Top 5 things about Yoga:
5. I can do it wherever I want...at least some form of yoga (breathing, meditating, learning, stretching, etc.)
4. It is something that I can work at for life.
3. It will help me become more healthy in body (which needs a lot of help), mind, and spirit (as it fits very well into an LDS philosophy).
2. There is a lot of help (books, youtube, yogatoday.com, etc.).
1. It is fun and challenging.
Top 5 things about being employed:
5. Money
4. Keeps your mind occupied...well, not my job, because I do laundry all day which is just repetition of the same thing over and over and over...
3. Gives you time to think. :)
2. Allows you to have income and thus create a budget. What a good idea.
1. Helps you to structure your time and causes you to need to use the time that you have wisely.
I have been getting ready to go for a long bike ride. a couple hundred miles. But I need to remember to ask my boss for the time off. I need two days or more. It will be a bike ride from here in Provo to Zion's Nat'l Park. There I will meet up with Joseph, Alia, and any or all of the following: Mallorie, Zach, Lauren, Liz, BreeAnne, and whoever else we feel like inviting. In order to prepare I have been riding an hour solid and will continue to do so at least 3 times during each week and hopefully a 2 hour ride on Saturdays. I don't feel like I will be in good enough shape but I know I can push myself through just about anything and in the end if I don't make it I will just have one of the people drive highway 89 and pick me up on the way down. That is why I am only taking 2 days off work. I will take off after work on Wednesday and ride until I can't see anymore...hopefully I will be able to camp on the side of the road somewhere. I will wake up early on Thursday and ride as long as I can see. Friday I hope to get to the Park sometime just after noon. I don't know when the others will get there but if they get there around noon we can all do a hike, do another on Saturday and go home that night or Sunday morning...depending on how much it costs to camp and how everybody feels. I'm excited.
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03 August 2010
29 June 2010
Detoured
Top 5 things about being back in Provo:
5. I'm sleeping on a bed...although, the mattress in Mesa, AZ was divine...thanks Chris!
4. Cool roommates/friends/acquaintances/strangers...though I am debating whether this one makes the top 5 because there were some AWESOME people in San Diego and Mesa that I hope I get to see sometime in the near future.
3. Hopefully finding a job soon.
2. Getting to ride my bike!
1. You knew this one was coming...Being with Alia.
It was great...I pulled into town around 8:30am on Sunday and when I went to S109 Alia was practically bouncing off the walls. :)
Top 5 things from the drive (not the one between San Diego and Mesa, but Mesa and Provo):
5. Listening to and screaming the lyrics of Good Charlotte with Mallorie.
4. Rising up and dropping down thousands of feet many times within a few dozen miles.
3. Missing the heat of the AZ desert because we took off at 8:30p (AZ time) and got home at 8:30a (UT time).
2. Driving for miles and miles under a full moon through the desert with the lights off (that's hypothetical...as if anyone would ever do that).
1. Stopping on the bridge over the east end of the Grand Canyon; throwing rocks into the air and waiting the 7 seconds for them to hit the water; the gunshot noise they made as the sound echoed up the canyon wall.
That was a great end to a great trip. And I am so glad we took the "long way home." Chris is the bomb, so is his roommate, so is Mallorie, so are Michael, Canada, and their families. I love you all.
5. I'm sleeping on a bed...although, the mattress in Mesa, AZ was divine...thanks Chris!
4. Cool roommates/friends/acquaintances/strangers...though I am debating whether this one makes the top 5 because there were some AWESOME people in San Diego and Mesa that I hope I get to see sometime in the near future.
3. Hopefully finding a job soon.
2. Getting to ride my bike!
1. You knew this one was coming...Being with Alia.
It was great...I pulled into town around 8:30am on Sunday and when I went to S109 Alia was practically bouncing off the walls. :)
Top 5 things from the drive (not the one between San Diego and Mesa, but Mesa and Provo):
5. Listening to and screaming the lyrics of Good Charlotte with Mallorie.
4. Rising up and dropping down thousands of feet many times within a few dozen miles.
3. Missing the heat of the AZ desert because we took off at 8:30p (AZ time) and got home at 8:30a (UT time).
2. Driving for miles and miles under a full moon through the desert with the lights off (that's hypothetical...as if anyone would ever do that).
