A Week In the Life of Jenn... Sunday

My sister and I are doing this week in the life of... blog style(whatever that means), so here is my lovely Sunday for you to take a peek at. Sundays are my days to sleep in. I love it! So I woke up around 9:02.... I love how dark my room is! I could sleep all day due to my tiny window and black curtain! AMAZING! Plus I think having 11am church is the best possible time to have church! So I got ready... this usually requires me trying on like 10 different outfits (you'll see those pictures at the end on the entry) and doing a million things with my hair. It usually ends up pretty boring, but oh well. Church was good. Fast Sunday is always entertaining in a singles ward. Not quite sure if you're allowed to take pictures at church, so this is the only one you get. When I got home from church I made myself a Caesar salad with pepperoni on the side (did you know pepperoni has no carbs?) and watched He's Just Not That Into You... watching it for the second time right now actually. If you haven't seen it, look up quotes from it or something. It totally fits my life. Great movie! One of my favorite quotes is at the end and goes something like,

"Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up. If a guy punches you he likes you. Never trim your own bangs. And someday you will meet a wonderful guy and get your very own happy ending. Every movie we see, every story we're told implores us to wait for it; the third act twist, the unexpected declaration of love, the exception to the rule. But sometimes we're so focused on finding our happy ending we don't learn how to read the signs. How to tell from the ones who want us from the ones who don't. The ones who will stay and the ones who will leave. And maybe your happy ending doesn't include a guy, maybe... it's you... moving on. Or maybe the happy ending is this, knowing after all the unreturned phone calls, broken-hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment you never ever gave up hope."

Basically I need to learn from this movie that I am the rule and not the exception. Then I attempted to take a nap, but my roommate was in the living room with a friend playing hippie Jesus music and I couldn't sleep. Sundays were made to include a nap and I get pretty grumpy when I don't get my nap. Enter Allie. She texted me and told me to come over and watch the Super Bowl which I did. On my drive over I couldn't help but to notice how gorgeous the mountains looked. Probably shouldn't have taken the pictures while I was driving and I was also on my cell phone, but I'm still alive. It was fun and she made this yummy french dip sandwich for me on a heart shaped plate (excuse how creepy I look in the picture... I was probably just excited about the food). It was just nice to have somewhere to go. I didn't get to see it... but I just watched Christina Aguilera screw up the National Anthem at the Super Bowl... Really? That upsets me a little. Okay it upsets me a lot... That is the one song that means something to every single American and she couldn't get it right? Lame. She shouldn't get paid. While I was at Allie's I got this text from one of my girls. If you can't read it it says, "Send me a picture of you. I need it for men." Haha! Really? For men?My cheerleaders are super entertaining and pretty concerned about my love life! Of course I sent her one cause I need a man, what can I say? And she has this hot uncle, so that should happen. While I was there Allie and I made some goals for this week since she will be going to Atlantis in March and I will hopefully be heading out on a cruise shortly there after and we want to look good in the swimsuits. When I got home I realized that I probably should clean my room. I am totally OCD. There's no way I would be able to sleep if my room looked like this. It just gives me major anxiety to have a messy room. Plus I sleep 1000 times better in a made bed. It's kind of weird I know. Here's the before (notice the pile of clothes). And here's the after. Much better. So now I'm going to watch another movie, do a little writing in the journal and go to bed! Possibly eat some kind of snack... yeah that'll definitely be happening. I'm thinking pepperoni and watching Hook. Hopefully tomorrow will be a little more exciting for you!

Seven Deadly Sins...

I completed a project today that dealt with the seven deadly sins... Unfortunately for me I realized that I commit these sins on a daily basis. Now I know that there is some debate on the 7 deadly sins, but these are the ones I choose to use.

LUST - I am B-O-Y crazy! Have we not figured this out yet? I didn't start out that way but it always seems to be that you want the thing that you can't have the most. And since I am unlovable for whatever reason, I have not been in a serious relationship for years, so I just look at guys and I can only wish. This is why I watch The Hills (Brody Jenner) or Christian Bale or any movie with any good looking guys... to lust after them!

GLUTTONY - I LOVE food! Food is a passion for me! It is a desire and my life would suck without it! I am not one of those girls that doesn't eat. I eat everything on my plate and then some. I have gotten complaints about this believe it or not. I could eat and eat and eat all day if I really wanted to, but I was also blessed with feeling guilty all the time and so that eventually catches up to me after a couple bags of chips or so, thank goodness. I could spend so much money of food it's ridiculous. Food is perfection!

