Some people think Christmas or Thanksgiving are the best days of the year...

...I beg to differ. If I had to pick my favorite day of the year, I think it might have to be summer solstice. I mean, 15 hours of sunlight, does it get any better than that?! I think I'll celebrate with a grilled hot dog (well, let's be honest, I've been celebrating the warm weather with hot dogs for weeks now). So maybe I'll add a quick jog in the park as part of my celebration. After all, it'll be light until like 10pm or something wonderful like that!

"Dad is da bomb"

A few years back, my dad learned how to send text messages. Shortly thereafter, I started recieving texts with phrases like the title of this post. I couldn't argue- my dad really is da bomb.

official start to summer

I've had a grilled hot dog every night for the last 4 nights. If that doesn't scream summertime I don't know what does.

"It's your birthday?!"

"It's your birthday?! Happy birthday!" I think I heard this roughly 297 times at work today. The best part is that it was from the same 7 residents. Sometimes having short-term memory loss isn't a bad thing because then you get to be excited about things like birthdays over and over again.

Once in a Lifetime

I know I pick on Utah a lot, but there are some really great perks about living in Salt Lake- namely, stake conference in the Tabernacle. Oh and did I mention that our ward was the choir? Yes, I sang in a Tabernacle choir- not THE Tabernacle choir, but I was so excited about sitting in those choir seats and singing with that amazing organ, it may as well have been. I tried really hard to pay attention to the speakers, but my mind kept wandering and thinking about all of the wonderful Saints and General Authorities who have sat in those seats.

I think the lecture went well?

Well, at least the professor invited me back next semester- so that's gotta count for something, right? Or maybe, it was the fact that I brought candy? I figured graduate students still like treats, so even if my lecture was boring, at least they had something yummy to snack on.

P.S. In all seriousness though- being a professor is my DREAM JOB. I really love my job, but being back in the classroom reminded me how much I really love school (and what a big nerd I am.)

I'm going to be a guest lecturer in a graduate social work class at the University of Utah on Thursday.

Does that mean I'm a grown up?

I'm never sad to wake up to a box of donuts on my doorstep.

Dare I say they rival Judy's Donuts in Clovis?

Perfect way to start the day.

I needed something to get me through these last few winter months.

So you may have already figured out that I'm not a huge fan of winter. In fact, I don't really hate things, but I might hate winter.

So in an attempt to think warm thoughts, I booked a trip to Hawaii!!! It's not until March, but it's all I can think about. Hopefully tomorrow when I'm scraping snow off of my windshield in freezing temps, it won't be quite so bad 'cause I can just imagine myself on the beach. March cannot get here fast enough.