Road Trippin!

I absolutely love road trippin! There is nothing better than jamming to music in a car with friend, on an adventure. I have been luckily to go on a number of road trips, recently I set out on the latest one. I enjoy sleep almost just as much as road trips and Thursday night I went to bed pretty early. I think I went to bed at around nine o’clock, I was so excited that I was going to get ten hours of sleep, however, at about ten til eleven my phone goes off. I will also answer my phone while sleeping unlike some people. It was Kenzie, and she said to get ready because we were on an adventure. I have learned not to argue with Kenzie and woke right up.

At first I was a little disoriented by figured that we would have a good time. Living at home like I do I figured that I had better inform my parents that I would be leaving the house. Surprisingly enough they didn’t question it too much. I have some pretty great parents. Soon enough Kenzie and Kailey waiting at my house ready for the night to begin.

As we started driving into Logan I questioned where we would be heading. Kenzie was real excited to say that we were going to go up to Pocatello.  I don’t remember that last time I was in Pocatello so I was cool with it. There were some guys up there that we were going to go and visit, but when we called them they were not so excited for us to be coming. Instead of going someone that we were unwanted to we quickly made some new plans. First we drove up through the wonderful town of Preston and then headed towards Downey. I think we were in Downey when we stopped at a gas station, if not I honestly have no idea where we were. But we stopped and got some Lotto tickets. The nice man at the counter informed us that sadly the sales from the lotto tickets do not go to the school as much as I thought. I guess my rationale for buying lotto tickets has gone out the door.

Continuing on our way we made it to Malade. Some time ago we had a couple friends that are from Malade and thought for sure one of them would love some night visitors. Unfortunately, we learned that unlike myself no one ever answers their dang phones. We really wanted to know what all the scarecrow pumpkin heads were all about. If anyone knows please let us know, we were all real confused.

The best part of our night came when we hit Tremonton. 24-hour businesses were the best things even invented. At about two three in the morning we hit up Dennys and got ourselves some biscuits and gravy. My favorite!! I think the waitress loved us, as we were super tired and a little bit out of it. We found out that we had a number of friends in common and it is always funny talking about people you and strangers now.

After, the road trip I think we have all decided that we can only handle about one night road trip like that a month. We were all so exhausted the next day. It is a wonder that I made it through work, but it is memories like that one that I will keep with me for sure!

Ashley P!

Die Young

Okay, I said that I was going to talk about Ke$ha’s new single “Die Young” the other day, and I wouldn’t want to disappoint the two people that read my blog. So here is the video so that you can check it out yourselves! J

 

 

What can I say I like it! I am real excited for the whole album “Warrior” to come out in December. You know I’ll be trying to find a clean version to buy. I am not sure what it is about Ke$ha music, but it speaks to me! Haha no I did not just say that. I am sure most people are appalled by that, but whatever.

Other than that, I do have some other things to share with the world. Tonight, I planned my Canada Trip!! I am so excited! We are going to go over fall break up to Calgary. We are going to go to the temple open house and it is going to be epic! Kenzie and Summer are coming! My two besties! And then I am also going with my sister and some of her friends, so things could get real interesting! Peace!

Ashley P!

Making the Impossible Possible

Many times I look at obstacles or challenges and think I can’t do that. But what kind of attitude is that? I have learned that with a little bit of faith, hard work, and the occasional breakdown that everything is possible. Life is all about choices, which I love.

  I am on one who gets to decides what to do with my night. I am on the one who decides if I am going to be happy or not. I am on the one who decides if I am going to write my paper, or hang out with my friends.

Yes, at times other people’s decisions will affect us, sometimes in good ways sometimes in bad ways. However, they should have the same opportunity to make choices that I have. When these decisions do affect us, it is our choice on how to react. I am not saying that it is always easy; to choose not to be affected, but yes that is an option.

Every day, I am grateful for the previous day.  Why? Because I have learned at least one thing about myself and life. Today, I learned that no matter how much we wish things were like they used to be, that they probably aren’t going to be like the used to be. And this may be for the better. People grow, people learn, and people change.

-Ashley P

Music

Lately, I have noticed how much I love music. When it comes to music I am not picky at all, I love everything. All day long at work I sit and listen to music, and then I come home and listen to even more music. I used to think that I didn’t like country music at all, but now I am in love with country music. I can credit most of that to Kenzie.

I don’t know many of the super popular songs right now, but there are a few bands that I am just in love with lately, including He Is We and j.wride. My love for them can mostly be credited to the one and only Rachel, who probably loves music more than anyone that I know and Summer who went to my first j.wride concert with me. Every time I get in  Rachel’s car, which is not often enough she has some new song that she is in love with, which I in turn have to be in love with as well.

