AggieLife

I just began my second week back at USU after a long summer away from Logan. I would dare say I forgot how much I loved it here. Just the whole atmosphere and fact of being an Aggie that makes everything exciting. I am finally feeling settled into this life again and it makes me so happy! I guess I should catch up with recent events in the life of Tanisha.
Since I've been up here I've moved into my new apartment with I love. Lauren has came to visit me for our Labor Day weekend, which while I have only been gone for a week I feel like I've been here for so long when it comes to seeing people I love. The Aggies played in their first football game of the year and we WON! I washed Bruiser (my car) and the next day it rained. I finalized my course schedule which after much deliberation I finally decided I wasn't going to take math this semester. I got my room all decorated and can I just tell you that it is my fave! I have become reunited with Skylar & Mikayla, which after a long summer I was glad yet not surprised to find out nothing changed. I wrote Jake the first letter of his mission and it felt so bizarre yet very, very, very right. He's doing great I just know it. I have spent most of my free time looking for a job which, unfortunately has been unsuccessful.I met my new roommate whom I love very much! As you can tell a lot has happened and that makes me excited!
I can just tell that this year is going to be spectacular!

Choices, They're Tricky.

I love summer. It seems to instantly create a life that is easier and more enjoyable. Summer to me can be summed up by all the nights where I get absolutely no sleep because I'm out with my best friends until we notice that the sun raised. As summer is nearing it's end, I'm faced with so many options. I can't really decide on them all 100% so I suppose I'm just going to do what feels right. It's crazy for me to think that just a year ago I took the HUGE leap of faith and went to USU all alone. I had no idea what to expect but as soon as I got there I felt at home. Which was surprisingly pleasant to me because I had never moved before. We're not just talking never moved towns we're talking never even moved to a new house so i knew it was going to be an adjustment. It was a smooth one. I want so many different things that are pulling me in all sorts of directions. I can't really decide which path I want to travel because they're all good. Which makes it even worse. When asking myself which would make me the best me I can be there is never a definite answer and I have no clue what to do. I guess bottom line? I have roughly 20 days until I return to Aggie Life and we're going to hope that where I'm suppose to be.

Good ol' Globe

I'm home! And have been for about a month now! Man, oh man, did I miss this place! Which yes I will admit I find a little odd considering towards the end of my senior year all I wanted to do was get out of here and now I long for the days of my simple, reliable life in Globe, AZ.

Since I’ve been home I have caught up on many things: Swimming, friends, sunshine, family, driving aimlessly around the streets, putting a wedding together, coloring my wall, shopped til' I dropped, nearly lost half my big toe,visited my baby Mikayla, played with my adore niece & nephew, got Sprinkles cupcakes, made cookies,talked on the phone for hours,shocked myself beyond belief, and ate all the yummy food. I’m so happy and blessed that I was able to come home for the summer! I mean as much as I love Utah and being an Aggie, I LOVE my life that I have here in my hometown.

This summer: I vow to make it an unforgettable-crazy nights-sunny days- whirlwind of fun! I’m very pleased with the efforts so far!

Milestones

Both yesterday and today I have been filled with so much emotion. Which yes I will admit, it normal I am kind of a baby about things but this past little while it has really hit me that as much as I am just so done with school, once this year comes to a close everything changes. Garrett, Mitch and Jeff all leave on their missions and as proud as I am of them & I know that they will all do exceptionally well the selfish part in me wants them to stay and play around at USU with me. Kyle is staying in Logan for the summer, living in his fave place, Oakridge and getting surgery on his shoulder, he'll have a blast with that! The ladies love Kyle! As for the girls, we'll all go away for summer and come back with a billion stories to tell as we all live together in the Fall. Skylar with her job in Provo living with Lexis (her cousin) and making $$$. Mikayla with moving home to spend the summer with her family, playing with her puppy and shopping, a lot ;). And me, Tanisha bouncing around between Arizona (my home)living the life from two of my best friends getting married & three of my best guy friends back home leaving on their missions all the way to playing with my niece and nephew and Utah, for my job at Retreat for Girls (yes, I still smile when I think about it).


