steve madden

i'll be honest.

i'm craving fall.

you know, autumn?

don't get me wrong, i love summer.

i love the sunshine and everything.

but i've realized that i absolutely love fall.

and winter even!

can you believe i just said that?

i did.

those are my two favorite seasons.

and i didn't even realize it until.....lately.

i love the changing leaves,

and crisp air.

i just love it.

i love the feeling of waking up in the winter-time to have snow dancing around outside.

i love bundling up in three different blankets and sipping hot chocolate all night.

i love sitting by a fireplace and just being cozy.

and my VERY favorite part is the wardrobe in fall/winter.

i love layering outfits and wearing cute jackets/cardigans/scarves/all of it!

i have an obsession with boots,

and i think i'm one of those people that wears boots as soon as school starts,

because technically it's "fall"

and you are allowed to wear boots in the fall.

why am i thinking all of this when it's only july 15th?

because i started thinking about what boots i want to buy this season.

i have like seven different options here.

and i'm already racking my brain as to which ones i want!

call me crazy.

yours truly,

jasmine

chin wah

well, it's safe to say i'm exhausted.
this has been a week full of constant work play.
just long days, really. 7 am to generally 10 or eleven every night.
i'm pooped.

last night i got off at 5:30 so i decided to go get my eyebrows done, since they've been looking a little shameful.
i walk into the salon and this guy says he'll do them for me.
well, i happen to think men do the best hair in all the land, so i was like, great! go ahead.
i sit down, and he seems a little hesitant at this whole thing.
he kept saying, "okay.....here we go....." and "you ready.....?"
over and over and over and over.
and i'm like..."okay, great...have at it!"
so awkward.
i wanted to just be like, you know what, let's just stop here.
i was so worried to see the finished product.

it was fine. i still have eyebrows. but it's really annoying that my left eyebrow is like way different than my right.
it's been that way forever and it really bothers me. and every time i get them done, the person is always like, "so, did you know one of your eyebrows is shorter than the other?"

.....................what?! give me a mirror. i had no idea.


people, come on.






oh. and my dad ordered chinese food for us last night, and i went to pick it up (because i'm the nicest daughter around).
naturally, i got first dibs on the fortune cookies.
that is half the reason i eat chinese food, you know.

you ready to hear what my fortune said?

okay, here we go.......
you ready.....


"your magnetic personality will draw people to you this month."

so.... do you feel drawn yet?



yours truly,
jasmine

food for thought

i'm just reflecting on how wonderful life is.

it's amazing how everything just works out. everything works out the way it's supposed to, meant to, and needed to.

i'm grateful for that.

yours truly,

jasmine

topless moms

so this blog is just pretty much updates on what i do everyday.

seeing as i'm a part-time, single parent,

the majority of my posts for the next....oh...about month and a half

will be child-related.

if you don't like children,

i would not even bother reading.

that's just my own personal advice.

anyways.

today i took elle to red butte gardens.

i didn't really know where i was going.....

that turned into the theme of the day.

i thought i was there, so i parked on this hill

and walked all the way up, 

child in tow.

and then i'm like..okay, elle, where to?

she just giggles and goes,

"we're not at the garden!"

.

i see a sign that says,

"garden, this way" (arrow pointing up).

so we walked back down the hill,

got in the car,

and drove to the real garden.

i do feel pretty neat driving this car around all day...

now

fast forward to sitting at the sand pit with a bunch of kids

and their moms.

i had a nice conversation with a woman about her lovely tangerine pants.

i was eyeing them the whole time,

and when she complimented me on my shirt,

i just HAD to find out where she got her wardrobe.

so then we talked malls/shopping for a while.

well, 

during this time on the bench,

this woman comes and sits next to me with a little baby.

i'm thinking, oh how cute is this little baby!

and she goes,

"oh....you're hungry?!"

and lifts up her shirt and starts nursing her baby on the bench..

..with her shirt up the whole time.

you guys, you guys!

i was dying.

please at least put a blanket on you or something.

and then she farted.

no, not the baby. i'm positive it was not the baby.

i was just thinking...please get off my bench.

*topless mom's son is in the red. 

*look at my new mom-friend's pants! to die for.

yours truly,

jasmine

cheeto puffs

i work as a nanny.

elle's nanny.

she is precious!

3 years old.....going on 18.)

she is so stinkin' smart

and knows more about hexagonal structures and antelope than i do!

(who honestly knows about those things....anyone)?

i just adore her.

today we got all ready in our "twirly dresses" and ballerina buns

and went to ballet and tap class.

of course, we had to stop off at the pet store next door to the dance studio.

her face lit up when she saw the cats.

good gracious, i think i could just eat little kids right up.

i'm surprised i haven't actually ever gone as far as to do that,

but i'll keep you posted...

every time i nanny for a family, 

or even babysit a couple times,

i become SO attached to the kids.

the amount of love i have for them is just unreal,

so i can only imagine what it will be like when i have children of my own.

on a side note,

i came home from work today,

and my mom had a big canister of those disgusting cheeto puff balls sitting on the counter

you know, the ones that should be illegal to sell in stores

LET ALONE BUY!!!!!?????

yup, those would be the ones.

i had a mini fit in the kitchen.

