This is just so good.

I really love numbers

3

8

10

11

18

19

21

22

23

This is pretty much an entire list of my new years resolutions put into way better words than I ever could have and I love it.

Which ones are you gonna work on?

(Got this from here.)

Current obsessions.

> Leggings, all day e'ery day. (I may rescind my loyalty to the "leggings aren't pants" club...they're just so much better than pants, in every way.)

> My electric blanket that I got for Christmas. I honestly couldn't tell you how I survived every previous winter without it.

> My mom's homemade bruschetta.

> Imagine Dragons. (Who isn't obsessed though.) (I just want to listen to Radioactive every second on the second. Sue me.)

> Thick wooly infinity scarves. And leather jackets.

> The Bachelor. I'm a bit ashamed...

> The Lord of the Rings movies. I watched Return of the King yesterday and cried at the end. CRIED. What is this nonesense?

> Sleepytime tea before bed.

> The Pacific Northwest. Get me there now.

HEY THERE WORLD!

SUUUUPPPP everybodaaay??

So, lots of people have been asking me "How was Ukraine??"
While we were there, the girls & I thought about making a flowchart to hand out to people when they asked this question. The flowchart would have things like
"If you REALLY want to know about how was Ukraine, go here"
"If you want to hear about my kids, go here"
"If you want a short answer, go here"
"If you think I was actually in Russia.....just toss this flowchart in a trashcan somewhere"
Stuff like that.

But I'll just give you the short answer. Going to Ukraine was the best decision of my entire life, and I say that with complete seriousness.
Basically it's like this

Everyone should have experiences like I did.

It should be required to growing up. Just like college or getting a job. 

You just learn so much and change so much and see things you never knew existed and it opens up your brain to a whole new state of mind.

I'll keep this brief, but if you want to know anything else about it, please let me know! 

Here are a couple of pictures

Now you have a wonderful day. And cheers to the hopes that I can start blogging regularly again...we'll see.

Seeeee ya

Well friends, the time has come. I'm off to Ukraine in the morning. I started a new blog to document my adventure. Here it is:

Utah to Ukraine

Follow along if you'd like!
I'm super excited but super nervous at the same time. I just said goodbye to a lot of beloved people including my boyfriend so I'm a bit more nervous than excited right this minute. I'm sure once I get on a 20-hour-plane-ride-induced-stupor tomorrow I'll be just fine. It's going to be a crazy fantastic adventure and I can't wait.
See you on the flip side suckaaaas! Just kitten. I love and will miss you all. Please keep in touch! Cheers to adventure!

Literature.

One thing I have lurved about my new job is that between calls I can read. I have read five books in three weeks cause of it. If you're trying to get a last bit of summer reading in and need some recommends, I'm your girl!

 

I saw the movie and loved it. The book's even better of course. If you didn't know, it's about a dashing young lad who drops out of vet school cause his parents die tragically and he joins the circus and takes care of the animals and he falls in love with the circus director's wife. SAUCY! It really is "A delightful gem" as the Denver Post so kindly describes.

Sweet mercy, such a good love story. About another dashing lad who involuntarily time travels and visits his wife throughout her life. This one had me in tears for quite a while. Uhm, can't say I recommend the movie too much. It was not too great. Except I love Rachel McAdams. Anyways, READ IT.

(These covers look the same) A classic about a super smart & successful girl who goes insane. Sylvia Plath is a poet and this is her only novel so this book has some pretty pretty writing in it. One of my favorite quotes was "I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo." Hullabaloo, people! So, I was really proud of myself for reading a classic.

I was in Barnes and Noble and despite the cheesey pre-teen-aimed cover I picked it up and read the back and guuurl I just had to buy it. It's about this little town in California and one day all the adults disappear. Everyone that's left is 14 and under. It's like Lord of the Flies gone wild. I'm surprised it doesn't have a bigger rep cause it's SUPER good. Couldn't put it down ya'll. And it's a 6 part series! Mercy! You bet I'll be collecting them all. My bookshelf just doesn't have the posterity for much more of this.

I've read this before. It's one of those that's so good you can always go back and read. It's based in the future and it's about a 6 year old boy who's sent to space to learn how to be a commander because there's a big space war coming and he's supposedly going to save the world. Doesn't get much nerdier than that, but it's just a huge YES. I love it. You can't go wrong. And I hear they're going to make a movie of it sometime. Make like a hipster and read it now before all the bandwagons start rolling in. 


SO. Have YOU guys read any gems lately? Care to share?