Leading up to Harvest Holiday weekend!!!

I am currently sitting in the comfort of my family's kitchen because it is a lovely holiday weekend! I think the college just makes up holidays at crucial points in the semester so they can avoid a student revolution.... but whatever the reason I'm so grateful for the time off!

Monday Oct 12th
No ballroom practice in the morning because the entire team (except for me) was in California.... I enjoyed the sleep in time! Basically all that happened today was classes and studying.... and P90x cardio workout! Which I really really like... I think it's too soon to say that it's my favorite, but I really enjoyed the routine.

Tuesday Oct 13th Hospital Shift
The best story of this blog and probably makes the top ten most ridiculous stories of the semester.... So I'm at my hospital shift, and part of my job is to help new/first time mothers learn how to effectively breast feed.  But before I continue, allow me to fill in some of the backround.

1. It's breast cancer awareness month and so all of the staff in the hospital are wearing the pink breast cancer ribbon pins....
2. When women lose weight, (super unfair) one of the first places they lose fat is their bustal region.
3. Alycia has been losing weight....make the connection......
4. Alycia was working out right before her hospital shift and is wearing a "strap-em-down" device as opposed to"show-em-off" equipment....okay now we're caught up 

So I go in to help this woman breast feed and I hand her baby to her and I'm getting everything in position and walking her through it, and then while I'm helping her breast-feed she asks me...

Woman: "Are you a breast cancer survivor?"
Alycia: realizing the pin on my vest, "Oh, no. I'm not."
Woman: "Oh my gosh.... I totally thought you'd had a mastetomy...." (For all of you who don't know/remember what that is, that's when women who've had breast cancer have their breasts surgically removed....awesome...)
Alycia: "oh....." awkward silence....
Woman: "It's just that the rest of your body is really curvy, and your chest...........I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said anything."

I walked out of that room so stunned....absolutely speechless.... Ladies, you know when people ask you how far along you are...and you're NOT PREGNANT how awkward, embarassing and insulting that is? This totally trumps that!
What she had really said to me was, "Oh your bust is so disproportionate to the rest of your body that you look like you had your breasts cut off."....how do you recover from that? haha.
As offended as I was by that, the humor of the situation overshadowed any real feelings of hurt or embarassment.  I've never been busty, EVER, it's just not in the genetic cards for me....and I've tried to come to terms with that for....well....since I understood that I wasn't in "proper proportion" lol.

Wednesday Oct 14th
Had a great day! Ballroom in the morning, classes all day, workout after, then homework.....
The student senate is voting on a bill that determines the amount of funding that will be given to the BDC (ballroom dance company) and that funding determines tour team's financial ability to compete at Nationals in November.... but omg. Senate is ridiculous, and it's modeled after the US Senate...and now I finally understand why our country cannot make any decisions or come to a concensus on ANYTHING.....needless to say, our bill was postponed for yet another week....which is lame sauce to the nth degree.

Then the highlight of my entire week. watching GLEE. That show makes my life worth living lol. I seriously plan my week around NOTHING getting in the way of me watching that show! I just tell myself, "Make it to Wednesday." And then Glee gives me the motivation to make it through the rest of the week..... And the songs they have picked continue to follow perfectly along with what's going on in my life....
This week's rendition of "Keep Holding On" couldn't have been more timely!

I was over at Ariel's house watching Glee with her, her roommates and all of their love interests.... And then my lovely friend Becka had made an adorably decorated cake for her boyfriends birthday and so we spent the rest of the night having an AWESOME birthday party...

Basically sleep deprivation isn't even a big deal anymore.... And seeing as our (the BDC dancers) days are so packed, the only time we can be with friends is at night, meaning that we trade our sleep for the stress-relief of a social life :) I think it's a good trade....cuz seriously, we're tired no matter what lol.
watching glee

Thursday Oct 15th
I returned home from the epic birthday party extravaganza at um....3 a.m. so the 5a.m. wake up call wasn't necessarily "welcome" but practice went well, seeing as I was in a great mood from having so much....dare I say it......FUN.......it's a rediscovered thing for me *wink*
After practice I went back to bed. Oh story!
So apparently on Wednesday, my roommate threw a huge dinner party and used...basically every dish in our house, and a bunch of towels were on the floor, there is stuff (I say stuff because I couldn't positively identify every substance) all over the kitchen floor. There are dishes piled in the sink and overflowing piles on all the surrounding countertops and the bathroom.....please, don't even make me relive that with a description.....But because it was so late (early) I tried to ignore the developing biohazard and sleep for the allotted 2 hours.

