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Things that ALWAYS make me feel better:

 My current favorite cereal

 Yes, I am a dork!

Salsa and chips

Getting my hair cut and styled.

Good friends who saved the day twice today!

Visiting with my bishop who is an amazing man. He always gives me sound advice and is a great listener.

New Years Resolutions

Lately my life has seemed a little bit out of control. It's interesting how every time I start feeling like my life and my progress is stagnant, something happens and there is a huge change in my life. So last semester I started feeling discontented and wondering what I should be doing differently in my life. Then at the climax of the semester (right before finals) I was called by my ecclesiastical leader to be the president of the women's organization. That's kind of a big deal, and a HUGE time commitment!

Needless to say, my life doesn't feel stagnant anymore. The first couple weeks of this semester, I've been trying to figure out how to balance my life. My new years resolution is to simplify my life while keeping a well rounded balance and doing all the things I need to for my present as well as future needs and tasks. Kind of a big resolution!

My first commitment this semester is a toss up between my education and the women's organization. The biggest challenge is to balance that, keep my grades good and serve the women in my neighborhood. I also need to be preparing for graduate school applications, which I will be doing at the end of this upcoming summer. I need to volunteer at a couple more physical therapy clinics in order to have a competitive application. I work at a physical therapy clinic, which I love, however I do need experience in a variety of PT settings.

On top of all that, I feel it's important for me to stay healthy. Sometimes when I have too much to do, I neglect my health, and I've realized that if I don't take care of me, I run out of energy and don't have anything to inside of me to give to other people. Although this semester will be challenging academically, emotionally and spiritually, I feel like it is important for me to exercise regularly and take the time to cook and eat healthy meals. Luckily I have some great friends who want to go running with me, so with a little help I'll have the motivation to take the time to go running every week.
This week I tried to rearrange some things in my schedule in order to help simplify things, to make room for everything I need to do this semester. We'll see how things go, but with a little help from God I'll have the strength, energy, and guidance to do everything He's asked me to do.

Highlight of the Day

Today after church and a delicious dinner at my Grandparent's house in Salt Lake I drove to the airport to pick up a friend coming back from Korea. I thought her flight came at 9pm, but it turned out that it wasn't scheduled to arrive until 9:40pm, so I had 40 minutes to kill. I sat on a bench and read for a little bit, but my lack of sleep from New Year's eve was catching up with me and I wasn't able to concentrate. So I put away my book and began one of my favorite things to do: people watching. As I watched people come and go, I suddenly became aware that the older couple sitting next to me were speaking in German! The wife went to grab something to eat, and since I was sitting there anyway, I turned to the husband and asked him where he and his wife were from (in German of course).

It turns out that they are from Switzerland!!! I knew that lovely accent sounded familiar! They have been living in Salt Lake for over 40 years, however they still speak German to each other. They were just coming home after visiting a daughter in Arkansas, but they had to wait at the airport for another daughter to arrive on her flight before going home.

That totally made my day, especially since I've been feeling a little homesick for Switzerland and Germany lately! What are the chances? :)