I got tagged.. and a few other shiz

Ok so I am sitting here it is 12:30 in the middle of the night I would be sleeping but for some reason i can never fall asleep anymore so here i am just blogging away... first and foremost if there is anyone out there that reads my blog and doesn't have a link to my friend Kate's blog please look to the right and read her blog... it will change your life. Next can i just tell you how much i love living in boston not only for the food and the friends but because our sports teams are amazing. The celtics just won the championship and it was a blast. We went out to watch a lot of the games and let me tell you there is nothing like being in a sports bar with a bunch of locals who love this team. It was really amazing. finally its pretty amazing how when things start to change in life God always watches out for us. He always sends us the people we need in our lives. I have always been blessed with the most amazing friendships and right know is no different. The other highlight of life today is thanks to my friend Blair i finally have found a real legit mexican resturant and i couldn't be more happy. i have almost lived here for a year and NOTHING has compared to the mexican food out west until tonight!!! it is only fitting it is called Jose's... i love it! Finally today was the last day of my clinical rotation and i was soo sad to say goodbye to my patients and therapists at the clinic. I have had such a great time and learned so much about people. It was an amazing experiance and one i will never forget. Life is so good. I feel so blessed. Today i was talking with a friend and we were chatting about how life is hard and things don't always go the way we want but there is soooo much good to focus in on. It just reminded me that i am so blessed and have so many good things surrounding me. I love those moments in life when things slow down and you look around and see all of god's beauty. I love the tender mercies that he grants us and those moments when we realize there really is a god above who loves us and watches over us. Alright i know this is a long post but if you are bored feel free to read the tag below.. if not no worries :)
ABC Tag- I got tagged!
A - Attached or single: single BABY.. which means for a good time call.... 435-770-you wish :)
B - Best Friend: too loaded of a ? but i do love my roommates, my usu friends, my mom, my brothers, my partner in crime Blair, the celtics, and the 2007 redsox team
C - Cake or Pie: how about Brownie mix, or cake batter ice cream, and i did just find a new yogurt place in Harvard sqaure that i may be in love with
D - Day of the Week: Mon for Bones, Tue for American Idol, wed for Gossip girl and private practice, thur for greys and the office, fri for FNL, sunday for army wives... i love everyday of the week for these reasons
E - Essential Item: CELL PHONE! and ipod..
F - Favorite Color: ROYGBIV jk hmm red, or black, maybe blue
G - Gummi Bears or Worms: how about chocolate covered gummi bears
H - town: Twin Falls Idaho... or T-Town
I - Indulgences: chips and salsa, chocolate, NASCAR
J - January or July?: July.. every city i have lived in during Jan is freezing!!
K - Kids: not that i know of
L - Life is incomplete without: great movies, music, my friends, and of course the gospel
M - Marriage Date: if i were to make a prediction i would say.... not looking good :)
N - Number of Siblings: 4 older brothers
O - Oranges or Apples: Oranges, but really i would choose pineapple, bananas, raspberries, kiwi, strawberries
P - Phobias or Fears: I am terrified of spiders, and bees.
Q - Quote: "Fortunately, God is preoccupied with His Children. We are His work and glory. All that He does is for our benefit."
R - Reason To Smile: Its summer and beautiful in Boston right know and tomorrow summer vacation starts.
S - Season: i love all 4 seasons.
T - Tag Three: no one... anyone can copy and paste if they are as bored as i am
U - Unknown fact about me: I am obsessed with any type of dance, salsa, ballroom, hip hop, anything...which means in my next life i will be a dancer until then i will just watch so you think you can dance, and dancing with the stars
V - Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: I am a swensen which means i love meat
W - Worst Habit: Biting my nails... i know i know i hate it too.. believe me if i could quit i would
X - Rays or Ultrasounds: RAYS... there is nothing better then being tan
Y - Your favorite food: chilies chips and salsa, my mom's swiss steak, chilies chocolate molten cake
Z - Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Here comes the good and the bad..

