attitude of gratitude for the us of a

i'm downloading all of my pictures from arches/moab/canyonlands right now and just looking over them makes me feel so grateful for the country i live in. i know i take it for granted all the time but it is such an absolutely wonderful place! there are so many amazingly beautiful places here that are nowhere else in the world. there are always so many different people from different countries at national parks and i am blessed enough to have that right in my backyard. i've also been friends with so many people from different countries which i am also grateful for because they always say how much they love america and everything that is associated with it. yes i would love to go and experiance life in different places, but i honestly am so happy to have been born here. there are so many opportunities and freedoms that aren't available for everyone. i am blessed to be very opinionated and because i live here, i am allowed to have those opinions and to express them how i like. i think it is extremely important for people to be allowed to be who they would like without having anyone telling them that is wrong and that they shouldn't do that. of course americans are human and will tell people their opinion and that is their right but at the same time, it comes down to that individual which i think is beautiful. i am truly grateful that i was born here and am able to experiance everything that i am because of the freedoms here. i wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

the sun will come out tomorrow (even more then today)

we are leaving for arches/moab/colorado tomorrow!!! i am beyond excited. it's going to be about 80 degrees the day we show up and around 60 by the time we leave but hey that's totally fine with me haha. i absolutely love this place. it is so unique and stunningly beautiful. there are so many things to go and see. i cannot wait to put on my hiking shoes and just go and see all the things i can! and honestly it is anyone who even remotely enjoys taking photos paradise. you don't even have to try to get beautiful photos because everything is already that way. i feel like everyime i go there, i always meet interesting people too and this week should be a good one because first off it's spring break but theres also some sort of jeep thing in moab! it's going to be a blast :) if anyone hasn't ever been to arches, i definently suggest it. i feel like i'm so grounded when i'm there and everything just makes me think how amazing the world is. there's nothing like it!

 no way can anyone tell me that's not a beautiful sight
 i cannot wait to leave!!!

funnies

two funny things today. awkward engagement photos and duck faces.

first thing that comes to my mind is ouch!

i honestly love this guys face. it cracks me up

why is he in a cage?

i love this picture haha

also love this one

and i believe there are no words for this one... haha

i love duck faces!

this is what i do on snowy idaho days :) 



just read this on twitter and thought it was hilarious. "nyquil: the stuffy, sneezy, why-the-hell-is-the-room-spinning medicine"
night y'all :)

my opinion on disney (if you like disney don't read)

i really dislike disney movies. and i know that is so crazy to people but i just can't help it! haha i wrote a paper about this for one of my college english classes so let me explain. so take your typical disney princess show. girl starts out being by herself and having endless problems and just being lame. snow white has a horrible step mother that is trying to kill her and then she ends out having to take care of 7 men. cinderella also has a horrible step mother and step sisters and has to clean their house and is miserable. aurora (sleeping beauty) has a evil fairy trying to kill her and is being forced into a life she doesn't want. ariel is stuck in a life she doesn't want and has an overbearing father. belle lives with her father in a town of people that make fun of her and then is forced to live with a terrifying beast. jasmine's father is trying to set her up with guys that she doesn't like and so being 16 runs away from home. pocahontas is being forced into a marriage she doesn't feel right about. mulan is stuck with parents who are extremely strict in the way they want her to be. tiana is a poor girl who wants to start a restaurant against what her mother believes she should do. rapunzel is kidnapped as a baby and then stuck with a crazy lady who pretends to be to be her mother and refuses to let her see the world. those all are ridiculously crappy lives!! it's almost like they're trying to be too relatable but just overkilling it all.
we all know what happens next in all of these movies. enter prince charming and cue the happy ending. this drives me craaazy. so unrealistic!! all of these girls get their problems solved because they end out with some guy that makes all of them magically disappear. no wonder so many girls have such a skewed view of how love is and believe that it will just make everything ok. that's not life.
also another reason why i have a problem with the princess story. it teaches kids that they don't need to listen to their parental figure in life. think about it, how many of these girls listened to what their parents wanted them to? i don't think any of them. it portrays parents horribly. i found this on pintrest and it made me laugh cause it's so funny and so true.

if i have my way, my children probably won't watch much disney. as much as i would love to have expecially my daughters grow up thinking all of this, i would prefer to avoid it. as hard as reality might seem, that's life. life is hard. things don't happen like they do in a movie. but hey that's just my opinion :)



mystery

this is going to be completely off the wall random but it's something that i notice every week and never will understand. why in the world are there always so many people over by the gas station by hastings?? there are almost every single night at least 4 or 5 trucks of ppl just chilling. i mean it looks sketchy but they're right in plain view of everyone who drives by on 17th. haha i really just think it's a little weird.
i cannot wait for school to start up again! actually i can wait cause i don't really want to be up in rexburg again but just for some excitement i cannot wait!

houston, we have a problem

i'm not going to lie, typically i am the girl that will turn down a date without blinking an eye. i don't feel obligated to ever go on a date with any guy which ok i know is horrible cause guys have to work up the courage to ask a girl out blah blah i just can't do it. i will only go on a date if i seriously want to. but this time it's a bit more complicated then that. my boss's son really likes me... and all the girls i work with tell me that i need to run the other way as fast as i possibly can because he is not such a nice fellow. at first i thought he was alright and was just normally friendly to him but he just keeps being so flirty and persistant with me. today he called his mom and then specifically ask to speak to me which is awkward in of itself. he proceeded to tell me it was his birthday next week and asked what we were doing for it. i tried to be polite and tell him i had work cause i really cannot date this guy after everything i've been told. something tells me this is only the beginning... and i have till APRIL!! it's going to be a long month. but anyways now i feel like his mother (my boss) is going to be all mad at me for not agreeing to date her son but if i did say yes, i feel like it would be just as bad. she is somewhat crazy (not in a bad way, just in a crazy moving a million miles an hour type of way) and i just don't know what to do about the whole situation. either way i cannot wait to get out of here!!

bummed

bad news. i can't donate on account of my veins are too small. i got told to drink more water and then turned away. i drink water like crazy. i have for the last almost 6 or so months but i have to be super careful because the more i drink, the less i eat and i've been doing good with at least balancing the two but idk i guess not. this really upset me for two reasons. i need the money. like waaay bad. because of my car wreck, i had to pay a ton of money that i needed for school. i was also looking to buy a car for when i go up to school because i am going to be so far away from the grocery store etc and didn't want to walk and plus it'd be so nice. my phone is also over a year old and i mean i'm fine with that except for the fact that half the time, it doesn't work which is kind of an issue. the second reason why i'm so frustrated is because i feel like my goal is impossible now. i was trying so hard to eat right and do everything right so i could do this and feel like i was healthy enough to do so but now i don't know. it's just really not so much fun...

looking to tomorrow

i absolutely love running outside... or anything outside for that matter but really just running today made me so happy. it wasn't a long distance just a random little run but it made me so happy! i cannot wait to get back up to school so i can get back to consitantly running. i really do need to keep in mind that i need to stay healthy and not work myself too hard cause that is most definently what i did last semester and i know it wasn't good.

i'm hoping to donate plasma tomorrow for the first time! it kind of scares me cause i've never dealt with needles very much but i don't really feel scared so i guess we'll just have to see! i just am seriously hoping i will be able to because that's been my goal for the last few months. i just want to be healthy enough that they will let me. plus the money won't hurt haha. wish me luck!!!