(Welp, just when I thought I could remember this blog... lol)
1) My brother-in-law has cancer, but it's stage 2 and they think they can get it all out in surgery next month.
2) We were able to fast and pray as a family for him.
3) I got to spend time with my family yesterday to celebrate Andy and Ava's birthdays (though Ava's family wasn't able to come).
4) I was blessed that ends would meet and they are. I'm so grateful for that in this holiday season.
5) I bought OJ on Saturday and have some with me right now. It's so delicious! (I'm keeping all future colds away. After the THREE I've already had this year... no more!)
6) I got to hold Aspen yesterday. <3 <3 <3
7) I'm so grateful the snow is off the roads thus far.
8) I'm REALLY grateful that tomorrow is my last day of class for this first semester of grad school. WOOOO! Nearly made it through!
9) I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father and Savior, Jesus Christ. They bless my life daily.
10) A friend of mine is helping me cut all negative ties in my life. I already feel so much lighter and free.
happiness quote: “Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind.” ― Pablo
Monday, December 7, 2015
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Now I'm Famous!
Well, that's not exactly true, lol. I spoke today in church and was asked for a copy of my talk, and someone asked if they could quote me. I'm NEARLY famous. HAHAHA
1) My talk went well - made all the people who came to hear me speak cry.
2) The bishop also said I did a wonderful job (more than once).
3) This week was rough pain-wise, but emotionally it was awesome.
4) I got an assignment done ahead of time (that's due in December) so I know there's a week that I don't have one paper to write. Woooo!
5) God is really watching out for me and over me. I feel so blessed.
6) I have a surgery scheduled for next month to get rid of my constant pain!
7) I am saving right now to pay the doctor and I have faith that my hospital bills will be manageable.
8) My parents are amazing and I'm so blessed to have them. They came to hear me speak today and my mom has been saving me leftovers each week. I still get to have her incredible cooking each week. They're so selfless and awesome.
9) I found a new show that's been pretty gnarly so far (Gotham).
10) I'm grateful to have money to buy good food and eat well. It makes such a huge difference!
Happiness quote: “Suffering teaches joy.” ― Sonia Rumzi
1) My talk went well - made all the people who came to hear me speak cry.
2) The bishop also said I did a wonderful job (more than once).
3) This week was rough pain-wise, but emotionally it was awesome.
4) I got an assignment done ahead of time (that's due in December) so I know there's a week that I don't have one paper to write. Woooo!
5) God is really watching out for me and over me. I feel so blessed.
6) I have a surgery scheduled for next month to get rid of my constant pain!
7) I am saving right now to pay the doctor and I have faith that my hospital bills will be manageable.
8) My parents are amazing and I'm so blessed to have them. They came to hear me speak today and my mom has been saving me leftovers each week. I still get to have her incredible cooking each week. They're so selfless and awesome.
9) I found a new show that's been pretty gnarly so far (Gotham).
10) I'm grateful to have money to buy good food and eat well. It makes such a huge difference!
Happiness quote: “Suffering teaches joy.” ― Sonia Rumzi
Friday, October 23, 2015
Hardships turning around
1) I mentioned a rough patch I was going through a few posts ago. That rough patch was threatening to drown me. I am, now, happy to report that I feel amazing.
2) This is going to sound like a strange good thing.. but I'm glad I only threw up once today!
3) I got 80 pages of reading done (homework)! I have another 40... but at least I'm 2/3rds there!
4) I had incredible sleep last night. I can't remember my dreams - just deep solid sleep.
5) I have funny stories from my students again - from today: A male student today was saying lipreading was easy. He offered to demonstrate and asked me to mouth something. Of course I went with "antidisestablishmentarianism" and he said I was cheating and the word was too long. So I went with "watermelon." He goes, "Women!" "Ha! Nope. Watermelon." "That's pretty much the same thing." "Women and watermelon!?" "Ya, they're both juicy." 0.o So there you go my female friends, from the mouths of children (don't want to say "babes" in this scenario... lol).
6) From yesterday: Delicious irony - my student wrote "Je suis supide ne pas." (Meaning to write "je ne suis pas sTupide.")
7) I have amazing supportive parents and a mom I've talked to a couple times this week on the phone.
8) A few of my students were fake fighting over me today. It feels good to be loved!
9) I tweaked and turned in a MASSIVE assignment (took me 18 hours to do it) tonight. SO good to have that off my back!
10) I received a kind anonymous compliment on this blog. Thank you whoever you are! You made my evening. ^ - ^
happiness quote: “Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
2) This is going to sound like a strange good thing.. but I'm glad I only threw up once today!
