More than Mediocre.

I kind of had a break-through today. I have considered myself very ordinary for most of my life. I grew up in the middle of my 6 siblings. I never really stood out as being actually good at much besides organizing, making bracelets, and fashion. And I was fine with that... until I got older and realized that I listed sleeping as my main hobby because I couldn't think of anything else. How lame is that? Anyways, today consisted of an unpredictable chain of thoughts. My venture crew went to a fancy camp out today, and it had lots of activities to try. We shot some sort of guns, threw tomahawks, and launched paint balls at different targets. And I was not good at any of them. Surprise.
So long story short, I realized that I am sub par at a whole butt load of things: swimming, playing piano, singing, reading, writing, talking, all sports, running... just to name a few. Like I said earlier, I had accepted that fact and decided I should write a book about being mediocre.
But then I realized that most people are not just naturally good at most things (meaning my sister Tary is a very odd and frustrating case). You have to work for it! Practice at it. I need to put forth effort to become better. I can't sit here comparing myself to my seemingly perfect sister because that will never do any good. I need to get up and take action! As my friend Dove chocolate just pointed out to me, Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances."
I also realized that I have my own random talents. I can't think about many right now.... but one that sticks out to me is that I really care about people. I want what's best for them even if I don't know them. This is just a poorly written example to show that you sometimes have to search for your talents, but I promise you they are there. Lots of them!
So while it is often frustrating to be that girl who obviously forgot to put her game face on again this morning, it leaves lots of room for improvement. No where to go but up! You got air comin' through your nose! That means it's time to do something! Here's a pep talk if you need some motivation:

Winter 2013 Summary

Everybody, the past four months have been amazing. I was so blessed to have awesome roommates and friends. And we had a ton of fun together! Naturally, we had a quote wall. I'm pretty sure it's a requirement for all girl apartments. So this post is dedicated to my friends and the fun memories we have together. Enjoy.


Cat: An old friend wants to see me.
Miya: Maybe she just wants to cut you. Just kidding, whaaaat?

Abby: I want chocolate covered strawberries.
Miya: And I want a husband!

Markie: I'm usually not intimidated by the commonwealth...

Markie: I was in the mountains with a bunch of butch girls who ended up being lesbians.

Markie: Mobo is a mo cap hobo yo.

Cat: Oh. These Milk Duds aren't filled with hate. Love that.

Dr. Gibb: I want you to lean outside and in your best sister missionary voice yell "shut up!"

Dr. Gibb: How did Daisy's leg break? Maybe too many squirrels got on it one day. And what about skinning? All the kids go out and become ax murderers because we didn't teach it right... If you do this wrong i'm going to unfriend you, which is the worst thing on earth.

Abby: The police came to our house this day.

Julie: You're fatter than a bug.

Julie: I'm adding people on Google+. Gotta build my street cred.

Miya: #majorturnoffs if you hold down the power button on your laptop, your laptop will shut down. #justsaying

Dr. Choi: beauuuuuutiful girls and hannnndsome men

Random thing on Twitter: Maybe I'm single because I didn't forward that chain email to 13 of my closest friends five years ago.

Cousin Leslie: Word, G-Man. If she does it again, we're doing the side-straw suck-in.

Miya: I really love fat kids.

Tary: Haters gonna hate. Potatoes gonna po-tate.

Jess: made koolaid today and thought of you. Stay classy.

Abby: MAGGOTS!

Da Jesus Book (John 3:16 in PIDGIN): God wen get so plenny love an aloha fo da peopo inside da world, dat he wen send me, his one an ony Boy, so dat everybody dat trus me no get cut off from God, but get da real kine life dat stay to da max foeva.

Markie: I'm the queen.

Markie: Ruined for life.

Fears of random people: "that i will never get my hogwarts letter" and "#foreveralone"

Emily: Sorry, I just thought it would be a funny joke!
Markie: Well, you're just like Obama- you thought wrong.

Hipster Bowling. Best. Decision. Ever.

3 of the 4 fish we were briefly the proud owners of. They were all dead in less than 2 weeks.
RIP Clementine, Midnight, Lancelot, and Markie Jr.

To start the semester out right, my bestie Sharonda came and visited!

Markie is going to Cape Verde on her mission! So we dressed up as Africaans...

Emily, Me, Theo, and Abby at classic skating (:

We filled Eric's car with newspaper. So worth it. Shortly after this we put creepy Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus statues in there too. So worth it again. 

We are thug. No big deal.

BYU Luau 2013! 

My wonderful roommates!

"Lovers. Plus One."