Sunday Sunday Sunday Guitar Hero

So I officially suck at Guitar Hero. For all of you who were wondering about that. If you ever need to feel better about yourself, just play Guitar Hero w/ me and you'll feel like a king. That aside, life is pretty good. I went to the temple for the first time since I've been home and it was quite a grand experience. I should really go there more often. It's not like it's even all that far away. I mean, intstitute is a longer drive. And I've seen a lot of blessings in my life in the last few days, which probably have a lot to do w/ temple attendance. It's remarkable how if we do what we're told to do and promised blessings for doing so, that we actually get those blessings! What a novel concept. Guess that's what Faith is all about. Haha, and I've always thought faith was one of my stronger attributes, but apparently not. I have great Faith in a lot of things, but I guess I don't in others, I pick and choose. And that's not really faith, that's convenience. Just happens to be the question in CLA quiz in PMG are things that I have a lot of Faith in, so that test isn't a very good measure. Then again, that test did show me that Charity is what I lack the most. Which really sucks b/c Paul says we can do the most amazing things ever, but if we don't have charity, then we're nothing. So it's def. important and worth giving attention to, at some point. The scriptures say to not procrastinate the day of our repentance, but what about procrastinating the day of our charity? I'm sure that's a bad thing too, but it's the easy way to do things. Laziness is the mother of invention afterall. Though I don't think you can invent your salvation, so laziness probably doesn't serve us to well in that respect. But that's life I guess. Live and learn. Come what may, and Love it.

Is there really No place like Home?

Being home sucks. Having your life planned for two years is amazing. Not knowing what your life has in store for you in the next two years, not so amazing. Things seem to be going so well. I was down to ONE episode every three months. That's super amazing progress for me. It hasn't been that good...since it started. So that's a LONG time. And now it's hard to feel like I've made much progress, b/c I have apparently not made enough. I thought it was enough; I thought it was more than enough. But life had other plans for me. And as much as it sucks, I really just have to accept it and move on. "Come what may, and love it!" Never has such council had such an impact on me. What a marvelous six words, simple as they may be. I keep repeating that to myself every single day...multiple times each day.
So what to do now? What does life have in store for me next? What is the title to the next Chapter in my life? Or am I still in the mission chapter? I really don't know. Sadly, I have to admit that I intially thought of just ending the book all together. Mostly, b/c I just wanted to be out of this world, not have to deal w/ life. But then a wise friend told me that there are many other ways than death to rise above the world, to escape it long enough to make sense of something. Then you just have to take it one day at a time and see what happens. Again, Come what May...what else can we really do about things? Worrying and get all anxious doesn't fix anything. Been there, done that. That's not to say I won't do it, b/c hey, I will. That's life. I'm not perfect in that respect. I'm still working on it. But I think I've made progress. I'm sure I have. Perhaps this is a chapter entitled "Patience." I've never been much good w/ patience. But I'm quickly learning how it truly is a virtue, how it truly is something that we all need in our lives. Again, patience is another life long pursuit that we're all in search of, or should be. Though it def. takes a back seat to most other things in life; as long as life is going as planned. Haha, it's in the drivers seat when your plan doesn't work out. Live and learn, right? Is there really anything else to do? If so, I haven't figured it out.
On another note, I've watched SOOO much TV recently. It's quite ridiculous. Though I am caught up on most things after a week. Haha. At least I keep myself busy...or asleep. I LOVE sleep. I get lots of sleep recently. :) It's rather wonderful. Oh, and we have SNOW! Like enough snow to call it snow! I'm way excited. Sadly, I don't have any clothes good enough to go play in it! All of my snow clothes are in Utah!!! LAME. Maybe I'll just rough it out w/ what I have. Hmmm...only if it's good packing snow. Then I have to make a snowman and nothing is stopping me from doing so. Except perhaps frostbite. I don't want to get that. So it would probably stop me. But other than that, snow man time is about to befall Little Oaks! Mwhahahaha.
Peace out.

I'll split your banana!!!!

