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Sometimes Facebook can be good for you

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

New Year, New Thoughts

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