Stop Worrying and Start Living

Friday night brought no sleep for this girl. Saturday morning, starting at 12am, began with some cheesecake, a movie ("Pride and Prejudice" Provo version), lovely chit chat with a group of wonderful girls, a 3am marshmallow roast (add M&M's, it was perfect!) and some before bed jokes. Joke example, courtesy of Leah: Why do Elephants wear sandals on the sand? - So they don't sink. Why do Ostriches stick their heads in the sand? - So they can see the Elephants who forgot to wear their sandals! After turning the lights off, all was still in the room, except for the fire light dancing off the ceiling. Warm, comfortable and happy. 'Why waste such a wonderful moment on sleep?' I asked my self as thoughts other thoughts of 'you need sleep, you'll only get 4 hours of sleep' crept in. So what? The next day I had no major commitments, why waste the moment by stressing? A worried thought makes one tense. Tense makes one uncomfortable. Discomfort is hard to enjoy. Don't leave good company, you don't know when you'll see them again. Don't play out events in your head that haven't happened. It doesn't usually go how you plan anyway. A few hours away, is a few hours away. You can't do anything about it until you get there. Say "I love you" when it's true, stay in the hug a little longer, smile and laugh! Dance, sing! If it's raining, take your shoes off and dance in the rain. Yes, there are times when concern for the future is appropriate. Take action, do what needs to be done. If you can't fix it, you can't fix it. You'll be ok without it then. Remember it is in the Hands of the Lord that your life rests. If you do the best you can, what do you have to worry about? He's in charge, He'll get things done. Stop worrying, and start living the life He gave you to live! Eat a marshmallow at 3am, laugh at elephant jokes, and cherish each tear of joy as you realize how blessed you truly are.

Making New Friends

It's not as easy as walking up to someone and begin talking to someone, then each time you see this person, develop a stronger relationship. Some people are intent on keeping a distant acquaintance, what I call flirting at arm's length. (this applies to the opposite gender) If one is interested in another, how is it beneficial to ignore building a solid friendship in the beginning, simply functioning off flirting?

Then there are others that will go completely out of their way to say hello to you and see how you are doing. I witnessed a woman who saw a girl crying, and this woman did not hesitate one second before rushing to the tearful girl and putting her arms around her.

I understand that inter gender relations make a difference in action. But should it? Certainly you should take equal care in addressing those of your own gender as well as the opposite, whether you are single, taken, or married. In no way, shape, or form am I saying I am perfect at inter humanity relationships. Personally, I feel I need a lot of work in this area. Simply, I am expressing mild irritation. Though I guess I would do well to remember I am not the only imperfect one.

Increased Understanding

"The importance of having a sense of the sacred is simply this--if one does not appreciate holy things, he will lose them. Absent a feeling of reverence, he will grow increasingly casual in attitude and lax in conduct. He will drift from the moorings that his covenants with God could provide. His feeling of accountability to God will diminish and then be forgotten. Thereafter, he will care only about his own comfort and satisfying his uncontrolled appetites. Finally, he will come to despise sacred things, even God, and then he will despise himself.

"On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and truth. The Holy Spirit becomes his frequent and then constant companion. More and more he will stand in holy places and be entrusted with holy things. Just the opposite of cynicism and despair, his end is eternal life."

D. Todd Christofferson

Employment

Film Studies decided to accept this poor unemployed soul. I will start in the next few weeks, and will be fully employed by July 1 (beginning of the fiscal year). Working for a very nice lady, my position will be "Erin do this, please." The "copying, filing, data entry grunt". I'm excited to work for a department I have an interest in. Office work is something I enjoy, so it won't be drudgery. This job will continue through the next school year. If I'm lucky, they'll keep me for a few years. The pay is good, and I won't have to work more than 20 hours during the school year.

Garbage Truck

As a kid, every time I heard the garbage truck come through the circle, I would run to the window to watch the man extend the lever and grabber to the garbage cans, pick them up and lift the can, then dump the garbage into the back, then set the can back down. For some reason it was fascinating then to a little kid. I was home today when the garbage man came, and I went to the window to watch as he picked up our can, then "threw" it onto the ground (it didn't stay standing). It was just as fun to watch him navigate the circle in the 8-wheeler. He did a pretty good job setting the neighbors cans down, though there were a few lying on the ground instead of standing upright...