No Meat Mondays

So, when I was playing with the idea of not eating meat this weekend, I settled upon introducing No Meat Mondays. That's a start right? I think I just want to reduce how much chocolate and meat I have been wolfing down lately. For some reason, Spring classes and Utah bring out the carnivore and sweets stuff junky in me. Its time for that to end. Or at least for that beast to be tamed.

My Darling has happily agreed to join me in this quest for health and a more vegetarian way of life. So this evening we will start with Alfredo with tomatoes and red onions, and have a salad or green beans as a side. Then for dessert, fresh diced peaches with evaporated milk, whipped cream, and sugar (Peaches and Cream Abby Style).

Luckily the term is winding down and I will soon have the luxury of morning work outs and fun adventures around provo, rather than just to the library.

Thank you all,
Have a good one.

I work out!!

So ya, I am sexy and I know it...but there could be some improvements. I am going to take before and after pictures of my beach ready body, but sorry no sharing.

I just completed my first Go at Jillian Michaels ' 30 day shred, level 1 and I am pooped! So this is the plan. Every other day for 6 days a week, I will do this work out. Every day I do not do this workout I will do Zumba. Sundays are my rest days :) and then another rest day during the week if I am over loaded with school, etc.

YAY!!

My Design Style, according to BHG

Better Homes and Gardens has a Design Style quiz. To take it just go to This LINK

My Design Style is

Country French

You are drawn to a rustic but refined style that feels comfortable and livable for today's families. Your version of Country French style may be rustic (think glazed pottery and chunky woven baskets) or more refined (think gilded details). Either way, patterned fabrics such as toile, stripes, and fleur-de-lis motifs will help you set the tone. Incorporate details such as stucco walls, wrought-iron accents, and furniture with carved details for an old-world look.

I can totally live with that

Things I want to do in Utah in 2012

Well ello!


After a fantastic night full of surprise for my Darling on his Birthday, I am so excited for this year that we get to spend together. So I have a list of somethings that would be cool to do.

1. Go to see the Zoo lights around Christmas time

2. Attend General Conference

3. Watch other Sessions and eat cinnamon rolls

4. Have some awesome 4th of July fun!

5. Have picnics around campus on the grass, and take naps

6. Go play on the Mona Rope Swing

7. Chill at the Glenwood hottub some more

8. Play at the park over by the Creamery

9. Do a themed couples costume for Halloween

10. Spend Thanksgiving together in DC!

11. Show my Darling the Capital.

12. Take my Darling to see the DC Temple and the lights maybe.

13. Take my Darling hiking in Maryland and show him where I used to live etc.

14. Hang out at the BYU Art Museum

15. Go to the Holi and Diwali Festivals at the Krisna Temple

16. Have a huge water balloon/gun fight

17. Eat at Banana Leaf

18. Have a BBQ

19. Go to the outdoor movies on mondays in Canyon Park

20. Go hiking up the canyon and various trails...maybe camp up there too.

21. Go to Zion's National Park and go camping.

22. Do the Park City and/or Snowbird Zipline

23. Ride a Horse somewhere.

24. Go skydiving

25. Hold a mystery dinner party

26. Go to a BYU Planetarium Show

27. Go to Glacier Park

28. Visit Sand dunes in Idaho!

29. Learn to longboard.

30. Play on Waverunners

31. Visit Lake Powell with my Family! :D

32. Camp and hike in Moab

33. Go hiking and camping in Arches National Park

34. 3 hour ropes course at moab adventure center ($65 per person)

35. Ride the Indoor flowrider at Provo Beach Resort ($25 beginners)

36. Provo Beach Resort Ropes Course ($8 per person)

37. Ride the Boardwalk Carousel at the Provo Beach Resort ($1 )

38. Check out the Provo Beach Resort Lazer Frenzy ($2.50)

39. Do any of the above at the Provo Beach Resort and eat at the Pier Cafe

40. Go to Off the Wall and jump into a big foam block pit!

41. Go to Jump on it!

42. Watch more bollywood movies and eat Indian Food!

43. Go to Lagoon

44. Go to 7 Peaks Water Park for some fun

45. Volunteer to babysit with Luke at least every other month.

46. Get a pet...probably will be Beta Fish :)

47. Have a cool movies or activity count down to our 1 year anniversary (October 15).

48. Go on double dates

49. Take underwater pictures

50. Draw portraits of each other

51. Hand paint art for a wall

52. Get semi-professional pictures taken of me, me and my boys, me and my roomies, me and my darling.

53. Paint eachothers faces, or get them painted.

54. Fill up our Gratitude Journal

55. Make a neat photo album with notes (scrapbook I guess)

56. Together make a cardboard cut out of my Darling that I can talk to and spend time with when he goes home for a few weeks, and when he is out tagging bears during the summer

