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I've been MIA from this blog for forever.

I'm struggling to find the time or pointless things to post about.

I've also felt more disorganized, distracted, lazy, and unmotivated than ever before in my life.

I was talking about that to my roommate, Emily, last night after a run and before doing my homework.

That was the first time I had gone for a run in about two weeks due to "being too busy."

We were talking about how we weren't putting our all into our assignments, we had been going through the motions, our room was getting cluttered, and we just felt flat out lazy.

We both sat down to start our homework, and lo and behold, the assignment for my Parenting class was on Elder Bednar's talk, "Things as They Really Are" and we had to watch the Frontline special called "Growing Up Online."

I couldn't believe what I was reading and watching right after that discussion we had.

I realized the reason I've been disorganized, distracted, lazy, unmotivated, and at the same time "too busy" was because I was wasting my time on the most pointless things, such as Facebook and Pinterest.

So I did it.

I deactivated my Facebook.

For now, it's just temporary, and I'm going to shoot for two weeks.

These two weeks include more than just forgetting Facebook, but also any other time-consuming internet distractions.

It's time to re-focus my life.

I hope I'll be able to break the habit of being so dependent on Facebook so I can re-activate my profile in a few weeks and only get on it for more important matters, rather than multiple times a day to waste my life away.

I already feel so liberated.

Happy, Happy Birthday

Today is my nephew Sam's first birthday.

I can hardly believe that this was a year ago!

I love that boy so much and I'm so happy I could be there for his birth, for the first year of his life, and today to celebrate his very first birthday.

Fall Semester 2012

Alright, here's the run-down on my semester!

I'm working part time, still at the Alumni office, and I'm taking 14 credits.

I've never taken less than 15 credits, so this semester is seeming like a breeze so far.

Who knew that you could actually have a social life if you aren't slammed with homework all day every day! :)

These are my classes:

Infant and Toddler Development: I'll love it once we get past all of the theory and research stuff that we go over in EVERY child development class. It's an early class and my teacher (who I'm distantly related to) kind of puts me to sleep... But, I'm so excited to tour the L&D and Nursery at the hospital later this semester!

Adolescent Development: I really like this class, and my teacher is great. He used to teach at BYU and he did a lot of research and had quite a few journal articles published worldwide on his findings. He's a fun teacher.

Parenting: I absolutely LOVE this class. I have the same teacher I had for Child Development last year, and he's definitely one of my favorite teachers of all time.

Children's Literature: This class is so much fun! All we have for homework is reading children's novels (like Ella Enchanted, Harry Potter, Charlotte's Web, Beauty, and so on). My teacher reads us picture books and is having us start out own personal children's library.

Prep for Eternal Marriage: Laugh all you want, but I love this class. Brother Pyper is awesome and he has a lot of really great insights. I've learned a lot already!

So with all of that, work, and a social life, I'm plenty busy and really enjoying this semester :)

Hopefully I can continue to say that for a while!

All I have to say is that Bronco Mendenhall better not sleep tonight.

You thought going for the 2 pt conversion was a good idea?

Seriously?

We could have tied the game.

Oh, and Bronco, get a new quarterback.

This is real life...

So I'm sitting in the MC peacefully eating my sandwich, when I decide to walk into the bathroom to get a few paper towels for napkins.

I walk over to the bathroom door and start to open it, when thankfully I realized it was the men's bathroom.

I tried to be discrete so I turned to walk the direction I thought the bathroom was, but I was headed the wrong way. So I turned around and walked the other way towards the real women's bathroom.

Looking back to where my stuff was sitting, there were about five people watching me in amazement and chuckling to themselves.

But wait, it gets better...

Not even an hour later this poor girl who was sitting near Esther and I walked IN to the men's bathroom. Seconds later the turned around and came out, looked at Esther and they both busted out laughing. She went and sat down by her husband and we were all just laughing for a good five minutes.

Moral of the story, my embarrassing moments could always be much worse.

Also, we don't know this poor girl's name, but we'll forever remember her as the girl that walked into the men's bathroom.

"They need to put a sign or something... oh wait, they did."

-Esther