apartment. Slutty.

Online classes are STUPID. Forgive my lack of creative synonyms, but i'm just too over it to care. I have had to write my "professors" numerous amounts of times because either my quizzes won't open, won't submit, or I've been locked out of them for who knows why. Needless to say, this will be my last semester taking them if I can help it.  

Eating healthy and exercising isn't fun. I mean--okay. It's good for me, which in turn could make it fun I guess. If you want to have a good attitude about it anyway. But I know for a fact that my neighbors have hundreds of homemade cinnamon rolls just waiting for me to come and eat, and my stupid self control is getting in the way.

ANNOYED.

Weekends are far away when Monday comes and then they are only 3 days long. Annnnd because I work at the bottom of the totem pole as a "table hostess", my weekends consist of making other peoples weekends enjoyable by serving them so THEY get to relax. 

Twisted? yeah. 

Okay--rant over. 

I am super grateful for a lot of things though, and have incredible people that surround me. I had been thinking this Summer about not moving back up this Semester. Money was tight, things were stressful, and it would have definitely just been the easy way out.

Thanks to a great friend who reminded me that remaining stagnant was not progressing and i'm on this earth to progress, I decided to ignore my reasons for doubt and came up anyway.

Such a blessing. I do miss my friends back home and my family though. 

Love you all!

The other night I had yet another DMC (for those not familiar with the term, it's a Deep Meaningful Conversation--use it. love it.) with my great friend. He reminded me why I was up here and also made a point to tell me that he was very grateful for it as well.

Warmed my heart. I love that boy. 

Man, do I feel better! It's crazy how in just a few minutes of getting your frustrations out can really make you stop and realize how grateful you really should be for all of the incredible blessings in your life. 

Plus, i'm rockin' my bicycle skirt today, had a delicious mac-n-cheese lean cuisine for lunch, caught up on my shows, and have plenty of time to get some solid study time in. I'd say those are all definite WINS.

Hope you can all enjoy a happy Thursday with me! :)

Just a little catch up!

This world--it's a small one. It's crazy how prayers are answered in the funniest of ways. I had an enlightening experience a few days ago. It helped me tie up some serious loose ends and truly helped me move on in more ways than one. 

Holler for blessings. 

Today I was able to spend the day with the fam. We got to eat at The Garden restaurant up in the Joseph Smith Memorial building. 

INCREDIBLE! The food was alright, but the view and the company was by far supreme! 

This was followed by a tour of the Living Aquarium. SO much fun! I totally touched a sting ray AND a shark..yeah. 

After this we went to City Creek for a little...well...A lot of shopping on my part! I also ran into my friends from home which absolutely made my week! I miss them!! 

As I sit here and reflect on my long week, my crazy experiences that filled it, and my incredible friends and family members that have gotten me through it--I am feeling rather stinking blessed.

Can't wait for another crazy week ahead filled with more adventures!! 

Happy Weekend everyone! 

Strength in Category

So as most of you know I had knee surgery at the end of March. Talk about a humbling experience.

Guess what though? The humbling doesn't stop there. 

I'm an exercise science major and one of my required classes is a 'Dynamic Fitness' class. Basically it's this uber neat class where I attend a lecture once a week, and three times a week we do a group work out and record our heart rate, food entries, and monitor our fitness level. 

Today the workout was a 2 mile run. 

Am I alive?? ummm, barely. 

The thought that first flashed across my mind when she uttered the words 'run' was that of "oh. well shiz." Then, as she proceeded to tell us that it was a 2 mile run, up a montrosity of a hill (if you haven't seen the hills in Logan, picture Dr. Suess's "Oh The Places You'll Go" front cover) was;

"There is no way I can do this".

Not to mention I had to make up a day last night and drug two of my good friends with me. I could only do half the time they did in class, and I still felt like my lungs were bleeding and me knee was going to split into two. 

So in short-I was scared. 

We started our run and of course I slowly fell behind. Really behind. We're talking the last one in. 

