Things that I cannot live with out right now...

my cellular device love, love, love

My Family

Hernandez Salsa

eCatalogue listen to everything. E rocks my socks:)

my horde of volunteer ride-givers

Modern Family

sleep

my chiropractor

Burberry Classic

jade fingernail polish

Deep Blue & Lavender oil

Jessi, J, Bieber, Lise, & GG.

My brown boots

The autocorrect on my phone when I text.

Burt's Bees with Pomegranate oil.

Jerry Sloan my fishy

Craisins

My History of Design class

The Bachelor my roommates have brought me to the dark side.

Things I have to live without:

My Car.

booooooooo! come back Mazzy!

xo

I've got a perfect body, cause my eyelashes catch my sweat.

Have you ever cheated death?

I have.

Multiple times in the past few months.

I'm a cautious person.

But even cautious people are vulnerable.

Vulnerable to hurt, pain, sickness, and other objects.

But again, today, I cheated death. I'm not trying to be dramatic. Just grateful.

After the trauma of seeing my beloved towed away from me and crying way too many tears on someone's handsome peacoat, I sat on my bed folding laundry.

As strange as it seems that mundane task made me feel human again.

I felt like I was back inside my body and not living this strange out of body experience.

I sat there folding shirts and pairing socks listening to Pandora as if my day had gone as planned.

The song "Folding Chair" by Regina Spektor came on and I lost it.

Tears all over again.

How lucky I am to be alive.

How lucky I am to have the family I do.

How lucky I am to have the friends I do.

And how lucky I am to have a perfect body from a loving Heavenly Father.

xo

Dear Sir,

today I dreamt of our house that is going to have a yard full of sweet peas, dahlias, peonies, dragon snaps, and honeysuckles.

And in the back maybe we could plant some tomatoes, squash, peas, corn, and whatever else our hearts desire.

I also propose that we have great big trees.

Big enough for climbing, shading, and hammock holding.

I was awoke from my daydream by the sound of a classmate closing their textbook.

It was then I remembered that as for today I have a stack full of books to read and papers to write.

But someday...one day I'll have my little garden and my Mister too.

With love,

Your Sabrina Danielle

I believe.

"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods... to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship...All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to (this) destination. It is in light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another."

-C.S. Lewis

Welcome, Welcome 2011!

My mom and I being wild and crazy at temple square on New Years Eve

I'm excited for 2011 to come.

2010 was a hard year.

In fact it was a hard-knock-life year.

But I'm ready to say "toodle-loo!" to 2010 and "Hellooo 2011!"

To keep myself motivated and convinced that this year is going to be amazing I've come up with 11 goals for 2011.

1. Get my financial ducks in a row. budget, budget, budget!

2. Do yoga at least 3 times a week.

3. Graduate with my Bachelors.

4. Take a long walk with my soon-to-be-home Elder Ace.

5. Travel somewhere I've never been before.

6. Cook something new once a week.

7. Find a big people job.

8. Get my big-top-secret project under way.

9. Eat my veggies.

10. Let my broken heart be the past. For reals.

11. Snag me some man candy...kidding! Meet a new friend everyday.

Dear Sir,

You have my permission to dedicate this song to me.

Love,

Your Sabrina Danielle

The Chocoholic

In the past month I haven't had a moment to even sit down unless it was to work on homework, or anything work related.

I came home about a week ago and even since I've been home I haven't had very much "down" time.

Yesterday I had this insanely wonderful idea.

I decided that I wanted to be the official Christmas Candy maker.

I began the process of melting my body weight in chocolate.

I made some homemade peanut butter cups which turned out lovely in a very vernacular kind of way, so I decided to try my hand at Peppermint Bark.

Then I realized I needed more chocolate.

I headed off to the grocery store because by this point I had become a crazed chocoholic and I needed more.

When I was walking into the store I wasn't really paying attention because my brain was buzzing with chocolate ideas and suddenly my life was flashing before my eyes because I walked through a bathtub of a puddle in the entrance of the store.

I'm sure if I had been paying attention I wouldn't have made half as much of a fool of myself.

But alas, it was not so.

I simply skated through the puddle as if I meant to do it.

Trust me, I didn't.

And then I proceeded to laugh the entire time I was in the store.

I blame the chocolate.

xo

P.s. For your chocolate fix I've added both the Peppermint Bark and Peanut Butter Cup recipes

Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

2 11-oz bags of dark chocolate (You can use whatever your heart desires, but I am a dark chocolate junkie)

1 cup peanut butter

48 tiny muffin cup

1. Melt one bag of the chocolate and spoon into the muffin cups. Let set in fridge for about 1 hour.

2. Spoon little dollops of peanut butter on top of each cup.

3. Melt the second bag of chocolate and then cover peanut butter.

4. Set in fridge for another hour

5. Enjoy!

Peppermint Bark

4 11-oz bags of dark chocolate

2 11-oz bags of white chocolate

12 Candy Canes

1 tsp peppermint extract

1.line an 11-by-17-inch baking sheet with parchment, and set aside.

2. In the top of a double boiler, melt dark chocolate, stirring constantly.

3. pour into the prepared pan and let set in the fridge for about one hour.

4. With a chef’s knife or meat tenderizer, pound candy canes into 1/4-inch pieces.

5.In the top of a double boiler, melt white chocolate, stirring constantly.

Stir pieces of candy canes and peppermint oil into the melted chocolate.

Remove from heat, and pour quickly(dark chocolate will melt) over the chilled dark chocolate; spread evenly. Chill until firm.

Break into pieces, and serve. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to one week.