Yoda is Beautiful.

I always find myself straying away from this blog but I promise that I'm not doing it intentionally. It's currently 4 a.m and I am having a go at my late night writing once again, but this time it's because I am off track from school, I'm organizing my wordpress blog, and just to throw it in there, it's my time of the month. Now that i got that out of the way, I can finally express myself and I will try to in the least confusing way possible because I have the potential to slip with my mind all being exhausted and whatnot. First off, this blog is going to be my personal blog, where I post all my rants and thoughts about life in general and I'm going to try and keep up with it everyday (I've been using twitter for my rants but now I just realize that was dumb because how are you supposed to suppress all that emotion into 140 characters? That's right, you can't).

Now, let's get down to business to defeat the huns. Since it's basically still the start of a new year (well a month into it anyway), I've set some new years resolutions. These are the ones I've actually been sticking to:


  • Morning daily schedule which includes: Praying, running/workout, reading at least 1 news article while I eat
  • Eating healthy (which oddly enough was not even on my list, but I did it anyways)
  • More Organized: Clothes, purse/wallet, documents
  • Going to bed earlier
  • Stay clean/healthy and dress self up: I've been working on keeping my face moisturized and clean. I've also been trying new ways to lighten my acne scars. Lemon is great for doing that. My mom has lemon as a part of the doterra Oils. If anyone is interested, they have a website for more info here: http://www.doterra.com/us/
I honestly didn't think I could be as organized as I have been lately. And I think as much as people tell themselves they can't do something, they get discouraged. But I didn't even focus on the fact that I couldn't do it; I focused on how I was going to apply myself to make it work. Turns out going to bed earlier makes the world go 'round. 
This past month I spent in California living with my dad, and my family over there. I spent most of my days running errands with my step mom and helping her watch the new baby and I had so much fun catching up with her and seeing baby Victora! I had an amazing experience going down there, believe it or not. Usually I tend to get uncomfortable if I'm down there for a while because I rarely find the chance to get to church, and sometimes the living habits are a difference than what I'm used to. But I prayed that I would be able to attend church most of the time before I went down there, and while I was there, I prayed for patience. I prayed to be the example that people could follow. And I started to see a change occur, not only with my family or people around me, but within myself. I saw that I could thrive as a positive, beam of light even in some of what I used to know as the coldest, darkest, places for me. 
I learned something valuable. So world, don't let the little things bring you down because you are a bright light of hope that can choose to be positive wherever you may be. I also came to the understanding that not everyone is perfect and we can find beauty in both the good and the bad. Without good, there is not bad, and without bad, we don't make wrong choices and we don't experience. And experience is dang beautiful when there's a lot of it. AKA: Yoda. He has a lot of experience, therefore he knows more...And I think I just called Yoda beautiful. Well, anyways, I should have just left it at experience is dang beautiful because now I'm going to end this entry as an official weirdo. Alright, future sister missionary is signing off. Peace. 

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