I love many things. I love many places. I love many people.

I love nature. Of all the things and places that I love, nature has to be the one I love most. Nature is a constant. Obviously the scenes of nature change, my backyard will not look the same in 10 years, my favorite mountain will have changed over the next 5 years, but there will always be a place in nature where I can escape.

Part of me has to pick favorites. Favorite food, movie, book, song. I have favorites for all of them. In nature, my favorite things to watch and be a part of are, water, clouds, trees, and the stars. Probably more than half of the pictures on my phone are a combination of beautiful clouds and trees. I can't stop myself from attempting to capture the beauty of nature. 

But I have discovered something while attempting to imitate nature on my phone or with a camera or on paper. Pictures and paintings of nature never quite capture the beauty and simplicity of the original. They can inspire feelings of awe and a give you a desire to be happy, but they can never show you the same details that the artist saw.

Maybe this is one of the reasons I love nature so much. It is a changing constant in an unstable world. 

The Debate...

What do you do about a college class that is a complete waste of time. I am seriously considering not going to class anymore. Here are my justifications.

• I have already taken a course very similar to this one and so none of the content is new.
• My teacher is a grad student. I have nothing against grad students, one of my favorite teachers is also a grad student, BUT this teacher does not really know or care what she is doing.
• Everything is posted online. Reading assignments, lecture notes, assignments given in class. Everything.
• When she lectures, she does not add anything to the notes, she simply re-iterates what the notes say.
• We watch movie clips almost every class period.
• It is my last class.

So, I feel like all of these reasons are good enough to stop attending class. However part of me feels like I would be a slacker and a quiter if I did.

WHAT SHOULD I DO?!?!?

Spin Art

So last night I went to one of my really good friends 20th birthday party. It was really fun! She had lots of food and since it was outside she had a fire pit, which was good cause it was slightly chilly! I got to hang out with people I haven't seen in FOREVER! Some of my best friends from high school were there, and we had soooo much fun. At her party, she had a spin art, which I haven't done since elementary school! We were all having tons of fun trying to make the perfect picture. Mine turned out pretty good. On one of them I squeezed the green to hard and so it turned into a green blob. But the other turned out pretty cool looking. Now I really want to do more.....

Movies (and music!)

I am a huge movie person (I have not seen many movies) but I LOVE to watch movies!  One of my all time favorite movies is the 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice (yes the 5 hour one!) I love the "old time" romance in that movie. The other day I was introduced to an awesome movie by the awesome Bonster (yes this is a nickname...) It is called Cranford. It was created by Sue Birtswistle, the same lady who produced my Pride and Prejudice (yes it was also about 5 hours) Cranford was amazing. I loved it. Now my list of all-time-favorite movies has increased. So far, here it is:


Pride and Prejudice(1995)
The Scarlet Pimpernel(1982)
National Treasure(1&2)
Cranford(2007)
Tangled(2010)

I'm pretty sure there are more, but those are all I can think of right now :)

Also, my favorite part of any movie, is the music. Music makes a movie. And secretly I love music more than movies. These are some of my favorite music quotes


“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.”
-Marcel Marceau

“Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven”
 -Henri Frederic Amiel

Pizza + Music

Basically, I fail at blogging. Its been like a whole month. Or more. But here I am again :)

On Saturday night I went to Organ Stop Pizza! It is my new favorite restaurant! I haven't been there since junior high, and I forgot how much I love that place. If you haven't been there I would recommend it in a heartbeat! There is a HUGE organ with soooo many pipes and instruments connected to it. You can make requests for songs and this AMAZING organists plays your requests from memory! I could not help being amazed at how good this organist was. It blew my mind. He played some of my favorite music too: Beauty and the Beast, Star Wars, Mission Impossible, Toccata and Fugue, and an epic arrangement of Flight of the Bumblebee. It was sooo awesome! Plus I learned that the organ is called a Mighty Wurlitzer and the one at that restaurant was the largest in the world!

 

The Mighty Wurlitzer!

 

Just a few of the pipes!

 

This is the organist that played on Saturday night!

....Life.....and Christmas!!

Basically life has been changing. Mostly the change has been good but there have been some changes that have been really hard to make. Let me just say that I am so blessed to have the best friends EVER!! All of the people in my life are so amazing, I'm not sure how I got so lucky to rub shoulders with them! So thank you to all of my friends and those who been there for me when I just needed someone to listen :)

Also, Christmas time is finally here!!!!! This is definitely my favorite part of the year. First of all I love Christmas music. If there was no Christmas music on the radio, at home, or at church, Christmas would not be the same!

I also LOVE the lights at Christmas time. And yes, I do count houses with Christmas lights when I'm in the car :) I love to go to the temple lights! If you haven't ever been to see the lights at the LDS temple you should definitely go this year!!  --->  http://www.mesachristmaslights.com/

My other favorite part of Christmas is the food!!! There are super yummy treats everywhere! (especially at work where I promise you they are trying to fatten us up!) Hot chocolate and blankets and late night movies make winter time sooo perfect!

So basically thats my scoop on Christmas :) I LOVE IT!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Randomness

So here is what has been happening in my life lately...

The Death of the Red Box:

I recently got a new phone, and I let my brother use my old phone. But this wasn't just any phone. It was my very first phone, one that I had for almost 5 years. My brother goes and breaks it!!! Not. Cool.

Basically I was a little devastated! I know its just a phone, but I get kinda attached :(

On a happier note, ITS FALL!!!!!!!!!

I found this leaf that I thought it was pretty sweet! These are definitely not good pictures, but it had really cool coloring!

Also, the weather has been sooo gorgemous!! The clouds have been soo pretty, and I couldn't help taking pictures of these from my car window :)

Pretzels are one of my favorite snacks! Today we had waffle pretzels. These are the funnest to make shapes out of!! So I created some shapes!

I found these pretzels just like this. I think I might have to eat them last :)