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. :)
