Update on me!

Sorry ya'll my life has been crazy! Well lets see theres alot going on.

School is great were almost done with my first semester already thats crazy! But im stoked to really get into some of these classes next semester like pharmacology and hematology...I know Im weird. I have made some great friends at school and I am even the Student body president crazy! I know!

Work...is long! I am having a hard time actually wanting to go to work cause I work so many hours and dont get any appreciation from our supervisors and we work our butts off. But I keep telling myself I like the Medical benefits and I like the money so I will go...Plus who has jobs they like anyway? H ah haha

The New Ward....is great! It was a rough start but now im doing good. Sad my roomates moved out and of course it was the two I was closest to! I do have some roomate drama with one of the girls but Im praying that all will be better and to work through it all. I got a calling at the Relief Society Specialist basically any time anyone needs fliers or help with that etc I make them. But since Relief Society never ever has anything for me to make Im always making stuff for the Activities COmmitee but I dont mind it. I mad friends with (shock surprise!) the boys who live next door and Im over there alot and we all hang out and now I get invited to go to stuff with them. Its just hard to have a social life when im always at work you know! Lame! But I may change within my job just to a different area or times or something I need to pray and figure out what to do about that! We will see!

Break...Well i will be staying up in Utah I work on Christmas Eve and not Christmas Day but im not sure whether im gonna take someones shift or not for that day so we will see! Depends on if I get invited anywhere or something. It will be weird but nice and quite. I already have a bunch of plans with some of the guys next door who are sticking around and so im stoked to hnag out with them! We plan on at some point going to St. George just to go eat In N Out! ha ha haha love it!

Family...Well there doing well Jenn and Brittany are in Texas for the holidays with my dad. What I get out of Justin is that hes doing well and my moms just surviving as usual. The twins called me on thanksgvivng and they want me to come home for christmas and I want to but its too expensive so I decided to go home for January for Baby Jacks 2 year old birthday party! Hes getting so big. Ill have to put new picks up of him then when I get back they are all getting big!

Well I think thats all I can write for now gotta jet off to work! TTYL

What the F man!

So I went on a date tonight and we started talking about how dating really kinda sucks for girls. This is why. He pointed out that for girls if you like a guy and they dont like you theyll never ask you out and that all the cards are in the hands of the guys not the girls which got me thinking...this is so true! What the heck man? A lot of girls tend to criticize me for asking guys out on dates and yeah I dont know but hey no ones asking me out. Do you ever get frustrated or angry? Does any of this even make sense? Did I explain this right? I mean its not fair that guys hold all the cards!

Ill get off my soap box now!

My first week!

SO last night was my first hands on training at work and man I dont think I realized what i had gotten myself into! LOL... No but really its hard work1 I got home and was exhausted that I slept through my alarm for school ...opps! Anywho but yeah! But they ahd like 7 people call in yesterday so I was doing stuff I normally wont do so I was working harder than i would normally lol. But yeah So thats all!

I GOT A JOB!!!

hey guys-

I got a job! i had this really good feeling after the interview and I was right!I got offered the position today! The job is for the Provo Intermountain healthcare hospital. And i will be working on the Housekeeping team in charge of discharges. So i would be split up on the team and I would be put on a building then I would get paged everytime I need to clean a room. So Im pretty stoked! So its 3:30pm to midnight then It is a rotating schedule so i would work every other weekend and when i work the weekends i would get the friday before and the monday after off. So its pretty good job. and Ill be paid 9 an hour! Then I am also available for benefits too! So Im stoked I satrt on Monday so Yeah!

School...

Hey yall Its time to update you all on my life. Well i moved into my new apartemnt and my roomies are great there all younger than me so thats a little weird to me! lol....Im use to always being the younger one! The apartment is really cool i dont know really anyone in my ward yet but Ive only been here a week. One of the girls never does her dishes so I being a neat freak have decided that I am going to be doing here dishes as like my service project for the semester oh well but im okay with it. Besides that its gooing pretty well on that front.