GREED - I am a greedy person. I always have been. I think that most of what I do is for personal gain. It may seem like I'm helping or benefiting others, but really I'm not. Almost everything I do has some selfish idea underlying it. I can't help it. I think that I hide it well, but I do like doing things for others I just want good things to happen for myself too. I take people on vacation because I want to spend time with them. It's all about the Jenn. I think that I deserve a heck of a lot better than what I have now in life, that's for sure.

SLOTH - I am one of the most laziest people you will ever meet! I could lie in bed all day and not even care. Most Saturdays are spent in bed doing homework. I don't even change out of my PJ's. I have absolutely no motivation and this I believe leads me to be lazy. I'm actually texting a friend at this very moment about the awesomeness of being slothful. I am convinced that if I weren't lazy I would have everything I want in life plus more. But old habits die hard I guess.

VANITY - Okay so this one is probably the least of my issues, but really. I was blessed with extremely low self esteem... a challenge I try daily to overcome without success. Some days are better than others. But I think I am most guilty of this sin when I see a happily married couple together shopping in Walmart, while I'm shopping for one and I think "I'm prettier than her. Why am I not married?" Yes this happens all the time and I know I'm an awful person for it, but it happens.

ENVY - I envy almost everyone! Put a person in front of me and I can tell you something about them that I envy. It's awful! I honestly don't like anything about me except my perfect toes, my blue eyes, and the fact that I am a cheerleading coach, so in my eyes almost everyone else has something better than I do and I want it.

WRATH - Have you seen my wrath? I am a very vengeful person. I'm not bragging I'm just stating the truth. I have been hurt so badly and so many times that these days I don't fight back so hard, most of the time it's a lot more subtle, but still the wrath of Jenn is one to be feared! Really I am a very angry and bitter person. I have learned how to hide this over the years, but it honestly doesn't take much to make me mad... Not a pleasant thing or an attractive quality I know, but it's who I am.

So those are my confessions for the day. I went to a cheer competition tonight where we got first... again. This was the best that I have ever seen the girls do and they were absolutely AMAZING! It was at our rival school Bingham and Sami, Courtney, and I couldn't resist taking this picture with their midget wizard on the wall. (taken with the IPod so forgive the quality please). And here's also a bruise update. It looks worse in person I promise, but I'm loving it!

Experiments...

So I have been trying out a few new things lately. Being 25 now, I feel as though I need to get more adventurous and exciting and that I need to make some changes.

First, I was online and there was this article talking about how Americans spend over $43 million (or maybe it was billion) dollars a year buying water at the store because it tastes better (love me some smart water!), when really tap water has more minerals and really is better for you if it’s filtered. So I found these water bottles called Bobbles. They actually filter as you drink out of them. This is perfect for work because our water tastes like it’s straight out of a baby’s diaper and it’s so nasty! So every time we drink water we used this water filter that we ended up filling up like twice a day (we drink a lot of water) anyway it was super annoying. So I ordered one for me and one for Allie and so far so good. They’re not perfect but they really work! It’s AMAZING! I think they would be perfect for road trips. They weren’t even very expensive and you can order the filters in different colors to spice things up. Each filter lasts up to 300 gallons of water or about 2 months. Here’s to going green! And yes that is Dustin Hoffman on the wall behind me... Allie drew a mustache on him. Not cool.

Second, at my basketball game on Tuesday I was feeling young and was messing around with my girls and we decided to jump down into the splits from standing. I remember trying this back in the day when I was a JV cheerleader and I remember having absolutely no success. Why I thought this would be different 10 years later I do not know. When I jumped to go down I slipped (dang new shoes) and went into the splits but hit my left knee hard onto the wood floor as well as jamming my wrists and screwing up my neck. I seriously couldn’t move for like 5 minutes. Pretty sure I just laid on the gym floor curled up in the fetal position. It hurt so bad! I’m sure people were looking at me like I was crazy. My girls were laughing so hard. But on my left hand you can see towards the heel of my hand a small bruise… it’s deceiving. It hurts like crazy and a hard lump has now developed underneath it. Joyous! And then there are the lovely beginnings of the bruise on my left knee. The worst part about it is that I can’t run or anything on it for at least a week. I need to get skinny and this is not going to help. Oh and apparently I also gave myself nasty whiplash... It's a good thing I work at a Chiropractic office right? The neck is killing! Third, I decided that I need to adopt Andy Bernard’s (The Office) New Years Resolution to learn to cook for one; therefore, eliminating wasted food. Anyone who knows me knows that I do not like left over’s and unfortunately I always always always cook way too much food then I just throw it out. This was my dinner from last night. Cheese tortellini with Alfredo sauce and an entire bag of steamed broccoli with melted cheese. So good (and yes Mom I am still eating my veggies even though the chance of getting a healthy grandchild from me is running out of time… Just saying it might not happen)! But that was only half of the pasta. So much wasted food! So we will see what I can do. Fourth, I have started listening to CES firesides or Conference talks in the morning on my IPod instead of watching a movie. The IPod is an amazing thing! I just carry it around with me even into the car and keep listening to the same talk. Anyway this morning I chose to listen to a fireside with Elder Jeffery R. Holland called “Lessons learned at Liberty Jail.” So good! It focused mostly on D & C 121-123 and basically it came down to three things that we should remember. 1. God has not forgotten you. I often feel forgotten so this was a nice reassurance to me, especially when it’s backed up by the example of how Joseph Smith so often was cast into prison or tarred and feathered and still be knew that the Lord was still there for him. If I have anything, even as small as a boring song pops up on my IPod I feel forgotten. Geez I’m needy. 2. The Savior has been where you’ve been. I remember how awesome it was when I first realized that Christ has felt everything that I have felt. Every pain, sorrow, and every heartbreak. I can barely handle my share, let alone everyone in the worlds. Pretty sure that would strike me dead so fast. I can’t even imagine! And to be willing to feel it for people you don’t even know, is way above the kind of person I can even hope to become. 3. The powers of heaven cannot be controlled or handled except by righteousness. Okay so the third one doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, but I understand that it’s good to be righteous. Anyway I have noticed a change in my attitude in the morning and that’s a good thing for everyone. Trust me.

