My Simple, Happy, Beautiful Life

The first step to becoming a senior is developing a attitude that you no longer care about school. I think this is the most important step to becoming a senior. If you are care about school, then you are not a senior. The second step is to do the "required" things. Find out what is required in each class and do the minimum. Anything that exceeds the minimum is not appropriate.You should not be doing extra work or trying to get the A+++++. You only want to pass. The third step is to have a desire to socialize rather than do homework. Any chance of hanging out with your friends or making new friends is a higher priority than studying. The fourth step is to check the schedule of your class. If there is anything that is important to the exam or your grade, go to the class. If it isn't, then you can skip it. Only go to the classes if it is necessary. The fifth step is to stay up late and facebook stalk. You can facebook stalk, play tetris, watch tv shows, write in your...

1. Just say yes 2. If you want to say no, don't go to social gatherings in Provo. 3. Don't buy brownie mix 4.  Condition yourself to associate brownies with death (death by chocolate....haha) 5. Look at the pinterest as your motivation to lose weight. 6. Create a sense of denial that brownies are good ("Oh yeah, I forgot that brownies are good"). 7. Repress your good memories of brownies 8. Replace pleasing sensations of brownies with pleasing situations of carrots and doing yoga. 9. Cut one in half and then eat the other half because you gave in. 10. Say no to sugar for a year...impossible. 11. Just accept the fact that there will always be a relationship between you and brownies. It's inevitable. 12. Break up with brownies. I mean...these are my only solutions to offer to you!

So, I have learned this principle in my life that when you have faith, anything can happen. This is a song that I like because it represents the power that attitude has in your capabilities. I believe there are genetic boundaries, but faith makes the impossible possible. Faith makes the fearful into the confident an the weak into the strong. Faith can move mountains. Faith can calm the seas. One of my new years resolutions was to strengthen my faith and reduce my fear. Now that I have decided to go on a mission, I have accomplished this goal. I am not 100% faithful all of the time. I have strengthened my testimony though that anything can happen through Christ. Living in a Christ centered life presents lots of opportunities. With my attitude switch, I have found more opportunities to serve, love, laugh and smile. There are so many wonderful things in the world. Are your eyes open to all the beautiful things in the world? Do you focus more on the fearful events in your futu...

In my last couple of classes we have been talking about eating disorders. It has been really interesting and eye-opening. The society makes this body type as the "ideal" when in reality it is idealistic. We can' all look like supermodels. Do you know why? Supermodels don't look like supermodels. The ads in magazines are not real. We are comparing ourselves to edited images. This is why we have bad dieting patterns and low self esteems. We compare ourselves to the impossible. We don't meet the high standards and then we become disappointed. It is this vicious cycle where we try to reach societies standards, fail, feel guilty and binge because we are stressed, and then get more motivation to reach societies standards. It is so sad. I want to change this nice media problem, but I have no idea how to. I know that many people try to show different views on beauty. I just am passionate to let others know that media is not presenting a reasonable image and way for ...

I just thought of this question today. My visiting teachers came over today and one of them has been really happy and been annoying her roommate lately. Are happy people annoying? Why? I understand if someone is jumping up and down and over the top, then it may be annoying. What if someone was simply just happy because they love life? This is a onion video making fun of depressants. It is funny, when is setting your single friends up on blind dates a bad thing? Also, when is christmas caroling a bad thing ( if done in December)? I don't understand why people don't want to be with happy people. Well I do...misery loves company. If someone is happy and you are persistently depressed, that might be annoying. But being happy and cheerful is a good thing. We are commanded to be happy. We have the gospel to make us happy. We have friends and family members to make us happy. I don't think we can be happy 100% of the time because there are times of trouble, sadness and doubt....

When you get the rare pleasure of meeting someone from Gary, Indiana. Please sing this song to them. They may not like you because everyone sings it to them, but you have a need to sing this song to them. When you live in Gary, Indiana, you just need to accept the fact that people WILL sing this song to you.

I went to the Manti Temple and it was beautiful. The trip was wonderful with the snowy mountain caps. I baptized Indian names and it was seriously one of my favorite temple trips. This is why I love the gospel. The temple. The temple is an incredible place where I can think clearly. And the Manti temple is so cool. I loved being there as it is one of the earliest temples. I was doubting whether or not to get up because we left early in the morning, but it was worth it.I met people in my ward that I didn't know very well, ate delicious food and got to explore a new temple. I love exploring new temples. Every temple is built so differently based on the location and different aspects of the location. I decided to make a list of the temples that I have been to: Sacramento Temple Laie, Hawaii Temple Palmyra Temple Oakland Temple Provo Temple Manti Temple Salt Lake City Temple Mount Timpangos Temple Logan Temple Rexburg Temple Idaho Falls Temple Orlando Florida Temple N...

It is the day where we share love! I have changed my perspective to it no longer Singles Awareness Day. I have adopted a new outlook of just simply sharing love to everyone instead of one single person. It makes the day much more enjoyable. Valentine's Day dosen't have to be about Hallmark cards and roses. It can be simply about sharing your love. I am celebrating my Valentines Day with dinner group, a dance party and homework. I live a exciting life right? But besides my life, how are you celebrating your valentine's day? Whether or not you have a valentine to celebrate with, do celebrate it in some ways. What has been your favorite Valentine's Day? I was thinking about this and I realized mine was when I was working in Magic Kingdom. I spent it working and then watching wishes (the firework show). I ate some delicious treats at the bakery and probably stayed up until midnight playing in the park. I am still secretly in love with Mickey Mouse (don't tell Minn...

