Life, lemons and fortune cookies

"Sometimes life doesn't give you lemons and thus you can't make lemonade,
 but don't be STUPID! If you want some lemonade don't wait for the hand out, go out there and get what you need to make that amazing lemonade"
-Jenn

This is a true quote from the heart, friends. And I spent a lot of time revising it.
Today is a day, like any other day. Thats what I tell myself when times are hard.
BUT....
Today just doesn't feel like a day. Its been a day-mare which is clearly equivalent to a nightmare but only in the day.
Ya ever had one?
Good, stay away from them, they are highly toxic to the soul and to productivity levels.

Positive pshychology tells me I can choose to be upset or be happy, and I want to thank them for at least letting me CHOOSE. Hence I choose to be upset. What of it?

Fine, heres the positive about the situation. Although this is a really crappy situation and I feel violated and extremely uneasy and I cried so hard last night I became dehydrated and I still have the post puffy eyes even after a nights rest, I can't ignore all the great people who have reached out to me at this time. My Daddy-o, Kirby, Megs, Hadley, Eric, Erika, Erin, Tyler, Molly. The whole caboodle really. And if you haven't, im not mad because I probably haven't had the chance to inform you about the situation. But really its hard to cry when everyone just wants to help. And for that I am forever thankful for all the grand and great that surrounds my life.

Also it became clear to me that every thing is going to be ok, because this happened to me today

I walked up to my spot to study. MY spot. I claim this thing every day all day by leaving my stuff at it. Anywho there was a fortune cookie on the desk this morning?!?! Of course it was for me. 

And what did it say???

This! 

Clearly the higher powers of life have my back. 

Thanks life, for letting me freak out a bit, but letting me know its going to be ok

Shout outs for days!

Shout out to my fam bam!

First Landon, happy birthday boiii. 17?! I remember when I turned 17, it was a big deal. It feels like you are getting close to me in age but thats not possible silly!! 

 It seems like only yesterday your snaggle tooth was raging! 

No worries though, ugly childhood stages are great for personality growth,

hence look at you now!

AND.. 

Look how strong you have gotten! Brooke has no chance now! She just has to take the abuse now!

But don't too big headed about it!

Because obviously you cant take down everyone... yet (aka me). 

But work on it, next time I come home Ill give you a fair shot. 

Speaking of which Ill be coming home beginning of May lets go do some of this shi-nan-na-gans!

NEXT shout out to my Little Sissy wissy tissy. 

The woman is going on a mish to Argentina and leaves very soon!

SO proud of you poo and I know it will be an all around growing experience for you.

ANDDD

lastly shout out to me! 

So proud of myself for graduating la universidad!

So much hard work and hours drooling over schooling. 

But I made it... 

Well almost, lets hope nothing happens in the next few week that would result in me not graduating! 

I have owned this spot at the library for many years now and for sure there are some attachment issues that Im going to have to work on after I graduate. 

Don't worry desk Ill come visit you every so often. 

This is the face of a college student. puffy eyes, fish mouth, and emotionless, and a constant battle to keep my peeper eyes open. 

Will I miss it? 

I mean maybe. 

I always thought the puffy eyes could someday be mistaken for a great botox job. 

And lastly, the hat has made it through all my college days too!

He was so well behaved.

Proud of you hatty on my head! 

coconut oil

The coconut oil obsession.
How and why?

Why?
Because my roommate had a huge tub of it from Costco that he is not using,  so I decided I would help him lessen his guilt of buyers remorse by using it. Also one of the many reasons I make an awesome roommate.

How?
How do you use it? Is that what your asking?
Anything really.
Cooking, hair, skin, face skin (everyone knows face skin is much more complex than body skin, but coconut oil doesn't care: it masters it all), put it in your coffee, shave with it, it also is a great item for pranks (if your into that), I hear people tan with it but that sounds dangerous, I also hear people use it as deodorant? Sure why not, coconut oil doesn't judge! Do it and tell me how it goes!

So now you're thinking, you are definitely a victim of a fad jenn.
And my response to that is: your wrong, because I am a psych major, thus I am a trained SKEPTIC!
AKA I did an experiment with the oil to really test for a significant difference.
Never mind the testing methods I used because of coarse Im legit thus the methods were legit and you should therefore trust me.

Results: There is a significant difference in my life before and after I started using coconut oil.

Now you are thinking: well lets just see how long this obsession last...
Well good luck being a side critic instead of jumping on the band wagon with me because Im pretty sure they will end up writing a book on my life, specifically promoting the greatness of coconut oil. Thanks to coconut oil I now have a shot of being one of those people who look like they are 50 but are really 80! If you aren't convinced yet, then you deserve to age at the normal rate.

me in awe with coconut water

 (Note: coconut water is not coconut oil, these are two different fads)

(Im not into coconut water though, it was free, and the blog needed some spice)

(and yes I got a new hat) 

oils

Today has been a little crazy if you want me to explain why then you should probably think before you ask because you'll soon find out that asking "why" is irrelevant to your life.
Just take my word for it.
Any-who right now I have my first mini break of the day
And man does it feel mini like!
Because in about 15 mins Ive gotta go hike it to class that doesn't get out till 7!
Imagine that!
Take the time to smell the roses of your life because it could be a lot worse...even worse than mine.
Im very dramatic today as you can tell.
Being a little dramatic is relative though
Or maybe its not and I just want to feel justified about being dramatic.


Also, have you noticed my 10 fold increase of blogging lately?
If your scientifically minded you may be asking, "why jen why? why such an increase of blogging?"
To be honest, I don't know, It just felt right???

