America's Funniest Home Video!

Guys. Everybody, anybody. MY video, aired on America's Funniest Home Videos. The very video, sent from my phone, uploaded to AFV's website, aired on their opening episode for Season 23. How cool is that?! And just so you understand how excited I was about this, you have to know that I love AFV. It kind of goes hand in hand with the fact that I desperately love to laugh. And while I know that these videos are totally predictable and cliche, I still end up with tears in my eyes or abs of steel by the end of the night. Here's a picture just to note how much I love AFV. And Jackie Chan. Always Jackie Chan.

You bet your bottom dollar it was on my bucket list.

Enough of me, here's the link to Hulu, my video is about 8 minutes in. It's the one with all those stupid boys rolling on end tables:

Season 23 Episode 1

Wasn't it great. Not the funniest video, but it's mine, and those are my friends, and it's on America's Funniest Home Videos. So you can definitely say I'm pretty pleased with myself. Also, they owe me a t-shirt for this. How awesome would an AFV t-shirt be?? Pretty dang awesome I'd say. 

Anyway, that's my story for the day. Had to share my fame. (:

You rock. Happy Tuesday!

Wowzas.

How about that General Conference? Crazy right? It's kind of rocking my world to tell you the truth. A mission can either be an answer to all of my problems or simply a way that I'm trying to escape all of my problems. I sincerely wish to serve a mission and want to for all of the right reasons, but

Sundays at the Arch House

Sundays have become more steadily my favorite day. I feel now that I am older, I realize how much of a physically, spiritually, and mentally rejuvenating day it is. I try my best not to do homework (definitely doesn't always happen that way) and because of this, after church, my roommates and I basically cook and do whatever the weather permits. (:

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College is hard. This has been my go to sentence this week. Whyyy? I keep telling myself, "you can do hard things," and then it comes time to do them and I'm like, "no I can't!" And then my boss tells me I'm promoted and that I can work 5 extra hours a week and part of me is like "yay, more money" and then another part of me is like "darn, less time and more responsibility." It's good though. And I definitely can't complain because it is a blessing needed and fun to be a part of something bigger at work, but at the same time I wonder, can I really handle this? Throughout my college academics, there have been multiple times when I simply felt like a failure. And I don't want to feel that way anymore. I'm finally getting into my major classes and I don't want to fail. It's one of my greatest fears. But it's one that I've been facing alone and it's hard. College is hard.

Okay, that's all I'm going to whine about today. Because

The G-rand Canyon.

As you can probably already tell, I'm terrible at blogging. I shouldn't be surprised, this is how all of my journal entries are. Long periods of time and then long update entries on life from the past month or so. It's a little exhausting. Maybe I'll get better.

Things have been a little crazy as of late though. Back to school, finalizing schedules, moving in, promotions at work, homework, etc. Life keeps moving. It never stops. One day I'll catch up. Until then I'm hanging on as best I can and trying to enjoy the ride.

So, before I forget amongst other things, the Grand Canyon.

Enjoy:

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life! ~Albert Einstein

Alright. So a lot has happened but I am trying to take it one post at a time.

I'm dying to post all of the pictures from my Grand Canyon road trip adventure with a couple of my great friends but I know that I have to first post about my family break before I forget!

My brother Caleb and his little family of Lisa and Tyce came to visit from Vegas and it was a good time all around. It was good to see them and to take a break from school and mostly work. 

 So, steel yourself, because you are about to be hit with a large amount of photos.

It Never Gets Easier. You Just Get Better.

This statement is false. I walk up the stairs to campus daily, it never gets easier and i still come up breathing three times as hard  as when I started and wishing for an escalator. Besides this though, I suppose it's true (:

Well, summer semester has ended and I can truthfully tell you that I really just don't like school. Which is odd, because I desperately love to learn. I hate the methods surrounding that learning I guess. The ideal learning environment for me would be doing I guess. Traveling for history, experimenting for science, reading for language and so forth. I'm sure this is the true for many others. What I dislike most about school is the fact that you have to go in order to get anywhere in life. You have to have a degree to be anybody. Lately, all I've wanted is to simply drop out. The things that I've learned and wanted in life don't seem to come from a classroom. Especially when loans and so much money are put into it. Why not spend the money instead on an international trip where I'm sure I could learn much more than I ever could at a prestigious university. While I feel that sitting in a classroom learning useless facts isn't the best for everybody, I'm not ignorant to the fact that schooling is necessary for many aspects in life. Maybe I'm just terrible at school and that's why I don't like it? I'll get better. That being said. I do like school in my own ways. I like having purpose that classes give, I like discussions, I like being a part of the mass of people walking towards campus, I like being able to relate to the fellow peer sitting a table over from me at the library who has been there for 6 hours, I like forming relationships with interesting professors, I like understanding ideas and then wanting the whole world to learn what I have just realized, and so forth. Weird.

Anyway, I feel like my posts have been depressing lately. You can call me Negative Nelly today I guess. That will change though. My upcoming post will include my short break and family. Get excited. Because it was relaxing and much needed and fun and just lovely.