This random outburst in regards to music is due to a new cover video that j.wride released tonight. I love there covers, but there originals are just as good, but tonight they covered Mat Kearney. So I will now put my blogging skills to the ultimate test and see if I can upload the video for all my wonderful readers to view! J

 

Well, that was easy enough. I will have to start putting more videos in my posts!

-Ashley P

Happiness! :)

Writing a blog post is just so much more appealing than writing a paper for any of my classes. I am pretty sure I have a paper to be writing in all of my classes. I guess that is what the weekend is for! J Anyways I am just pretty excited about life at the moment. My graduation packet is all filled out and sent in. I received an email about my internship in Africa today, and tomorrow I am meeting with a man about a Masters in Secondary Education. The more I think about being a teacher the more I really want to be one. I love business, but I just don’t think I want to work in the business world so much.

This past week I have been thinking a lot about growing apart from people that you were once very close with. I feel like in my lifetime I have had a number of different friends that I no longer keep in contact with at all. It seems to interesting to me that you can know nothing about someone you used to know everything about. I would love to know what is going on in all my old friend’s lives, but I just don’t even know where I would start. This is one reason Facebook is nice, you can follow up on people that you haven’t talked to in ages. I guess also if people never move out of your life new people can’t move in. And I honestly love all the people in my life right now, so I guess it just a part of life and change.

Okay, well I don’t really have to much else to say, except for the fact the Ke$ha’s new single Die Young comes out next week and I am real excited for it! I will give a full debrief next week after I listen to it!

Ashley P! 

PS- We got our picture taken with the Romney bus today and we were super excited! Just thought I would share!

 

 

 

Life is a Roller Coaster

Over and over again I am reminded that life is a roller coaster. This weekend I most definitely seemed to be on a roller coaster ride. I would go from very happy, to not so happy at all. I realize that in order to experience the highs that we have to experience the lows in life. Even though I hate the lows, I can put up with them because I sure do love the highs. So here is a little recap of my weekend.

On Friday, I was informed that my grandpa has prostate cancer. I personally don’t really know that much about prostate cancer, or cancer really in general. I feel like for some reason I am really good at have a disconnect with health related problems. I have known people who are cancer survivors, but really don’t understand the effects cancer has on peoples life. However, his outlook is good and he should be fine.

Kenzie didn’t have work on Friday so we made dinner. We both love cooking, so most nights we will cook dinner and just watch TV and things. Kailey Skinner came over and we were all just having a grand ole time. However, more suddenly my night made a total 180. Around eleven I received a call from my father, which was really weird. He never calls and I was extremely surprised. Honestly I thought I was in trouble for something. I could kinda tell something was up when I answered. He asked me what I was doing and if I could maybe come and pick him up. I asked him where he was and he stated that he was at the hospital. Instantly my mind started racing. Why on earth would he be in the hospital? Naturally, I assumed the worst. He stated that my grandparents can come up for the night and that upon arrival my grandpa wasn’t doing very well and that an ambulance had come and picked him up. He didn’t really give me more information than that. I instantly left to go and pick him up. The whole drive into Logan I was an absolute wreck. I really analyzed my life and how every moment is important.

My grandpa is doing fine, he just has pneumonia. He is still in the hospital but should hopefully be getting out tomorrow. On Saturday morning I was able to go to the hospital, and be present for a priesthood blessing. I am so grateful for the worthy priesthood holders that I have in my life and all that they do for me and those that I love.

I had lots of things that I needed to get down Saturday, but with all that happened I honestly just wanted a break from things. Luckily, I have great friends and Kenzie and I spent the day in Logan. One of the best things that we did was people watch in Wal-Mart. We found these real nice chairs and sat in them for almost an hour. It was so funny. I think we sold at least like ten of them sitting there, Kenzie even ended up buying one of them. I was real sad that we really didn’t end up seeing anyone that we knew. I am pretty sure that I could be content sitting in Wal-Mart people watching all day long. However, the best part was when we tested our creeper skills. I was actually pretty surprised at how good we are. There is a certain green pickup that drives around CV that Kenzie knows pretty well and anyways we saw it and Kenzie just really wanted to know where it was going so we started following. I asked Kenzie how she expected to follow the truck as she doesn’t exactly drive crazy at all. She stated that she couldn’t do it, but that she knew that I could do it, so she hops out of her car and I jump into the driver’s seat. It was great fun; we ended up being so fast we got in front of the truck for a second, but then let it pass so we could follow it. Unfortunately, the truck only drove up to campus and nowhere to interesting, but it was pretty fun testing our skills. We are thinking that we could be PIs for hire.

