Funny movies

Oh man, today I was really lazy and watched a lot of funny movies.  Like Grownups, and Without a Paddle, and Despicable Me.  Humor is so awesome.  My favorite comedic actors are Adam Sandler, Will Smith, and Steve Carrell.  I'm just grateful for funny movies to keep me entertained lol :P

A job

My job may not be much, and many people look down on it, but I'm so grateful I have a job to be able to pay for my bills.  I thank God EVERY day for it.

My man :)

I'm pretty sure he's the bestest ever.  I'm so grateful for Cliftons kindness, and how well he treats me.  He loves me so much and makes sure I know that :).  This really should be the longest post ever but I feel like I'll never really be able to fully express to anyone else how grateful I am for my husband.  The one with the golden heart :)

Dreams

Hahaha oh my goodness!  Last night I had a dream about this massive dodgeball game with my whole graduating class from high school.  It was AWESOME!  I'm grateful for dreams.  It's so incredible to me how the subconscious works!  And yes, I am a complete sucker for those dream dictionaries.  I mean, I don't believe that everything in your dream is automatically what the dream dictionary says.  I believe that each dream has it's own meaning for each individual and I also believe that it should NOT be over analized. 

Everyone has dreams every sleep cycle, oftentimes more than once.  It's just a matter of remembering them or not.  In psychology we learned that the only way to remember your dreams is to wake up during that cycle.  And for some reason, I pretty much always remember my dreams.  I love it.  I feel really blessed; I feel like it's something that keeps me more in tune to the way I am and feel.  It allows me to work things out in a more rational way, which is also the purpose of dreams sometimes.  Something that is almost always present in my dreams is forms of water and death.  Water is representative of the psyche so I always pay attention to that.  If the water is ever just going crazy in my dream, I know I need to work on something that I'm feeling.  It may sound silly, but it really does always help.  It's so fascinating.  I really can't say that enough.  AND!  Lots of WAY awesome stories have formed in my mind as well because of my dreams hehe.  I don't really tell my dreams to many people though.  Because I hate hearing about other peoples dreams I figure no one wants to hear mine either so I just tell my husband.  Clifton is the only one that's heard about every dream and we have such a good time talking about it :)

I LOVE DREAMING!!!!!

For your entertainment www.dreammoods.com.  It's my fave lol.

Late Church

I'm grateful for late church.  I used to HATE it!  Eleven was always the perfect time for me.  But now that I'm married and it's just me and Clifton?  We stay up so so late.  So the later church is, the better :P.  Especially now that we're working towards the temple to get sealed as an eternal family.  It's imperative we remain active.  And I'm so grateful God made that easy for us by letting our church be at 1 pm.

Life

Not many people know this about me, but two years ago today I almost killed myself.  New Years Day has actually never been a good day for me now that I think of it.  In fact it's almost always been the worst day ever haha.  That changed last year when I spent the day with my babe.  Today has also been a very good day and I hope all New Years in the future will remain full of hope and love.

I'm grateful for my life.  I'm grateful I didn't have the guts to take my life 2 years ago.  A lot has happened since then and I know God has had a hand in every part of it.  I've learned and grown tremendously and it humbles me.  I believe that everything happens for a reason.  Actually I'm kind of a freak about how EVERYTHING you do impacts other people in some way.  Even something you would never think like deciding to make a sandwich for lunch.  I'm serious man, we're all intertwined way more closely than lots of people think.  God definitely knows what he's doing.  That genius.  I love watching His plan work out just the way He meant it too.  I love "coincidences".  I just love life lol :)

3.6.5!

So I don't know where my ideas come from, but I'll wake up and an idea will come to my head.  Once that idea is there I am fully devoted and determined in making it happen.  For example, in 9th grade I woke up and decided to try out for the basketball team.  I knew I would make it on the team at tryouts.  When I told my mom I was going to try out, she laughed hysterically and said I'd never make it.  Looking back she had a good point haha but I was crushed at the time.  I tried out for the team and became the starting center.  Take that mom haha.  Then in 10th grade I just woke up and decided to try winterguard.  That was also a good experience for me (especially for never having done it before then).  I think you get the point.  I'm telling you this because sometime in October I woke up one day and decided to start a 365 days of gratitude blog as my new years resolution and goal--two things which I have never really done in my life for various reasons.  Now obviously I don't have the internet, so I won't be able to blog every day.  But don't fret, I have been diligent in dedicating my days to being thankful and keeping track of it.  In fact even though this post is labeled as January 1st I'm really writing it on January 15th haha!  Technology is awesome.  But that's beside the point.  I will write as if I log on every day to reduce confusion :).  Not that I'm ungrateful anyways, but I just feel like doing this is really important for me.  Sooo...

WELCOME!  To my year of gratitude :)