Update

Finals are next week and I've been preparing at every down time I have at school with my teachers there. I've thought up what I want my Piano 1 final pieces to be and I've been memorizing the Major chords and working on my singing scales and such. Then it happened. Last Friday, I was told by my mother that something had happened to one of my best friends. She's in the hospital again and in a coma. This news startled me and took over my brain for the entire weekend. I wasn't sure what had happened. (I do now) She isn't allowed visitors, so I haven't visited the hospital yet. I didn't want to call her parents to be sure of what happened, so I called her mother's best friend, who had been my Young Women's President for the last few years in my home ward. She have me the run down of what happened, why it happened, what has already happened, and what is the latest she knew about the situation. I am so grateful for her and the comforting words she said to me. I am also so grateful for the continuous support others have given to me and the loving feelings I get from them. If those positive inforcements hadn't been here, I would probably be a nervous reck. Thank you.

On to other things.

I love writting letters. I think it's so great that I have so many friends out on missions right now that I can write to. I also like getting letters too. Whenever I get a letter from one of my missionary friends, I read stories about their adventures, frustrating companions they have, new baptisms and spiritual experiences. They also take pictures that are normal day occurances with regular street clothes on, but when missionaries are put into those situations it is completely hilarious. i.e Standing in front of a giant dinosaur statue and saying it's the most recent person to be taking the lessons. Things like that are so great and are part of what keep me going.

I know that saying what you're grateful for out loud is kind of designated for Thanksgiving, but I think that saying what you're grateful for aloud should be a monthly, weekly or even daily thing. It keeps you aware of how blessed your life is and you feel Heavenly Father's love more prominantly.

I'm going to try and start a trend of posting what I'm grateful for at least every month.

Live Long and Prosper
Lauren

AAAUUUUUGGGGHHH!!!

I tried saying hi after Sacrament Meeting but he ignored me! Then after Sunday school I was talking to someone and a friend next to me started playing her country music from her phone and I told her to turn it off and she got mad and told me, "You're funny," and went to a different seat for the rest of the meeting. THEN I tried saying hi to him again as he was heading out the door to go to priesthood and he STILL didn't hear me. Then I started getting a splitting head ache which carried over into the four hours of work. A couple residents got mad at me because I "forgot" them. One of them was cursing at me and whining about how I wasn't even paying attention to him at all and I was being lazy. I seriously wanted to punch him in the face! I had a splitting headache, people where being demanding and annoying and I WANTED TO GO HOME AND SLEEP!


I feel better. XD

Delema

Since I got a job recently, I have money. Before when I didn't have a job, I had absolutely no money and wanted to do everything all the time. My extra time has been getting eaten up like an invisible Pacman devouring fruit. I have school in the morning, then work at night. I get home by 8pm at the end of the day and the only thing I ever feel like doing is sitting at the computer and watching an episode or two of the original series of Star Trek. (btw i'm on season three, episode 5 ish?) When I have days off from school and work, all I want to do with my spare time is clean and run errands. It seems like when my best friend was away at school, I had boat loads of time to relax and not a care in the world. Now that she's home, I rarely have time to see her.

I think the only things that are an upside to all of this is that I'm busy, not bored all the time, I actually have money of my own and I'm losing weight. I feel very responsable and adult-like but I'm also not happy. If adulthood is going to continue like this, I seriously need to consider picking up a hobby. I don't know what I could do, but if anyone has any suggestions, let me know!

Live Long and Prosper
Lauren

YSA Conference

There aren't any words in the English or German language that I can express how amazing this conference was. There were so many times that I felt the spirit so strongly. I met so many wonderful people that will help me keep this experience in my head forever.

So, going through the schedule I'll tell you the highlights and what went on!

-1st Workshop: The speaker was funny and shared a wonderful message about "Promises of the Atonement to Me."

-Lunch was yummy!

-Then they thought it would be great to have an hour of speed dating. I conveniently had to go to the ladies room and there just happened to be a long line. hehehe

-2nd and 3rd Workshops were both wonderfull with brilliant speakers. They were about "The Watchman on the Tower: What does having a Prophet mean to me?" and "Keeping Covenants: The Way to Avoid Problems and Find Happiness."

