Splendidly Delightful

When my grandpa was bishop, he called himself as a nursery teacher the week that he got released as the bishop. He didn't tell anyone. He just did it. And then the High Council man got up immediately after and released my grandpa from being a nursery teacher and bishop and called him to be a member of the High Council. 

My Grandpa didn't just think about doing this, he actually had the nerve to get up in church and call himself to a really fun calling, which I think is almost inspiring. It makes me want to go through and actually do the funny things that I think of.

What an inspiring man. If only I had been there. It is an awesome story. 

Mostly my Grandpa was just splendid.

The Most Magical Place on Earth

This weekend I went to Disneyland! So much fun!

It was decorated all Christmas-y and cute. This is everyone that went.

Jon, Sheridan, Mark, Vanita, Nathan, Tiff, Rachel, Emily, Chantry, and Meagan

Chantry and I have the same last name, plus we are not even related (that we know of). We are cool.

It was quite cold so we made a line of cuddly-coldness

All the precious girls together. We are cuties.

CALIFORNIA, HERE I COME!

I AM GOING TO CALIFORNIA IN THE NEXT 12 HOURS!! I am seriously sooo excited. I am going with a big group of friends, my first real friends trip. It is going to be awesome and I will make sure to take lots of pictures, and hopefully I will actually blog about this fun experience since I do have my new goal to fulfill of writing something everyday. I am beside myself with joy for this new adventure. I have been needing an adventure in my life and here, this one appears!! WOOT WOOT!

and it would be a dog

According to my niece, if a girl and a girl were to get married they would only "live with a boy and it would be a dog." Therefore it is not good to get married to a girl if you are already a girl.

Curfew

I have a curfew and it sucks. I hate it. I am recently 20 years old and I have to be home at 12. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

A New Goal

Since my major is English Literature and I want to be a high school English teacher, I came up with a new goal last night: I am going to write a little something everyday. It can be something as little as a witty facebook status or as big as a ten page paper for school, but I have to write something everyday. I have my journal I can write in, Blog I can post on, school work papers I have to write, letters to write to missionary boys. Really I can write whatever I want, where-ever I want, but it has to be something every single day. I love reading the written word of other people, so I might as well improve my own writing and the best way to do that is to study the work of others and practice on your own. That is my goal. Peace out world. Perhaps more will appear written on this blog.

My Love/Hate Relationship with Proof-Reading

Once I do it, I love it, I like thinking of new ways of writing something or finding my mistakes and knowing that I made my paper better with my fantastic corrections, additions, or deletions. I even like finding my mistakes, I feel smarter because I was able to find a mistake. But the problem is that it is so hard for me to start proof-reading. I always procrastinate doing it, and my theory is because I don't want to address the mistakes that I made, because, well, I would like to be perfect every time the first time around. I don't like the wake-up call that I get when proof-reading. I am forced to accept, yet again, that I am not as grand as I like to think. Sometimes I like to turn papers in without proof-reading because then I don't have to be brought down to a lower level on the "Rachel-is-really-awesome-building" that I tend to reside in, even if my paper makes me sound like a bigger idiot than I am because I didn't catch mistakes.