I feel like I'm running around in giant circles.

I get to the end of the circle and feel like I can take a breath and enjoy the accomplishment.

But then it starts all over again.

I'm almost out of breath and energy....

In order to conserve energy I deactivated my facebook account for awhile.

It was just one of those dumb things that took up way to much of my time.

I couldn't start or finish the day without checking it and if was my go to when I felt like I needed a break...and 30 mins later started studying again.

Next to go is my cell phone.

Okay it's not literally going to go, but I think I'm going to shut it off for mass amounts of time this weekend so that it doesn't distract me.

Maybe some of you think I'm taking my studies a little to seriously and I should lighten up but I honestly feel so stressed when I think of all the homework and test I have due this coming week. By doing dumb things like going on facebook and texting people I probably waste about 2-4 hours everyday. That's valuable time I could take away from study and actually spend with people in person.

How much nicer would that be?

To re cap the past few days in case anyone cares to here what I've been up to (this is really mostly for my mom and adria)

On Friday I went to the Haunted Straw maze.

It was actually pretty freaky. I don't really get scared when people jump out at me I get most afraid when they keep following me after they jump out! It drives me insane to have them just breathing down my neck!

Then on Saturday I went to this beautiful mansion house.

It was located on a river bank, had a huge green yard and was complete with an indoor heated swimming pool. Hello fun.

Jessica and I watched Seven Brides for Seven brothers and no one can convince me that that show isn't AMAZING. I'm a sucker for impromptu singing about love and the mountains.

I love the sobbin' women and the barn dance.

Gideon is the cutest little red head of them all.

Then last night I went country dancing.

Pretty sure it's safe to say I have zero rhythm (I blame my father)

But it really was fun. And we got hot chocolate with frozen custard in it.

That my friends is an amazing combination and I bet it would taste equally awesome with just your average ice cream.

Okay enough blogging. Time to get back to the grind.

Hi Blog it's me, Chanel

WOW.

I feel like I have fallen off the blogging planet.

It's not because I have had a lack of things to blog about.

I really just haven't had time to blog.

Life has been way to full, which has it's ups and downs.

The ups being I went to Utah last weekend, went to ihop at 2 in the morning, went repelling, on a motorcycle ride, watched world of dance, visited and painting my nails with my best friend jennica, and got to see my family.

It was a great trip but it created a lot of downs for this last week.

I had an great lack of sleep, made worse by the fact I didn't do any homework, made worse by the fact I had 2 tests due at the end of the week. Oh and did I mention they were worth 80% ofmy grade? I think I had every reason to feel stressed this week.

But on the plus side. I got to celebrate a friends birthday, went to the driving range not once but twice, my mom came and visited (I have the best mom, she painted my fingers and toes AND massaged my feet while I studied), I did really well on my tests, got to go apple picking with my friend Samantha, and I watched an amazing General Relief Society Meeting.

After Sam and I had finished picking apples we were wandering around the gardens and found tons of raspberry patches. So we just started walking along reading the different types of berries and of course we had to try all the different kinds to find out which ones we liked.

As we were walking back we see a sign that says this "Please don't eat the raspberries, they are being collected as data for research"

We both are praying that we don't die from eating pesticides with unknown side effects.

Lastly I finished my latest painting. It's by the same guy as my last one. Leonid Afemov.

Every last one of his pictures are amazing.

Check them out because my reproduction doesn't do him justice.