One of those days.

It's one of those days where everything goes wrong...
It all started when our drill practice was scheduled to start at 5:30 (that's in the morning time) and of course I woke up late, therefore I had the wonderful opportunity to run laps around the track, and let me tell you, I absolutely LOATH running. 
At practice I showed everyone the most ungraceful way to fall on your butt, gave the floor a high-five with my face, and bruised my knee in a lovely pattern that somewhat resembles a flower. Then today was picture day, yes picture day, a day in which I get to have my picture taken to be put in a yearbook so random people can look at my face and laugh at how funny I look. And getting out from drill late and having less then 5 minutes to get ready did not help my situation. 
Throughout the day; I got gum stuck to the bottom of my shoe, sworn at by a angry hall-passer-byer, failed my band test (who fails band?...oh yeah, me), had yogurt explode in my backpack, forgot my Latin assignment, dropped my sucker on the floor, recieved hate glares from her and much much more...

nonetheless

There's still good to be seen, a beautiful world to appreciate... like that one girl that complimented my greasy, messy, untamed hair, or the fact that today was warm and sunny, and then of course there's my new best friend, along with the fact that I got a sucker in seminary (after the one I previously dropped on the floor), and then there's just the beautiful flowers, and people, and happiness.

So don't be sad, there's too much of that in the world today, there's always something to give you that little happy sunshine ray :)

...even if it's really hard to find

Count Your *bLeSsInGs*

I realize I complain a lot

that sometimes I'm negative

that you all have to listen to me whine

but I also realize that we live life once

that being positive makes life better

and that I have a lot of blessings.

Some look at the glass half empty, others half full...and then there's the ones who are just grateful for the glass :)

• my family
• the gospel
• my house
• my clothes
• my friends
• school
• my shoes
• a car
• dance
• the sun
• beautiful sunsets
• gorgeous sunrises
• daylight savings
• seminary
• the scriptures
• prayer
• church
• people at church
• this computer
• the internet
• paper
• homework (believe it or not)
• food
• people who smile in the halls
• friends who give me hugs
• a very special friend who brings me hot chocolate :)
• the sound crunching leaves make
• people who give compliments
• my mom and dad encouraging me to get good grades
• my little brother who makes me laugh
• inspirational quotes
• music
• the temple
• cell phones
• holidays to look forward to
• a warm house
• the piano
• hymns
• post-it notes (they help me more than you could imagine)
• sleep
• I'm grateful for you... no matter who you are I know you have impacted my life, whether big or small, and I appreciate that. 
• and I'm sure I could continue this list...but for times sake I won't :) 

The breaking point...

When you fail tests,

somehow life seems to fall apart,

It's not THAT big of a deal...

but it just starts with those little things like

doing bad on a test,

and everything seems to snowball into a bad day...

and how do we change that?

Well to be honest with ya that ^ was me today and at one point in my day I just wanted to quit, I wanted to go curl up the corner and never leave. Then I remembered this fabulous quote:

So with that and general conference thoughts popping into my head,

I decided to change my day.

I looked at the positive:

• I have wonderful friends who listen to all my complaining
• I have a family who loves me (even if I do fail my test)
• There's always someone that's in a worse situation than me
• My situations definitely not that bad
• I have the gospel in my life and am lucky enough to be blessed with such a wonderful life full of wonderful people and wonderful things....
• Ultimately I realized I just need to be more grateful
• Plus I realized that 'fail' just stands for:

 F- first

 A- attempt

I- in

 L- learning

:)

"When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry,

show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile."