If only I wrote this on Thanksgiving, right? lol.
I'm feeling super thankful for all the things that have been happening in my life lately, and I realize that I updated people in my life and the people I'm friends with on Facebook, but I never really threw things out to social media, and honestly... that's okay. Social media definitely doesn't need to know anything, but I'm way down to update my social media/mostly Instagram friends what I'm doing. And I thought that it would be fun to do that by listing what I'm thankful for currently.
+ I'm thankful for the Gospel of Jesus Christ/I'm thankful for the LDS Church.
I truly don't know where I would be in life without it. PS, you should definitely click on that link and check out #LightTheWorld! It's one of my favorite parts of the year when it comes to the church. Also, I'm thankful for the temples. I love being able to go up to Seattle (I miss the days where I was in Utah and there was a temple within ten minutes of wherever I was) and being so close to God. I never don't feel at peace at the temple.
+ I'm obviously thankful for my family and friends.
One of my best friends and someone who was also my roommate is currently serving a mission in London South, and I'm so proud of him. He has a really awesome conversion story, and he didn't only do it so he could date one of my very best friends... even though we all laugh that it was probably the only reason why. (; Nahh I'm kidding. They ended up getting engaged, then they broke up, but they've been back together for awhile and now he's on a mission and he's doing so so good over there. Pray for him! Someone else who's gearing up to serve her own mission is my sister! She's leaving in January and she'll be in Charleston, West Virginia! She's really excited, and so am I, because she had been wanting to serve a mission for a long time, and since she turns nineteen officially this month (happy December), she's out doing that! And I'm happy that I get to lowkey live through her because I can't serve a mission myself.
+ I'm thankful for school.
I graduated from Utah State University a year earlier than I should have, and I went to law school at the University of Utah before I moved back home to Seattle. I'm thankful for doing the absolute most to do what I can to transfer, and I'm so thankful to be able to say that I am transferring. I'm transferring and I'm way way way way grateful for that. Transferring law schools is an extremely difficult thing to do and normally it just won't happen, especially after only being a 1L (1L is referred to as your first year of law school - 2L and 3L are your second and third years)... and I didn't even finish 1L. It's more than impossible for it to happen, and they don't really care about your GPA or LSAT scores and it's mostly about your grades, and my grades were baller, so that's nice. I'm actually retaking the LSAT tomorrow, but that's mostly for my own personal preference. I'm always doing things in the most trying ways, but it always ends up being okay so whatever. I'm excited to move. It'll be lit. Or whatever the kids say these days.
+ I'm thankful for job opportunities.
I'm moving to London next year to be a teacher and I've never been more thankful to have that chance. I'll be there from next spring to next summer, right before I move for the above topic, and if it's anything teaching related, I'll probably do it. I've been a teacher off and on since I was in college, and I was a volunteer teacher for a few months earlier this year also in Europe, and it was an amazing experience. I come from a family of teachers, and I didn't think that teaching was my calling or in my blood, but college definitely changed that. When I transferred to Utah State, my major was Family Life Studies, but I switched it to Elementary Education and I never looked back. My mom loves to give me stuff about how wrong I was and how right she was. Who knew?
+ I'm thankful for being able to travel all around the world.
I've been so many places this year, whether that be for fun, for work, or on a layover. It's been awesome experiencing so many places and seeing all the corners of the world. I think I've been to almost every single country in Europe this year alone, and I really want to go play and hang out and explore South Asia. Thailand would be a straight up dream!
+ I'm thankful for music.
I know it's such a small thing to be thankful for, but music is so good, you know? Forget about Instagram or Twitter, I think Spotify is my most used app. I've had Spotify Premium for about a year now, and I can't even remember what life was like beforehand. I don't even remember what the free version of Spotify is like. I think there's a deal going around where you can have three months of Premium for only $0.99 a month for three months. That's the deal that was going last year around this time and, like switching my major, I never looked back. And plus, if you're a student, you can get Premium WITH Hulu for $4.99, like how amazing is that? It's the commercial version of Hulu, but who the heck cares? AND Taylor Swift just released Reputation to streaming sites, so now you can listen to it as many times as you want.
+ I'm thankful for sports.
Sports are fun to watch. I love football, I love baseball, and I love basketball. I have numerous teams that I care about, and I love to talk about them with people who care enough. Sports have been a huge part of my life for so long.
I'm truly thankful for a lot more things, but those are what I'm thankful for off the top of my head. I'm currently watching Extreme Couponing and eating ice cream, and I think that I'll be doing that for the rest of the day. Much love, y'all.
