tess's life

"More isn't always better, Linus. Sometimes it's just more."

2008-11-22T15:18:00.004-07:00

Sabrina (1995), Julia Ormond

The lady I work with emailed this movie to me and I thought I'd share it with you all. This would definitely be an example of going overboard...

Last night I went shopping with my brother, Loren, and his friend, Katie. The shopping part was unsuccesful, as it usually is when I'm trying to shop for pants, but we went to get frozen yogurt afterwards at this place which I can't remember the name of right now but it was so yummy! At this place, instead of paying for a small or medium and then one or two toppings, you pay by the weight. So you can put as much frozen yogurt in the cup as you want and then put as many different toppings as you want and then when you go to pay (which I didn't have to because Loren was treating us) you just put it on a scale and then pay per ounce. I put raspberries (my serving of fruit for the day...oh the college student diet), granola, broken pieces of nilla wafers, and some nuts on mine...so yummy!

Today we had a tri-ward activity where we went around to neighborhoods in Orem and asked if we could do some service for them and then in return if they wanted to make a donation to go to a family with a daughter who was just diagnosed with leukemia. It ended up being really fun - my friends and I got to the classic raking of the leaves service and we got to be outside on this beautiful day! After the service part of the activity, we all met back at a church for Cafe Rio lunch. It was so yummy and there were tons of leftovers that they were forcing on us to take home so now I have Cafe Rio for dinner tonight, lunch tomorrow, and probably lunch on Monday.

I am so excited for Thanksgiving break! This last week has been full of homework and writing papers and I'm going to try and do a lot of stuff during the break, but all the same, I'm excited to be home with my family and eat some yummy turkey!

“You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays.”

2008-11-19T10:13:00.003-07:00

The Music Man (1962) Robert Preston

I spent a good amount of hours in the library yesterday working on a paper due to my procrastination. I have known about this paper since the beginning of the semester, but I unfortunately put it off until a few days before the paper was due. You would think that I would have learned my lesson from past assignments that I have always put off until "tomorrow" but somehow that lesson hasn't sunk in deep enough. I did eventually get most of the paper done and I'm just going to have to finish it up today and then turn it in tomorrow.

The funny part of the day was when I was heading into the library knowing that I was going to be there for the next few hours, I passed a guy who was wearing a tshirt that said, "Procrastinators of the world unite....tomorrow."

"The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions to buy one cup of coffee."

2008-11-15T23:07:00.005-07:00

You've Got Mail (1998) Tom Hanks

I've decided that I'm tired of making decisions. It takes me like ten minutes just to get dressed in the morning because I can't decide what to wear. You have to take into consideration what the weather's going to be like, if you're feeling colorful or plain, if you want to make an impression or just blend in, sneakers or flats, jeans or cords, and it goes on and on.

Since just getting dressed is difficult for me, just think how hard it must be for me to make big, life-changing decisions. It's a disaster. I've been trying to make decisions about life and work and school and it's starting to wear me out. And then I get even more tired when I realize that I have many, many more decisions ahead of me. Right now I'm just trying to put some of my decisions "on the back burner" to simmer for a little while adn see how thing in my life turn out.

A few days ago, my friend CaroLynn left on her mission. I got to say goodbye to her before she went into the MTC which was fun but sad at the same time. I already miss her but I know she'll be an amazing missionary! (She's the one in the middle.)

Tonight I went to the BYU Singers and Concert Choir concert which was completely amazing. My roommate Annie is in BYU Singers, plus several other people from my ward are in it too. Music is such a blessing in my life. I am so grateful for music!

“Don’t be afraid of it just because it’s new.”

2008-11-14T11:22:00.000-07:00

Babe (1995), Zoe Burton

So, I have decided to become a blogger. I thought it would never happen, but after having to create a blog for one of my classes, I discovered that deep down inside, I was meant to have a blog. (I know Jarom's probably thinking, "I told you so.") I'm still very new to the blogging world, but I'm not going to be afraid - I'm going to embrace the newness of it all. I wanted to do something creative for my blog, so it wasn't just the same old, same old. So, I decided to use movie quotes. I love movies and I love to quote them. We'll see if I'll be able to keep up the movie quote per post thing.

Right now I'm at work and there's never much to do on Fridays so I get to kind of do whatever I want and get paid for it. I am a secretary at the French & Italian Department on campus which is a pretty good job. I love working with the professors (for the most part) and it's fun to have people speaking French and Italian all around me. Too bad I don't know any Italian and my French is quickly leaving me since I haven't taken any classes since high school.

I'm excited for this weekend though. Weekends are always good. My ward is having an activity tonight. I'm not exactly sure what we're doing but I know that cinnamon rolls and hot chocolate are involved so I'll be there. And then tomorrow my roommates and I are going to go to the BYU Singers/Concert Choir concert which should be fabulous since one of our roommate's is in it.

Hopefully I'll have a more productive weekend this week than last week...