Last week I finished my final 2 classes for my undergraduate degree at Brigham Young University! I feel so fortunate to have been able to attend such a wonderful school and will always love it here. I have two finals to take and will continue to work on an internship until March 1st, which is when I will need to find a job :) Then it's graduation in April! Who would have thought it would take me 5 years, but time really seems to have flown by. One day you are a scared freshman trying to figure out how to find your classes on a huge campus and the next thing you know, Utah Valley is the most claustrophobic place you have ever been. Yes, sometimes I do want to run away and find a job in a big city but I think I will stay put for now.
I have really been blessed in the last six months to find a boy that I can't imagine ever living without. He's funny, smart, unpredictable and basically more than I could have dreamed him to be. I know that he sacrificed a promising internship to stay in Utah to be with me and it means to world to me that he loves me enough to not put our relationship to chance. I believe that in life you must be intentional. Meaning that if you have a goal, you need to take steps to get there, not let the world hand you what it wants. Having a purpose associated with each thing you do can make a huge difference. Especially in the relationships you have, whether romantic or not. In short I guess I'm saying that loving this boy makes me more excited than graduating college... which is saying a lot!
Monday, December 12, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
My quest for self-discipline starts soon....
The past semester has been one of my most stressful by far. I have had 18 credits worth of classes that all had heavy work loads. Many things in my life have suffered. Namely, my sleep schedule, my waistline, and my motivation. Now that I only have a few more finals, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and I have decided I need to run for it. Thus I have made the rash decision to attempt a 28-day cleanse. I know, I know... It sounds stupid and it probably is. But the whole theory supporting it is to help regulate your body and put it back on track and help retrain your brain to stop using food as a fix-all. It's not a crazy juice cleanse where the only thing you consume is lemonade with cheyenne pepper (YUCK), it's whole foods with no dairy, meat or gluten. I plan on starting next Monday, and I'm going to follow it to a 'T.' All I really want to do is prove to myself that I am capable of making hard decisions and sticking to them!
I've never been on a diet and I'm not the type of person that it always obsessed with their weight. I like to stay active but how I feel is more important to me than those pesky numbers starring up at me. I love food and sometimes I don't care what it has in it. Other days I read the labels on my go-to-foods and realize that I'm getting absolutely nothing from them but chemicals, but dang those chemicals taste good! So starting Monday and for the next month, if you see me eating anything that I did not make in my own kitchen, steal it. And after I yell at you, I'll say thanks because you are a true friend.
I've never been on a diet and I'm not the type of person that it always obsessed with their weight. I like to stay active but how I feel is more important to me than those pesky numbers starring up at me. I love food and sometimes I don't care what it has in it. Other days I read the labels on my go-to-foods and realize that I'm getting absolutely nothing from them but chemicals, but dang those chemicals taste good! So starting Monday and for the next month, if you see me eating anything that I did not make in my own kitchen, steal it. And after I yell at you, I'll say thanks because you are a true friend.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
To Whom It May Concern
Dear Taco Bell:
Today I decided to give you a second chance. I came in for the $.88 Crunch Wrap and it was anything but Supreme. Had I not gotten my beloved Baja Blast, you would have ruined my entire day
I thought the point of your new campaign was to convince me that your food is delicious, but under the limp lettuce, soggy chips, barely pink tomatoes and cheese sauce that was reminiscent of a broken glow stick, I could hardly taste the single ounce of meat. And while you claim it is 80% "real meat" the 20% secret recipe is the part that makes me nervous...
So thanks for nothing, except the Baja Blast.
P.S. If you ever stop serving the best soda on earth, you may come to find your restaurants burned as crisp as your chips are not.
Today I decided to give you a second chance. I came in for the $.88 Crunch Wrap and it was anything but Supreme. Had I not gotten my beloved Baja Blast, you would have ruined my entire day
I thought the point of your new campaign was to convince me that your food is delicious, but under the limp lettuce, soggy chips, barely pink tomatoes and cheese sauce that was reminiscent of a broken glow stick, I could hardly taste the single ounce of meat. And while you claim it is 80% "real meat" the 20% secret recipe is the part that makes me nervous...
