Right now I am at work and I have soooo much to do! I am taking a test in the morning and have about three essays to write by Monday. I feel a little like this...
I might have watched his speech twice and might have peed my pants from laughing too hard...twice :)
I really like watching all of the debates and am already really excited for Monday's debate. Actually it is more frustrating but I feel like I need to be involved :) especially since my vote matters. Go Nevada being a swing state! We are planning on going on a trip down to Vegas to help campaign for Romney next Friday-stoked!
Okay but now I need to say bye to Mitt because these essays need to be written!
(Here is Romney's speech in case you missed it. Obama's was pretty funny too!)
I will try to update more-as in more often than every three months :)
"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."
I feel like time has been on my mind a lot lately today. First in my mission prep. class we were talking about faith and how you need to have faith that things will work out. He kept talking about how often we worry soo much about are current situation and we don't have faith that things will work out. When we worry soo much we can't enjoy the stage of life that we are in right now.
Then a man at my work was talking about how stages of life fly and soon you are old and it is just you and your wife at home listening to the clock tick...
Ardie's letter home talked about how he remembers kindergarten and waiting the night before to finish coloring his coloring packets and now he only has a year left of his mission. :) (I honestly don't know how the kid can remember that, I can't even remember last week!)
With each of these experiences today, each conversation resulted in the importance of enjoying the stage of life that you are in right now because before you know it, it will be over.
How is it truly possible to enjoy the stage of life that you are in right now?
I feel like I can look back and be like, "oh man that was a good summer (stage)," but I don't think that when I was living it, I was really thinking "now this is a good stage of life!"
I think the main problem is worry rather than preparation. I look at the things that I am currently doing and I tend to view them as worries rather than preparations for something better.
Example:
Test coming up-totally worried.
perspective change:
Test coming up-totally prepared
Everything I am doing now shouldn't be a worry but should actually just be a preparation-if that makes sense.
Maybe with this attitude I can see the bigger picture because well in all reality "today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday" -and well today is done!! :)
I have a test tomorrow which I am not too excited for at all.
I was in the econ lab earlier and there was this like eleven year old in there...I am talking pre- puberty. I started to freak out. I kept looking at him and whispering to myself "that is soo wrong," "that should not be allowed." Later, I actually found out that it was just some kids younger brother. After that information, I regained my self esteem and took back all the rude comments I said. :)
Oh and I found the perfect study room in the library, it took me awhile...but the winner is 2724! Maybe it is not the absolute best but all of the ones with windows were taken. I have a set of whiteboard markers my "stress playlist" and a whole lot of problems (econ) :)!! Is it weird that I am pretty excited to start writing all of the problems on the whiteboard...because I am :)
Econ, you and me are going to get to know each other reeaaally well on our date tonight!!
Every year all the families who have lost children get together and there is a little program where all of the children's names who have passed away are read and then the families get to go walk around the gardens. It was my first time going to it and it was really nice being able to remember Emma and walk around the gardens with Sunny and Alex. The weather was absolutely perfect too!
On Sunday we got to talk to Ardie. He really hasn't changed and it was pretty fun talking to him....for four hours!! I guess his senior companion kept talking to his family so he just kept talking to us. I always get so worried talking to him because I am afraid that he has changed I realized it was the same Ardie when we were the ones getting updated on the b-ball game while talking to him. I guess the member had the game on. Yep, same old Ardie. Don't worry, we got mad at him :)
Last Night I was all prepared to go to sleep early to make today a productive day! I was all ready for bed at like 10:30 and was pretty excited about being productive but then around 2:00 am I was woken by cats meowing really loud outside of my door....like really loud. At first I thought it was a baby crying so I was all confused but nope... In the end, I basically didn't get any sleep last night. If those cats come out tonight I will be ticked like really ticked. :)...no idea why you would care about this but maybe when I am not sleep deprived I will think this is funny? maybe...
So I have been in the the library today trying to study. TRYING- keyword. So you know how some people have the habit of biting their nails. Well I don't have that habit :) but when I am studying/stressed/nervous/antsy/thinking...I play with my necklace and I move my ring from finger to finger. So I was doing that and this kid comes up to me and noticed I was studying Econ and just started conversation- Who is your teacher? Do you like it? Is it hard?- We talked for a few minutes...and well I was kind of like kid I am trying to study but I didn't want to be rude so I was thinking of ways to get up and leave without it being obvious. Anyways, he kept talking and then he looked at my hand and I had left my ring on my ring finger. And then he said "Congrats" I looked down and was just like "Oh Thanks" yep, that got the conversation to end really fast. Do I feel guilty? kinda... but I NEEDED to study.
Well since I am now married I will gladly be excepting checks....just make them out to "Kirsten and her really handsome imaginary husband" :)
Obviously between Animal Planet happening outside my door and my impromptu marriage, focusing on Econ has been a real struggle. But now Econ you have my full attention!!
So, after I went to work this morning and did some homework, I felt an urge to go use these lovely machines
and then I had a really big urge to go play with this pretty little thing
I have not really played in a while so it felt great-real great!!
I was just shooting around and then a group decided that they wanted to play three on three, after that we played "four on the line." Back at home I always liked this game because when your brother is like six inches taller than you, it is the only game that he doesn't have an advantage! But I had not really shot a free throw in a long time so I was ready for some embarrassment.
Best game of "four on the line" I have ever, I repeat, ever played!!! It went on forever. It came down to me and one other person until there was 81 on the line. In the end I made 41 and he made 40. Maybe he let me win...benefit of the doubt right?! :) What can I say, I hit my Rhythm!
My.new.favorite.number =81
Okay now that this is out of my system, I should probably go deflate my ego :)
