November Recap 1/2 (WITH COOL PICTURES!)

Let's start with all the times I've been to the store in this first half of the month. I've been trying to try different types of bottled water. Nothing like Disani or that cheap stuff, but the good stuff like Essentia, Fiji and other cool water. I go to the store now every time I go home from school.

I should mention now I am no longer having a bad time at work. I am doing the sample shift no more right now. I just come in 3 times a week for 2 hours and clean. Trevor made a list for me. I am more than happy to do that list and other things. I feel a lot more relaxed. i feel like things are looking up!

I did major paper 4, which was an annotated bibliography in preparation for major paper five. We also did a research proposal. Was it hard doing those two things? Yes, yes it was. However, I am feeling optimistic and know I can make it thorough the rest of the semester! I can make it through anything. I've learned how to correctly format an annotated bibliography and I've started doing research for MP5 and my topic is depression and anxiety. It was agorophobia, but I'm going to shelf that for now. I am improving in English and that is exciting!

On the 6th I shared this story on facebook. This happened 7 years ago. (on the 6th) "Let me tell you about this because it's quite interesting. Dad and Laura were on their way to get movie tickets. On their way there they were hit by a car from the right. The miraculous thing about this story is that I was going to go with them, but had a feeling I should stay home for some reason. I lost my interest in going and I'm glad I listened to that feeling that I didn't want to go. The part of the car that got hit was on the side that I sit on. I would have felt the greater part of the accident if I had gone since it took place where I would have been sitting. Just shows that you shouldn't ignore your intuition. I'm pretty sure it was God who put that idea into my head through the spirit that I shouldn't go. I am very grateful for that even 7 years later.".

I tried tofu steak for the first and last time at the school cafeteria.

I went broke pretty quickly this month. I'm going to get it under control though. I just need to have bettter spending habits again.

I voted for Evan McMullin in the presidential election. Trump won, but I'm willing to give him a chance. I just won't say that to anyone outside of my house, or on this blog. Election night was a crazy night and we were all on the edge of our seats as things happened. People have been protesting and a lot of people are sad. I've heard of bad things happening all over, but I think it will calm down eventually. A lot of people are stressed. America will reap what we sow.

I went to a health fair and got a lot of treats and other stuff. I've gotten so many pens from fairs and events this year in school. I also have quite the collection of chapstick as well! Candy of course is always abundant.

I have been livestreaming coloring and other random stuff like Tetris lately. Here is one of the pictures I've finished coloring.

Yesterday I took these pictures of the moon! know the super moon is tonight, but I am honestly happy I didn't wait to take pictures.

I am feeling nervous about exam 4 tomorrow in French. i should have gone to the tutor more. Hopefully I am wrong and it won't be so bad. I'll give more info on that in the future.

If I forgot to mention anything you will see it eventually.

October Recap 2/2

Here we go again! Happy Halloween! Today was pretty fun actually. We had exam toay in French and I've been going to the tutor lately, so I feel like this exam for Chapter 3 has been way easier. I am hoping I can keep the habit of seeing the French tutor up. I have been doing an hour every week. Sadly, that is all we are allowed to do, only an hour each a week with the tutor because he is the only French tutor.

I got to wear my rainbow sock monkey costume to school Today and that was fun. I didn't get to sample at work today, but honestly I don't care. I'm probably going to complain about my work experience soon. I am still having a really hard time with the sample shift. I feel like I've been shoved off onto the side. I feel like I am in the way. Hopefully I can find a way to turn things around, but I think I'm going to quit soon.

tonight my ward had a party at the bishop's second house. His second house is really nice. I went to the store on my way back from school and the mall. I got some drinks for the party we had. I got Squirt, A&W cream soda, Root Beer and Pomegranate 7UP. No one ever brings drinks to church parties, or they don't bring enough. I made sure to have fun with my selection. There were cookies and chips there as well. I loved the ranch dip we had for the chips. Part of me wishes I had brought more salty snacks, but I've probably spent enough. We played pool, watched stuff on the TV and just hung out with each other. A lot of people from the ward came, it was pretty fun. I got a little worn out and fell asleep at some point. I wasn't asleep for very long though.

