I love Elder Fiso! Manuia le Kerisimasi ma le Tausaga Fou, Daniel! :)

So my family just went to see Wreck It Ralph for Christmas Eve.

[tradition]

As we were driving to the movie theater, we were talking about how my brother and his wife had already seen this movie twice with their kids.

I thought, "I mean, I love movies, and I've seen movies multiple times in theaters before [PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN], but now that I don't have money flowing out of my ears, I don't think that there's a movie that could come out that I'd be so captivated by that I'd pay $10 [basically] to see again."

And then we sat down in the theater.

Of course,

who am I?

Oh yeah- that would be me.

IT'S A DISNEY MOVIE.

I was totally entranced.

It made me laugh,

it made me think about crying

[oh yeah- that would be me],

it made me want to be a hard core, bad-A racer girl

(means I gotta learn how to drive a stick... but I can do anything)

[oh yeah- that would be me]

and it totally and thoroughly reminded me

that I am and forever will be

a Disney Girl.

:)

Needless to say,

[but we always say it anyway]

I LOVED it!

And I would totally go see it again. :)

but let's be honest,

I don't have adequate fundage right now to go see many more movies.

So cross your fingers and let's hope that I get to see it again on a date. ;)

bahaha :)

life?

life is good. :)

family is better. :)

Manuia le Kerisimasi, ma le tausaga fou.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. :)

 ps: found this little golden flower on the ground outside of the theater. ...it was cute, okay? ;)

pps: IT'S A WHITE CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :)

This is why I wake up in the morning. :)

So I'm sitting there in Sacrament Meeting on Sunday

scratching Marissa's back.

It's Testimony Meeting.

This girl in my ward goes up to bear her testimony,

and she's talking about her family back east

(zai Niu Yue...? I think?)

[Google Translate that- it's Chinese. :)]

in Hurricane Sandy.

Her family was sitting a few rows ahead of me.

She shared a story about her little nephew and how he prayed for the family's safety back east.

She said that he prayed for a force field around them so that they would be safe.

Come to find out later, the family had been protected,

and they had power, when others around them didn't,

as if a force field had been around them.

She told us that her nephew's prayer had been answered

and that a "force field" really was there!

Her nephew,

who was sitting a few rows ahead of me,

who must have been about 3 or 4 years old,

instantly perks straight up at this thought,

eyes wide,

mouth forming an "o" in surprise,

and looks at his grandma (the girl's mom) in SHOCK.

His prayer was ANSWERED,

and his force field was REAL. :)

It was the CUTEST thing

I have ever witnessed

in my life. :)

 

Part II

My 17-yr-old brother has a friend who was diagnosed with cancer last August.

I haven't personally met her,

but I've heard great things about her,

and I started following her blog.
(which I highly recommend reading, btw)

She is one of the most beautiful, amazing, strongest girls I have ever seen.

I look up to her.

She is a shining light to me in my life,

and she doesn't even know it.

She's a light to many people here!

I have the highest respect for this beautiful girl.

She runs cross country.

There was a 5k in her honor in my hometown at our high school.

My sister-in-law, one of my older brothers and his wife, my sister and I ran the race.

We're not really runners,

(though bro, bro's wife and I used to run in the mornings)

but this was for Rachel.

Let me tell you,

that this was one of the most amazing experiences of my life.

Yes, we all finished the 5k without walking.

Yes, it felt amazing to achieve that.

But the most amazing part was being there

with hundreds of other people

all united

for Rachel,

who also ran the race

and finished just before bro and I. :)

I don't even really know her.
She's been to my house,
she and my little brother have spent countless hours together,
and I read her blog.
But she has a special place in my heart.
Please keep her in your prayers.

I love my family.
I love my Heavenly Father and my Savior Jesus Christ.
And because of this:
life?
Even when life is HARD,
life is good.
:)

Becoming a True Disciple

Dreams come true, ladies and gentlemen. :)

October 17, 2008.

3:34PM

New Orleans Square, Disneyland

I met Captain Jack Sparrow. :)

Happy Anniversary, Captain Jack!!! :)

Yo Ai Lo'u 'Aiga. :) (Spanish, Chinese, Samoan)

Dating.

dating is the worst.

Boys are dumb.

No, I'm not in a heartbroken state or anything like that. Truth be told, I actually don't like anyone right now. I'm not dating anyone. I haven't broken up with anyone recently. I don't have anyone interested in me. There's nothing going on in that area right now.

I'm just living and loving life!

But I have something to say.

To guys: MAN UP. ASK GIRLS ON DATES.

