Confidence

I heard this song on my iTunes this morning. I felt an overwhelming sense of peace and desire to be better in every aspect of my life. It means a lot to me so I thought I would share it. Unfortunately I couldn't find it on youtube, but here are the lyrics :)

Before it was Said by FFH

Every day I sit and pray to God above
To watch over me and my family
But every day I seem to pray the same old thing
In the same old way, and I start to think

That maybe I should change
And find something better to say
But I've learned to believe
You always hear me when I pray

So I get down on my knees
'Cause I'm stronger than these
Voices inside of my head
They try to deceive me
And make me believe
That I would be better instead
To take my requests and put them to rest
But You're already one step ahead
You knew just what I would say
Before it was said

Every night I lie awake wondering
If You're listening to every heartbeat
You've told me that You know the deepest part of me
And You'll watch over me and my family

So I guess I shouldn't change
'Cause You hear every word that I say
And I know You are here
When I come to You this way

So I get down on my knees
'Cause I'm stronger than these
Voices inside of my head
They try to deceive me
And make me believe
That I would be better instead
To take my requests and put them to rest
But You're already one step ahead
You knew just what I would say
Before it was said

So I guess I shouldn't change
'Cause You hear every word that I say
And I knew You were here
When I knelt down today

So I get down on my knees
'Cause I'm stronger than these
Voices inside of my head
They try to deceive me
And make me believe
That I would be better instead
To take my requests and put them to rest
But You're already one step ahead
You knew just what I would say
Before it was said

People are Tacky

There are several things that I've experienced in the last several days that I think are extremely tacky.

• Breaking up with someone over the phone is tacky:
• This actually happened to me this week. I'll admit it's a step up from email or texting, but still... if you can't break up with the person to their face, there's an issue.
• Offering an employee a new job over instant messaging is tacky:
• Someone close to me had this happen. She accepted this new job. Her boss later called and took back the offer. This is bad on many levels.

We're so attached to our rapidly increasing technology that we can't have an important conversation, like those listed above, face to face. Unfortunately, this is a growing problem. I am all in favor of adapting our lives to what we've got surrounding us, but I also think that we need to still know how to appropriately deal with important situations. If people could handle these scenarios before all this new stuff came about, then surely we can do the same now.

• Over the top tattoos are tacky:
• Don't get me wrong, I am not opposed to tattoos in general. That would be dumb because I have one myself. However, it's located on my ankle and very discrete. I can still be a professional. I agree with self expression, but I also think it's taken too far when it covers your entire limb, back, face, or any other location of your body.

I got a hug from Jenna!

           My roommate Jenna came upstairs looking for some help this afternoon. She was looking for assistance in replacing a brake light in her car. My car has a similar set up and I've replaced my lights before so I took a shot at it. Alas, I was successful! Jenna was super excited when I was able to help her. She gave me a big hug and said that I won "The Best Person of the Day Award". This is sort of a big deal because apparently it only happens once a day, hahah. Jenna is not the hugging type of person so it was an even bigger deal. I've never seen Jenna give anyone a hug. Ever. It was quite an exciting event that I got to take part in :)

Spring :)

 

These are just a few of the beautiful flowers that I got to see when I was home in

Salt Lake for Mother's Day weekend. The weekend was gorgeous and the weather

was spectacular. The yearly Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point is an incredible

sight, and I hope to go again in the future :)  

My beautiful Mother on Mother's Day Weekend! :)

         

Explanation

            Today, I am starting on this new adventure of blogging. I have always been an avid journaling fanatic, but lately I've been slacking because it hurts my wrist to write so much. I also have a deep love for my laptop and enjoy typing, so I figured I would give this a shot. I can still get my thoughts out and my hands can actually keep up with my brain at this rate :) I'm much faster at typing than writing...

           So, what actually inspired me to start this blog is a technology presentation in my Maymester class this morning. We are teamed up and each group chooses a piece of technology to implement into our classrooms (iPod, cell phone, Skype, you name it). The group that presented today chose to discuss how to apply blogging when we are teachers. I'm all about going green, so when they shared how many things you could do with blogs and save paper, I got really excited. Henceforth, an idea was born.

First Shot

So this is my first attempt at blogging. I'll get the hang of it soon but until then, please be patient :)