Humm so school!!! Im stoked I start next week! Yeah! I am soo happy...weird huh? I know Im a nerd I olways loved school cause I love to learn new things you know. Its the waking up for it that I never loved so much. I wasnt worried till today when i got my books and I was looking at them going "What did I get myself into?" I havent been in school for 3 years am I all rusty? Im scared now especially becasue in high school I was the girl that passed all the classes without even going to class except for the days of test. I dont know how to study so Im really worried.

My plan is this... Im going tos choll right now for medical assisting. It will take me a year and in the program they give me the opportunity to get certified in all these other ways like CNA and Phlebotimist and PCT and a few others and so Im gonna get all of the certifications so Im more marketable. Then I should be done in a year so by my 22 birthday not bad! Then after working a few years and paying off the student loans Ill go back and do nursing which is my ultimate dream! I really want to be a neonatal nurse or an Emergency room nurse but in like a high volume trauma ER. Lol...so my goal is to have my nursing degree at the latest by the time Im 30. But we will see.

its actually kinda funny right now cause Im in like 3 wards. Lol. Im still actively going to a lot of the events in my old ward and then My friend Marks ward as well and thenmy new ward. the thing is I still dont know anyone. So i kinda pick and choose what I want to do. Plus I can really only do that for a few more weeks before school gets really hectic and hopefully ill have a job by then.

You know something I have always wondered...Can someone say no to a calling? I mean not that i would but i have just always wondered that. or has anyone been opposed to a sustaining in the church? Just weird things I have always wondered. The other thing is how do general authorities get there personal stories that arent about people in their family. Is their like a website they type in I need a story about... and then a list of them pop up. the real talk that made me think about it was Elder Cooks talk about the two ladies. Or do they just run into these people and here these talks? I mean it really isnt something i would necessarily share. But thats just me.

So on the job front. Nothinng yet. but some awesome interviews. So hopefully Ill hear something about a job this week! My friend keeps telling me to be optimistic cause I tend to be negative and I have been getting very upset about not finding a job right now. Their are a few jobs that I really would like and if I get offered anything i would hear by the end of this week! So we will see hopefully. Something will come around. please pray for me!

Well thats all for bris life!!!

Conference Part II

Wow such great things! To much to talk about! :D I just loved it!

Elder Cooks talk about trials was really just the thing I needed to hear today! I love how no matter how general the talks can be yet how specific and geared straight to you. You know? Its so crazy! But when he talked about the two ladies who had lost the husband and lost the 20 something son I started to cry. The story just totally touched my heart it is soo fabulous! Its soo remarkable that they can get to the point where the atonement can heal them in their open wounds of pain. I want to get to that point where I can use the atonement that way in my life or at least to understand it better. i know I have only been a member almost a year so its no surprise that I cannt fully comprehend that concept yet you know. Members that I know have been in the church their whole lives said that they dont even fully understand it right now either so I know it takes time, prayer and diligence. And I will get there one day!

I forgot to say that I had toatlly loved! The primary choir that sang in the second session yesterday! they were too cute! :D I just loved it! They were all soo cute! But I did have one thought! What is with the pastel colors? I mean why does everyone have to be wearing pastels...the children I mean? Im not a big fan of pastels on anyone really! But thats just my thought. ha ha ha

So I was wondering it seems that no matter what once you hit a certain age and your a mormon lady they its like a requirement to cute your hair short or something. I hate it im NEVER going to have a small bob or whatever they are called ha ha ha just an observation I had noticed I mean look at the moromon tabernacle choir and look at teh ladies most of them all have super short hair...I mean it looks ok but I do NOT do short hair! ha ha ha Im strange what can I say!

My life is crazy lately been figuring out some housing issues but I have finally figured it out. Im moving in a week! The kindnest that my friends have shown me in these past few days has been soo great! Jamie Your awesome thanks for letting me crash at your casa and eating you pizza lol! ha ha ha. Jessica thanks for helping me as well your amazing and Ill walk you to class anyday of the week! lol

well I think that is all she wrote for now! Thanks for everything yall!

Conference

Listening to conference today has helped me soo much in everything that I have been feeling lately. I had the spirit testify to me that I KNOW this church is true and that I KNOW that I am in the right place at teh right time.

