2011 is 1/12 Over.

Kind of depressing.  I can't believe how fast time goes by these days. 
This week has been average.  School, work, homework, sleep.  It seems like that's all I do.  And it is EXHAUSTING.  I am definitely not getting a lot of sleep, and it's finally catching up to me. 
Oh well.
As of tomorrow, I will officially be friend-less.  Emily lives in Texas now, and Jamie is leaving in the morning to go drive trucks.  It's crazy how everyone goes their separate ways after high school.  I've been thinking back to all my high school friends and where they are now.
Caitlin Jeppson is Caitlin Lee now.  She is married and living in Hawaii.
Kaitlyn Grant is on a mission in Oklahoma.
Sara Kitchen is on a mission in Florida.
Andrea Riley is up in Logan attending USU.
Amanda Berbert is going to school at BYU in Provo.
Ellen Seely is living in south Salt Lake.
Kalli Marshall is Kalli Julander.  She married her high school sweetheart and lives in Bountiful.
Jamie Graham is becoming a commercial truck driver.
Emily Adair is now Emily Cooper and just had her first baby.  They just moved to Texas.

These nine girls were my closest friends in high school.  I miss them! 
Enough of the sentimentality.  I will be okay.  I still have Cord.  He is my very best friend.
I am liking school still.  As much as it's possible to like school anyways.
I am still addicted to Harvest Moon.  It's all I do in my spare time. 
Oh and I'm trying to eat healthier this week.  I NEED to.  I am a horribly unhealthy eater.  I just don't have the time to eat healthy.  It's no excuse, I know.  But really.  The majority of what I consume is Mountain Dew.  1.  It tastes good  2.  It wakes me up and energizes me  3.  I am addicted to it.
Bad bad bad.  So this week I am going to go to bed no later than 11 each night, I'm gonna try to get some exercise in every day, and I'm going to replace Mountain Dew with water and dried fruits and nuts.  I'll see if it makes a difference.
Since it is the end of the month, I will tell you:
1.  My very favorite memory of January 2011
This a close tie between my Japanese spa treatment and Cord teaching me to snowboard.  The spa treatment was AMAZING!  The fact that this was one of my favorite memories of January 2011 makes me seem like a selfish, anti-social person.  But really. I can't tell you how awesome it was.
Don't worry, I am letting snowboarding win out.  Cord is a good snowboarding teacher, and we had a lot of fun together.  It's fun to learn new things.
2.  What I have been most grateful for in January 2011
My dad.  He is amazing.  He does so much for me and my family.  He gets up at 4:45 in the morning five days a week to go to work so he can take care of all of us.  Then he comes home and makes dinner and helps us with whatever any of us need help with.  He is the most unselfish person I know.  If it wasn't for him I wouldn't have a LOT of the privileges that I have now.  He's been sick from stress lately and it makes me feel so bad.  I love my daddy!
3.  The most important thing I've learned in January 2011
This is going to sound superficial and stupid, but it's not.  Ready for this?  Here it is.  BAD SHOWS AND BAD MUSIC LEAD TO BAD DECISIONS.  The church has been teaching this for a really long time now.  Every time I've sat through one of those talks, I would think to myself, 'Oh, what a nice talk.  I can't wait to get home and watch Gossip Girl.'  I would listen, and maybe some point even agree with what was being said.  I guess I didn't realize how true it is, and that it actually applies to me.  I recently had an experience that proved to me, in a pretty obvious way, that this is a true statement.  Bottom line?  No more R rated movies.  A lot of PG-13 movies are gone too.  No more Gossip Girl or 90210.  I'm still on the fence about Vampire Diaries.  It's not quite as um... risque as the other shows, but I guess we'll see.  And I am going through my iPod and getting rid of all the bad songs.