And the world still spins

In my endeavors to further my education and expand my capacity for knowledge, I have been applying for colleges! There has been no decision made as of yet, but on Friday I received my very first College Acceptence Letter!! I got accepted into Southern Virginia University. For the past few weeks I have been really leaning more toward SVU than any other school.

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I have to say, I am VERY excited about my future. There is so much in store for me the next few years. Everything is going to change soon. Too soon. But it is so intreaguing. Where will I end up? Who will I be friends with? Where will I go on my mission?
In almost exactly eight months I will be beginning my first year of college and moving to a new...everything. A new group of friends, a new setting, new goals, new ambitions, new adventures. Everything will fall into place and I won't have to wonder what school I'm going to go to, or where I want to apply. Granted, there will be pleanty more for me to worry about, but it will all be so thrilling. The future is a fun thing to look forward to. I can't wait to see where each new step will take me. Today I went on an adventure through the woods with my amazing sister, made a new friend, ate some home-made fudge, Pretended to be someone else, took a nap, and read 5 chapters in an awesome book. I would say I have had a successful day! And if you had asked me yesterday what I was going to do, my answer would not have been that.
My apologies for my lack of blogging. I need to do a bunch of Art posts and show off my artistic skills! I am growing quite nicely. I like having assignments given to me to create things. It is quite fun.

I want to learn to play drums. I want to find a kit and an awesome drummer kid to show me how to use it. Just for a week or so. It is really fun.
I am so looking forward to finding out what my amazing future holds in store for me. I can't wait to see what's going to happen over the next few years. :)
....Unless the world ends.

Don't wear your clothes inside out.
Throw a snowball at a friend.
Put some shoes on.
Eat some Barbecue Chicken, Pineapple Pizza.(It is the best)

All possible love,
Jasmine with a Cape.

Confession Time

• I have a very hard time staying on task! Currently, I am sitting in my French class (online) Posting a blog post after about 15 minutes of stalking someone else's blog! I have not done one assignment today and I am a week behind, yet I can't stop writing. Bah Humbug! What should I do? 

• I sometimes talk to myself. It is not in a weird " Hey Jasmine. Hey! How are you? I'm great how are you? Oh, I am just swell, Thanks for asking!" way. For example: If I am working on something and I make a mistake or stop paying attention I will calmly say to myself, occasionally outloud, "Dang Jasmine! Come on! You can do better than this." It is just something I do. 

• I went three years without eating any beef. Zero. And one day I was eating dinner at Andrew's house (my boyfriend) and his dad made burgers. I was faced with a dilemma. Do I eat the burger or do I stick with the vegetables they had as a side and avoid eating. I did the only thing I could do faced with a decision like that (faced with any decision really) I called my best friend Madison! I told her about my situation and she calmly but sternly said "Eat. The. Burger." So I did. It was amazing, and I have unsuccessfully been trying to wean myself off of it since then. I really do want to stop again though.

• I am horrible at making decisions. I have come up with a couple theories as to why, and it could be one or all, or it could be something else intirely.

1. I am so concerened with how everyone else feels about the decision at hand that I forget about how I am feeling to try and make other people happy about the thing I am doing. (This ends up failing because there are always people on both sides of the choice and someone is going to be disappointed either way.)
2.  I simply do not know what I want. I am always faced with decisions with multiple outcomes that I can't just roshambo my way out of. I settle just about every two-way debate with rock paper scissors. How am I supposed to choose between 6 different things if I am only allowed to have one and don't really care which I get?

• I am really intimidated by college/ scholarship applications. It is scary. I am so excited to decide where I am going to go though.

Till next time my loves.

Jasmine With A Cape!

A New Life Plan.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
As of the morning of October 6, 2012 my life plan is now completely different.

Never did I think that one statement on one day of my 17th year would change everything, yet here we are. I have new short term goals to prepare for the same long term goals in a different order.

This morning, in the first session of the 182 semianual session of General Conference for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the prophet, president Thomas Monson, announced the news that changed my life.

  I can now serve a mission when I am nineteen.

For the past four years my desire to serve a mission has only grown stronger and has been emphasized in so many things. I have always planned to graduate close to the top of my class, attend either one of the BYUs or SVU for the three years prior to my mission eligibility, then to serve a mission for 18 months and come home to finish out my last year of college and attempt to locate that amazing Priesthood Man to whisk me off to a beautiful temple and marry me.

