Memorial Day

Growing up I always LOVED Memorial Day! We were officially done with school, it was summer time, and it was also time to party! We always invited our cousins over and had a big pool party and a barbeque and just played the whole day!

Well last Wednesday something very awesome happened.



Abigail was born!!! So thats when I decided I would come home and spend the weekend with my family! I first had plans to stay until Monday morning and travel back up on Monday. But with a little convincing from my mom, I decided to stay until tomorrow! I might miss my classes tomorrow, but I think spending time with your family is a little more important than 1 day of classes! And so now I get to stay for the party! My cousins are coming over later and we are going to party!!! They are playing softball right now but I didn't go because I didn't pack anything that would be good to play softball in! Oh well! Also I get to see Abby one more time today before I leave so that will be fun! I have just loved every second of being home! But I have forgotten a little that I still am in school... and I should buckle down after the party and get my homework done! Dang it!

Obsessed Part 2

So this week has been a VERY exciting week... with 3 more amazing finales to blog about!!!



Make It or Break It had such a good finale! I was so glad that the girls finally worked things out and won GOLD!!!! But I was VERY disappointing that they made Max gay... that kind of ruined it for me. He was like my favorite! And I'm really glad that Lauren came clean with the whole thing about Sasha and that he forgave her! I was so scared when Payson accepted the money, and then she got offered a scholorship... that was pretty sad! It was a really good finale, I'm just so mad that Emily isn't there at all anymore. I thought maybe they would bring her back this episode or something, but nope... shes gone! So sad.



Glee is probably my most favorite show at the time! I have been dying all season because Finn and Rachel haven't been together. And then last week when he finally broke up with Quinn, I was SO EXCITED!!! Then when they got to NYC this last episode and Rachel said she couldn't be with him, my heart broke a little bit! I thought she was being very dumb about the whole thing. But I thought the NYC experience was great. I loved when Rachel and Kurt sang Wicked on the Broadway Stage! And I loved that they had breakfast at Tiffanys. They are so cute! Also I loved nationals, I thought the other groups were really good and so was New Directions! Okay, the first song Finn wrote was AMAZING! And then the fact that they kissed after the song... WOAH! That was pretty epic. The whole place was quite and it was really crazy... Then Mr. Shoester started to clap and they sang their next song... and then they didn't win. I was sad... but lets be honest, if they won, the show couldn't get much better. At least now they have next season to try and win Nationals! And Finn and Rachel better stay together! They were so kiss, the kiss in the library was SO CUTE!!! I didn't expect them to win anyway. OH! And Mercades and Sam! Did anyone else think that was a great match! I am so happy for both of them!!! :D
-Side Note, a Glee song just came on my Pandora! Its Sam singing Baby! Big fan, big fan!!!




And now for the real deal, the main reason people own a TV. American Idol!
I thought they did a really great finale! I really liked Casey singing with Jack Black! I also loved Lauren and Carrie Underwood! But lets be honest, the best part was Lady Gaga! (Ok, that was sarcastic...) I really did like crazy Steven Tyler singing his song. I LOVE that song, and he did a really good job at it! (Obviously... its his song! haha) Then... it was time. I was holding my breath. I couldn't take it anymore! I needed to know... all these thoughts were running through my mind. Each performance they all did, each funny thing they did, their auditions, everything about them, when my thoughts were interrupted by Ryan announcing that SCOTTY WON!!! WOOOOHOOOO!!!!! Go Scotty! He has been a favorite of mine since his audition! SO GOOD! Also, I have been saying that Scotty and Lauren should go out, and guess what, THEY ARE! At least I think they are! Its all over the internet today that these two are together. They way they kissed after he won, and how he hugged her super long and said that he will always love her... these little things tipped me off! I hope they can have a long and happy American Idol relationship!!! hahahaa


So I think that is all my shows! They are all over. I'm kinda heart broken. I have been watching The Voice on Hulu, so I guess I will keep watching that. But thats about it. Now to get back to real life. I am trying to finish all my homework due next Tuesday so that I don't have any homework to do to distract me from this little sweetheart...



Abigail Cordner, Born May 25, 2011 around 6:20 a.m. 7lbs 10 oz, 21 inches long!
I can't wait to go home tomorrow to play with her! And by play I mean just look at and maybe hold since 3 day olds don't really feel like playing! hahaha

Bieber Fever!

