Summer Seminar Uno

Seminars are always an experience when working for my dad. For one, everyone tries to get on your good side because they think you can give them a deal. Two, you get all sorts of crazy people that come every year even if they have heard the talks over and over. Three.. New places to see.

This last seminar was in NYC. Scott puked out the window of a taxi in jam packed traffic, No one I worked with wanted to go explore so I got to look around NYC city by myself. (Which was refreshing and fun)Played peek a boo with a girl staying at the hotel and every time I saw her after she would run over and say hi, Got a gift given to me by one of the attendees, A speaker saying- "I put this up here so you could look at my package". (totally didn't mean it badly... he actually meant a package of his program! :)) Convinced Scott to go explore to find a good indian food restaurant, Going to the play Wicked! (I will defy gravity), Got hit on by a Guy at the seminar who just couldn't get over how "beautiful" I was (wanted to show me the town, gave me his info to come and stay with him, and probably did it just because Dad was the one putting on the seminar!) Ha. It was grand. Some funny times. Always something interesting happening!

Carrot Bat?

Road rash: a tribute to Jeff

Just got back from long boarding for the first time in about a year. My hands feel like they are ten times the size they should be, trying to adapt back into warm apt. air. I smell like wind from the great outdoors and drove a stick shift toyota truck. Today was a good day. I got alot of things done and am happy.

Amy is Engaged!

(Us girls at our finest!)

GUESS WHAT!!!

Confirmation Recieved.

Today I got the chance to go to the Temple. Temples are so wonderful and amazing to me. The feeling, the experiences I have had there have been tremendous. Right after being baptized I came out of the font and the woman, for whom I was doing family names for, asked me- "Have you recieved a confirmation?" I stumbled on the quesiton. I had earlier prepared for the temple trip with some questions at hand but to hear her say this...it stuck me. Do we go looking for a confirmation? Do we fully think about this? I asked her to repeat what she had asked... so again she said, "Have you recieved a confirmation?"... then went on to say it differently- "have you been confirmed yet?" I smile at that moment I had. Taught me something more. Go to the Temple! Sit outside in the sun, on the Temple grounds, and think. GO TO THE TEMPLE! and I promise you, you will feel something there. Something wonderful. Recieve a confirmation!!!! :)

Goodbye to JCC internship

I have to say- It was my last day at my intern today...and balled like a baby. I didn't think the tears would hit me until I got to my car but, sure enough, they fell in front of all the girls and staff and had to give my last words and advice to them through my blubbering and jibberish. I cannot even express how my experience at the JCC has affected me. No words. Nothing to really give the full impact of it all. I will never forget it. Relationships with people are essential. I don't want to go just skin deep. For those whom I love and care for I feel even a more immense feeling of love and gratitude for and an urgency to never, NEVER only go skin deep. I need to show how I feel fully. To let others know how I feel for them. To allow myself to accept me, as well, at the core. Not only skin deep. Bla bla tear tear, wipe, smudge... Ha. I have loved this opportunity with my internship.

Just to let you know- My dearest Grandma is engaged! Here is to my Grandma who got more action than me this year! :) ...And tay tay just because she is so cute!

Woke to Easter tapping on my window

Just some of the many joys...

Heres to:

Dad singing with Avril
Mom slap happy, laughing so hard late at night she cries
Wright sticking out his tongue whenever he concentrates really hard
Stephanie for wanting to be on American Idol
Faiths diagnosis of- Ship in the mouth
Taylors poop in my bed and mad faces
Rachel dancing in her G's
Scott playing warcraft all night long
Jessies contagious laughter
Anna's sewing craze and a room that looks like a volcano just erupted in it.

Depression Awareness Day

Today is Depression Awareness Day. Many people suffer from all kinds of depression. There are many resources out there to help. YOU ARE ONE OF THEM.

I love my job

"Ms. Thurston! Ms. Thurston!"

"What?"

"Dream and sleep with the Angels!"

courage

non toxic.

A friend of mine recently gave me some bubbles... I just realized, seconds ago, that these are not just ordinary bubbles. They are miracle bubbles. It says it right on the label- "Miracle Bubbles." So I ask the bubbles- "Bubbles what kind of miracles you got in there for me huh? All that comes back in reply is- "what you make of it."
Miracles are all around us. Just got to notice them to realize they are right in front of our questioning faces. Open your eyes. Take them in. It is what you make of it.

Today was an eventful day. I volunteered helping the Elderly get signed up for Medicare, I danced in the studio for the first time since tour, I hung out with friends I haven't seen in a million years, I planned a fishing excursion with Shalie, I went on a walk... such a beautiful day, I played soccer with hilarious friends, swung on the swings, had a bb que,watched Bryan Reagan, popped balloons by hugging, I got pulled over by the police and he let me off because I "have" a class with him? (I don't... and I totally shouldn't have gotten a ticket anyway), I went to a party my friends brother put on....

Now this is where I begin. I don't know. I guess I am not into the partying scene. I don't mind having fun, quality fun, but to me the party just made me feel...umm.. I don't even know how to describe it. I don't get the whole concept of "freak" dancing. I don't understand why people dance that way. Show your affection in another giving, loving, and more caring way. Some people say its the only way to go but as for me... I just am not in that sort of scene. Don't get me wrong. I love concerts, hangouts, parties, all that. But cannot handle some things as maybe I should. And how they rent kegs and fill it with Rootbeer. Okay.. its totally fine but- Here especially it is just giving a bad vibe. I feel sometimes I shouldn't be this way. I understand people like it and they can. I just don't. For myself. It doesn't make me feel the way I should. And that is me... personally. I don't know. I wish I was more liberal at times. But this was just not something I ever really enjoy. It brought me back to highschool deals... there are just certain ones, for me remember, that rub me the wrong way. I am totally open to whatever but if I just cant enjoy, I find something better to do. Like smile. :) Sorry this was super long and well... I just am not saving drafts anymore.

I just want to say that I have been edified in the words I heard this weekend. It affected me to a point where I have never felt some of the feelings I did there and then. It has made an imprint on how I will live my life and made me realize some things that have been on my mind lately. I feel truly grateful for the experiences I have had. For the people I have met. I feel happy for those around me that I care so deeply for and want to scream it, almost, at them and tell them all the things I think and feel. What a simply amazing "spring break" it was.

Sisters... How I LOVE thee