Happy Thanksgiving

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

How amazing is it that there is a whole day set aside for us to remember all of the things we are thankful for! But as great as it is to remember and express our gratitude today, we should really do it all the time!
I just wanted to list some of the things I am the most thankful for!

*I'm most thankful for my family! They drive me crazy sometimes, and I'm not as nice to them as I should be, so I am so grateful they put up with me!
*I'm also really grateful for my friends! What would I do with you?! You make me laugh and are there when I need to talk! THANKS!
*I'm thankful for my job. Weird huh?? But really, there are people out there that cant find work, and I know that is so hard for them!! My work has been so great to work with my crazy school schedule and my co-workers aren't half bad either!
*I'm thankful for my car! It's old and slow and makes lots of funny noises, but at least I have one!
*I'm thankful for the United States of America! Our country truly is amazing and I'm so glad I am a citizen!
*I truly appreciate our armed forces and the huge sacrifice they make to keep us all safe.
*I'm grateful that I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I get so many blessings and I to often don't express how glad I am for them!
*I'm so thankful for Thomas S. Monson, the President of the church. He is such an amazing man and I love listening to him speak! I'm also thankful for all of the past presidents!
*I'm thankful for the house I live in and the fact that I get my own room!
*I'm thankful for the beautiful mountain I see when I look out my window. They are always so beautiful whether they are covered in snow, pretty fall colors, and the blue of the spruces!

The list goes on and on! I'm sure there are some other big things I have forgotten, but I'm thankful for them to! And there are lots of little things I'm thankful for too, like: my cell phone, my flat iron, manicures, good books, high heels, lip gloss, music, in door plumbing, laser hair removal, flowers, Slurpees, digital cameras, my down comforter, the piano, email, and movies. Again, I could probably go on all day about the little things that make my life better!!
So HAPPY THANKSGIVING everyone!! I hope everyone's day is wonderful and you get to spend it with the ones that mean the most to you!

"Count your blessings, name them one by one. Count your blessings, see what God has done. Count your blessings, name them one by one. Count your many blessings. See what God has done."

Box Office Breaker

Good new my fellow Twilighters!! The movie was a HUGE hit this weekend! I don't know about you, but I really didn't doubt that it was going to be amazing! So, what are the totals for this awesome show you ask...... SEVENTY point SIX MILLION dollars!! Crazy huh!! It obviously came in at number one for the weekend with Quantum of Solace in second at only 27.4 million. That's at 43.1 million dollar difference!! Whoa!!
I thought the show was a great adaptation of the book and cant wait to see more (in case you didn't know, it has been CONFIRMED that they are doing New Moon)!! It's seriously all I have thought about all weekend long! I have already thought about the next time I can see it again! Hooray for the holiday weekend!
It also broke a record!! If you'd like to find out which one, and more about the number totals, here is the story: http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org-twilight-sucks-up-706m-box-office-debut-ap

In other non-Twilight related news (I can just hear the sigh of relief from some of you), I just have to say the school is killing me right now!! I have SO much homework and I am pretty sure there is no way to get it all done! I feel like I am drowning in it!! In my Great Books class, I have to write a 7 page paper and then read it in front of my WHOLE class. There are only 8 other people in there, but still! Half of them are English majors, and my paper compared to theirs is going to be terrible!! Not looking forward to it!! Only three Mondays left though and then I will FINALLY be on my last semester of school!! Thank goodness!!

Hmmmm, what else.... Oh! I found the CUTEST fabric at the store the other day!! It's black with big cream polka dots on it and I really want to make it into a skirt!! The only problem...... I have NO IDEA how to sew!! My grandma tried to give me some quick lessons when she was sewing my Halloween costume, but I still don't know what I am doing!! I have never been that great at sewing... my TLC teacher gave me a C in sewing.... my lowest grade ever and I was seriously devastated by it!! Darn that mean lady! Anyway.... I am hoping to find a cute and simple pattern, so I can somehow figure it out myself!! One day I will have the cutest polka dot skirt...... one day....