Thats right everyone. I have it! BAD! I love Justin Bieber!!!! Heres how it started:

I was driving home from school about two years ago. I turned on the radio and there was this little boy on the radio talking about how he just signed a record deal with Usher and how he was moving to LA to work on some stuff. Then he sang One Time accoustically, and I was hooked! I thought he was so good! Honestly I thought it was a little black boy the way he was talking about Usher and sang one of his songs as well. So I get home and look him up and find that he has tons of videos of him singing covers. My favorite was him singing With You by Chris Brown. I kind of freaked out over him. I showed videos of him to my sister, my friends, and I even brought my laptop out to the kitchen and forced my mom to watch him sing. I think she just said with a glazed look on her face... He's really good Tara... while she did something else! Sorry mom! hahahha...

So then some time goes by. Everyday I am looking up his myspace that had like 2 pictures of him and one song. One Time. I am addicted to this song and I listen to it on repeat for the whole summer before I get to college. Once I get to BYU-Idaho, myspace is blocked. So I didn't bother looking it up anymore. Before I knew it the song was out on iTunes anyway. I think it was out around Thanksgiving time because I remember listening to it off my iPod on the way to Salt Lake for the break.

That Christmas I got Keri his CD. Not even sure if she wanted it, I just wanted her to have it. (Also, I totally let it leak what I got her when I said... Keri, In MY WORLD, I just don't tell people what they got for Christmas! She figured it out with a little help from google! haha) I took her CD and put it on my laptop and listened to it a ton in the Winter 2010 semester. Also I followed his youtube, so I saw it when he put up his acoustic version of Baby. That was in the beginning of the year. Then the day Baby came out on iTunes I'm pretty sure I bought it. I could go on about every time I heard a new song of his and how I fell in love all over again, but I am going to spare you all those details...

The reason I bring this up is because I watched Never Say Never for the 3rd time today, and each time I fall for him harder!!! Bieber Fever has kicked in again... If you hate him... just watch the movie. My roommate who likes to make fun of him said she was surprised at how good the movie really was. The reason he has gotten a bad rep has nothing to do with him, it has to do with his crazy physco fans! Those girls on the movie really scared me, and I'm a hard core fan of someone else... and I'm nothing like these Beiber fans! haha.

Basically... I wish I wasn't 3 years older than him. Then we might actually have a chance at true love! haha, okay not really. I just really really love Justin Bieber!

Obsessed

Fact: I love TV shows.
Fact: Its May, which means season finales
Fact: I hate/love season finales!

Now for my opinons!!!

Caution, this may have spoilers for those lazy people who haven't been keeping up with their shows!



I love this show! I thought the finale was pretty good! The two part paintball was clever, only it has already been done before. Also there was nothing that was really leaving me wanting to watch Community next semester. Anne and Abed kissed, and that was just really random and out there! They kicked Pierce out, then he won the game, then they let him back, and he said no. Ok, well that was weird! I feel like it wasn't a good finale. Maybe 3 episodes earlier when Shirley had her baby would have been a better finale... but the paintball game seemed weird to me. Don't get me wrong, I loved it, but I just thought it wasn't an amazing finale! And I"m really sad I won't see anything new from that show for a while...



I hate to say this, but I think this might have been my least favorite finale. Oh no, we don't have a manager, lets interview a to/n of weirdos, make the regular people look weird (Daryl) and then end it with a huge cliffhanger... Who will the new manager be? Well since we have been waiting since MIcheal said he was leaving to learn who the new manager was, this question is really old, and not the best to leave as the cliff hanger. I did like that Angela got engaged, and to a gay guy no less... that was kinda funny. And I thought Jim Carrey having to get back to the finger lakes was way funny... I just thought it ended badly.



BEST ENDING EVER!!! Here I was thinking that the finale was last week when the lab assistant died. But then they have another episode. So first I was happy because there was another episode left this season! So I'm watching it, watching it... getting really into the case, and making my guesses as to who killed the man. Also I'm so excited that Angela is having her baby, and all the while I'm thinking... whats amazing thats gonna happen to make this a finale. Then I started to get scared for the baby, what if he was blind, what if he dies... oh my gosh... and then the baby is just fine. So then theres like 3 minutes left, I'm ready to go to bed, and the best thing in the entire world happens. Bones tells Booth that she is PREGNANT with Booths child!!! AAAAHHHHHHH....... MAMA BONES!!! And the only thing better than her telling him that, is that when she says that, Booth smiles so big!!! YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY!!! Yes I literally screamed for a good five minutes as I jumped up and down and gave my roommates high fives and hugs! I have never celebrated immorality more that I did that very moment! BEST SHOW EVER!!!




