a break!!

Here are some pictures from my life in the past couple months...

it's been quite the last couple of months. finals are over! and it's time to sew! i'm so stoked for a break. today, my sisters and i surprised our cousin when we picked him and his wife up at the airport. then we went to lunch, went to hobby lobby, then came home and watched the christmas story. what a life. i'll be in and out of provo this week working, tutoring, going to a wedding reception, and going on a date. 

i really wanted to go to san diego for new year's, but i didn't feel right about it lately. not that it would be unsafe, but just not something that i need to do. i've been back 4x times since i've been home from my mission, and i think i just need to "let go." i loved my mission, love san diego, love the people, but i need a break for a while. my roomies and i want to take a trip to la and san francisco next semester. and i want to go to ny. 

i'm going to audition in january to be an actress or extra in the new church new testament film. wish me luck!

study time

i picked an awful place to study. the dude at my table keeps talking to me... i'm sorry that's kinda rude, but i'm here to study. not strike up conversation with random people.

i'm a friendly person, but not in this kind of setting. sorry dude... and he keeps watching people as they walk by. like watch them walk all the way passed.

i am thankful for...

my life

to know that God knows me

the truth i have learned 

my family who loves me

my talents

the people in my life that have supported me

my education

my job

a home to live in 

my mission

service of others towards me

my experiences in the BYUSA office

friendly people

Holy Ghost

examples of good leaders and friends

experiences that have made me stronger

i could probably think of more in depth things, but i'm kinda tired...

love you all!

happy turkey day

(12:30am) recent update: my advertising team made it through to the next round of an advertising/marketing competition with l'oreal. we had to analyze the current men's grooming market and come up with a men's salon service and corresponding product. we changed our idea so many times, but finally came up with this - addressing the current trend for overall wellness, when the guy comes into a salon, the stylist applies a foam into his hair, let it sit for 3 minutes and then the foam will turn 1 of 5 colors. the color detects the highest level of nutrient that the guy is lacking in is hair. the stylist will then give him customized daily shampoo and conditioner according to the nutrient he's lacking the most. neat huh?! on dec 2, we compete against the other 5 teams from BYU. if we win, we go onto NYC against national teams. win that, go to paris to compete with teams from around the world. win that and split $10,000! ahh! pray for us!

um...i'm no longer a dance major. just advertising and dance minor. i'm taking a drawing class next semester! i want to get into a french class too.

i want an electric pad drum set for christmas. is that what its called? i've always wanted to learn, but recently i've felt a strong push to learn. i think playing in a jazz band would be pretty rad.

i work for a catering company in provo. i was a team lead for the first time this last weekend and the event went really well. we went to a wedding reception, which we do 99% of the time, and there was a live jazz band. i want a live band at my reception. no receiving line. i don't want my reception in a church gym.

i've been lazy all day. we saw mega mind in 3D. i decided not to wear contacts today and just my glasses. so wearing my glasses and the 3D glasses was kinda funny. we also watched modern family and home alone. i feel sick cause i've just been sitting and eating food all day. can't wait until tomorrow. (not)

sewing machine bulb is burnt out and my web cam isn't working. i was making my friend a make up bag and videoing the process while giving instructions so i can put it on youtube and my blog. but i'll have to wait til i go to my apt to get my mac book cd to repair a program or something... i guess it just isn't meant to be.

i think that's all. oh, i'm going to a concert in slc on fri with my roomie. i'm excited for that! i'll write what i'm thankful for tomorrow. loves!

it's been a while. here's my update

hey y'all. so i've been MIA for quite some time. i apologize. i've been surprisingly busy, but i'm not sure with what.

