spring is tagged

four shows i watch:
1. the disney girls (hannah montana, sonny with a chance, and wizards of waverly place)
2. army wives
3. brothers and sisters
4. gossip girl

four things i'm passionate about:
1. healthy food and lifestyle choices
2. gospel principles
3. people
4. singing and acting

four phrases i say a lot:
1. "presh"
2. "tender"
3. "sad about it"
4. "wait, what?"

four things i've learned from the past:
1. happiness does not come from perfection
2. worry changes nothing, but leaves you with a headache
3. give help and receive help, man was not meant to live alone
4. the Savior already paid for our sins so we would not have to

four places i would like to go:
1. washington d.c.
2. japan
3. australia
4. ireland and well... all of europe

four things i did yesterday:
1. substituted for a high school zoology teacher
2. fell asleep outside under the sun
3. did my laundry
4. watched "i hate valentine's day"

four things i'm looking forward to:
1. seeing my sister and brother-in-law on may 20th
2. december 2010 - my sweet little bro comes home from japan
3. working with youth as a teacher and/or counselor
4. learning how to sew and exercising my creativity

four things i love about spring:
1. longer days full of sunshine
2. cool breezes and soft shade
3. being surrounded by colorful flowers
4. the smell of rain on warm wood or pavement

four things on my wish list:
1. a niece and a nephew
2. a bicycle
3. sufficient energy
4. a closet of clothes that fit properly

four people i tag:

kimberly moore

lisa michelle

meagan reynolds

tawny (soon-to-be sis. christensen)

25 things making lacey who she is

since i spent a lot of time thinking about this facebook tag, i thought i might as well post it here. some of these are repeats from my last post, but 25 random facts about me is more than 6 .... if you get bored, sorry!

1. my favorite colors are blue and green (and anything in between)
2. my two older sisters are 20 months apart, then 4 1/2 years later i came along. my little brother is 17 months younger than me.
3. i am the only redhead in my immediate family. none of my aunts, uncles, or grandparents are redheads, but i do have some redheaded cousins.
4. i bite on my lips and cheeks when i’m thinking, worried, anxious, bored, or any other time of the day.
5. i love to sing, but i hate choirs. partly because of a certain choir teacher in high school. but i love to sing and make up new songs. this is also a talent i learned from my father who always has a song for everything.
6. i have never owned my own ipod and i'm usually way behind on technical advances - not that i can't figure them out but because i like to find my own way of doing things. i did recently inherit my brother’s ipod, though, for the next two years. yay!
7. i love to organize. seriously, when i’m organizing, i lose all track of time. i can even be a little o.c.d. about it. all of my clothes are hung up by color.
8. although i love to organize, i hate every kind of cleaning except for scrubbing toilets and doing laundry. these are the only two tasks i can complete perfectly (ex: mirrors always have streaks and it drives me crazy!).
9. i love spontaneity. this provokes hours of exciting fun: dressing up in crazy costumes, last minute piñata parties, impulsive buying {which i usually return the next day, whoops!}, and lots of new adventures never before experienced.
10. art fascinates me – every kind of art. i love to look and and watch it, but i also love to create it. i'm in no way a professional. yet i love thinking of creative ideas and drawing, painting, and sculpting new things. i do have to admit, though, that my favorite art activity is coloring with crayons in a coloring book.
11. i have had many nicknames through the years: lacey lamb, ducky, jeaner-beaner, larsa, cheeto (as in "dangerously cheesy"), and jelly bean.
12. i was born on thanksgiving day, provoking my nickname “turkey”.
13. i love peanut butter. anything peanut butter. yes, chocolate and peanut butter combination is the best thing ever.
14. post-it notes make my heart so happy, along with freshly sharpened pencils and new notebooks.
15. i love chewing on ice. i always have. i think i learned the habit from my sister sundy, but regardless, i’ve been a heavy ice-chewer for more than 15 years. the best kind of ice to chew is pebble ice.
16. my name, lacey, is the perfect name for me. there is nothing masculine about my name and there is nothing masculine about me. i am a "lacey." and i love when people call me "lace." i think that’s because it makes me feel like the person actually knows me and loves me.
17. i am a talker {if you haven’t already noticed}. i am usually an eloquent speaker, though at times my brain thinks faster than my mouth can keep up with.
18. i love public speaking – giving talks, lessons, presentations, you name it. i love public speaking. i guess that’s why i want to be a teacher.
19. people come to me for advice. they also come to me if they just want me to listen. when people want advice i love to give it, but i always try to talk things through with the other person in a way that they can think of their own advice. oh, and i can't take my own advice. isn't that how everyone is, though?
20. confrontation. i guess this is kind of like public speaking for me. i sometimes look forward to confrontation -- if it's for a beneficial purpose. it gives me a thrill and motivates me.
21. i can be so stubborn about certain things you wouldn’t think i’d be stubborn about and then extremely laid-back about things you’d assume i’d be stubborn about.
22. along with my stubbornness, i am also very passionate. i love deeply, and it doesn’t take long to get to that point.
23. there can be a negative side to my passion. i trust people easily, but once they betray me it's possible to hold quite a firm grudge from being hurt.
24. though i can hold grudges really long and hard, if the person genuinely apologizes i can’t stop myself from forgiving them. like #22 says, i love deeply.
25. i have a very wide variety of musical interests. the following favorites should give you a good idea about this: avril lavigne, demi lovato, tegan and sara, dashboard confessional, my chemical romance, secondhand serenade, paramore, the veronicas, jon mclaughlin, josh grobin, amy grant, relient k, angels and airwaves, onerepublic, fall out boy, taylor swift, kelly clarkson, ingrid michaelson, jamie o’neil, jodee messina, kenny chesney, keith urban, rascal flatts, miley cyrus/hannah montana, jonas brothers, aly and aj, and pink.