President Dieter Uchtdorf's talk had helped me to realize that I am very pessimistic and that I am so greatful for his counsel. I am greatful that I was able to listen to his talk in conference today. I learned alot about myself through his talk and gav me hope for tomorrow.

Listening to the conference talks are still a new tradition for me. But I am truly growing to love it! It has been such a blessing in my life the past year and I have just loved it! Every time I go to conference or listen to it I am so overwhelmed with the amazing counsel we are given in the talks.

Im so excited for the SUnday sessions! :D

~News Flash~

So apparently some of you my young friends never took geography but never fear Im coming to the rescue! So here we are a map of Texas

Now over the past week or two I keep getting emails and text messages and calls from people asking if Im okay and how bad was the storm. SO I would like you all to now scroll up and look at the far left corner of the picture. It says El Paso Good you found it . Now scroll up and look along the edge at the bottom on the right. You will see Houston.

Now Im sure you kow where this is going right! Good job! Houston is too far away from El paso to affect us here!

So if yougot a message back from me saying were still trying to get the water out of the house or that we had to evacuate I was definetly joking!

That is all!

Disney World here I come....

yeah!!! Florida ....Im coming BACK!!!

So here is the deal I decided tonight that I am going to be coming back to Florida one last time to do The DinseyWorld COllege Program :D I love it and am sooo excited about it! Not only that I have convinced my best friend Shannon Back home to come too! Hopefully she wont back out cause then I would cry :( But I would still go! I am soo stoked that I cant even sleep! lol...Life is great right now! It will be great to just get out there and have fun you know! :D Im soo stoked to go down! Hey maybe Ill have a car before I get there! You never know I Just need to get money. From here on out Im not spending any money! So that I can get money to go down!

Humm besides that I have not gotten a jb yet I have been donating plasma for money but still that aint much. I want to get something near by so that I can get there easily you know! Well lets see what else. Humm...church is good spending a lot of time with the sister missionaries ha ha ha...Been getting to know my dad alot better. Its weird living with him again after so long you know. Ha ha ha...lol...Anywho lifes interesting...miss you all soo dearly

Until next time!

LAME...

I am so frustrated ... I got up early today for a singles event for church. We were suppose to go paintballing and so I went there and the guy in charge of the event tells us the stake decided that we cant go so they decided to change the event toplay video games at the stake center. I was soo mad i was soo excited to go paintballing cause ive never been! Then we couldnt even go! gurr... Not only that I was one of three people who showed up. Apartently the singles events suck here! At least compared to Provo they do! :( This sucks!

Well thats all Im ggonna go back to bed instead!

Strengthen testimony!

So this week has been a very rough week for me unfortunetly :( But my testimony has been strengthened.

It all started on Monday night at like 1am I had to rush my dad to the hospital. It was crazy! I got there and told them mmy dad is in the car and needs a wheelchair and the girl looked at me no joke and sadi"well does he need to see a dr?" mind you this hospital is pretty new too.

So we were there for like 4 hours before they decide to call the on call cardiologist and with my dads history they should have done that the minute he got in there.

So at 5 am they decided to admit him I went home to sleep a few hours cause then I had a bunch of calls to make like telling his bosses and co workers and etc.

So it turned out that my dad had a badly clogged artery that was bad enough that they could have made him have open heart sergury. But the Dr worked for 3 hours getting his artery opened and it didnt work then they tried again the next day to get it opened and it worked and had 2 stints put in his artery. Basically the Dr saved him from having to have open heart sergury which was such a blessing because the chances of my dad surviving a second open heart sergury were soo slim.

So basically that first night I went home and cried and creid and got down on my hands and knees and prayed soo hard for my dad and it was a relief when everything came around.

I had never read my scriptures soo much or prayed so much as I have this past few days!

I want to thank everyone for their prayers and etc really thank you! It meant alot that you all cared! Thanks for the text and calls through all of this! It has helped me it was hard to do it on my own but the scriptures and everything has helped me :D Thanks guys!

This whole thing has helped me strengthen my testimony of faith and prayers and I really am greatful for this whole situation. And Im greatful that I can be here for my father. It seems like I got here just in time as well!

Love and Peace!