I have been rather terrible at writing anything here. I was MUCH better at it when I was out at school, but I've been at home for three or so weeks now and I haven't written anything! Then again, I don't do too much w/ my life so there's not much to say. Last week we bought most of my mission clothes and stuff. That was pretty exciting. I like getting stuff. And I like looking dressed up and fancy. So that basically combined both of those which equals quite the nice experience for me.
I managed to hurt my foot on the second to last day of racquetball class. And now I've been wearing this dumb boot thingy to help stabilize it for a MONTH!!! I'm not really a big fan of it...at all. It makes a lot of things inconvenient to do. But it's better than doing nothing, so the inconvenience can be tolerated; for now. Hopefully I'll get to take it off soon. And ironically enough, I was waiting for my foot to get better so I could go hiking and other such stuff w/ a friend of mine, and now she's sprained her ankle. Talk about bad timing. So I doubt I'll go hiking while I'm home, sad. I do however hope to go disc golfing.
I brought a couple of my discs home and I LOVE the course here. It is far superior to all of the courses in Provo. This one has trees and hills and fun stuff like that. Provo is all open really, so not that exciting. Usually it's too hot to play though. I think one of these days I'll just have to bear the heat and get out and do it! The marginal benefit of playing disc golf is greater than the marginal cost introduced by the heat, so with that logic, I should do it! So I think I will.
On a random note, I have Swedish Fish! Maybe I only post on here when I get Swedish Fish. Last time I had them, I posted. And now I got some, and I posted again. Coincdence?? I think not. Anyhow, there's dessert somewhere w/ MY name on it and I'm going to go it. Actually, I think it really has Kristie's name on it...but that's beside the point, b/c I'm gonna eat those cookies anyways!

Swedish Fish and the testing Center

So apparently I don't know how to use the interweb and all it's amazing features. I managed to read the testing center hours wrong...that sucked. Thank goodness my teacher is letting me take it anyhow, but that really sucked. I've never been the biggest fan of the testing center, then again, who is? But I've never missed an entire test there before. That's just crazy. And why they close at 4 on a FRIDAY is beyond me. What about the people who have classes and such on Fridays?? Seems kinda dumb to me, but I don't make that call. Oh well, enough about that. I got some Swedish Fish today. I needed something to calm me down when I was unsure if I would be able to take my test or not. Haha, sometimes Prozac just isn't enough. Thank goodness for Swedish Fish and TV. They have a lot more sugar in them than I remember. I haven't eaten them in forever. Sad day, I know. But I finally got some! So that was super amazing, and I really don't mind the fact that it's all sugary. It's quite nice really. No wonder they are my favorite candy! So now I don't have much to do w/ my time. I have some homework but that's really about all I have to do. I guess that's what happens when you don't really have any balance in your life. When all your life is school, and then you don't have it b/c it's the weekend, it's hard to find something to do. Oh well, that's probably why the TV was invented. And I have some really good food to eat for dinner. I got some steaks when I was up in Bountiful and they are quite delicious and I am very excited to eat them! Oh boy!

California Ventura

So I started doing most of my medical and dental stuff for my mission papers in May 2007. I had them into Salt Lake City by July. Then I got the magic happy pill Prozac, and with that, a six month wait on my papers. But now, I FINALLY have my call!!! w00t w00t! As the title indicates, I am going to be serving in the California Ventura Mission. For those of you not familiar with California, that is just north of Los Angeles. So that's really super exciting!! I've been waiting since forever for this come and it finally has! Pretty much made my weekend! I report to the MTC on August 6th, 2008. Which means I'll get back on August 6th, 2010. Which is nice because that will be before fall semester 2010. So it should fit right in with classes and such when I get back. So basically, my life is pretty much amazing right now. It's about time. : )

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Gooey Butter Yumminess

I made a gooey butter cake last week and it turned out VERY well. So that was rather exciting. So this week I'm gonna make another one, but with a little change this time around. Instead of using yellow cake for the crust, I'm going to try using Devil's Food cake. It seems like it should work. Chocolate + gooey yumminess should = amazing! That's the hope anyhow. But I guess I'll find out tomorrow when I make it.

Yesterday was quite a monumental day for me. I've been waiting to get my mission papers officially submitted to SLC since about July or so. I started doing some of the health stuff back in May, almost a year ago. So it's about time that I finally get these in! I was really excited, obviously, because it's taken so long to get them in, and it's finally here! Now I just have to wait around for the call to come in the mail. I have no idea when that will be, but hopefully soon. I'm hoping in the next two weeks or so. That seems pretty reasonable to me. David thinks that I'm going to be going somewhere in the South. Perhaps that's just because that's where he is. I don't really have any guesses other than that I'll most likely be state side. But that's as specific as I'm going to guess.

And to add on to that excitement (although there was some rather frustrating things along with it) I got to go mini golfing! I love mini golf. It's pretty much the best thing to play outside. Well, maybe it ties for the best with Ultimate. Either way, it's super amazing and I love playing it. I did pretty decent on it, but that's aside the point. It was still crazy fun and would have been even if I didn't win. Oooh! I got a hole in one as well! That's always fun! And ironically enough, Katie got a hole in one on the lighthouse hole; a hole in which I shot a six. Weird how that works. Why can't we both do well on the same hole, especially a fun gimmicky hole like that? Oh well. It was still tons of fun! And I really enjoy only having one class today, it's very nice. All in all, Life Is Good. : )