So this post has some highlights along with the lowlights... for the low... on wed i got into my first car wreck and let me tell you even though it was not a super big deal it still scared the shiz out of me. it was about 8:45 in the morning and i was driving to work in a rain storm when i came around a corner and the car in front of me hit her breaks. i hit my breaks and hydroplaned into her car. the worst part she was so mean to me and all i could do was keep saying i am so sorry and i have car insurance so don;t worry.. and all she could do to me was glare and yell at me. it sucked. the good news she seemed to be ok and her volvo thankfully is like a tank and unless her bumber was made of gold it shouldn't be too much of a problem to get it fixed even though i did punch two holes into it and dent it a bit.... oops.... once i started writing down her information i then realized she had just bought the car in feburary and it was starting to make sence why she was so pissed even though i did feel horrible and kept aplogizing over and over again... (note to self if someone ever rear ends me i will try my hardest to be as nice as i can be) at least i can say i have know been in a wreck... although i hope its another 10 years before it happens again.
the high... tuesday night some of my best roomates from my college days at Utah state came to visit. We have had a blast and i feel so grateful to have them in my life. My friend Jenni brings a calm with her that i just marvel about. she is one of those friends that i would take to war with me cause i know she always has my back and is one of the most sincere friends ever. Melissa is my oldest frined from USU and she is one of my most favorite people in the world. when we hang out i do nothing but laugh and smile plus i can tease her like crazy and she never gets upset. I love it! and even though marci and i are roomates here it was fun to have the 4 of us together again and let me tell you all without marci i am pretty sure i would have wandered down a dark street and never found my way home. she helps me continue to grow from being the youngest child in a family of only brothers... thanks marc :) this week was just another lesson.. life is full of good and bad. but the good always out does the bad!

Funny things on my mind...

Ok so today i decided to blog on some funny things that have happened in the past few days. I wanted to list these because today i was feeling a bit low and exhausted and nothing makes life a little happier then a good laugh. today i was singing happy birthday to someone with a large group of people and of course me being my annoying imature self was singing loud and off key and being crazy like most people in the room when i realized the girl next to me was singing as if she was on stage and at her first big performance. She was trying to harmonize and sound like a professional and next to my kareokee style I couldn't help but bust up..i love people who take themselves that serious.. its classic.... on sunday my friend showed me a clip from a SNL skit it is about the funniest thing i have ever seen... especially if you love the office... click on the link to see for yourself http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/play.shtml?mea=252558

My mom called and told me a few days ago while vacationing in Florida she was out with her best high school girlfriends when while pumping gas they cleaned the windshield and forgot to take the nozzle out of the car and they started to drive away... as they drove off a black women started running after them screaming "stop yall stop yall" finally my mom's friend who was driving the car started screaming "we are gonna catch on fire. we're gonna catch on fire" my mom and i were both rolling on the ground laughing over this hahah last night marci brian and i went to a concert and as we were finding a spot to stand we were looking over a balcony now mind you the concert had not started yet and we were still looking for a place to stand... all of a sudden this woman with really bad fake blond hair i might add walks over steps right in front of us and was like uhh hello you just stood right in front of me... i looked at her and said... uhh guess what the concert hasn't even started yet... nice try. it made me crack up watching this lady get so pissed next would be my new job... this one is hard to describe because well i don't want to break the law so i can't expand.. but let me just tell you people are crazy with endless stories and never ending problems and i love it cause its job security... and let me tell you chronic pain not always funny... but sorta funny :) and the funniest thing that has happened me running 13.1 miles a week ago... and not running since hahah let me tell you running 13.1 miles is hard hard hard it took me 2 hours 19 min and even though everyone said i wold enjoy it at the end i have to admit i didn't.. BUT i will keep running until i love running 13.1 miles... NOT :)

I wanna be made...