some of y'all know, but if you don't, nate and i decided it was best not to date anymore. and i like to put it that way because "broke up" sounds too hurtful. we both felt that it wasn't going to work out with us in the future. and neither of us knew why. just a feeling we both received. and i'm glad that both of us felt that way. i actually felt it a couple weeks ago, but i kept denying it because it HAD to work out! nate was my first serious bf and, at the time, i didn't see myself ever dating anyone else again. i wanted him to be THE ONE because it took me so long to find someone like him and to actually feel comfortable/good about dating anyone for that matter. and i felt really good about dating him. but the Lord was telling me, and him, otherwise. it was time. but there was a purpose for dating nate. i'm still learning about those reasons. and i am really glad we dated. i learned a lot. i don't think i could have said that a week ago when i thought my whole world was over. but now i have agreed with God's will. and i know that i went through that experience so that i can help someone with a similar or same situation. how could i have helped my future daughter, or a good friend, with their first "break up" if i never went through one myself? and nate has taught me a lot about being a kind and hard working person. i haven't met anyone as determined, passionate, and sincere as him. and it's in his own unique way. he has inspired me. and since we've been "seperated", it's been better with us. we have chatted online about random things, and i think we were meant to be good friends in the first place. i don't know. maybe it's bad that we keep in touch. at first it was hard still being in contact with him, but i feel more settled about it all. granted, it's only been a week, but i'm one to hurry up and get through a new stage in life so that it's not so painful or stressful for so long. and there's been some humbling to realize that God knows what is best for me. sorry if y'all already knew these concepts and principles; they're all new to me.

so i wanted this to be more of sharing my thoughts about life. very vague i know. i'm in a world religion class and i learned that part of Taoism is a principle called wu-wei; which means "non-doing" or "no action." at first i thought it was someone being lazy and expecting everything to happen on their own. but its allowing life to take its course. and its a "non-doing" of things that are not in line with how things are supposed to happen. if we force something or try to fix it, we are being prideful, and the OPPOSITE of what is supposed to happen happens and it causes more grief and untimeliness.
"just as no amount of stirring can clear a pool of muddy water - the pond must be left alone to clear itself - so men and nations must be free to follow the natural course of events without excitement or undue agitation."

i think that is all i have to say about that matter. i am grateful for what i am blessed with. i am honored to have great friends who are concern about me and help me with experiences they've had. sorry this kinda turned into a sappy and cheesy testimony, but it's all true. so take and learn what you'd like.

last 2 cents - "the spirit cannot dwell in unholy temples." repentance cleanses so that we can receive the promptings of the spirit.

media fast : leave comments on Facebook link

I deleted my fb notifications to my gmail.

I waited til 10:30am to check my email, I sent off one email. I closed it. And I was about to open it again,    

   but stopped myself before it fully loaded.

It’s become instinct to check my email

I felt like I also wasn’t allowed to eat, or text, or listen to music; kinda like the day after fast Sunday and 

   when you have the urge to eat you feel like you can’t

I usually keep it open, because I want to chat with my bf

I refer to it often because I have purposefully not read certain emails because I don’t have time to when I

   receive them and so they remain bolded to remind myself to get to it later. My unread emails serve as a

   check list and reminders.

I believe it was from “Divine Nations”, it said that humans used to have everything memorized.

   Then came writing

   Then came audio

   Then came visual

   Then came interactive

We need things to keep us engaged and involved, an experience

Our memory, as humans, has weakened

I have reminders on my phone

I needed to go on email to retrieve a document for a group project and an email from a teacher, but I 

   didn’t go through my emails

Documents are digital, not in hard copy. We are adapting our systems to be solely digital

I told some friends about my “fast” and they said, “I couldn’t do it”

Another girl in the class was refraining from texting.

I don’t know how I could manage without texting, because there were times when I needed to text rather 

   than call, more convenient

I could probably survive longer than I think without technology, fb especially, but other rely on it, so I 

   have to in order to keep it touch with them and function in the same way

I did for a year and a half (mission), only because the people I needed to contact weren’t on fb

I keep my fb, mainly for mission contacts, my purses, kit with old friends

My bf thinks I’m addicted to email because it causes me to not eat

I may justify it by saying I need it to help me remember things I need to do and so I can talk to him

I think that because I have a laptop, I bring it to campus for convenience; I am accustomed to having 

   email so accessible. When before, it would be long hours until I could check my email.