It's really crazy to think that we all started this year not knowing each other at all and now it feels like we've known each other forever. We'll always have the "Remember whens" and the "We used to do this all the time..." It's silly for me to say but I am so happy that I lived in GHETTO San Juan so I was able to meet these amazing people. I can honestly say that as I close my Freshman year of college that I rocked it. At times it was hard I will admit but honestly I looking back I had some of the best times and they all consisted of these six people. From the movie nights, to crazy dance parties, to the spontaneous trips to random places,to the Sunday dinners that turned into endless hours of chatting,to fort building,to General Conference,to sledding Old Main Hill after a crazy snow storm, to the nights where we never went to bed because we were just having to much fun. We really did it all. This year has been one for the books and one that I will look back on and smile while thinking, " I actually did all that stuff.." && When we all reunite 2 years from now I can honestly say it will be a time of joyous celebration and many many many stories to catch up on.

"Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
- Anais Nin

Today is the last day of class and all I can think about is how close I am to being home. I have enjoyed this year more than I could have ever imagined but geez I've missed my family so much!!I miss waking up on a Saturday to my own room, with the smell of some delish breakfast hitting my nose and my lovely daddy in the kitchen waiting to greet me.I miss having the option of just driving 2 minutes to my my sweet grandparents house and just laying around with my grandma all day watching Harry Potter and Murder, She Wrote. I miss my wonderful friends and how without spoken word we would get together every Friday&Saturday night a play around our town. I miss Lauren, she's my favorite and I miss our cousin shopping trips whenever we felt like it. I miss having the Daddy-Daughter Days after a hard week at, well, life. No one can make me feel half as good as Popsicle Taylor can.

More than a lot of others things that I miss are my nephew and niece. I miss Monster Emmet and Sugar-Sweet McKenzie. I miss taking them on Auntie-and-Me days. I miss being able to driving and see them whenever I want. I miss going and playing with them all day. I miss their sweet smiles and their adorable laughs. I miss watching dumb little kids t.v. shows that make them so happy. I miss them falling asleep on my shoulder when they're tired.I even miss their little whimpers of when they don't get what they want. I miss THEM.

I create.

       Sometimes when I get overwhelmed with things I'm suppose to do I decide not to do any of them and spend my time doing things that can release my creativity. Hence the start of this blog the week before finals week. Sometimes I just become so emotionally drained and absorbed in studies that I feel like I have to to something to remind myself that actually am good at things. Even if it's not really Physics or Earth Science that are my expertise. This past week has been a blur. A long, sunny, endearing blur. I've managed to study more than I ever have in my life and for some reason I feel like I will never be ready enough for these finals coming up.

      First you must understand something about Miss Taylor, I am very much a planner and when things don't really go according to the "plan" that I came up with I start to become very stressed and overcome with the thought that it might not work out. I then breathe really slow and steady trying to remind myself that it was never my plan that was important it was Heavenly Father's and the it really will all be okay. This breakdown, that can occur really anywhere I might add.For which I would like to give my apologies to anyone who has ever witnessed one, they are rather dramatic to anyone else but myself, the drama-tee.

      Anyway after that I gather myself back together and put that smile right back where it belongs, I then, create. Other people like run or paint or shop (which I do enough of without doing it when I'm stressed too) or build things, I just make things.

It usually in stages too:
Like cooking it the first stage, I will make or bake something that has little to none nutritional value simply because well it's funner to make and yummier to eat. Lemon Glaze Poppyseed Muffins. All. From. Scratch. (thank you Pinterest for the recipe)

Stage two usually consist of me creating things for or with other people.This week my roommate let me "pamper" her with lotion massage. Which is where I created my name on her leg. Silly? Yes, but it was fun. In high school when I was stressed I would go and color on the wall that lined our yard with sidewalk chalk so the cars that drove by could see. I would usually recruit my best friends and we would take a bucket of chalk down and illustrate for own town. (My house was just off the main road, so everyone saw the wall)

Stage three of my madness is usually creating something for me. This time I decided to started on my decorations for my room come Fall 2012. I stared my banner and if I do say so myself it is adore! I love it! & I'm very excited to hang it in my room next school year!

Now I suppose my last and final stage is creating this blog and blogging about why and how this blog came about. Which I'm very excited about!

Yay! I'm a new Blogger!