So, in order to understand this blog post i am hoping that you all have watched as much MTV as I have in my life. And assuming that you have i hope you have caught a few episodes of the show MADE.. and if you are really hard core picture the people at the beginning saying "I want to be made" ok ok back to the post... So today it hit me that I am apart of my own version of the show and i am currently being made into a runner... even thought i don't remember ever saying I want to be made into a runner here i am on my own version of mtv's show... and my MADE coach...Marci... in 2 weeks from today i am running in the big lake half marathon. The realization that i am being made came to me while i was running 10 miles today. The parallel between me and the show are pretty impressive.. this morning right after i woke up my coach was there to tell me we are running at 1:00, then at 1:00 while i was working on a paper that i have to get finished for school i had to quit working on it and leave to go running.. Then while we were driving i was complaining the entire drive this is when my coach gave me this pep talk on why i am doing this and that it is my choice and that i can quit anytime, but then once we got there and i started running past Harvard's campus, MIT's campus and straight to the museum of science and back along the Charles the endorphins were pumping and I realized the whole reason i am doing this and how great it is going to be to say i have ran 13.1 miles. That is something i thought I could never do, but something deep down I would have always loved to try. Just like those people who are the geeks and want to be a cheerleader, or the jock who wants to do a ballet. So even though I may never be a reality TV star today around mile 8 i realized why we should always try to challenge ourselves and push ourselves to do things we never thought we could do... know just keep your fingers crossed the race goes as fabulous as today.

Favorite Things About Boston...

The winter... (just for you Marci) I say the winter because without the horrible long cold winter we wouldn't love 50 degree weather... and as my friend Natalie has pointed out we wouldn't see people in mini skirts, flip flops, tank tops, and my favorite swim suit tops as shirts when the 50 degree weather shows up...
The Boston Red sox...to hear more about this click on Marci's link to the right... she explains it perfect!
Long ace T rides.. for everyone not familiar with Boston this would be the subway.. I love the T because without it i would not see drunken breakups, classy breakups, blind people with seeing eye dogs trying to find a seat. Me falling asleep every morning as i ride to school and knowing my mouth must always be open... not good. Thinking of my roommate kate's paranoia that a stranger may just vomit out of the blue... this has been known to happen especially on fri and sat nights.
Crazy T drivers. i once saw a woman get stuck in the door and the blame the driver.. the fight lasted about 10 minutes and worth every second... Marci and I witnessing a drunk man trying to pick up something off the floor with his pants down to his ankles and his butt totally showing... imagine the people in the seat right by him.. lucky for us we were a few seats back. ok to be honest this section could be a blog all on its own...
Sunny weather... yesterday i ran 10 miles that is Right 10 miles people along the Charles river.. it was beautiful and it made me fall even more in love with B-town
being the only Mormon in my program and probably the only Mormon my classmates will ever know... this week our professor asked why we were so out of it and me not thinking said... we are all hammered... meaning exhausted from studying and doing projects... she of course gave a funny look as my classmates tried to explain no no no we are not literally hammered and Jo doesn't drink so it has a different meaning to her... it was pretty darn classic
Karen... this is our 42 inch plasma TV... enough said
Good food.. we try and hit up a new restaurant every weekend.. this weekend Brown Sugar a Thai restaurant and it was fantastic!!! my only suggestion steer clear of Wagwamma... sorry again guys :)
walking to church and having Jennifer garner say hello to me... i did watch 4 seasons of alias in 13 days... I think i deserved a hello
And much much more.. Boston is a fabulous place.. and know that spring is here it has gotten that much better... Thank you Marci for getting me here...

People are so good... life is good

So I am sitting here on a tuesday afternoon watching a little extreme makeover home edition and procrastinating my homework and i just wanted to blog and share a few thoughts. people are so good and so amazing. its pretty to crazy to think about all the individuals there are in the world but how often people are looking out for others. Sometimes i think we all forget how much we all individually matter and that sometimes we sell ourselves short or just don't realize all the good we do, and I don't mean me, but people around me... i have seen a friend have a fund raising party with cup cakes for our multiple sclerosis walk just because she feels like helping raise some money so we can one day find a cure for this disease that is apart of a dear friends life which makes it apart of my life. Or the fact that over 50 girls who live on their own and have very busy lives will show up at an enrichment activity to show their support and when one girl was having one of those days that we all have when we just don't feel great about ourselves i watched numerous girls give her a suttle hand squeezes, hugs, and encouraging words. Every tuesday i go and participate in a tutoring program for young people and the most amazing part is the tutors do it for free, they are all around my age, and some travel over an hour by train to get home and yet they come every week and inspire these young people to keep working hard. It blows my mind to see how much people care. I could go on and on with these examples of times when i have seen people love those around them. It is such an inspiration to me and leads me into my next thought that life is good.

