Life Of A Poor College Student

This week really made me think. The summer semester is quickly coming to a close, with only a months break before the fall semester starts up. I have worked and worked to save money for college. I worked throughout high school. I paid for my own driving insurance and cell phone bill. I drove my parents car to and from work. Somedays, at 16, 17, 18, and 19 years old, my parents dropped me off and picked me up from babysitting or work because they needed the cars that day. If I wanted a car I had to work for it. I didn't get handed one. I put all (okay most....I enjoyed a little shopping spree every now and then) of my money to school.

I have been blessed with not having a job the 2 semesters I have been in college. Now, I NEED one. (a big fat scholarship with my name on it would be nice too). I have been thinking about all the money that i'm going to need for school, yet there are other things that I want, and would rather do with my hard earned money.

I want to travel the world. I want to be tan. I want to be a cute little fashion blogger that somehow becomes best friends with other well known fashion bloggers. I want a Jeep Wrangler. I want to learn how to REALLY dance. (not just the random, uncoordinated dancing that I seem to do whenever a good song comes on). I want a Tory Burch purse. I want to drink Starbucks and eat sushi everyday. I want to own everything inside J. Crew. I want to have enough money to pay for school. I want to be able to go on spontaneous road trips to places I've never been. I want to eat pretzel M&Ms and Cherry Coke everyday without gaining weight. I want a yellow lab.

Worldly. Worldly. Worldly.

The world seems to focus more on the things they want or 'need' and don't ever seem to focus on what they h a v e. It's not wrong to want something. Sometimes wanting things can teach you patience, the value of a dollar, and how to work.

I don't NEED to be tan. I don't NEED a Jeep Wrangler. I don't NEED Starbucks everyday.  I don't NEED a Tory Burch purse. I don't NEED any of those things. I have everything I need.

I have the Gospel. I have a loving Heavenly Father that understands me. I have an eternal, and loving family that loves me, including amazing parents and amazing siblings that are my best friends. I have 'Sushi Mondays', and 'Starbucks Fridays'. (I alternate them every other week; sushi one week, Starbucks the next). I have 2 feet that can take me near and far. I have fair skin (makes for good family jokes/nicknames like Casper). I can laugh at my uncoordinated self and the way I dance.

Sure, I still plan on saving for a Jeep Wrangler, and a Tory Burch purse, but I have everything I NEED.

CARPE DIEM

xoxo,
Mo

Fathers Day Video!!!

I Just Like To Smile. Smiling Is My Favorite.

If you know me, you know I laugh at everything. Seriously....everything. (And you would also know that I'm like, really funny. It's a gift.) When I was younger my Uncle Jimmy used to call me 'Giggles' because I would never respond to anything he would say, I would just laugh.

I just enjoy being happy. I like things that make me smile. I feed on those things. They make my day better.

Here are some things that make me smile/laugh/happy . . . .

Cherry Coke. 'Nuff said.

If someone wants to buy me this shirt, that would be lovely. #onlyreasoniwouldwatchbaseball

They don't know me. They don't know my life. They don't know what I've been through.

This video. (Her reactions are the best)

But seriously.

Summer Olympics -  I love it all (except water polo and basketball because that stuff is boring), but my favorite games to watch are the gymnastics and beach volleyball. Seriously, I dare you to talk to me when I'm watching the men's and women's gymnastics part of the Olympics. Like, seriously. And, have you seen Sam Mikulak? He does America proud.

Read this in Snapes voice, it's funnier.

Yes, I like Harry Potter, no I'm not sorry about it. (HP series has moved to space #5 on favorite movies list; sorry TKAM)

Getting my SnapChats sent to me after people 'screenshot' them.

"How wonderful is it that we laugh because our bodies cannot contain the joy"

xoxo,

Mo

Fathers Day!

"The Best Day" by Taylor Swift and "My Life Would Suck Without You" by Kelly Clarkson are the two songs I used for the Mothers Day video that I made. For the Fathers Day video, however, I have put in a collaboration of different songs that we as a family love. We ALL (yes, both of my parents and all of my siblings, except Michael because he hasn't been exposed to most of these songs yet) know every word to these songs. It's fantastic.

So, for some reason, my video is not uploading. Ughhh. So whenever I can get it to load, I will be sure to post it.

Happy Fathers Day Dad! LYF!

xoxo,

Mo

The Bucket List of All Bucket Lists

These aren't in any special order, but here are 10 things that I have on my bucket list.


1. Visit France
    I love any and all things that have to do with the French culture. I even have a "Learn to speak French" app downloaded on my phone that I use every once in awhile because i'm trying to teach myself French (don't judge me).

