DONE!!!!!

Ah, what a fantastic feeling. No more homework or tests for...

a week because I'm doing spring semester. I'm retarded. ha!

O well! I will still celebrate!

Catch - Up time

So to start this post off, I'm going to give the blogging world this little quote. My dad sent it to me in an e-mail today, and I think it's fantastic. It's from a man who at age 77 got inducted into the World Senior Games hall of fame. (Big deal, held in St. George) Anyways, it's about running, and I totally believe every word it says. Today I went on a little 5 miler. I remember the days when 5 miles was Impossible for me, let alone improbable. Now, I am going to train for a MARATHON. That's right folks. I'm going to face my fears and do it, because my future is mine, and I'm excited.

WHY DO I RUN? 'TAIN'T NO MYSTERY--

WANNA HAVE A GOOD MEDICAL HISTORY,
DOCTOR TOLD ME RUNNIN IS GREAT--
HELPS THEM BLOOD CELLS CIRCULATE,
GREAT FOR THE LUNGS,
GREAT FOR THE TICKER,
CAN'T NOTHIN' GETCHA
IN BETTER SHAPE QUICKER,
FEELS SO HEALTHY, FEELS SO SWEET,
PUMPIN MY ARMS AND FLAPPIN' MY FEET,
MOLDIN' MY MUSCLES, FIRMIN' MY FORM,
PANTIN' LIKE A PACK MULE,
SWEATIN' UP A STORM,
KEEPS ME YOUTHFUL,
KEEPS ME LOOSE,
TIGHTENS MY TUMMY
AND SHRINKS MY CABOOSE,
BEATS BEIN' LAZY--
WHY DO I RUN? MAYBE I'M CRAZY!

Okay, so for updates. The first weekend of April, the 2nd and 3rd we went to colorado for a good little time. So we drove there at 5:30 in the A.M. and I drove. For sure it was crazy weather and I thought until the sun came out around 7 that I may just vere off the road... anyways I had to hold ten and two and it was all good. Until the drive home when I got caught speeding and 220 $ later I got home. So anyways, it was really fun to be in colorado. We drove there friday morning played 4 games and then drove home around 3 on saturday. Anyways, good times colorado. That weekend was also conference weekend and man I loved it. Conference is almost like christmas to me. I love it because I get spiritually fed in my PJ'S! This year's favorite was by Elder Donald A. Hallstrom about trials and being smart with the way you live your life. So good.

Next event was the next weekend! Okay so this one is St. Louis. It was such a great time. We had a lot of fun being in a different location. I got to be the navigator and it was fun to talk to my coach (oriah, not julie) about life and lacrosse. We flew in thursday afternoon and played a game against Lindenwood and lost to them, but shoot the game was legit. they announced the starting line up, played the national anthem and talked about the team's position and stuff. Then the next morning we went to the St. Louis arch and the union square there where this guy from "the fugery" sang us a song and shoot I felt like I was in heaven it was so cool!! (if you want more details ask me in person...) Then more games, sleep, games, plane ride home, lots of talking, laughing and screaming. Needless to say, my team was all exhausted and we had a hard time focusing and playing our hardest at practice. Tomorrow we head off to colorado again even though it's finals. This is the regional tournament and if we win both our games tomorrow, then we get a trophy AND the bid to go to nationals in may. I'm so so excited... This is why I play lacrosse. It is so fun to be around girls all the time and to travel to fun places and to play a sport that makes me love something. I dunno, that's all jumble but it is truth. It's worth it. If I've learned anything this year it is that what I do with my life is worth it because "all these things shall be for thy good and shall give thee experience."

Tonight the roommates and I went to Olive Garden for dinner and laughed a bunch about our past year. They're all saints. They put up with me even though I'm a pest and negative and don't really contribute much. I am so lucky to live with my best friends. We have had a phenominal year. We predicted who's going to get married first, when they'll get married, who'll be engaged first, who will have the most kids, and where we will all live in tenish years. We promised that each year we would get together and reminiss about the past and talk about the present and future. It made me excited for one of the first times in a long while about my future. Uncertain as it is, I'm excited. :)

How do people do it?

Sometimes I wonder how people keep everything under the radar... how they can seem (or maybe even just are) so perfect all the time. It seems they never get mad or frustrated with anything.

Right now is finals time, and I HATE when the time that I've set aside for studying or what not gets disrupted.

Tonight, my favorite show on television had its very last episode ever... It makes me sad because it ended horribly with Betty not ending up with a guy at all, moving away from her family, the two gay guys still being gay, the mean lady getting the business and her man, and so many other things ended "wrong" that I just was not happy with it. But even more then that, while trying to relish in the last few moments I had with my show, 4 people came in (uninvited) and chatted up a storm. It made me upset... obviously. I just wonder, if my generation is this inconsiderate, what are my children going to be like?

I am stressed. I know it. I have to figure out a lot of things, and secretly my heart is breaking a little bit each time I don't get mail, I hear about another friend of mine who is happily engaged (or soon to be), each time I hear that a family member is sad, each time I fear the future, each time I find out that grades are not as I thought they were going to be etc. This time of life is just really hard sometimes.

I'm so grateful for the gospel and the things it teaches. Because of my hard night tonight I read my favorite scripture passages, D&C 121-123 and they game me comfort and strength. If Joseph, Job, and especially Christ suffered through ALL that stuff, my stuff is nothing at all. Really in the scope of things, my turn on earth is really just an hour or so... but shoot, what a tough hour sometimes. O well. Tomorrow is another day.

P.S. I have a bunch of stuff to blog about and catch up on, and I started to do that last night and have been saving it all day, but one of those uninvited guests of ours got on my computer and exited out of my screen so I'll try again later.