Fantastical Daze

So I'm really excited for a few reasons:

     1) I'm having a Black and White PARTY on FRIDAY NIGHT (and I made sick-nasty AWESOME flyers :D)

     2) I'm adding Philosophy and English as minors!

     3) Intramural basketball season starts in two days!

     4) I'm LOVING MY CLASSES 

     5) I'm LOVING MY ROOMIESSS

     6) I love college :)

     7) Elder Anderson spoke today at devotional, and it was fantastic

     8) Life is hard but its way enjoyable.

Anyway yeah, good things are happening. I wanted to also share a bit of my ENGL 220 class with everyone (we're writing memoir pieces... so I'm trying to make my dull life seem interesting) and here is a short, complete bit that I'm actually pretty proud of... it's one of my only memories of childhood that are complete. Enjoy:

I was so excited to have a new chessboard! But concern was terribly concerned about three moves into the fifth game I’ve ever played. It was against my dad, I knew I couldn’t win, and yet I was bound and determined to try... one day, with practice, one day I’ll get the best of him.
Feeling excited for the journey between beginning and my unavoidable defeat, I pushed away the yearning of a few too many beverages from dinner to be released.
Five moves later. Complete concentration.
Five more moves later... oh crap!
“Uhm dad, I’ve gotta go to the bathroom.” I barely make it down the hall, and into the bathroom when while I’m pulling down my pants I pee all over myself. Crap. Crap. Crap. Not only am I losing this chess game, but there is no reason for me to sneak upstairs to change my pants and return to it!
A couple of minutes later my dad calls to me “Is everything okay?”
“Actually... I wet my pants...”

... and this is what I do with my life... oh yeah, and I study and stuff too... okay, I study A LOT, but whaterrr, I love it! :P

God is great, life is good and people are crazy!

The Church is True

<3 Heather

p.s. only 321 days until I can start my mission papers!!!

Slowing Down

So it's a Saturday afternoon, and I'm taking the day kind of slow, especially since I was out so late last night. But right now is a good time to calm it down, prioritize and put things into perspective. They say that what matters most to you is reflected in how you spend your time. So after watching this I'd invite everyone to think about how they've been spending their time, and actually experiencing life.

Here's some awesome quotes :D

"If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most."
     - President Deiter F. Uctdorf  "Of Things That Matter Most" Oct. 2010 General Conference

"Everybody dies, but not everybody lives."
     - Nicki Minaj "Moment 4 Life"

t-shirts and love

So I slept in... again this morning. And decided that I should make a t-shirt, because I love those tees with awesome sayings on them and they're like 20 bones a piece, so making them on some white tees makes so much more sense right?? sooooo I've had some songs stuck in my head: Moment For Life--> Nicki Minaj
                Remember the Name --> Fort Minor
               If I Was You --> Far East Movement
               Too Much Time On My Hands --> Styx (WHO I GET TO SEE IN CONCERT IN A COUPLE WEEKS!!!!!!!)

So I'm makin 2 shirts this weekend and the one I'm doin today says: 10% LUCK, 20% SKILL, 15% concentrated power of WILL, 5% PLEASURE, 50% PAIN on the front. and on the back its gonna have my name at the top and underneath say 100% Reason to remember the name

I'm excited, pictures will come soon.

so yeah, that and some homework and some chill time with my kray kray roomie Laura are on the schedule for today, I"m so so so so soooo excited for fast and testimony meeting tomorrow! :D and also I need to keep a journal for my New Testament class, so I figured it'd be a cool idea to keep it on here and share my experiences with that class because I just KNOW its gonna rock the WORLD!!!... well at least mine.

God is great, life is good and people are crazy!

The Church is true!
<3 Heather

oh man! P.S. I finally got around to writing my girl Kara who is currently serving a mission in Tacoma WA, and it was sooo stinkin AWESOME!!!! My whole desire to serve was just revamped like BIGTIIME!!! (and theres only 331 days until I CAN START MY PAPERS!) you can make fun of me for starting the countdown so early, but for reals I'm so so so so soooo excited!!!!)