57. Teach my Darling to country swing dance

58. Make some cool crafty things for my own and my darling's apartment

59. Have a game night and play twister

60. Have a game night/ice cream/gelato party and play other cool fun games like cranium or curses

61. Have a dance party

62. Set off chinese sky lanters and eat chinese food over new years

63. Visit Huntsville

64. Bike down the provo trail to Utah Lake and have a picnic

65. Go rock climbing, either for reals or at The Quarry

66. Go to get a massage together

67. Do yoga or zumba together some times

68. Go on a carriage ride!

69. Have a Hunger Games Party and go see the movie at the end!

70. Read the Hobbitt and see it on opening night December 14th 2012.

AND all of the MAny Many other awesome things we will inevitably do because we are infact...AWESOME, funny and tolerably weird.

The Llama Song

So at work today a student submitted the following, please read and laugh!

IN PRAISE OF LLAMAS

La-la-llamas rate as mammals
Much resembling baby camels,
And their appellation’s hard to speak and spell,
For it seems, when Adam uttered
Their baptismal name, he stuttered,
Hence we always must reduplicate the “L.”

Those Peruvians, the Incas,
On their lonely mountain fincas
(Which is Spanish for plantations, ranches, farms)
Reared, instead of Leghorns, Brahmas
And Minorcas, La-la-llamas
With Alpacas who have corresponding charms

Through Andean panoramas
Wind the herds of La-la-llamas
Skirting precipices dangerously steep,
Over swinging bridge or ferry
To some La-la-llamaserai
Or wherever La-la-lamas stop to sleep.

Lively lambkin La-la-lamas
Trot beside their ma-ma-ma-mas
Lightly dancing when their parents pause to graze;
Lovely lady La-la-lamas
Look like queens of movie dramas
With their melting eyes and soft, coquettish ways.

And they splash across lagunas
With their cousins, the Vicunas
And Guanacos, bearing loads upon their backs;
And these useful La-la-lamas
Furnish wool to make pajamas
And to help their owners pay the income tax.

So be happy, La-la-lamas
Climbing Western Fujiyamas
Or descending to the vega’s fertile floor!
Thrive and flourish, La-la-lamas,
In a climb like Alabama’s
In Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador!

Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)


Which then made me think of this:





What a fantastic day today. hahahaha! Love life.

Yummy New Years

So dearest loved ones,

it has been a while since I have posted. For that I apologize. Things have just been..well...amazing. Quick highlights.

• It's a new semester and I adore my classes (Sexuality in Cirriculum is my favorite but Statistics interestingly enough follows close behind)
  




• Darling and I are doing very well as we have both decided to get some help with our relationship from our Bishop and other wonderful people around. Just workin out those relationship kinks.
  




• I have been loving work and the new jobs I get to tackle this semester.
  My roommate E got engaged! :)
  




• I am a part of 2 group projects and the other members while incompetent, give me a challenge.
  




• Bought 2 new beautiful skirts that I love
  




• Went to a Stake Formal Dance with my Darling and got some great pictures!
  




• I started my own therapy this week and got some tough homework. I have just felt overwhelemed for a few months and it is nice to be validated and get some feedback on how I can think more positively and have faith in my ability to make good decisions.
  




• So many opportunities are opening up for both Darling and I and it is hard to know what to do but so super exciting!
  

So that is that. Now, something I am going to try later this month or starting in March is this cool idea for overnight oatmeal.

In a cool Mason Jar (I use old Prego or Salsa Jars) place 1/2C Quick Cooking Oatmeal, 1/2 T Chia Seeds, 1/2 t cinnamon, 1T chopped walnuts and 2T raisins or craisins. Then you add 1 Cup of water or milk and stir. Put that in the fridge overnight and the eat as is or pop in the microwave for a minute or so and you are good to go. So yummy with sliced banana and or nut butter too. For the look above, do it in layers and then refridgerate.

Well, that's all folks.

Simply Havin a Wonderful Christmas Time

So this may be one of the cutest Christmas shows I have ever seen.




So even with Darling all the way in England, and all my roomies rushing around and going home, I have still been able to find some xmas joy and make this Christmas feel like home.

I hope that even when we are all tired of our jobs, or just itching for a change of scenery or pace, that we all remember the point of this Christmas season. Now is the time to realize that our lives may just be the tinseliest life we could have if we just choose to see it and make it that way.

I am headed home tonight and I am so excited to see the gifts that await: family, friends, and my puppies!