The Things I don't Post about.

1. How much I love my four sisters
2. The joy of Baja fish tacos

3. How cute my nieces and nephews are

4. My trip to Ashboro Zoo with Angela (August 29, 2011)

5. How I have eaten 6 TCBY parfaits in the last 3 weeks

6. My last visit to Jenni & Heber Sheffield in Lehi, UT (she was one of my closest friends from Provo)
7. The awesomeness of my last roommates Cass, Ronnie, Kasia, Dezi (Lauren, too)
8. How much I miss my bestest friend Jami
9. Watching The Sound of Musical at Sundance theater (August 5, 2011)

10. Tubing in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho with Andy, Kasia, Terry, Whitney (August 2011)

11. The Springville Triathlon I competed in (July 31, 2011)
10. Our 3-day rafting trip in Oregon (June 22-25, 2011)

11. My sweet finds at thrift world (skirt)

12. How much I hate being unemployed

13. My new-found love of Ultimate frisbee

14. My trip to visit my roommates in Idaho (August 12, 2011)

15. My love of the beach

North Crack, I'm back!

Things to be aware of if you decide to move to North Carolina any time soon:

1. Cockroaches roam the kitchen at night. Think twice before you go get a midnight snack. It might be a cockroach sandwich (what-what!)

2. This is what happens when you go running here:

3. There aren't only white people here. And sometimes people dress immodestly (!!!!)

4. That lady at the grocer's seems 10 x nicer because she called you "sweetie." You may or may not respond in a country accent.

5. Your best friend from the womb may have become a southern belle after living here for just a few short years. This may happen to you.

6. You may spend your Friday night playing Speed Scrabble with your 60+ year-old parents, and that's cool. Because you have no friends anyway.

7. Get used to seeing people wear polos, khaki shorts, and rainbows - and get used to not judging them for this.

8. You may be surprised that people out here don't really curl their hair nor do they really even FIX it - gives me the option of NOT blowing my hair every day, I'm cool with that!

9.Get used to feeling extreme amounts of stress and feeling like THIS because you don't have a job and you are a recent graduate:

10. If you live at the Hatch residence, get used to eating 5 x more vegetable servings per meal than you did in the past year of your life away from home.

Nihao, North Carolina.

Speed Scrabble w/ M. Hatch

Mom might feel left out. So here is all of her glory as I beat her in SPEED SCRABBLE! What what!

Photo Sesh with Pops on a Stormy Sunday Afternoon

Living at home may or may not have made me go momentarily crazy...
Until I thought of a new goal...Converting Dad to....dun dun dun
JUMPING PICTURES! Check it out...
Dad decided the weather was really cool and he wanted to do a photo session outside. This is the face he did when I said "Make a funny face!"
And for this photo, he told me to put that this is what he will look like "In all his glory" when he is translated...
Pretty glorious, no?

I'd say so....

Responsibility

I realized that all I post about are the FUN things I do with my time. Just so you all know, I have actually spent the majority of the last three months doing this:

Applying for jobs online. I have probably applied for more than 200 jobs online. I have a few interviews lined up, but I'm not sure how credible the jobs/companies are. I have also done a lot of research about Nursing Schools and plan on applying for more than just UNC-Chapel Hill when the deadlines come closer (a lot of the applications aren't even open for next year yet).

And here are the details of my current life situation:
Have applied at many jobs, hoping to get one that makes good money. Plan on going to Nursing school in the future, either at UNC-Chapel Hill or another school in many different locations, including DC area, Texas, Washington, or Salt Lake.

Now that you have those details, please don't ask me what my plan is, or how I feel about leaving Provo, or whether I think I'll ever get married, or comment on how I'm crazy to leave Provo unmarried (I have actually had people tell me that, and that I should stay here and get married).

I am leaving Provo on Friday and yes, it does freak me out so please don't ask me how I feel about it. kthanks, bye.

Being sweet has it's downfalls.

I forgot to mention that in Wyoming I got this ridiculous and epic mosquito bite in the middle of my forehead (which turned out to be the combination of at least 2 mosquito bites). This would happen to me.Pardon the expression, but how would you feel if you woke up with that on your forehead?


XOXO

Tribute to A.Marie

Last week I traveled to Wyoming to visit my sister Angela! We did lots of fun things that are articulated beautifully on Angela's blog .
Some things I love about Angie-pie are:
1. She is always serving other people (very selfless) and lets me borrow her clothes every time I visit (and eat her food)
2. She is a peacemaker - never one to stir the pot, but always a calming influence to those around her
3. She is super hard-core. Evidence: with a 25-lb baby on her back she can still beat me (easy) hiking up huge mountains
4. She is so fun to be around (biking, hiking, talking, laughing, kissing dead animals, banana splits, swimming)
5. She makes her own bread (and has lots of other wife skills)
6. She is a good example to me of being a good mom and wife
7. She is fearless - not scared of anything...even monstrous spiders or bugs or bears
8. She is not critical of other people but is always kind and uplifting
9. She has a beautiful smile!
10. She is very intelligent and oozes creativity in the way she lives her life and solves problems

Oh and she and Brian make cute offspring! Shout-out to this cute girl (who I already miss!)