apples

How is it that I'd never heard this analogy before?  I had a wonderful girl's night with my IC ladies on Saturday (such a blast!) and we got to talking about why boys always go for the "easy" girls (which is a huge pet peeve for all of us).  Then they told me the "apple tree" analogy that I had NEVER heard before!! Do I live under a rock or something?  Who knows...but I think it's so great that I had to share it with the rest of you!

Basically guys go for the "easy" girls because they (the boys) don't like having to work for the good girls.  So, instead of climbing the apple tree to get the greatest apple at the very top, they pick up the ones that have fallen to the ground.  Those ones with the bruises, covered in dirt—but they grab them because they are easy to get to.
Why can't guys just care enough to put in the work and climb?

One other thing....why is it that when you are single and lonely and missing someone, you see couples EVERYWHERE!?  I promise that on Thursday, everywhere I looked was a couple holding hands, a couple hugging (or kissing), couples couples couples!  Why does that happen?

lucky me

I get to come home to this every day.

My cute kitty.

Just love her to pieces!

one word

And that's a problem.

It was just one stupid word.

Hopefully it won't last long.

Ugh.

Aside from that I spent a marvelous weekend watching

sports at the Hunstman Center.

Wishing the gymnastics team had won. 

Oh well, we only lost by .3.

And our cute little 

(who refers to a basketball team as little?  Me apparently) 

basketball team only lost by 6 to Colorado State.

But the game was lots of fun.

I got on the jumbotron a lot!

Then I headed up to P.C. for some Sundance action with my friends.

Star-gazing failed, and we were sad because 

50-cent was supposed to be up there.

We didn't see him.

But it was lots of fun,

and we had some funny car conversations.

Overall, it was a good weekend,

much better than last weekend.

I'm liking this whole "turning over a new leaf" thing.

after some re-evaluation

I have concluded that I need to do something about my life.  It's okay to still be sad, I lost someone I love more than anything, and I'll never get him back.  So it's perfectly alright to be sad and feel lonely, and cry a lot.  That's. Totally. Fine.

What's not fine is the moping, and the complaining, and the sad projection into my everyday life.  That is not okay.  I have been given this fabulous life to live by a wonderful loving Heavenly Father, and He would not want me to waste it being sad and pathetic always.

So I'm going to be okay.  If you ask, "I'm good!"  No matter how much my shattered heart hurts at that moment, I will be good.  I don't need people feeling sorry for me, and I don't need people to know everything about my life.  I just need them to know that I am eternally grateful for all of my experiences (painful though they may be) and I am a happy person.  I have been set on this path for a reason, and I will conquer this as I have every other thing in my life.

Yes, I hurt.  Yes, I am lonely.  Yes, I am sad.  And yes, I miss him more than any word in any language can describe.



But I'm good.  Thanks for asking.

one of those . . . couple months

You know when you can just say, "It's just been one of those days."?

Well I am just saying, "It's just been a couple of those months."

 I. am. so. tired. 

...spent a while last night waiting for a phone call that never came...

so cold it hurts

I do not like SLC in January.  Too too cold.  It hurts to go outside!

Today I painted my fingernails for the first time in a year.  They are white. 

I also decided that if I could get laser hair removal, I would have my eyebrows permanently shaped.  Waxing them is such a pain!

well

Some days are easier than others.

Today is one of the not-so-easy days.

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