Twilight at Midnight

****Sigh**** Edward!!! :0)
The day I have been waiting for since May final arrived!! I went to the midnight premier of Twilight and it was so much fun!
Before the movie started we went to Village Inn for dinner!! Mmmmm, the ham and cheese skillet was so good!! And just to make sure there was no chance I could fall asleep, I had a glass and a half of Dr. Pepper!! It was fun just sitting there though because the whole restaurant was full of girls! Young ones, old ones, in between ones!! It was awesome!! And of course there were people dressed up and it’s always fun to play “Your Team!!”
After dinner we went over to the theater and holy cow it was insane!! There were so many girls there!! Haha!! I loved it! There were so many of us that we started using the men’s bathroom!! It was hilarious to watch the few guys that were there open the door and do a double take and then ask “Ummm, isn’t this the men’s room?” The best though was the guy that came in and walked to front of the line and looked around and asked “Do I really have to wait in the line?” We all laughed as said welcome to the girls world! There was one brave boy, probably about 12 that didn’t let us stop him. He totally walked in and did his business at the urinal and left!! What a brave soul!! Haha!!
At that point we had an extra ticket so I called and invited my friend Christine to come over and I was happy she could make it! We didn’t have the greatest seats (second row from the front) but we had seats and that’s all that mattered! One of the previews that they showed was for Harry Potter and it was weird to think that that was the movie that we would have been watching that night and I’d still be counting down the days to Twilight! And now I have to admit that I couldn’t help but cheer a little when it started, ahhhh!! It was so awesome!! And then the first time Edward comes on screen, awwwww it was wonderful!! We got lucky and didn’t have a mass of screaming people in our theater which was nice!
Overall, I think the movie was pretty good!! They obviously had to leave stuff out for times sake, and they had to make a few changes for the movie to flow, but I thought it was good!! The end it so awesome!! I won’t give it away but there is a little twist!! :0) And I loved it so much that I just bought tickets for a showing tonight and am now counting down the hours until I get to see Edward again!! And why ruin a good thing….. I think I’m gonna have to see it again tomorrow!! Any one with me???
So yeah, now I am counting down to New Moon!! Who knows how long it will take to get that one out, but I am hoping this time next year I will be boring you all with my crazy posts about the newest Twilight Saga movie!!

And I have to put a little side note in here about my shirt. So I ordered this AWESOME shirt online that says “Vampire Baseball League” on the front and on the back it said CULLEN 09!!! Sweet huh!! Well, it didn’t get here in time! I cannot even tell you how sad I am about it!! I seriously considered driving to Denver to meet the UPS man, I wanted it that bad! It was really sad to watch the baseball part without my shirt (how much do you want to bet that it will show up at my house today?). So I went to the mall yesterday to try and ease my sadness and to try to find another shirt. Well, I thought about getting the “Team Edward” shirt, but I just kind of figured, there are not really teams yet. I LOVE the shirts that other people have, but I think I want to wear a “Team Edward” one during New Moon or Eclipse though. So to make up for it I bought something pretty dang cool, in my opinion!! It’s Rosalie’s necklace that she wears in the movie with the Cullen crest on it!! It’s huge, but I love it!! I am totally wearing it today!
So that is my Twilight at midnight experience! It was so much fun!! It doesn’t even matter that I am falling asleep as I type, because it was totally worth it!! I just went up to our teller and got some cash out so I can keep the Dr. Pepper handy! Haha!! It’s going to be a sugar rush day!!


And just a little P.S.- If you need a viewing buddy I will totally go with you; any time, any place!! :0)

Getting Closer!

FIVE DAYS!! That's all there is until Twilight hits theater! I can't even describe how extremely excited I am!!
So this morning, I was flipping through the channels and on MTV it showed Spoilers: Twilight. So of course I immediately went to station hoping to catch the last 5 minutes of it. And guess what I saw...... a new clip from the movie! Wahoo!! Like most of the other clips, it's really short, but so much fun to watch!!

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Also, while I was bored at work yesterday, I was reading the articles on Yahoo and one of them was about the next 3 Twilight Saga movie!! YAY!! It said that Summit Entertainment has bought the right to all of them and the screenwriter for Twilight has been asked to come up with screenplays for New Moon and Eclipse! So hopefully we will be seeing the rest of the series very very soon!!

Sounds of the Season

So I have to make a confession….. I have been listening to Christmas music in my car ever since Halloween ended!! It’s not the whole time I’m in my car, but a good part of it is! FM 100 and KOSY 106.5 have been playing all the classics since November 1st and I love listening to them!
I usually wait until Thanksgiving is over to start tuning in, but this year I decided, what the heck!! :0) Last year, Christmas went by way to fast!! The 25th came and went and I never really felt like I had the Christmas spirit. It wasn’t a bad Christmas by any means; it just went by to quick! So I’m starting early this year! I love hearing The Jingle Bell Rock and Have a Holly Jolly Christmas!! They are so fun and upbeat and just put me in a good mood!! And The Christmas Shoes still makes me cry every time I hear it!
I also want to put a bunch of Christmas music on my iPod!! I especially want to get The Forgotten Carols on there! Those songs are amazing!! And the Chipmunk Christmas songs, haha, those are great too!! :0)

My Travel Bucket List

Traveling is one of my most favorite things to do. I have gone to some great places and I have even been luck enough to travel out of the United States. It was such an awesome experience and I would LOVE to do it again!!
I am always saying "Oh that's on my list of places to go" when people talk about places they've been or when I see something cool in a movie. So I just though I would write down my Travel Bucket List!