2. Go Paddle Boarding in Hawaii
    I've seriously only been to 4 or 5 different states in my life (Arizona, Utah, California, Nevada, and I think I have been to New Mexico, but i'm not sure), so it would be awesome to go to Hawaii. But i'm going to take it a step further and say that I want to go paddle boarding in Hawaii. It looks like so much fun!

3. Go to London and visit Kings Cross Station - Platform 9 and 3/4
     Okay, i'm going to bring out my inner nerd on this one. Seriously, I love Harry Potter. (#sorrynotsorry) How cool would it be to go there?! (seriously considering changing my 5th favorite movie from To Kill A Mockingbird, to the Harry Potter SERIES).

4. Ride a Tandem Bike on the Beach with my (Future) Husband
    I know what you're thinking, you wish you thought of this too, huh? (go ahead, add it to your own list). I think this is just so cute and romantic.

5. Hug Shamu
     Tell me this wouldn't be awesome.

6. Receive a Yellow Labrador Retriever Puppy with a Red Bow Around the Neck
     Yes, the bow is a requirement. I have always wanted a yellow lab (or just a dog in general) . . . . I just think they're the cutest.

7. Be on a Game Show
     Because, why not?! I'm thinking The Price is Right would be a fun one to go on . . . .

8. Take Surfing Lessons
     I love visiting California and watching the surfers out in the water. It just looks so cool to see them all scattered throughout the big ocean. I can barely even boggie board, but I still think it would be so much fun.

9. Build my Dream House
     Is this not perfect?! The house, the yard, everything!!

10. Have a Food Fight
     Make a whole ton of food (or buy it), get a bunch of people together, and have a food fight. Ever since the Max Keebles Big Move movie came out in 2001, I have wanted to do this. Outside of course.


xoxo,
Mo

Ali and Morgan Part 1

If anyone knows Ali and myself, they know that something (usually bad) ALWAYS happens to us. Like seriously. Like that time in middle school when we Alis family invited me to go to California with them. We thought it was a good idea to strap my boogie board to Alis leg, and Alis boggie board to my leg and ride them out into the waves . . . . yeah, we weren't the brightest. Or that time we went on a hike for girls camp certification in the middle of June and Ali and I didn't bring water bottles (and Ali hurt her leg so our sunday school teacher tried to massage the cramp out of her leg hahahah it was so funny). And the nearest bathroom was 4 miles away, so we had to go and become 'one with nature'.  EWW. Seriously, I could go on forever about the stories we have together. But this past weekend was by far the most exciting/intense/cool/scary/funny thing that has ever happend to us.

So Ali's uncle just hired her to work at his office in Utah on Friday March 31. My parents had flew me home for a couple of days earlier that week, so Ali and I both got plane tickets for the same flight to take us to Utah for Saturday June 1. So Ali and I got dropped off at the airport on Saturday by our parents, we got checked in, had gone through security, and we were getting ready to board the plane. 

Ali was assigned to sit in the row behind me on the plane, so I got into my seat first after I put my carry on bags in the overhead compartment, and then I sat down in my seat and buckled up. So as Ali was putting her carry on bags in the space above her a flight attendant was walking down the aisle and needed to walk around her. So she went to move out of his way and as she moved she hurt her leg!! And so the guy was giving Ali a funny look and all she was saying was "oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh!!!" And then she starts crying! So I turned around wondering what was going on, and the flight attendant was like "here sit down in the chair and we will look at your leg" and Ali said "no I really don't think I can sit, my knee is killing me!!" And so Ali keeps crying and the flight attendant calls the paramedics to come get Ali off the plane because she clearly cannot walk. I asked Ali if you could see anything wrong with her leg and the fly attendant was all "umm yeah her knee cap is on the side of her leg right now". So since Ali was in the middle of the walk way on the plane none of the passengers could get to there seats in the back, so everyone was just kind of standing around, and the paramedics walk on with a wheelchair and they were yelling at everyone to move so they could get through. And so this whole time I'm trying to call my parents and Scott and Cami but none of them are answering because they were all at the Temple!

So Ali gets wheeled off the plane and I get off with her because I couldn't just leave her! And so I had to carry her 2 carry on bags and my 2 bags. (we girls don't pack light!) And so they put us in that long walkway where the plane and the airport connects, and they stabbed Ali with an IV to give her morphine. Then it was like playing 20 questions with the firemen and the flight attendants. They asked us everything! The firemen then told us we were going to have to go to the hospital, so they called the paramedics and they brought out this huge stretcher for Ali to go on. And so we had to walk through the ENTIRE airport like that with the whole world watching us! We got outside and they loaded Ali in the ambulance and since I was there too they said I could ride in the front seat of the ambulance. Coolest thing ever! And so we get to the hospital and finally my parents and Alis parents show up. Ali went in the back and they did a couple of x-rays and then the doctor popped Alis knee back into place. (SO gross!!)

