Buzzfeed posted a video of 24 Things To Do Before You Turn 30.  Here's their list and my thoughts on each of them.

• Spontaneously cut off all your hair.
• Nope. I love my hair too much. Even the girl in the video can tell this was a terrible idea.

• Take up some spiritual practice.
• Done.

• Become friends with your parents again.
• After my hour of FaceTiming my dad on Tuesday night and , I think I can cross this one off, too. Although was I ever not friends with my parents?

• Say hi to a large tortoise.
• We saw a giant turtle on the beach in Hawaii, and swam with a couple. Does that count?

• (Also - learn how to spell tortoise. I was so wrong like three different times, spell check couldn't even figure out what I was trying to say. UGH.)

• Go hard in vegas for 24 hours.
• No thanks. But I have been to Vegas for 24 hours for a bachelorette party, so we'll count that.

• Catch a huge fish (so you can brag about it forever).
• YES.

• Go on a long road trip with people you love.
• Well, I went to Oahu in May with friends, we've got a St. George trip in the works, and Maui trip on the backburner in 2014. I think those count.

• Learn how to cook at least one fancy dish.
• I can make quiche and creme brulee? Clearly, my idea of a fancy dish means something French.

• Find something you are really good at.
• Still working on this. Suggestions are welcome.

• Move to a new city.
• I moved to DC for a summer, I moved to Sacramento right after graduation, and I moved to Salt Lake for work. Check.

• Pee in every ocean.
• ... Let's just say swim in every ocean.

• Give one great speech at a friend's wedding.
• Start getting married, people. ;)

• Start a collection.
• Meh. Fine. Again, suggestions appreciated, because I don't really care about this one.

• Light fireworks in a baseball field.
• Well, if people would stop asking me how old I am and let me buy fireworks, this could happen.

• Go sailing.
• Who has a boat and wants to take me this weekend (or every weekend for the rest of the summer)?

• Make friends with people at a bar for one night.
• Maybe not a bar, but I'll be friends with strangers at a party for one night. Actually, I've done that!

• Learn a foreign language.
• Deal.

• Stop dressing like you’re still in high school.
• I hope I've conquered this.

• Take a spontaneous trip.
• I definitely think I've conquered this.

• Yell at a sports game.
• Um, only every sports game I go to.

• Get a tattoo about something random.
• I can hear Fat Amy in my head saying, "Mmmmm... Better not."

• Let go of your expectations.
• A work in progress.

• Stop doing things for the pictures and start doing it for the memories.

And here are my other personal pre-30 to-dos:

Life is full of choices. These are just a few of the ones I make most days.

"Wake up, sleepyhead! Who cares that you only got in bed at like 2:45am, you're a grown up and you have a real grown up job.

To sleep through your alarm, again, and look like a drown rat at work, turn to page 6. 
To will yourself out of bed and into your bathroom to put in your contacts so you can start feeling like a human being, turn to page 7.
To wish you had someone to make you breakfast in bed, keep dreaming.

You got dressed, curled your hair, ate a somewhat decent breakfast (if peanut butter toast while driving counts as somewhat decent) and are out the door in a record-breaking 20 minutes. Nice work!

For your 25 minute commute to work, silence is not an option.

To flip between radio stations and risk commercials/DJ chatter, turn to page 12.
To rock out to that sweet new CD you downloaded yesterday on your iPod so you can perfect your American Idol-worthy talent, turn to page 145.

Guess what? The batteries in your iPod/car radio converter doo-dad are dead. Also your throat is still sore from belting the set list from yesterday's drive home. And because you will never buy batteries this century, radio it is.

The DJs talk incessantly. The Hollywood Sleeze and Famous Filth segments are the only things that keep you sane.

To take the freeway(s) to work, turn to page 37.
To take 7th in to downtown, turn to page 122. 

This is always the wrong choice. Of course, there are literally 3 accidents in the space of 7 blocks. People clearly do not know how to drive in this state.

You finally made it to the office.

