I'm leavin on a jet plane-----

I love that song. And it's true. I am leaving tomorrow morning to go to Florida to spend time with Gayle and Tom for a week. It is 11:30 pm on Monday night and I am just getting done with packing. Yes, you may call it as you see it--I procrastinated all right? Come on, Dancing with the Stars was on and then Castle. AND I couldn't figure out how to get the "kitchen sink" in my hot pink suit case! It shall have to stay home this time. sigh I have been gone all day. I went to the temple this morning and then back to UVU to tie up some loose ends. And trying to get registered for BYU was quite the feat! I couldn't get the web page to open up so I finally just called them and begged for mercy. It worked and I am officially registered. Start on June 21st. wow! Better get to bed now. Chris is taking me to the airport at 5:30 am. Should get there by 6:30 and my Delta flight leaves at 8:30. Should have some good reading time while I wait, or just people watch. It's been hard adjusting to NOT going to school so it will be good to get away for awhile and veg. And I will not make the mistake of complaining about wanting to get back to school like I did last school break. I shall try to enjoy every single day off! Happy Day to you all and I shall remember you fondly as I sip my beverage in the hot sun in Florida! Happy Day!!! :)

Out of the Mouth of Babes.....

Yesterday was crazy and exciting and I am officially graduated! After graduation my family went to Sizzler in Provo to celebrate. I sat next to Brooklyn (Kelly's daughter who is 7) and she told me that her dad had checked her out of school so she could come to see me graduate. She said that her friends asked why she needed to leave and she told them, "To see my grandma graduate". The next question of why I was graduating prompted this response from Brooklyn, " She didn't get to finish High School!" We had a great laugh at that.
It's good to be done but I will miss many aspects of going to UVU. I loved it there and made many friends that I will miss so much. Of course I can go back and see those who still work there but it's never quite the same. I had so many fun times there and I'm so grateful for the wonderful memories of the blood, sweat, tears, but mostly laughter that are mine.
Thanks to all for your love and support over the years. I wasn't able to get graduation announcements out to all I would have like to but Jamie said that she can scan my announcement in so you all can see it.I might be graduated but there are still some things that I don't know how to do with a computer. I have children for that! :) Happy Day!!!

The Countdown is On----

Last week was the last week of classes here at UVU and it was absolutely CRAZY! But I did make it through and now it's a matter of making it through FINALS week. Only one more to go and I will be done! The countdown to graduation is 2 days 6 hours. Yay! How do I spell relief? Usually in medication form like, Advil, nose spray (my personal favorite since I HATE being stuffy,) roughage (come on, you know what I mean ), etc. Right now relief is being done with my bachelors degree yet I shall miss UVU immensely. It has been my social network for 3 1/2 years. As Maria says in The Sound of Music, "when the Lord closes the door, He opens a window." Wait, I think that was the Reverend Mother---uhhh anyway I shall now break into song---Climb every mountain-----Forge every sea----Follow every rainbow---------
I guess you will have to imagine me twirling and singing as I weave in and out of the computers in the library. It's a sight to behold. Oops here comes campus police---gotta go! Happy Day! :)
Thought for the day: Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make a person a more clever devil.

Dear Jeffrey,

It's been 4 years today. Sometimes it feels like just yesterday and sometimes it seems a lifetime ago. I miss you. I miss your brilliant smile that I fell in love with the first time we met. I miss your sense of humor and the way you could make even the most ordinary everyday things worthy of hysterical laughter. I feel your spirit but miss your touch. I miss the feeling of safety I had knowing that no matter what happened, you were there and it would be ok. I could always count on you. My own personal MacGyver.
So many things have happened in the last 4 years. I will be graduating next week from UVU and then heading to BYU for a Masters Degree. Can you believe it? Me? I often wonder what you think about where I am now and what I have done with my life since you've been gone. I really hope you are proud of me.
Our family has dealt with a lot of pain in your absence. I will be doing just fine one minute and then something happens and the reality of being alone hits me so hard it takes my breath away. Grief is like that. It comes like a thief in the night, just when you think you are doing fine. I know how it feels to be lonely even when surrounded by loving family and friends. But there have been so many times of joy! I really wish you could be here physically to play with the most beautiful and loving grandchildren in the world! They are each so special and they know you because we talk to them about their grandpa in heaven. I am so proud of our children. They are wonderful men and women, each with beautiful families of their own, growing up in the gospel and striving to do the right thing. You raised them well!
Thank you for sharing your life with me. I'm so grateful that we decided when we first got married that we would enjoy life along the way and not wait until "someday" came. Because of that we all have such wonderful memories to hold on to and enjoy.
I'm so grateful for the gospel and my relationship with my Heavenly Father and my Savior, Jesus Christ. I have come to know them well as I have been carried through the most difficult times of my life. The poem,"Footprints in the Sand" has special meaning to me because I have been literally carried in the arms of His love. I couldn't have made it through without this absolute knowledge of the truthfulness of the Gospel. I know that my Heavenly Father knows what's best for me and I strive to live my life in alignment with His will. I fall so short, but I am trying, and I know that this is what the atonement is all about; doing all you can do and Christ making up the difference. I hope all is well with you and that you know how deeply you are loved and missed by your family and friends. Love Janice

Thought For The Day:

Don't have a lot of time to post today so I will just leave my
Thought for the day:
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will NEVER forget how you made them feel! Happy Day! :)

My Favorite Things-----Not

Isn't the library suppose to be a place of peace and quiet? A place where I can go study and concentrate on the important things I have leaned ? A place where the knowledge I have accumulated (or had crammed into my brain against its will) flows freely from the top of my head, vibrates gently through my body, down my arm and into my fingers where they magically fly across the keyboard writing down brilliant things? hmmm ?! NOT!
My favorite things about the library;
1) the guy sitting next to me with his headphones turned up to the highest volume ever, singing (out loud) to the pounding music coming out of his ears. Does he not realize that we can HEAR him? Really? Really!
2) the guy sitting next to me, or across from me, hacking and sneezing IN MY DIRECTION, as he feverishly works on the computer with a temperature of at least 103! Yes, the same germ ridden computer that the next unsuspecting person will not realize is contaminated with the latest plague!
3) the 3 valley girls huddled around the computer laughing and giggling at the computer screen.(I do NOT want to know what they are doing)
4) the phone that is NOT on silent and rings heartily in an ever increasing volume as everyone frantically checks to see if it's THEIR phone making so much noise.
5)the guilt I feel when I am suppose to be working on an important paper or studying for an exam, and instead I am checking out every ones blog----and of course that is when the banner comes across the computers screen saying -the computer lab is full. If you are not working on school work please exit the building- oh shoot! Busted!!
Well my days of practically living in my favorite place in the world, the UVU library, are rapidly coming to an end and I think I am going through withdrawals. I will really miss this place! Where will I pick up all the latest jargon, see the latest fashions, be it comfy pajamas or short skirts with uggs, or pick up GERMS? I guess BYU has a library, fashion(more modest I would imagine) and germs, so I will kiss my past here goodbye in a couple of weeks and head to new adventures and new favorite things! Graduation Countdown; 14 days, 2 hours and 10 minutes, but whose counting? ha ha Happy Day!
Thought for the day: Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.