Halloween and Beyond...

Halloween was fun, stressful but fun. my peacock feathers arrived on Friday Oct. 30... holy crap cut it a little close right? used all day Friday at work to make my tail, and went to stephs to glue in all my feathers. it turned out really cute and i promise to post a picture soon. (i still have like 50 feathers left over so if anyone wants any i'll give ya a good deal!) We went down to salt lake for halloween night and it was so fun, and really laid back which was just what i needed!

i finished my rat lab last week and boy was that an adventure. 3 weeks of getting up to campus by 7 and in the 'barn' by 7:30! yuck but it wasnt too bad my lab partner was fun and we had a pretty smart pretty large white rat. and i mean rat... so gross thankfully i only had to pick him up once, and never again will that happen! its sad really that it ended cause that means poor dexter (the rat) got axed... RIP little guy!

November has already had a stressful start and look its December in less than 3 weeks! ahh. i am freaking out. i am doing okay in my classes but i do this every semester, swear i will be different and i always start out great but end up not sleeping the last few weeks of the semester trying to catch up. if there is a medication out there that cures procrastination i need it.. but hopefully i will be able to get it all taken care of and sleep really good over christmas break! my new classes have worked out really great except my 7:30 class... that might just kill me... but if i can do it for 3 weeks every day (rat lab) i can do it twice a week right? heres hoping! pictures and more details to come!

My Love/Hate Relationship with October

I thought i loved october,

• the crisp fall air
• being able to sleep underneath the covers and not get too hot
• the leaves changing colors
• it getting darker sooner
• corn mazes
• haunted houses
• pumpkins
• halloween
• and the list literally goes on and on.

But i recently realized that these things i 'love' actually make me 'hate' october. for example

• the cool air? maybe its cool in the afternoons but the mornings are freaking cold!! As in i am skipping class and staying in my warm bed.
• my warm bed, i wanna stay in it until at least 11:00 am
• it getting darker sooner makes me sleepy and want to go to bed at 7:30...
  
• the leaves, stick to everything my shoes making me drag them into the house and making my shoes wet in the bitter cold mornings.
• halloween i still love you but i hate deciding what to be, and i hate when i find the perfect costume early and i order all my supplies in advance and some dont show up (like the 74 feathers i ordered!!!)
• haunted things, you always sound like a good idea but you never manage to scare me. it is a waste of my money and time...

so i guess that i don't love october, i think i do but in fact i do NOT!!

one thing i do love about october is that makes me remember a great man in my life, although i remember him every day and his example will always stick with me Oct. 29 will always be a sad day. its been one year tomorrow since my grandpa luthi past away, he was an amazing man and i will always remember the conversations we have had and the advice that he has given to me. i still feel very close to him and i cannot wait for the day that i can see him again. although i think he may be disappointed in me for my lack of effort at school lately. learning was something he taught me to never take for granted and every time i read a newspaper i think of him. he was always learning always keeping up on current events. he has impacted my life in such a positive way. i love you grandpa!

my newest obsession...

so ever since the weather started to chill i have been thinking of my halloween costume. what could i be??? i was having a hard time coming up with any ideas so i youtubed halloween makeup and got a ton of videos of pin up girl makeup and hair. and although i decided to not go that route i am obsessed with that era, the women were so beautiful and classy to me. i recently have decided that i am going to be a classy women and start feed off the attitudes and confidence that women had in themselves back in the day. here are some of my favorite girls i am taking inspiration from: Gene Tierney, Miss Monroe, Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor, and of course Audrey Hepburn. I was born in the wrong decade!

THIS I BELIEVE

for my english 2010 class we are writing a paper on this i believe. and for the last two weeks i have been trying to think what i believe in. not only what i believe in religiously but also what i rules of conduct that i live by as well. i have been thinking making lists after list and reading the writings posted on thisibelieve.org.

you see i believe in a lot of things,

• in saying no
• laughter
• the power of the mind
• in customer service
• in karma
• in the golden rule
• in love--the forever kind
• in true joy in happiness
• in little kids
• in saying YES to life
• in having a positive attitude
• in making my own destiny
• in family
  

and many many more things, now the trick here is that i have to write a 3 page paper on one of my beliefs. do i really believe in anyone of these that strongly? i have started with topic after topic and gotten stuck, so really i am writing in reflection here... what do i believe, what makes me do what i do, what gets me from monday to sunday every week. well i might be thinking all night. but i think everyone should make a list WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE? also if you ever need some inspiration click here

FALLLLLL

So fall is getting close I can tell by the chill in the air when I am heading to school, and the fact that we are getting a HUGE Halloween store down by hobby lobby!! i cant wait this is my favorite time of the year.

School is going okay, i said "sorry i cant come to your house i have to study" for the first time in my life. and i think that its paying off??? we shall soon see!

life is good so far me and tia are really trying to get into scrapbooking cause we just got called as the bulletin board specialist... but it should be fun!

more to come... this quick update brought to you by a slow downloading computer!!

DREAMIN BIG, but just getting by

i am a vivid dreamer its a problem that i have. i often cant tell the difference between my dreams and reality, usually this occurs when i am really stressed about school or work and so i dream that i am at said places. (this causes problems with my emotional health just in case you were wondering...) i often wake up confused, distraught and sometimes very angry at certain people.

i had a dream yesterday night that was really bad my tia kissing my man... haha and i really woke up and kinda wanted to say HEY!! HE IS MINE. if i didnt know for a fact that she does not like my man i would have probably. (at 4 in the morning no less)

i dont know if its just me that has trouble distinguishing reality and the dream world or if other people have this problem too. but i literally have to sometimes use calming phrases to calm myself down. these dreams do also center around a certain time of the month when my emotions are heightened, but still this sucks.

school is starting soon and i am getting really excited i bought new notebooks and everything!!! i even have coordinating highlighters for classes that coordinate with the same colored notebooks and have color coordinated sticky notes too... call me a nerd if you must but this semester i am going to get straight A's!!

also baby roman was blessed this past sunday!! he's getting so big already and i just love to hold him! i cant believe how good hily looks too! guess i'll have to hit the gym more to keep up!check out Robert and Cheri's blog to see the pics so cute!

LOVE CUTE FONTS???

so i was creating coupons for work ($50 off full set of eyelash extensions if you interested let me know!!) and was looking for cute fonts to make them in. i despise making fliers and coupons because they never turn out as good as i want them too... sigh... but i stumbled on to this website kevinandamanda.com and i found hundreds of darling fonts, the bulk of them are peoples handwriting although she has some scrapbooking ones as well... and the best part?? THEY ARE FREE!! So check them out just click on FREE FONTS at the top of her website and then FONTS FOR PEAS or FREE SCRAPBOOK FONTS and download at your hearts content!