Thankful

So, I have not written in my blog for a long time! I have been super-de-duper busy, which is good, but makes for not much time to write in de bloggy. However, in response to some urging from a friend (love you Hilly!) to write in my blog more, here I am!

I am now going to jump on the bandwagon of "Things I am thankful for" every day of this Thanksgiving season.

With that being said, I have some catching up to do!!!

DAY ONE:
I am so beyond grateful that I am a theater major at Weber State University. Seriously. It is such an amazing thing and I am so grateful for it. Weber State is like Utah's best kept secret of musical theater education. It is an amazing venue for learning,  performing, becoming a well rounded theater person, and making a theater family (sounds cheesy, but when you spend almost every minute of every day with these people, they become family). Though I am grateful that I am graduating next semester (HUZZAH!) I will definitely miss Weber State and the home that it has been to me for the past four years. I love theater, I love my friends, I love what I have learned and am learning, I love my professors, and I love the memories I have made.

DAY TWO:
I am really grateful for my job. I work at the Dress Barn in Layton (it's only been open a couple of months and is a beautiful store! Come in and visit me!!!) and I completely love it. Though it is a retail job, and I'm not particularly fond of retail, I still really enjoy it as a whole. I believe in the merchandise, I love the merchandise, I love helping women find things they feel beautiful in, I love our store discount (hahah!) and I absolutely ADORE the women I work with! I am so blessed to have such amazing co-workers. My manager is so understanding about my insane schedule and availability and the assistant managers are so supportive and helpful. I love them a ton! I am a lucky girl.

DAY THREE:
I am grateful for my husband's internship with David Locke and the Jazz. He is so happy and loves it so much. Even though it requires a lot of driving and a lot of late nights I can tell he is so happy and just loves every second of it. Also, it is a foot in the door as far as future jobs go! That's never a bad thing :) I am so proud of him and all of his hard work. He is an amazing person and an even more amazing husband. Thank you David Locke for giving my husband this amazing opportunity!

DAY FOUR:
I am grateful for my body and all of the wonderful things it can do. I am blessed with a body that can run, dance, sing, act, play sports, and do all of the wonderful things that I love doing. I am grateful that I can continue to better myself and work towards things. This Thanksgiving I am going to run a 10K and give thanks that way instead of stuffing my face with a bunch of food that I shouldn't eat. My dear friend Jen has been so supportive and helpful in my desire to start running more (ever since the end of July!) and she is continuing to help me so much with my running by helping me "train" for the 10K. She is also going to run it with me! She has done this race before and suggested it to me. She is such an amazing friend and has taught me soooo much about loving myself and becoming a better person inside and out. So for Day Four I am actually grateful for two things, my body and Jen :)

DAY FIVE:
I am grateful for two things for Day Five, too. First, Jim Christian and all his wisdom and amazing ability to teach not only in school but in life. I love our voice lessons together, and sometimes they are life lessons more than voice lessons (which is never a bad thing). I am grateful that I can trust him to always cast me where I am needed and where I will learn the most, even if that means I am not in the show. Which leads me to my next thing; I am so grateful for Weber's production of Lucky Stiff. I am not in the show itself, but I am on the wardrobe crew and completely love it. Being on the wardrobe crew can be a difficult job to endure because of the long hours (we're there first and leave last), and sometimes the actors are not always the nicest to you. That, however, is NOT the case with Lucky Stiff. The cast is a joy to work for and I love being around all of them. They are so gracious, easy to be around, and therefore easy to be on crew for. Also, I love the wardrobe crew. I love love love them. They make me laugh and we have so much fun together. The wig crew (who works very closely with the wardrobe crew) is also a joy to be around. I am so lucky. Though I really wanted to be in Lucky Stiff and sometimes still really long to be out on the stage with the cast, I know that each of them is perfect for the role they are in and I could not replace any of them. I also know that I am perfect in the spot I am in and wouldn't trade it for anything.

DAY SIX:
Here we are, caught up, and on this day of voting in the Presidential Election I am grateful for the obvious thing. I am so grateful for the country that I live in. Sometimes I feel like it's hard to be grateful for things as broad as this because of issues among groups of people, media, fads, problems, and the like within the country. However, there is so much good within this country as well. The bad is more focused on, which is a shame, but there is so much good to be grateful for. Because I live in America I am able to worship as I please, because I live in the America I am able to vote and have a some kind of say in what goes on in my community, state, and country, because I live in America I am able to go to college and study the things I love, because I live in America I am extremely blessed. I'm not saying that you can't do all of these things in other countries, but some of them are definitely more difficult. And there are many other things I am able to do here that I wouldn't be able to do elsewhere. I am grateful for my country. Flaws and all.

So there you have it. My first six days of this gratitude filled time of year. I have so much more to be grateful for, so it won't be super hard for me to come up with the remaining 24 days :)

Hope everyone has a wonderful day. Keep your chin up.