I started my mission papers. It was completely out of the blue, but I feel good about my decision. I don't need another distraction from my school work,yet I have another one. I want to go on a mission now. Tomorrow. I would love to go spanish speaking because I love the spanish language. It's just so crazy to me how I am planning on this and how it was never part of my plan. It feels good. I can't help but smile when I tell people that I am going on a mission. I just want to jump up and down and scream to the world that I will be Sister Jensen. I need to get all my medical stuff done before my papers are submitted. But, I am anxiously waiting for that day when I get my mission call. It is so exciting because I have no idea where I will be going. I don't care where I will be going. I will love whoever I am serving and teaching. I love telling people that I opened up my mission papers. It is just so exciting. Life is good. And since my decision to go on a mission, I ...

Seriously, don't do them. I am writing a research review paper about the effects of drugs on the brain. It is interesting and it makes sense why people become addicted. You want to know the secret of why people do drugs? It feels good. It releases dopamine. Dopamine is the feel good neurotransmitter that brings you pleasure. The more you do the drugs, the more dopamine is released. The sad thing I have learned from my paper is that drugs will forever change your life. I don't like being dramatic. As a psychology major, we don't see things with certainty. It is most likely going to say, "It may be correlated with...., but more research needs to be done". You get the point? But the thing with drugs is that they will LITERALLY change your brain structure. Our brain changes all the time. Everytime you learn something new, a new pathway is formed and your brain is changed. When you learned how to ride a bike, you changed your brain. Encoding a memory changes your b...

It has been 10 years since I have known my friends I visited this weekend. That is a long time. We are not super close but we have always visited each other throughout the years and stayed close. They are the kind of friends where you can not talk to them for a long time and be together and then you just have a lot of fun. It is cool that as time passes, I know that they will always be my friends. It started out with achievement days, mutual, parties, boys and making silly videos. Now we are all in different places. I am graduating college, Jessica is going on her mission and Mary has her adorable daughter. Even though we are are all in different places in life, we still sat on Mary's pull out bed until 2 in the morning talking. The conversations change from who are our crushes are to kids, missions, college, family and friends. Mary's husband hung out with us during the night, which I first thought would be weird. It wasn't weird though. I am lucky to have such great f...

I love my research job. I had no idea that it would last for a year. When I got this job, It was only supposed to be for the summer when I was going to run SPSS stats. It went from running the data to analyzing the data to reading literature on emerging adulthood and marriage to helping edit the book to writing a research paper. I have learned so much from my job but the most important thing I have learned is that good things take time. I have developed a good relationship with my mentor. I can talk to him freely and he is very flexible with deadlines. As a college student and employee, flexible deadlines are amazing and a dream come true.This relationship with my mentor is good because we have been working closely together for a year.  I have developed a "expertise" in the subject I am studying. If someone talks to me about emerging adulthood, the LDS talks about marriage, READY or RELATE, marriage preparation, marital attitudes, family of origin's influence on dating ...

10. Eating Ketchup....I hate ketchup. 9. Reading poetry...ewww 8. Making a budget 7. Looking at bright green dresses with black and yellow and pink dots....those would be interesting. 6. Counting all the sheep in my dream...this one I actually would want to do. 5. Traveling to Elko, Nevada 4. Boxing 3. Watching Rocky V, actually I have yet to see that one. 2. Cleaning my bathroom. 1. Patting my head while rubbing my stomach while carving a ice sculpture with a ice sculptor in my mouth. Basically, this shows I have no desire to study. Please send me motivation if you can. My grades may suffer this semester.

Dating has changed now because of facebook. The simple act of adding someone as a friend on facebook shows interest now. Have you heard the phrase, "it's not official until you are facebook official". People have this mentality now that nothing is official until its on facebook. I just had a boy add me on facebook and I was excited. I have a crush on him and HE added ME on facebook. We are friends, so nothing will probably happen. But the fact that he added me on facebook meant something. How has courting changed with technology? I don't have much time to do a research report about write about how it is changed scienfitically. In my opinion, I think that courting has disappeared. We now court the opposite sex with texting, sexting, skyping, facebook chat, online chat room, online dating websites and calling on the phone. When do people court face to face? I think the quality of dates and courting decreases as there is more technology in the relationship. You are...

I watched the movie "Marley and me" and I loved it. I cried and laughed throughout the whole movie. The movie is about this young family growing up with a dog. I am a dog person completely. I love my dog. I have a golden retriever. He is almost 18 in August. He has a line on his nose that is a "flaw". This "flaw" is endearing and I love him more because of his line on his nose. He loved chasing after the tennis ball when he was younger but now he has no more energy. He loves people. He is a protector, lover, listener, professional  ball chaser and part of my family. One of the reasons why I loved this movie was the fact that I grew up with Butch and Brita. Brita was a elkhound who loved chasing birds. She died on my 8th birthday from a heart attack. Brita was a runner and would always run whenever she could. As I was thinking back on my memories with my dog. There was one part in the movie, when the wife had a miscarriage. The husband was trying to fix t...