Life Lately :)

So nothing in my life has been super exciting lately :) haha that's why I haven't posted on here lately... :) but I did read this really good book called "The List" by Melanie Jacobson :) I read it in like 3-4 days :) I loved it :) haha other than that i've just been watching Morgan and workin at the hospital :) Just trying to save up money.... :) and that's about all! :) haha here's a quote from the book eat, pray, love----

"In our lives we are constantly hoping around to adjust ourselves around discomfort-physical, emotional, and psychological- in order to evade the reality of grief and nuisance. But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (uncomfortable and lovely) does  eventually pass" :)

Eat. Pray. Love. :)

Dear David,

We haven’t had any communication in a while, and it’s given me time I needed to think.

Remember when you said we should live with each other and be unhappy so we could be happy? Consider it a testimony to how much I love you that I spent so long pouring myself into that offer, trying to make it work.

But my friend took me to the most amazing place the other day, it’s called the Augusteum. Octavian Augustus built it to house his remains. When the barbarians came, they trashed it along with everything else. The great Augustus, Rome’s first true great Emperor, how could he have imagined that Rome, the whole world as far as he was concerned, would one day be in ruins?

It’s one of the quietest and loneliest places in Rome. The city has grown up, around it over centuries, feels like a precious womb, like a heartache you won’t let go of…as it hurts too good. We all want things to stay the same, David. Settle for living in misery because we’re afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins.

Then I looked around this place, at the chaos it’s endured, the way it’s been adapted, burnt, pillaged then found a way to build itself back up again and I was reassured. Maybe my life hasn’t been so chaotic, it’s just the world that is and the only real trap is getting attached to any of it.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

Even in this eternal city, the Augusteum showed me that we must always be prepared for endless waves of transformation.

Both of us deserve better than staying together because we’re afraid we’ll be destroyed if we don’t.

I LOVE this quote from the movie Eat Pray Love! So I had to share it :)

:) Quotes

"You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully."

“I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.”

Song :)

Don't really care for the song but I like the lyrics :) He is we-And run :)



Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh
Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh
Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh
Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh

Kinda wish I had the courage
A bit of bravery
So tired of waiting on a man to come and save me
Wishing I had everything
Or something really
I do admit it
But now I’m thinking freely
I’m going to open my mind to all these
New found exciting possibilities

Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh
I’m making all my own plans,
Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh
Throwing all my old ones away,
Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh

Gotta grow up, be someone
Draw a map, find a path
Take a breath and run
And run

Filling my head with words to encourage me
Gotta get my act so straight so I can truly believe
That what I’m waiting for is really worth to wait
Stop bringing myself down
I gotta know what makes me great
I’m going to open my mind to all these
New found exciting possibilities

Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh
I’m making all my own plans,
Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh
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Throwing all my old ones away,
Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh

Gotta grow up, be someone
Draw a map, find a path
Take a breath and run

I’m trying to get past this
Be better than I once was
tired of waiting on someone else,

I’m trying to get past this
be better than I once Was
tired of waiting on someone else,
I can fix it by myself,

Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh
I’m finally taking a step
Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh
I've learned from all my mistakes
Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh
I’m making all my own plans
Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh
Throwing all my old ones away
Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh

Gotta grow up, be someone
Draw a map, find a path
Take a breath and run

Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh
Run, run, run, run.
Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh
Oh ah oh ah oh ah oh oh

I still miss you.....

I just listened to this song and decided I like it :)


Music = <3

Elevator Scare

Today at work I got stuck in an elevator! at the hospital :) I went up and it just stopped and the doors didn't open so like 5 minutes later (probably less than that but it felt like forever) i pushed another button and went to that floor and got in a different elevator :) it was scary i was getting claustrophobic :) haha I've always been afraid of getting stuck in an elevator or it breaking and me falling to my death :) ya I worry about everything :D haha but especially since the other day I watched "Untold stories of the ER" and one of the O.R. doctors got stuck in an elevator but his just broke down completely mine was just retarded :) haha work was crazy again though...I did not sit down once except for at lunch :-P so I am TIRED! :) night ya'll! :)

Beauty of the Earth

Walking into work today (which was crazy) I saw this tree and it had blossoms on it and it made me SO happy! i'm ready for summer! green grass...pretty plants...and of course the SUN! :D

