[Tonight I love...]

{Girl friends} I go through phases with this...usually I'm too hermity to care about having more than a couple close friends, and most of the time I prefer boys to girls, for all the typical reasons used by we annoying girls who say they only have guy friends. But lately, for a variety of reasons, I've really been loving having a bigger group of lady friends, with whom I can talk, laugh, blog/twitter stalk, drool over RyGos (ahem--that's short for Ryan Gosling--we're totes on nickname basis. He calls me Sexybutt.) and, of course, brunch. Sometimes you need more support in your life than usual, and the last few weeks...months, really...I've needed a lot. So, lady friends, you know who you are, and hopefully you know that I heart you.

{Chadwick} ...whose name is not actually Chadwick, but I like to call him that anyway. I love lots about him, in case you weren't aware, but today I especially love that when I told him I watched The Rachel Zoe Project without him, he legitimately gasped in a hilarious combination of shock and horror, and I love that he is just as excited for Millionaire Matchmaker and Grey's Anatomy as I am. I also love that I got to listen to him talk on the radio today about the economy. Because he is that brilliant, that talk radio stations *consult* him about that stuff.

{Church} I love this way of life. I love the peace one can find in it. I love the people and their examples of charity and kindness. I love the leaders who continually provide us with guidance and inspiration to live a joyful, peaceful, and full life. This weekend and next, we have the opportunity to hear messages from the men and women who helm this church. Yesterday evening, this quote from one of them particularly stood out to me:



I hope you find something to love on this Sunday evening as well. Good night world!

things i learned over the weekend, ed. 2.

:: you will fall asleep if you watch general conference in bed ::

Though you will have every intention to watch all four sessions of General Conference (the semi-annual internationally televised broadcast from the leadership of your church), you will also be sleep-deprived from a week of late night Keeping Up With the Kardashians marathons. Unable to resist the lure of spending four daytime hours on a Saturday and a Sunday in bed, you will prop yourself up in bed, armed with Junior Mints and Peanut M&Ms, ready to watch Conference. ...You will instantly fall asleep at the beginning of every single session. But but! You may be sleepy, but you are also brilliant! Having anticipated the inevitable, you will have set your DVR to record a few of the sessions, and you can read/watch/listen to the others here. You will spend the next several days catching up on what you missed (because you really love the consistently uplifting, inspiring messages shared at General Conference), and you will reach the end of the week just as edified as everyone else, but with more sleep under your belt.