Favorite Dances

 Some of my favorites!

 

First 1:45 :)

Love, love love this one with Tara Jean

I just really love puppies.... <3

Its that time of year again. (September 3, 2012)

Eek!  I can't believe summer has just sped by so fast. Well it always does I guess, and for some reason it is always a surprise.  So much has happened!  I am already studying and preparing for my ACT test.  Oh my goodness am I ever nervous about that.  But thanks to my pinterest addiction I actually have been able to find some helpful study tips.  And they don't just say get off pinterest ;) . I will probably use them for a long time.  I really need to figure out how to add categories to sort out my blog soon. Oh dear, way off topic.  Anywho, I went and bought school supplies this year. I honestly spent WAY too much! I don't even want to type it. Its terrible haha.  It was ridiculous.  Okay here it goes, over $50.  I know, I'm terrible.  Anyways, wish me luck to the beginning of my final year of high school!

Oh and the study tips were from:
http://www.thecollegeprepster.com/2011/01/intense-study-tips.html

I love my friends. I love how we can be crazy together. I love how we aren't afraid of laughing so hard it hurts. I'm glad we laugh till we cry, and do it often. I'm glad that we know what each other are thinking without words, and I love how we always know how to make each other smile.

Current Book Reading List

So I guess I've been up to some reading lately, all of which I have absolutely no time for, but I have to fulfill my craving for knowledge somehow, so here's what I'm reading right now.

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Teach Ye Dilligently by Boyd K. Packer
• Audrey Hepburn An Elegant Spirit by Sean Hepburn Ferrer
• The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
• Walt Disney The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler
• The Book of Mormon and the New Testament

Sundays, Sisters, and Surprises

Oh golly, I just love them. Today, I had the wonderful opportunity of not working on a Sabbath Sunday and going to church. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  The sun seemed so wonderful, and everything more clear and beautiful.  Anna and I (my fantastic friend who was visiting from out of town) woke up and enjoyed our smoothies before getting ready for church.  Finally ready to go, we headed out and picked up Holly. Oh I completely forgot to mention I got my license and can drive now! But.. I still don't have a car, so my dad was driving us to church.  ANYWHO. The sisters both gave talks today and I just adore them both so much.  Sister Hayes, who for some reason, everyone keeps calling Sister Haynes, gave a beautifully uplifting talk about the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Our Savior Jesus, who died for us out of pure love. There was so much faith and knowledge in everything she spoke and it just strengthened my testimony so much. So thank you to Sister Hayes <3 Sister Stockwell then got up and bore her testimony. It was simple, but her words were expressed with sincere, heartfelt faith and love.  I know that she knows that this church is true and Jesus died for us, because the honesty was piercing and beautiful.

President Thomas S Monson said:

"If any has stumbled in his journey, there is a way back. The process is called repentance. Our Savior died to provide you and me that blessed gift. Though the path is difficult, the promise is real: 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow' (Isaiah 1:18)."

I know that Jesus Christ is my savior, and everyone's savior. That he died for me, but he doesn't just want me, he wants all of us. His love is unconditional, and he is and always will be there for us.  I know he hears all my prayers and will never abandon me.  With God, my strength can not be measured, together he will help me to face and overcome all of my battles. I know the power of the atonement and I know that with it, we can return to our Father and family in heaven one day.

 Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin said:

"Why must we love the Lord? Because as we do so, we become refined, pure, and holy. When we love the Lord, the benefits of the Atonement can wash away our earthly stain. Though our sins be as scarlet, they can become white as snow (see Isaiah 1:18), and we can become new creatures, filled with new life, new thoughts, and a renewed desire to do good continually."

Oh Boy.

Here I go again.
After all this time.

Head over heels.

Oh boy.

Best pick up line ever right?

Breakfast At Tiffany's

Breakfast At Tiffany's
Director: Blake Edwards
1961

Audrey Hepburn stars in this wonderful movie from 1961.  I just watched it. Stayed up late on a school night to enjoy this heart warming classic. Oh my goodness, I never expected to love and enjoy it as much as I did.

Here's one of my favorite parts, Holly Golightly is singing on her windowsill. To the huckleberry friend.

What is it that just makes me want to have an excuse to dress like Audrey Hepburn in this movie all the time? haha. Who would've thought such a funny movie could be so heart warming? Breakfast at Tiffany's, I never thought that it would literally have to do with breakfast at Tiffany's. Is that just ridiculous? I don't know haha but it made me so glad that she really did have breakfast at Tiffany's. 

"Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that'd make me feel like Tiffany's, then - then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name" ~Holly Golightly

Holly Golightly: I'll tell you one thing, Fred, darling... I'd marry you for your money in a minute. Would you marry me for my money?
Paul Varjak: In a minute.
Holly Golightly: I guess it's pretty lucky neither of us is rich, huh?
Paul Varjak: Yeah.

 

The fact that they always went through the windows and fire exits <3

"You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself."

Paul Varjak: I love you.
Holly Golightly: So what.
Paul Varjak: So what? So plenty! I love you, you belong to me!
Holly Golightly: [tearfully] No. People don't belong to people.
Paul Varjak: Of course they do!
Holly Golightly: I'll never let ANYBODY put me in a cage.
Paul Varjak: I don't want to put you in a cage, I want to love you!

La petite évasion

That one place, the one that always seem to be calling to you. You're so far, yet for some reason although you've never been there, you know its where you need to be.  Freedom and life, discovering and learning, taking on the world.  Close to the coast but secluded and alone. Somewhere I could fix up to my own liking and drive into town on Sundays for church.  Work at a cute café and maybe a Senior's home too.  At this little home I would read and learn. Gain knowledge. As fast and as much as possible.  Almost like place described at the beginning of Safe Haven by Nicolas Sparks.

h man though.  If I could get my hands on a working VCR, that my friend would be golden.  Can you imagine? In the little place by the coast, maybe southern BC?  All the movies given up for DVDs could be found and probably bought for cheap.  My VCR collection too.  A VCR and pull out couch in the basement.  Shelves and shelves of books lining the walls and maybe a living room lamp or a string of bulb lights across the ceiling.  The perfect getaway.

P.S. For you Matt. Darling I would drive to California in a minute ;) haha

Private Libraries <3

Someone's VHS collection. Its pretty sweet right? :)

Spared from Spare a day longer.

Our school has the most frustratingly terrible schedule system.  At the end of each school year you put in the classes you need for the year to come.  I really don't even understand why though.  Because at the beginning of every year if you are lucky enough to actually receive a schedule, you then wait weeks to get it changed from all the ridiculous nonsense classes you were put in instead of the ones you need for your actual schooling and graduating and university requirements.  Anyways. I still have band in my schedule instead of spare for this reason. But Mr J. being the awesome band teacher he is, let me just have spare anyways.  Which I was happy for since my friend had the same spare as me. Yet, when I walked around and looked she was no where to be found.  Probably went home since it was the end of the day I assume, or just went to go hang out with a different friend, I was left awkwardly by myself for a period during the school day. After awkwardly circling the school looking for anyone I knew that I could sit with, I headed to the library as the results of my search were empty. So here I was, writing this blog post at 2:14 about in the upper level of the library trying to understand why some kid was wearing a plastic crown upon his head.  The 3 gamer geeks were quiet though on the other side of the room while I sat and procrastinated my math. We're still only reviewing last years math, and I'm already lost. :/