I opted out of traditional candy this year and just got some chocolates from See's Candies today. I think I'm just going to do that every year, but who knows. I might change my mind later. Ohe thing I'm excited for though when it comes to candy is the caramel M&Ms. I saw those are going to be a thing soon! They are apparently joining the ranks of the permanent flavors.

Yesterday we had Stake Conference and the church was packed with people yet again. So much that people had to sit in the halls! I loved that, it shows we are serious about wanting to grow spiritually. 

Anyway, here are some pictures of the fall leaves I took a few days ago. The fall colors have been fantastic this year!

This month for some reason I've been wanting to wear my glasses a lot more. I even wore them at work one of the times I went this month. the one time I wore my glasses however to work was the one time I got burned! It was pretty sad and I won't be trying that again. I think it's for the best if I just keep them off when I am there.

I still want to get new glasses and I've even picked them out! Judy at Voational Rehab is going to help me get some new ones soon hopefully! Here is a couple of pictures of me after work when i got a Tropical Blast Chillata from work.

So remember those colorful shoes I got a month ago? I decided I didn't want them. I have given them to Plato's Closet. It's a discount store you can give brand name and trending stuff to and they will give you money. You can buy other people's stuff discounted of course. I only got $7 for them, but honestly I don't care. They take 60% off of the price and give you a portion of the remaining price when you sell. Something like that. I might be a little off. Anyway, I've been wearing my Asics brand shoes that I originally got for running but haven't used much up until now. I am a lot more comfortable wearing those ones.

I was at a hobby shop on that day looking for Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. Plato's Closet is right next door, so after I found out where the cards are for some future date when I'm going to buy some I visited. That was when I realized I could sell my high top shoes and I went home and got them. I hope whoever bought them from the store likes them more than I did. Whoever got them was lucky because like I said before, they took 60% off of the original price.

Anyway, I've been wanting to try out more brands of artisan water. Some people think all water is the same and I know better. Some bottled water and even tap waater is more acidic and some is more alkaline. You want the alkaline stuff, it is better for you. Here is a cool video.

I recal buying Fiji water sometime this month along with some ice cream.

I seem to be going out for treats a lot when I have hard homework. We have started the beginnings of major paper 5 in English. I was going to do my research paper on agoraphobia, but that is hard to research right now because it si no longer considered to be part of panic disorder. The DSM-V has reclassified it as a stand alone disorder and phobia. I am doing my research paper on Depression and Anxiety instead. We have been doing out annotated bibliographies and research proposals. I hate English homework, but I am getting better at writing stuff like that for sure.

Back to Bridal Veil Falls

My ward went up to Bridal Veil Falls tonight. We took pictures and I brought some butterscotch pumpkin cookies. We ate them together with some hot chocolate that sister L brought. I prefer butterscotch over chocolate chip pumpkin. I got then at the store on my way back from the gym. I’ll just get right to the best part.

THE PHOTOS ⭐️

Looking For a New Printer

Dad refuses to buy another printer and so I’m just going to do it for him. Our printer really sucks you see. I’m pretty sure it’s lost the ability to print out anything red. I don’t know why he refuses to give up on that lost cause, but I think it’s a male thing. This is the case for him anyway. I notice that he hates getting help fixing things. Here is a picture of the printer.

Check out our Stone Age phone too! Another thing I’m going to make sure to get rid of someday. I get that we aren’t super financially stable, but these things are important.

So yesterday I went printer hunting. I just stuck with R.C. Willey and Best Buy yesterday, but I will probably check out other places soon though. I want to get a 4 in 1 HP or Canon one I’m pretty sure. I am trying to get a laser printer this time. I will get photos of the printers I like soon. I should have done it yesterday, but I was lazy. Can’t do it today because of work. Well actually, maybe I’ll do it after work. I don’t work as late today.

Another thing I looked for at Best Buy was laptops and keyboards. The family computer has a pretty atrocious keyboard. I am not buying a laptop anytime soon however. I want to make sure I have a good headset first before anything.  I haven’t had one in forever and it’s been inconvenient.

There is the keyboard. You practically have to pound the keys.

Yesterday was blazing hot, but eventually by the time I was done window shopping it was cloudy and later it rained. There was a rainbow and I did get a panorama!

Anyway, I missed watching the men’s gymnastics tonight and am kind of bummed about that. I am pretty sure that they’ll upload it to YouTube. At least that is what I’m hoping. The men haven’t been doing great, but I still love watching them.

