Old Advice, Yet Still Good Advice

Remember this post?  I realized that I've needed the advice Lori gave me more now than ever.  So I'm reusing it again to remind mostly me but also the few of my readers that life is good.  You may not be where you want to be in life, but that's okay keep growing and love yourself through it all.  In the end you need to be your own cheerleader, because nobody is harder on you than you.  LOVE YOURSELF and good things will come.

"Love yourself, be proud of yourself, and be very gentle with yourself. If you love who you are, then you will be able to accomplish all your dreams.  Have no judgement with who you are or where you are at in your life.  Just be proud and gentle and loving towards yourself"

The Best I Can Be is Jamaican

These past few weeks have been SO hard for me.  I've been running a day late and a dollar short and that's not usually how I have things done.  This chem class I'm in is TOUGH.  I've been doing so much just to keep my head above water and I'm getting burned out.  Since the beginning of the semester, I've been trying so hard to focus in on this chemistry stuff and block out the distractions that I stopped having fun a long time ago.  Somehow I've forced myself to become this robostudent and I honestly don't like it.  I keep thinking about this scene in Cool Runnings.  I've been trying too hard to be the "Swiss" (the kids that live at school and eat sleep and breath science.  Don't quote me on this but I'm fairly certain they don't ever sleep just compute).  The truth is I'm more of a Jamaican.  I like to watch TV while I do homework, I'm more of a home body, and I'm going to take a break every once in a while.  I've been trying so hard to figure out everything at once, but I'm going to take my time and decided on this transfer one day at a time.  I love my life and I wouldn't want to try being somebody else.  Hopefully, this new attitude will stick and I can regain some sort of happiness!

I LOVE SLC

Me and a Random Kid.... I love SLC!

Today we went to temple square.  It was pretty fun this year because it wasn't too cold and we got to bring my grandpa.  We visited the "pink" trees that my mom loves so much and watched the nativity long enough to see them light up the manger.  We went to the top of the JSM building which is my favorite way to see the lights.  You get to see them all in one swoop and its so WARM!  After coming out of the building I noticed the perfect place to snap a few pictures where you didn't have to wait in line to get a shot of the temple.  Unfortunately we were in a main walkway so we had a lot of strangers in the pictures.  So when we were taking pictures a random kid came and jumped in my picture.  After my little sister got over the shock of the stranger jumping by my side and wrapping his arm around me she nervously snapped a picture so he would leave.  The look on her shocked face was priceless!  As he ran away he yelled, "I love SALT LAKE CITY!"  I love Salt Lake City so much that I thought I'd keep the blurry picture to remind me of how much I really do love it.  Hopefully next year I will be a really local.  The thought alone has me nervous/worried/excited!  Merry Christmas to all!