YouTube Thursday

Have you guys every watched the Bad Lip Reading videos on You Tube? I can't stop laughing.

I also enjoy "Everybody Poops" and many, many others.

Guess where my keys ended up?

Cory just came up to me and handed me my car keys.

They were wet.

It had been raining outside so I thought thats what it was from but he hadn't been outside with my keys. So I asked him why they were wet.

He said, "Do you need these?"  

I said,"Yes probably, where were they?"

"In the garbage disposal."



Then I looked at them




 







So, the moral of the story is to pay attention to where you put your car keys.  Or else four of your keys will bend when your husband turns the garbage disposal on.

I also put the salt and pepper in the fridge, thank you very much.

How Can I Become the Woman of Whom I dream?

I recently read a talk by Gordon B Hinckley, taken from a General Young Womens' meeting back in 2001. It is titled 'How Can I become the Woman of Whom I dream?

This talk really hit me hard! Am I becoming the woman I dreamed I would be? If not, am I taking those steps necessary to become the woman I have always wanted to be? Here are a few excerpts from his talk, with commentary from me. (If anything I say offends anyone, I did not mean to!)

The best way [to the become the woman you dream of], the only way for you, is to avoid any entrapment with evil. You have within you instincts, powerful and terribly persuasive, urging you at times to let go and experience a little fling. You must not do it. You cannot do it. You are daughters of God with tremendous potential. He has great expectations concerning you, as do others. You cannot let down for a minute. You cannot give in to an impulse. There must be discipline, strong and unbending. Flee from temptation, as Joseph fled from the wiles of Potiphar’s wife.

Now,  I am married so I absorbed this part of the talk differently. We all have powerful instincts persuading us to let go and give into the natural man aka LAZY man. But we cannot give in. We must always be on guard!! Whether it is combating depression, fighting to stay happy when it feels like you are drowning in all your sorrows, or in your own negative thoughts. It can be fighting laziness, or not being snappy with your loved ones. But I realized that I need to be on my game every minute of everyday and never let down, I cannot give into my bad impulses. I always need to be conscious of everything I say, how I treat others and how I spend my time. 

There is not anything that you cannot do if you will set your mind to it. You can include in the dream of the woman you would like to be a picture of one qualified to serve society and make a significant contribution to the world of which she will be a part. For you, the sky is the limit. You can be excellent in every way. You can be first class. Respect yourself. Do not feel sorry for yourself. Do not dwell on unkind things others may say about you. Particularly, pay no attention to what some boy might say to demean you. Polish and refine whatever talents the Lord has given you. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life and look for its opportunities, and forever and always be loyal to the Church.

I want the above paragraph to be my own life mission statement.  If I want to become the woman I dream of, the only thing standing in my way is me. I can be first class! I need to stop feeling sorry for myself, I need to respect myself by treating my body better. I need to stop dwelling on the unkind things people have said about me or what I 'think' they are saying about me. And lastly, I need to discover the talents god has given me and use them to benefit others and the church. And I need to put a dang smile on my face and love my life and this wonderful gospel!  I have every reason in the world to be the happiest person alive.

Never forget that you came to earth as a child of the divine Father, with something of divinity in your very makeup. The Lord did not send you here to fail. He did not give you life to waste it...[but] to teach you and lead you and encourage you, to bless you with eternal marriage, to seal upon you a covenant between you and Him that will make of you His chosen daughter, one upon whom He may look with love and with a desire to help. May God bless you richly and abundantly, His wonderful daughters.

I am so lucky to have such a wonderful husband who is always reminding me that I am divine and virtuous and nurturing, he never lets me forget my divine potential or the talents I do have. I am so proud to be a daughter of my Heavenly Father and I hope I can become the woman I long to be. I hope to be able to achieve everything I am supposed to in this life, I do not want to waste my life that was so freely given to me, it would be such a shame to waste my potential.

Thanks for reading my ramblings!!!

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this calls for a venting session

Okay so today I tried going to donate plasma. This is going to sound so superficial, but I have really been wanting to do it, not because we need the money, but I wanted to use it to save up for extra things, like little trips, new church clothes (that I need DESPERATELY, since I got put into nursery, my skirts need to be floor length) and other things like that. So we really don't need it for survival at all, I just want it for fun. Plus I already have the scars from donating it when I went to Utah State.

Anyways I go in today and everything was going fine .. until.. they told me they couldn't accept my DANG address. What the crap?!??! I live at a "transient" location, meaning my address isn't considered "permanent" uh... I wanted to be like, "I'm pretty sure I live there dude, I'm not going to earn 20$ and skip town, also I am not homeless."

