Let's talk Football

Does anyone else agree that four hour football games are just way (WAY) to long? No? Yeah me either...

Anyway, this last weekend I went with a group of friends to BYU's football game against Utah State. We are not going to talk about the ending score, or about how it ruined our perfect 4-0 season, or how our QB is now injured and out for the season,but we can talk about how fun it is to cheer for a team and a school that you love.

Admittedly, I am not a sports gal. I mean I can totally get on board with watching the occasional professional sports game, but overall I would much rather be playing a sport than watching someone else play a sport. However, when you are in the stadium with 60,000 fans cheering for the team you have grown up worshiping, I think it is impossible to have anything but an amazing evening. So even though we lost, I will cheer for BYU until the day I die. Go cougars!

Plus, I got to see this cute little cousin  of mine in the marching band (I can't actually believe that he is old enough to be in college...I feel old). Double win.

Can you think of a better way to spend a Friday night? I can't. Here's to hoping that every Friday is as good as this one.

Insincerely Yours,
Heidi Jane

92 and Loving It

You know how most people inherently love their families? Like it is just this thing that we are supposed to do and say that we do? Well I would say that I occasionally fall into that passive emotional state. I mean I honestly do love my family, like a lot, but I often take it for granted. But then there are weekends like this last one. Weekends where you know that you have been supremely blesses in having an amazing family. So blessed that you have a 92 year old grandpa that is still healthy and who still thinks that all of his grandchildren are perfect. Who, even though he has a hard time moving, will always volunteer to sit and hold his crying grand baby and will sing him all of the songs he knows while gently rocking him back and forth. Who has a hard time hearing people when they talk, but will just sit in the circle of people talking and simply smile because he is happy to be surrounded by family. Yeah, weekends like these remind me that I have an amazing family, and I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world.

Happy 92nd Birthday Grandpa, I sure do love you!

Sincerely Yours,
Heidi Jane

I have a plan

You guys, good news. I have decided on a graduate school plan! This April I will be applying to be a....drum roll please....Physician Assistand (PA)!

I feel really great about this decision. I came to college planning on pursuing this career, but switched halfway through to thinking I would work more with non profits on the business end of medicine, but I am officially back to being a PA and I have never felt more content with my graduate plan!

You guys, bad news. Now I have to get a PA school to accept me.

Keep your fingers, toes, and all other appendages crossed that some school out there thinks I would make a great PA!

That Awkward Moment When...

That awkward moment when I give a half hour presentation in my capstone class only to find out that I was pronouncing a scientific technique wrong. I didn't look very close at the name of a certain procedure and I so pronounced it as a letter instead of a Latin symbol. Here is the comment I received from my teacher.


"...Finally, just a point of information.  Several times you referred to IFN”y” but the final symbol is not y, it is the Greek letter γ or gamma..."

This picture sums up my feelings quite nicely. 

Thank goodness  have developed a high tolerance for embarrassing moments, otherwise this one might have put me over the edge.


Insincerely Yours,
Heidi Jane

I Insincerely Apologize for....

• Currently listening to Avicii's "Hey Brother" on repeat
• Complaining about my impending finals 20,000,000,000,000 times a day (only a mild exaggeration)
• Wanting to tell you what I dream about every. day. For real, I have a dream ever night. That should be a post in and of itself. 

What do you Insincerely Apologize for?

I leave you with this wonderful picture of me, my friend, and a baby goat. Just because I can.

She's indecisive. She can't decide.

Sean Kingston pretty much summed up my life with the phrase "She's indecisive. She can't decide." My life at the moment is filled with a future of unknowns. I don't know where I will be this summer, I don't know what graduate school I want to attend, I don't know what job I will have next year, and I don't know where I see my life in 5 years.

 On the one hand, I want to be open to new experiences that I would not have planned for myself, but are great opportunities. But, I also want to set goals for myself so that I have something to work towards and for. But how can I make such big decisions that will literally impact the rest of my life. I feel like it took me a very long time to reconcile to my undergraduate major, and honestly, the only reason I could do that was because I knew I could basically still go to any graduate school I wanted. But now I have to choose a graduate school and I am having a quarter life crisis.

However, the good news is that I am going to be a super-senior next year (who'd have thought that would ever be considered good news), which gives me one last year to decide. So that's a plus.

Well if anyone knows what I should do with my life, please feel free to direct me. This is what my resume looks like at the moment

Name: Heidi Jane
Major: Genetics and Biotechnology
Hobbies: Music, cooking, reading, having fun, swimming, crafting, decorating
Professional Interests: Everything and Nothing
5 Year Plan: No idea

Any and all counsel is appreciated.

Insincerely Yours,
Heidi Jane

As Long as it Doesn't Rain...

Earlier this year I had the brilliant idea that I wanted to go camping. Camping with friends in college, what could be more fun right? Well, let me tell you a story.

7:00 PM- (the time when we are supposed to be meeting up at my house) Guy calls and says that he will be late

8:00 PM- Said guy shows up (he had all the gear)

9:00 PM- We head to said guys house a half hour away to meet up with some of his friends

10:30 PM- His friends show up, cool.

11:00 PM- Arrive at campsite, there are no lights 

11:30 PM- Said guy realizes he did not have the center poles for the girls tent. So he improvises.

11:45 PM- Said guy informs us that as long as it doesn't rain our tent should be fine.

12:00 AM-4:00 AM- Torrential down-pore. As long as we pulled out legs up in a ball and didn't move at all we didn't get soaked. Yeah...

6:00 AM- Everyone wakes up and we have a 10 minute breakfast and head home. 

Our beautiful tent...

We look good at 6:00 AM after a night of avoiding puddles...

You know how some memories are not that great when the happen but become infinitely better over time? Yeah this is one of those moments. A few months later and now I can't think of a better camping trip that I have been on.

Insincerely Yours,

Heidi Jane