So thanks for nothing, except the Baja Blast.
Yours truly,
Nicole
P.S. If you ever stop serving the best soda on earth, you may come to find your restaurants burned as crisp as your chips are not.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Make A Difference
Today I am traveling home for Thanksgiving and this year I am flying. We got my ticket about a month ago, but we still had a hard time finding one at a reasonable price because of the holidays but eventually we found this one. The only problem is that I have to change planes in Vegas. My flight only goes from Salt Lake City, UT to Ontario, CA! What would normally have been about an hour and a half flight has turned into an all day adventure... and the flight leaving the gate before mine is running late and it's just wonderful ;)
So what am I doing to keep my self entertained (ok well maybe not entertained, but at least less bored)? I am people watching, the great American pastime. Wait, you thought that was baseball? Sorry to break the news to you, but no one really lies baseball... But everyone loves watching other people. We do it more than anything else. We do it while sitting in meetings, classes, church, walking around the block, driving, waiting for the bus, you get the idea. It's a natural thing we do to stay safe and to keep our eyes busy.
Some people like to imagine what the people they see are thinking about. Others like to imagine that person is on some sort of fun trip or adventure maybe even guess where their final destination might be. But me, I think of one thing I could tell them that would make an impact on them. I'm probably wrong about most of them, but it helps me learn to look at myself from an outer position to see what I could learn from the way others view me.
For example, the girl across from me should know that staying within certain bounds when it comes to fashion will make style choices more pronounced and distinct... Black leggings don't mean your skirt can be 3 sizes too small.
I saw a woman earlier that had a child on a leash and he was running circles around her and when he ran out of leash, he would just drop to the ground and scream. To her I would say, when you learn to understand your child and your child understand what you expect from him, you will both have more respect for each other.
I guess where I'm going with this is that I like to feel that I could make a difference should I put forth the effort. In fact I think that everyone can do something truly wonderful if they can find their niche and just go for it. So what are you waiting for?
To the man who is 200 lbs. overweight and drinking a regular soda because "one diet soda isn't going to make me any thinner" (what I heard him say to his wife), I would say that it's never too late to change the way you live and eat. Even small changes can help, but giving up will never make anything better.
So what am I doing to keep my self entertained (ok well maybe not entertained, but at least less bored)? I am people watching, the great American pastime. Wait, you thought that was baseball? Sorry to break the news to you, but no one really lies baseball... But everyone loves watching other people. We do it more than anything else. We do it while sitting in meetings, classes, church, walking around the block, driving, waiting for the bus, you get the idea. It's a natural thing we do to stay safe and to keep our eyes busy.
Some people like to imagine what the people they see are thinking about. Others like to imagine that person is on some sort of fun trip or adventure maybe even guess where their final destination might be. But me, I think of one thing I could tell them that would make an impact on them. I'm probably wrong about most of them, but it helps me learn to look at myself from an outer position to see what I could learn from the way others view me.
For example, the girl across from me should know that staying within certain bounds when it comes to fashion will make style choices more pronounced and distinct... Black leggings don't mean your skirt can be 3 sizes too small.
I saw a woman earlier that had a child on a leash and he was running circles around her and when he ran out of leash, he would just drop to the ground and scream. To her I would say, when you learn to understand your child and your child understand what you expect from him, you will both have more respect for each other.
I guess where I'm going with this is that I like to feel that I could make a difference should I put forth the effort. In fact I think that everyone can do something truly wonderful if they can find their niche and just go for it. So what are you waiting for?
To the man who is 200 lbs. overweight and drinking a regular soda because "one diet soda isn't going to make me any thinner" (what I heard him say to his wife), I would say that it's never too late to change the way you live and eat. Even small changes can help, but giving up will never make anything better.
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