That has been the plan for 4 years. It hasn't changed much, other than attempting to figure out the place of my dwelling and education for the next three years of my life. Today, hearing that I had two years less to wait was a huge deal!! I have had so many people tell me "Jasmine, you know you won't serve a mission because you will be married your first semester of college." Okay people, A: I will only be 18 and I think it is stupid to get married before you are at least 20 because even then you are trying to figure out who you are and what you love (and what love is). B: I AM GOING TO SERVE A MISSION WHETHER A GUY IS IN MY LIFE OR NOT!!! It has been my dream since I was a little kid. I have said so many times that I won't let a guy stop me from going on a mission. It is my dream and If I am going to marry a guy I want him to be supportive of my dreams 100% of the time, even if that means not getting to see me or kiss me for a year and a half. The lord definitely comes first in that relationship. 

Well HA to the people who say that! because Here I go. I have received a calling form the spirit that I have to do this. I can't wait. 

My whole life is going to be different now than it would have been yesterday. I am so ecstatic to find out how. In 23 months or less I will be on, or preparing to leave for, my mission! I will then spend the next 18 months teaching amazing children of God how true this gospel is. As to what comes after that I am unaware, but it will eventually include a man, the Lord, a temple, two rings, and one less step toward the Celestial Kingdom.

I love the church. I love the Unity and the Structure that it provides in my life. I love the Prophet Thomas Spencer Monson and his counselors. I love my Savior Jesus Christ. 

I thank him every day for the atonement and his marvelous sacrifice for me and each one of you. I am so grateful for the Book of Mormon and the amazing teachings it shares. The Book of Mormon is true. It is the most true of any book on Earth. I love reading it and sharing it. 

I am a Mormon. 

I know it.

I live it.

I LOVE it.

Jasmine G. Libby

A portion of a random post that I was going to finish and publish in July.

Aloha to the two people who read this magnificence of a page (haha yeah right).
The past few weeks have indeed been some of the best of my year, by far, and my life up to this point.
The week of June 25-30 was The Promised Land Pageant in Bath, NC. I have been a part of the pageant for 4 years. In the first three years I was a Pioneer, a Lamanite, a Colonial Lady, and a Minuet Dancer. But this year I was asked to be the Assistant to the Directors! This job was a little shaky for me to take on at first. Of course, I accepted the call; I wasn't sure what to expect, really. In the end it was a great learning experience and I made a couple unlikely friends :). It is interesting going from a cast member to being assistant to the directors. I went from following orders and playing around to giving orders and continuing to play around... until it was time to get serious, :) But that's the fun of theater.


More to follow soon.
All my like,
Jasmine With A Cape.

The One on BIRTHDAYS! :)

I am now 17. WOOT! And I climbed to the top of TRIPPLE FALLS!!!!! It was the most amazingly thrilling thing I have ever done. I loved it.

Yes. I am getting older.
People tend to do that.
Jasmine

Bones Under Stones

For Gina's birthday (August 11) she decided that she wanted to go to DC! She and I have no memory of ever having gone prior to this trip. So off we went! A five and a half hour car ride, one driver switch, music music music, one stop for food, one stop for gas! It was a very successful drive. (ps: I drove most of the way there. Woot.) Our first stop, after finding the house we were staying was Arlington Cemetery That place is so beautiful.

I am one of those people that connects with places and things. I'm pretty good with people too, but Art is definitely my thing. Especially historical art. I don't know what it is but I feel such a deep connection with the past. I look at a gravestone and try to imagine what that person's life had to be like and hope that one day I will get to see those heroes that died so I could have a life far greater. The title of my blog post came after I saw the Kennedy's graves. I was, ever so morbidly, thinking about how under those stones lie the bones of a dead president.  It was kind of fascinating to me actually.

After the cemetery we went to find a place to park right across from the Capitol Building so we could go explore a couple of the Smithsonian museums.We found the East Art Museum and went to explore. It was quite awesome. Pictures tell a better story so I won't bore you with my words. :)

Art in its many forms. <3

 All the little notes are written in french about all the reasons and pieces of why she loves this man. It was cool and adorable.

 I LOVE THIS PIECE!! It is an unraveled book and I want it!! I didn't know what book it was but I want to find out.

 I really like this tree. It is made of metal and stands in this outdoor arty place.

This is a concave house in the same outdoor art place as the awesome tree but when you are standing in front of it it looks very 2-point.
It is a very cool piece.






















On to the Museum of natural history!! That place is SO COOL!!!! Again, I will narrate pictures:

 Museum of Natural History. I love the Columns on this building. They are beautiful.(see below)

 GIANT ELEPHANT!<3

 blurry phone pic of mom and sister in front of a large crystal.

 his story is below.

 Look at the very last sentence in this description. THERE IS A GRAMMAR ERROR!!!!! IN A HISTORICAL MUSEUM!!!!!!! AND I FOUND IT!! I laughed so stinkin hard.

 We were standing in front of this awesome monkey and Gina says "Look Mom, That's me!!!" It was SO FUNNY!!!!! I died. Mom did not find it amusing. Ha!

