Reasons Why I Shouldn't Stay Up Late

This list is in no particular order. But all true. Hopefully, this list will serve as a reminder and I will finally learn my lesson.

1. I become grumpy, grouchy, and angry
2. My immune system fails me
3. Fall asleep while driving
4. Puts a strain on friendships
5. Bags and dark circles under my eyes
6. Lose out on really cool dreams
7. Miss working out in the morning
8. More emotional
9. Don't eat breakfast
10. Not as motivated to work
11. Make poor decisions
12. Fall asleep with laptop on bed causing it to be knocked off in the middle of the night and breaking it
13. Feel unhappy
14. Skip out on showering
15. Potentially getting a speeding ticket when racing home to get in bed
16. Forget to read scriptures
17. Fall in shower
18. Can't focus
19. Lose at Words With Friends because I can't think of really good words
20. Too tired to clean house
21. Don't see my family
22. Become whiny
23. Forget things
24. Smile less
25. Zone out while driving and get lost
26. Think of reasons why I dislike everyone
27. Fall asleep in social situations
28. Don't laugh as much
29. Spend more money
30. Fall asleep at church
31. Fall asleep at work
32. Don't stick to my healthy eating plan
33. Sleep during BYU games
34. Say words I dislike
35. Potentially run out of gas
36. Think mean thoughts
37. Become lazy
38. Become not fun
39. Tell secrets I would not normally tell
40. Rushed in the mornings
41. Never get on a consistent sleep cycle
42. Potential high blood pressure
43. Late for work
44. Potential psychological issues
45. Not productive
46. Have to sleep on couches when I am too tired to drive home
47. More sensitive
48. Never finish a book
49. Fall asleep while praying
50. Damaging my ability to sleep efficently
51. Less sleep is harmful to weight loss efforts
52. Have more headaches
53. Never feel rested
54. More acne
55. Menstrual cycle messed up
56. Increase probablity of getting chronic diseases
57. Fall asleep during movies I really want to see
58. Miss out on TV shows I like
59. Short nap becomes a long nap and I don't get things done
60. Eat more calories
61. Get stressed out easier
62. Don't wear makeup
63. Fall asleep with chocolate in hand and wake up with melted chocolate all over me and the bed.
64. Less excited and enthusastic about things
65. Forget I did something and do it twice (ex: washing hair, brushing teeth, etc)
66. Too tired to put sheets on bed so sleep with a blanket underneath of me
67. Use body wash instead of shampoo
68. Forget what job I am going to and drive to the wrong job
69. When I actually have time to do things I need/want to do I sleep instead
70. If it's warm and I'm full my eyes don't have a chance
71. Less upbeat with the people I work with
72. More quiet and reserved
73. More chance of me not thinking before I speak
74. Less positive
75. Have very little patience
76. More clumsy
77. My eye twitches more
78. Don't have time to pack a lunch
79. I'm not as funny
80. When I do try to go to bed early I can't fall asleep because my body isn't used to going to be that early
81. Higher chance of saying something stupid
82. When I have time to sleep I sleep too much
83. Forget my scriptures when I go to church
84. Don't see a spider in my bed and end up waking up with a smashed spider underneath me
85. Not able to remember my memories I make while staying awake because I am not giving my body time to process them during sleep
86. Have more dizzy spells
87. End up paying for Redbox movies even when I use a free code because I never finish the movie before I fall asleep and have to keep the movie an extra night or two
88. Apparently I kill more brain cells and forget how to speak and spell correctly
89. More tempted to drink soda for the caffiene
90. Become a party pooper
91. Sleep in so I don't take my car in to get the oil changed
92. More jumpy and more easily scared
93. I throw off my daily routine more often
94. Things that wouldn't usually bug me do bug me
95. I don't go to FHE or Institute
96. I forget to do things I was suppose to do for work at night
97. I get behind on my paperwork
98. Order too fast at Taco Bell and forget to tell them no sour cream and have to eat it. Gross.
99. Yawn all the time
100. Feel tired all the time... and that isn't a happy feeling

The Day I was on ESPN

I traveled down to the BYU v Ole Miss game this past weekend. It was a fantastic trip. And what made it complete was getting on ESPN. Truthfully, you can't really see my face and you had to know I was there. But still I was on TV. And I am most definitely counting it. So many people stopped us and asked to take their picture with us or just to take our picture. It was ridiculous. But awesome at the same time. And of course, I loved it.

Here we are before the game

Oh, and we won. That made it even better too.

Here we are after we won!

City Life or Not

Things I Hate About Living in the City

Traffic

Lots of people

Traffic

Sewage smells

Traffic

Stars aren't visible

Traffic

Traffic

Traffic

Traffic

Traffic

Traffic*

Things I Love About Living in the City

Lots of things to do**

*okay, so I HATE traffic. Absolutely. Positively. I hate crowds of people and of cars...

**Yes, this is the only thing on the list. But it encompasses SO many things! There are so many things to do and lots of free things. It is awesome. I love having places to go to eat, shop, museums, festivals, concerts, movies, parks, etc.

Spider Conspiracy

Do you ever have that feeling after you kill a bug that all it's little bug friends are going to come after you? Yes, no, maybe?