To venture in to the work kitchen and sneakily hunt for snacks, turn to page 18.
To sit and listen to your stomach grumble all morning, because clearly peanut butter toast is not a real breakfast, turn to page 99.

It's Tuesday. Of course there are no snacks in the kitchen. Try again on a Thursday. Today is your unfortunate day to starve.

Once you finally settle in at your desk, it's music time.

To Spotify, turn to page 49.
To listen to iTunes, flip to page 66.

iTunes is usually a safe bet, but you end up listening to all your favorite iTunes songs on Spotify anyway because you love to a) read what your friends are listening to, b) show off your fabulous taste in music, and c) share the totally-applicable-to-your-life-right-now jam your enjoying at the moment and hope your friends are catching the message, too (I never do that, guys).

It's been a long, slow day at work.

To leave work early to take a nap at home, turn to page 55.
To stay until 5:30 because, well, who really knows why, turn to page 31.

Staying a little longer was a really smart idea. Some social media fires came up and you were able to tackle them right away rather than having to deal with it at home hours later when you finally get around to checking those emails. Gold star. You go, Glen Coco.

But now you're starving.

To pick up Pizza Hut on your way home from work because it's only $5.55 for a large one-topping pizza right now, turn to page 87.
To stop by the grocery store to get ingredients for one of your Pinterest recipes, turn to page 90.
To fend for yourself based on what is in your cupboard, turn to page 112.

Ha. That's funny. There's never any real food in your pantry or fridge, so your dinner consists of peas, a handful of pita chips, leftover pasta and melted cheese sandwiches **I literally ate this the other night.

To sit around the apartment with Emily, eating Ben & Jerry's and watching Modern Family/Seinfeld, turn to page 101.
To get your lazy I-hate-exercise butt to Zumba, turn to page 133.
To sit in your hammock on your porch with Emily and look out over your little piece of the world, turn to page 111.

You and Emily magically turned into the coolest girls in the ward overnight because, all of a very sudden, you're hanging out in the hammock, and one by one, all your favorite members of the ward either scale the balcony Flynn Rider style (without the help of giant blonde hair) or walk in your unlocked front door.

After a couple hours of laughing and crazy, embarrassing stories, everyone heads home.

To go to bed at a decent hour, turn to page 151.
To attempt to go to bed but actually play Candy Crush Saga for upwards of 2 hours in your room, turn to page 127.
To have an Emily-Haley debrief and discuss your individual interpretations of what the heck just happened, turn to page 97.

You decide to go straight sleep right after the crowd dissipates (you only got like 5 hours of sleep last night, remember?) and you are attacked and eaten by zombies because of course you are. That's just how all Choose Your Own Adventure books end."

Did everyone ever win these things??? Because I never did.

Let me just start out by saying that my family, both immediate and extended family members, is awesome.

It's really a miracle the universe doesn't collapse when we're all together from the sheer magnitude of coolness we exude.

My whole family on my mom's side (the Canadian side) got together to celebrate Thanksgiving this year in Park City.












I love food. I love my family. I didn't have to travel very far to get both. Those three elements together were bound to let me have an amazing week.

two blog posts in two days!? what a novel idea!! I bet nobody's ever done that before.

heuh. sorry I'm not very good at consistency.

so last night I had the chance to be a part of the #GOPWatchParty in Downtown SLC with a few fellow Romney supporters. it was a blast and I will definitely be back for the next couple debates!

I spent the 90 minutes eating pizza and tweeting from my iPad.

here are some of my favorite tweets of the night.




(original tweets with links found here)

and then there's this.


if Governor Romney & President Obama switched hair.

made me chuckle quite a bit. and made me love Romney's hair even more (especially when it's on him).

Well... he was there... At my graduation... And signed this program for me. Yeah. It was super crazy. :)


Hilarious. And such a funny memento now.

Anyway. Four years ago I started this blog as a way to keep my friends (and mostly my mom) updated on want was going on in my life. That's still true, but it's still crazy that I'm DONE with school. Potentially FOREVER.

I'm super stoked about that fact :)