Lists....

This is a list I stole from other peeps thought I would put it up.

1. Slept under the stars Bishop sleep over!
2. Changed a baby’s diaper more like hundreds...
3. Watched a meteor shower
4. Climbed a mountain does the Y count?
5. Held a tarantulaone HECK NO!!!
6. Said “I love you” and meant it YES!!
7. Bungee jumped I wish!
8. Visited Paris
9. Stayed up all night long and watched the sun rise HECK YES!!!
10. Gone to a huge sports game BYU, Angels, Dodgers, Ducks, UCLA, USC
11. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
12. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment Had done this alot! Ha ha ha
13. Had a pillow fight
14. Built a snow fort
15. Taken an ice cold bath Quite a few things.
16. Ridden a roller coaster Duh!!!
17. Loved your job 90% of the time I love Provo Care Center, and DisneyWorld!
18. Gone rock climbing
19. Visited Ireland Definitely on my life "to do" list
20. Bench-pressed your own weight
21. Milked a cow on a class farm trip in elementary school
22. Alphabetized your personal files Yes and my DVDs lol
23. Ever worn a superhero costume Halloween!
24. Lounged around in bed all day thats what I do now ha ha ha
25. Gone scuba diving I really want to!
26. Kissed in the rain
27. Played in the mud
28. Gone to a drive-in theater
29. Done something you should regret, but don'tMaybe? Can think of plenty!
30. Visited the Great Wall of China will someday!
31. Been in a movie thanks to my brother been in a tv show too!
32. Made cookies from scratch Duh!
33. Got flowers for no reason
34. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy does word search puzzles count? I play with my cousins toys all the time!
35. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over five times now, Orlando, Orange, Fullerton, Provo, El Paso....
36. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge Driven it!
37. Helped an animal give birth
38. Been fired or laid off from a job
39. Broken a bone broke mt thumb while playing football iin high school!
40. Ridden a motorcycle thanks to the SOuzas! Never driven one though.
41. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100 mph
42. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
43. Eaten sushi me and my brother LOVE sushi!
44. Gone back to school gone back three times now!
45. Changed your name to BRI lol
46. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
47. Dyed your hair wow multiple times!
48. Rocked a baby to sleep One of my favorite things ever...
49. Raked your carpet Umm... no?
50. Worn a mood ring ha ha ha not lately!
51. Ridden a horse a few times!
52. Cooked a dish where four people asked for the recipe a few times!
53. Gone to a Broadway play Ive seen off broadway tours Lion King, Wizard of Oz, Rent
54. Been inside the pyramids I will one day!
55. Shot a basketball into a basket uhh duh!
56. Danced at a disco in high school and in florida!
57. Brought an old fad back into style . . . umm not sure
58. Eaten caviar
59. Published a book
60. Pieced a quilt helped someone to!
61. Made a hole-in-one just mini-golf though...
62. Gone roller skating I love it!
63. Learned to surf will one day!
64. Visited Africa will one day!
65. Learned how to take a compliment yep hard but did it!
66. Written a fan letter Hanson, JTT ha ha ha Nsync too!
67. Been a boss Disneyworld
68. Carried your lunch in a lunchbox New Kids On The Block!
69. Sat on a park bench and fed the ducks Multiple times.
70. Ridden in a limousine
71. Attended the Olympics
72. Can hula or waltz
73. Read a half dozen Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys books and box car kids!
74. Been stuck in an elevator
75. Thought you might crash in an airplane once I did on the way to FL from CA
76. Laughed till your side hurt oh yes.
77. Taken a photograph of something other than people that is worth framing why yes like to consider myself an amatuer photographer.
78. Been a cashier a few times lol . . .
79. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
80. Kept a blog ... duh!
81. Ridden in or owned a convertible

well there you go ya'll 57 of the 81 :D

Sadness. . .

These past few days have been harder than usual. Its soo hard cause i miss all my friends in Provo and I see the pics they put up on facebook of them having soo much fun when im just sitting on my behind not doing much. I mean I am trying tio get a job but I dont know like anyone : ( So its hard you know to go from hanging out with certain people soo much to not seeing them at all. I just miss evryone soo much. Im not getting much contact from people in Utah which I kind of expected but I didnt expect it would happen that fast. Its hard to just sit here and not do much. I tend to just sit on my comptuer all day in hopes to have some sort of contact from my friends.

