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)

Saturday French Toast

So this weekend is the LDS churches Semi Annual General Conference. Every 6 months my church holds a world conference, and people in the higher standings of the church give talks on the gospel and share their wisdom. Also every 6 months the Bishop of my ward holds a breakfast an hour and a half before conference starts (8am). Needless to say I was up pretty early. I got up at 7am after spending time on Xanga until 4 in the morning, so  didn't get much sleep.  Like a zombie out of the grave I dragged myself out of bed and got dressed. I spent a few minutes on Xanga after I woke up and listened to some Breaking Benjamin to wake myself up. I checked a few other websites as well, the time flew by as I did so. It was around 7:45 when I tried to do something with my hair. I took off the white bandanna that I usually wear to bed and started flipping my bangs here and there trying to get them to behave and look good. I didn't really succeed unfortunately however. I ended up putting m hair back in my ponytail and bandanna, got on my jacket, pulled on my black boots and grabbed my cell phone. I looked at the clock and was a bit puzzled by what I saw, it was 8:17am. I just stood there staring at the clock for about 3 seconds thinking about how time flies when you are trying to get your hair to behave.

I grabbed my ear buds and shoved them in my jacket pocket, then walked up the stairs and straight out the door. I would guess it was probably in the upper 40s or the lower 50s, that is what it felt like to me. the sky was decorated by pale grey clouds, I didn't think very much about the clouds except for how cool the risen sin made them look, it was pretty nice.  Usually when I go outside I have this lingering feeling of nervousness but not today for some reason. I was pretty calm and relaxed. for some of you that do not know I have a really bad fear of stray dogs. I am usually reluctant to go outside somewhat usually because of this, and I have mild Agoraphobia as well. today I did not feel afraid, I knew everything would be fine for some reason and I just started walking to my bishops house. As I was walking down the side walk I was greeted by the sounds of people playing soccer at our near by track, there were also a few people running. this just made me feel even more relaxed.

As I got further down the street to my bishops house I decided to turn on my music. I pulled out my earbuds and plugged them into my iPhone. I went to my Pandora Radio app and turned on my Nightwish radio station, it is my favorite one to listen to. I lowered the volume slightly and started walking again.  I came to the the road that goes up over the nearby canal and I walked up and down the hill and I could hear the various people mowing their lawns when I got ot the other side. It wasn't to long after that I reached my bishops house.

I knocked on the door and was greeted by one of his kids who told me to come in.

I walked through the house into the kitchen and was greeted by everyone. I was shown where the food was and I began to choose what I would eat. there was French Toast, waffles, strawberries and pineapple. There was also whipped cream and orange juice as well on the table. I grabbed 1 waffle and 1 piece of french toast and put the syrup on it then began to eat. I was kind of in my own world at that point, daydreaming and such, thinking about Sam and a few other friends of mine, and I still had my music plugged into my ears on a light volume. 

I didn't really say much to anyone I just mainly listened a little. People were talking about school and work and their lives. I didnt pay much attention to the details of what they were saying, I was kind of busy eating my food.  When I was done I just kind of wandered back ad forth around the kitchen and the living room, just listening to the various conversations. i was absent mindedly carrying around my plate, kind of in a sleepy daze from not getting very much sleep. I decided to try and get Darik and Dylan to come to the breakfast and I texed Darik telling him about it. They never came but I am glad I tried. they live across the street from my bishop's. 

I had been standing up the whole time, even while eating. I looked around for a seat and saw one at the counter, I went to go sit down. I just sat there with my empty plate in front of me listening to music. One of my neighbors that was helping out with the breakfast interrupted my half dazed daydreaming state and asked me if I wanted another piece of french toast, I just said yes. I put strawberries on this one this time however, and whipped cream.  I had fun with the whippped cream, i usually never have it. My mom doesn't really believe in buying whipped cream, it's not all that healthy.  I really enjoy it when I can for this reason, just because I don't have it very often.  I ate my strawberries and whipped cream on French toast and it was really great.

I started paying more attention to what everyone was saying after this. We started talking about our sleeping habits and why we sleep when we do. I told them I usually either go to bed early and wake up early, or go to bed late and end up waking up early anyway.  I kind of faded out of the conversation after a while and threw away my plate. I decided to hang out on the couch in the living room for a while and play games on my phone after that. I was greeted by my bishop and he asked about how my brothers were doing. I told him that my brother (T) was running and was going to be going to Indonesia for the summer for some school related thing, I forget what it is.  My other brother (P)  is in college and is trying to become an accountant.  Our conversation didn't last much longer after that. I just spent about 10 minutes after that just playing with my phone and petting my bishop's really pretty Labrador Retriever, she is totally gorgeous and is a very nice dog.