Then-it was up the dreaded hill. All I could think about was how mad I was at  myself for letting my body fall behind everyone else. 

My heart and my lungs were ready to go, but my legs and my body were telling me a completely different story. I was SO frustrated. My mind kept yelling at my legs to "Go, GO!" 

Guess what? They weren't listening. 

I started saying prayer after prayer to help me catch up to everyone else, to please allow my legs to carry me through the run without stopping, and letting everyone else see how weak I was. 

It wasn't until mile two when that humbleness sank in once again.

 I realized that my heart and my lungs were willing-That in my mind I was completely in shape to finish this run. However, my body just wasn't strong enough, and that I had to do what I could, and realize that my legs would catch up to my heart with due time and proper healing.

This got me to thinking. Isn't this how it is in almost every life situation? Sometimes our heart is in the right place and we're ready to go and take on a huge challenge or trial, but physically- we just can't. 

Or on the other hand, our legs are ready to run! They want to take it on head strong, but our heart is just too wary. 

It's important to have all of our health triangle up to par, however-life isn't picture perfect and sometimes we're going to do better at one category than another. 

And do you know what? 

It's OKAY. 

It's part of the plan to fail. Just like it's part of the plan to succeed.

The Lord is very aware of us and aware of our strengths and weaknesses. 

And sometimes it's only through him that we can make it through those last few paces, last couple of minutes, or last sane moment.

Through Him, our hearts, legs, lungs, and mind can be ever strong once again. 

Thursday's updates.

Man alive! School is definitely in session! It's only week two and I feel as if i've already been in school for half of a semester. 

Today I finally got all of my classes finalized and figured out. I know, right? It took me till week two to do that? Well-here's the thing. The classes for my major are like near impossible to get into. Ridiculous. 

I've been in the process of trying to find a new job. Let me just tell you if you're not a Loganite currently; it's pretty much like the luck of the draw to find a job up here. I love good old Gia's, but it's time for some consistency. 

Speaking of which, this semester i've been turning over a new leaf so to speak in the consistency category. I have to get my butt in gear to make sure I get great grades this semester. Not just "good" grades-GREAT grades. I'm still trying to find study habits that work for me-and ways that I can be completely successful in my academics. It's kind of a rough go. Wish me luck. 

Success is needed in all categories of life, however, and so the strive for perfection is underway. I have a great class that allows me to get back into shape and keep track of my progress. I got called to Linger Longer Co Chair, and i'm looking forward to being involved in the ward again this year :).

STOKED!

The wallet has been a bit on the slim side these days, as i'm sure it is for most students returning to school with all of those major expenses that just wipe us clean. However, blessings come when they're needed and i'm surviving. 

(sometimes your best friend surprises you with groceries and you want to cry, a lot.)

I've been having the usual struggles most young adults deal with:

When am I gonna get married? Why am I not going on dates? Why do I SUCK at school? 

Here's the thing-I don't suck at school, dating is not under my control, and  NEWS FLASH!!:

I'm only 20 bloody years old. 

I had a great friend give my some wisdom last night who's an "older" gentlemen for Utah standards.

 "You know what, I know i'm 24 and most guys my age are married, but I know that there is someone out there for me-and when the time is right, i'll find her."

It was so refreshing to hear a boy say that. To hear a BOY voice the same types of concerns I had, yet relay some hope and wisdom. 

Love it. 

Update!: My mom was able to come and visit this past Labor Day weekend. What a blessing that was!It was so good to spend some one on one time with her and show her what a day in the life of Jess is like. We rented dumb scary movies, pigged out on healthy snacks, made a haul at the farmers market, and did some thrift shopping to furnish Le Apartment. She also got to come to work with  me for a bit! 

I am so lucky to have someone in my life that can be my best friend and mother all in one. She's had a rough go these past few months, and it was so good to see her progress and her positive life outlook. I can always count on her to counsel me on being positive, choosing my own day, and quitting my whining and sometimes just having to buck up. She's my hero in so many ways. She needs to know that. 

Love you Mommy.