1. Stopping on the bridge over the east end of the Grand Canyon; throwing rocks into the air and waiting the 7 seconds for them to hit the water; the gunshot noise they made as the sound echoed up the canyon wall.
That was a great end to a great trip. And I am so glad we took the "long way home." Chris is the bomb, so is his roommate, so is Mallorie, so are Michael, Canada, and their families. I love you all.
23 May 2010
Lucky Crickets, some of them anyway
Dude, tonight was great. Great friends, great music, great food from Tucanos, great milkshakes from Sammy's. So Alex Vincent's birthday was today (technically yesterday), Happy Birthday Alex! And he celebrated by practicing for a while this afternoon with Jasmine Low, Suzy Lind, and I. Then going to work, then we all went to the Springville Art Museum to play some folk music for a great audience. This is the second show where I've been called a "Lucky Cricket(s)" and it's startin to grow on me. It was tons of fun. Jas made cookies for Alex so we all got to partake (great cookies btw, thanks) and then we had some hungry folks. What better way to fill the stomach and soul than with milkshakes and sweet potato fries. MMMmmm. It was a fun night.
The day, though, was no less awesome. Chris Welton's back from Italy, and doesn't go to AZ for a bit so he's hangin with the boys (N106) and we went to Tucanos with Canada, Mallorie, Alia, and Kimberly (Stockli, Guerra, Strickling, and Crowther...respectively). What a blast.
I must say that life is good. I guess 1,000,000+ t-shirts just don't lie.
Paz
The day, though, was no less awesome. Chris Welton's back from Italy, and doesn't go to AZ for a bit so he's hangin with the boys (N106) and we went to Tucanos with Canada, Mallorie, Alia, and Kimberly (Stockli, Guerra, Strickling, and Crowther...respectively). What a blast.
I must say that life is good. I guess 1,000,000+ t-shirts just don't lie.
Paz
04 April 2010
Friends and Planning
Yesterday was clinicals, but that was most definitely not the best part of the day. I had a little mission reunion. It was absolutely phenomenal. I really enjoy those people's company and I think they're all so awesome. They're spiritual, funny, intelligent, and happy people. It turns out that Shar Mumford married Derek Stokes so that is 2 sets of missionaries from the mission that hit it off because Ernesto Escobar married Leanna Dellenbach a few years ago I got to see their daughter Azeléa. She's gorgeous and super social. Cute. Matt Kiisel got married last year to Heather. Jack Christensen had a baby a few months ago with Sausha.
It was the best to see Sister Weipert. She is amazing and has been through a lot. I love her very much and hope I can make time to go to San Diego and see her again. She came up with her daughter. I didn't think I would ever say it, since he pushed me till I broke...literally, but I wish I could see President Weipert again. I know, though, that he's watching me and saying, "me tienes que rendir cuentas, Elder!"
That was a great day and after the reunion I gave Sebastian Palma a ride down to temple square. They are doing tons of construction for the new city center so I am sure that the conference goers are having a crazy time. It's General Conference weekend and the talks today were really good. It was funny that during priesthood session before President Monson gave his talk he stopped to say that this was one of the greatest priesthood sessions he's ever been to and that we would do well to remember and follow the counsel that we received. I really want to start reading the Ensign more. I hope that this summer I might be able to start doing that.
There are so many parts of my life that need re-vamping. I look at my brother Ross and think, "man, has he got it together!" Ross plays in 2 bands, holds down 2 jobs, is finishing his baccalaureate and working on his masters all at the same time! Plus he has a girlfriend. I don't know how he does it and still pulls off A's in all of his classes and doesn't get depressed. I think to myself, I am doing a course load of 16 credits, don't work, hate doing homework, get depressed on a regular basis, don't play my fiddle more than 1x per week, sleep less than 6 hours a night, and only get B's in my classes.
So tell me, how is it done? Am I broken? Where does my time go? I think if I tried really hard I could get things straightened out though. I would just need a different place to live where I didn't have as many distractions. I am going to get a job soon, probably working at the mall. I just need some sort of income. I live on my pell grant and student loans. I know they say that you can go into debt on schooling but I think I've taken it to an extreme, seeing as how I am not working when I have extra hours in my day that disappear.