 The original Smithsonian Museum.

After that we headed back to the car and to our next destination. Gina and I have never been to DC, but  there is one place that we wanted to see more than all the museums put together. We could have spent all day here. I will write another post on our next destination because we got some amazing pictures of the Washington, DC Latter-day Saint Temple. It is SO Beautiful. 

The Day didn't end there. It was my beautiful sister Gina's birthday and we hadn't eaten dinner yet. Gina wanted Italian food so we put it in the GPS to see what was around us.It brought us to this super amazing place called Manoli Canoli. It is this super cute AMAZING Italian/ Greek restaurant in Chevy Chase, MD. I ordered a barbecue chicken pizza because that is one of my favorites (I usually get it with pineapple, but this was an Italian restaurant). It turned out to be the best pizza I have ever eaten in my life! It as so good!!! I would eat 10 more. Before we left they brought out a canoli with a candle in it for Gina's birthday. :) It was so sweet. It tasted amazing. I really enjoyed that place.

Happy Birthday Gina!

And to All:
Remember who you are. Go and visit the temple. Take a spontaneous vacation, even if it is just to the couch for a nap. Try a little harder. Be a little better. Stand a little taller.
Jasmine With A Cape

Woman of My Own Heart

Hello. I have come to blog about a certain pet peeve of mine. The idea for this post came from A) The downward spiral of American grammar, and B) A quite old, recently stalked, blog post. 

This afternoon, I went out to a Chinese restaurant, and in the booth beside ours sat two black ladies. Their conversation was fine, but contained phrases like "They was going to do that." or "Why was you looking like that?" (there grammer be messed all kinds of up. I can talk more smarter then them. [The mistakes in the previous sentences are completely intentional for emphasis.]) It is not like our society has been raised without the proper schooling or educational opportunities. Words and phrases like funner, more better, them is, gots, etc. DO NOT EXIST!!!!! They are poor "I wish I could be an actual word/phrase" substitutes for proper English and the sad users of these phrases should go talk to a smart second grader who can speak correctly. Now, In saying this, I do not mean to be rude or to offend anyone. I occasionally slip up, but if I do not correct myself I will beat myself up about it. 

I almost want to be an English teacher so I can throw things at people who can't speak. :)

I mean really... How hard is it to know the difference between their, there, and they're, and to, too, and two. It is not hard at all.. They teach you that in 2nd grade.

Another Idk if you could really call it a pet peeve... maybe an aggrivation? NO! Annoyance is the word I am looking for.. is Chewing Gum!

I feel very strongly about this, and you can laugh at me if you must. I just think it is so unattractive seeing someone chew gum! There is absolutely no purpose to it. It is a dumb addiction that social norm has instilled in small children. Chewing gum is basically chewing flavored rubbery saliva! It is the dumbest thing that has ever been invented. I think I stopped chewing gum when I was 11 or 12 and the last time I even came close to chewing a piece I almost threw up. not kidding. I just see no point. It is seriously gross to me. I hope you were amused because I am not. :)

More randomness: I realized something in writing this. My emotions never seem to be expressed how I want them to be. I feel like I just sound rude and arrogant. That isn't how I want to come off. That happens to me a lot. I think something one way but say it in a completely different way that I'm not sure about. I don't know what to do about that. It's weird.

Other news: I ate 6 Twix bars, a piece of chocolate cake, and 2 chocolate chunk granola bars today. and a BUNCH of Chinese food. Yes I am a fatty. I am currently 10 lbs heavier than before I left for EFY, after I lost 10lbs. Gina wants to have a Biggest Loser contest with me :) haha. We shall see about that.

Remember who you are. Chocolate is your friend...unless you are allergic, then I apologize. You are so wonderful. :) Thanks for reading my random sporadic thoughts.

<3 Jasmine With A Cape

Hey! To the possibly two people who read my blog that I don't update nearly enough.
News with me:
I have the highest average in my honors pre-calculus class this marking period and My AP English grade went up 14 points! WOOT!! :) (I was doing quite poorly last marking period thanks to my procrastination and confusion)

I am so excited for Pageant! If you don't know what that is... there is a link. It is a pre recorded outdoor play that was written and put together through revelation by Judy Downey who is this amazing woman whom I love so immensely! It is a true story about the Taylor family and how they came to find the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is really quite amazing.
Anyway.. I was called to be the assistant to the directors this year which is a big deal. I have a feeling I will be quite overwhelmed. But I am way too excited to care. I have been a part of this production for 3 years now and have seen so many miracles occur during the week of rehearsals.

My prom was last Saturday! There was good food there. I like food. And a rap/ hip hop radio station crashed and played music that only a third of the people there really wanted to listen to because we live in the south and are country and pop/rock fans.
Once the radio station and half the people who were there left it was really fun! me and Andrew, my boyfriend, were one of the last couples there. I think there were 2 other couples waiting for rides when we left. I did dance a bit and had a good time.