Well I certainly do. And lately I have been believing it. Here's my story:

I live in a basement in MO. Two best words to describe this place: humid and buggy. And basements are just a bug's own little paradise. But this story is more about spiders than just any bugs. I have never been scared of spiders really. I just think they are disgusting and freak me out a bit. Well, I am becoming more and more scared of them. It might be turning into an irrational fear. You see, I kill at least 1 spider a day. AT LEAST. Fantastically gross. It wasn't a big deal until the fear came. I'm not sure why but now I hate them... not that I ever liked them.

But I feel like all the spiders in the area, maybe the world, have a mission to terrify me and maybe attack me. (So far none have come close to me or shown any signs of aggression but you can never be too sure.) Too prove my point: one day I killed 7 spiders. 7. And now the spiders are not just in my basement they follow me. I see them everywhere.

And tonight at an outdoor concert little gnats kept landing on me. No one else. Just me. Well that may have been because I had some many food spots and spills on my shirt it was like a little feast, but that is another story for another time. Basically, I spilled something at every meal today. Good times.

Anyways, the moral of the post: spiders are coming after me. Simple as that.

PS: Last night I almost hit a skunk which would have been disgusting. Then tonight I almost hit a rabid raccoon. Like it seriously was running really ridiculously and I am positive it was rabid or had something wrong with it. And when I say almost I mean almost. Close call both times. Yuck.

I can't seem to catch a break...

Sometimes I think my body hates me or is rebelling for something I did to it. What I did to it I don't know. But anyways lately I can't seem to catch a break. Here's my story:

This summer has been a good one but filled of physical pain and disease. I started it off with stepping on a nail when I was doing tornado clean up in Joplin. 30 minutes into cleaning up... not even kidding. It went pretty deep into the arch of my foot. That was painful for a couple of weeks.

Then a little while after that was gone I got MRSA on my calf! You might recall me having a bad case of MRSA last summer. This stuff is not fun and is going to be with me for the rest of my life apparently. So I was down with that the weekend of my birthday and the 4th of July into the whole week after that... I didn't get back to work or anything till the 11th of July.

So the case of MRSA was pretty intense and they had me taking SOOOOO many medications... I should be taking them still but then something else happened and this is the worst part...

(This I have to tell the whole story to do it justice) Thursday July 14th I wake up with hives covering my body. My first time breaking out in hives and it was not fun. My doctor told me tree tea oil would help keep MRSA away (every doctor has told me something different). Anyways, I had bought new body was the day before and used it. So I thought it was that. I took an allergy pill and went on to work. The hives kind of disappeared. But then in the afternoon my hands and feet started hurting and I could tell they were swelling a little bit. I was a little concerned but I had to work so I just dealt with it.

Well I worked until 9pm and my hands started hurting some. BUT it was the night of the Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 2 premier and I was not missing that. I went to the theater and got in line. While in line I could tell my hands were getting worse. We got into the IMAX and were sitting in out seats. I was in so much pain but so determined. This was the end of Harry. I had to be there. I had to. At about 11pm I caved. My hands looked like Aunt Marge's. And I am not exaggerating. (If you know me at all you would know that they had to be HORRIBLE for me to give up on Harry and go to the ER.) My hands were deformed from the swelling. Everyone around me was scared for me. My parents were looking things up online and getting freaked out. So I did I got up and left the theater and went to the ER.

I learned something at the ER when your hands look like balloons they don't make you wait. They took me right in to be seen. My body had an allergic reaction do the antibiotics I was on. So now I am not taking the antibiotics but I am on 4 other types of pills... I have been so full of drugs lately its ridiculous. And then after they shot me up with drugs in the ER I had to lay there and lay there. They said they had to watch me to make sure my body wouldn't react to what they gave me. So I was in the ER later than I would have been if I had gotten to see the movie. Oh well. It was a good choice. The doctor did tell me that if I would have waited my blood pressure would have dropped and I would have had trouble breathing and then we would have had a really big problem. So I made the right decision but I was not happy about it. I was probably more upset then I should have been but I was really mad/sad/frustrated/and all those bad feelings.

The next day I worked even though I am taking benadryl 4 times a day. It makes me so tired and a little loopy because I am so tired. Then I went to a wedding reception. Then I saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Did I love it? Oh yes I did. I cried when the movie started. Not even kidding. I was just so happy that I was actually seeing it. I am a bit ridiculous, I know. But this has been such a big part of my life since I was 11! That's half my life people!

So the point of this story is I have bad luck... Oh well. Go see Harry if you haven't seen it yet. I am going again on Monday because I am determined to see it in the IMAX like I should have on opening night...

harry...HARRY...potter...POTTER

The end is here. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 comes out in 24 hours. I have so many emotions I can hardly stand it. Half my life I have been a Harry fan and this is the day that it all comes to an end. Some might wonder "what will Tasha do with herself?" That is yet to be determined. But somehow I think I will go on. It's what Harry would want after all.

Haha, but in all seriousness. I am EXCITED. And a little sad. But mostly so excited to see the movie which is exactly why I am not sleeping right now when I should be...

dream come true

I love life. Actually, I love my life.

Why, you may ask?
Well all those normal things: Faith and Gospel, family and friends, work, etc...

But today I mostly love my life because of the AMAZING things I have coming up:
1. Going home on wednesday for my BIRTHDAY and the 4th of July
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 tickets are bought--- and I am seeing it at the IMAX in 3D. Woah. I might have a heartattack during the movie. But it's all good.
3. I am seeing Paul McCartney in concert! This is the dream come true. I am so excited and can hardly believe I really am going. It's going to be the best thing EVER.

Happy day.