I nearly forgot to mention that I got dinner at the store tonight. I got Mac & cheese and this broccoli salad stuff that kind of tastes like coleslaw.

Paints & Colors

I never really knew how much I loved painting until just a few months ago. I have done a bit of painting all throughout elementary school, and beyond but I never really thought about how enjoyable it is until a few months ago when I was feeling quite stressed. A long time ago when I was 13 I went to a church girls camp and we were given boxes to paint for fun. For the past 11 years or so that box had a rather bad paint job but I never did anything about it because it was out of eye sight for a long time. Around the end of October I was feeling stressed and sad because of troubles with a close friend of mine and the fact that I had to drop out of that semester of school. I had some simple cheap paints in my art box and too much free time so one night I just decided to redo the box. I used the cardboard back of one of my fuzzy posters to paint on top of and to protect the carpet or any other surface from paint.

I wasn't sure what color I was going to paint the box at first, I experimented with colors for a while. After going through various purples, then indigo, and a dark blue I finally decided that I would paint it navy blue. A few weeks previous to deciding to paint the box I had taken another flower shaped box that I had and re-painted it navy blue and silver. I managed to stink up the whole house with nail polish fumes  doing that. Anyway, I had been painting on the floor, but moved to my desk dresser, it was more comfortable.

It didn't take me long after this to realize that I didn't have enough paint to finish the box. I went to Michaels craft store and bought the necessary paints and then went home. I noticed while I was painting that box that painting made me really relaxed and happy. I didn't paint for a while after that because i didn't know what I wanted to paint and at the time I didn't have very much money. I decided to go to Michaels and decide on more stuff to paint. I really enjoy painting wood, so I picked out some wooden boxes. I didn't buy anything right then, but waited until Christmas so i wouldn't have to spend a lot of money on the things I wanted. I got everything I pretty much wanted without naming the exact boxes, it was pretty lucky. I also had asked for a bunch of paints for Christmas as well and I got those too.

So from then until now I've been increasing the amount I paint. The picture at the top shows my latest finished project and one I am working on right now. It took me 3 days to paint that white chest, and I'm doing the smaller one metallic platinum silver. I will make sure to get more pictures when I am done painting everything I have. With all the various paints and brushes I have I really feel like my creativity is growing. I don't think I am quite done with the white chest altogether, just for now until i can find clear iridescent paint.

Anyway, before I painted the wooden chest a few weeks ago my room had been VERY messy. I hadn't cleaned it in probably 2 months. That friend who I briefly mentioned above and i were having more issues and we had a complete fallout. I find that when I am stressed one of the things that makes me feel better other than painting is cleaning, organizing and reducing m possessions. I am a minimalist and prefer to have as little as I can. Getting rid of things, organizing and / or cleaning makes me super relaxed. I did a major purge of my room and organized the whole thing, I got rid of quite a few things and moved others to better parts of the house. My newly cleaned room allowed me to have enough room to paint more.

Anyway, there are different levels of minimalism, I am as minimalist as I can be right now, i would love to get to a higher level some day though. Here is a video of one buy who took it all out. I probably won't ever get this far, I can do my best though.

I've always had this really big problem where I can never think of anything to eat at all. Today I am pretty sure 90% of what i ate today was chips. I had some beans and rice and cheese for dinner, and some ice cream. Other than that I have been really bad about food today. Because I am so hopeless about food and I want to get in shape I am going to start drinking Spiru Tein shakes twice a day starting next month. I feel my weight gain has more to do with lack of proper food and water than anything else. It's true that I don't exercise enough, but I think my food and water intake problem is the biggest issue. I can fix the water problem really easy, but I have to be more skillful about my food. I am determined to tackle my issues so i can be really healthy and become stronger. I am planning on walking every day and going to the gym a few times a week. Eventually I ant to start running and possibly swimming more as well. For now I'll take it one day at a time. You can't really rush this kind of thing.

My room has been in a constant state of being cold over the past few weeks, it's like it refuses to contain any kind of heat even when I keep my door shut. Not only does the beginning of spring mean that I can start walking again, but it means that pretty soon this problem will go away. I very much dislike being cold.