Newer news:
Today I told a group of peeps in my lab that I've been using a lot of coconut oil, although I'm clearly aware of its faddish characteristics.
I told them I've been putting in my hair at night and sleeping in it and that my bed is becoming oily.
I think a boy really envisioned a bed full of oil because he looked disgusted.
I was only exaggerating boy from lab, you should learn to tone down your imaginative brain power and realize that a bed full of coconut oil is highly unlikely on this side of the hemisphere.

Maybe tomorrow Ill fill you in on my life of coconut oil, maybe Ill even take a picture of my skin, then photoshop it, then post under the photo "see, look how great my skin looks."  or maybe I wont. Guess you will just have to wait and see.

ps. Im even drinking coconut water right now! Don't worry though Im not completely immersed in the coconut product craze... it was free, I felt obligated to take it.

mini life lesson

Ill make this snappy because I am currently preparing myself for a full load of classes and exams tomorrow.

Have you ever been mad at me?
Well guess what, the feeling has probably been mutual!
Yes thats right, you may not be the only person in this world to become upset with people, people may in fact become upset with you too!
Imagine that!
If you can just hold onto this last concept while you read this next section, you may walk away from my blog with a mini life lesson, and lets be honest, thats not a reoccurring theme of my blog!

Continuing on...
Be mad at me, tell me your mad at me.
These are all good emotional processes that are natural.
Heres whats not natural: continuing to be mad after an allotted amount of time (even after multiple apologies), holding a grudge till death, planning a "pay back", or being hostile for life!

If this is your strategy in dealing with my/or anyones wrong doing, then good luck and make sure to take some extra vitamin supplements because your going to be expending a lot of unnecessary energy.
A fourth meal from taco bell may need to be implemented into your hostile endeavors.
Heres the pitch Im throwing at you: forgive and continue to move merrily throughout your life.

Before you get all "examine all the flaws of this post" such as, "well what if the person really does suck and the world would be a better place if they died, thus I will hold my grudge until then" or "they were never sincere in their apology or deny the fact that they even messed up"

Yeah, I hear ya. Conditions exist, and Im not trying to deny that. But do you really want to dish out an extra $4.50 a day for a fourth meal at taco bell to keep up with your hostile- extra-energy exerting lifestyle?
According to my phone calculator that is an extra $1642.50 a year!
With that money you could take yourself on a nice cruise.

vs

I'm completely confident that someday you will make the right choice

Spring breaking

This spring break consisted of bingo, montigo, and 21.
Thats right we decided we could not call ourselves true salt-lakians until we tried our luck at Wendover.
Thus we took the notorious and semi infamous FUN BUS, and boy was it fun!
The array of people on this bus was spectacular!
Young folk, old folk, gambling addicted folk, and party folk all existed on this bus.
The bus ride was the best part of the trip because Deb (our hostess) was a crack up!
She passed out diet coke in styrofoam cups and lead a crazy game of bingo.
This all equals entertainment, hence the name "FUN BUS".
After we arrived we played 21, all of us were doing great until a new dealer swapped out our current dealer.
We should have known to walk away as soon as the new dealer arrived because she was a little ol asian  woman and her name was...POPCORN.
She wouldn't tell us how she got the name either, not even after we tipped her!
She wiped us clean of our winnings so we decided it was time to sulk in our misery and hit the buffet.
After we loaded up on fuel it was time for roulette.
We all pitched in to buy some chips and the games begun.
Actually the game never really began for us because we lost our all our chips within the first 10 minutes..
The motto of the night to make everyone feel better was YOG-TWO which means "You Only Go To Wendover Once"
No one liked the saying but me, whatever.
Any-who, we met a nice latino man while playing roulette, although he wouldn't tell us his name or what he did for a living, we tried to get him to let us have some of his chips so we could make a glorious come back in roulette, his only response to this bribery was pointing to the back and saying "ATM"
We didn't fall for that for a second!
We know how gambling addiction starts, its called keep going to the ATM aka Instant Gratification ( I especially know this, Im a psych major.)
The Latino man did give me some life advice.
He said, "Because of my overall descriptive statistics (white, female, lives in UT, in her 20's)  I can get whatever I want, all I have to do is dress like a sexy woman."
Good thing I don't want to go everywhere, because that sounds like a lot of scamming and false personhood I would have to do!
Thus I decided not to take his advice, and instead insisted he give me some of his chips already!
After a long night of "Wend-over", we wanted it to "be-over!"
Thank goodness the bus finally showed up and took us back to our roots.
We all decided Wendover was a success.

This is Deb the bus hostess, and Leroy in the background (our conscious, and defensive bus driver)

Leroy was desperately trying to hop into this picture..so cute! 

holla to the birfhday gurl

Dear E-lise And-rea B-ish-off, yesterday, was the day of your birth! Do you remember when you were born because I dont.. gosh the perks of becoming old!

I do remember you had a fluffy head. see

I also remember how you started to talk at 1 month, and at 2 months you were ready to take the GRE!

Wow the perks of aging!

How do you feel? Did you notice anything different about yourself upon waking on the morning of the 10th? Dont feel sad if you didnt, I hear it is a rare experience, although the media plays it out in that manner. Really annoying. Know one cares that, " Snookie, after giving birth to her cookie lost 45 lbs. find out how!"

Any who back to my baby sister. I was thinking you may not read this for a year in a half ! Shoot! I hope all is well at the official headquarters of mission prepping!

Also I hope Hawaii was great and that you and the other sister and our mother had a great bonding time together. Oceans, waves, oysters, seagulls, and of coarse scandalous outfits at the beach = prefect bonding atmosphere. 

stay $wee+ 4 life <3 p="">

and dont you go changen  4 no 1

Love you bug