 

Now I will tell you about work...I walked in feeling alright but after doing my first room I was exhausted then when it came time to go to lunch I searched and searched through my purse to find my wallet and it wasn't there so I called my sister Michele (crying) and she was wonderful enough to come get me some lunch! thanks Michele!!! :) <3 <3 <3 so I went to go tell security in case someone stole it and I ran into a security guard that I'd seen before and almost crashed into one time and he is pretty cute :D so I talked to him for a while (but I STILL don't know his name! it's starts with like a k?? i dunno) and then went back to work and after all that I felt much better and I even made a friend! (yay) finally someone who actually talks..geez lol and at the end of the day I found my wallet! (double yay!) so everything turned out great :) except my back is killing me :-P but I have a whole week to rest it after tomorrow! then Alyssa comes home for the weekend! (yay!) :D oh! P.s. I finally got to see Kiersten last weekend and it was awesome! I miss my best friends so super much! I can't wait till summer when we can all play! :D then off to school for me (wish me luck I have no idea what I'm doing!) :) anyways bedtime for me! night all! :) <3

Created For Greater Things

I get e-mails from seagull book and I saw this book on one of the e-mails and I wanted it so I bought it and I love it :) It's Created For Greater Things by Jeffrey R Holland :) But I wanted to put some of my favorite quotes from it on here and share it with the world :) or whoever is reading this... :) but here ya go!!! :)

"One would truly need a great and spacious makeup kit to compete with beauty as portrayed in media all around us. Yet at the end of the day there would still be those "in attitude of mocking and pointing their fingers" as Lehi ( 1 Nephi 8:27) saw because however much one tries in the world of glamour and fashion, it will never be glamorous enough" 

"There is not a single loophole or curveball or open trench to fall into for the man or woman who walks the path that Christ walks. When He says, "COME, FOLLOW ME" (Luke 18:22), He means that He knows where the quicksand is and where the thorns are and the best way to handle the slippery slope near the summit of our personal mountains. He knows it all, and He knows the way. HE IS THE WAY"

"Everything in the gospel teaches us that we can change if we need to, that we can be helped if we truly want it, that we can be made whole, whatever the problems of the past."

"Even if you cannot always see that silver lining on your clouds, God can, for He is the very source of the light you seek. He does love you, and He knows your fears. He hears your prayers. He is your Heavenly Father, and surely He matches with His own the tears his children shed."

" We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others" 

"If you are lonely, please know you can find comfort. if your are discouraged, please know you can find hope, if you are poor in spirit, please know you can be strengthened, if you feel you are broken, please know you can be mended."


"On occasions, global or personal, we may feel we are distances from God, shut out from heaven, lost, alone in dark and dreary places. Often enough that distress can be out of our own making, but eben then the Father of us all is watching and assisting. And always there are those angels who come and go all around us, seen and unseen, known and unknown, mortal and immortal."


"I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as witty in speech or as wealthy as we would like, but in a world of varied talents and fortunes that we can't always command, I think that makes even more attractive the qualities we can command--such qualities as thoughtfulness, patience, a kind word, and true delight in the accomplishment of another. These cost us nothing, and they can mean everything to the one who receives them."


"We must be willing to place all that we have-- not just our possessions (they may be the easiest things of all to give up), but also our ambition and pride and stubbornness and vanity--we must place it all on the altar of God, kneel there in silent submission, and willingly walk away."


"No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse" 


"God expects you to have enough faith and determination and enough trust in Him to keep moving, keep living, keep rejoicing. In fact, He expects you not simply to face the future (that sounds pretty grim and stoic); He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it ans delight in your opportunities."


"When Christ comes, the members of His Church must look and act like members of His Church are supposed to look and act if we are to be acceptable to Him. we must be doing His work and we must be living His teachings He must recognize us quickly and easily as truly being his disciples." 


That's all :) the whole book is full of good stuff but those are the ones that made me think :) and I liked them the most!! 
P.S. today was my LAST day at TLC bye bye!!! :) I'll miss the kids but I won't miss anything else about it. :)

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Good Times With Friends!

I just figured out how to get videos from my phone to here :) hahaha so i'm having fun with this :) But this is me and Alyssa (and Kiersten was recording) :)