Happy New Year!

I have kind of been forgetting that I have a blog, so one of my New Years resolutions will be to update my blog at least semi-regularly.

First I'll give a quick update on my life.

I finished fall semester here at BYU, my first semester since getting back from my mission. I survived and did even better than the semesters before my mission! Yay!

I saw Star Wars Episode VII on the opening night. I did my nails and my hair for the occasion.

Here are my nails. Stormtroopers and lightsabers. Here I have not yet perfected the lightsaber, but the next time I tried they were amazing.

And here is my Princess Leia hair!

The Princess Leia hair was a bit of a challenge. First I tried making normal buns, but teasing the hair like crazy before twisting it. That kind of worked, but wasn't as big as I wanted it. Then I thought of making a sock bun, but I didn't have any of those special foam things, and I didn't really want to cut the toes off of any of my socks. Plus I thought that would still be too small. So I introduce you to the t-shirt bun! I made it the same way you'd make a sock bun, but with rolled up t-shirts instead of socks. It made the perfect Princess Leia buns. My hair was looking so good that I won two gift certificates to the movie theater! Awesome!

I spent Christmas in Idaho. It was cold. Very cold. One day, as we were going to church, it was -11 degrees. Why do people live there? 

Ok, so now it's the New Year. It's 2016. It's 3:00 a.m. and I'm not tired at all, plus my bed is covered in a mountain of clean clothes that I dumped there after doing my laundry this afternoon and I'm not quite ready to tackle that yet. So I figured I'd make a few resolutions and update my blog. So here they are, my 2016 New Years resolutions:

• Go back to my no sugar diet, except for one dessert per week. It was really good while I was doing it before the holidays
• Read the scriptures every single day
• Practice Portuguese every single day (Hey, maybe I could combine this with the previous one by reading the scriptures in portuguese every single day! Brilliant!)
• Don't stay up until midnight during the school week unless there's a really good reason to be up that late.
• Use more accessories. I have jewelry and scarves and things, but hardly ever use them. I might as well put them to use and look a bit more put together
• Compliment at least one stranger per day
• Do something interesting with my hair at least once per week instead of just wearing it how it dries after showering
• Re-learn spanish well enough to hold a conversation

I think that's a good list for now. I may add to it in the future. But now it has gotten to be 4:00 a.m. and I actually am getting kind of tired. This is later than the time I used to wake up when I worked as an early morning custodian! That's crazy! I'm so glad I don't have that job anymore!

Have a great 2016!