Embarking My Life

Okay, so I want you to read the lyrics to Katy Perry's song "Firework" before you read the rest of my post.  What do you think? You did read it first, right? No?! Really, you need to. The words explain why I love it so much. The tune is super catchy, too, but I just love the message. Okay, you can watch a lyrics video ...that might make everything tie together more. If you love it as much as I do, you can watch/listen to an A Capella version by Peter Hollens here.  I love this song for a couple of different reasons. The first reason is because my one of my best friends, Audrey Roper, was the one who showed it to me and it reminds me of her and our friendship. I also love the song because of the good sound it has. The music itself is fun and makes me feel good! The biggest reason I love it is what I learn from it. Many times in my life I have felt worthless and like no cares about what I have to offer the world. I think we all tend to feel ...

Hello everyone! Welcome to 2013! We made it! In celebration of that I changed the background of my blog! What do you think? Please give me feedback! I'm trying this out for awhile, and if I like it I'll keep it. If not, I'll try again.  Back to my original statement, I feel like it really was a journey through 2012. It was a hard year for me for various reasons. The important thing right now is that I am moving forward into a new year with bright hopes and dreams. For those of you who I haven't told, I am extending my time at UVU by a semester. I changed some of my classes that I was doing that will be very time consuming, and so I decided to extend a semester in order to devote more time to them. In doing that, I will do better in those classes and enjoy my life more than just surviving them like I did last semester. I don't feel like it was very beneficial to my health because of the stress levels, either, so that is why I made that decision. I am really e...