1- Washington D.C. :I NEED to see the White House, the Lincoln Memorial, the war monuments, etc.
2- Gettysburg: I'm a big fan of history
3- Boston
3- Philadelphia: The Liberty Bell, the birth place of the Declaration of Independence, how cool!!
4- New York: This includes (or course) Time Square, Rockefeller Center, the Statue of Liberty and a Broadway musical! But I also want to go to upstate New York where Joseph Smith and his family lived
5- Nauvoo & Carthage Jail (My Great, Great, Great Grandfather was with the prophet when he died there)
6- The Sacred Grove
7- Mount Rushmore
8- New Orleans
9- Forks, Washington (Haha)
10- The Redwood Forest
11- The Grand Canyon
12- Yellowstone
13- The Northern Lights in Alaska
14- Whale watching off the northern Pacific coast
15- Hawaii: Pearl Harbor, pretty beaches and pineapple fields

And that is my list of things to see in the U.S. (I'm sure if I sat here long enough, I could think of tons more)! Now onto the rest of the world!

1- Egypt- How amazing would it be to see the pyramids!! I don't know if they are currently on the 7 Wonders list, but they should be!! They look amazing!! And you cant leave Egypt without seeing the Sphinx!!
2- Greece- The water looks so blue and pretty!! I would also love to see the Parthenon
3- The canals of Venice
4- The view from the Eiffel Tower (yeah.... I missed this one. Long, sad story......)
5- I can never see enough London
6- Scottish castles
7- White cliffs of Dover
8- Pretty, green Ireland
9- Germany (One short stop in the airport was not enough)
10- The Great Wall of China
11- Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world in Dubai
12- Angkor Wat an amazing temple in Cambodia
13- The Taj Mahal
14- Mt. Everest, from the base of course!!
15- The Great Barrier Reef, the Australian Outback and the Sydney Opera House
16- The Pyramid at Chichén Itzá
17- Machu Picchu in Peru
18- The Kremlin in Russia

So yeah, I pretty much want to see it all!! Who wants to go with me?!?!

Rollercoaster

Oh man! Life is so crazy sometimes…. well, a lot of the time, and today is no exception. It didn’t start of that great because I didn’t set my alarm so I woke up really late! Don’t get me wrong, sleeping in felt wonderful, but when you make up at 7:20 and have to be to the University of Utah at 8:00 that is a BIG problem. So I was rushing to get ready and made it out of my house just before 8 (pretty good time huh??). So I finally made it to the freeway, and of course (only because I was in huge hurry) there was an accident that slowed me down. It took me a whole stupid hour to make it up to campus.
The preschool wasn’t bad. The kids are always so funny and aside from the cleaning I had to do, it was a pretty low key day. After that I went up and met with my advisor and this is where my day started to pick up!! They found a place for me to do my internship next semester, which is a HUGE blessing, since the program has been full for awhile. And guess what that means….. I WILL BE GRADUATING IN MAY 2009!! I cannot tell you how excited I am about this!! Only about 6 months and then I will be done with school forever!!
The good day kept going as I drove to Fort Union and got Café Rio for lunch!! Mmmmm, I sat in the restaurant eating my chicken burrito and reading my Twilight book. I then went over to Target and found myself a pair of black rain boots with polka dots all over them! No more wading through the lakes at my work!! And then I went and got gas. More happiness as it only cost me $29.00 to fill up my whole tank!!
Then I had to go to work, but I made a pit stop on the way in. I went to the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and got a Chocolate Cheesecake Carmel Apple to share with everyone in my department. If you have never been there, I STRONGLY suggest you go!! They have AMAZING stuff there!!
And then I get to work…… and my rollercoaster day heads back down. It’s a really long, crazy story, but basically some stuff is going to possibly happen and my job that I am really not happy about. I should probably talk to my manager about it, but I am a big wimp. ***sigh***
So, hopefully my day has some kind of trend and things getting better when I leave work. I am crossing my finger.