Oh the joys of adolescence

Aristotle stated that youth "are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine." Socrates characterized youth as inclined to "contradict their parents" and "tyrannize their teachers." Rousseau relied on a stormy metaphor in describing adolescence: "As the roaring of the waves precedes the tempest, so the murmur of rising passions announces the tumultuous change.... Keep your hand upon the helm," he advised parents, "or all is lost"

interesting eh?? these dudes had a little somethin' somethin' there didn't they?

just a little fun fact from Heather Lagrosa's psych reading for tomorrow :P

First Day of School MOM!

Wowwww, I just realized I haven't posted anything since before I went on vacation this summer!!

I just had my first day of school, and I woke up soooo early to wait in line for intramurals, but it paid off b/c I was second in line right behind my crazy awesome roommate Laura, I'll tell you, there is nothing like sprinting down the Richards Building hallway at 5:30 in the morning to beat a bunch of hard-core intramuralers to get a BEGINNERS BRACKET basketball team hahahahha.

But after that I had 4 of my 5 classes today, Developmental Psychology: Adolescence, Intro to Social Psychology, Personal Writing and Juvenile Delinquency. It's kindof awesome being in sweet classes that I am actually seriously interested in! And its kindof awesome that I'll actually be doing some meaningful writing this semester. (However, it's going to be like ALOT of writing, but I need the practice, and it will be academic and personal writing soooooooo, it will be most excellent!) Also, I'm studying like EVERYTHING that has to do with my future career plans... well, everything is kinda geared towards it, so I'm excited... I'm the only Psychology major in my Delinquency class (its a sociology class), and I think its interesting and awesome how ALL of my classes are relating even though they are taking different approaches to different, yet similar subjects. People are awesome!!

I learned today some sociology theory: biographies = the history of individuals' lives
                                                                history = recording of the life of a society
                                      SOCIOLOGY (should) = the relationship between biographies and histories

cool eh?? [this is how all of my classes relate! English=>personal history=>biographies (or memoirs) + history => sociology => juvenile delinquency class (which I'll be doing some personal reflecting in for a couple assignments) => study of juveniles => adolescents => Developmental Psych: Adolescents => how nature and nurture effect adolescent growth;  nurture effecting growth => Intro to Social Psych! anyway yeah, I'm thinking of investing in some C. Wright Mills, he gave a good quote from a book he wrote on sociological imagination:

"...the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own choices in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances."

I'm really looking forward to this semester for realsiez!

and I have one more new class on Thursday which is NEW TESTAMENT! I'm way excited to like legit study the gospels more, and get to know my Savior a little better by studying His life and teachings and most especially His example. :)

God is great, life is good, people are crazy :)
The Church is True!!

<3Heather

I'm way kray!

KRAY: CRAZY!

Thank you Pono Santos for the inspiration for the title of this blog :P (lets just say that insanely impulsive frisbee defense playing, writing 21 page papers, and general quirkyness have merited a special place in this amazing woman's heart, and I feel really unique and lucky to be thurrr... also I'm pretty sure I get her to say "Imma cut you" more than many people in the world could :P :D :P)