My dating life has consisted largely of either me asking guys on dates (girls-choice dances) and blind dates (set-ups). I AM DONE.

It is not my job to initiate my entire dating life.

Guess what happens.

I'm sitting in Relief Society and they announce that the Elders Quorum is doing a dating activity thing and they want all the girls who are available on October 11 to sign up so that the guys can pick a girl from the list and take her on a date.

I don't have anything against going on dates.

But I HATE the way this was set up.

Boys will NOT ask girls on dates, so the GIRLS are basically giving their PERMISSION for guys to ask them out!

We're saying YES to the date before they even ask us!

Initiator: girl. again. 

AND, if that's not aggravating enough:

There are more girls in our ward than guys.

Not all of the girls are going to be picked for this thing either!

So here you have this group of girls excited to go on a date with some guy in the ward, and what happens if nobody picks them? That's heartbreaking! Not for me though. If I hadn't been asked, I wouldn't feel too badly. I'm USED to that. I'd be fine. But not all girls are so immune. It's like not getting asked to Prom. It SUCKS to have that opportunity, ESPECIALLY for those to whom it never comes anyway, and then never get the chance to take it! What about those girls who have signed up that won't get dates? What does that do to them?

This whole thing was not thought out well, in my opinion.

Thoughts?

life is still good.

I wish I was in Disneyland right now with my family. I've been craving it for weeks.

Dearest Lisa. I read your blog yesterday and wanted to hold Baby Alice.

I watched a tv show Thursday night called Elementary.

Sherlock Holmes deal.

Series premier.

Where I live, we have free cable. We just don't ever hook it up to our tv. I never watch tv, except for when I go home, in which case Sports Center dominates the screen.

 

I've seen more top ten plays than there have been contestants (and judges) on American Idol.

I haven't followed a tv show since Smallville and Gilmore Girls. This is fun. :)

 

I was doing Chinese homework while watching it, so I wasn't paying super close attention.

So the whole mystery thing... I saw it get solved in the end but I wasn't even trying to figure out the "whodunnit."

 

So I liked the show fine.

It's just the girl...

I like the Jude Law version of Watson WAY better.

I love Asians,

I loved Johnny Lee Miller (Sherlock),

but I'm not sold on Lucy Liu's Watson character.

 

But first episodes are typically not the best ones,

so next week should be better. :)

 

In the meantime:

Studying for tests/doing homework to the Sherlock Holmes soundtrack (with Mr. Law and Robert Downey Jr. just to be clear):

best. ever.

Rissa and I did that this morning and then went to take our tests

and we totally owned them.

BoMB. :)

 

Also,

I love my family. :)

weird picture to post after I just express my love for my family, right?

But I'm at work, meaning my options aren't as extensive,

AND,

my sister introduced me to this song and I became OBSESSED with it. :)

 

life is good.

family is better. :)

 

I have a favorite hotel, and that hotel is the Embassy Suites in La Quinta, CA.

I iz a collej stoodent.

And yes, I still get some joy out of intentionally spelling words horrendously and abhorrently wrong. :)

But as I was doing homework,

and falling asleep because I was up until 4:00AM (I wish you could capitalize numbers) this morning working on assignments for another class,

I somehow ended up at my blog.

I started reading posts from my high school days-

the days when I started this blog. :)

A flood of thoughts went and are still going through my mind.

However,
I found this post

and decided to re-post it. :)

For my answers from four years ago, click here. :)

Four Places I Visit Over and Over:
1: Work. yay.
2: School.
3: The hill by the stadium. :)
4: HOKULIA. :) :)

Four People Who Text Me The Most:
[yesh, I changed this from "Email" to "Text"]
1: Rissa. easily.
2: Twitter
3: Skweez
4: Michael (muh bro)

Four of My Favorite Foods (if you know me, you know how hard this is for me to pick just four)
1: My mom's cream of broccoli soup. :)
2: Pizza
3: SHAVED ICE. :) I'm counting it.
4: ummm... seriously, I love/eat everything... I'll sayyyyyyyyy... Oreos. good shtuff. :)

Four Places I'd Rather Be Right Now:
1: Disneyland
2: Lake Powell
3: Hokulia
4: IN BED.

Four Movies I'd Watch Over and Over:
1: The Sandlot
2: Heavyweights
3: Napoleon Dynamite
4: BABY MAMA!!! :)

Four Bands/Singers I Love to Listen To:
1: BRAD PAISLEY!!! :)
2: Imagine Dragons
3: Scotty McCreery
4: Enya :)

Hope Ya Know, We Had a Hard Time