Okay, let's try this again.
Okay, it's a new year and we have a chance to start over again. I have a lot, I mean a LOT, to catch us up on.
I don't know why I suck so badly, and so frequently, at writing here. To be honest, I really really like it. I really like being able to dump all of my thoughts and feelings here while showing pictures to accompany it. It's really the perfect journal for me. I love looking back at my freshman year of college and seeing everything that went on. It brings back a lot of precious memories that I probably would have forgotten had I not written in my blog. Well, it's 2015 now and I can be a new man if I want to.
It's weird to think that the last time I wrote about the new year was 2012, three years ago now. My how time flies. Speaking of time flying, this year flew by! I can't believe it's been 7 months now since I wrote here...man I suck sometimes. #newyearnewme So to give you a brief rundown on the last 7 months of my life, let me give you a quick synopsis.
June: I met this girl named Courtney Record and she became the first official post-mission girlfriend. I met her through a mission friend and we hit it off pretty well. She lives in Taylorsville (an hour away from my house) so that was kind of tough, but we managed to make it work. She was a really sweet girl that I really had a great time with, I'll explain later what happened. I worked a lot. It pretty much took up my entire summer which was fine; I really didn't have a ton to do anyway. Jake and I hung out a lot with occasional cameo appearances from Ethan and Wes. Wes introduced a new friend to us named Austin, and he was a pretty cool kid. He liked Minecraft and other things we like so we hit it off pretty well. I started working at the Provo Temple as an ordinance worker (meaning, I helped out everywhere you can help out in the temple). That was a really great experience. Whitney turned 23 and Benji turned 17 (yikes). I also met this girl named Jennifer working devotional. More on her later.
July: Worst. Month. Ever. We went to Wyoming for the biannual family reunion, but it was only me, Jarom, Mom and Dad. Whitney came later, and Benjamin had to work (lucky duck got the house to himself for half a week). I got put in Jared's attic where they were having a moth infestation. Jarom was fighting a sinus infection or something so he would just cough and snore while I was up for hours each night catching and killing moths. Well, that eventually caught up to me and I was sick as a dog by the end of the week. We drove home with Whitney in the cramped backseat which turned out to be literally the worst car ride of my life. I cannot express to you how much of me wanted to die. I had already taken a week of work off, but now I had to take another off to get better. I had pretty much all of the mono symptoms without actually having mono. I went to the doctor's twice over the month to figure out what was wrong, but they couldn't figure it out. so freaking annoying. I was pretty weak and susceptible to disease and germs all month and I suffered greatly. The illness lasted about the entire month and included the sinus infection that Jarom had along with the worst sore throat ever. I continued working shoots for BYUtv like SportsNation (my favorite) and Studio C. I worked that night as the animal wrangler and helped that Jennifer girl with her catering since she was in charge of catering the meals for the cast.
August: Pretty much the same as June. Todd and Kelton came home from their missions, and we got some quality bro time in. Things quickly fell apart with Courtney as we realized that the distance just wouldn't work once I didn't have a car. Things ended on good terms, but they definitely ended. I moved out (FINALLY) to my new apartment with Jake and school started. Our roommates were being dumb and didn't want to move rooms so Jake and I could be roommates, it was a mess that Jake never got over. One night I decided to just man up and see if Jenn wanted to hang out and we watched a movie at her apartment. A couple of weeks later we went and got shakes with Jake and her roommate Nat. We just got along so well and had a ton of fun together.
September: School was in full force and was stressful. I was working 2 jobs, had 5 classes, got my bike stolen which had me on feet all the time, and had my shift at the temple (not to mention hanging out with Jenn and Nat every night and 4 callings in the ward). I was staying afloat but it was really weighing me down. Jenn had told me that she was waiting on a missionary, so even though I was really really interested in her, I didn't want to get in the way. I know how it feels to be on the missionary side of this situation having gone through the same thing with Mackenzie, so I decided not to do anything about it. Jenn, on the other hand, had different ideas. At the end of the month we were officially dating. Jenn is an amazing girl. She's drop dead gorgeous, super funny, has my sense of humor to a T, is really energetic and spunky, really spiritual, and overall fun to be around. We can be doing absolutely nothing, or goofing around like psychos but we just love being around each other. I've really never met a girl like her, and feel extremely lucky to have her.
October: Man things got rough. So in the midst of all the business and stresses, I managed to find myself slipping into dark places. I don't know if it was a lack of sleep or just my overall busy lifestyle but I guess my mental health couldn't handle it and things got pretty hard for me. I got the help I needed, but it was a rough time for me. Jenn was really sweet and supportive though the whole thing which meant the world to me, still does. Through it all, I managed to still find fun things to do like football games, haunted forests, and ice skating. It was a really hard month, but we still took advantage of my favorite month.
November: The first half of the month was riddled with papers galore. I think I had something like 20 pages of papers to write, and somehow they all got turned in on time. Thanksgiving break was a much needed blessing. Thanksgiving was so good, I mean, SO good. What a blessed holiday. That's really all there was to report on November.
December: I kept trudging through papers and papers and papers to come upon Finals week, this is the moment I've been waiting for.
That's about right.
Actually, I somehow got out of this last semester with an A, two A-, and 2 B's!! I was thrilled beyond belief, and hopefully I'll survive this next semester too. Christmas was really nice. I got a bunch of stuff I already knew I was getting haha but it was still good. I spent the second week of Christmas break in St. George with Jenn and her family.
Okay so I'm all caught up on the happenings of this last year. Now we're in January of 2015. This is a whole new year of opportunities, and I'm ready to grab life by the horns. I'm going to try and write in this more often, so wish me luck. I sat down the other day and wrote out my goals for this year, I'm ready to take on the world!
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