Internet

My husband and I moved to a basement apartment in a house that is brand new. We are the first tenants, but our landlord, who lives above us, still has not gotten internet. It has only been a couple days, but it has been rough! We have been really busy moving and unpacking, so it is hard to see what it will be like when I am not super busy. Though it is weird not watching Netflix, the worst part is doing homework. I have my phone with limited data, but it is way too hard to do homework on that. It is a good thing my sister lives nearby so I can use her internet. I wish we didn't have to be so dependent on internet. I can live without social media, but I need the internet to graduate.

Snapchat

I have to admit that I love snapchat. It can be used for a lot of not so good things, but my family has so much fun with it. Last Sunday we were having a game night. My siblings had me teach them how to do all the funny effects and faces that snapchat has now.  I taught them how, and we spent the next half hour sending each other snapchats and sending them to my parents as well. My nephew who is almost 4 love it! I then got the idea to try it out on the baby, and that was even better. There are so many fun things that technology has given us that actually do bring families closer together. Though we were all on our phones, we were still talking and laughing and interacting together. 

Anxiety, Depression, and Media

Today I realized just how fast and far media can spread. My older sister married into an awesome family. Her husband has two older sisters that are always fun to have at family dinner. These two older sisters have blogs, and I always enjoy reading them. They wrote a particular good post two days ago called "Satan's Hidden Arsenal Against Women." Today as I was scrolling through my news feed I noticed someone from my home stake had shared their post. That's so crazy! There is no way that she knows them! I then realized the this post had been shared, liked, and quoted over 9,000 times. So many people that I know have shared it or talked about it, and they don't even know them.

Social media can be really awesome. This article is awesome and really helped me, and I'm positive it has helped so many people. Though there are so many awful things that come from media, it can have some great information that can really help you and lift your spirits. I encourage everyone to read this post. It's long, but it's worth it.


http://www.insideoutminds.com

Riser

In class this week we talked about music. We were asked to think of a song that would be the theme song to our lives. I thought, and thought.....and got nothing. What one song encompasses so many years with so many changes? I don't know that there is a song that really describes me or my life, but I am really loving "Riser" by Dierks Bentley. It's such a good song. We face so many challenges in life. Some are big, some are small, and some we fell will never end. Though this is the case, we can be a riser. We can rise up to the challenges and work hard. Everything about life takes work. Living, making money, developing relationships, developing ourselves....and basically everything else. I want to be the kind of person that doesn't mope around and say "why me?" I want to take a minute to process what is happening, and then just go for it. I don't want to waste time feeling sorry for myself. I want to work hard to dig my way out of whatever dark hole I've been tossed into. I want to be happy and to make the best of every situation. I want to feel good about myself and feel good about what Ive accomplished and what the people around me are accomplishing.