It's kinda late... considering I have work in a few hours, but I'm super wired, and like so many things are going on in my head right about now... Let us list... and maybe elaborate on a few?
1)   I love frisbee... we played today, it was fantastic (I'm getting better at playing offense! but don't worry, I'm   staying true to my defensive roots!!! :P)
2)  I started a countdown on my phone last week counting down the days until Monday August 27th 2012 (when I can turn in my mission paperssss! There are currently 440 days left until I can submit those babies, and thats 63 weeks minus one day! I was thinking first about 440 things I want to do before I turn in my papers... and then was like Woahhh snap girl, that is kinda a lot of janx to do! so then I decided to go with 63, that involves memorizing (and internalizing) some hymns, scriptures, and such as, reading a few books, becoming an EFY counselor, attaining a certain number of volunteer hours at the Utah State Hospital, etc.... I don't think I quite made it to 63, but dang, I've got a lot of plans!
3)  I've found that in like ALLL of the craziness life's been blessing me with, that something is like missing kind of... I'm not sure how to explain it, but its like this teenage angst almost, like I'm missing something that I can't explain. Last time I realized I was missing something it was like... after I had it in my life for a bit; like I had electricity and light bulbs, but someone had to give me a light switch, and then I had to find the courage to use it, and I didn't realize until after I'd turned on the lights that I'd been chilling in the dark.... It's like that, except I feel like I'm kinda in that "in the dark" place, even though I know how to (and am successfully) using my light switch... maybe after that missing thing comes into my life I'll figure out a less nebulous metaphor?
4)   I've been thinking about the bakery a LOT, prolly cuz I'm there 6 days a week, and making all the rice krispies for BYU is a bit taxing on the brain... anyway I realized that as much as I love my job (like I do love what I do, I mean management isn't always the best, but like, I LOVE making stuff, and that's kinda what counts when all the fluff in life is boiled out... anyway, yeah) I was thinking about that, and how in a couple years (most likely after the mish, but maybe before?) I'm going to be working at a place that I'm going to LOVE even more, like there are going to be so many opportunities as I'm learning more in school, and growing further and further away from my birth date.... kray huh?

yeah, so midnight ramblings... (summary of thoughts?:)
I'm going to be on a cruise in a couple of days!!
Spring Term is OVERRRRRR (almost)
I have the most AMAZING friends in the world.
I'm the luckiest person I've ever had the chance to meet.
I love writing... and writing small if it is on paper
Hearts rock the world
Baking is the BEST
oh yeah
and
I'm
WAY KRAY!

:D God is great, life is good and people are kray (in the best possible way!)

The Church is True!
<3 <3 <3

"You clean up well"

First of all BESTEST 63 word sentence EVERRR:
"While according to psychological studies and gospel principals, instituting an organization based on the eradication of ignorance, and the importance of building a secure foundation of chastity, charity, and compassion, seems to be a logical and excellent idea; unfortunately, for any group of humans living in the world, logical ideas cannot entertain all of the irrational imperfections received from the affliction of mortality."

okay, so I am REALLY enjoying writing this 20 page monstrosity of a paper (mind you it's like 20 pages of body, not including the title page, T.O.C., abstract and references)... anyway I'm serriously enjoying this way too much... well maybe enjoying isn't the bestest description ever, but I am kindof really satisfied with the work I've
put into it.

p.s. I received one of the, to me personally, best compliments ever the other day about my writing... (b/c if any of you know my workkk, it's usually like super Heather-y in tone/voice and such as), but anyway, after reading an opinion piece of mine (super heather-y voice), a rhetorical analysis (kind of bored voice), and my old literature review from Psych 303 (basically a research paper, definitely a more academic voice), and now my super-organized-but-not-fantastic-yet-draft of my current research paper, Aimee (my awesome teacher whom I adore) said to me "Heather... I don't know how else to say this, but you clean up well." hahaha I LOVE IT, she hoped i wasn't offended, but for realziez, love, so much love, I am in love with how in love I've become with writing again... it's like... a relationship that is killer, because there is so much tension and problems, that you have to leave, but then come back to with so much knowledge of how to react to conflicts, as well as so much more personal growth, that a little spark of passion creates a forest fire of motivation to take yourself to the next level.

It really is... special to say the least.

Anyways, God is great, life is good, and people are crazaaayyyy! (in the best possible way of course)

The church is true, and I'm so impressed how every day a deeper understanding of the Atonement can bring me closer to Jesus Christ and my Heavenly Father and how much joy and light that brings into my life. I am surrounded by SO many beautiful, wonderful radiating examples of genuine love, that it surprises me every single day without fail.

Also, it is kind of really awesome that comfort can be found amongst all of the anxiety and whirlwind of to do lists filled with: assignments, tests, laundry, ward activities, WORKKK, volunteering and all that crazy janx. There is always, ALWAYS comfort to be found from Jesus Christ. aaaa-men


Wow, I was so not expecting this post to turn into what it has.. lol but anyways again....
Peace, Love and Happiness :D