Today I went visiting teaching, the person my companion and I went to see is getting married soon and we talked to her for a good 40 minutes probably, though I didn't mind at all. We talked about her getting ready for the wedding and stuff and then we gave a spiritual lesson. Being the way i am I am not surprised that I have forgotten what exactly it was we gave the lessson on. It was nice to get out of the house for a while and see someone.

Because it was a very nice day today, after we left and I was dropped off at my house I decided I wanted to go get my ear buds and walk around the local track. I spent the next half and hour walking 4 times around the track and daydreaming while listening to techno music. I was very warm after the first couple of laps, but it felt very nice to not be cold. I went home after the 4th lap and just spent the rest of the day watching anime, listening to music and playing games on my phone. I was feeling pretty laid back after the walk and wanted to just relax. I am currently working on the Ghost Hunt anime for the second time, and after that I think I am going to try and get back into Detective Conan. I need to catch up on that anime very badly seeing as it is my favorite anime. A few days ago i started watching an anime called BECK. I had forgotten how much it swears in the English version. I quickly abandoned that and decided to watch something else.

Anyway, I've been in a pretty great mood today, besides the stuff I mentioned above I just did a little bit of surfing using the StumbleUpon toolbar. I am nearly to 10k page likes.

I should probably end this here, i think I haven't missed anything. :)

Culture

I figured I should probably wait until tonight to write this post. Nothing much besides church happens on Sunday. Today we learned about the importance of the sacrament and the atonement in church. I went with a friend a bit earlier today and hung out in the foyer My phone was only half way charged and so I brought my charger and played games on my phone before church while I was waiting. I have been into Puzzle & Dragons a lot lately. It is a really fun iPhone game, very fun bug also very hard sometimes. It's basically like a cross between Pokemon and bejeweled in a way. I like to listen to Harry Potter while I am doing stuff on my phone, that or one of my other audiobooks. I have a premium membership on Audible.com, so I get a discount and 2 free audiobooks every month. I'm in the process of collecting all of the David Eddings audiobooks.

We had pasta, potatoes, and chicken for dinner tonight. My sister made me a banana split after dinner it was pretty great. I don't eat stuff like that often, I prefer to eat healthy. I am not that fond of sugary stuff anyway, so my eating habits go well with my preferences. When I do eat sugary stuff I always make sure it is something I will really enjoy. I am quite fond of banana splits, so that was perfect.

I broke my sunglasses a few months ago, but because of winter I kind of just let them be for a while. A couple of weeks ago I bought some duct tape and I've been trying to repair them. I hope the duct tape stays on. I painted over the top of it with black nail polish.  I would hate to lose these sunglasses, they are my favorite ones, so that is why I am trying to hard to repair them.

I took a nap earlier today, but other than church and watching the Ghost hunt anime nothing much happened. This is Sunday though, so I am never surprised about it being calm a lot of the time.

Yesterday wasn't much different. I did pretty much the same things, anime, music, games, etc. I went through some J-pop songs on my computer, I need to clean some of those out. I used to listen to a lot of Nami Tamaki and Nana Mizuki when I was younger. I listened to them a bit too much though, so I think I am burnt out on those two singers. I think I need to overhaul my whole music collection. I have so many songs on my computer I haven't listened to in ages. Most of the music I listen to now I find on youtube because I don't want to buy or download anything.

There was a ward church activity yesterday in my home ward. I attend one of the singles wards for church, but I still have a home ward. Home wards are mostly attended by families and young people, young adults go to the singles ward that is in one of the completely separate stakes. For those of my friends that aren't familiar with church terminology a ward can consist of up to a couple hundred people or sometimes a little more. A stake is a collection of wards. I think that in my home stake there are 10 or 11 wards. There are 3 singles stakes within this region that I know of. There are a lot of other home stakes.

Anyway so my home ward had an activity, we had dinner, it was Hawaiian haystacks, ice cream cake, and something else that I forgot. There were tables set along the walls of the cultural hall and they each represented a different country. One of the tables represented some native American tribe or something. I could be wrong though, that one was the only one I didn't get the name of. a native American guy who's name I am sorry I don't know told a little bit about their culture and shared some of their music and a story with us. I thought it was pretty cool, I feel like a bit of an idiot for not knowing the name of the person that shared these cool things with everyone, or who he represented. I have to remember to be a bit more thorough next time something like this happens. I do remember something about morning star dancers or something like that. i could be wrong. *sigh*

Anyway, here are some picture of the tables.