Ok, this is a new favorite show of mine, and lets just say, I was NOT happy with the way this season ended. First off, Montgomery was the third cop!??!?!?! He was a part of Becketts moms death?!?! WHAT!!! And then, just when you think he is going to get Beckett killed, he gets killed. And then, while Beckett is talking at his funeral, she gets shots... AND DIES!!!! How the heck do you kill the main girl in the show! Thats NOT DONE!!! And then Castle tells her that he loves her, well why didn't he just do that seasons ago! Why does he wait until her last breath to say, Kate... I love you. She smiles, and then dies. How the heck will the show go on without her. I don't really want to watch Castle sit at home thinking about what to write in his book for a whole hour, or follow the other cops around. It just wouldn't be the same. I am very VERY sad about this one. In all that said, I think this was the most well done finale of the season. Even though it ticked me off!!!


But now reality has kicked in. TV shows are not real, and I should not be obsessing over them when I have this on my byui page:

I Submit that it Cannot!!!

I can not even tell you how fantastic this week turned out to be! It started with a lot of rain and a little bit of happiness. (If you know me, one thing that I really hate is the rain, it just ruins all happiness in my opinion!) So Monday and Tuesday were non-stop rain and I did NOT appreciate it. But then, something amazing happened. I was walking to class from work on Wednesday and I realized that I needed to get something from my apartment, so I run home and I leave my jacket there. It was nice enough outside that I didn't need a jacket on! That hasn't happened since... last August! haha... So I'm walking around Wednesday just with short sleeves and I'm thinking to myself... dang, I love life right about now!

So here is where the real fun part of the story begins...

Its Thursday, I attend all 5 of my classes, and its approximately 1:50 p.m. So I go to the crossroads and get myself a sandwich and a bag of doritios and I walk to work. I get to work just before 2 and I see tons of people leaving the office. I'm really confused, because I saw the physicians, the administrator, and the medical assistants leave, but I didn't see any receptionists leaving. So I go to my desk and sit down. Pull up the schedule and there are no patients scheduled until 4! There was an all employee meeting that everyone had to go to, so they closed the office. But all the receptionists were still working. I didn't want to be the annoying girl always asking for time off so I didn't say anything about leaving early. But my supervisor says, Tara do you want to go home early? And I'm like... YA! Of course! Like now? And she says, ya, take the rest of the day off!!! So I clock out and hang around until I'm done eating lunch, and then I go take the test I was planning on taking that evening, and then I get home, and its like 3:30. So here I am, home super early, and it is just a beautiful day! I lie down on my bed and ask myself out loud, what should I do? My roommate answered me telling me to go to the park to do homework! So I pack up my backpack, get in my car, roll the windows down, and drive Christine to Porter Park. I find a nice place in the sun next to my other roommate doing her homework there, and I just crank out my homework! When I get back in my car 2 hours later, Sheryl Crow is singing to me as she says, "I'm.... gonna soak up the sun..." So I blast the song and sing at the top of my lungs as I drive back to my apartment.

Then Friday comes along and I have a great afternoon! I got off work at 3:30, went to the farmers market with my friends, and then went out to dinner, and then came home and watched Tangled! Then we stayed up really late (well they stayed up, I think I fell asleep around 11 or so) and just had a super fun night! Today I am going to meet up with Lauren and we are going to go see Something Borrowed! And want to hear the best part of all... I'm not doing homework this weekend! Because I DON'T HAVE ANY!!! (well I do... just none that is due on Monday... haha)

So I ask you this question... Can life get any better? I submit that it cannot!!!

Checklist

Every single day of my life I make a mental to-do list! While I'm getting ready for bed I like to go through it and check things off:

Did I say my prayers today?
Did I read my scriptures?
Did I go to the gym? (Usually this is a... oh dang it, followed by a... I guess I will just try again tomorrow! haha)
Did I finish all my homework due tomorrow?
Did I tell somebody that I love them?
Did I write in my journal? (Also followed by a... well, I will just write tomorrow!)
Did I tidy up my room?
Did I take time for myself? (Best way for me to take time to myself is to watch one of my shows on Hulu!)
Did I laugh? - I still have yet to come across a day (in my memory) that I haven't laughed!