Anyways, here's where this gets juicy.... my roommate who was responsible for this debauchery left for the weekend before cleaning any of this up.....
What I really want to do after a day of studying chemistry and anatomy is spend three hours cleaning up after someone elses party...so I'd just like to take this chance to express to the cyber world my appreciation for that little stunt my roommate pulled. note: sarcasm

Loaded and unloaded the dishwasher 4 times, 3 loads of laundry, scrubbed down the bathrooms, and swept and SCRUBBED the kitchen floor......best day of my life.

By the time I had finished all of that, it was time for all of my evening plans to begin....this is what a typical night looks like for me, and the plans for thursday..

• Attend the first hour of the girls' volleyball game
• Then ballroom practice for several hours
• Then the Institute social and dance

Friday Oct 16th 
Today was quite the whirlwind.... Class, Class, Anatomy lab practical exam, Chemistry exam, running home to pack as fast as humanly possible and being at Lizzy's apartment building in time to be able to eat lunch, fill up the car with gas and get on the road.

Anyone who knows me knows....I HATE DRIVING DISTANCE. Ten minute drives, no big deal.... but you start talking into the 30+ range...and I am no longer comfortable with said plan..... And even though I love coming home, I would honestly rather sit in an airport for an hour, take the forty-five minute flight, and then wait another hour at the other airport than drive for 3 hours.... but luckily, today the drive felt like it took no time at all :) We just listened to music and talked the entire time...and it was almost nice...

Arriving home.... it's so weird to come back to your house when it's not "your house" anymore.... it's like seeing an exboyfriend with someone else, or someone wearing your hand-me-down clothing.... something that used to belong to you, but that you can't really ever get back. And even if you had it back, it's still never going to be the same....sigh.....
It's great to see the family, and as soon as I got back I had to get ready for one of my childhood friend's wedding reception...

Holy surreal.... Whitney and I have talked about marriage since we were eleven years old.... and when I walked into that reception center and saw her dress....I couldn't believe it, and I almost started crying! I'm so happy for her, and deeper down, I'm a little jealous...
It's always at these receptions where all of the sweet old folks ask inappropriate questions and assume that something must be wrong with you if you are approaching 20 and still have no marriage prospects...
But I am that young lol. Maturity doesn't change the fact that I still have a "teen" attached to my current age... and contrary to popular belief, YOU ARE NOT A FAILURE, A FREAK, OR A SPINSTER IF YOU ARE NOT MARRIED BEFORE YOU'RE TWENTY-ONE.

Overall the reception was really fun, and Jaime and I spent the entire time making fun of things and laughing about nothing. Afterward I was able to spend time with two of my best guys Bryant and Blaine. We spent four hours talking about books, attraction theories, genetics and politics.....sigh.... I love intellectual conversation! It's like a breath of fresh air when I say something generally considered 'geeky' and people not only know what I'm talking about, but can continue the topic! *big smile*

Saturday Oct 17th
Slept in my own bed....even though it's not really mine....in my old room, which has very little resemblance to what my room used to look like.....
Not knowing quite what to do with myself. I promised myself nothing academic all weekend because my brain is fried from studying.... but I decided that blogging isn't really academic...so I compromised!

I ran errands and was treated to lunch with my parents, and then went on a group date with Lizzy's younger brother....which was super fun, but a little weird because he's younger than me....and I usually refuse to date boys who are my age lol, my policy is usually 3 years up.....but whatever exceptions can be made!

Plans for the rest of Saturday

1. A date that my cousin Brittany is setting me up on..... which should be fun :) It's dinner and bowling! Dinner is usually good, and bowling is just a great excuse to look like an idiot and wear ugly shoes.
2. Hang out with Jaime, hopefully have our own little dance party!
3. Maybe see Blake? If he ever calls me back....jerk face.....

Now you are current! I know that I try to blog more often so that it stays informative and fun....instead of like reading for homework haha.
Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Until next time,
Bon Voyage!

Blah Blah Blah....

So much has happened.... and I know I say that every blog post...but I seem to keep topping my own stories! haha. And it only becomes more true.... even though it's only been a week since my last blog, it feels like its been a month. Longest. week. ever.....well until next week ;)

Even though I have the time to go into super-details about last weeks happenings... I'm going to give highlights because frankly, the week wore me out to the point that I'm too tired to even blog about it!