Denmark and Scottland.

Japan

Vienna

Chile

Unknown one I mentioned.

Anyway, after that the kids in the ward got to open 2 piniatas, it was adorable. Nothing worth nothing happened after i went home, not that I remember anyway.

Anyway, I have a lot more to write about, but I think this is okay for today. :)

Men Are Confusing!

Once again, I suggest you check this post out if you haven't already. I still don't feel like enough people have seen it. :)  CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
I have no clue what is going on, but Ronnie has not talked to me for 8 days now. His birthday is on Friday, and I think he might be busy, but it's kind of confusing me a little because he hasn't said anything to me. I am not going to get my hopes up for anything because our friendship is mostly internet based. I wish he would at least tell me a little bit of what is going on. I've done everything I can, I'll give it 4 more weeks of slack and if he hasn't talked to me by then I'm going to call a flat line. This will truly suck for me if it happens because he is the only close friend I have right now that I feel like I can be myself around and talk to about anything. Abandoned by another friend, just lovely. I'm not going to assume anything quite yet though, I still have faith that he has a reason, I mean he has been really good to me so far, so I have to give him some slack. I'll give it time.
Today has been a little more eventful. I spent most of the first few hours of my day fixing up my blogger blog. My blogger is www.liahna.com I figured now is probably the time to get it set up finally. I already had a lot of it taken care of, but some of the entries needed editing and stuff and I wanted to host some of the pictures as well somewhere else. I reverted all the posts to drafts and I now have all my current ones until back in August back up. I still have a long way to go, but I am having fun with it.
I decided to take a break after a couple of hours, it was around 1pm when I decided to grab my phone, lie down and watch this cartoon I like called "6teen". I think the show is hilarious and so random. I am sad they cancelled it, it was a great show. I fell aslep watching it and ended up sleeping for 4 hours. I guess I needed the sleep, but I still think it was a bit much. Maybe I should make a nap alarm, so I don;t over nap anymore. I am not sure about this yet though because I tend to have my best dreams when I nap. I'll have to think about it carefully.
I decided today is the day I start working on organizing my very messy picture folder on my computer. I am using my pro account on Flickr to aid me in this task because it is going to be tricky. I just made the decision to go pro on flickr today, because I like it and it will help me manage my photos easier. I am also going to try Shutterfly, and if I like it more than Flickr, well then I guess I'll move. I think I've let the picture situation on my computer get way out of hand. I am usually pretty organized when it comes to stuff on my computer, but I guess I haven't been as careful as I should have been.
My sister ordered some gluten free pizza from Pizza Hut. It was okay, not as good as some others I've tried, but it was satisfying at least. She also got some root beer with it. She was going to get 2 pizzas but they were pretty expensive, so she got a small one for Kayla and a medium for the rest of us.
Natalie and Kayla got into some drama again tonight, but it calmed down eventually. They are still young so I try not to make a big deal out of it and ignore their fights as much as I can. I'm sure they will grow up just fine. I remember I was kind of a brat at their age, and wasn't nice sometimes, even to my friends on occasion. I think I was maybe a litle more internally bratty though. I was always good about not getting into fights though. They are both getting close to the age range I understand the most. I'll be able to help them a lot in their teenage years, I just know it. I was a teenager not to far back, I know what it is like and all the trouble you have and the worries.
Anyway, so right now I'm just sipping on my Egyptian Licorice herbal tea, and reading blogs. This is like a nightly ritual for me now. Tea is a must have every morning and night, I can thank my English anscestors for that. haha.  I am probably going to get some new flavors soon. I don't think we have enough fruity flavors.
Oh yeah! I nearly forgot to mention this AGAIN. I decided a few months back that I really want to learn how to play the Cello. Ours has been broken for a while (broken G string), and we have been meaning to fix it for a while now. I am going to get it fixed soon and then I'm going to start lessons right after that. I love the Cello so much, I"m so excited to learn it. I want to wait until tomorrow to talk about this more, but just thought I would mention this right now.

Sunny Rainbows

Busy day today.

My day started with my usual TV watching. Also the thing that actually woke me up was my mom asking if I wanted to go to this church breakfast thing. Today was Pioneer Day in Utah. Pioneer Day is the day the Mormon pioneers first arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. Every year on the 24th of July we celebrate this day.

