Thankfulification {Days 9, 10, 11, 12}

Well, I think I'm like what, four days behind on this. I really have been thankful, I just didn't feel like blogging. So here is a catch up post.

Day 9 : My roommate and I went to a Latin dancing place. In my ballroom dance class we are learning the salsa and I thought that it was really really fun. I told my roommate this and she told me about a place that does Latin dancing where they teach a lesson first and then they have a dance afterward. One of her friends teaches there and is a dance competitor.

On Tuesday night at 9:30 the fun began, the building was so old and cool, just like old ballet studios that we always picture. The lesson they were teaching was about back bends. FUN! I somewhat got it down. My feet on the other hand not so much.(yep that's kinda what I was doing, although I'm not as agile...yet)

The thing that was so great about going to this, was that every guy that I danced with knew how to lead. It was so great! Plus I got to learn some new dances and have a refining lesson on my cha-cha. I thought I had it down before but apparently not. Taking a ballroom dance class is one thing, but actually applying it is a completely different experience. So in all this I am thankful for 1) my ballroom class (because I do still like it) 2) my roommate for knowing about this and taking me with her 3) the opportunity to go and have so much fun and 4) guys who can lead.

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Day 10: This day I had a math test, ugh. When I was studying over the past three days I felt like there wasn't enough time. Then as I was taking the test there seemed to not be enough time. Both in my studying and during the test, I was pressured by time and my brain completely froze. I knew the information, I just felt like I didn't have enough time to process, remember and understand what I was doing. So today, I am thankful for when I do have enough time, so that I'm able to think.

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Day 11: These lovely people


Day 12: Blankets, more specifically, bed comforters. It's just so nice to snuggle with the covers.

Doesn't that bed just look so comfy

Thankfulification {Day 8}

Umbrellas: Because quite frankly yesterday was cold and I think that having that extra extended padding against the snow helped me out a lot.

Thankfulification { days 6 & 7}

Ability to Walk Along Lovely Trees and With Fabulous people (oh how I wish I had a camera) :

I got to go to dinner with lovely people, the event being provided for by two very lovely people as well (They are in this thankfulification post. So I'm very very very grateful for them and every thing that they are able to provide for me. They may seem like a sidenote in this post but really they are not, because quite frankly they might be in another post as well.)

I ate to too much of my hearts content and was not sure if I would be able to function during the rest of the night. Luckily I got to go on a walk with my neighbor and see all the different trees and find some colorful leaves for the autumn leaf color wheel that she is making.

Then on Sunday I got to bond with my new roommate and my older but still getting to know roommate. Then I had the opportunity to go on a drive up the leafless canyon with Heidi and her fabulous roommate Ashley and then we went on a walk on a little path. They fed me well while we watched the amazing CES Fireside.

There's a lot I am grateful for in this post, but most of them will hopefully have their own spotlight later on.

Thankfulification {Day 5}

The Sun: for obvious reasons and I just really don't like walking home after math with no jacket because no matter where I go, I have to walk from bright warming sunshine and into the freezing shadows of buildings or trees. And it's just so darn cold. It's like turning the shower from hot to cold.

Plus, it's just so happy

Also I really like this picture even though sun and rain are complete opposites.

Thankfulification {Day 4}

The Temple I Grew up Around: Yesterday I went to the Logan temple with my roommate. I was really excited to go since 1) I have never been to the Logan Temple and 2) I had been meaning to go(just like I still need to go to the bank) and never had a ride or the time to do so. My only free time is one and a half hours in the middle of each day, which never feels like enough. I was very grateful for Ashley and that she makes the effort to attend as regularly as possible and that she was willing to go at a time that was convenient for me.

I should have had the same feelings in every temple, but the Logan temple just wasn't Idaho Falls and I felt homesick. Such an odd feeling to have. Don't get me wrong, I am very grateful for the Logan temple and I still felt great going, but I really truly miss this one:

And of course this one

Price of Invulnerability

It's kinda long but it is really interesting and good.

Thankfulification {day3}

The other day one of my roommates moved out. She took with her the only decorations on the walls in our living room (a transformer poster and about six small black and white photos) and the little entertainment "center". One of my other roommates decided that we needed decorations, I agreed. So she cut up her calendar of flowers and went to work all evening and went to DI to get an entertainment center only to come back with pictures and then head back to get the one we decided on that was already gone within the ten minutes she was home. In the end, we rearranged the living room and decided to wait for an entertainment center that we will love so we can paint it bright colors.

So what am I thankful for today? So many many things, but CAMERAS are going to be featured.

You see I don't have one. I wish I did, but I don't. There's so many things at school that I would love to take pictures of, whether it's doing stuff with roommates, going to events, walking along Old Main Hill and seeing the temple wrapped in brightly colored leaves, or the butterflies flying in the flowers in front of Old Main.

But for those people who have one I am very grateful. There is only one in existence in our apartment right now. Only one person owns one.

But we our apartment is benefited by cameras because of the pictures of flowers that we are using as decoration. We are surrounded by beautiful things and nature is able to come inside because of cameras.

I can travel to places I've never been and travel back in time...... travel to places I have been and have all the thoughts and feelings return as a result of looking at photos.

....and see everyone in my family while I'm away (I really think it's time for a new good family photo)