Did I have a good day?

My roommate asks me every night (usually RIGHT as I'm falling asleep) what my best day ever was! And that just means what the best part of my day was. I noticed at the beginning of the semester almost every one was when I saw a certain person. Then I realized... am I really basing the goodness of my days on if I saw a certain boy that day! How lame is that?!?! Answer: SO LAME! So I decided early on this semester that I was going to take control on wether or not my day is good, regardless of if I saw a boy or not. So I go through this check list, and pretty much if I do all of these things, then my answer to the last one is always yes! Except sometimes I feel guilty for not doing the third thing on my list. Its a really hard thing to do!

Point is: YOU CAN control if your day is going to be good! Just make your own checklist of things that make your day good, and follow it! I'm not gonna lie, basically if numbers 1 and 2 are done, my day is good. Its funny how something so simple can change your attitude. Last semester (or as I like to call it the dark Winter of 2011) I found myself slipping on numbers 1 and 2... well mostly 2, but ya, I was in a bad mood more than 75% of the time. Therefore I made it a priority this semester, and even though I have not been perfect, I most defiantly have seen a difference!

8 years, 8 months, and 26 days

That is how long it had been since I saw my Yuba City best friend Lauren Kent. I left Yuba City, California on August 11, 2003 (the day before my golden birthday) I left all my friends and moved to the desert. (Not exactly what I wanted for my birthday!)

Well earlier last week my good friend Lauren (Kent) Madsen wrote on my facebook wall. I messaged her with my number and told her we should get together. So later I got a text from her, and we planned to meet up for lunch on Saturday. Later she asked if Janessa Tenney could come, and of course I said yes! So I woke up Saturday all giddy and excited for a catch up lunch with two of my best friends from an old life I had.

12 hours after lunch, I got home! We spent the whole day together. About 3 and a half hours just sitting at Subway talking about everything we remember from elementary school to how Lauren met her husband! In the middle of her story about her hubby, Lauren stopped and said, "You don't have glasses anymore!!!" I laughed and was like, ya I got contacts! hahaha... It was so much fun we didn't want it to end. So we got ice cream and went back to Laurens apartment. We got all our homework done together, we ate dinner together, we watched some House together, and then we went to a bonfire! It was one of the best Saturdays I have had this semester!

It is so amazing that we still had so much in common after all these years. We were 11 year old girls and didn't have a care in the world. And now we are all grown up and still are really good friends! I went into the day thinking that we would have lunch and then maybe casually see each other around campus or something, but we decided that we need to be real friends again! We already started planning our next date! We are so excited!!! It has been way too long and we still have so much to catch up on!

We also planned a cruise that we are going on sometime in the near to far future... We just need to get our other best friend April to join us! Then it will be the best YC reunion EVER!!!

The only thing that has really changed is what we look like. She is now super blonde! She told me I look just like a grown up version of myself (not sure what that means!) She did say I looked a lot hotter now than I did when I was 10! haha!!!


This was the last picture I found of me in Yuba City!



And this is just one of my favorite pictures! haha

Spring!

I was so mad when I saw that my favorite sister in law had updated her blog with this...


this blog now has an new post :)


Really Natalee?! Really...

Anyway, I thought I would blog about my new semester! I realized while I was talking with my dad last night that I am already 3 weeks into the semester! So far its just flown by! I am keeping really busy, but still have time to watch all my shows! haha...
So... my semester so far...

Classes = Awesome!
Homework = Not too bad!
Roommates = Coolest People EVER!
Job = well...

Seriously though, I really love this semester! I have classes that I am excited to go to everyday, and I am keeping up with my homework pretty well! Taking 15 credits + 20 hours of work a week can make for a busy busy girl. Lets just say, Mon-Fri 8-5 is completely booked... but thats life! I'm surviving!

Here is the most exciting part of what this semester holds for me...



I'M GOING TO DENVER!!! Here is whats happening. I got accepted to do an Internship Expedition in Denver next month! So I am going to meet with a bunch of healthcare professionals in Denver and try to set up an internship with them! I'm so so so excited! I think about it every day! I got my flight information today!!! YAY!!!