if you got through all 25 items, congratulations! hope you had fun learning more about me :) since this is a tag, i ftag anyone and everyone who actually reads this whole thing. *let me know if you actually do it*

randomness taggin

lisa tagged me in a random-facts-about-me tag.
rules:
1. make a link to the tagger's blog.
2. post the rules on your blog.
3. list 6 random things about yourself.
4. tag 6 people at the end of your post.
5. let each person know they have been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. let the tagger know when your entry is up.

1) i love getting dressed up crazy (i prefer 80s, but anything goes) to go do something spontaneous.

 

2) i absolutely l.o.v.e to organize. i always have. i am not saying that i love to clean, simply that i love dumping everything out of a drawer or closet, throwing out the unnecessary, and organizing the remains. it makes my heart happy. i have helped many a soul-in-need organize their homes, lives, ....whatevers. i should really get a license and go pro. 

3) i can not stand having empty hangers in my closet. i don't know ... maybe it has to do with #2, but if there is a lonesome hanger in the midst of all my hanging clothes, raging bulls could not stop me from removing it from the closet. yes, i am passionate about this subject.


4) i love teenagers. i really do! i know, it wasn't that long ago that i was one, since i'm only 21. specifically, i love jr high teenagers. yep, that's right. 7th, 8th, and 9th graders even with their mood swings. for some reason people give me the strangest looks when i tell them of my love for these ages. i would rather sit and talk with a bunch of teenagers all day than do most anything else. i love teenagers. is that random? most people tend to think it is ....


5) i love public speaking. i consider this random because "speaking in public" is listed as #1 on america's top 10 fears list. sure, i still get little butterflies in my tummy right before i give a lesson, talk, or presentation but it is an exciting rush to me. once i'm in front of the crowd, all nerves are gone and i'm on top of the world. i really mean it: i love public speaking.

6) if you know my family, you know that we're all quite musical. i don't mean to say that we all sing and/or play instruments like professionals, simply that we all love music. with that, you can imagine what our family is like now; every kind of song from the 50s to now gets new lyrics for the occasion it's used to sing about.

just one of the many songs my dad sings to wake me up
(sung to the tune of "can't take my eyes off of you"):

"....i love you lacey and if it's quite alright, i need you lacey - i'll come turn on the lights. i love you lacey, trust in me when i say: oh pretty lacey, kneel and remem'ber to pray. oh pretty lacey, get up to face your day. and let me love you, lacey, let me love you ..."

i tag:

1) savannah 2) crystal 3) sundy 4) charmaine 5) jared w 6) jeff [big bro]

eight more things i like

one of my favoritest people in the whole world tagged me in a blog ... it's the first time i've been tagged and i feel very special!

eight shows i like to watch:
1. criminal minds
2. ncis
3. without a trace
4. law and order: svu
5. csi: the original and nyc
6. army wives {partially in honor of my sweet baby bro who is serving in the national guard}
7. one tree hill
8. heroes

eight things that happened yesterday:
1. woke up with enough time to get ready and get to church before it started, yet arrived late {as always} because of my daily horror: "which dress should i wear that is long enough, modest enough, pretty enough, 'skinny-feeling' enough, and comfortable enough?"
2. because of #1, didn't get breakfast {sadness}
3. got to sit by melissa {another one of my favoritest people ever} through the three hours of meetings ... i love her!
4. listened to two of the best talks ever given in sacrament meeting and one of the best lessons in relief society by an amazingly inspirational woman.
5. ate my favorite meal: karl's chicken *chicken breasts + delicious sauce + rice = yummy!
6. taught one of my visiting teachees {and dear friend} with my sweet new companion
7. had an extra long, delightful sunday afternoon nap with my mom and precious
8. went to a fun tajikistan dinner gathering with my parents and the two tajikistanian delegates we're hosting. yum-yum baklava!