Saturday night I was able to attend the adult session of Stake Conference which was really great. I think during it I really figure out what I want to do with my life, which I have actually been stressing about quite a bit lately. However, during the conference I felt a peace and knew that everything is going to work out. I plan on meeting with a couple of different people hopefully this week to see if my plan will really work out.

Okay, one last story I promise. Today, when I got back from Stake Conference my brother said that he thought the Schenks would be speaking in our ward and I decided that I wanted to go. Britten Schenk went to school with me and was in my ward, in March six months ago we was hit by a bus while serving a mission in Brazil. Hearing the family’s testimonies today was absolutely amazing. The progress that he has made in the short six months is incredible. Seeing what they have been through makes everything I face seem small. I am so grateful for a Heavenly Father that is aware of me and watches over me. This weekend reminded me that things can change in a matter of second and I need to be prepared for that. But at the same time I realize that God is there for me and that I can turn to him when needed.

Ashley P.

Motivation

Different things motivate different people. You would think after 20 years of life, I would have figured out how to motivate myself to do different things. However, I have not and I find myself constantly looking for ways to motivate myself. I try to motivate myself in the morning to wake up thinking, if I get ready for the day I might see a cute guy, or if I study for my test I will get a good grade.

Maybe I can’t motivate myself to do things, because of the procrastinator deep down inside of me. I always know that I will get it done and that I will do a good job, I just won’t start working on it until the last second. As I am in my last semester of my undergraduate I wonder if I should try to change now. I mean it has worked for the last two years of college, why would it stop working my last semester.

It is almost as if I can only work if I know it has to be done now. If I know that I can work on it tomorrow or the next day the likely hood of me waiting is very high. That is why I love deadlines. Because I know if there is a deadline it will be done no problem. Deadlines are the solutions to all my problems. In order to motivate myself I just give myself a deadline, before the actual deadline.

-Ashley P

As you can see I have no motivation tonight. Hence, the blog post! J

Just Another Week

Sundays, seem to be a great day for reflection. I am so grateful to have a day of rest in my busy life. Once again I seem to have packed my week full of different activities this past week.  Which is great, I am young and need to capitalize on my youth.

During the actual week I seem to be pretty good at just going to work or school and then being real lazy the rest of the night. Even though I am a real social person most of the time I really enjoy my alone time. I tend to save the weekend for my social life. And this weekend was no different. It was probably one of the best weekends I have had in a while.

Like any good college student I supported my football team on Friday night. The game was so great, except for the fact that by the end of the game my feet were absolutely killing me! I really do enjoy football, but the games are just so long. I was more than relieved when the Aggies were able to capture the win after the first overtime section of play. Winning is always a great feeling.

 

 

After the win the whole valley must have decided to go get some grub. Because I have never seen so many people at Taco Bell before in my life! It was absolutely crazy! The line was out the door. I being a Taco Bell lover was just so excited that so many people like Taco Bell. I seem to creep the girl in front of my out when I got my picture with all the people in the store. It’s a real good thing that I don’t take what others think to personally.

 

Saturday was probably my most favorite day ever! I was able to be real lazy all day long and then go out with friends! Kailey Skinner and I decided that we would make some dinner. However, I just hate making dinner for like two people so I had to invite other people over! I ended up getting one of my favorite people ever to come over who just returned from his mission. I just love missionaries by the way. I feel a little bad, because we probably corrupted him a little bit. But it was just so great to see him again. I am beyond excited for more missionaries to come home. I need some new guys to hang out with in my life!

Random bits of information-

1.   Ke$ha is releasing a new single this month!

2.   I am going to Canada next month!

3.   I got me some sweet new glasses!

4.   If you want to get in my blog probably hang out with me!

5.   And finally have a great week! J

 

-Ashley P!

PS. Sorry about the formatting I am new to this and I am trying to figure it out!

The Long Weekend

Just like everyone else I love my weekends and long weekends are even better!! However, Tuesday morning I realized just how much I hate waking up the morning after a long weekend. It is absolutely dreadful. During this Labor Day weekend I was able to fit a number of activities into my schedule.

Friday-

After attending college for a number of semesters I have realized the benefits of choosing your own schedule and that you can chose not to have class on Fridays which is exactly what I did this semester. Making my long weekends even longer. However, I did still have to work but I have to say I like work better than school most days.

Of course the best part of Friday was the much anticipated 80s dance. Unfortunately, this year the dance did not live up to expectations set by the prior years. This was mostly due to the fact that the dance was held inside the ballroom and you couldn’t last more than a few dances without dying of heat. The plus side of having the dance inside was the ability to people watch outside. I am pretty sure I could be pretty contend just sitting and watching people all day long.

