A Nice, Quiet Evening

What a weird Friday night. I hardly slept last night, because I was finishing a take home midterm for my 8am class this morning, so I took a nap this afternoon. I meant it to be about an hour- even set an alarm. FIVE, count them, five hours later I woke up. I must have been seriously sleep deprived. Wow. It felt good, but now its 2am and I'm wide awake.

Anyway, my nap/sleep all day made for a pretty quiet evening. I hung with my roommate and a couple other people who came over a bit, watched a little Olympics (can I just say, I LOVE Evan Lysachek, even if his masculinity is "meticulously cultivated"), and took a bath. It sounds like a quiet evening, but I actually really enjoyed it. Sometimes NOT going out on a Friday night is kind of nice. There is a tendency towards feeling a bit lonely, but really, it feels good to just chill; to do what I want to do, without worrying too much about what other people are thinking about it.

Now I'm writing a blog post, reading a crappy LDS novel, and knitting. It sounds like something a depressed person does, but the more I do these relaxing things I like, the more I realize its really not depressing, but enjoyable. This is not to say I want to sit around all the time with no direction or purpose, but once in a while its really nice. Go try it sometime.

My New and Improved Job-less Life

The title makes it sound negative, but if you read my first post, you'll know its really not. I am so excited about the rest of this semester. I am excited to do my best work, and be my best self. I keep saying how I am going to be super woman, and I really think I am. So, I know this is like a month and a half late, but I'm making some resolutions. Hopefully writing them down will be a good way to make me do it.

Here's the goals:

1) Get ALL my homework DONE, ON TIME.

2) Improve my scripture reading and prayer= do it EVERYDAY.

3) Clean up my room, and keep it that way.

4) Go to bed and get up at the same time every day. Bed by no later than Midnight, up no later than 8. You have no idea how foreign that sounds to me, but I know it will be good.

5) Eat less junk and fit exercise into my life= three times a week.

6) Go to the temple regularly.

So... I'll report on my progress. I'm gonna go put away the Salt & Vinegar Chips now.

Happy Valentines Day!

Is it just me, or has this Valentines day seemed extra extended? I mean, everyone talks about it Friday at school, they buy stuff on Saturday, and it gets distributed today... Call me cynical, or just call me single, I guess I'm hyper aware. It actually hasn't been bad, considering. No moping, no depressed-ness... I just heard about it a lot. My only Valelntinesness was reading a sappy Mormon romance novel. Win.

My favorite part of today was ice dancing- the married Chinese couple Zhang and Zhang doing a beautiful, flawless, best scored short program ever- it was way cool. I am a total Olympics nerd, and proud of it. I'm not a sports girl, but I love the Olympics. I love getting chills while watching TV. What could be better? Winter Olympics especially remind me of where they were here in Salt Lake. I was in seventh grade, and I actually had the amazing opportunity to go to the closing ceremonies. It was so cool. I remember being really cold, seeing some amazing performers and fireworks, and just feeling the amazing spirit of world unity.

See those white "snowballs"? I totally have one. Its gonna be worth like a million bucks one day. I can't wait for my posterity to be on Antiques Roadshow. :)

This ISN'T the First Post

Okay, so we wanted to do a first post about how our lives really are like Lizzy and Jane, but... yeah I have better things to do with my time. Maybe we'll get to that some other time. I'm not totally in the happy, upbeat mood I want the blog to be like either, but hey. I'm writing, and thats happy.

I'm trying to make a decision about quitting work. I know that school is the most important thing, but I hate to go deeper into debt, and I like my job. How many people can say that? I don't think all that many. I don't know what the answer is, but I know what's going on right now is not working, and that quitting work is the only concrete thing I can change. Sigh. My mom thinks I should just quit, which is surprising actually, considering how money-minded she is. I think that right now she just has so much else on her plate that she doesn't need me calling her every week to tell her how I'm having a breakdown. I kind of agree with that. I don't need to be whining all the time. I have so much to be grateful for. I just need to sit down and sort out what I can and can't do.

Things I'm not getting done: Some of my homework, writing to my friends on missions, figuring out what I want to do with my summer, figuring out what I want to do with my FUTURE, a social life, cooking for myself, exercising, writing in my journal, writing a blog, keeping up with my spirituality...

Wow. That is a pretty big list. I don't think quitting my job will make me be able to do all those things, but I will be able to do more of them, especially the most important ones.

Deep breath. Say a prayer. I think I'm quitting.