eight songs that make me feel giddy:
1. love song - sara bareilles
2. i'm yours - jason mraz
3. trying to find atlantis - jamie o'neal
4. the real me - jessie clark funk
5. without you - sung by julie andrews in "my fair lady"
6. brink of disaster; sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows; off and running - lesley gore
7. sign of the times; colour my world; don't sleep in the subway; the other man's grass is always greener - petula clark
8. anything sung by karen carpenter

eight things i'm looking forward to:
1. meeting the Savior
2. passing my classes this semester then being done with them
3. graduating from college in december 2009
4. getting on a normal sleep schedule
5. losing weight
6. my birthday/thanksgiving
7. christmas
8. seeing my sister sundy and her husband tyler on my birthday/thanksgiving

eight things i couldn't live without:
1. everything in the gospel
2. my family
3. precious
4. mascara
5. music
6. all of the human senses
7. peanut butter and chocolate
8. water

eight things on my wish list:
1. an ipod ... i've never owned one
2. a car that works reliably
3. perfect grades
4. good scripture reading habit
5. travel anywhere across the us border
6. go to disneyland for the second time in my life
7. fall in-love with a worthy priesthood holder and get married in the temple
8. be a good wife and mother

eight completely random and/or useless facts i know:
1. maria and georg von trapp {the real ones} were married november 26, 1927 - exactly sixty years before i was born
2. redheads have a higher tolerance to anesthesia {requiring more than the average human in order to get the same effect}
3. joseph b. wirthlin was an amazing football star for university of utah in his time
4. newborn babies communicate their needs with five different cries but abandon the ability after three months if their caregiver doesn't take advantage of it.
5. water tastes stale when it's lost some of the oxygen molecules, so by shaking it up {producing air bubbles} it can return to its proper taste
6. one of the best cures for bad dandruff is vinegar
7. if you take too much melatonin {which the body produces but can also be taken in tablet form} to help you get to sleep it turns into serotonin which results in waking up around three am {almost guaranteed}
8. as of 3:56 am it is exactly sixty-three days, twenty-one hours, and three minutes until christmas day!

eight people i am tagging: um, i'm not sure that many people read my blog
1. savannah leigh
2. michelle lee
3. erika ann
4. ivy
5. nancy lee
6. lisa michelle
7. jared "double-ya"
8. jeff stockett "big brother"

my favorites:

memory:

being with my whole family (which includes happiness who isn't pictured here)

disney movie:

can't you tell why? . . . us redheads have got to stick together!

tv show:

they were like family to me!

piece of my heart:

my "wittle baby pwecious"



home away from home, my second family:















chrissy is the sister i got to choose :) ... example, comfort, my best friend.



food:



















anything with peanut butter is my favorite. oh yeah, and chunky is the only way to go.



singer:

"love song" has to be one of my favorites, ever. i love that it's not about love at all! it's about not conforming to other peoples' opinions of what or how you should be. it's about being yourself and how that is enough.



cool peeps:















my newly married sister sundy and happiness - the bold and beautiful.



book to read:



















two of the greatest books ever written, in order of importance of course.
















treat to eat:









these will definitely be found in heaven.

eight things!

eight things i am passionate about:

1. the gospel - Jesus Christ, His atonement, and His overall love for all His children
2. my baby brother paul, my two older sisters, and my wonderful mom and dad
3. my dog precious, who i found at the pound three years ago
4. good literature
5. teaching and giving presentations
6. politics : )
7. good food
8. good company

eight of my favorite things:

1. rain
2. peanut butter
3. autumn
4. turquise, brown, and green
5. cherie call, julie de azevedo, and jesse clark funk's religious music
6. salt and vinegar chips
7. pebble ice
8. post-it notes

eight words or phrases that i say often:

1. "presh!"
2. "tender!"
3. "you're crunching my chips!"
4. "i love you!"
5. "okay guys ...." or "c'mon guys ...."
6. "it happens."
7. "sweetness."
8. "you know you love me."


eight things i want to do before i die:

1. go through the temple.
2. get married to a good man.
3. have a family - being a good mom and wife.
4. live outside of utah again.

5. be a young womens' camp director.

6. be financially stable while raising a family.
7. relax.
8. make a difference in other people's lives.


eight things i have learned from my past:

1. make sure you do learn from the past.
2. everything happens for a reason, and you never get more than you can handle.
3. try seeing others the way Heavenly Father does - you'll be amazed by the love you have for them.
4. live life as an optimist.
5. learn from other people's mistakes. there's no reason you should have to repeat them.
6. be grateful and count your blessings. this keeps you humble!
7. patience really is a virtue that we should each work harder at achieving.
8. we aren't required to be perfect yet. just try the best that you can every day.


eight places i would love to go or see:

1. ireland
2. on a cuise
3. disney world
4. paris
5. venice
6. denmark
7. jerusalem
8. all over britain


eight things i currently need or want:

1. a car that is consistent and reliable.
2. deep understanding of the scriptures.
3. my baby brother back from his military training.
4. to fit into all the clothes in my closet.
5. my own laptop equipped with good powerpoint capabilities.
6. to go through the temple.
7. a little niece or nephew.
8. all the answers.


eight people who changed my life:


1. every member of my family
2. chrissy keller
3. precious, my dog
4. brother mike pratt
5. lisa soper
6. denise burton
7. valerie o'barr
8. jesus