Sundays are the Greatest.

Have I ever mentioned how much I love my ward?? I just feel so lucky that I get to associate with such amazing people on a daily basis. And Sundays are by far the best day of the week. I get to see all my favorite people, with the added bonus of having an uplifting, spiritual day at church. Take into consideration the occasional service project, surprise birthday bashes, and games, and it's undeniable that some of the best times I've had at BYU have been on Sundays.

The Child in Me.

So this week I had an experience that made me reflect on my inner child...an embarassing and slightly graphic experience, but a symbolic one nevertheless.

It all goes back to how I'm still recovering a little from the pneumonia that hit me a couple weeks back. I'm feeling loads better, but it takes a long time for me to fully bounce back to my old self after being that sick. Anyway, to say the least, I am still a fountain of snot and often very tired. So the other night, I'm blowing my nose, (a totally normal occurence considering that I am still phlegmy) and all of a sudden I feel something fairly large dislodge from my nose. I look into the tissue, and lo and behold, there is a long-grain piece of rice...leftover from lunch that day.

Hahahhhaa. How it got there, I don't know. But my first thought was, getting random things stuck up your nose is not something a 19-almost 20-year-old-college-student should be having problems with...this is something that most 2-year-olds struggle with. Anyway it was just a very poignant reminder to me that some things may never change, and the child in me may never go away, in fact, it might remain an integral part of who I am.

Who ever knew that a piece of rice could inspire such profound thoughts?

Lauren Bedard's Birthday

May 1999

See if you can pick me out...

NEWSFLASH!

Yesterday, Haunted House Boy (Dallas) asked me out for tomorrow!

Also, Halloween Hand Holder (Ben) asked me to go to the bball game with him next week!

Hahhaa. I love how I went from 0 anything boy related in my life to 2 new admirers in such a short time. Why this is all happening at once, I do not know. But I can't complain. I'm very much enjoying the attention...

In other news...I'm almost 100% recovered from the bout of pneumonia that I had last week. Whoo. Party.

VICTORY

Haunted House Boy asked for my number Monday night!

It's been a while since something like that has happened to me. Definitely the morale booster that I've been needing :)

Also, just wanted to reaffirm how much serving other people can help you feel so good about life!! I went door to door tonight for a ward fundraiser, raising money for needy children this Christmas. Usually I hate stuff like that, but tonight I was strangely invigorated, and I got really into it. We have raised hundreds of dollars in just pocket change, and we're not even close to being done yet- it's incredible what small and simple things like that can add up to!!

Good day, good day.

Pneumonia Sucks

Having now missed two days of school, 3 days of work, and 1 weekend of fun, I can officially say that I am sick of being an invalid!! Sitting at home while the rest of my roommates get to frolic about is the definition of depressing. Especially when you don't even use the oodles of time at your disposal to do something useful, like homework, or clean your room. Everything sounds unappealing when you're sick, and you have an excuse not to do it, sort of, so it's really easy to get nothing done. Here is a summary of my day today:

-Woke up
-Felt like crap
-Ate breakfast/took meds
-Read
-Went back to sleep
-Woke up, left the confines of my apartment for the first time in 3 days to get what little social activity I could handle in my condition (walked to the nextdoor building to have a chat with a friend)
-Ventured to Walmart to get some grocery shopping in. (I was a little out a breath towards the end, after chasing Kirra and Lanae around the store at breakneck speeds)
-Came home, unloaded groceries
-Watched Zorro
-Read Scriptures
-Am in the process of starting the movie Chocolat

Now, that may sound like a lot of things that filled up my day when I list them all out like that, but when you really look at it all, none of those things really amount to anything, except maybe the scripture reading time.

Man. I can't even handle how productive I was today...

Scheming

For the third night in a row, my brilliant prank has been put on hold. For various reasons too...the prankees still being awake, the election going on, my partner in crime geting sick and needing to go to bed early. When will the interruptions cease?? I just want to hurry and put my plan into action!

Stay tuned for this weekend...I plan to see this thing through if it kills me!