Mortality is one of the most amazing concepts to me... sometimes i like to just sit back and think how amazing it is that here i am living my life meeting new people and keeping old friends. As many of you know the friends that i made at USU have impacted my life more then they will ever know and recently a few of them have had big time excitement. One just had a new beautiful baby girl. and just talking to her on the phone i could hear the happiness in her voice and it made me thrilled to hear about her new adventure.. another one just got back from an LDS mission in canada and already she has given away more then 4 books of Mormon. I just love this friend and am so excited for her and her excitement for the gospel even off the mission. This weekend my roommate from USU and know Boston had a birthday and we had such a great time and just loved life. She has been a life savor for me the past 8 months and i will always be in debt to her. i just feel so blessed with the friends and family i have in my life... it still amazes me when i get texts messages from friends from utah that they take the time to say hello or share a funny story. and just the other night my roommate and i stayed up till 1 am just talking and laughing. I had to blog because my heart has been so full of all the good things in life. I hope all of you are able to see the good things in your life and that if things are hard that you will know you are all amazing wonderful people and I am grateful for you all!!

GOD BLESS AMERICA & people from jail

Ok so i just know all of you have been dying for me to blog.. right?? ok maybe not but it has been a REALLY long time since my last post this is not because nothing exciting has happened its only because I have never been so busy with school in my entire life. The semester started out of control and hasn't slowed down since. The past two weeks have by far been the worst with midterms and practicals for my classes so to celebrate and start my spring break i decided to fly down to Washington DC to meet some friends and visit the nation's capital. ( have never been to DC, my junior high went in the 9th grade but for some reason i never went...anyway) in order to get to DC i am flying on southwest which requires taking a shuttle to new hampshire ( an hour away) well to get to the shuttle i had to travel by the T (subway) to a stop that will remain annonymous in case it is anyone;s hang out spot :) anyway while waiting for the shuttle this is my encounter with a woman who will always have a place in my heart.picture me sitting on a bench with my rolling suitcase... my designer purse my mom bought me, and my carry on bag minding my own business when my new friend walks right up to me and with not ONE tooth on the top demands a piece of gum..
new friend says "i need some gum give me a piece"
I say" ummm what?"
new friend: "I need gum. let me have a piece"
( i then proceed to reach into my purse and give her a piece of gum)
From there I learn that she literally has just gotten out of prison after serving three months for driving without a licence. she has been in a cell for 3 months with NO fresh air, and as i helped her clasp her husbands bracelet she informs me he is still in prison for driving drunk...the good news the 107 bus came she left my shuttle showed up and i made my flight and know onto the best weekend in DC!
I have always felt like a pretty patriotic American citizen and I have always loved being American and everything that goes with this awesome country and being able to make it to DC was amazing. my favorite part was seeing the white house, the WWII memorial and getting claustrophobic in the Washington memorial :) or was it seeing the hope diamond, getting drenched, finally eating real Mexican food or the people i was with....
The other high light the first day we were touring DC it started POURING rain and i am not talking just a light rain i am talking a downpour and of course i didn't have an umbrella and of course i was wearing khaki pants.... not a good combo :) it has been ages since i had been in a down pour like that it was fabulous. it reminded me of being a kid and having no worries in the world. Life is wonderful, and i am so lucky right know to be where i am in life!! as we were driving back from DC i was able to travel through Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Conn, New york, and then Mass..... i couldn't be any more blessed... which is why this post ends with God Bless America, and thank you to the men and women who serve this great country!!!