My true and first love is finally back!

All is right with my world.

Football is back in full swing and I honestly could not be happier.

There is just something special about the atmosphere in a football stadium that you can't feel anywhere else.

It is so worth losing my voice and screaming my throat raw.

And it wasn't a bad first game either.

I mean I guess 41-0 is a fantastic score. Haha who am I kidding?? No need to be coy about that one.

Everyone loves it when their team creates a shut out.

To be honest I was a little worried for this season for the Utes because we had so many seniors graduate last year. However that worry was in vain because those boys in red looked FANTASTIC last night.

Our defense especially showed up to prove that all the pre-season hype about them was well deserved.

I am so excited for the rest of the season, to watch this particular team mature together and to watch them shut down team after team after team.

I haven't been to a football game where I had screamed so loud and gotten so excited about in awhile. It may be because it was the first game of the season and it may be because I missed football terribly, but I think it's because those Utes did SO well.

The beginning of the game was a little rocky but that was to be expected. The important part was that we came out on top and managed to keep our opponents from scoring even a field goal. And that always feels good.

Best part of college football is by far the student sections, and being a member of the MUSS is one of the best decisions I have ever made.

I absolutely love it and I look forward to being able to go to the games as a part of it. And while we aren't one of the biggest student sections in the nation we are one of the best for the noise we make and the way we cheer our boys on to victory.

And as always with football season I'm gonna share some of my favorite pictures that I took from last night with you.

MUSS cuties. Love them!

The boys of Utah football, gotta love 'em

Fantastic win last night

41-0 baby!!!

Truly, there is nothing in my world that is better than football underneath the stadium lights.

Why is the MUSS one of the best in the nation? Because we epic traditions like the 3rd down jump. 

And one more of us cute kids in the MUSS.

Can't wait for the next game!!

Love always and GO UTES!!!

-L

When Life Sucks....

Sometimes life sucks.

It's inevitable.

It happens.

Which is why Hollywood created great scenes that are insanely funny.

Just to brighten your day a little bit.

So I'm gonna share some of them.

They make me really happy at least.

From one of my most favorite movies ever (500) Days of Summer...who doesn't love a random dance number in the middle of a movie???

From Horrible Bosses....I frickin' love this movie and I laugh every single time!!!

"Rainman was a reh-tard"
Favorite move. Ever.

Friggin love this movie....however it has some language that some might find offensive....makes me laugh so hard I cry though....so I'm sharing it.


So yeah life sucks but these bring a smile to my face and make my day so much better.

Much love,
L

Welcome Back....Again

School.

Again.

Hating life.

Just kidding.

But really, I'm excited to be back in school and classes,

really I am.

At least that's what I keep telling myself.

School isn't really all that bad, I just need to get my butt back in gear and get used to working hard again. Which is always a little bit of a rough time after the summer break.

I really do love school, I love the feeling of fall which wouldn't be the same without the back to school feeling. I am super ready for crunching leaves, a crisp in the air, Halloween, boots, scarves, hoodies and of course football. And none of those would feel natural to me without seeing all the students on campus scurrying to classes.

Honestly I really do love the U. Coming here was one of the best decisions I have ever made in my whole life. I love the atmosphere, I love the buildings, and I especially love the football team and the MUSS of course. I told my mom recently that I want to be an orientation leader next year and she gave me a weird look and asked me why and really the only reason that I have is because I want to make incoming freshman as excited about this school as I am.

It's silly I know but it's the truth.

I recently changed my major from psychology to sociology, so figuring out the difference between these two sister studies will be fun. And shifting the focus I'm used to of focusing on the individual to the society will be necessary too.

Wish me luck?

But with the new fall semester comes some of my most favorite things:

-Play "Spot the Freshman"! Which is laughably easy, because they usually have campus maps glued to their hands and they all have a wide eyed look of confusion and sometimes fear. Bless their hearts.

-Stake out a comfy chair in the Marriott and take a quick nap between classes. Seriously though, best chairs ever for nap time. Just be sure you wake up on time for class

-Sit by a new person each class and make a new friend. Best thing about a university is the diversity of the student body. Love it.

-Buy new pens and notebooks and other school supplies. Really, it'll make you more excited for your classes because you get to use new things.

-(Not a favorite thing but needs to be said) PUT ALL YOUR TEST DATES DOWN IN A PLANNER. Trust me. It's bitten me in the butt before.

Good luck my friends in this new fall semester.

GO UTES!

Love always,

L

Breathe...... Just Breathe

Yeah....I'm panicking.

School starts in a couple of weeks.

Not only am I not ready, I don't know if my financial aid (scholarships and what not) have come through yet.

I swear I go through this panic every year.

And every year it works out ok in the end.

But there's always that obnoxious voice in the back of my head that won't shut up with the "what if's"

What if this year is different?

What if they don't come through in time for tuition to be paid?