Nothing much happened until after noon besides my usual stuff like reading manga and that stuff. I didn't go to that church breakfast thing because I was sooo out of it.  Sometime after noon we left for the store.

my sister left her wallet at a store yesterday and someone turned it in. We went and got it. I made a stop by Sally's Beauty Supply while they got the wallet. I was right next door to the store they were in and I picked up some nail polish, hair bands, a nail file, and a nail buffer thing. The colors below are Navy blue, Fluorescent yellow, and sky blue.

After I was done in there we headed over to Petsmart to just look around. My mom had gone to drop off some old stuff somewhere and we were just waiting for her to come back.

After she came back we headed over to Good Earth, our local health food store. We had to buy a bunch of gluten free stuff because 3 of the people in my family are allergic to wheat. I got a mango spritzer (it’s like pop, only it’s more healthy.) I also got some Kefir.

After we were done there we took our groceries home and put them away. I tried out my new nail polish. I wanted to do a picture for Instagram, so I did a layer before I went to Costco.  Nothing much hapened between when we left Good Earth, and when we went to Costco.

We went to Costco, not long after we unloaded our groceries at home. it was fun at Costco today, we actually weren’t down ALL the isles and looked at everything they had. My mom and my sister and I found a lot of stuff we would probably like to buy later.  We didn't buy much, just a bunch of basic things. I don’t remember exactly what we got because i never got a good look at our cart. I was looking at the other stuff in the store and payed little attention to it.

After we bought our stuff we put everything into the trunk, and went home. I snacked on some Kirkland Trail Mix on the way home, I was so hungry.  I had only eaten an ice cream bar, a mouthful of Kefir, and something else I don’t remember. It was around  4 something at the point in the afternoon.

After we got home from Costco I took that instragram picture of my nails with one of my new colors. I DID remove the polish right after though. I wanted to try out my new nail buffer and shiner block thing.

Nothing much happened for a while. We were getting ready to go to a church BBQ nearby. We went there around 5:30. They had all kind of food, salads, desserts, sloppy joe's,  potato salad, a lot of other stuff. There were a lot of people, I didn’t know very many because I go to the young adult ward and not my home ward.

There was this buy on a four wheeler that was pulling people around the grass. He had attached a train of little wagons onto the back of his four wheeler and the children were having a lot of fun being pulled around.  it was really cure to hear their laughter and playful screaming.  There was a double Decker bus nearby that the Flix For Charity people brought. They were going to set up a movie outside, but the weather was starting to look cloudy so they moved the stuff inside just in case.

I ate way too much, and I wasn’t feeling hot so i decided to skip the movie. Around the time I left it sprinkled a little, but the clouds never really gave their rain all that much, we did get a beautiful rainbow though.  Everyone loved the rainbow, it was really amazing. The sun was actually still shining while it was sprinkling, it was pretty amazing.

i got sick of being there, and I was feeling a little bad from eating too much, so I decided to walk home because I couldn’t find my dad. I assumed that he had gone to get my mom. She stayed home because she is doing the HCG diet again and didn’t want to be tempted.  He did go home to get her, but she wasn’t ready yet, so on my way home we actually ran into each other and i decided to stay for a little bit longer until he went back again to get her. i ended up going home with my sister instead though.  

Nothing much happened after this until after sunset. We watched a 2 part movie that NBC did a few years back called 10.5. It’s a movie about earthquakes. I guess you could also call it a mini series (a very mini series).  We watched that and just finished it about 20 minutes ago.

My neighbors were shooting off fireworks all over to celebrate the 24th. You could see them in every direction. We are allowed to do fireworks on this day here.  it was really cool to see so many fireworks being set off in the sky. You could even get a good view of them from my kitchen. It was a pretty fun night all in all.

I might edit this tomorrow sometime and add more details. Soooo tired now.

14 Days

Here we go, 2 weeks in 1 post. I will go backwards.  (all the photos are from my Instagram (Empathic_Heart)

EDIT: Photos are up! I'll edit again when I put the videos. 

Let's start with today first. It was pretty sunny and hot today. I went to Seven Peaks for a few hours with my sister, ben, and my nieces. Sometimes I have a bad habit of still calling him my brother in law, when he is no longer my brother in law. I just noticed that a few weeks ago.

