days like this

On days like this-- when it is bitter cold outside and the sky looks ominous and gray-- all I want to do is curl up and eat some soup.  So I did.  I had a really good bowl of torilla soup from the Creamery on 9th.  After that, I decided to look at pictures of really beautiful places and make myself sick with jealousy over the fact that I wasn't there at that very moment.  Here are some of the scapes I was living through.

And that's when I realized that wishing I was somewhere else would only bring me unhappiness.  Because fantasizing and romanticizing a foreign place isn't going to change anything.  So I got out of bed and went for a walk.  And you know what happened?  I found beauty in the place that I am at RIGHT NOW.  The present was made beautiful, just because I was looking for it.  Pretty cool.  

Nice people at BYU

I generally like to avoid describing someone as "nice."  It just doesn't really tell a whole lot about the person.  But I honestly can't think of another word that better represents the people at BYU.  They are so nice.  No one walks around on their phones, usually I am the only one doing that.  They make eye contact and smile and say hello.  I hear "sorry" and "thank you" echoing all over campus!  I've really had to step up my game.

Some of those nice people are my roommates.  Good memories: every night Kait and Sarah and I do our homework in Sarah and mine's room.  Kait always sits at the foot of my bed and we laugh until we cry or wet our pants...

This is what I go to sleep to every night.

And Felicity of course...

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And this is what I get to wake up to.

Still don't know who wrote me that note-- but it made my day!  Notice my drinks of choice (not easy to come by, I have to trek far off campus.  But I'm loyal to my DC).

This is how Sarah casually sits.  All the time. 

Oh how I love these nice people!

This one's for my mom

This one is for my mom, because I'm pretty sure she's the only person who really cares about what every day looks like for me.

 look at those blank faces

The testing center... it even looks scary

My favorite building-- the Maeser building

 Just sleeping under a tree.  It's casual.

 Getting some self-defense lessons.  No big deal.  

My walk to and from campus every day

 Sometimes at night I feel like I am at Hogwarts

My favorite time of day... 7:00pm

The classic shoe pic.  Because you were all dying to know what I had on my feet.

The classic food pic.  Because I know that mom is curious about what I eat every day.