Rainy Days Make Me Feel Alive

I just got all cutesy for working out and then I thought "Why did I do that?" Just going to be a hot mess afterwards, regardless. Soooo I'm going to do P90X again today! Rawr. I always feel so intense when I say that, but truth be told, it's not intimidating once you start. I actually get excited for P90X because I know it works! Self-proclaimed dork.

Okay. It is RAINING and anyone who knows me at all knows how much I love<3!0V3 rain- the more intense, the better. In case you don't get it: I feel like Gene Kelly sometimes.

"Today I don't feel like doin' anythingggggg. (berda-buh-buh-budda-buh) I just wanna lay in my beddddddd." (berda-buh-buh-budda-buh!) I probably spent too long trying to spell that sound. Ok I like this song except: 1) I don't want to hear about all of those things Bruno does on his day off, yuck. 2) did the music video REALLY have to have monkeys??

I've decided to make a music video of this song asap to a Tyler Ward-edited version. :) I'll probably keep most of the choreography because it's cute.

Final decision: goodbye Air Force. :( My plan at the beginning of the summer was to surprise everyone and show up at PT, which would have been fun but I have spent the past 2 months racking up the pros & cons of various decisions & I am thrilled with my choice. I will be majoring in Middle Eastern Studies with a minor in Broadcasting. I'm applying to study in the Jerusalem Center for Winter Semester, the following summer I will intern at the White House and for a Broadcasting Station (the bigger the better, the goal is Fox News). Yippeee!! Now I can just enjoy soaking up the Disney experience for my resume to Fox News, visit Epcot and dream of all my future travels that I'm chomping at the bit to explore, and self-reflect on how lucky I am. (full-time job)

Yesterday I spent most of the day with Jaime! We waited in line for 2.5 hours to meet Flynn Rider & Rapunzel. Totally worth it: got to know the couple in line behind us, the cast member attendant "V" was funny, and I got my Tom's shoes signed by both of them!! :) Then we went straight to Epcot and I fell in love with this park. We saw Canada in the 360 theatre- breathtaking. It was especially fascinating because Jaime is part-Canadian so she was telling me about her family that lives there!

We had ice cream crepes in France, we heard a live British band in England, we bought Arabic earrings in Morroco, we had Japanese marble soda & rice crackers in Japan. :) So much flipping fun! Also, kimonos are beautifully soft. I tried on a sage-green kimono & I want one as a nightgown now, kthanks. Here are the earrings!

Now off to help Dell with her Wal-Mart shopping post-ER and then afterwards... P90X! Stoked. Have a life-changing day!

O Canada!  I'm coming for you soon.

Hey You. :)

Приветствовать! Mkay I just sent you an email with a link to this blog after you asked for it and I'm a little nervous. :) Nothing too deep has been posted lately, but I'm going to be better about making time to write what I'm thinking about!

I love having this blog because I can sometimes say things exactly the way I want to say them, through pictures and words. I collect pictures and quotes from other blogs and sometimes everything I've been trying to say is summed up in a picture from someone else's blog, so I post it here.

Some blog posts are addressed to specific people, but most posts are just for everyone. :) Your opinions, as always, are appreciated so let me know what you think! <3 Court

Here it is, info on the Jerusalem Center: http://ce.byu.edu/jc/ So beautiful, I almost cried tears of joy. Get me there!!

Half-Way Christmas, June 25th.

What a day. I worked from 10:15-7:15 in the kitchen at the Terrace: costume is basically pyjamas, worked with some of my favorite people, pretty calm day for guest attendance, witnessed another incredible thunderstorm. <3 Scary: my roommate Dell had to go to the Emergency Room but my sources say that she will most likely be coming home tonight, which is a relief and a blessing. Talked with Halers today on the phone, I haven't laughed that hard in a while. Just finished watching Anastasia with Daniel, he's never seen the movie past the point when the she meets Pooka, which is basically 10 minutes into the movie. SUCH a good movie, in my mind, it's Disney. Seriously surprised myself by how much I could quote the movie, refrained a lot for Daniel's benefit.
Now accepting the fact that I won't be spending the night at the hospital and will be working my rear off at work tomorrow- two locations, 11 hour shift, booyah. Or should I say, "cha-ching!"? Btw, I am officially going to be a Middle Eastern Studies Major and I'm currently planning on applying for the

Jerusalem Center Study Abroad Program on July 11th!! <3

For the record, July 4th is going to be very significant: first & foremost celebrates the United States' independence from Britain, the day that I work with Nick again & he returns my shirt, Daniel gets his computer package, and it's also the day that my gallon of milk expires.

I MUST send that email to my classmates for my Disney class, many Asians are expecting it and I don't want to come between Asians and a good grade for a class. :) Forreals, I can make that joke because Andi understands that I have a half-Asian soul. Here are some more blog discoveries I appreciate:

All I Wanna Do....Is Grow Old With You.