Just Not Ready

I'm not ready for this..... the freezing, frigid coldness!! This is what I woke up to this morning:

It was not fun!! I don't know exactly how much snow was on the ground, but there was a pretty good amount!! And it's hard to tell in this picture, but it was snowing like crazy!!

So the drive to work was not fun at all!! Normally it takes me about 15 to 20 mins. to get to work, but today it took me about 50! It felt so much longer than that though!! I have become such a paranoid driver after being rear-ended so many times!! I kept waiting for my car to start sliding!! Luckily it never happened. But.... the winter has just begun!!

The snow continued allllllll day long!! There were only a few times when I looked out the window and it wasn't snowing!! The worst though was after work was over. First off, now that daylight savings time is over, it is very dark when work ends. Well, I go outside and my car is sitting in a little lake. Well, I guess it was more like a pond, but a frozen over pond!! So I had to walk through the FREEZING cold ice water to get to my car..... miserable!! My toes were so cold when I got in the car!! At least the drive home was not as scary as the drive there!!

Something else I am not ready for...... our nation to become Socialist. But, there's not a whole lot that I can do now, but cross my fingers, and maybe build myself a fallout shelter!!

That being said, I do need to say how thrilled I am to have lived through a historic moment. I think it's cool that racial barriers have been broken and we have our first African American president.

And the last thing I am just not ready for, the end of the semester. Now, this does not mean that I want the semester to go on for another 10 weeks (because I am SO ready to be that much closer to graduation), but I still have so much to do before it ends!! I have so many projects, papers, lessons and observations to do in the next 5 weeks!! Somehow it will all get done!! It may mean some all nighters, but I may not have any other choice!!

Testing Testing

So I got on YouTube and searched Twilight (I know, I know! I'm sorry people, but it is seriously like an addiction for me!!!) and found some of the TV spots of the Twilight trailer. I am trying to figure out how to post video right in my blog, so here's to hoping it works!

AHHHHHHH!!! IT WORKED, IT WORKED, IT WORKED!!! I cannot tell you how excited I am about this!! I had to do some crazy things to get it to work, but FINALLY!!! WAHOO!!

THANKS again Lindsay!! You are awesome!!

Best 8 Minutes of My Day

All I can say is THANK GOODNESS FOR THE ROME FILM FESTIVAL!!!! They showed EIGHT whole minutes of Twilight!!! It is SO awesome!! I spent way to much time watching it yesterday and I'm sure I will do the same thing today!!!

**I'm sorry for all the screaming girls!! They sounds pretty

crazy!! And the sound quality is not that great, but I still

love watching it!!**

And here is the short clip that was posted on MSN the other day!! It's the lunchroom scene. It's short, but sweet!! Only 16 days to go!!

And I also have to say DON'T FORGET TO VOTE TODAY!!!

Halloween

Halloween this year was lots of fun!! My department at work tries to dress up in themes and this year we decided to do Batman and Villains. My manager was great and agreed to be the Caped Crusader and we also had someone dressed like Robin. As for the villains, we had Harley Quinn, The Joker, Two Face and Poison Ivy. It's was funny to watch people walk into a credit union and see us all dressed up!! It was also fun to walk through the building and look at what everyone else was dressed as. The tellers were punk rockers and the tech department dressed as 50's girls. I think one of my favorite costumes though was a lady in our collections department. She took a Life cereal box and stuck a bunch of plastic knives in it and became a "cereal" killer!! Haha!!

I also love Halloween because it means pumpkin carving!! This year, I carved a total of five pumpkins. I took my three alien pumpkins to work and I won a prize for them! Wahoo!! At home, I had a funny face pumpkin and a pirate pumpkin! At my house we also have The Great Pumpkin!! My grandparents grew giant pumpkins in there garden this year and we were lucky enough to get one of them. It is HUGE and it's so fun to see it sitting in front of our house!!

On Halloween night I went to a dance with my friends Michelle and VaLon in Taylorsville. It was pretty fun and even more fun to just act silly. There were some pretty interesting people there..... pizza box, hot and ready boy (WEIRD), some flip flops and an car freshener!! One of the weirdest though was a group of girls that dressed up like Troll dolls. They had on skin colored body suits, stuffed with pillows with bum cracks drawn on them. It was so weird! My favorite though was the guy dressed at Sherlock Holmes!! Haha :0)

P.S. THANK YOU Lindsay for giving me tips on how to post video!! You're awesome!!

P.P.S Everyone should read my "Remember When" post and should play along!!

and one last thing......

VOTE VOTE VOTE tomorrow. And guess what.... only 17 days to Twilight!!