Nichole, Sundance, John Stockton, Temple Square, and THE Birthday...

I am now writing as an offical menace to society. I am officially 25. It was the first birthday that I can actually remember waking up and feeling older. The first birthday where I have felt like maybe I need to grow up a little bit. The worst thing about the day was that I didn't get flowers, from anyone at all... How do you turn 25 and not get flowers? Anyway we will come back to that. So I was lucky enough to have one of my closest friends from high school, Nichole, fly in from Oregon for 5 days. It was so much fun seeing her and catching up and getting to show her around Utah. We got a chance to go up to the Sundance film festival and we had a blast up there and it was a gorgeous day! We did a ton of shopping and playing. Instead of taking the stairs down from our AMAZING parking spot (these rare super rare during Sundance) anyway we went straight down the snow bank. The snow turned out to be at least a foot deep and we were soaking afterward, but I'm pretty sure it saved us some time. So we never saw any celebrities, but we definitely spent most of our time stalking the paparazzi hoping to see one. These two guys were talking to each other from across the street with walkie talkies and we were convinced that someone famous was going to come out of this place, but we were not rewarded for out patience. That night we were able to (okay forced) to go to my basketball game and cheer on the girls. By the way turns out it's against school policy for me that my girl's teacher to date because we are both faculty. Really I'm not but whatever. Anyway that brought us back to some old cheer memories since we both cheered together in high school. Saturday we did some more shopping and then spent part of the day with Kim and Chris since it was Kim's birthday. We went to Chili's and they told us that they didn't sing but would give her a birthday shake, so Chris and I solved that problem for them. By the way this is chemo Cortney. Poor Kim. Later that night we went bowling with some of my friends and had so much fun! I absolutely love bowling! The best part about bowling this time was that around 11:30pm John Stockton and his family started bowling right in the lane next to us. After a lengthy debate we decided against asking him to take a picture since he as with his family. I did snap this one with my ipod because I didn't want to use a flash... I promise this is him sitting in the corner of the picture! Sunday we went to church made some new friends and then had dinner with Kim and Chris, of course Cortney was there. She is super cute and loves the song Dynamite! After dinner Nichole and I went to Temple Square since she had never been there before. She isn't a member, but is familiar with the church since she had gone with me many times in the past. We were able to take a tour of the conference center and it was pretty awesome.

Monday was the actually birthday and it was good. We went to Taco Bell for lunch (always delicious Tace Bell) then went and got massages. I hadn't got a massage for years and it was so worth it. Except for the fact that I felt pretty useless shortly there after. Then I had to take Nichole back to the airport, which was sad, but it was really really nice to have her here adn to introduce her to the people who are in my life now. So then last night Stewart took me to dinner, then we met Kim and Chris for a Jazz game, which thankfully they ended their losing streak and won. Then Stewart and I went to get pie, and instead of just getting a slice each, we went for two whole pies. We didn't each much but we talked and it was good. I am going to have to say that it was Stewart who delivered the best present this year. A cruise! I am so excited about this since I have never been on a cruise. Not sure when it's happening yet or where to, but so awesome! BEST GIFT EVER! So being 25 isn't as awful as I thought, minus the no flowers thing, and I'm just so glad that I was able to spend it with people who I care about.

PS - Starting to get upset because I have some amazing videos to share and they wont' upload! I will keep trying!