What if for whatever reason I won't be able to go to school this semester?

AAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHH

Seriously I just want to be able to relax!

Because really I don't want to start buying my text books until I know for sure that my finances are all as they should be.

Because it would suck to shell out that much money on books for classes that I won't be able to attend....it would suck a big hairy hobo toe....

Even worse for me though?

If I'm not actively enrolled in school I can't be in the MUSS.

Yes that is what is stressing me out the most at this point.

I've waited all year for football to start and it would just be cruel if I wouldn't be able to attend the games as a part of the greatest student section in NCAA football (in my humble opinion at least)

I just can't seem to keep the grip of panic away from me for very long.

Breathe.....just breathe.....

Right?

Fingers crossed....

Right?

I Mean It.....I SWEAR!

It's only fair to warn anyone that is going to read this that this is going to be a little bit of an angry rant.

So just so you know if you keep reading you will just be reading my angry words against the world a little bit.

Just a fair warning.

Anyway I think that everyone should realize that I don't let people in very easily.

So if I let you into my life you must be pretty DAMN special to me!

If I tell you that you're my friend, that actually means something to me.

And if I tell you that I love you? That's not a throw away phrase to me.

To me the words I love you have a lot of weight and I don't say them a lot, nor do I say them to too many people.

So guess what, if I include you in my circle of close friends or if I have told you that I love you in any way then I MEAN IT! 

If I say that to you know that I love you in the best way and most honest way that I know how.

It's a lot for me.

And you know what if the people that I do include in my closest friends don't understand that, then that breaks my heart.

It's the best way that I know how, and if that isn't enough for you then maybe we should break our ties now and save a lot of heartbreak later.

Unfortunately I've had that happen to me. The only good that came from it was that I learned I could survive something like that.

I learned not to hold on to something that just isn't working anymore.

I learned that people change.

I figured out that holding on to something that just doesn't exist anymore was stupid, and exhausting and draining

The person that I was so desperately clinging to just didn't exist anymore and I had to let them go

 and that was a hard lesson for me to learn.

But you know what? I learned it and I'm stronger for it.

I learned that things we like and dislike change and we can wish that they wouldn't all day and all night but that doesn't mean that it will and in the end that mindset isn't productive.

So I walked away.

And while some people might see that as a weakness on my part,

I believe that sometimes walking away isn't a sign of weakness.

Sometimes walking away isn't to make others see our worth because we believe that maybe just maybe the old adage "absence makes the heart grow fonder"

Sometimes we walk away because we finally realize our own worth.

And if I were to be honest, and I mean deeply and truly honest, I'm a better person for that experience

It hurt more than I could ever imagine and I wouldn't wish that kind of pain onto my worst enemy

But I needed that to happen, it helped me to grow up a little bit and in the end it was worth it.

I'm gonna leave you with one of my most favorite sayings ever 

{my friends tell me it's only my favorite because I have a thing for nautical themed things lately...but it still has a good message}

"A smooth sea never made for skillful sailor"

Much love

-L

Inspire a generation

Much like the rest of the world, my attention is focused on London.

I love the Olympics.

Like REALLY love the Olympics.

I might even love the Olympics more than I love football...

You can pick your jaws up off the floor now, it's ok for me to say that because they only happen every four years {well technically every two years if we are gonna include both winter and summer here}

Everything about them is just so inspiring!

Well almost everything...it's never fun to watch anyone lose, especially at the Olympics.

But you all know what I mean.

The Olympics make it possible to forget about little stressors in your life as your rooting for the USA to kick international butt.

At least that's how I feel about it.

The Olympics have the unique ability to draw everyone in a nation to the same cause and desire:

To cheer the US onto gold in every event that we have athletes entered in.

While that is all well and good, it honestly isn't my most favorite part of it.

I love that it has the possibility to inspire people of all ages.

I truly believe that there is nothing more inspiring than the Olympics which is why I try to spend as much time as I can watching as many events as I can, even the weird ones like white water canoeing and rowing....

seriously tho...those two sports only become popular every four years thanks to the Olympics.

The purpose of this post {other than to bore you all with telling you about my love of the Olympics that just about everyone else in the world shares} is to share something I thought was really cool.

As I was sitting like a useless waste of space watching whatever Olympics were on I found myself watching Men's Basketball, and while normally I dislike basketball, it's the Olympics so I thought "meh why not just have it on?"

I looked up at a point where one of the Nigerian players (poor guys....we destroyed them) was shooting a foul shot and the camera angle was one from the back-board so we as a viewing audience saw the rim of the hoop.

On the inside of the hoop were the words "Inspire a Generation"

Now I don't know if that is an Olympic thing or if it is a slogan for the company that made the hoop, either way I thought it was cool and definitely appropriate.

Because in the end....isn't that what the Olympics do?

Inspire a generation?

Much love
-L