The Golden Grahams

So now that Summer Fun is finally over, and I'm not in school for the first time this year, I have a little bit of spare time to update our lives via blog post. But that also means I have to spend a good part of that spare time job hunting. I never realized it until now, but for the past 3 years or so I haven't had to really search for a job because a family friend always came through for me and offered me a job without me having to even interview! I must say though that the part I am most sad about with having to job search is that I have to leave my job at the park. Working for Jason at the park with those kids is seriously the best job I've ever had. It was rewarding, it was fun, it was relaxed, and my schedule was always flexible. I guess you could say I was very spoiled. But in a way, I'm grateful for this opportunity to fend for myself because it's a good reminder that not all things in life can just be handed to you. Nothing's wrong with having to

So today I found out that I don't know how to cut a mango. Apparently there's a ginormous seed in the middle that I have never known despite my 22+ years of living in a tropical climate where mangoes are in abundance and eaten all the time. Why have I never cut a mango before? This boggled my mind. It all started when I had just finished brushing my teeth this morning and Josh came into the bathroom saying that he didn't know how to cut it. In my mind I was like, it's just a fruit, how hard could it be? So, wanting to be the wonderful wifey to him I offered to cut it. Again, how hard could it be? I grab a knife and start cutting. My knife gets stuck in the middle. Hmm, I thought. Must be frozen in the middle! It had just come out of the fridge and sometimes our fridge freezes things (like my easter egg that froze-splode...that is another story). So I grabbed the butcher knife thinking, this will make things so much easier! Again I attack the mango. Again it

Yesterday I resolved to be happy with what I am given . Living with negative energy is a waste of life. It's better to accept everything that I can't control, and make happiness out of what we have. Leap Day 2012 photo by Amber Mozo (i love it!!!)

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I've always been one who needs closure. Whether it's not being able to stop working on an assignment/project until it's finished, or whether I've had a falling out with someone and, over two years later, I still have no explanation for why things happened that way and no closure. You can probably guess that this blog is going to be about the latter. I consider myself a very passionate person. I know I've said this before, but it's very true. If you could compare me to any fictitious character, I'd probably suggest Jasper from the Twilight series. How he's so empathetic with others and can feel their emotions. That's how I've been my whole life. That's why some people consider me easy to get along with, it's because I pay close attention to who they are and what they like, and then I do everything I can to not cross them. Simply put, I don't like contention. So I go out of my way to avoid it. In my family, if someone needs so

There's a girl my age who used to be in my parents' ward (she has since gotten married and moved) who posted a link on Facebook to watch a hilarious music video spoof of 'California Gurls' by Katy Perry. DivineComedy at BYU (basically a comedy team/group that performs some pretty funny skits, mostly teasing Provo culture) made a video called ' Provo, UT Gurls '. It's pretty good if you understand the jokes. So that video provided some entertainment, but somehow I saw a different link leading me to another video that was of a little more serious nature than the Katy Perry spoof. It's called ' The Law of Chastity is Not a Crash Diet '. It starts off being really cute (watching and seeing what the kids choose to do) and in the end there's a touching message. Then, after reading the comments, I was led to a link which took me to what inspired me to make this blog post. Pres. Dieter F. Uchtdorf's April 2010 General Conference Talk entitl

We have been on Christmas/Winter break from school for almost 3 weeks now and it has been completely amazing. Since I quit the USS MO I've been pretending that I'm unemployed (when really I'm only taking a break from the Dept. of Parks and Rec. job). Pretty much, I've mentally checked out these 3 weeks and it's been wonderful! Josh and I have been surfing a lot (that's a given), hanging out with our friend Robert, who came home from BYU-Provo for the holidays, and Josh's other buddies from Hawaii Kai. So we've slept over his parents house a lot in Niu Valley. We just use his old room. His family is so nice about it, they're the best in-laws I could ask for! Really, they take such good care of us. We also went to my family's annual holiday camp at Bellows from Dec. 28-31. That was really fun. Other than that, we started watching some new shows in addition to our 'Office' infatuation. I remembered a show I saw when I was a freshm