Bucket List

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I want to:

• Finish my bachelors degree.
• Be on the Amazing Race
• Speak French fluently
• Live in another country
• Get a diploma in baking/pastry
• Run a half marathon (or several)
• Find and marry a man who will treat me like a Queen (because I fully plan on treating him like a King)
• Get married in the Temple to above listed man
• Have a passel of beautiful babies
• Raise babies in the Gospel
• Own/run a bakery/b&b/pastry shop
• Do family history work as much as possible
• Travel. A lot.
• through Europe:
• France (Paris, Castles, South)
• UK(London, Scotland, Ireland)
• Anywhere my ancestry comes from
• Eastern Europe
• Go on a cruise to the Mediterranian
• Cruise the Carribean
• North America:
• The South
• Canada (Quebec)
• Camping in the Midwest (Yellowstone)
• Visit Hawaii
• Always be physically active
• NEVER criticize myself/body especially infront of my babies
• Attend/Work in the Temple regularly.
• Work for Disney in a more legit role
• Be More Chirst Like
• Make my home a place of love and peace. Like the Temple.

This month looks good

{a few of the things I'm excited for November}

• Thursday = DISNEYLAND {and also Veterans Day. Hurray for Veterans! Like my brother-in-law Robert. And both of my grandfathers.}
• NEXT Thursday, after our second in every other week Temple baptisms, Kait and I are going to see HARRY POTTER 7 PART 1 at MIDNIGHT. {If you happen to be able to make it to Escondido the night of the 18th we would very much like your company}
• The Thursday after that will be THANKSGIVING!!!! My all time favorite holiday. You are required to see family, eat lots of yummy food and the Christmas season starts. And you don't have to worry about impressive gifts. {It helps that my Thanksgivings are full of palm trees, sunshine, and a teeny bit of cold so you can wear a cute sweater.}

Google

So I've realized that my blog comes up in google searches for people trying to figure out their lives. {I have proof if you think I'm pulling your leg.} So I've decided that in each post I'm going to try to be inspirational, or rather, use other, more eloquent, people's inspirational words. Most likely what will happen is I'll just post links to other websites, but to start I'd like to share this talk I read this morning.

From the Priesthood Session last month, Patrick Kearon of the Seventy gave a talk about staying on the straight and narrow, and our ability to use the atonement when we stray. I love his examples of how catastrophic even varying slightly off the path can be but he also provides hope when he shares how Jesus Christ is waiting with open arms to heal us from the damage. The title is "Come unto Me with Full Purpose of Heart, and I Shall Heal You”.

Happy Sabbath!

When it rains it pours.

I finally got a paycheck last Thursday! Here are some of the things I've spent it on:

• This BEAUTIFUL soft CoZy sweater from Fossil. It's the dark tan one. I've worn it pretty much every day. Even thought it's been 80 degrees outside. {I want a leather messenger bag from there for school... They're sooo pretty}
• Chocolate chips, and pumpkin puree for pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. YUMMMMY
• And then some of it went to the deposit for another one of these!!! Hospitality this time!!!!!!!!!
• And I'm saving the rest of that paycheck for my deposit for my new apartment in Provo!!! {I'm signing the contract and putting it in the mail sometime between Friday and Tuesday.}

Don't worry, I won't be giving a narcissistic update about my selfish purchases every two weeks. But after two months of nothing, its nice to have something. And give me another two months and I'll be broke, broke, broke for the next 16 months at least.

"We make plans, and God laughs!"

I got that from "Mom" at DisneyQuest. Soooooo true!!!!! So true about my life. Heavenly Father knows whats best for me, and I'll do it but not with out jumping up and down about the shiny new toy that I THINK I'm getting {toy meaning adventure}.

It's an hour after my bed time but I wanted to blog {yes, ten o'clock is my current bed time. me, the college student, weeps at this fact}. This is what working a full time job in an office does to Becca. I remind myself that this is NOT my future, but in fact, the means to get to my future. I just hope I don't use up that means and end up in an office in the next two years again.

Here's my plans until Graduation Day (tentatively April 2012, but maybe more like August 2012):
Back at BYU {Yay!!! but please be a warm winter} take steps to make sure I don't go stir crazy.. or just plain crazy.

I just started training for a half marathon. By just, I mean Monday. But I've got a plan and am sooo excited to have said plan :)
ANOTHER DISNEY PROGRAM :) bahahaha, Kaitlynn, Katey and my favorite boss, Mickey Mouse, will be there. So why not? I'll actually have something to point to and say I'm saving for...rent for my apartment for fall/winter. See ya next summer!

This week:

I get to practice being a parent to a teenager.
I start my new job on Tuesday!
I still don't understand boys.
I get to see some Provo friends at the happiest place on earth!
I'm starting a star chart. Like a chart that i put star stickers on to keep track of my progress.

Last week:
I got to see two of my sisters perform in their respective plays.
I bought some jeans.
I watched most of General Conference! I'm still catching up on some of it... I felt like everything was about agency and how to use it. Maybe that's because I keep asking to be told what to do instead of deciding for myself. That IS how indecisive I am.
I realized/remembered that food is really important and if it isn't part of my occupational future I don't think I want that future.

Future plans? Go to BYU. Finish in 2012. Figure out how to go to pastry school from there.

I've had a lot of anxiety about going back to BYU. But the spirit doesn't speak in that way. It uses stupors of thought. I am able fully plan my move back. Which makes me believe that this is right. Also, it is way easier to have the spirit up in Provo, and I think that being in a place where I can be spiritually built up is something I really need to do before I head out into the world. Where I will make pastries, or wedding cakes in my very own shop.

An update, kind of

I spend A LOT of time with this little man these days. I love EVERY minute of it. Even when he's telling me he hates me and I'm not his aunt anymore. Because I know he'll follow that up with a hug and apology.

A little while ago, I was visited by my favorite Katey before she went off to start her adventures in Hawaii! We went to Hollywood, saw the Chinese Theater, and saw Craig Ferguson live. We went to Disneyland and saw World of Color. Went on a walk at the beach. Went down to San Diego and walked around the Hotel del Coronado. Pretty much it was awesome.

I'm just waiting, waiting, waiting till I hear from the County of San Diego to start working. I haven't worked in almost two months! I'm going crazy!!!

I am officially back in at BYU, I'm pretty sure I know where I'm going to live, I'm figuring out what classes to take. I can't WAIT to play with all my friends again! The snow and ice and classes? not so much...

I miss Florida like CRAZY! All my friends, being able to live in the magic, even the big blue box a little {ok, a lot}. I keep telling myself I can wait till 2012 to have that again... we'll see.

I own a car. It's beautiful. I love it. He doesn't have a name yet.

I've started to realize that what I want for my immediate future is not exactly what I've always wanted for the FUTURE. For right now I want to finish my degree. For right after that I want to live in my own condo and decorate it, all by my self. I want to live in Europe for a while. I want to be successful in a career. Sure I've always wanted an education, and living by myself is sort of an extension of living with my future husband by ourselves. But a career hasn't really been in the top of what I WANT, just what I thought I should work towards until mr wonderful comes along. But I do NOT want to get married. Not until I figure other stuff out.