34 things to do while i'm 34 - only 4 months left!!!

x 1. attend 2 new (to me) utah temples
x 2. pay off credit card
3. get a facial
x 4. complete a painting
5. ride another single track
6. draw 2011's Christmas card
7. see the Joseph Smith movie
8. try snowboarding again or go skiing again
9. organize closet
10. bake bread for my staff
x 11. update my poor blog at least once
12. kiss in the rain
13. visit teach every month
14. attend the temple at least monthly
15. make my temple skirt
16. embroider apron
17. sew a new apron from that super cute pattern i bought a year ago!
18. call friend weekly
x 19. get a pedicure
x 20. cook something new
21. don't get another cold (already lost this one, blast it all)
x 22. go to the hot tub!
x 23. shoot hoops with danae
24. have a monthly sister-sister date with danae
25. practice the ukulele
26. organize korea and china pics
x 27. dye hair
28. forgive myself daily
29. read the gospels
30. make a bday calendar
31. start paying down student loan in a huge way
x 32. start another journal book with suz
x 33. organize my bookcase
x 34. make photo cards

something i really want to focus on too, as cheesy as it may sound, is to work diligently at being mrs. right, because yes, then i can be ready for mr. right. :) told you it was cheesy, but well worth my time...

ha, and this post counts as completing #11. :)

in other news, i am again, for real, single. i have had such a great learning experience - i'm seriously amazed at how much i learned. i hope that in the relationships realm i matured from around 13 years old to hopefully somewhere in the 20s. :) i am already dating other men which is fun! i'm happy to be set up with a tall, good man, keep your eyes open for me!

update

there are several things to inform you of:

1. my car is paid off and i'm doing dave ramsey gazelle intensity, which means that next is my credit card (racked up for alivia's favorite kind of therapies - retail, eating out, and hawai'i :))
2. last sunday on an old fashioned liv-like impulse, i cut my bangs, had mom cut my hair, and then tuesday before pottery i colored it with a box color from the grocery store. i've lost so much of it and cutting it takes off the poor weak ends, and makes it seem so much thicker. i miss my long hair and am definitely growing it back, but it's fun to have a change and for it to feel a little like my hair used to feel like. luckily i have new growth coming in from the loss i've had.
3. i broke up with cory this week. it just didn't feel right. i love him dearly, and he does indeed have a heart of gold. maybe it's just a timing thing, maybe we're only ever supposed to be great friends. i don't know, but i'm back to being single. i do want to get married to a good man and servant of the Lord, so if any of you know any good men who are single, divorced, or widowed, hook a girl up! :) thanks. i'm doing really well with the break up. i feel much calmer now that we are not together any longer. luckily we are both mature and fabulous people, so we are still able to be friends.
4. just as a side note, elder hales attended our sacrament meeting today! wonderful! i was able to sit up close and it's so awe inspiring to be close to an apostle. amazing. the church is true!

happy spring!

pottery and the bf

i never post anymore. i know. i just usually don't feel like it. but, i have two post-worthy things to discuss.

1. the bf and i are taking a pottery class together. this is my first time EVER throwing pottery and it is such a kick in the pants! these are all my finished pieces from pottery round 1. round 2 starts on tuesday and i'm so excited! i wish i could take it 2-3 times a week. it's so fun.

2. this is the bf. he's a doll and a gem. those aren't very masculine sounding, huh. he's a ... hmmm ... i can't think of anything that won't sound inappropriate. :) he's way cool and fun and we have a great time together. here we are with his two dogs out at the salt lake one cold day. can you believe i actually have a real boyfriend? pinch me, i know. don't worry, it's not all peachy and dandy. i've never had a serious boyfriend, EVER, so i'm doing plenty of freaking out. the good thing is that, as my friend sarah pointed out, he handles me well. this does not mean you can start asking when we are getting married, unless you really want me to freak out and run away from boyfriends for a long time. :)

he drew this in the sand for us, cute, huh...

happy spring weekend!!

heya

i just gotta say that i'm sooo happy. i haven't been this happy in years, literally. life is so good and i'm so grateful for an amazing father in heaven and for this gospel that i so fully believe in. happy! here's the haps...

i got the job at davis behavioral health which is the first place i worked after grad school. crazy! i've been there three weeks now and it has been better than i thought it would be, thank heavens. i really like my office because it's roomy and the walls are a beautiful shade of green, my favorite color. i bought a little love seat from d.i. and some lamps and it's a cozy little place now. i've already started seeing clients and have a done a bunch of intakes. it's fun getting back into the field; i love the feeling of helping others. i'm definitely rusty though, sheesh! it feels like a good and right place to be. woo-hoo!

i continue to date, but am not dating as many different guys as i was. i haven't really been looking because there's one bloke that i like a lot and we've been doing a lot together. i still accept dates and stuff, but you know. the boy and i aren't exclusive yet, but he's a good, good man with a heart of pure gold. i don't know if he's "the one" or anything, but we're having a great time together and are taking it slow, which is fun.

i'm now taking a pottery class every tuesday, wahoo! the boy took me to it a couple times last round and taught me how to throw a pot and it was such a blast. we're taking this round together and hopefully i'll get at least one good pot out of it. it'll also be great for preventing burn out.

so, that's that. i'm sure there's more i could talk about, but i'm just plain ol' tired, it's almost midnight and i think i'm an old woman now cause i just wanna go to bed! chau...