Basically the big things are as follows....

• Drama with ballroom....
• Classes
• Coming home next weekend
• P90x

Ballroom, a word that has become nearly synonymous with drama. The latest news is that Alycia had this idea that quitting/leaving the ballroom team would solve all of the problems in her life.... and then as she's tried to pursue that, everything keeps getting in her way...
I'm so frustrated with this right now. As soon as I make up my mind to not be a part of ballroom, EVERYTHING, and I mean everything combines to tell me NO. Which is hard because I honestly don't know where to go from here. There are people who would entirely support my decision one way or the other...and then obviously it's those same people who cause problems when it goes one way instead of the other.
My director is desperate not to lose me as a dancer. Meaning that he will basically compromise on anything that I put forward right now in order to keep me on the team.... but does that mean I should stay? If all of the things I was worrying about in conjunction with ballroom are changed.......then isn't that enough of a reason to stay? It's like I can actually have my cake and eat it too. I was worried about how expensive team was and the traveling....and he told me that I didn't have to pay those fees if I wasn't traveling.... which takes the pressure off financially, and I don't have to worry about traveling.

I feel like such a Diva. making all these demands..... but I guess if the ballroom shoe fits..... diva it is. 

Classes: this was one of the main reasons if not THE reason for wanting to leave the team. My grades are great....but great isn't good enough. They need to be brilliant in order for me to get into Nursing school.... and obviously ballroom competes with academics for attention. Like I said in a previous blog, I'm married to my major and having an affair with ballroom....and they are both jealous, possessive lovers.
Overall things are going well, it's just the constant dull throb of pressure to do well.... which is heavily self-inflicted, and then when anyone else adds to the pressure it nearly sends me into a nervous conniption.

Next Weekend: So the weekend of Oct 16th-19th I'll be back in SLC, and my weekend is already packed.... but it'll be really nice to have my time filled by fun things versus the usual serving of stress with a side of anxiety and exhaustion for dessert. I'll get to see my family, and visit friends that I haven't seen since the summer... I honestly can't believe it's already the middle of October.... I just hope that the rest of the year flies by this quickly....that would be GREAT.

Don't get me wrong, I love where I'm at and SUU was a perfect fit for me and my academic goals... I just feel like I'm in limbo right now....stuck inbetween the "fun college days" and nursing school. I just wanna get into nursing school and haul headfirst into health-science oblivion. Those days will come soon enough.... I'm just trying to live in the now and pay attention. I don't want to miss out on my life right now because I'm always worried about the future. If you take care of all your 'todays' then you set yourself up for a bunch of great 'tomorrows'....

P90x: Okay, Alycia is in TERRIBLE SHAPE. Yes it could be worse. Definitely. I could weigh 500lbs and be confined to an over sized bed, watching reality TV for days on end, eating deep-fried chocolate covered bon bons dipped in cool whip and have cellulite in places that I can't even see....because my mid section would be too big for me to see over......... but wow. I had no idea how NOT in shape I was. There is this concept called "skinny-fat" where people look skinny but are actually out of shape. I used to tease my super thin friends in high school because, although they only weighed 110lbs, they'd be winded after going up a flight of stairs.....
In my mind, I thought, "You dance 15hours a week...you look great....." but oh HALLO. I definitely look more in shape than I am.......So.... In an effort to fix this skinny-fat problem that I have, I ordered p90x after seeing a bunch of my friends achieve amazing results.

Oct 11th is today and was my first official day on P90x....
Another thought I had, "All the people in the before-and-afters are major flabby-fatties when they start out...you should have no problem getting through the workout." I am here to admit to the cyber-world, that that workout kicked my trash.

Problem 1: The history of Alycia's ability to do push ups.... non-existent. I don't think I've ever done ONE successful push-up...in my entire life.... and there are 5 different variations of push-ups in the first workout haha. F A I L
Problem 2: I was trying to do this workout in my room....which was waaaaaaaaay too small to facilitate such an endeavor...so I kept knocking things over and hit my elbow at least 7 times during the workout.

Just thinking about how pathetically out of shape I am, and how funny I must look attempting this workout made me laugh at myself and roll my eyes during the entire video..... I think I got a bigger ab workout laughing at myself than I did from the video....since I'm not even in shape enough to do the workout full out yet....