I just had multiple, consecutive weeping sessions. Yup, I just watched The Notebook. Sometimes when I'm watching a movie by myself, I skip around to my favorite scenes and bypass the conflicts or more angsty parts of movies (beginning scene in Finding Nemo when the mom dies, the part in Beauty and the Beast when Gaston leads the villagefolk against the Beast's Castle) so I can get to the quotable lines or the love story. But nope, I watched this movie the whole way through. I normally end it early when it gets to the older Noah and Allie but this time I stayed with them & sobbed. I cried so much I actually got a little dehydrated I think so I paused the movie to take a swig of V8 Fusion- Acai Berry ~Fruits & Vegetables (product placement) and I'm feeling much betta! (Kudos if you get the reference <3)

I just realized how important it is to be your best & most natural self around the people who you care about the most. Life is short and there's not enough time to carry a facade and then spend more time transitioning from that to the real you. I think that's why some relationships don't last- someone isn't being honest about who they are. You'll naturally be happier around people you love, don't try to be happier. I finally allowed myself to accept that I may not have the stunning career I imagine I will, but if I can foremost find someone who I truly feel will love me through everything, and who will change with me, then everything I do after that will be a success. I want to grow old with someone who will always see the good in what I do and find the positive in what I say. I want to spend the rest of my life with a husband who inspires me to be better and who I can be whoever I want when I'm with him.

Holy moses I don't know if I will ever get the hang of writing down what I'm thinking before my thoughts have moved on. But as Mr. Dozier once wrote on the board, "The palest ink is better than the best memory." Big, vague call-out to everyone who has ever inspired me to care about how I say things and how I live my life. I love LOVE. Good night, much love, Courtney xoxo

P.S. I love you. (I always want to do that after watching that movie with Swank & Butler!)

P.S.S. There was a marvelous thunderstorm today that soaked me through my chef outfit. I'm addicted to weather phenomena. (Forreals, weather warnings on the radio thrill me. I get all crazy when it starts out with that beeping noise, makes me want to speed to Wal-Mart and buy a neon orange emergency backpack and a crank radio.)

Wal-Mart at Midnight

I want/need time to myself. Fairly often. I obviously enjoy spending time with lots of different people but sometimes I get giddy just thinking about doing a load of laundry & later folding clothes on the couch while I watch a Disney movie. Goodness I feel excited about the prospect of doing that tomorrow!! Tonight I offered to do double-duty grocery shopping and it was so relaxing for the first hour. After that, somewhat chaotic. I was all over the store, backtracking like crazy to compare prices, trying to evaluate how much I could actually carry, up and down each aisle multiple times, asking friendly Mexican workers where to find items, and navigating around the precarious cardboard box piles as the entire store was being re-stocked.

Patrons of Wal-Mart at midnight can look like these people but nothing too crazy tonight. I managed to accidentally time everything perfectly & have the sweetest bus driver in the world! He carried one tote bag onto the bus for me after telling me not to rush (I raced my cart to the bus after paying, almost took out a family of 4) and then he and I chatted about how people should wear reflector vests at night for safety reasons. Safe-D begins with me! New trend challenge: make reflector vests cute. Random thought: when my arms were draped across all of my tote bags securing them to the bus seat, it made me think of when kids fall asleep on you and you have them under your arms & I felt very protective.

It's kind of ridiculous how lucky I am. Like seriously. There have definitely been moments recently when I feel like I'm frustrated with certain people but I can't change them so I just need to accept this, move on, and keep working at everything. By the way, have you ever experienced that overwhelming euphoria as you contemplate several good things or memories in your life and you are aware that on the outside you look very serious or calm? It's the strangest sensation but so many people know what I'm talking about when I describe it. Cheesy I know, but here's a visual:

I'll never forget from where all of my blessings come and I'm so desperately and overwhelmingly grateful for my religion to provide so much security and happiness.

Recap of today: Hollywood Studios in the morning with Wags (his first time in this park) and then stayed there but met up with Daniel, Paul, and Megan after Wags had to go to work. Rockin' Rollercoaster, Beauty and the Beast show, Movie Experience, Star Tours, Tower of Terror (after swearing up and down that I wouldn't get on again), Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular, and the American Idol Experience!!

Dear You, I love your honesty, thoughts, and emails. :) :) :) I'll reply as soon as possible.
By the way, big decision made recently and it's bittersweet. But mostly, I am thrilled with where I am headed. :) Tell you soon. <3 Спокойной ночи, Court

P.S. I love you Halers.

Probably Mindless Dreaming

#1 Fan Right Here.

I'm Only Me When I'm With You.

You can say that she's not an authentic actress, you can point out her flaws. But I will forever be grateful for Taylor Swift as an artist who doesn't try to be eloquent, she just says what she's thinking. And she is beautiful! Thanks for being there for me, Tay.
P.S. She's inspired me to keep writing songs so watch out people. :)

I Love You, Dad.

Daddy, you are the best. xoxo Court

Dad Lyfe

Que Sera, Sera!