I am not as attached to fb as I am gmail. Fb is more for pleasing others. I could go a week without going 

   on. But I feel that people need to get a hold of me, so I go and check what people are trying to 

   communicate to me. I don’t think it serves me a real purpose, only for my bags.

vegas!

what a weekend.

friday
my roommate, meg's, bday is next week, and she had never been to vegas. so a couple months ago we planned this trip. we left provo friday night and chase, shannon's fiance, had us use his car because shannon's tires needed replacing and her oil changed, and chase just had his car worked on. we left at 7pm and at 8:30pm we noticed that the car was overheating. so we went to a gas station, looked under the hood, had a guy look at our car, and he said that we needed more coolant. we bought some, filled it half way, and started driving. but again, it overheated, so we topped it off with coolant. again, drove. but this time, decided to go back to provo and get another car. we started going 40mph, and went up to 70mph and it seemed as tho the faster we went, the  temp went down. but we spoke too soon and saw black smoke coming out of the hood! so we pulled over, and had chad come meet us. we all slept for 1 hour til he came. and we didn't get to st george til 3:30am! eh...

saturday
woke up at 8am. went to the st george temple, bear paw for breakfast, and then headed to la vegas at 1pm. we went directly to H&M!! i got some goood stuff. then we went to aldo and sweet thing happened to me there. i was just chatting with my roommate and a guy got my attention and he asked if i was going to be in town that weekend because he wanted me to be a hair model!! cool! i told him i was leaving the next day back up to utah, and he said to visit rusk1.com and sign up cause they do shows in slc a lot. cool huh!? then we went to zara, a european clothing company along the strip. i got good stuff there. then we ate at the venetian, and went to the ...
BLUEMAN GROUP SHOW! another cool thing that happened to me. first off, we were in the third row wearing ponchos. :) the pre-show was text that scrolled on a marque. first it said, welcome to the blueman group. start yelling! so everyone cheered. then it said, we have some special guests in the audience we would like to recognize. THEN it said, "will SARAH BURROUGHS" please stand up?" so i did, but i was so confused. i thought someone, like nate or thomas or my roommates were playing a joke on me. then the marque said, "sarah won the gold medal for curling in the 2010 winter olympics." haha. then i thought, oh i wasn't supposed to stand up. there's another girl named sarah burroughs here that actually won it. haha nope. they were referring to me. and then the whole audience said, "thank you sarah for winning the gold medal in curling in the winter 2010 olympics". then the marque said, can brian collins please stand up. brian invented a human genome. and then referred to others about random stuff. soo cool! i guess it was my day!
the show was amazing! meg sat next to me and we were cracking up the whole time! i think we had the most fun out of the whole audience. and the show made me want to learn the drums even more!

 

i'm sad...

so, i haven't video chatted with nate yet. and we planned 2 days ago to chat tonight. i was super excited, i wrote down a list of things to talk about, i was productive all night, i told everyone i was going to chat with him. i went to a friend's to work on the tune of songs lyrics i wrote forever ago. i texted nate letting him know i was at her house starting to work on it and he let me know he was home and ready to chat whenever. too bad that we didn't finish til an hour later. by the time i called him, he didn't answer... and then i called again 2 mins later. and again, and again. :( i was too late. i'm sad he didn't tell me that he was headed to bed. but maybe he was too tired to even do that. hopefully he just accidently went to bed. now i feel awful for not updating him, letting him know that i was still working on the song. and we didn't even get through the first verse and chorus. it song turned out great, but not the rest of my evening. 

first day of many to come

i first want to apologize for not including the proper capitalization throughout my blog. i think this way makes my blog look more artsy. however, i will include proper punctuation. at least i will try to. 


i have been doing a lot of contemplating this weekend, and past week. some new ideas have come into my head. dance minor? creative track? ny? anneb bags? stay? all of these thoughts were triggered because my bf moved to new york this morning for a big boy job as the product manager at meet up. i'm so proud of him! he's deserved a top-notch job for a long time. i could not be selfish in the least bit about his decision to take the position. such a great opportunity for him. and it has gotten me thinking about what is next for me. no m word talk. don't worry. but it helped me put my life into perspective about what i want to do with my degree, what i am doing with my time at BYU, and how bad do i want it? so just minor things.


i just finished up a run of the musical HAIRSPRAY at the scera theater in orem, utah. such a fun and energetic production!

so energetic that it took all the energy out of me. now, i am wiped out. i am glad that i will now be able to focus on my advertising major, homework, and responsibilities with BYUSA. i love performing, but in the long run, i need to bust my tail to cut it in the advertising world.

here's a rad video my teacher showed us. i love happy projects and the way they decide to promote their cause/product.

i want to create ads like this. but better! like ogilvy would say.


i think i'm done for the evening. now i need to ponder if i should keep my dance major or finish as a minor. again, just a small decision. thanks for reading. good night!