...and then she came and ate one.
talk about disgusting.

xo

sunday funday

i went to church today. singles ward style. i will admit...i love one o'clock church. there is no rush to wake up early, and having too little of time to get ready is never an issue.

the singles ward is an interesting place. like, i don't mind student wards. but singles wards....are open to all ages. i mean, anyone that is single and ready to mingle....which means there are forty year olds thrown into the bunch. why, people? why?

it was a good meeting. we sang like five patriotic songs. celebrating america's birthday every day, all day. it's fine.

i came home and had a bbq with the fam. mom made us eat outside in the backyard, around our table that seats FOUR people. there are six of us. why? because it's family time. don't mind the bees swarming the table, the blazing heat, or the fact that two family members are sitting on tall stools a foot above everyone else, and that we are all crammed way too close for comfort. i was grumpy, but i did enjoy that blue cheese burger. 

now i'm digesting my food while nestled in my bed, eating lemon drops. my tummy was granted lots of gifts today. lucky pooch.

xo

welp. here i am.


this time, i think i'm here to stay. i went on hiatus for a while....but mind you, it was needed.

i had to get my life in order. i had to get my thoughts in order. i had to get my priorities in order.

check. check. check. and check.

i feel great!! there was a time (if you're smart, you'd realize it was during my blogging break)...
that i wasn't so sure of everything. i wasn't so sure of the direction i was going with everything.
i had a great boyfriend, living in the magical logan, and the money tree was thriving extremely well!

ha.

my boyfriend was great. he was. but things took a shift. ahhhhh the demise of every relationship...a shift. yeahyeahyeah. to be quite honest, he was a major reason i was living in logan for the summer. how can you give up a summer love!? cue the cheesy music and frollicking through sunflower fields.

but really. that was my mindset.

well, now let's cue the depressing music and empty cupboards for the next month. because i was starving to death with not a penny in my pocket. i was working at the car wash, and they conveniently never needed me to work, as the weather was pretty undependable. you'd think he'd have my back! curse you, weather.

so my bank account was pretty non-existent. (nothing new, but this was to a whole new level).

so.....i couldn't really afford to live in logan.

and then i started missing my cute fam, and realized i never really saw them. i thought, you know, this is kind of a waste of time to be staying in logan for a boy that i'm not even going to marry. sure, i "love" logan, but sometimes it's okay to realize i can love other places, too.


logan was super fun. obviously, i had a complete and utter blast. i pretty much wanted to marry the land of logan. however, i realized it can be okay to admit that although i LOVED it, i was ready to move on a little bit.


this is where the story gets hard to put into words. each time i tell the story (which has been a lot, lately), i just kind of make a bunch of stuff up. "uh....and then....so...really....i mean.....yeah." that's how it actually really sounds.


but, faithful-followers-that-i-probably-lost-during-that-blogging-break-forgive-me, i owe it to you to explain myself. ready, go.

okay....so i feel like i loved it in logan. my reply to anyone and everyone that asked me how i was liking school was, "ohhhhhhh my goodness gracious, i am having the time of my life. i love it more than anything in this world. i never want to come home! i'm just having the time of my life!"

this was true.

shortened version of the story: i had a blast, but i'm moving on and focusing my life in another direction.


i'm moving to the land of milk and honey.


(that means provo, you guys).




wait....what....jasmine just said she's moving to provo? go re-read that, make sure you got that right.






yes. yes, you did.




um, yeah. who would have guessed? ten points for you, if you are raising your hand. you go, glen coco.


i didn't think i'd ever say it. i didn't think i'd actually be doing it! but i am.
i go off of my internal feelings a lot in life. if you ask my mom, you'd know that i literally just go with my own wind. but, my own wind always takes me where i need to go. (my own wind isn't necessarily MY own wind. i think it's a greater wind). besides the point, i listen. if you know my utah state story, you would remember that i never even actually visited logan before applying, getting my apartment, and having the feeling that it is where i needed to be. let me tell ya, it was. it was the place i needed to be. in MANY more ways than none. 


but there has been this rather annoying tugging at my emotions to go to provo. i've pushed it aside for months, because "i'm having the time of my life in logan." but i finally caved and listened. so, here i go.




i'm living in liberty square with my two great friends, laurel and christina. christina is my dear friend from USU! she is going to BYU, and laurel and i are going to UVU. i'm doing the whole wannabe BYU student route. cue the gagging of audience members.




however, i have this feeling that it's where i'm supposed to be. and really, that's why the story is so hard to tell. because people don't always understand feelings. but i think they are the most powerful things in this world.






so, i'm listening to it. and here i go.


xo