-The Last Workshop was kind of hard to sit through because I was in the back of the congregation and all members know what that means. HARD COLD METAL CHAIRS. I had already been sitting there for two hours and so I was fidgeting and so were people around me. We were getting tired so I couldn't really get into it because I was in pain. But it was about “The Right to Choose –The Blessing of Agency." From parts I could pay attention to the speaker was funny and genuine.

-Dinner was AMAZING! It was Mexican food so of course I was in love! lol

-After dinner there was a Humanitarian Project where everyone helped to tie little pieces of yarn into a quilt. I helped out with two. It was very humbling to know that these finished quilts will be going to families in need all throughout California!

- Then there was a dance outside (because lets face it, you can't fit 800 singles in the cultural hall). It was really crazy fun! The music was good, whenever I bummed into someone in the middle of grooving out we would both turn and say sorry immediately. Everyone was so positive and friendly!

-Sunday was as normal except for the fact that there were 800 plus people and the guys had to go next door to the Korean Catholic Chapel. lol

-The ending fireside was wonderful. I went into the overflow where there was a large screen tv that was intended for the deaf people because there was a man in the left half of the screen signing ASL.

I loved this entire experience. I learned so much the past two days! I really hope they make this an annual thing!

Live Long and Prosper
Lauren

Little Punk!

Last week my sister had her sweet 16th birthday. She had it at the beach and when I was there it seemed like it was fun. She got many wonderful and creative presents from her artsy friends and giftcards and such. But the one present that stood out and above all the rest was from her good friend Grace. Her friend Grace gave her a pet rabbit.

This rabbit was rescued from a box in a riverbed. One of my dad's co-workers had found her and my dad said that he could give her a home. So he gave her to Grace's family. Lately they have been unable to take her out as often, so since our other rabbit Bunny Bunny died about 4 months ago they thought we could use a fast ball of fur in our home.

Her name is Clover and she is a white dwarf rabbit with brown ears and brown rings around her eyes. I call those spots around her eyes eyeliner, hence the nickname "Punk". I also call her midget, but that's only to bug my sister. hehehe

There is a funny comparison that I thought about when we had just gotten Clover. Our first bunny is more like me in a way. First bunny (I'm the first child), she's mellow (I hate picking fights and I don't like crowds and being obnoxious), she's overweight (if you know me in person you know that I am "Pleasantly Plump" as my sister put it earlier today), and she's very lazy (me too).
Clover is like my sister in many ways. She has an attitude, very small, second bunny, and likes flipping out and being a spazz.

Anyways, I just thought I'd share that. I thought it was kind of something to blog about.

Live Long and Prosper
Lauren

Major Pain

Lately I've been wondering what I want to do with my life and what I want to do for a career. I've been thinking about Music. I can't decide if I want to Major in Music or something else. I have been kind of wanting to audition for different Orchestras or groups to get paid to play music, but as I have been playing with the local Orchestra I've been hating having to learn to play hard music in such a short time. It's a pain to me. I like playing but hard music frustrates me very easily. I had a tutor but she was getting too expensive every month. I'm starting to think I should look into something else. Music is definitely fun and it calms me when I play but it's hard. I'm also telling myself I should suck it up and just play whatever my conductor needs me to. Get over how hard it is and just learn it. I don't know. Music Therapy sounds pretty awesome too. It's where I teach music to people who are trying to re-learn to walk, talk, write, talk etc. after being in an accident or where born with something that is keeping them from learning all of that. I've always wondered what that would be like.

I'm still pondering. Comments with your opinions would be nice. Thanks!

Live Long and Prosper
Lauren

The Mighty Boosh

Today I went to Hollywood with Jessica, Dotty, Brianna, Carrie and Tamara to go and see the cast of The Mighty Boosh tv show. We almost didn't go to their signing session but decided to at the last moment. We were very glad we did. We were far away from the stage but were still able to see Howard's mustache and Noel's sexy pancho he stole from a sleeping Mexican lady in Mexico (He couldn't remember where he'd gotten it so he made something up) and his shiney silver knee high boots. We ended up not being able to go to their dance party after their signing because the first 100 people who waited in line since 1pm earlier got wristbands that allowed them to go in. We still had a blast just being able to see them for an hour in the Ameoba Music Store.

I'm definitly going to be watching the rest of their series other than the Old Greg episode.

BTW We got interviewed by some MySpace lady. At least we think she's from MySpace. Or Adult Swim. We weren't sure. Well if you see me and my friends on a program and we're talking about The Mighty Boosh let me know!

Live Long and Prosper
Lauren