3) I got 80 pages of reading done (homework)! I have another 40... but at least I'm 2/3rds there!
4) I had incredible sleep last night. I can't remember my dreams - just deep solid sleep.
5) I have funny stories from my students again - from today: A male student today was saying lipreading was easy. He offered to demonstrate and asked me to mouth something. Of course I went with "antidisestablishmentarianism" and he said I was cheating and the word was too long. So I went with "watermelon." He goes, "Women!" "Ha! Nope. Watermelon." "That's pretty much the same thing." "Women and watermelon!?" "Ya, they're both juicy." 0.o So there you go my female friends, from the mouths of children (don't want to say "babes" in this scenario... lol).
6) From yesterday: Delicious irony - my student wrote "Je suis supide ne pas." (Meaning to write "je ne suis pas sTupide.")
7) I have amazing supportive parents and a mom I've talked to a couple times this week on the phone.
8) A few of my students were fake fighting over me today. It feels good to be loved!
9) I tweaked and turned in a MASSIVE assignment (took me 18 hours to do it) tonight. SO good to have that off my back!
10) I received a kind anonymous compliment on this blog. Thank you whoever you are! You made my evening. ^ - ^
happiness quote: “Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Mid-week Mores
1) I got to talk to my maman today on the phone. ^ - ^
2) I got to watch some BBT.
3) I had some delicious dal for dinner. Mmmm
4) Yoga was great today - my teacher said I was doing well. ^ - ^
5) I got my new movies in the mail. I love being able to shop from home.
happiness quote: “Today, many will choose to live free of conditions and rules governing their own happiness. Why not you? Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions! Today's a new day!” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
2) I got to watch some BBT.
3) I had some delicious dal for dinner. Mmmm
4) Yoga was great today - my teacher said I was doing well. ^ - ^
5) I got my new movies in the mail. I love being able to shop from home.
happiness quote: “Today, many will choose to live free of conditions and rules governing their own happiness. Why not you? Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions! Today's a new day!” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Friday, September 18, 2015
The weekend approacheth
1) I'm so grateful I have a grant for grad school. It was not as much as I was told it would be (about half the amount), but it still means that I don't have to worry about one semester.
2) My students decorated me up with henna. It looks pretty great!
3) I wrote one message on my arm (with henna). I have some old scars from some traumas I went through many years ago. The old scars say "I'm not worth it." I wrote over them in henna, "Ma vie est belle." I did that for two reasons: 1) I am trying to get through another rough patch. 2) I don't want those old traumatic messages to control my current hardships. So I am telling myself and believing that my life is beautiful. I don't know that I can make it such, but I believe in an all-powerful God who can.
4) I have a new friend who is really kind and supportive.
5) One of my grad school professors is radically behind in her grading so she threw out one of our papers (we have one due every week). Wahoo!!! She also cancelled class over Thanksgiving. HUZZAH!!!
happiness quote: “We're all pieces of the same ever-changing puzzle;
some connected for mere seconds, some connected for life,
some connected through knowledge, some through belief,
some connected through wisdom, some through Love, and some connected with no explanation at all. Yet, as spiritual beings having a human experience, we're all here for the sensations this reality or illusion has to offer. The best anyone can hope for is the right to be able to Live, Learn, Love then Leave. After that, reap the benefits of their own chosen existence in the hereafter by virtue of simply believing in what they believe. As for here, it took me a while but this progression helped me with my life: "I like myself. I Love myself. I am myself.” ― Stanley Victor Paskavich
2) My students decorated me up with henna. It looks pretty great!
3) I wrote one message on my arm (with henna). I have some old scars from some traumas I went through many years ago. The old scars say "I'm not worth it." I wrote over them in henna, "Ma vie est belle." I did that for two reasons: 1) I am trying to get through another rough patch. 2) I don't want those old traumatic messages to control my current hardships. So I am telling myself and believing that my life is beautiful. I don't know that I can make it such, but I believe in an all-powerful God who can.
4) I have a new friend who is really kind and supportive.
5) One of my grad school professors is radically behind in her grading so she threw out one of our papers (we have one due every week). Wahoo!!! She also cancelled class over Thanksgiving. HUZZAH!!!
happiness quote: “We're all pieces of the same ever-changing puzzle;
some connected for mere seconds, some connected for life,
some connected through knowledge, some through belief,
some connected through wisdom, some through Love, and some connected with no explanation at all. Yet, as spiritual beings having a human experience, we're all here for the sensations this reality or illusion has to offer. The best anyone can hope for is the right to be able to Live, Learn, Love then Leave. After that, reap the benefits of their own chosen existence in the hereafter by virtue of simply believing in what they believe. As for here, it took me a while but this progression helped me with my life: "I like myself. I Love myself. I am myself.” ― Stanley Victor Paskavich
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Onward and upward!
