Life is good right now.

I get to read a lot.

I finished about one book a week. 

I have this fear that I'm going to run out of things to read. 

Tysen and I are on a soccer team. 

Our first game is on Wednesday.

Also Tysen's 23rd birthday!!! Hooray. 

Next weekend we are going camping for May long.

Just him & I.

I'm reaaaaaally excited.

A couple weeks after that we will be going Las Vegas for my Uncles wedding.

I'm really looking forward to laying by the pool and cooking that skin of mine. 

In my final English class today we talked about mass media and how when people are in crowds they aren't themselves, also how this world is becoming a place where you don't live a private life anymore because everything is public.

We advertise how we are feeling, what we are wearing, where you are, what you're doing.

That kind of stuff.

I hardly posted on twitter to begin with but whilst reading twitter posts of the people I follow I noticed 90% of the posts I was reading were people complaining, talking about all the negative sides of life and their day. Why do I want to read that? 

This is just my personal opinion by the way I'm not trying to convince people that twitter is a 

bad thing I am just saying it's not for me. 

A negative mind will never give you a positive life.

So I quit twitter. 

I want to live a more private life. 

Think about it, when you meet up with old friends how many stories about your life are you going to be able to tell? 

I predict not many because we post everything as soon as it happens.

Chances are you won't tell that friend any exciting news because you already posted about it. They already know. 

Next thing you know 

We start to live and do things just so we can post about it.

I've been there.

So here is a challenge, you don't have to take it.

But fight that urge to post about what your doing and make a few memories that only you and your friends know about, have stories to tell that are more than 140 characters long. 

"In selecting a companion for life and for eternity, planning and thinking and praying and fasting should be done to be sure that of all the decisions, this one MUST NOT be wrong."

-President Spencer W.  Kimball 

I am so grateful for my husband.

I know we were brought together when we both least expected it but I know it was for a reason. 

I know that out of all the decisions I have ever made this was not wrong.

Speaking of decisions and my husband, I'm so blessed to have him to help me through decision making processes. Without his knowledge and point of view I'd be a confused mess very often. 

I'm so grateful for love and all the joys it brings.

I realized I haven't written for awhile, and that's probably because I feel like I need to write for entertainment. I think I forget that this blog is mainly for me to look back on. I doubt y'all will look back on my blog 5 years from now to see how my life has changed. 

Let me tell you though, I'm very satisfied with my life.

Yes, school is stressing me out.

I'm ready for a break.

But I'm grateful that I am able to be in school and that I'm pursuing something I never ever imagined I could because I did NOT give myself enough credit and didn't try.

Currently I am going to school to be a Medical Assistant and then eventually work my way up to be a surgical nurse. 

I'm surprisingly doing well in my Anatomy & Physiology classes and loving them, but yet again I'm burning out and I'm ready for a break. 

I can now watch Bones and actually understand what they are saying. That sometimes scares me because a couple months ago I'd watch the show and hope they'd translate what they are talking about. Now I beat them to it. 

I thought I'd brag about that. 

Tysen and I love watching Bones. 

The class I am probably going to miss the most though is my Medical Law & Ethics class.

My teacher is fantastic! He's an attorney and does an amazing job turning our class into a court room and getting us to debate with our class mates. 

The best part about my life though is definitely my husband. 

I love living with him more and more every day. 

He's my best friend.

We have so much fun together.

Lately we've been dreaming about life after graduation and where we'll end up.

We fall in love with the idea of moving to Texas more and more every day.

Every day I give Tysen one reason why we should move there and now he does the same to me.

I wouldn't be surprised if we end up there. It'll be nice to have a BIG change, it's also crazy to think that after we graduate we aren't limited to going back to Canada or Northern Idaho but we can go ANYWHERE we want. 

But I'm crossing my fingers for Texas. 

So yup, this is our life thus far. 

My visiting teachers came over today and we had discussion about how reading the scriptures is like protection for us. Not just spiritually but physically. 

Let's admit it.

This world is evil. 

It's full of so much evil.

My husband loves to show me things he finds on the news and I often find myself angry and scared of what this world is becoming. 

My visiting teachers brought up an interesting thing.

Both of them admitted that they have a very hard time understanding the Book of Mormon so they listen to conference talks more often than they read the Book of Mormon.

They then pointed out that conference talks. 

Our apostles and Prophet speaking is modern day scriptures! 

Of coarse we need to be reading the Book of Mormon, this is essential.

However, I'll admit conference talks are easier to understand.

After my visiting teachers left I decided instead of turning on Netflix before church I'd just listen to a conference talk.

The talk I chose is titled 

"The Moral Force of Woman"

by Elder Christofferson

A couple of things stood out to me and I felt that I should share. 

Elder Christofferson stated,

""A woman’s moral influence is nowhere more powerfully felt or more beneficially employed than in the home. There is no better setting for rearing the rising generation than the traditional family, where a father and a mother work in harmony to provide for, teach, and nurture their children. Where this ideal does not exist, people strive to duplicate its benefits as best they can in their particular circumstances."

"A mother’s love and high expectations lead her children to act responsibly without excuses, to be serious about education and personal development, and to make ongoing contributions to the well-being of all around them."

He then continued to ask this question which really got my brain working!

I just love it.

"Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses?"

What do you think? 

I feel as though I have rediscovered myself since I have been with Tysen.

I always felt like I was myself around people but ever since I met Tysen I realized how much more comfortable I am with myself. 

I have found myself sharing things with him that I forgot about myself. One being my inner nerdyness (I'm aware that's not a word). 

I love Star Wars. 

It's one of my most favorite movie series out there. 

I don't think I shared that with many people in High School. 

Why? Because that's not what people were into. 

It was all about the sports.

Everything that was talked about revolved around sports.

That kind of became me. I didn't play sports so it's all I watched and all I ended up talking about.

 I don't remember the last time I watched Star Wars.

Until this weekend. 

With my husband, the man who has made me who I want to be. 

The man who has made me, well me again! (insert smiley face here)

I always thought that I wasn't trying to impress people back when I was in High School but why did I forget so much about myself? 

Well, sadly I was probably like many teenagers.

I acted like I didn't care what people thought but I sure did. 

I love books.

I love reading, almost anything!

Fiction and non-fiction.

I enjoy reading my psychology textbook just because of the pure enjoyment reading gives me.

Also psychology is so darn fascinating! 

I remember blogging almost a year ago about Tysen taking me to a mummy museum. 

I forgot how much I loved mummies until he brought up the museum. 

Pretty much what I'm getting at is this:

Don't go with the crowd, don't say things just because others say them.

Don't hide away your passions because it's not the "hip" thing.

Wear that Star Wars t-shirt and those leggings everybody hates because everyone claims leggings aren't pants. 

Be yourself.

Do things that make you comfortable.

Those that truly love you won't care. 

Not one bit.

I always feel like there can be improvement in my life. I try and make a goal every month to work on one thing at a time. No, I don't perfect that one thing but it's my focus for the month. There was a time in my life where I wasn't working on anything. In fact I think I was just stuck in one spot wanting to go anywhere but a place that would make me better. 

Those were dark times. 

Though I'm not perfect I'm pleased with where I am today and who I am.