Thanksgiving was awesome, yet very different this year. I picked up Mia (from my ward) and my cousin Courtney around noon and we started the 2 hour trip up to Eden. We arrived at my grandparents house and of course there was already stuff out to make sandwiches. My grandma is the sweetest lady. We then relaxed and chit chatted until my cousin from BYU-Idaho and her 2 roommates came up. We then made made dinner and lounged about some more. My grandma then played the piano while we all sang, which definitely brought me back to my childhood. 

We fired up the sauna and had a lovely little girl's night. What better way to bond then sitting in a 150 degree room in nothing but a towel. We then decided what better way to end the night than to watch Titanic? After that my cousin and her husband arrived and then we all had a midnight snack then headed off to bed. 

Thanksgiving morning was lovely. We ate a small breakfast then started cooking. At about 1:30 my grandma's sister and her boyfriend showed up along with my 2nd cousin and her mom. My grandparent's friend then came over and we started eating. The food was incredible, so yummy! After we ate about 20 of my cousins and aunts and uncles came up and we all played games and talked and laughed. We headed back to Provo that night. It was just the day off I needed! It was so good to be with family and new friends. 

If there is anything in this world I have trouble with, it's patience. Once I have my mind set on something I have such a hard time sitting and waiting for it to happen. 

The past few weeks I've definitely been learning the life lesson of patience. I'm not trying to whine or complain or pity myself, but there are a lot of things I want in life that I know I just need to wait for. 

My roommate and I had a long chat about this today. As much as we joke about how we love being single, we really don't love it. Sure it would be nice to have a boyfriend, or heck even go on dates haha, but maybe that just isn't in the cards for us right now. 

My biggest test of patience right now is waiting for Christmas. I am dying to see my family. I haven't seen them since May 23rd and it is killing me. I love my parents and my brothers more than anything and it has been really hard for me going so long without seeing them. They may or may not know it but they are my rock, they keep me going, and keep a smile on my face when I've had a rough day. My mom is my absolute best friend and I don't know what I would do without her. She is absolutely beautiful inside and out. I hope I can be half the woman that she is someday. 

I've realized though that there is something to be learned from every experience in life. I recently read a talk by Elder Uchtdorf where he explained the blessings that come from being patient. Jacob waited 7 years to be with Rachel, the Jews waited 70 years in Babylon, and the Nephites waited for the sign of the birth of Christ. 

Surely I can suck it up and be patient for the things I want in life -

Love, Marriage, Family, Traveling, Mission, A Real Job etc. 

...Someday.

Right? :)

I feel like I'm in the Cat in the Hat story today. You know the one where he spills and uses the dress to clean it up, then something else to clean up the dress? 

I spilled some crystal light on a bunch of my school papers and workbook so I had the brilliant idea to put some bleach on a cutip to get the red stains off. I then looked down and noticed I had gotten bleach on my shoes and my pants so I got a black sharpie and colored in the bleach stains on my shoe and pants. I then got sharpie on my finger, but I think I'll just leave that alone now.

P.S Today has been an awesome day! I'm getting so excited for Thanksgiving on Thursday. I can't wait to be with my extended family, too bad my family won't be there.... but Christmas will come soon enough!

So today I hopped over to the Plasma center to do my bi-weekly donation.  I was finishing up and the gal wrapped my arm up and then walked away. I looked over at it and  super dark red blood starts tricking out of the bandage. It then turns into a full on river! Well maybe not a river but it was intense. It starts trickling and pooling up on the floor so I call her over and she fixed it all up and cleaned up all the blood. Poor thing, I'm sure that wasn't fun. Anyways, it took me like a little while to call her over because I was just stuck staring at it. I'm a little weird in that area. I love looking at blood, so fascinating haha!

I had the BEST night every last night. It was seriously so fun and just what I needed. I had an awesome day at school. I was suppose to have a client come in at 2:30 for a facial but they didn't end up showing up which opened up some time to do a trade with a girl in my class. I was able to give and receive a facial, so awesome. 

After school I drove up to Orem and met Kristjana at a chapel up there for a ward dinner they were having. Yummy food and meeting new people is always a good thing. 

Last minute we decided to go up to the UVU institute building for a dance. We were told you absolutely have to have a date but nonetheless we decided we would be fine without dates, ha! So we walk in the doors and immediately they ask where our dates are, I blurt out that they are waiting for us inside and they let us in questioningly. We met up with some friends there and we danced our little hearts out. 

We then went to a bacon party. Now what is a bacon party you might ask? I asked the same thing. We got there and there was every kind of food imaginable covered in bacon. Bacon wrapped yams, bacon ice cream, bacon burgers, you name it. So weird but so fun. 

Lastly KJ introduced me to this song that I cant even believe how perfectly it fits me, I feel like it explains me to a tee. 

The last month I have been pondering what I want to do with my life. I was heavily considering putting my mission papers in, but after a lot of consideration I realized that it wasn't what I was suppose to do. I'm not sure if it's because as a kid my family moved around a lot but I just have a craving to move and meet new people. I've only been in Provo since May and I'm already thinking about where I want to live next. I think once I graduate in May I want to hand out the majority of my resumes closer to Salt Lake. At that point I'll be 22 and I think it would be a nice change to get out of a college town. I'm not saying I'm super old or anything but a change may be nice. After I work for a year or so how awesome would it be to take off and work in London or some place exciting like that?! I've been fixated on that lately. I just can't get it out of my head. Ahhh :)

P.S I may or may not have the Justin Bieber album on repeat right now...oh my. Who would have thought?  Only thing I cannot stand is how that kid calls his girls "shawty" all the time. Gag me!

On another note, I feel like Provo is so centered on dating. While it would be nice to find Prince Charming, I've realized that I have a lot to learn about myself until that point. I've been single for 6 months and I am perfectly okay with that :) I am in no rush, when it happens it happens. Until then cheers to self discovery :)