I'm all crafty now

Right now: I am listening to All Time Low. I will forever love them.

I made one of these! Except, I did different quotes ( I don't have my camera handy, so you get the pinterest pictures:) It is super easy, you just get some cheap mugs - make sure they are super clean, its gross to clean it off later. You write on them with sharpie, and then put them in the oven at 350 for 25-30 minutes and voila. Cutesy mug for almost nothing.

So, sometimes I get a bit down on my situation in life. Who doesn't have those crappy days? Well, just remember...

THINGS THAT MAKE MOLLY HAPPY:]

• Going to the lake
• Getting some sun from previously mentioned lake
• Doing things that scare me (like jumping off a rope swing)
• Air conditioning (yeah, it's 91 degrees outside)
• Home teachers that visit every month without fail
• 4 weeks to go! (You can do it Molly... You can do it...)
• Listen to people talk who have real accents
• Friends who make class go by quicker

Overcoming fears

Right Now: I am listening to Sleeping with Sirens

This last week I have done lots of things I am terrified of. So... I felt pretty proud of myself.

Thursday night Michael invited me to go out to the sand dunes and so we all went to St. Anthony. It was super fun (didn't have my ipod, so no pics). We had some a fire going, people were throwing a frisbee and a football around, and we jumped off the edge of the dunes into the sand. Kyle also took me on a three wheeler, (which was the terrifying part of the evening) but so worth it! We also roasted marshmallows and star bursts while we talked about celebrities and later laid in the sand looking at the stars (which you CANNOT see in Rexburg :/).

Friday night comes around and I thinking I will probably stay in and finish my homework, and just finish my homework and watch a movie. Well, I decide to text Nikki (she keeps me sane in Math) and we all went out to the Civil Defense Caves. I love climbing, but it was just a bit scary because it was super dark (duh) and I didn't have a flashlight so... I was kind of winging it. Then we played glow-in-the-dark hide and go seek which I am the champ at:)

Then we built a fire at the Sand Dunes on the way back to Rexburg. I did not participate in building the fire at all, but I was sitting right there next to the fire when a ranger came up to us and told us we built the fire on the wrong side of the road... major awk moment. So, I was pretty scared when he was talking to us (I was afraid someone was going to say something stupid and make him mad). 

But, he said we just had to let it burn out then remove the scar of the fire by the next day... So we turned the music back up and had fun until the fire went out.

Saturday I went cliff jumping in Ririe with Caitlin's apartment. It was a little scary at first, just because the edge wasn't smooth like the bridge at Monkey Rock. But, it wasn't very high, so it balanced out;)

THINGS THAT MAKE MOLLY HAPPY:]

• Skyping with Kate!
• Discovering new music
• The smell of fresh air (The Ivy doesn't let you open your windows, so I relish the opportunities I have)
• TOMS (my most favoritest shoe ever, they are so comfy. I am getting tan line, it looks a little funny)
•  A clean room
• Being able to wear skirts when its bleedin' hot outside 
• Exercising- my legs aren't looking too bad
• Ice cream... I eat a lot of it. I should buy stock in G's Dairy and Nielson's Frozen Custard
• My hair is growing! (hopefully it keeps going...)

I have a job for the 7 week break! And it will give pay 9.50 an hour (2.25 more than I would get paid here in Rexburg) and I will get 90 hours a week! Basically, its just awesome. I am excited to work with those lovely ladies below, and climbing the elevators again (and being able to see all of the tiny towns I am cleaning) and rock climbing after work! (and Red Robins:)

There is just something about washing the campfire smell out of your hair and cleaning sand out of your jeans that makes me smile. Because while I am digging the sand out of my jeans, I remembers how it got there. Like jumping off the edge and landing in the sand. And riding the three wheeler with Kyle and legitimately feeling terrified it was going to tip  over and sitting around the fire roasting mallows. Without fail I think of the Sandlot every time I make a smore.  Oh, and the Capri Suns  were delicious, and they reminded me of my childhood. 

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... Its about learning to dance in the rain :)

sunshine.love.

 happy thoughts:)

Its summer!

There is just something awesome about being a kid again and reliving the glory days. I remember climbing the apple tree (hard to climb back down), jumping off the chicken house roof (try to not get caught by Mom), aaand building forts. With lots of pillows and blankets. So we recreated my childhood for one night. I have not built one in a long time, so  it required the use of our imaginations and a lot of safety pins. We then proceeded to watch Prison Break and then Jim Gaffigan. He is so funny!

I went bridge jumping! As in, I actually jumped off the bridge! I felt so proud of myself. It was I am not going to lie... I-Cover was not my favorite Saturday night here in the Burg. But, I was there with Tori and Allison, so they make pretty much everything awesome.

life. its what you make it

This week has been absolutely bizarre. To be honest, I had moments where I seriously considered packing up and driving home. Why? I am not even quite sure. I just know that I wasn't happy. Apparently I have some sort of transitional anxiety disorder... whatever that means.  What I do know is that I was sick of being unhappy. So, I decided I was going to be happy. I was going to get out of my room and do something with other people, even though I didn't really want to. My two friends Tori and Allison have been such peaches;) They let me tag along their FHE group all the time. First the Avengers, then Big Jud's, then THOR. Basically I just love those girls. Anyways, I have really think life is what you make it. I can choose to feel insecure, frustrated, and overwhelmed. OR I can tackle those feelings head on and figure why I am bombarded with them.

I am not going to pretend like all my problems disappeared overnight. They did not. It is still hard for me to look people in the eye on campus and smile, because what if they do not smile back? I do not handle rejection well. But, I learned that if I smiled to enough people on my way to class, I was usually in a pretty good mood by the time I got to class, because I had been smiling so much.

It gets better. It gets easier too! Little by little, day by day.  Some (and I stress SOME) of my classes are so awesome that I am excited to go to class.   I am learning to live with the others -  (cough cough Math needs to die cough cough).

This girl next to me? Yeah she is pretty cool. She deals with my deep belly laughs with my snorting when I laugh too hard. She lets me shamelessly use her three hole puncher, and she goes to Pizza Pie Cafe with me even though she hates pizza. She has this way of magically making me pay attention in Doctrine and Covenants when I really do not want to. She listens to my endless rants about pointless meaningless things ( I DO mean endless) Oh, and she is my new work out buddy. Basically she is awesome. Somebody has to be pretty special to be able to handle seeing me EVERYDAY...:) 

This is so true! I have learned that the hard way this past couple of weeks. Just do it, get out there and meet some new people, and do some new things that you would not normally do :]

 Shout out to the brother, who came to see me in Rexy. he is single ladies:-)

The Truman/ Diamond Rio concert with Michael. I loved Truman, and Michael loved Diamond Rio, so it balanced out nicely:)

THINGS THAT MAKE MOLLY HAPPY:]

• walks at night with the besties
• being able to see the stars at night
• butterflies in my stomach for my friend ( i MIGHT be more excited for her than she is :]
• passing two difficult exams in one day!
• compliments on my skirt (LOVE that so much!)
• cooking in the kitchen 
• sleeping in 
• reading my patriarchal blessing
• sunshine- i love the warmth!
• fountain soda- SO much better than the can:)