Hello again! I'm not doing too shabby about keeping this up am I? This week has been alright, I've been working a lot and I'll say it again... I CAN'T WAIT TO BE DONE WITH RETAIL! Oh it will be a beautiful day when I can walk out of Lowe's forever. Kenzy and I have been having a blast with little adventures in Logan. We went swimming a week or so ago, went and saw Hunger Games again which involved me having a major laughing attack in the middle of the movie, walked around Logan Golf Course, wandered around the mall, and much, much, more. Our friend Troy and his sister came up this weekend and we got to go to lunch with them on Friday which was super fun! I got to hold his amazing wand from Harry Potter World, which was fantastic! Tomorrow Kenz and I are heading to Lava for the day! It's been ages since I've been and I'm super excited!
Here's a little odd fact about me... I've been kind of obsessed with the news lately. Odd right? During the wildfires I was checking every hour to see the progress of firefighters. Something about it just glued me to ksl.com. The same thing has happened with the shooting in Colorado, but it's been even more addicting. It's unbelievable the horrible acts that occur in this world. It's so sad to see twelve people's lives just come to an end so quickly, in a movie theater?! This world just becomes more and more insane. Watching all the coverage I just became extremely grateful for the knowledge I have that my Heavenly Father lives, has a plan, and is watching over all. I pray that all of those families can find comfort in Him. I was also thinking how great it is to have the knowledge that eventually all of these tragedy's will end. Eventually we will no longer have sadness and will be with our family members forever. What a blessing it is to know that these horrendous acts will end and that the world as it now will not just continue on forever. If I didn't have this knowledge I would become so down in the dumps every time something like this occurred. It's not forever!!!!!! Our forever will be thousands times better than this world we live in and I can't wait!
I need advice ladies, and gents (if any are reading this which I find very unlikely). It's about lovely boys. I feel like I get nervous and awkward every time I'm around a boy I have the smallest of feelings for. Why!? Why can't I just chillax, take a breather and act normal. I just over think every little action and I very much despise it. I've improved over the last little while but for example, I dropped by this young man's house the other night with a group to drop something off. I said like one thing to him and then kind of avoided eye contact, because I don't want it to be obvious I'm interested...and we barely know each other. I'm thinking avoiding eye contact isn't the best way to get things moving along lol? I just don't take advantage of any opportunities when I'm around them to really go out of my way to talk to them, sit by them, etc. How do you get the courage to do such a thing? I've been told that I should just wait for them to make the move.... but if we're going of prior dating experience, they've ALL forgotten how to do that. So do I keep waiting or do I need to be more out there and make the first move? Any and all advice would be much appreciated, please comment below. Hope you all don't think I'm ridiculously silly for that paragraph.
That's all for now. I get to go to the Temple this week and I am so excited!!! I've wanted to go for the last month but I called the Temple and found out they were closed until the 17th.... So I called on the 17th all excited and discovered the Temple was OPENED, but the baptistry was closed until the 25th... LAME! Anywho it's finally opening this week and I'm going on Thursday with my ward and I'm so stoked! There is nothing else like the spirit there and I'm in withdrawals! Love you all and hope everything in your life is going swimmingly!
Monday, July 23, 2012
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Trying this again. . . ?
Hello folks! I'm kind of surprised that I'm doing this again. I tried blogging a year or so ago and it flopped....terribly. I could never get into it. Today however I was looking at a few and thought "Hey I'm entering a whole new chapter in my life, it might be fun to keep a record of the grown up Jessica Smith's happenings," so here we are. I'm not promising it will be super successful but we will give it a shot.
So I think I've officially become an adult and it's freaking me out a little. For those who have not heard, I was hired by Davis County School District as a Special Education Preschool Teacher and will be teaching at East Layton Elementary school! It was a relief to finally be employed and to have a position in Davis. I love Davis County and really wanted to come back, but more importantly felt that was where I needed to be, and it must be because it worked out! I start teaching in 37 days but have trainings I have to go to before then. I'm so excited to start this new adventure! I've been studying for four years to be able to work with children with disabilities and now I'm capable and can be a great influence in their and their families lives! I can't wait to start!
While I'm so very excited to move on in life, I'd be lying if I didn't say I'm going to miss being at Utah State. I stayed in Logan for this summer to finish my Lowe's career in Logan, but also because I couldn't bear to leave yet. I have grown so much here. If I could come face to face with the Jessica that arrived here four years ago I wouldn't even recognize her. I have had amazing professors, wonderful classmates that will be life long friends, roommates that have become sisters, great church leaders, and life changing institute teachers. I feel like I have grown more spiritually then temporally while studying at USU. Heavenly Father has been with me every step of the way. I've had to rely on Him through some extreme trials and in doing so discovered my inner strength. To put it simply I feel extremely connected to this city and university and it's going to hurt to cut those strings. The college atmosphere is just so great. I'm going to miss walking on campus and feeling the connection we all had together of bettering ourselves through education. USU games.... there is nothing quite like them. I know that I will be buying tickets and coming back up just for those. Most of all I'm going to miss the Institute building. I have found so much comfort within those walls. I've loved being able to go in everyday of the week and feel of the spirit and receive the necessary strength to fulfill all of my obligations. If any current USU students are reading this, take full advantage of everything this campus has to offer, especially institute. Oh and who can forget Country Dancing! I may also be making trips up for that. I have one more month to suck it all in, and then to Farmington I go!
That's all for now, my goal is to write on my blog weekly so hopefully you'll hear from me soon! Loves!
So I think I've officially become an adult and it's freaking me out a little. For those who have not heard, I was hired by Davis County School District as a Special Education Preschool Teacher and will be teaching at East Layton Elementary school! It was a relief to finally be employed and to have a position in Davis. I love Davis County and really wanted to come back, but more importantly felt that was where I needed to be, and it must be because it worked out! I start teaching in 37 days but have trainings I have to go to before then. I'm so excited to start this new adventure! I've been studying for four years to be able to work with children with disabilities and now I'm capable and can be a great influence in their and their families lives! I can't wait to start!
While I'm so very excited to move on in life, I'd be lying if I didn't say I'm going to miss being at Utah State. I stayed in Logan for this summer to finish my Lowe's career in Logan, but also because I couldn't bear to leave yet. I have grown so much here. If I could come face to face with the Jessica that arrived here four years ago I wouldn't even recognize her. I have had amazing professors, wonderful classmates that will be life long friends, roommates that have become sisters, great church leaders, and life changing institute teachers. I feel like I have grown more spiritually then temporally while studying at USU. Heavenly Father has been with me every step of the way. I've had to rely on Him through some extreme trials and in doing so discovered my inner strength. To put it simply I feel extremely connected to this city and university and it's going to hurt to cut those strings. The college atmosphere is just so great. I'm going to miss walking on campus and feeling the connection we all had together of bettering ourselves through education. USU games.... there is nothing quite like them. I know that I will be buying tickets and coming back up just for those. Most of all I'm going to miss the Institute building. I have found so much comfort within those walls. I've loved being able to go in everyday of the week and feel of the spirit and receive the necessary strength to fulfill all of my obligations. If any current USU students are reading this, take full advantage of everything this campus has to offer, especially institute. Oh and who can forget Country Dancing! I may also be making trips up for that. I have one more month to suck it all in, and then to Farmington I go!
That's all for now, my goal is to write on my blog weekly so hopefully you'll hear from me soon! Loves!
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