At first I was discouraged and didn't know how I was going to get through 90 days of having my butt kicked, but then I thought...."If I can really do this workout at the end of 90 days, then it will be so worth it to be in such great shape!" Yay inspiration/motivation! I LOVE the diet.... although it's gonna take some force feeding for me to get that much protein...and some serious willpower to only eat the recommended number of carbs....

But I am excited to get healthier :)


That's all I have to say for today.... or at least all I feel like writing lol. Stay strong, I love you all!

Until next time,
Bon Voyage

Monday. Enough said.

Should I be writing this blog right now? Probably not, but I wanted to take a bit of time for myself today and try to clear my head and organize my thoughts. Writing this blog has become therapeutic for me.... and I look forward to sharing my life....even if it's only me communicating with this keyboard.

The rest of Friday Oct 2nd....
Chiropractors....basically I want to propose marriage every time I get adjusted by one of these magnificent creatures. If heaven doesn't have Chiropractors....I'm going to strongly consider the alternative eternity! Last year I found an amazing chiropractor who has gained my business for as long as I am in cedar city! So I decided that this was the man who I would trust with my defective shoulder.

Drum roll please...... turns out that Alycia's little fall caused her to dislocate three different bones.... :) yay! I had a partial dislocation of my "shoulder" (the humerus dislocated superior to the glenoid cavity for all of ya'll who speak my nerd language) And that dislocation had pushed my collarbone forward. I also dislocated my forearm at the elbow (The radius dislocated at the capitulum) Lucky for me, all of these bones were easily put back into place and I was on my way to a speedy recovery.

I came home and attempted to rejoin the female gender by actually taking time to get ready.... before heading off to have dinner with the six chicks, and seeing Macbeth in our outdoor theater for.... FREEEEEE!!!!!

Things Alycia loves:

1. When you feel like you look good, and so you are twice as confident and people spend all of their time reveling in your beauty and showering you with compliments.
2. How having a student ID in college makes you feel like an F.B.I. agent, because all you have to do is flash that "badge" at the door and you can get in anywhere!
3. Making inside jokes with old friends and laughing constantly about absolutely nothing.

Okay, Macbeth....crash and burn. Like that plane hit the ground so hard that not only were there no survivors.... but everything went up in a fireball of failure.....there weren't any identifiable remains. It was THAT BAD. Not only was Shakespeare turning in his grave....he probably wanted to come back from the dead just so he could kill himself again over the massacre of his play....

First off, calling that "acting" would be a little too generous.... so it was more like watching a bunch of creepy theatre majors play dress up, except for the fact that 2) They decided it would be a "cool" idea to make their version of Macbeth "Punk-Rock-Goth" and had succeeded in simultaneously destroying all three of those fashion trends with their (again being generous) "wardrobe." I could have stuck it out....if it weren't for problem number 3.... Macbeth is really-super-dooper-excrutiatingly-painstakingly-undeniably-unequivocably-and all together TOO LONG.

After an hour and a half of thinking of ways to put me and my friends out of our lack-of-talent-induced misery, we decided to ditch out of the show at intermission.We'd all had more than enough "culture" for one weekend.

Saturday and Sunday Oct 3-4th
relatively uneventful....watched conference, which was a great spiritual "pick-me-up" and spent the majority of my time lounging about in pajamas. Glorious, glorious pajamas, full of glory. Make-up? No way. Hair done? You've gotta be kidding. Hygiene? Well....I even let that one slide lol. I was dead set on not doing ANYTHING this weekend.

Everything was going great....up until the point when I realized on Sunday evening....hmm....you have 8+hours of homework that you haven't even thought about doing..... lovely.

I proceeded to stay up until 2 a.m. finishing only HALF of the workload.... This weekend the ballroom team is competing in California, and so I'm trying to finish everything for this week and for next week in two days in an effort to stay on top of/ahead of things.

Monday Oct 5th
After only 3 hours of sleep, waking up was the last thing I wanted to do. Team was lame because I was there for two hours but only danced for 4 minutes of it....come on now! Let me sleep crazy director!!! I take responsibility for the fact that if I had managed my weekend better, than I wouldn't have had to stay up so late....so that's my bad.....but at the same time, don't require us to be at a ballroom rehearsal that we don't have to be at.

