Getting Organized

Wow. So these past few weeks have been kinda hectic. All of the things i had been setting up all started to come together and all the sudden i am now super busy. haha Not going to lie for the most part i really like being busy because im used to the fast paced life of serving a mission in a huge city and always moving and changing and yeah. So i like it. But then again last week it all kinda hit me at once. By the end of a crazy week of work, 18 credits (before anyone calls me crazy, theyre 6 classes and half of them are theatre classes so its not like calc 3 or some junk like that), and being ASM for a play, saturday night i was kinda just done with life and had taken just about any free moment i had during the week to sleep, did my homework after rehearsal (at about 11 usually ending at 1 or 2) then having to get up early for class the next morning. I was feeling pity for myself and about how tired i was and drained and how i literally had to plan time for myself to get something to eat, when i hit sunday (im no longer complaining that i have 2:30 church because its my ONLY day i can actually sleep in) and had a meeting for my calling at (heaven forbid) 1pm, so i had to agonizingly get up earlier than normal. I get to the meeting (right down the hall from my apt) and we start talking then something clicks in my head telling me to get my act together and that i can do more. Then during the block i get chastised by the spirit again to do better and more things. So i repented of my pity party and being an unproductive procrastinator and tried to do better this week which actually worked out awesome. I ended up doing my homework during my spare time during the day (such an accomplishment i know) and got other misc things done at more convenient times. Such as taking a bunch of midterms, going to the gym and whatnot. That all went pretty well until the weekend hit and i tried to add a social life into the mix and my productiveness almost all just blew up but its ok. 

A wonderful(ly unattractive) picture of me at rehearsal.

Work outfit for when i usher BYU arts events

Just casually hanging out in the de Jong theatre really late at night. 

It was actually pretty amazing to me to see the difference that changing the small things did. I felt a lot more accomplished and I feel a lot more confident in what im doing. AND i get to bet at about 12:30 at the latest. Definitely a plus. Also i realized that i can get a lot done and actually enjoy myself. Maybe it also has something to do with the fact that the weather here in provo has been oddly really really nice lately, but literally every time i walk outside going from place to place or the next thing i need to get done life just seems so great. For example on my mission all the utah missionaries would always say they missed their mountains and i always laughed saying yeah yeah whatever. BUT HOLY COW THEYRE GORGEOUS. I just love going outside and looking up at the sky and the mountains while walking around the beautiful campus. Super stoked for spring/ summer to maybe hike around. But anyways it just makes me really happy and feel super blessed to be living in such a beautiful place, going to a great school and being able to be in control of a lot of my life.

My consistent view from campus

Sunday school outside! taking advantage of the beautiful day

Also a few weeks ago i had the awesome opportunity to take a break from the normal vigorous schedule of what was the mess of my life that week to go see the King Singers who came to perform here at BYU. WOW they are soooo amazing. I kinda died. It was awesome. It reminded me a lot of how much i miss a lot of things. For example hearing people perform acapella (or any good music for that matter) and singing. I forgot how certain things can take you right out of your life and transport you somewhere else and make you just so happy. Like singing, to be part of a beautiful sound or piece and find a special meaning of that piece that is unique to you and wow its like nothing else. But then i thought about why i just dont start being in a choir again or something and again, the time thing. If only there were enough hours in the day and i had enough energy to do ALL the things that make me happy.

The Kings Singers

Under the me being productive category and doing the things i love (well eating delicous things) i made a batch of leslie's cookies :D they were really good haha

Being productive and going to the temple :) What a happy place

ALSO. Side note im super excited cause ive basically stopped watching netflix completely. Now to try and control the disney movie watching after my mom brought me all my dvds AND I JUST GOT MY TANGLED DVD (she forgot to bring it originally). I really need to watch that one... but not sure when ill be able to find the time haha. Maybe i should work on my slight disney obsession. Im probably getting to old for that. Eh. Who knows. haha