Hipster For A Day

My BFF Nikki and I 

Livin' the college life.

Yo. 

So Blessed.

Yesterday my roommate Allae and I were on our way to the temple when Allae saw a man kneeling on the side of the road who looked as if he needed some help.  She immediately told me to stop the car. Quickly, she got out of the car and asked the man if he needed any help. Come to find out his name is Kenneth. He had been in a car wreck at the age of 5 that took the use of his legs from him. He is now 31 years old and cannot walk without the help of two canes, and even still it is a struggle. When we found him he was on his way to the grocery store but got too tired and decided to stop at the bus stop and wait for the bus.  He had a helmet on and was dripping sweat from his face. We decided to offer to take him to the grocery store because I couldn't image how hard it would be to try to grab groceries off the shelf while juggling two canes. He was grateful for our help and I was more than impressed with his positive attitude. He kept cracking jokes like when we asked him if he wanted ice cream he replied, "With these hips? No way."  Or when the change was coming out of the register he said, "We won the lottery!!" haha. The whole time I was trying to fight back tears of ingratitude. I realized how extremely blessed I am. I can walk. And even though I can walk, I don't have to walk to the store to get groceries because I can drive.  I can easily get in and out of a car. I have the opportunity to live away from home because I am physically independent. 

Later that day I saw the video Kony2012. How can you not want to do something after watching that video? Seriously people. If you're reading this, you are blessed. We get to browse facebook and blogs while kids in Africa fear for their lives. We think we are "forced" to go to school each day while kids in Africa desire to be a lawyer but don't have the money to be able to learn. Really. Whether you're for or against the whole Kony2012 movement I think we can all agree that we as Americans are blessed beyond measure. I know I am blessed beyond what I deserve. I take so much for granted everyday and it was so great to have this experience where I got some sense knocked into me. 

365 Days of Ali.

January 26--London, Jami and I at the Aggie Basketball game

January 28--Nathaniel, Nikki, Jami and I at the temple

January 29--Sunday Dinner with the roommies

February 1--London party rocking at the mall haha

February 2--Roommates decorated my room for my birthday (: 

February 3--Tiff and Drill team at State

February 4--Brooke and I at the temple. Love her! 

February 5--Celebrating my birthday at my home

February 6--Nikki and I in the car

February 7--Donating plasma for the first time. Eeek!

February 8--Actually taking notes. haha

February 9--Allae likes to sit on me. 

February 10--Got poked twice while donating. Bleh.

February 11--Kelsi and I at Nikki's choir concert

February 12--Mardi Gras with the ladies

Lets just say I love my life. Thats all for now, folks.

Prostitute.

I guess you could call me a prostitute because I am officially selling my body for money. hahaha Totally kidding. Well, I really am selling my body but not as a prostitute. I actually just donated plasma for the very first time yesterday! Be proud. I was pretty nervous.

Allie, Me, and Kinsie right before we donated plasma

It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. The worst part was probably the finger prick. My finger is still sore from it! I have a feeling that every time I go I will get major anxiety about everything but once the needle is actually in me I will be fine. I'm just gonna have to deal with it because I NEED the money. Making $4,000 by May isn't gonna be easy. But it's definitely possible and you better believe I'm going to do it. 

I'm going to donate plasma twice a week making $55/week. And I am also going to be working at Kneaders and a call center. Making around $300 a week. It's probably gonna be really difficult but I just keep telling myself its all worth it. Because guess what? I am OFFICIALLY accepted to go to Belize this summer! I leave May 10th and will be there until July 25th. I'm excited to say the least. 

So here's to the hardest working 3 months of my life! 

Beautiful picture of Belize

Yup. Going here for 2 months.

So I Missed A Few Days..

Unfortunately, I have failed to take a picture every day this year. But I am going to post the days I do have and continue to try a little harder to get one every day. Hopefully I can succeed a little more.

January 13--Allae and I

January 14--Cold Stone with the Roomies

Januaray 18--Fire Drill in the Snow

January 19--Self explanatory.

January 20--Allae almost spills her cereal but is able to pick it up with a plate so it doesn't all fall out (:

January 21--Waking up Jami!

January 22--Sunday Crockpot Dinner

January 25--London and I

ROOMIES!

YAY!! We're back up at school and most importantly we are back TOGETHER!! 

Don't worry, we missed each other so much we put all our beds in the same room. 

In the process. This is what happens when four girls try to move extremely heavy beds. ha.

Needless to say, I love them and I couldn't be more excited for them to be back in Logan so I'm not living by myself. Yay Hooray!