But, if they ever got audited, they would get in trouble because of my address and if they made an exception for everyone who had an address like mine, it would be hard to keep up with. I am pretty sure not many people live in a hotel!! Permanently!! I really live there!! Then they said that someone else with my same address came in a while ago and they had the same problem. It was probably my cousin, who lived there before me, it was like I was just using this random address and claiming I lived there. It is even on my driver's license, I swear. BUT I do understand that they have rules and laws that need to be kept. I really do.

Anyways they told me they would try to get more 'clarification' on my 'problem' and call me back and 'hopefully we'll have good news." 

I said, "Oh.. probably not, but thanks!!" Then I walked out. I make no sense, maybe I should have said, "Okay thank you!" I was about to burst into tears because I just hated that they made me feel so dumb and like I am in trouble because of where I live, if I even live there. Which, I do. 

I can be a real brat sometimes, now I feel kinda bad about it. I just think it is ridiculous. I am a law abiding citizen! And I am really disappointed!!

Okay just real quick...

(I published this in May of 2011 so I have no idea why it suddenly popped up, haha)

My brother Preston and his fiancee Jenny got their engagement pictures taken this past weekend and they turned out beautiful!! Breathtakingly so I might add. They even brought a rowboat! Can you say THE NOTEBOOK! Jenny has that pretty auburn hair and Preston with the scruff on his face. I keep looking at them over and over... And I want you to look at them too!! Click HERE to look at them. And check out the rest of Mikki Platt's photography. She is amazing! Okay have a great day. Let me know what you think.. I just want to cry with happiness right now.

I AM GOING TO DISNEYLAND IN NOVEMBER WITH JOY AND LORALALAA. It is my treat to myself for finishing dental assisting.. if I am finished by then hehehahahohowhowholalagaga. I better be anyways, I need to kick it into high gear.

I can't wait for this weekend. It will be so fun, weather permitting. More to come on that later gators.

YouTube Thursday

Okay I saw this video for the first over at Busy Bee Laurens blog, and I had to repost. This girl took scenes from the hunger games and made it into a musical. It is so funny!!! My favorites are, the first one with President Snow and Seneca Crane with the Spice Girls song, and the second one, Hit Me Baby One More Time and Defying Gravity. HAHAHA. I am crying.

I was tricked, pranked, bamboozled..

A few weeks ago on a Friday night, Cory and I decided to stay up reeeally late (like 1 am wow!!), I think that's the night we played "pizza roll" haha. Anyways we decided it was okay to stay up late like teenagers since the next day was Saturday and we could sleep in! Anyways before we go to bed Cory says to me, "Hey do you wanna go run errands with me tomorrow morning at like 10?"

To that I said, "Ugh I don't get to sleep in until ten?" I ended up agreeing to go anyways. I will snag any amount of time I can get with that boy, since school and his eleventy jobs keep him so busy!! But I really appreciate his hard work.

Anyways the next morning Cory wakes me up and says, "Hayley it's 10 do you want to get up and get ready so we can go?"

Okay the first thing I noticed was that I was SO dang tired. I was thinking 'is this normal to be THIS tired? Why do I want to sleep for 3 more hours?' So I got up, got ready pretty fast, but while I was getting ready Cory kept telling me that I was okay and to take my time, I was ready by about 10:45. We had to get out the door people, our apartment doesn't have ANY windows and we wanted to get out in the sunshine!

So we walk through the basement and up the stairs and out the door. Cory opened the door for me and the first thing I noticed is that it was still cold outside. It was supposed to be warm! Then I noticed that it was kind of a dreary day, there was NO sun. That was strange because Cory told me it was supposed to be a really nice day! So I got this look of disdain/disgust/confusion on my face. Then Cory started laughing and said...

"Little do you know that it is actually 7:45 in the morning and we are going on a little trip today!!"

He totally fooled me. The night before when he was 'going to the bathroom' he set all of our clocks three hours ahead, and took my phone!!!!!! You sneeeaky husband!! I never know where my phone is so I didn't really push it when I couldn't find it before we went to bed.

(right after I found out about the real time!)

That day we ended up going to Mackay resevoir and Craters of the moon and just exploring everything, and we ate at a ma & pa diner in Arco. It was actually really fun!! I loved just being in the car with him and actually getting to talk and laugh with him for longer than an hour, again, the busy school/work thing really splits up our together time.

But as the day wore on I went from thinking, "Oh this was such a cute thing for him to do!! I have the best husband!! He loves me!!" to thinking, "Oh.. he set the clocks ahead so I would actually get up without complaining (since I thought it was so much later)." So then I felt kinda dumb. But I do still think I have the best husband!!

So, despite him tricking me, it was a really fun day and everyone we told about Cory's trickery got a kick out of it!! (Especially my brothers, haha)