The plan (which needs to be implemented sooner rather than the unreachable 'some day')
Start going to the temple each week at least. Start waking up and going to bed at a set time. Start preparing to go to bed at a set time. Start doing homework on campus and having set times for meals. Take lunch to campus and have a dinner planned out. Exercise each day. Start making sure that my prayers are being said no matter what. Start reading the scriptures in the morning and studying them for a set amount of time in stead of reading a chapter and forgetting about it. Start implementing latter-day revelation and current scripture into my study. Begin planning out times for study and setting goals that I can reach each day, week, month, semester and year. Go on dates regularly and do not stay out till curfew. Keep my room clean and organized. Take care of my health through eating, exercising, and relaxing (yoga, stretching, enough rest at night, good activities). Start working on fulfilling my calling well. Work on my family history.
So that is the plan. Not to be implemented someday, but this week, today...well it's too late to go to bed at a decent hour and such but I can try to get up at a good time and work on everything from there. Alright! (don't you just love motivation?) I just wish I had people around who would facilitate this all. I just have to do it I guess.
Ok, there is my spiel...as always. I rant on things for a while. I really want this one to work though.
It was the best to see Sister Weipert. She is amazing and has been through a lot. I love her very much and hope I can make time to go to San Diego and see her again. She came up with her daughter. I didn't think I would ever say it, since he pushed me till I broke...literally, but I wish I could see President Weipert again. I know, though, that he's watching me and saying, "me tienes que rendir cuentas, Elder!"
That was a great day and after the reunion I gave Sebastian Palma a ride down to temple square. They are doing tons of construction for the new city center so I am sure that the conference goers are having a crazy time. It's General Conference weekend and the talks today were really good. It was funny that during priesthood session before President Monson gave his talk he stopped to say that this was one of the greatest priesthood sessions he's ever been to and that we would do well to remember and follow the counsel that we received. I really want to start reading the Ensign more. I hope that this summer I might be able to start doing that.
There are so many parts of my life that need re-vamping. I look at my brother Ross and think, "man, has he got it together!" Ross plays in 2 bands, holds down 2 jobs, is finishing his baccalaureate and working on his masters all at the same time! Plus he has a girlfriend. I don't know how he does it and still pulls off A's in all of his classes and doesn't get depressed. I think to myself, I am doing a course load of 16 credits, don't work, hate doing homework, get depressed on a regular basis, don't play my fiddle more than 1x per week, sleep less than 6 hours a night, and only get B's in my classes.
So tell me, how is it done? Am I broken? Where does my time go? I think if I tried really hard I could get things straightened out though. I would just need a different place to live where I didn't have as many distractions. I am going to get a job soon, probably working at the mall. I just need some sort of income. I live on my pell grant and student loans. I know they say that you can go into debt on schooling but I think I've taken it to an extreme, seeing as how I am not working when I have extra hours in my day that disappear.
The plan (which needs to be implemented sooner rather than the unreachable 'some day')
Start going to the temple each week at least. Start waking up and going to bed at a set time. Start preparing to go to bed at a set time. Start doing homework on campus and having set times for meals. Take lunch to campus and have a dinner planned out. Exercise each day. Start making sure that my prayers are being said no matter what. Start reading the scriptures in the morning and studying them for a set amount of time in stead of reading a chapter and forgetting about it. Start implementing latter-day revelation and current scripture into my study. Begin planning out times for study and setting goals that I can reach each day, week, month, semester and year. Go on dates regularly and do not stay out till curfew. Keep my room clean and organized. Take care of my health through eating, exercising, and relaxing (yoga, stretching, enough rest at night, good activities). Start working on fulfilling my calling well. Work on my family history.
So that is the plan. Not to be implemented someday, but this week, today...well it's too late to go to bed at a decent hour and such but I can try to get up at a good time and work on everything from there. Alright! (don't you just love motivation?) I just wish I had people around who would facilitate this all. I just have to do it I guess.
Ok, there is my spiel...as always. I rant on things for a while. I really want this one to work though.
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