Thanksgiving and Play

Ok, so two things. First It's Thanksgiving tomorrow and I wish I didn't have a ton of homework so I could enjoy it! haha! The parents are coming tonight and my sister-in-law's sister is here with her 10 month old and it is so fun!

Second, I have been reading this book about the importance of play in our lives for a class and I absolutely LOVE it. I got it from the library, but am wishing I had bought it. It just validates all my feelings that life should be a fun adventure and work and play should go hand in hand. It talks about how when you play as a child the gray matter in your brain grows and you literally have a bigger brain.  When kids are deprived of rough and tumble play, then can grow up to be murderers and sociopaths. It's soooo important and yet in our culture play is really looked down upon. That is what children do and when you grow up you are supposed to stop playing and start being serious about everything. 

So I'm reading last night and it talks about a couple that have a great relationship, but as life goes on they get wrapped up in kids and jobs and just all the seriousness of life and they start feeling like they don't even know if they like each other. Then...they go to a, Get This! Play Therapist! and they play together and do races against other couples and just silly stuff like that and they reconnect and realize that they just needed a little joy in their lives. But! What stuck out to me is that there is such a thing as a "Play Therapist"!!!! How fun would that be? So I think I'm going to have to look into this. I have thought about dance therapy for couples, but maybe I could look at mixing play and dance therapy or something. Anyway! I am always trying to figure out what kind of career I should choose that would make me really happy and I think something like that would be a great fit for me! Anyway! I just got ALLL excited about it. 

So that's my blog for this week. :)

Yet Another Kind of Random Post

So this is kind of going to be a hodge podge (I don't think I have ever had to spell that before) of a post. so last Sunday was my birthday. I turned 23. I always thought I might be a little depressed about turning 23...but I'm not. I am totally fine with it. In fact, I like it! I remember turning 9 and thinking how I really liked being 8 and didn't want to turn 9. 8 is special, it's when you get baptized, it means something...my sister has a set of Anne of Green Gables books and there were 8. in my eight year old mind this means 8 is special, apparently. I was just resisting the whole 9 thing with every excuse I could think of. It's almost always been this way, but this year, I'm liking being old for some reason. Anyway. That's my birthday thoughts.

Another thought is how nice people are in Provo. my brother and i were fixing my bike and we lost a tiny spring in the asphalt. We were searching for it and 2 of my roommates came home and started helping us look. Then my friend sean came up on his long board and started helping us. Then his 2 roommates came by and started looking, then another guy from my ward saw us and wanted to help. By this time I figured we would never find the spring, so we told everyone they could get back to their business and we went to the bike shop...again. my brother had been a tow truck driver and was all surprised at how nice byu students were because whenever he had dealt with them they were swearing at him. I was like, yeah, of course they are nice, dummy, but I liked that he actually had something good to say about them. 

Then, the other day I was driving my friends car and it just died at a stop light. I thought the battery had died, but I guess it was the alternator. Anyway, in a matter of seconds I had about 5 really good looking guys get out of their cars and start pushing my car. Then one of them turned my key and the engine started again, so I didn't get to talk to them...haha. But it was so cool to see these guys acting like they worked at Les Schuab or something, running around taking care of me and my situation! I'm just very impressed.
I'm excited for Thanksgiving next week! It should be a good post next week!

Most Random Post Award!

Ok, so I completely forgot to blog last week. I am KICKING myself right now. I wasn't sure what to write about, so I kept putting it off and bang! It's Monday and the first week of November is blogless. Yes, I used that fake word. So I was wanting to post a survey so I could check that off the list since it's my last thing to do on here. For my leadership class I made one for my 20 page project, so I am going to post it now, as I wasn't ready last week and ended up losing out on the whole blog thing completely. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFFUZFRtd0oyNHFYMGpGY1g2a2U1OHc6MQ So if anyone wants to take it, feel free. It's not supposed to be anonymous, so just know that. Anyway, so I have been really stressed lately with all the projects that have to be finished before Thanksgiving. I have a 20 pg leadership paper due, a seven page book report and research paper due, a six page dance research paper due and a group project for mcom. plus all my regular homework. They are really all due after thanksgiving, but I am going to have to get them all done before them if I am going to enjoy my vacation. PLUS I have to teach the lesson in relief society on the first week of december. yeah. It's out of control right now. But luckily my angel mother is sending me texts with ideas for my lesson and she helps me to talk things out and brainstorm for projects. She is pretty amazing. So anyway, I'll try to come up with something better for next week. OH! but I can't not include this video. 

and this video, since these kids were the only ones worth watching...almost