Saturday-

I finally got to make my long awaited trip to Burley, Idaho. I mean honestly who doesn’t want to visit good ole Burley? I met up with a bunch of friends Trevor, Boyd, Dallin, and then Trevor’s two cousins Skylar and Shana. We went cliff jumping in Twin Falls. I am suprisingly not good at jumping off of cliffs. For some reason and I couldn’t quite figure out why  I could not get my body to think it would be a good idea to jump off of the cliffs. I did end up jumping twice, but will probably not be going anytime in the near future again.

An important thing to know about myself is that I love, love, love, love, love waterfalls! They are like my favorite thing on the planet. You could get me to do almost anything if there is a waterfall involved. So naturally when I have the chance I have to stop to see a waterfall. We had gone cliff jumping right about Shoshone Falls. So I stopped and they are absolutely beautiful. I plan on making a return trip in the Spring to see them at full force. I do, however, need to find some friends that like pictures a bit more than the individuals I was with. No one would take a picture with me.

 

 

The best part of my trip to Burley was the fact that just as we were about ready to leave there was some tornado warnings for the area. Dallin and myself were driving back together and we thought if we left real quick we could out run the madness that was coming. Sadly, that was not the case at all and within minutes of getting on the freeway I was driving in the scariest conditions of my life!! It honestly went from heavy rain to hard hail in a matter of seconds and I would not see 100 ft in front of me. Luckily, for me Dallin was real helpful and never made me feel like a bad driver and he was real patient with me. If he had not been in the car I would have most definitely been in tears.

One last awesome story for Saturday night! Sometimes me and my bestie Kenzie like to convince guys to give us rides in their trucks. And luckily we know the owner of the highest lifted truck in the whole valley! We somehow got him to come over and watch a movie with us. However, you know those movies that you just keep hoping are going to get better but they never do? Haha that is exactly how our movie was. Everyone kept asking if it was going to get better, I honestly thought a movie couldn’t be as bad as it was, but apparently they can.

Okay, sorry for that tangent. Anyways this truck we were riding in apparently doesn’t meet all the proper regulations for the valley. There is something about the tires being too wide which doesn’t really make sense to me. Anyways, Zach always takes the back roads so the cops don’t see him. We end up driving right past a cop and sure enough the lights start flashing. As we are getting pulled over Zach turns and looks at Kenzie who can be quite the talker and says don’t say a word! As the cop comes to the window he starts going off about how the truck needs to be impounded and I start thinking what I am supposed to do if this thing gets impounded. As Zach is getting all his stuff together to give to the cop Kenzie just starts a talking and I am dying. Somehow, Kenzie can make a connection with anyone on the whole planet. It turns out Kenzie knows the cops parents or something and he knows hers. After making friends with the cop this real mean cop comes and starts chewing Zach out. After he left the other cop came back and didn’t give him any tickets or impound the truck it was miracle. From now on I am making sure Kenzie is in the car every single time I get pulled over. I am pretty sure she can get out of anything.

Those are probably the highlights of my weekend. I went to a reunion Sunday and boating Monday, with my cousins.  I won’t bore you with any details as nothing to super excited happened!

-Ashley P

First Post!!

I have finally decided to give the blogging world a try. It seems like everyone and their dog has a blog, so I might as well have one as well. Right? Also my life is way to epic to just inform the world of my life through meaningless Facebook statuses and tweets! So please bear with me as I make an attempt to become a blogger.

To begin I guess I will introduce myself. I am Ashley Peterson. Almost everyone calls me Ashley P! I live in the wonderful small town of Nibley, UT. I am currently in my very last semester of my undergraduate at Utah State University studying International Business and Economics. You might not want to ask me what I plan to do with my degree as it causes a lot of stress. However, I am confident that I will figure it all before I graduate in the spring. I grew up loving the Aggies! And love Aggie Basketball more than anything!

I feel like there are a couple of key things to know about me. First and foremost, my favorite color is purple. If it is purple than I probably have to have it! Second is I am a bit boy crazy. For some reason this as always been the case in my life. I do believe this is one reason I do not see myself getting married in the near future as there are just too many beautiful men in the world! How am I supposed to pick one to spend the rest of eternity with? That is no easy choice! Third is that I love ke$ha! I think that she is excellent. This is where my blog address comes from as Crazy Beautiful Life is my favorite song. Also Taco Bell is like my favorite restaurant ever! If I could eat there every day I would! I love travelling and collect shot glasses from all of the places that I visit.

Stay tuned for more posts!

-Ashley P