People keep saying that I should meet people through my ward. But i am going to a family ward and they only have 2 singles (who are getting married to each other in like 2 weeks and will be out of the ward afterwards)

Well im gonna go to bed night!

Blah....

So I have been reading a bunch of other peoples blogs and soo much of it is political and thats cool and all for them. But dont expect to ever read anything on my blog about politics its just always causes problems you know.

So Im new to this whole blogging thing so I almost dont know what to write ha ha ha. Anywho but its weird to be out here in Texas and not in Utah. I woke up this morning a little disoriented and was like "wait where am I?" Then I realized oh yeah im in Texas. I felt like a dork. I just loved Utah its weird how I didnt realize how much I liked it there till I left. I really do like it here too though. Its not all that bad I just need to get a job : D Though not gonna lie my dad has like 300 movies no joke so I am catching up on a lot of movies that I havent seen so that is pretty cool : D

So i spend most of my time on this labtop and wathing TV. Watching Law and Order (the original) and CSI (again the Original). And I just love it cause they make you think especially CSI. My dad walked through the living room the other night only to say "Damn with all these dead bodies lieing around why would ou ever want to live in New York or Las Vegas" That got me to thinking do the real cops and CSI's really find that many bodies lieing around? Isnt it weird how TV has made us like numb to stuff like that? I mean Im sure if I was walking down the street and saw someone lieing dead on the ground that it probably wouldnt even phase me anymore. But at the smae time if your a cop do you become numb to it? When does one body just look like another dead body? How long does it take before you are numb to the whole thing?....IDK just something to think about.

WEIRD huh?

I realized today that Families can be crazy. You may hate your family or things they do but you know their your family. They are a part of you. They love you even if they do stupid things. That was a really hard concept for me to understand to realize that family does care even if they dont show it. I mean who are we without our family? Really there weird and crazy antics have helped you become who you are today!

Well Thats all for today PEACE!!!

Texas . . . What the?

Im in Texas what the? Crazy i know but i am here... I know you all think this was just a jump for no reason to move out here one of my crazy spur of the moments out here. ha ha ha but it wasnt it was a well thought out plan I decided it was what the Lord wants me to do. I dont now whether I want to be here or not. But the Lord will bless me for this leap of faith of moving out here. : )

So one thing that cracks me up about out here is the cholitos out here. They try and like pimp out there cars out here but the cars suck...ha haha you will find anything from a volkswagon to a beat up little chevy they are all run down. But they all these dinky little cars that are all lowered to the ground with twenty inch chrome rims with spinners on them the price of those spinners and rims they probably could have gotten a better car lol.... Its just funny to see everyone out here try and soup up there cars when they look not even 25% as good as the souped up cars in LA ha ha ha its just funny to see all these wannabes out here : )

Here are some pics from my goodbye to Provo!

I just love road trips : ) It is awesome! We made it down safely but it was funny cause we kept missing our exits so we had to keep changing the route that we were going to. Good thing Jessica had brought a big and I mean HUGE atlas so luckily that helped sooo much and calling my dad saying we missed another exit ha ha ha... It made the trip soo much fun though. : ) We even hit a bird at one point ...Grosse... It was disgusting i about threw up. We ended up having to drive through the Colorado mountain pass (at like 10pm scary!!) and this pass has soo many twist and turns we drove like 25 miles per hour through it and I said a joke about how it would be funny yet sad if we had hit a deer then right after that we kept seeing deer the whole way through and its like an hour drive through there we got soo tired and dizzy we pulled over half way through and took a nap for like 2 hours so that was fun but we made it to El Paso at about 9am got breakfast then to church.

So I went to a family ward out in El Paso and it is way different then a singles ward this sunday im gonna try for the singles ward its like 20 minutes away were the family ward is 2 blocks away but we will see : ) Maybe I will like the family ward better than the singles ward : D

Well thats all for my first blog I will se eyou all laters : D