The List Goes on and on and on...

Just when you think you have your life down to  a "T" (or a Q as Jessica calls it), the big man upstairs sends you a curve ball or two. Before you realize what happened, you've struck out, and you're sitting in the dug out, wondering what just happened. You think over what went wrong, think you have it figured out, and you go back up. Strike one. Strike two. Strike three. You're out. You try again- but no luck. You've struck out, game over. Try again next season.

Speech therapy seemed like the perfect job for me, but lately I've really been questioning what to do with my life. My ideal job is to be a writer, a crafty person, and a mom. Unfortunately there's this thing called 'the real world'. All I can say is… Thank goodness for a sense of humor to get through times like this. Richard G. Scott said, "A good sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life".

I think I've come up with a good theory though. In heaven, there was flyers passed out and posted, announcing the big talent sign up day. But me? I’m not one for lines, and tend to do my own thing. I was probably on the side, making fun of all those people for waiting in line all day. Little did I know….

I have been working on my Southern-Belle degree though. In honor of Mardi Gras, I made gumbo for some friends. The thing about gumbo is that if it doesn't take at least 3 hours, it probably isn't a real gumbo. So, eight hours later, all of us had died and gone to heaven; it was THAT good. I had posted a picture on Facebook, but it didn't do it any justice. The smell, the taste… I felt like I was back in the good 'ole South again.

Other than making gumbo all day, my roommates and I have had a list going. "Things we'd rather do instead of study". We stole the idea from the girls across the hall from us, but we've probably come up with some real weird ones. I don't think my roommates are what people would define as 'normal', but we have so much fun. Some of our ideas:

1. Making this list
2. Working out
3. Eating
4. Cleaning my room
5. Take a shower
6. Vacuum
7. Netflix
8. Facebook stalk
9. Solitaire
10. Search for a major
11. Contemplate skipping class
12. Make out
13. Shop
14. Grocery shop
15. Play card games
16. Play board games
17. Just Dance 3
18. Just Dance 4
19. Mama Mia Just Dance
20. Gambling
21. Disney movies
22. Curl my hair
23. Straighten my hair
24. Pee
25. Paint my nails
26. Shave
27. Read the scripture (working on my salvation)
28. Have a snowball fight
29. Bowl
30. Laser tag
31. Camping
32. Karaoke
33. Sing in the shower
34. Road trip
35. Watch people crash into cars when it snows
36. Write ALLL the missionaries
37. Go on a cruise
38. Old maid
39. Go to class just to pass the time
40. Check the mail
41. 1000 Ways to Die
42. Skype
43. Talk to dad about my (lack of) love life
44. Build a snowman
45. Drink hot chocolate
46. Scare people out of the back of Sydney's truck (RIP)
47. Do absolutely nothing
48. Pandora shuffle
49. Pace
50. Kick the ball against the door
51. Instagram dat joint
52. Road trip!
53. Laundry
54. Brush my teeth
55. Words with friends
56. Pinterest
57. Pose Ted
58. Play MASH
59. Peel potatoes
60. Just jelllin
61. Watch Michael's Hercules video
62. Lay on the floor and sing
63. Go to work
64. Wish on shooting stars
65. Jump on a trampoline
66. Babysit
67. Stalk the mailman
68. Interpretative dancing
69. "Cook" in my apron
70. Count how many licks to the center of a lollipop
71. Blow up balloons
72. Read letters from Mr. Cashen
73. VEGAS BABY
74. Eat Brighton's chocolate (rest in peace)
75. Zumba
76. Follow my heart
77. Ding-Dong Ditch people
78. True-Blue Cookies
79. Watcher Thunder Games
80. All-nighters
81. Play Nunca-Nunca
82. Eat chocolate fondu
83. Take a 2 hours nap and feel great
84. Search for apartments
85. Shop online
86. Rearrange and organize
87. Job hunt
88. Make a big life decision
89. And then change your mind 13 times
90. JL
91. Progress spiritually
92. Practice our party trick
93. Text Angie
94. Get my act together
95. Do sit ups with my eyes closed
96. 2 minute plank
97. Make fun of Shelby (don't worry, she wrote this one)
98. Pound the chicken
99. ROFFL
100. Eat subway cookies
101. Eat expired lunch meat
102. Eat an entire bag of chips and salsa
103. Stare into space
104. Cry
105. Admire the sun
106. Download music
107. Make one eyebrow back into two
108. Straighten my mane
109. Check the weather
110. Go to Y mountain
111. Jump off Y mountain
112. Make cookies
113. Then be sad once I'm fat
114. Drink milk
115. Change the scentsy
116. Count Brighton's boyfriends (it's like counting sheep)
117. Hide Mckinlee's squash
118. Watch proposals and proposal fails on youtube
119. And then want a boyfriend
120. See how big the rolls can rise
121. Watch 4 movies in a row

We've decided that one day we want to try and do all of them. With the exception of one or two, it is pretty much a typical day in our apartment. Lately it's been hitting all of us that we're going separate ways in the next few months, and we're "breaking up". Growing up is hard to do. I’m going to miss these girls. We've had too much fun together. But maybe we'll be able to get some studying in? :) Until then, we'll keep listening to Jessica blast her music in the freezing cold showers (thank you, to our awesome apartment complex that doesn't have hot water in the middle of winter) and smelling McKinlee's weird fruits that none of us had ever heard of until this year.