Hare Krishna

Major success on the festival of colors. VERY fun! I made it in time and it was all I thought it would be and SO much more! :) Anyways here are some pics that I stole from people to give you an idea of how fun it was (I think I may have literally stolen every picture that had me in it! lol!). I could honestly do this like...OFTEN!

The girlies BEFORE!

This is my new friend Nicole....not really new but new to all of you dedicated blog readers. The festivities were beginning!

This is Paul and this is picture is just awkward. I don't know what that face is that I'm making, I was in between facial expressions! HAHA!

Me, Nicole, and Bryanne! We're all from Sacramento AND we go camping together! Yay!!

This is our whole group minus Fred!

The chalk starting getting a little more intense, this was still nothing compared to when everyone was throwing it but it was a little like this, you couldn't see anything and you just get chalk in your eyes and mouth and any other place it wants to go! Haha. But I don't think either of us were ready for this picture, it cracks me up though. I really was having a good time

despite this look!

The group after round one of the colors had settled!

And I think this is my favorite picture. Paul and I had just reunited with the group and apparently both decided to dance. I think other are dancing too I can't really tell though! But look how HAPPY we all are!

Man! I seriously enjoyed that! Anyone who can go next year SHOULD go, definitely my favorite day of March! :)

HOLI COLORS!

Ok so every March (I'm not sure if it is on the same day or date or what) there is this Festival of Colors down in Spanish Fork at a temple of some religion. I really should know more about this but I don't. So last year Bri and I tried to go with two other friends but we didn't realize how big it was going to be and ended up missing it. We got separated from the boys and ended up wandering around the temple and ended up getting SOME color on us. It was pretty pathetic BUT it was KINDA fun. Anyways. This Saturday it is happening again. I have been waiting for this day for an ENTIRE year...it's like Christmas. I have no idea what the religious background is to this day BUT I'm super excited for it and basically all you do is throw colored chalk at each other and get it all over you. Anyways hopefully we look a little more colorful than this on Saturday!

A little blog inspiration

I keep up with quite a few blogs, some of people that I don't even know but they are funny or I find them inspiring or they do cute crafts and I look up to them! :) Anyways! There is one that I LOVE, her name is Becky (I feel like we're really good friends but she doesn't know me!) so I was reading her blog a while back and she was talking about how she was trying to get back into shape and she rides her bike with her kids riding in the back. Here is what she said about this particular situation:

Back to this morning. I start up the hill, knowing that I wouldn't make it up the hill. I was okay with that. Again. I had already decided it was okay and I would do the best I could do. But then something inside of me just snapped. Why was I settling for that? Why couldn't I make it to the top?
I'll tell you why: Because I had already decided that I wasn't going to make it.
So that "snap" I'm referring to? It suddenly dawned on me to visualize the result. I needed to visualize biking to the top of this hill, completely and totally focused on nothing other than getting to the top. And so I did. It was so. very. hard. But I kept that image of me biking all the way to the top in my mind. And I required Claire to keep up with her chants. And ... AND ...
I made it. I made it!

So how does this apply to me?!
I've started running regularly this week. I have been on and off for a couple weeks but I decided that this week I needed to buckle down and get serious. SO...yesterday I decided I wanted to be up to 2 miles straight by today and as I was running today I thought I was going to die during laps 9 & 10 (5 laps = 1 mile) but I thought back to this blog post and I visualized myself finishing and I did it! It was a big accomplishment in my life. It might no be big to you but it was HUGE for me!

Shut your mouth!

Alright so I have issues...I'm pretty sure I have a mild form of OCD (sometimes it is more mild than others lol). One of my BIGGEST things is the sound of people eating or drinking...pretty much in general but I can usually hyperfocus on something else to ignore it EXCEPT in class. UH! I almost despise when people eat in class. Just to clarify not all foods, I don't care if you eat some sort of quite food in class like a sandwich or something else that is soft. But um...HELLO! Don't eat carrots in class. It literally makes me a crazy person. I can't focus on anything but that OBNOXIOUS person eating those carrots. And I'm sure they are kind loving people but I can't stand them and I don't even know them! Today this girl in my class was eating and she was sitting DIRECTLY behind me and in the beginning she was eating carrots so she was automatically stereotyped in my head and then she proceeded to eat some gold fish (which is normally harmless...NOT THIS TIME). She ate them with her mouth open every 20 seconds it was like CRUNCH! Oh man! It was a rough day! Anyways, for any of you out there that eat carrots or other loud food in public places, the OCD people in the world would really appreciate if you would stop!