If my life were a movie what genre would it be and who would I chose to play me?

Well, I sure do love movies from the 1950s but I just can't see my life fitting into that stereotype.

Look at that intense gaze. How could you leave Grace Kelly to have a duel?!

 Or, maybe I could...

Either way, if you think about it life is so much more interesting than the movies! Actors need to go home and live out their lives when all is said and done. I just finished reading an autobiography by Julie Andrews called Home. She had a horrible childhood-basically providing for herself and her family from the age of 14. Living with her mother and stepfather,visiting her dad, then learning that her biological dad wasn't even the dad she was raised with. I think I'll stay with my own life thank you very much. I have my own problems!

It is nice to daydream about having a super attractive actress play the role of Jen Handy. Wait, no it isn't! Basically, with this thought process, I'm saying I want people to view me as awesome based solely on my looks. But, isn't attractiveness all relative? And what if I like me the way I am? What if someone else will one day think I'm super attractive just the way I am? I lived through this! You can't play my role. It's my role!

Life is dirty and some times it sucks. You can't photo shop life. And you also can't include all the important things in just one movie. Ok, so putting my life into a movie would take out all the boring moments (I'm looking at you pipettes.)

Look what I would miss out on though:

This is my lunch break at work. I went on a hike. 

 

You know, cause I work at the base of a mountain and I can do that.

The sunset when I get off of work on the mountains is pretty nice too

There is also the great feeling of being at a new chapter in your life-first time being out of school since I was 6. Now I get to try out all those hobbies I always wanted to!

He has an angry eye!

Ok, so maybe shooting zombie beavers to avoid apocalypse could be made into a movie. As could then beating the House of the Dead game,pretending to be 16, killing big game, eating french food and procuring milkshakes at 11pm on a Saturday in Salt Lake City ...

 

You have to shoot those beavers in the dead center though or he gets back up and tries to eat your LIVER!

Ask Mike Merrel. He was the one who finally took him DOWN. 

 

If that gets turned into a movie I expect royalties. I mean, I survived the zombie beaver apocalypse by like 1 shot. I should get money for my grief.

I'll also accept milkshakes.

  

See how fun regular life can really be? Things that don't matter to others meant the world to me in my life. Where the world seems to be casting off religion as outdated it sure does mean a lot to me. 

One of the best days of my life

How do you make a movie that shows the knowledge that a being greater than the whole world claims you as his child and loves you? We try to portray it but is is nearly impossible. The only way to really do it is to try talking to him yourself. If there is anything I have learned it is that God really does hear all of our prayers. Why else would I have joined the LDS church?

Life is hard. I make lots of mistakes that make it harder. But that's ok. I don't want it to be like a movie. I want to enjoy all the moments of it. The loud boisterous car rides to P-town with my friends and the quiet evenings I get to enjoy being "boring." What a gift life really is even when it sucks. I need to open my eyes a little more to the small things that a movie just wouldn't catch. 

Real life is so much better than the movies.