Let's do this again

A lot of things have happened with me since 2011. Well, basically only two things:

1. I sold security systems the summer of 2011. Hilarity ensued.  Check out my escapades here:

http://summersalesinmissouri.blogspot.com


2.  I served a full-time proselyting mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I served and taught the Latino/Hispanic people in the Fort Worth, Texas area. I developed greater love and trust for my Heavenly Father, and my life and the lives of others were blessed by the Spirit of the Lord. You can find a good summary of what I was teaching here:

http://mormon.org/what-do-mormons-believe


Reading over what I wrote three and four years ago, it seems I am still the same person.  I suspect school, church, men, and books will still be the major topics presented.  I feel I have the same youthful zest for life, but hopefully now a little more maturity and refinement, and less naiveté.

¡Vamos!

Literariness

Quick catch - up!

Some books I've read since I last blogged:

Ella Minnow Pea
The Hunger Games trilogy (again)
The Hangman's Daughter
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Man's Search for Meaning
Emma
Eat, Pray, Love

Mike recommended Ender's Game to me, so I am pretty sure thats gonna be next, but I am trying to wait until I finish this semester.  Doubt that's gonna happen, to be honest.

Service Dates does it again

Read the story in the Daily Universe!

For the record, we had over 120 volunteers and completed 260 hours of service.  YAY!! Thanks to Service to the World for a great collaboration event!

Plain White T's

Plain White T's has a new album out.

I want it!

Since Warped Tour 2005 in Fresno, CA, I have been a huge fan of Tom and the gang.  Actually, I was totally smitten with Tim Lopez upon seeing them play on the Hurley stage, and then I got hooked on their catchy, poppy songs.  Love them.  Tim actually wrote their new single, Rhythm of Love, so of course I am in heaven.

PLUS, THEY ARE COMING TO SLC IN FEBRUARY!!

I sooo want to go. :)  Until then, I'm just gonna keep listening to one of my favorite bands via ipod.

BYU Service Dates

I am a program director for BYU's Service Dates.  It is so fun! Check out this sweet blog I just started for it:
byuservicedates.blogspot.com 

Then, email servicedates.byu.edu to get on the email list and find out about upcoming activities!

Shower Power

I take 15 minute showers.  Every time.  Practically to the second.  This is a skill that has taken years to hone... I consistently took upwards of 30 minute showers as a young, awkward middle school girl, relishing in the short half hour I had to myself to escape from all of my feelings of inadequacy and general gawkiness.  Plus, I liked the warm water.  After middle school, my showers became slightly shorter by necessity.  Turns out that seminary was a better motivator to make me go faster than the idea of heading to middle-school purgatory. (Barely... I wasn't a morning person at 16.)  Then again, maybe it was Kelsie's screeches in the morning telling me to hurry up, we were already 15 minutes late...  Actually that sounds more like it.  After graduation I went to the dorms, where I shared 5 showers with 60 girls.   Maybe I exaggerate.  But shower time became more dreaded in Hinckley Hall, probably due to the fact that I had to wear flip-flops and other people's hair was clogging the drain.  And girls would pee in them.  Ew.   Upon moving into apartments, I developed the habit of listening to music while in the shower, which probably added some minutes to my allotted shower time, but makes it tremendously more enjoyable.  There's nothing like some good Reggaeton in the morning to wake a person up!  So now I take fifteen minutes consistently.  You can see how hard I have worked at this timing.  It's been a developing part of my character since pre-pubescence.

Problem:  My current water heater holds precisely FOURTEEN minutes of warm water.

Yeah.

School

IS AWESOME!