Sunday Quotes

Today in church we touched upon not being self righteous or having a superiority complex a lot. That made me think of this quote I saw from president Uchtdorf. We really should be careful about not acting superior. We need to help people grow self esteen mentally and spiritually.

I'm not going to say much today because I am busy, but I will say I feel bad for accidentally sleeping through the second hour in church and letting someone distract me during sacrament meeting today. I probably should have stayed in the chapel instead of going out into the hallway. At least I learned something in the third hour.

Powdered Sugar Regret

Today I learned never to just put powdered sugar on a pancake. It is just weird. My church had our monthly fourth Sunday munch and mingle. This month we had breakfast. There was pancakes with syrup, strawberries and whipped cream. There was also hash browns as well. I don’t know what was in those hash browns, but I think it was more than just hash browns. I swear there was chocolate chips in them. They were pretty good, but it was kind of weird in my opinion. I had plenty of that plus some what I think was pink orange juice, but I might be way off there. It was some kind of Sunny-D concoction that was interesting and mysterious. I forgot to look at the bottle properly.

In church we talked about tithing and doing what God thinks is best for us rather than what we think is best. It was all about trusting in his decisions for us and not trying to do everything the way we think is best. Stuff like that, it’s hard to explain. Gospel Doctrine class was packed today, it usually isn’t. It brought me back to 9 years ago when I started attending the singles ward at my LDS church. That class used to be packed to breaking point back then. It was rather popular.

After church I took a nap and watched this documentary about high class british nannies. I don’t think I could do what they do. There is so much involved in being a high class Norland Nanny. They get educated at Norland College and often take care of high class people. Here is the video!

I think if I was going to be something like that I’d rather be a high class maid. I am rather good at cleaning despite my bad vision.

We had soup for the third night in a  row, so I’m kind of sick of it now. Minestrone is great, just not three days in  a row.Laura brought me some cookies and a sucker from my cousin’s wedding. I do feel kind of bad for not being able to go because of work yesterday, but it was for the best that I didn’t even try.

Anyway, I’m a bit nervous for this next week as I just know French is going to just get more intense as is English. I think our next paper is a research paper so I’m feeling absolute dread. With luck it won’t be as hard as I think it will.

A demain! (see you tomorrow)

Stuff I don't Need to Know

So Natalie has decided to declare war on the ants. I have tried to explain to her in more than one way that it is a lost cause. She is pretty much bent on trying to destroy every ant in the house. Every time she kills one or traps one she just HAS to broadcast it throughout the whole house. I have a major ant phobia so I would rather not know when they are around. When I was 5 years old I stepped on an ant hill and they crawled all over me, it was scary. I have hated ants ever since and I consider it a blessing in disguise that I have bad vision so I can't see ants and other bugs. I don't need to know if they are around unless if it is going to put my life in danger, and I don't want to know either. I'm hoping this is just a short phase Natalie is going through.

Earlier today I wrote a post that summarized everything that has been happening since last August so i wouldn't have to do it with individual posts. usually what I do is I write a post and make it look like it was always there with the proper day and time and everything. I figured that wasn't really necessary this time as long as people know what has been happening since I became inactive at blogging. I have done a few posts since last August, but not that many.  I am going to start posting regularly now, and will continue to do so if I can help it.

I have been watching Phineas and Ferb a lot the past few weeks, I find it relaxing. I especially like watching it with my nieces. I have been trying harder to decrease activities that make me feel bad, sad, or just negative in any way.  I have been a lot better spiritually as well since I have started doing this. I think I am starting to really understand the importance of God in my life. I think I have been ignoring him for too long. Since I have started reading the scriptures I have been more at peace and happy and my faith has increased both in myself and in God.

My nieces brought home some new goldfish tonight and they have been talking to them while I have been typing this. I think it is funny, they can do what they want though. I really don't know if the fish even understand anything they are saying or even know what is going on. Most likely they do not. They got the fish at the Summer fest that is going on today and tomorrow. I don't know if we are going to do anything tomorrow yet. I remember last year I used my Hipstamatic iphone app for the first time there.

I had a dream about Eric again last night, I don't dream about him very often anymore. I wish I would stop dreaming about him, it's not like we are going to see each other again. I don't think about him that much, but my sub consciousness seems to not want to let it go for some reason. Things like this are weird. 

I bought some organic, all natural gummy bears from Good Earth yesterday, and also some Mango flavored Kefir (it's like a yogurt smoothie, and some cinnamon flavored xylitol gum.  I loved the gummy bears a lot they were great. I prefer them over the other ones any day.

Anyway, today has been a pretty good day all around. I really hope tomorrow is the same.

Anyway, I guess this is all for today I think. If I forgot anything I will add it tomorrow, I am a little tired so I might have.

Stake conference

So yesterday we had a Stake meeting (a church meeting). Every 6 months our Stake has a Stake Conference. It’s basically where all the wards in the Stake get together and have a big 2 hour meeting. Everyone in every ward comes to this and it replaces the normal church schedule for that week. Then we do it again 6 months later. Stake conference usually takes place about a month before General Conference, where I live anyway.

Anyway every time we have Stake conference there is a meeting for all the adults the night before. I somehow manage to forget this every time. I was playing Destiny Online and writing stuff and it totally slipped my mind yesterday. My dad reminded me about an hour before the meeting started. I was a little ticked off by this but I went and washed my hair and stuff and got ready. I was late of course. In fact by the time we left it was already 45 minutes through the adult meeting. We were very late. I was in a better mood by this time though. The meeting was good, I don’t really remember exactly what they talked about though. Even though this is the case I still feel like I gained something from it however.

I don’t really remember what the talks were about in Stake conference either… a little embarrassing I must admit. It happens to me a lot. Stake conference was still pretty good. Today I sat in the foyer because i was late. I didn’t really feel like walking around looking for a seat. I felt like that would distract everyone else. I remember little bits of the talks here and there. I know they were largely focused on Christ. Other than that I probably couldn’t give you the specifics even if I tried ha ha.

Anyway, other than that today has been a cold cloudy day. My mom made Cream of Broccoli soup though. I have always loved that soup.  I have just been listening to Pandora radio and talking to people on facebook. Just the usual stuff, nothing is really special today except for the fact we had Stake conference.

I guess that is all for now. :)