Classes seemed to drag and drag today. OMG. In my Human Developmental Psychology class we were talking about child abuse, and I almost went on a bloody rampage killing every ignorant, insensitive idiot in my class....which would have been nearly the entire class. Child abuse is one of the ZERO TOLERANCE subjects in my life, I cannot handle people making jokes about it, or saying idiotic things like,
          "I don't see why everyone makes a big deal about this. Parents are just trying to discipline their children." and
          "Abused children just need to get over whatever happened to them because it makes it harder for the rest of us to deal with them when they have so many issues.",.....

and the comments like these just kept on coming. Needless to say, my blood was boiling in my veins, and at one point during the lecture I literally excused myself from the class.

I've known way too many people who have been victims of child abuse to not see it for the severe issue that it is. It's one of the most, if not the most degrading and damaging thing that a person can experience. And children have to live the rest of their lives being haunted by the shadows of that abuse. Even with the professor giving example after example of how abuse affects children's development, the general attitude was that they should "toughen up and get over it." I. Was. Furious.

So after that emotionally  draining escapade I still had three more hours of classes.....
Immediately following classes I went back to the Chiropractor to check on my shoulder and everything is back to normal! : D
Then I got to experience one of my favorite things ever.... more shots!!! Yay needles! I actually don't mind the needles that much, what freaks me out is when I can feel the vaccine going into my body.... that is WEIRD. The volunteers at the hospital have to be immunized against everything, for the safety of the patients and for us. Working around newborns, it's especially important for the volunteers in my unit to be immunized and to stay really healthy.

So now I have a semi-dead arm...which is oh so ironic considering I just barely got the bone range of motion back! oh well.... it'll be fine in a day. And then I'll be more protected from sickness.

Plans for the rest of the day....

1. Get some food....
2. Go to make-up Anatomy Lab
3. Finish Chemistry Lab stuff
4. Take a mini nap
5. Scheduled phone conversation with Blake
6. Stretch time with Ariel
7. SLEEP

 Mondays only come once a week... so both you and I still have that to be grateful for!
Until next time,
Von voyage

It is amazing what can happen in less than a week....

Hello Lovely people!

Aren't you proud of me for blogging like I'm supposed to? Instead of waiting 4 years to write stuff down?! Well, I am, even if you aren't :)

Wow I have STORIES for ya'll.... so let's pick up where we left off.

Tuesday Sep 29th
Tuesdays are entirely lab days for me, chemistry lab, we did the most complicated experiment EVER, just brace yourselves for this one.... we put a thermometer in water and had the record the boiling temperature. Now, I know you are all soooooo blown away by my scientific prowess, but try to contain your awe.

Ugh, I CAN'T STAND THAT LAB, I hate it, with the passion of a thousand fiery suns! I spent 2 years in a genetics lab in high school....dealing with DNA typing, gene manipulation, protein synthesis and all sorts of totally awesome experiments... and honestly I'm bored out of my mind and insulted by this lab and the fact that although it's supposed to "go along with the Chemistry lecture"....it has nothing to do with what we're learning....

Physiology lab, is great because it actually is the practical application of what we're learning in lecture! This week we learned how to use this fancy-pants computer system that measures the electrical impulses throughout the body which means we can measure just about anything.... When it came time to learn how to read heart impulses I wanted to be hooked up to the machine! My family has a history of heart problems and defects and I've been having trouble with my heart.... so I wanted to see what my readings would look like. Um, turns out that Alycia's heartbeat is FOR SURE irregular.... the professor was stunned by the read out, and I was too once we compared what my heart looked like compared to everyone elses! Another cool thing, is that one of the married girls in the class is pregnant, and the machine could pick up the heart rate of the baby! Yay miracle of life!

Okay, so today was haircut day. I try to be really good about trimming my hair every six weeks, and I change the color all the time too lol, which I'm sure anyone who knows me....knows that my hair will be different every 6 weeks without fail.... Okay, so one time, I thought it would be a really fun idea to perm my hair... worst idea ever. It fried my hair, and I've been growing out the damage for the past year and a half... well the stylist today told me that if I gave up three inches, I would be done with the damage..... so I said go for it before I change my mind. This is the shortest my hair has ever been....but I LOVE IT. It's cute and sophisticated and so much easier to care for! And get this..... people have been taking me seriously...... like changing my hair added two years and made me respectable lol. It's also dyed red still, but way closer to my natural hair color than it's been in a while. I will post a picture on here when I can get a good one :)

Immediately following getting my hair done, I had my hospital shift in OB. and holy craziness! We had 3 inductions scheduled for the evening, 3 women postpartum, and get this, 4 women who came in after going into labor. It was NUTS. So we have one side of the hall full of families and women welcoming babies and raising all kinds of issues, and then the postpartum ladies needed something every 5 seconds.... my shift is usually scheduled for 4 hours.... I was there for six, they needed that much help! In the 6 hours that I was there, five babies were born :) And so I got to see lots of behbies!

