I'll be out of my mind, and you'll be out of ideas pretty soon.

My two summer goals:

1. Earn enough money to go back to school and to study abroad in France.
2. Catch up in my journal.

Why only two goals might you ask?

Theses two tasks are HUGE feats in themselves. First off, I have about $700 in my bank account right now. What does this mean? Yes. $4480 in tuition needed. Not to mention I need a place to live and food to eat. Add $1785 in rent, $225 in utilities, and $675 for food. Fun budget = $0.00. Total amount needed, $7165. And that is just for school. France is another $5000 itself.

So, how will this happen might you ask? It is clearly impossible to earn $14000 in one summer. Luckily I have awesome parents and grandparents who are willing to pay one semester of tuition for me and $200 a month towards my life. So that takes out a good amount, leaving only $3525 to be earned. Plus, Rebbie is amazing and is going to help me get this grant winter sememster which will give me $4000 to pay for tuition first and second semesters. So cross your fingers I can stand living in the library and survive 3 chem classes and get my GPA up stinkin .1... Yeah, a measly .1 away from getting the grant right now. Boooooo.

So... with that help, I simple will need to early $4525. Which entails 625 hours of work at Smoothie King, my current employment at $7.25 an hour, which means working 48 hours a week for the next 12 weeks of summer. Clearly this isn't going to happen, so pray hard that I will be able to get registered as a pharmacy tech please!!

But yes. My mind is set. I'm going to do it. I'm going to live, study, breathe, speak, do everything french for a month and a half. In FRANCE. Once I put my mind to this one, nothing is going to stop me. I've already dreamt about it a handful a times. And after all, a dream is a wish your heart makes, and I've been wishing on stars that this wish will come true.

Secondly, my journal. Ever since the 10th grade, Mrs. Westover inspired me to keep a journal. Therefore I have my whole high school rollercoaster in 4 journals. It is great. Unfortunately, August 14th, 2009 was my last journal entry. I fell apart. College got to me and I didn't write ONCE my freshmen year. I'm ashamed to say the least. But I did write down what I did almost every day, so it is my goal to use my brilliant, cough cough, memory to recapture my freshmen year for posterity, but mostly for myself years down the road.

So, with theses two enormous tasks to accomplish, this summer is going to be full of hard work, that's for certain.

And I knew that you meant it.

Me: "I have to floss my teeth tonight! Then I'll have done it three days in a row!!"
Mom: "Great! Only 18 more days til it becomes a habit!"

So it takes 21 days to form a habit.

The following are habits I want to form this summer:

1. Morning prayers daily
2. Flossing every day
3. Washing my face every night
4. Do something thoughtful for someone every day
5. Say I love you to family more frequently
6. Running daily!

The following are habits I want to 100% solidify this summer:

1. Say meaningful nighttime prayers DAILY
2. STUDY scriptures every day
3. Keep in touch with friends
4. Not judge people EVER
5. Share my testimony when I have the opportunity

21 days here I come.

Sing me to sleep tonight, sweet Juliet.

My addiction and guilty pleasure these days is Family Search Indexing. I find it so calming and methodical, so fun to decipher the names, and heck, it's even worthwhile! I've now indexed 1047 names since the beginning of the summer, so in a month. Hooray! It is so much fun, you should try it sometime!

"Family history, I am doing it, my family history..."

I always get sooooo bored on the topic of family history and genealogy during church and such, but I never get bored doing indexing! It is a fun and simple way for me to get involved in family history, which I know is very important for me to do!

Book 6.

The Map Thief, by Heather Terrell.

I definitely liked this book the most of all the one's I've read so far this summer. It was a book seeking to find an answer to a real life mystery through fiction. It was really interesting, and very likely actually. This author helped me really feel the emotions of the main characters, the book felt very real. It was really neat! I would recommend this book.

Book 5.

Say You're One of Them, by Uwem Akpan

This book was really really depressing. It was five short stories put together, each told in the point of view of a child. Each child lived in different, but each dismal, circumstances in different countries in Africa. Each of the stories ended in the death of the child, or someone very close to the child. It was very very sad. The saddest part is I know these things really do happen in Africa.

Baby come back.

I was feeling moody and down the other day. I was feeling like I didn't have any friends or people that cared about me. I then realized I was being a bum. Because there are so many people that I am friends with and that mean a lot to me! Therefore, this post is mostly for myself to remind me of all the great people I've met and grown to love even more this past school year :)



Alex Wright - aka the best fhe dad ever!!



Bishop and Sister Armstrong - suuuper classy people.



Bencois. What a great kid :)



Blake "Stoneface" Lord. I like it when he wears dark jeans.



Bro. Davis is soooooooo great!



Brennan Leavitt is a cutie with a cute smile!



Carly is the bestest younger sister eva.



Chalay! I just like her a lottt.



Chris "bestie" Perfili! He was a hoot.



Oh Christine. The fun times we had!



Dear Clarka. It was a pleasure to be his sidekick.



Collin! From beginning to end, great friends.



Daniel's a cutie :)



David challenges me to do hard, but good things. Like dominate mancakes.



Don!! A great chatting buddy.



Emily Eckley is darling in every aspect.




Grantie Panties!! Good times.



Ian Ian Ian. Great kid.



Jam-es! You're so cool :)



Jared! I miss his crazy ways. And seeing his bedroom light on driving home.



Jay! Tell me story? haha.



Jerlier! Future roommates! Woooo!



Oh Katie. You are so silly. Hope Cali is warmer than Utah ;)



KLEE!! Come back from Idahoooooo :(



Kolby is so much fun!



Oh Kristen. Living with only children makes me laugh.



Kylo!! I miss him sooo bad! BFF!



Kylie!! I love her so much. Best roommate ever!!



Oh good ol' elementary school best friends :)



Parker! I love Parker hugs.



Rebbie! She's a great girl and a great friend!



Ryan! This picture just describes our relationship.



Sammie! Such a great boy.



Oh Shawn. I know you think I'm psycho.



Spencer! This right here is one classy boy.



Sterling! He gets me through hard days.



I can always count on Trevor for a laugh or two.

I'm feeling like a star - you can't stop my shine.

Oh yeah, last week I cut all my hair off. So... here it is :)
10 inches shorter, 10 minutes to do it, 10 times lighter!

Before...

After...