Resolutions, Goals, Wishes, Whatever.

Better late than never!

1. Get straight A's in these next two semesters.
2. Write more letters; make more phone calls.
3. Attend the Temple at least twice a month.
4. Exercise at least three times a week.
5. Read my scriptures every morning AND night.
6. Make friends with my roommates.
7. Create a budget.
8. Write more.
9. Save money
10. Be Happy.

Poetry.

So, I'm taking a poetry class this semester. And at first I was SUPER worried that it was going to be really hard, but I was wrong. It's actually not that bad. We read a ton of poetry, evaluate it, and then write poetry of our own. We have a poem due every week. And that makes roughly fourteen poems. Not too bad. So if you see random poems posted, that's just because those are ones that I REALLY like. Or one's that I've written. (And if that's the case feel free to critique them!) So anyway, here's my first poem. And it's suppose to be about poetry.

POETRY

My sister plays piano
My brother reads his books
And my father works and works
But I,
I write the words I cannot say.

In music there is voice
To all things left unspoken
The keys play on my heartstrings
And I,
I write the words I cannot say.

In books there is a life
That can be lived by any reader
Worlds of people and emotion wait
When I,
I write the words I cannot say.

In work there is a chance
To forget the stress of every day
And leave this ashen world behind
But I cannot forget
And so,
I write the words I cannot say.

Dive For Dreams

By E.E. Cummings

dive for dreams
or a slogan may topple you
(trees are their roots
and wind is wind)

trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars walk backward)

honour the past
but welcome the future
(and dance your death
away at this wedding)

never mind a world
with its villains or heroes
(for god likes girls
and tomorrow and the earth)

Family Realtions.

Alright, I'm taking a class this semester called Family Relations and one of our assignments is to create a blog and to make entries at least weekly regarding the readings, class discussions, videos, etc. etc. I tried posting it directly on this blog, but it doesn't allow for any comments. So anyway, I just bagged that whole thing and made a whole separate blog. The blog is called Family Relations (obviously) and I know both my professor and myself would appreciate any comments that you have to make. So anyways, if you have the time and means to read all about this kind of stuff I'd appreciate it. ;)

The Waking.

By Theodore Roethke

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

Just the Few Things On My Mind.

You'd think I'd be use to this by now, but no. I have all these butterflies in my stomach and I'm not technically leaving for another day and a half. And I'm not even sure which part I'm stressing out about exactly. Is it the long wait at the airport, the meeting of roommates, not even knowing how much my financial aid is yet, leaving home, not wanting to say goodbye, picking up my school books, buying groceries, weather or not I'll have enough money for groceries, weather or not I'm going to have to take out my earnings to go through security, the anticipation of having to wake up at three in the morning every day, missing ALL my classes on the first day, packing, unpacking, what the heck I'm going to eat for dinner the first day, weather I should wear flip-flops or tennis shoes to go through security (still haven't quite figured that one out), checking in for my housing, how cold it's going to be when I finally get there, how cold it's going to be will be when I wake up at three in the morning, weather or not I'll get a calling, ...anyway. The list goes on.

..I guess that's basically all that's on my mind right now. Oh no wait. I did get my ears pierced on Friday. I went to the mall with one of my friends and got them pierced there at Claire's. I didn't cry, but I did shut my eyes and squeezed the life out of my friend's hand, but you know. It's all good. I'm just waiting for the day when I can wear dangly earrings instead of just posts. But that won't be for like... Ever. Maybe for my next birthday... Anyways. Wish me luck!

Matched.

This one is right up there with Hunger Games, The Giver, Uglies, and any other awesome dystopian book. In short, I LOVED IT!

In the society, the officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die. Cassia has always trusted their choices. It's hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one...until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path no one else has ever dared follow -between perfection and passion. Dun, Dun, DUUUUUNNN!!!

The book is written by Ally Condie. She's a member of the church and lives just outside of Salt Lake City. The book is the first in a trilogy and I am OOBER excited for the rest! The next comes out in November. Anyways. This book is WAY awesome and I recommend it to everyone!

My favorite...

I like to look for rainbows whenever there is rain
And ponder on the beauty of an earth made clean again.

I want my life to be as clean as earth right after rain.
I want to be the best I can and live with God again.

I know when I am baptized my wrongs are washed away,
And I can be forgiven and improve myself each day.

I want my life to be as clean as earth right after rain.
I want to be the best I can and live with God again.

Stocking Frenzy.

It is a December tradition that I have where after I receive an email with a list of all my future roommates I go on a stocking frenzy. And I don't mean anything to do with Christmas. I mean I find them on facebook. I read and practically MEMORIZE everything I can about them. I look at all 426 pictures that they have of themselves and read their walls and comments until I feel like I already KNOW them... I know it might sound creepy, but, hey, it's tradition.

Anyway, for whatever reason I am SUPER nervous for this semester! I usually room with at least someone that I have roomed with in the past, but since I scared them all away last semester, I am totally out of luck. I know one of the girls, not very well, but enough that I'm not totally losing my head (even though that sounds like a silly thing to do over the matter of roommates. But hey, this is a big deal! These are girls that I'll be spending four whole months with! I mean...it could be ugly! ...Or totally not.) I recognize another one of my roommates but the familiarity stops there. And I have no clue who the other girls are.

So today at work I was expressing my total worry about the situation and my friend was helping me by telling me all of her roommate stories and there I was, sitting, GLUED to every word, hoping to find SOMETHING that could help me. ...In the end she basically said that everything will be great and her husband even added that he thought that one of my roommates will become one of my lifelong friends. ..I feel like they're probably right, but, still, I am oober worried! ...But maybe that's just part of being Julia.

Tangled.

Best. Movie. Ever. If you get the chance to see it do NOT hesitate! Tangled is one of Disney's newest film (but you probably already knew that) and it's the retelling of the story of Rapunzel (and you probably knew that too). From the very beginning I thought the movie looked good and I was totally up for going and seeing it and when I finally did (I got to go with the family I work with. And how cool is that? I mean how many people get to be paid to watch movies?) anyway I discovered that it was totally pure awesomeness! And watching it in 3D was like icing on a cake (that is if you like icing.. If you don't then it was probably more like marshmallows in your hot chocolate ..unless of course you don't like hot chocolate... in which case, I disown you. Not really. Probably.) Anyways, GREAT movie! I was laughing through the whole movie! (Well, except when I cried.) And watching it with my sister was even better!

On our way home we had to stop somewhere and my sister and I sang the ABC song to one of the kids we work with (to cheer her up and it worked by the way) and we sang eleven different versions. One version was normal, another was opera, another was sinister-villain, another was girly, and so on and so forth. Here's one of them. Or at least, what we could sing of it...