Hi all five of my followers. I'm switching over to my new blog, Ever Specific Pacific, which will be hopefully updated more frequently about topics that I've done research on and I'm interested in. And about life. Everything's an analogy for life, guys. Life is heavy so let's share the burden. Come check it out at http://everspecificpacific.blogspot.com/!
It's finally warming up here in California! The San Francisco Bay Area is SO beautiful in the Spring!
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This year's theme is D&C 87:8, as you might have guessed by the Pinterest-esque quote below.
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To kick-start our year with this theme, we had an activity. Last Saturday, all of the youth in our ward met. We went to three locations. First, to an overpass above a freeway, where Brother Stull spoke about how we can create holy places even in the busiest and loudest areas. Next, we went to a regional park in Oakland to hear Sister Maher (my favorite person of all time) speak about how how we need to stay worthy to stand in holy places, and how holy places are all around us. Finally, we went to the Oakland temple, and Bishop Herring told us about the importance of youth in the church, and how the church's top priority is helping young men and young women become worthy to go through the temple, get married, and have eternal families.
I love the Oakland temple. So much. I guess I'm biased because it's the only temple I've ever been inside, but come on, isn't it beautiful? We are very blessed to live so close to a temple and to have an amazing youth program.
And while I have your attention, follow me on Instagram @anthropobiology to see more photos like the one above, that I take all over the Bay Area!
Any thoughts or comments on the theme or Mormonism? I'd be more than happy to answer questions. For any of my Miamaids reading this, check out the youth website provided by the church to learn more about the curriculum for this year and the theme. Have a great weekend!
www.mormon.org
https://www.lds.org/youth?lang=eng
Let me begin my post by telling you my New Years resolutions. I want to read the scriptures everyday, and finish the Book of Mormon, again. I also want to finish my personal progress before my birthday (May 20th) and get a 4.1 GPA second semester (that would mean A's in all my classes).
Reading scriptures is hard when you are distracted. Well reading them isn't hard, it's that understanding that is difficult. When your mind is in a different place, you don't tend to pay attention to what you're looking at.
My mind was on school. School's always at the back of any student's mind. What is due tomorrow? What homework should I do now, what classes do I have tomorrow? Do I need to make my lunch tonight? Will I even have time to eat lunch tomorrow? What is I fail my test? Can I get a B on the quiz and still pass with an A? What is my GPA is below 4.0? All these questions and more. All the time. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We lose sleep, we stress, we explode, we sigh. We sigh a lot. We also say we're tired a lot. And we almost always count down the days until Friday, until the next break, until summer. All in all, students have a very dismal outlook on their near future.
But we aren't totally unjustified. To tell you the truth, school is hard. None of us who graduated from middle school having never seen the likes of a GPA below 4.0, now find that we actually have to study, how ludicrous is that? Middle school says they prepare you for high school, but all they really do is give you a pat on the back and a kick through the doors of intermediate education. We don't really know how to study, because we never had to before. Even freshman year we just needed to study for English, which ultimately just involved reading the whole book and not sparknotesing it. But this year. Boy of oh boy. Sophomore year. Freshmen beware, because your future is late nights taking AP Euro notes and the seemingly endless torment of Mr. Doherty's monotone voice.
These days will be over soon, and I am told that I'll miss school when I'm an adult. But for now, I am a bit overwhelmed. We all are, what with finals in a week.
But back to my point, reading scriptures is more difficult when you are distracted. My solution is to read from my actual, tangible scriptures rather than from my phone. Reading lets me get away from the world of only long enough to read three pages.
I know that reading the scriptures is important to my spiritual growth and I believe I can endure to the end of all my problems.
Pacific
Reading scriptures is hard when you are distracted. Well reading them isn't hard, it's that understanding that is difficult. When your mind is in a different place, you don't tend to pay attention to what you're looking at.
My mind was on school. School's always at the back of any student's mind. What is due tomorrow? What homework should I do now, what classes do I have tomorrow? Do I need to make my lunch tonight? Will I even have time to eat lunch tomorrow? What is I fail my test? Can I get a B on the quiz and still pass with an A? What is my GPA is below 4.0? All these questions and more. All the time. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We lose sleep, we stress, we explode, we sigh. We sigh a lot. We also say we're tired a lot. And we almost always count down the days until Friday, until the next break, until summer. All in all, students have a very dismal outlook on their near future.
But we aren't totally unjustified. To tell you the truth, school is hard. None of us who graduated from middle school having never seen the likes of a GPA below 4.0, now find that we actually have to study, how ludicrous is that? Middle school says they prepare you for high school, but all they really do is give you a pat on the back and a kick through the doors of intermediate education. We don't really know how to study, because we never had to before. Even freshman year we just needed to study for English, which ultimately just involved reading the whole book and not sparknotesing it. But this year. Boy of oh boy. Sophomore year. Freshmen beware, because your future is late nights taking AP Euro notes and the seemingly endless torment of Mr. Doherty's monotone voice.
These days will be over soon, and I am told that I'll miss school when I'm an adult. But for now, I am a bit overwhelmed. We all are, what with finals in a week.
