My Bucket List

This is my list of things I want to do before I die.
- Go to China
- Live in a big city (only for a short time)
- Go sky diving.
- Travel all over Europe (France, Germany, England, Italy, Greece etc.)
- Go somewhere no one else goes. IE Laos, Djibuti etc.
- Ride the tallest rollercoaster as well as the fastest one.
- Go to all 50 states in the U.S.
- Shake the Prophets hand.
- Go scuba diving in Austrailia.
- Win something from a radio contest.
- Climb to the top of the Statue of Liberty
- Visit the pyramids in Eygpt.
- Star in a musical.
- Sleep under the stars on a beach.
- Be an anonymous benefactor for some charity.
- Do humanitarian aid in Africa.
- Go to the Olympics (out of country)
- Have a song written about me.
- Study abroad in England.
- Learn a second language.
- Learn to play the guitar.
- Get married and have lots of children.
- See a platypus and a beaver. (Don't ask about the beaver.)
- Go on a cruise.
- See a show on Broadway.
- See the 7 world wonders.
- Leave $20 in a pair of jeans at the store.
- See the Northern Lights
- Read every book that's won the Pulitzer Prize in the fiction section.
- Add more to my bucket list.

Create Your Own

Did you know that you can creat your own converse shoes. I KNOW! It's way cool!! All you have to do is go to converse.com and then click on create. You can chose everything from the inner lining, the color of the rubber and laces to the color of the string. It's awesome. I wish I was rich because I would buy three pair. :) I did a black white and red theme when I designed mine. Someday I will buy some.

My New Band!

So many of you have probably seen the "create your band" status that people are posting on Facebook. I created mine and it is AWESOME!

If you want to create yours, first you must go to wikipedia.org and click the "random article" link. That is your band's name. Next, go to quotationpage.com and click on "random quotes." The last 4 or 5 words of the last quote is your albums title. (I cheated and picked more than that.) Then, proceed to flickr.com and go to "the last 7 days." The third picture from the top is your albums art work. Now you are awesome and you have a band! Feel special.

Things I've Decided

- Driving by yourself on the freeway for a long time and singing along to music is really awesome.
- First dates can be really fun.
- I love my new purple sunglasses.
- I have really awesome friends, they are the best!
- Bowling is only fun if you do it incorrectly. (i.e. Granny style, on one foot, backwards, eyes closed, dizzy, etc.)Also, you must use a fake name. I like Gertrude.
- There are a lot of good songs on the radio, you just have to find them midst all the horrible commercials and bad songs.
- Pasta on dates is a big no no. You might end up with sauce on your eyebrow, and that is really embarrassing. :)
- My sister is awesome because she has friends in Dubai, Taiwan, China, and England. Note: they are all native to that country except Dubai, and she's chinese.
- I want to go on a road trip to Cali.
- I want to drive across the country from coast to coast.
- I'm SO excited that purple is big this year.
- Waking up at 5:30 in the morning to work really stinks.
- Going to bed right after work is the best.
- I have a really long list of wants. (i.e. Car, iPod, camera, job, clothes.)
- I need to clean my room so I can redecorate!
- This list is long...

Songs I Really Love

This would be a list of all the songs I love in no particular order.

- Must've Done Something Right, Relient K
- The Heart Never Lies, McFly
- Tell Me I'm a Wreck, Every Avenue
- Bad Day, Daniel Powter
- Shadow of the Day, Linkin Park
- Who We Are, Lifehouse
- Broken, Lifehouse
- There is a Light That Never Goes Out, The Smiths
- I Quit! I Quit! I Quit!, The Click Five
- Starlight, Muse
- A Day Late, Anberlin
- Hopeful Romantic, This Century
- Something 'Bout Love, David Archuleta
- Would You Go With Me, Josh Turner
- Brick, Ben Folds
- Your Guardian Angel, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- Hello Brooklyn, All Time Low
- Perfect Scene, Mercy Mercedes
- Here (In Your Arms), HelloGoodbye

These are my top three favorite bands.
- Relient K
- McFly
- Lifehouse

All those songs I could listen to over and over again and never get sick of them. Some of them have memories behind them and that's why I love them.

A Few Changes

Where to start? Well, I passed all my classes but lost my scholarship. That means that I can't afford school right now so I am moving home to work full time. Either I will go to  a Universtiy near my house or I will go to China. It's all a toss up right now. I am a little sad at how things have turned out, but mostly, I feel so relieved to have a semester off. It seems to me that Heavenly Father has been preparing me for this for a while now. Even though this isn't really what I had in mind for myself, it's what He had in mind that counts. I've been placing a lot of trust in Him lately and sometimes, I get nervous because I might not like what He plans for me. In the long run, I know that He knows best and I will see those blessings eventually. To explain a little, I was working at McDonald's at school. They weren't going to give me the break off to go home so I was going to be spending most of my break away from home. It wasn't worth it to me so I thought a lot about quitting. I mulled over it a lot and finally decided to quit. I prayed about it and it felt like the right thing to do. I was a little confused because I needed to pay rent for my apartment for the first of January and I wouldn't be able to make the money if I quit. That's when I knew I was going to be relying very heavily on Heavenly Father and my faith. I quit my job and came home. I took over a cleaning job for my brother in hopes of making enough to pay for it. Today is January 3rd and my last check from McDonald's still hasn't arrived and I still haven't been paid for the cleaning job. I'm scared that the money won't come till after a $50 late fee gets tacked onto my already expensive rent. I just keep reminding myself to have faith and remember that I've done all I can, I just need to leave it up to him. I probably won't be able to sell my contract, but if anyone is interested, let me know! ;)

Life is so unpredictable. That must be why I love it so much. You get into the swing of things and it sends a curve ball. Some curve balls really stink but others are awesome. Either way, they bring blessings and growth. I've grown a lot in just four months, enough to say I'm done moving out, but I needed to do it for a while so I could grow more. I always said I would move out and I was so anxious to be on my own. After doing that for a while, I missed my family way too much and I didn't like only worrying about myself. Call me crazy! :) It took me almost the whole semester to adjust to life and I was completely not myself. I would come home for a weekend or break and all those feelings would just melt away. I never wanted to go back to my apartment very much, but I never dreaded it either. I had fun down at school, so so much fun! I just like living where people know me and love me no matter what. I'm always accepted at home and I always have friends. Maybe I'm taking the easy way out, but it feels right. I'm much better at making new friends when I'm home than when I'm away. I've already made some new friends this winter break than I did in a whole semester away. I'm so grateful to my room mates who dealt with me and my dysfunctional self and to Heavenly Father who gave me such a wonderful experience. I'm ready to grow in some other ways now, progress in life more. Life is nothing with out progression. I just barely found a video I would like to share with you that I really liked. :)
"Look Not Behind Thee"

So moving home is one change. The other is that I've finally decided on a blog name I like and the url is different now. The title comes from a talk by President Thomas S. Monson in General Conference 2008. My new URL is www.thewaytojoy.blogspot.com. That about sums up all the changes. For now...