I went down this tube slide that is very dark called "Cave in". I actually went down it twice, and the 2nd time the lifeguard accidentally sent me down backwards. It was so scary because there is quite a few twists and turns and some minor drops. I of course couldn't see where I was going because I was facing backwards and because it was dark. It was so much fun going backwards though. I got a bit dizzy for a minute or two after I went on for the 2nd time.

I also went down a regular slide called "Flash Flood" before they closed. They have two slides side by side and people like to race. I raced with my sister. It's called "Flash Flood' because they actually release a flood of water to help you start at the beginning. My sister beat me down. I got some water in my nose at the bottom because I got disoriented fora  second in the water and had to let go of my nose. it kind of stung a little, but it was okay.

I spent some time in the wave pool for a while and did the regular rubs slide a few times. I also did some tanning.

We had a picnic at the water park sometime during the time we were there. We had to go tot he park's picnic area. We had sand witches, granola bars, cheez its, Oreos, and Capri Sun.

Besides this I have just been watching Lincoln Heights on Hulu Plus Listening, to music, and watching Sailor Moon.  I actually finished the Alien arc, it's the 2nd arc in the anime, and hung around the house.

Today is also the day I was SUPPOSED to be born according to the doctors.  I was born on the 4th though as you will see further down.

My sister's new music video came out today. 

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The 16th

There is this charity event they hold every Monday night around 9pm. They have people vote on a movie, and then we watch it out doors. It's called 'Flix for Charity'. We have it behind our local Elementary school. This week we couldn't have it though, because we were sure the weather was going to stay rainy, windy, and cloudy. It ended up clearing up in the evening before the time we usually have it, but it stayed cancelled until next week. They were going to show "the Princess Bride'.

We were going to do a water fight at the nearby park as well, but that was cancelled. That was what we were going to do for ward Family Home Evening.  We ended up going to Marcie's house and reading our favorite children's stories. Marcie gave us some chocolate covered gummy snakes to try that were from Australia. I didn't ready anything, but other people had some pretty great stories.

The weather on this day started out nice, but turned cloudy, windy, and rainy, and then cleared up again.

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The 15th

I just went to church as usual. I don't remember what we talked about, it's kind of blurry now.

My mom made Creamed tuna and eggs over rice. It's actually pretty good. We also had some left over garlic bread from the night before. We had a whole loaf left.
We finished off the leftover of the day before that I will mention in a bit.

My sister in law, Kyla came over with my niece, and my brother again. It's always nice to see them.

Ward prayer was actually held at the house my childhood best friend Brooke used to live in. Someone else lives there now, it was so weird being in that house for the first time in I think 7 or 8 years. It looked a lot different and it made me a little teary eyed and nostalgic.

The weather was cloudy with light sprinkles on this day at first, but cleared up after church rather quickly.

The picture below is Ducky. Some people slept with teddy bears, some people slept with dolls, but I slept with ducky. :)

Just the book I am reading (The 3 in one book that contains the whole entire Elenium series by David Eddings.)

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The 14th

We went to Costco, and I bought some bread, hummus, and ice cream bars. I bought some pizza and a smoothie on my way out with my sister since she went and got something too. It was windy and cloudy
It rained a little, and I walked in it. It felt really extra nice. This was actually before Costco.

My sister made tuna casserole, and Ben (my ex brother in law) bought some snicker doodles, the garlic bread we are the day after, and some Oreo and Reese's ice cream.

We all stretched for a while while watching Robin Hood on Netflix before dinner. Ben was instructing Natalie and teaching her about stretches. I was actually doing a mixture of stretching and doing resistance cord workouts.

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The 12th and 13th

Honestly nothing worth noting happened on these days. I just did my usual and played phone games. I finally figured out Robot Unicorn though. And Friday the 13th happened, that is always a good day.

My family loves popcorn. Home made popcorn is like a tradition. 

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The 11th

Got to know one of my sister's friends that just happens to be a writer for Phineas and Ferb.

My sister is doing something for Phineas and ferb, but I will not spoil it.

I ordered the Phineas, Ferb, and Perry plushies off of the Disney Store.

I did a post on Xanga. The stuff above happened after that post.

My bandannas below. I have them in every color except for orange, light red, and light blue.