After a while if just snacking on pineapple and listening to people talk because I had nothing better to do everyone left before conference started. I left with them and walked back home.

I checked a few things on Xanga and then pulled up TweetDeck for conference.

During General Conference I opened up 2 columns in TweetDeck, one was for the hashtag #lds and the other #ldsconf. I wanted to keep up with what other people were saying and re-tweet stuff I liked. On occasion I did comment on a part of some of the talks I liked, but most of the time I pretty much just re-tweeted like an angry bird, I was doing it pretty fast. There were a lot of people that were throwing out great quotes and moments. I always try not to tweet to much during conference just because it's a destraction so I just end up re-tweeting other people's tweets if I like them. Conference was pretty neat. I really liked the talk in the first session about the value of women in the church.

In Between the 1st and 2nd sessions I just listened to music, and tried to catch up on Xanga as best as I could, I also took a short 1 hour nap before the 2nd session. I wanted to stay in bed and listen to it on my phone but my friend is in the BYU Idaho choir and they were singing in the 2nd session of General Conference. I got up when the choir started to sing, and looked for Sam in the choir and I saw him a few times! During the talks I just did the same as I did before in the last session pretty much. I did give up tweeting about 20 minutes before the 2nd session ended and just sat there in my chair listening. Surprisingly enough I fell aslep during the end (in my chair yes). I didn't sleep for too long though, once the choir started singing again I dragged myself upstairs again and looked for Sam again.

After the 2 sessions of conference had ended I just got back on Xanga and I've just been trying to catch up with people's entries as well as I can. 

Oh a random note I had a mango, orange peach jam, and almond butter sandwitch for lunch.

If anything happens I will update this later, I think I need to take a nap or something I feel dead ha ha.

EDIT: My niece and sister in law and my brother came over,  we had coliflower soup for dinner and toasted cheese sandwiches it was pretty good. I had chocolate candy for dessert. My sister had some left over candy she didn't want and she shared it. :)

Miniature Golf!

So today was sort of interesting.

At first in the morning there was still lightning and thunder around, I’m pretty sure it did not rain though because the sidewalks were completely dry.

I had cheerios for breakfast yesterday. That's my usual breakfast, that or waffles, or pancakes or toast or some combo ha ha.

I don’t really remember what i had today.

Anyway, so I just mostly hung out on the computer watching anime and playing Destiny Online for a little bit. I started to watch Gintama but fell asleep for a few hours.

It was sunny by this time, I was a little glad but I missed the lightning.

I just made myself a cheese sandwich at this point and went back downstairs and watched more anime, and did stuff on facebook. I also read the latest chapter of One Piece.

It was really hot in the house, so I turned on my fan and got ready to go golfing with some people I know for a church activity.

I left about 7:40pm and went over to my church. It was starting to get cloudy. We got together and went over to the golf course. We did 18 holes of golf, I got a little bored after hole 10 though. Except for the 1 time I accidentally hit the ball to hard and it went flying into the bushes. That was pretty funny. I was glad to be done when I finished though. I don’t really like miniature golf that much for some reason.

I had ice cream and just stood around for a while after that. Then some of the other people that came including the people i came with started talking about various things. We watched lightning and just talked about life and our jobs and school and stuff it was fun. We decided to go to a local track and just sit and watch the lightning and joke about stuff. It was a really good temperature right about then.  I went home after a while of just looking up at the sky.

When i got home i had salad and watched more anime. Going to bed now.

PANCAKES!!... and more Pancakes.

So i had pancakes for breakfast and lunch,   My dad makes the best pancakes and waffles. He doesn't use the stuff from the box or whatever, makes them from scratch, home made and they are SO good!

i remember having them for as long as I can remember, I love the memories of waking up to home made breakfast its one of my favorite memories and I'm glad I can sill have that. My family is so classic, and so kind, I have the best family. I don't think i would really fit anywhere else.

We have always kept tons of pictures. I have this huge photo album of pictures of just me when i was little, I can tell that they really love me. Its a little hard for me to show my live sometimes, I'm not a very mushy person. Its sometimes hard for me to say "I love you", that kind of stuff.

I think if everyone had a family like mine this world would be less chaotic and in so much distress like it is now. The way you grow up is very important, I've come to see that throughout my life.