I Love to See the Temple

What an incredible weekend! This past weekend was General Conference. As always, the talks were amazing and the spirit was really strong. I thoroughly enjoyed this Conference and am so grateful to know that there is a prophet living on the earth today. I am truly blessed to be able to hear his words and be taught through the spirit.

Another exciting thing that happened during this conference was the announcement of a temple in Fort Collins, Colorado. This is a tremendous blessing to the members in that area. This temple will be minutes...literally minutes...from my parents house. I may or may not have started jumping up and down when I heard the news. I'll let you decide whether or not you believe that. Ok, I really did it...and I also probably danced. :)

If you would like to find out more about General Conference and the church, click here.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?  ~Lily Tomlin 

That's right, next time I am going to go to the library to get my hair cut. So I went to get my hair cut yesterday...just a trim...to cut off the dead ends....at Great Clips. My hairstylist didn't exactly speak English..she did a little, but it was really hard to understand her. In fact, the perfect way to describe her is by this video.





She kept on saying, "You have lot hair. You want tin it out?" What? "You have lot hair. You want tin it out?" Oh, do I want to thin out my hair? No thanks, please just cut it. After she starting taking the scissors haphazardly to my hair, I noticed that there was something outside that she was looking at. She wasn't looking at my head at all when she was cutting it! I stopped her right then and asked her if she would please look at my hair when she was cutting it. (I actually said that...I couldn't believe myself...That's probably not the nicest thing to say, but it's my hair we're talking about here). She then moved onto my bangs. I told her to keep them longer but just clean them up a bit. Well now I have bangs that are mid-forehead....not even kidding. haha...She asked me if I liked the way they looked. I said, "Um, I've never had bangs this short before." She responded with "Oh don't worry, two day be longer." I don't know about your hair, but my hair doesn't grow longer in two days. 


So the moral of the story is, well, there isn't one. I just need to find a hairstylist that can understand me and I can understand her!

Oh the Weather Outside is Frightful....

Please let me reenact a typical conversation upon meeting someone new here in The Big D.
 
Me: Hello. What's your name?


Other Person: Howdy. My name is ______. Are you new here?

Me: Why, yes. Yes, I am new.


Other Person: Do you like it here?

Me: Why, yes. I do like it here.

Other Person: Have you even been here during the summer?


I used to think that was quite an odd question to be asking somebody...or at least an odd third question to be asking upon meeting somebody. It all came together yesterday when I got in my car and the thermometer read this:

It's March folks, only March.

Despicable Me.

This guy was my checker at Walmart today. Not. Even. Lying.

Green means go and red means...????

While driving home from church and rocking out to How Firm a Foundation by the oh so fabulous Mormon Tabernacle Choir, I may have run a red light! In fact, I did run the red light. WHOOPS! You would think that after years of playing red-light green-light while teaching swimming lessons and babysitting, I would have, in fact, learned what the color red actually means. Nope, unfortunately that has proven to not be the case. If repetition is the law of learning....how many times must I repeat stopping at a red light before I actually learn that red means stop? It's ok though, I'm pretty sure driving laws don't apply on Sunday ;).

What better time than now?!?!?

Why do we wait to improve ourselves?!?  Change can be hard and maybe that is why. I have a few things I want to change about myself (ok, way more than a few things). Now, why am I putting this off? There is not a good answer for that and a good excuse certainly does not exist. I've been thinking a lot about goals lately and what I want out of life. What's the point? Who do I want to be? Where do I want to go? With work getting increasingly frustrating, I wonder how I can enjoy each day. I would appreciate your input because I don't know at the moment. So here I go, I am starting today. Please let me know if you have any advice on this little thing called life. :) 

A Bunch of Nothing....

Hello, hello! Not a lot has changed since the last update...still working tons (I spent an absolutely joyful 16 hours at work Friday....pulling up to my apartment at the oh so early hour of 11:40 pm)...still studying for MLC...learning equations like this...

You will be happy to find out that after five minutes of intensive and exhaustive investigative work, I found out the problem with my vacuum cleaner. Now, I know this has been on your mind, but you may now sleep at night. I broke the belt ... I may or may not have sucked up a washcloth while vacuuming my closet...can't remember though...so I am going to buy a new belt and should be good to go!

On Friday,  I went here with some coworkers.

It's called Urban Eatz just in case you can't read the sign. The place was packed. We could not find a place to sit down! I had the turkey sandwich...and it was....a turkey sandwich. The bread was pretty good though. My coworker had some pizza. She let me try some of it and it was SO GOOD! She had some sort of chicken pizza...and it was delicious. Overall, I would recommend this place.


I spoke in church today. That always stresses me out! haha. I am grateful for the opportunity, however, to do some extra studying on things that I need to improve in my life.

Well, I hope all you readers are doing well. I don't know who you are...probably just my mom...but that's ok...I hope that life is treating you well and I would love to hear from you sometime!