But back to my point, reading scriptures is more difficult when you are distracted. My solution is to read from my actual, tangible scriptures rather than from my phone. Reading lets me get away from the world of only long enough to read three pages.
I know that reading the scriptures is important to my spiritual growth and I believe I can endure to the end of all my problems.
Pacific
I can admit it, and to those of you who know me it doesn't come as a suprise at all, that I am short. If you don't know me, I'm an aproximately 4'10. But this height is a blessing and a curse. I never get called over to get anything off of the top shelf, but of course that's because I can't reach the top shelf. And since I am vertically challenged, I have come up with many solutions to problems I encounter.
First up, reaching that top shelf. I have a step stool in almost every room in the house. I know it sounds childish but it's really helpful! The plastic stool from Ikea is sturdy and give just the right amount of boost.
Next, equipped with my trusty stool we'll tackle the closet. In my closet, I keep all of my long sleeved shirts, blouses, jackets, skirts, and trousers hung. Jeans and T-shirts are folded. My set up is just to accommodate the unusual size of my closet (around 4 1/2 feet wide and 5 feet deep), I took one of the two hanging rods out (the lower one) and put in drawers instead because they're easier to reach and it's easier to store clothes that way. I keep all of the sleeves on my sweatshirts rolled up when they're in my closet as you'll see in the picture below. This is convenient, however make sure you roll them down when they go through the wash because who knows what can get stuck in there? (I do. It's not fun.) The same goes for jeans.
Speaking of jeans, I just wanted to show you guys how silly I am. Pants never come ready made for women as short as I. One of my favorite places to buy jeans (I'm a sucker for American Eagle comfort!) has a good short length and I can deal with it, but the OTHER. Don't even get me started. Lucky Brand must this every person in the world is 5'7 or taller! Even their short inseam (30 in) is WAY too long. And because of my perpetual laziness, I don't get my jeans hemmed and I defienatly don't hem them myself. I cheat. That's right, I cheat. Cheat life, lie, it's all the same. Here are three different ways I cheat:
And my last issue I'll solve today, the cubbies that are too high to be useful. My family has the cubby storage/mail sorter/junker collector/shelf thing pictured below. It's really useful, in one side we keep all of our report cards, testing results, and stamps and in the other someone comes home to find new bills. We pretty much use it for everything.
But of course, I can't reach it with ease, so instead I use a nifty chest of drawers we somehow acquired.
So that's all I have to show you today. If you have any other tips, put them in the comments and I'll get around to making another one of these someday. Thanks for reading!
First up, reaching that top shelf. I have a step stool in almost every room in the house. I know it sounds childish but it's really helpful! The plastic stool from Ikea is sturdy and give just the right amount of boost.
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| {My favorite stool} |
Next, equipped with my trusty stool we'll tackle the closet. In my closet, I keep all of my long sleeved shirts, blouses, jackets, skirts, and trousers hung. Jeans and T-shirts are folded. My set up is just to accommodate the unusual size of my closet (around 4 1/2 feet wide and 5 feet deep), I took one of the two hanging rods out (the lower one) and put in drawers instead because they're easier to reach and it's easier to store clothes that way. I keep all of the sleeves on my sweatshirts rolled up when they're in my closet as you'll see in the picture below. This is convenient, however make sure you roll them down when they go through the wash because who knows what can get stuck in there? (I do. It's not fun.) The same goes for jeans.
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| {I know I'm not too adventerous when it comes to colors, but neutrals match with everything! Right?} |
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| The tuck to hide trick, simple fold the length of the pant leg that is too long in, and make the crease straight. I recommend doing this after you put the pants on because it can come undone when you pull them on. Works best for straight leg jeans. |
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| For boot leg jeans and jeans that are only an inch or two too long, you can fold up and not under. I reccomend making either half inch or inch wide folds and folding once or twice to suit your needs. |
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| This last fold has to be my least favorite. It's the "boyfriend" look fold. This works well for skinny and straight leg jeans that are just too long to fold under. My only peeve with this is that if the jeans are too long then the roll you made will be bulky and too tight. This should be more of a relaxed, casual look. |
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| I might be exaggerating a little, I will hem nicer jeans like these bad boys here. I don't think I should waste all that money to have ill fitting jeans. I just ordered another pair of LBJ's and I'll take both of them to be professionally hemmed. |
And my last issue I'll solve today, the cubbies that are too high to be useful. My family has the cubby storage/mail sorter/junker collector/shelf thing pictured below. It's really useful, in one side we keep all of our report cards, testing results, and stamps and in the other someone comes home to find new bills. We pretty much use it for everything.
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| What do you call something like this? |
But of course, I can't reach it with ease, so instead I use a nifty chest of drawers we somehow acquired.
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| What you see there, my friends, is my wallet, sunglasses, and sunscreen. I also us other drawers for other things like my bank statements. |
The animal shelter I volunteer at, ARF, is holding its annual pet walk fundraiser on my birthday, May 20! We are trying to raise $75,000 this year! Please help by making a contribution! You can browse the ARF website to see all of the adorable dogs and cats your donation would help!
Donate here or using the widget on the side!
Look at cute doggies and kitties here!
Donate here or using the widget on the side!
Look at cute doggies and kitties here!
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