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The 10th
Nothing happened besides my usual stuff around the house,

I learned that there is going to be a New Sailor Moon anime next year in 2013. I started reading the manga, and watching the old series over again. I also told my friends about the new series. I met a lot of my friends on a Sailor Moon fan site 6 years ago and we are still friends now. We are actually pretty close. I made so many friends on that website. i'll have to tell you the story sometime.

My squishable duck Luke. (squishable.com)

Just some digital art i uploaded to instragram.

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The 9th

This is the day I found out about the Flix For Charity thing. They played "cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" last week. I got a text earlier in the day telling me about the movie. At first I just thought that it was a ward thing, but there were so many people there and I found out later that it was a charity thing that they do every week.  I had so much fun and the sky was so clear.  I kind of wished I brought something to eat there though like popcorn or something.

We went to a really pretty park for FHE. It had these swings that could spin around if you pulled the swing a little bit. It also had some really nice pavilions, and a really pretty duck pond. We spent about an hour and a half there doing random stuff. Most of us played volley ball, and some of us (like me) just wandered around. I will put the pictures below.

Random playground shot.

The spinning swing

Fountain

Pavilion

Duck pond

Garden Area

Out door movie

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The 8th

Nothing but church and the usual happened. I do remember we had a lesson on the dangers of false doctrine though.

I took this photo of my favorite bag.

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The 7th

Went to 7 Peaks water park and did the usual. There are these metal bars on the sides of the wave pool you can hold onto to stay above the waves, I did some pull ups on those while the waves were going.

Went to Best Buy and bought "Tetris Party Deluxe' for DS. 

Worked out with my resistance band for the 2nd day. My soreness was about at it's max by now, but not quite. My pull ups didn't help the soreness very much.

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The 6th and 5th

Nothing much, just worked out mostly and learned new stretch band workouts.  I was still burned out from the events on my birthday (below).

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The 4th

On my birthday I woke up, got dressed in my new khaki shorts, and my red shirt that had silver butterflies, and red and blue stars and part of the butterfly was also red and blue. I'll have to take a picture and show you sometime. I put some snacks in a plastic bag for the parade. I brought some Sun Chips, cheese sticks, and Sobe Lifewater.

We left after this and went to the parade. We managed to find a parking space after forever, it was pretty hard.  My mom wasn't sure if it was okay where it was. We sat at the beginning of the parade rout in a pretty good spot under the shade. We had chairs and stuff too that people said we could sit in. I wanted to sit with my relatives however so after a while my mom made sure our parking spot was safe. I was really insistent on sitting with my relatives, I did not want to sit alone. We walked 8 blocks along the parade route to my relatives and we watched the parade as we went along. I have to admit I regret leaving that spot, it was pretty good.
We watched the rest of the parade with my relatives, and I snacked on my food. We only had to walk 5 blocks back to the car because we could use the short way now that we weren't going along the parade route. 

We went to Jamba Juice after this and we all got smoothies. I got a Mega Mango smoothie.

We went home for a while and I just hung around watching Hercules I think.

We went to a picnic after a couple of hours and my Aunt's house. A lot of the people that were at the parade were there.  We had hamburgers and hotdogs, chips, fruit, salad, and some other stuff. I played Flow on my phone and "Where's my Perry?" a lot while I was there.  We had a chocolate cake and sang happy birthday to me while I was there. My aunt bought me the chocolate cake. I actually think I remember there was 2 of them. We also had my cheesecake that I bought the day before.

We went home after spending a few hours there. I logged into Destiny Online which I don't do very often anymore, and hung out with my friends for a little bit.
I was feeling a bit down on this day because sometimes I feel like my birthday really isn't my day, but everyone else's day. We watched "Once Upon a Time on Hulu Plus on our TV for a while and debated weather or not we would go to the fireworks. I was in a kind of bad mood and almost didn't go to the fireworks. We ended up going even though some of us were tired and burned out. We went to some fireworks around Thanksgiving point. I will put the video up below. 

Here is a photo, I will also have video a bit later. (edit).

We went up near the mountains around a place where we could see the fire that started the day before after this.  We then went home and did our own thing after this. All in all it was a great day.

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The 3rd

I did nothing much this day, just went to Costco and bought some stuff for the parade, bought my cheesecake, and went to Harmons and bought my cheesecake topping (cherry).