My view from the front seat in the ambulance (I was trying to be casual and not get caught taking pictures)

My parents then drove me back to the airport to catch the last flight of the night. The flight was scheduled for 8:10 . . . . it then got delayed and was rescheduled for 9. After everyone finished boarding at 9:45, the plane took off. I plugged my headphones in and fell asleep, only to be woken up when the plane had landed. The plane lights turned on and none of the passengers were moving . . . . I wasn't sure what was going on. Then some of the passengers started to yell. Huh? I was so confused!! Turns out that the pilots forgot the other pilot that was supposed to fly the plane back to Arizona once we had landed in Utah. I WAS BACK IN ARIZONA!

Long story short (haha not really), I finally landed in Utah at 1:45 Sunday morning. I was exhausted. I just wanted to get back to my room and sleep for days. Luckily the lovely Jensen family was there at the airport to pick me up and take me to my dorm. When I thought the worst of my day was over, I walked into my room to find a note on my bed that said "please be sure to make your bed next time! Thx, ur RA!" I'm sorry, WHAT?! (my whole dorm had had room checks that week . . . . note: making beds has NEVER been a requirement!) I lost it. I called my mom and started crying like a little girl (yes, I still cry to my mom about silly things). I could tell that she felt bad for me, but I could also tell that she thought this whole thing was funny.

Now if you would have asked me on Saturday or Sunday about the whole experience, I probably would have slapped you, but now, I think it is one of the funniest stories. And it was a great learning experience. It's about as funny as my bee sting story (maybe i'll write a different blog post about that sometime). 

Seriously, who does this stuff happen too?! 

The answer to that, Morgan and Ali.

xoxo,

Mo

These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things . . . .

Top 5 Movies

To qualify as a "top" movie of mine, it must be a movie that I could spend all day watching, day after day. One that as I continue to watch, gets increasingly better. I could never get sick of it.

Well, (since I know everyone is DYING to know what my favorite movies are) here they are.

5. To Kill A Mockingbird

Told from the perspective of a young girl, Jean Louise Finch, who goes by the name Scout. Scout and her brother Jem are the children of Atticus Finch, a lawyer in a racially divided town in Alabama. Atticus agrees to defend a black man who was accused of raping a white woman.

Atticus: I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Jem: Why?

Atticus: Well, I reckon because mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in the corncrib, they don't do one thing but just sing their hearts out for us.

4. Anastasia

Story of a princess who was separated from her family when she was a little girl. After finally leaving her orphanage she is out on a journey to Paris to find her lost family, and find out who she really is.

PS: The closing song, At The Beginning, is the song I have wanted since I was a little girl to be played at my wedding :)

3. Dead Poets Society

"Oh Captain! My Captain!"

Dead Poets Society takes place at an all boys preparatory school. Throughout the movie several stories unfold. A story of love, standing up for what is right, and following your dreams.

If this movie doesn't leave you with an empty box of tissues then you need to watch it again. Also, if you don't cry like a baby during the last scene of the movie, you probably don't have a heart and have no business watching this movie....just kidding, but seriously. :)

2. October Sky

High school student Homer Hickam is stuck in an old mining town in West Virginia with no chance of ever leaving and having to work in the mine alongside his father. After the launch of Sputnik by the Russians, Homer and his friends set out on a quest to enter the science fair, get scholarships, and be somebody in this world.

The Rocket Boys

(If this ending doesn't leave you crying like a baby also then you should direct yourself to the last paragraph under movie number 3, Dead Poets Society.)

1. Pride & Prejudice

"Yes, a thousand times yes!"

Based on the story written by Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice is the greatest love story of all time. (Not just my opinion, it's a fact). A complicated and beautiful love story of two prideful people, who at first couldn't be more opposite, but turn out to be very similar.

And seriously, if that doesn't drawn you in, just look at this guy. Mr. Darcy. When I first watched this movie I didn't find him attractive at all, but now . . . . oh is he attractive.

I have honestly lost count of how many times I have seen this movie. I can quote the whole thing, and I am not the slightest bit ashamed of it. You can catch me watching this movie EVERY Sunday, and most likely sometime again during the week.

Seriously, these movies are fantastic.

xoxo,

Mo