Ever wonder...

... what waking up 10 minutes before you're supposed to be at work looks like?

It looks a lot like:

"I totaled my car and broke my foot and can't stand long enough to do anything with myself"

Or even:

"I don't care if I get mistaken for a werewolf and would rather hit the snooze button".

Eh. Whatcha gonna do.

Happy Easter!

For real this time.


Happy Easter all!

An Easter Thought

The other day as I came home from my Spiral Jetty adventures, I turned down a street to get to my apartment and there were police lights at the next intersection. Sirens rang from a bit of a distance and two cars sat in awkward angles to the streets main paths, people gathered around. One woman sat in the front of the car that looked as though it had been sideswiped. "I hope she's okay," I said to my friend, watching the faces as I passed by them.

Before February and my own accident I always felt for people, but there's something different when I see it now. Even when I heard about a friend's husband getting into an accident on the freeway shortly after I went through that, I had this sinking feeling of being there with him. It was terrible. I understood that. It's never expected, never wanted, and it throws your entire life into chaos, even if you're physically better off than you could have been.

With Easter coming up I was thinking about this and the difference between the sympathy I would feel for people in a car wreck before to the empathy that reverberates through me now.

Ever wonder why Christ had to suffer? Why would he need to feel our pain? Our sorrows? Because there is a love and connection that comes with having true empathy for others. Christ suffered to understand. Christ loved us enough to know us the best way you can know others: to know how they feel.

I know it's a bit early for Easter, but we spend a whole month celebrating the birth of Christ. I'm thinking a week isn't too long to be celebrating the great sacrifice of the Atonement. Happy Easter to all!

It's 3 a.m.

And my brain won't shut up. After a few hours of "sleep", I've realized all I've done is daydreamed about all the things I have to do over the next few weeks and now I have a knot in my chest and I can't even feel tired enough to really get rest.

So what am I doing? Going to the gym. At three in the stinkin' morning. Hoping to hear about the internship soon.

The Secret is OUT!

I'm going to be an AUNT! I've been given the go ahead to shout it from the rooftops.

There are a million reasons why I've always wanted to be an aunt before I was a mom, but here are the best ones:

1) You get to spoil the kids and send them home for someone else to discipline them
2) You get to be their favorite person in the whole world (partly for the reason above)
3) You may actually have funds for buying nonsense items and frilly, frilly clothing. I've already spent about $30 on board books and stuffed animals
4) You plain old have more energy for them!

Needless to say, I'm figuring that whole baby picture thing out right about now and I can't WAIT until November!

Oh yeah, and it's going to be twins too :)

Sleep!

After three nights in a sleeping bag...

with the wind whipping the fabric until I thought it was going to cave in on us...

and rain...

and freezing cold...

I get back into a warm bed, with clean sheets, and walls, and I remember...

THIS is why I'm a City Girl!

Arches was gorgeous, though. See?

(more to come on the travel blog www.riearoundtheworld.blogspot.com)

Spring Break!

YAY! This is SO needed!

Initially I planned to be flying out to Orlando to visit my mission. Of course, life happens (and so do car accidents).

The good news is that a friend from school planned out a trip to the arches. We will see how hiking with crutches is. Ha! Pictures to come!!!