My beautiful cousin got married today!!! I am about to head off to her reception in Kinston and meet her new husband. :)

I'm taking the AP English exam on Wednesday! WISH ME LUCK!!!



Stay True.
Stay Amazing.
Don't do anything you wouldn't do in front of your parents.
<3 <3 Jasmine

College? What is that?

So many of my friends are thinking about colleges and getting acceptance letters and getting ready for all their college-y stuff. Although I am but a junior I have no Idea in what direction I want my life to go other than going on a mission and starting a family, let alone WHERE I want to go to college.

I absolutely want to go to college so I will "get as much education as possible" and learn and grow to my greatest capacity! That's the goal. But where is the best place for me?

I have been thinking mostly about Brigham Young or Southern Virginia just because the vast majority of the student bodies are LDS and it would be a good environment. I would mostly like to get away from small town North Carolina and go somewhere further than a couple hours away. If I were to go to college in North Carolina, closer to home, it would be Appalachian State, Brevard, or UNC Greensboro.

I just took the ACT and I'm awaiting my score, and I haven't taken the SAT yet. There is just SO much that we as teenagers have on our plates! 

It is a tough road to college and It is hard leaving behind friends and family and go somewhere that I know hardly anyone. The biggest comfort I have in this thought, is the church is always going to be there. There will always be a place that I will be able to go and meet new people who will welcome me with open arms. There will always be institute and young womens and relief society. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is something that I am truly grateful to be a part of and to have as a pillar holding me up and as a light to guide my path. I know that no matter what I face, wherever I decide to go to college or whatever profession I decide to pursue, The Lord will be there to guide me and praise my accomplishments and reprimand me for my mistakes. 

Lets hope it gets easier and be prepared for when it doesn't.

<3 Stay strong.

~Jasmine

In Memory of Caleb Cowan Buck 2/3/98- 1/24/12

I was introduced to Caleb, I believe, in August this past year when my friend Adam brought him over before a football game one night. We hung out and talked, us and a few friends. He was super awesome and funny and adorable. Just a really cool guy. I didn't see him again after that until the Collard Festival in  early September where we ran into each other again and hung out for the day there.

I hadn't seen him since then and I've only talked to him a couple times.
Last Tuesday I found out from friends that the previous day he decided to hang himself because he was being picked on a lot by kids at school and stuff. People saying he was gay or stupid stuff like that that made him believe that his life wasn't worth living anymore.

His family found him and took him to the hospital where he was in a coma for about a day. He came out of it, still unresponsive. The doctors gave him 2 days to live. His brain was swelling and there was a VERY slim chance that he would make it in any stable conditions. So they took him off of life support Tuesday afternoon.

I only met him a couple times but he was so awesome. It was really hard for me to lose someone like that. I have never really lost anyone that I was friends with like that. I spent a lot of time crying. 

It was definitely not an easy thing to go through, and I can only imagine what his family was/is going through.

Me and Gina went to the viewing on Saturday and hugged a bunch of people and cried some more. He looked so different laying in the casket. I didn't expect him to look like that. outside of the room they had a slideshow of pictures from different times of his life playing on a computer with music in the backround. It was really sweet and I stood there and cried as I watched his smile light up the screen. 

Farewell Caleb.

You are sorely missed.

Hope to see you again someday.

<3 Your friend, 

Jasmine Libby

This is for Aaron

Hello World!!!
My blog has not been updated for sometime and I'm at the bottom of Aaron Sebright's blog list.. Which is entirely unacceptable!!
Soo... What's new?
New classes! That's always fun.
We have been doing Family Search Indexing at mutual the past few weeks which has been immensely fun learning about a bunch of awesome people that lived a long time ago. It is really super fun.

I GAVE BLOOD!!!! I gave blood in December and....... I PASSED OUT!!!! It was so crazy!!! It is really trippy cause I watched the needle go in and I was doing great. It was running very smoothly and All of the sudden I saw WHITE!!! and the next thing I remember there was a bunch of people standing around me calling my name. SO weird! But I was laying down and it was okay. I had ALMOST given an entire pint though!! And they couldn't use or test it so my loss of blood was no good to anyone especially me. :/

Random Fact though: I had always wondered what it would be like to pass out.... but not in a weird I really want to pass out kind of way.. just curiosity.

I think I will end here. YOU ARE SOO AMAZING!!!!!

Me Father and Sister on New Years Eve! SPARKLING CIDER!!! WOOT!

Don't go to parties that alcohol or drugs are invited to... But Party Hard!!!

<3 All my love,
Jasmine Libby