1) I got to spend time with my family for my sister's birthday. It felt amazing. I love my family so much!
2) I have a lot of work to do for grad school, but I seem to have gotten into a rhythm now. Every other week I have two papers due and the off weeks I only have one paper due. So far I have been able (if even only by ten pm the night before) to keep up on my homework.
3) I am having a game night next Saturday and it sounds like a lot of people are coming!
4) I was able to pick up my place. There wasn't a TON of stuff around, but enough that I could tell I had had a hectic week. I feel a lot more peace when I am in a clean environment so I am feeling happy now!
5) I haven't had any of my papers graded yet (and I've turned in four!), but I am feeling pretty confident that I will do well because I worked hard on them.
6) I had a really great conversation with one of my professors this week and she gave me some GREAT advice for how to make my class into what I want it to be.
7) I put my first assignment and video lectures up on the class website and feeling awesome and tech savvy!
8) I am currently at home watching football. I'm so grateful it's football season!!!
9) I saw Dre (BFF) tonight at Red Robin. It was awesome to talk to her in person! <3
10) I am going to add an institute class to my schedule. (I'm not doing enough with yoga workouts, gym workouts, and three jobs... HAHAHA!)
happiness quote: “How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.” ― Nikos Kazantzakis
2) I have a lot of work to do for grad school, but I seem to have gotten into a rhythm now. Every other week I have two papers due and the off weeks I only have one paper due. So far I have been able (if even only by ten pm the night before) to keep up on my homework.
3) I am having a game night next Saturday and it sounds like a lot of people are coming!
4) I was able to pick up my place. There wasn't a TON of stuff around, but enough that I could tell I had had a hectic week. I feel a lot more peace when I am in a clean environment so I am feeling happy now!
5) I haven't had any of my papers graded yet (and I've turned in four!), but I am feeling pretty confident that I will do well because I worked hard on them.
6) I had a really great conversation with one of my professors this week and she gave me some GREAT advice for how to make my class into what I want it to be.
7) I put my first assignment and video lectures up on the class website and feeling awesome and tech savvy!
8) I am currently at home watching football. I'm so grateful it's football season!!!
9) I saw Dre (BFF) tonight at Red Robin. It was awesome to talk to her in person! <3
10) I am going to add an institute class to my schedule. (I'm not doing enough with yoga workouts, gym workouts, and three jobs... HAHAHA!)
happiness quote: “How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.” ― Nikos Kazantzakis
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Finding the peace
1) I did yoga nidra today and found peace. (The last time I did it I had a major panic attack, so it was nice to find peace below the surface with all the things I have going on.)
2) I had a delicious dinner (chili).
3) I've already started on my homework for next week. ^ - ^
4) I got A LOT done today including sending in my first mortgage payment. Woooo!
5) I'm being blessed with ideas for lessons. I am still working on improving them but at least I have ideas to move forward and save time for my homework.
6) I am not particularly enjoying being an adult (as in it's not fun to pay bills), but I am taking great satisfaction from being able to be self-sufficient. I'd love to have someone in my life who made things easier on me (well, I do have God and I don't want to negate the wonderful things He does for me), but the reality is I'm single. It's actually a blessing to not have to deal with the hassles of dating, right now, because I'm extremely busy!
7) I made a new friend! It's nice to have someone who wants to occasionally spend time with you and who understands life is busy. ^ - ^
happiness quote: “A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
2) I had a delicious dinner (chili).
3) I've already started on my homework for next week. ^ - ^
4) I got A LOT done today including sending in my first mortgage payment. Woooo!
5) I'm being blessed with ideas for lessons. I am still working on improving them but at least I have ideas to move forward and save time for my homework.
6) I am not particularly enjoying being an adult (as in it's not fun to pay bills), but I am taking great satisfaction from being able to be self-sufficient. I'd love to have someone in my life who made things easier on me (well, I do have God and I don't want to negate the wonderful things He does for me), but the reality is I'm single. It's actually a blessing to not have to deal with the hassles of dating, right now, because I'm extremely busy!
7) I made a new friend! It's nice to have someone who wants to occasionally spend time with you and who understands life is busy. ^ - ^
happiness quote: “A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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