Wednesday September 30th
By FAR the funniest story of this blog!
After classes, I realized that I didn't really have any food....or gas in my car....or an assortment of other things because I hadn't had time to run errands in a while.... so I decided to take care of that....

I have a hidden talent. For picking out the WORST possible shopping carts. Today's model.... sounded like I was running over a small dog with a weed-whacker, shook uncontrollably and wouldn't steer straight. I know- you're impressed *wink* So I'm attempting to drive my abomination of a shopping vehicle through the aisles at Walmart when my cart decides to veer off into a febreeze display....and proceeds to introduce the ENTIRE display to the floor. Like it collapsed the display. Cans roll everywhere, some from the top part of the display hit the ground and explode, and needless to say, Alycia drew plently of unwanted attention to herself. It was one of those moments where you stand there in complete disbelief thinking, "Did that really just happen?" All I could do was laugh at how ridiculous the situation was. Seriously, Who does that?! Oh, I do apparently....haha The walmart workers were super sweet about it, and I was able to help them clean it up and make jokes, I think it was a start of a beautiful friendship haha.

The rest of the evening I spent with the six chicks, watching the best show ever. GLEE!!!! It's my favorite!
And then I got to do more homework and unwind with the girls.

Thursday October 1st
Slept in, sweet sweet justice!!! I love sleeping more than four hours! It's the best! I was taken out to breakfast by someone who means very much to me... and I'm just gonna let you all make up whoever you think that person is ;) haha. I went to institute, which was great, as usual. Then Megan, Lizzy and I stayed at the institute to practice piano and sing.
I've always loved singing, and in the past year my voice was dramatically improving, and then this summer I got my tonsils out, and it completely changed my singing voice... Alot of singing technique has to do with how you utilize the space in your mouth, and now without tonsils, my "mouth-space" is totally different. So it's like I have to learn how to sing all over again. So I've been working on my voice, and Megan and Lizzy are working on their piano, so it works out for all of us, because I sing while they play. :)

Today in singing, I was able to get some of my richness back! (Richness meaning tone quality) And even though is a long process, I'm still grateful to be able to sing and that my voice is coming back!

Ballroom practice=fun! Mucho bonding with the team, I love them sooooo much! The past teams have had to deal with a lot of drama, and I'm so happy/relieved that our team is full of chill people who just wanna dance and make friends instead of causing problems :) I'm in a waltz number, and there is this beautiful lift...which my partner and I have been able to hit flawlessly....up until last night. He totally tripped over his own feet and dropped me...from the height of his shoulders... he tried to catch me, and grabbed me by the arm... which has ended up in an injury....

Friday Oct 2nd
I wake up, and my shoulder HURTS, the kind of hurt that makes you want to cry. And i can't really lift it or rotate it in any direction. great. I go to classes, and my lovely professors canceled some of the classes today, meaning I got out early.... So I'm going to the chiropractor and seeing if he can fix my shoulder...
It almost feels like something is out of place...which I'm crossing my fingers for. Because if I injured my rotator cuff....that's major recovery, we're talking physical therapy recovery.....sigh.... I'll let you know as soon as I know!

Plans for the rest of the day

1. See the chiropractor and pray that he can fix me!
2. Take a nap, yay fridays :)
3. Clean room, do laundry
4. Get ready and go and see Macbeth with the six chicks

I'm so excited for conference this weekend, to be able to sit and do NOTHING except be inspired! I never used to like conference because it seemed so boring to me, but last year's october conference changed my entire perspective when a talk that President Uctdorf gave in the saturday morning session seemed as if it had been written for me....and I finally understood that conference was literally what God had inspired these Men and Women to say.... those words are God's words, and by listening to them there is only one person bridging the gap between me and my maker. That my friends, is a beautiful thing.
I'm so excited to hear what God has to say to me this year :) I could use some help right about now!

Moral of the blog:
Make sure that you can learn from your mistakes and laugh about your embarassments. Don't take yourself so seriously, trust me, no one else takes you that seriously.... Well unless you have an awesome new haircut WINK hahaha.
Love you all!

Until Next time,
Von voyage