Hare Krishna

It's just not fun to blog anymore. My life is so uninteresting. 

On the 9th I slept in a tent out in the backyard. It was cold and snow was on the ground and I nearly suffocated in my sleeping bag, 'cuz the only way I could stay warm was by having my head inside of it, but it was so beautiful outside, and the moon was almost full, and the sky was clear. I left the top off of my tent so I could see the moon and have its light come in. That's probably a big reason why it never really got warm in the tent :P The tent was made for summer, so that could also be a reason. :D It was fun, though. Try it some night when you don't really feel like sleeping...or being warm. But seriously, there's a totally different feel and sound when you sleep outside. In the house, everything is still and dead, but outside, even if there are no noises, there's noise. I love it.

On the 10th we went sledding (not for very long, though). When we first got there at near-sunset, I went to go take pictures down by Lake Michigan. The sky was so cool, and the lake looked frozenish. I took some pictures, came down by the lake, looked at it, and decided I'd see if it really was frozen. I just stepped on it a teeny bit, just to test, but it cracked, so I didn't walk on it. I thought that it may be more frozen where snow had accumulated, because it must have been frozen for a while for the snow to be able to stick, so I tried a little way down where there was snow. I stepped on it, and it cracked again, but this time it seemed like there was a thin layer of ice on top, then a layer of water, then another layer of ice, which I assumed would be thick. So I stepped out onto it....

See the dark hole where my left leg went through? Up to my thigh?

Heh...yeah...it's a good thing I didn't go in all the way, because I didn't touch bottom, so who knows how deep it was? Methinks Someone was trying to teach me a lesson... :| 

So after I pulled my leg out, then laughed at myself, and told myself that my parents were right (again! When will I learn?!), I went back to the car, took off my socks, took off my snow pants (thank goodness I was wearing snow pants and then pants underneath that), dried off the bottom of my pants as best I could (thank goodness my pants didn't get too wet), and changed into different boots (thank goodness we had an extra pair of boots)(and I'm know that these weren't all coincidences or good luck). Then I went and found everyone, and Mum noticed right away that I wasn't wearing my snow pants: 

"Why aren't you wearing your snow pants?" 

"Um...(I look away and smile) the lake's not frozen."

So after that, I was going to sled, but after I got to the top of a hill, I saw the sunset. HOLY WOW, it was an AMAZING sunset. Definitely Rexburg quality. The pictures so do not do it justice.

After the sunset, I sled for a little bit, and we found this fake snowboard which you put on by sliding your shoes into some straps, and I went down the hill on that, and I'm sure it wasn't much like real snowboarding, but it was way fun and made me definitely want to try snowboarding sometime. But Mum said I'd need lessons for that, but I wouldn't need lessons for skiing, so maybe I'll try skiing first. 

Sunday was an awesome day, as always. I did nursery for two hours, but it didn't feel like that long, and there are only five or six kids in there, and three other people (one of whom did nothing- she just sat in a chair and texted for most of the time). That night I watched the CES fireside, and that was AWESOME!! I LOVE President Monson!!! I love listening to the prophet speak, and I didn't want the fireside to end. I wish we all could just sit and have church leaders teach us all day. 

On Monday Mum and I went and got stuff for doing my hair. I have a test strand developing in the back as I type. I love having a cosmetologist for a mom!! And I have no idea when she changed, or why she changed, but she's allowing me to do some awesome stuff with my hair. If it turns out cool, I'll post pictures. If not, I'll let it grow out and dye it before I get back to the 'Burg. But there's no one here whose opinion I care about, so if it turns out like crap, I don't really care. Hair grows, ya know? 

Tuesday I took a bath in the sink, 'cuz the shower wasn't warming up. Then I got cold and turned on the shower to see if it was warm, and it was, so I showered. I watched Thaden for Mum, and that made me happy.

I'm sure that other little things happened, but I can't remember them. But I wrote them down somewhere, so it's cool. 

Other thoughts:

*To keep myself busy, along with the homework, I've been reading scriptures a lot. It makes life so much better, and I've started to see that the scriptures connect. My Da's scriptures are all worn and marked, and I want mine to be like that, not new-looking. And I want to know the scriptures; I want to memorise the stories and know where to find things. They make me happy, and now I look forward to studying them, where before it was a chore. 

*I hope my hair turns out cool

*I think I'm getting better at playing the piano. I hope I am

*Store-bought bread is lame and air. I like real, thick, homemade bread. If I don't have that, I use saltine crackers. But I can't eat store-bought air-bread anymore. It's just gross.

*Blogging takes too long, 'cuz I like to describe everything, and write every thought

*Facebook is best when you don't get on every day, and when you do get on, just check things and stay invisible. Which works for me, 'cuz I don't have many friends on there, so over four-ish days I only get 7-10 notifications, or less than that. Life is fun without friends. No, I'm not complaining at all. I like being all alone like this.

*Excepting my last thought, I've found that focusing on the positives and blessings in life and not thinking about the future, but taking things day-by-day, makes life a lot happier. If I think about the future, I just get all depressed, because it's all the same, but if I think about now, and what I'm going to do today, I'm good. Focus on the here and now.

*It's in the single-digits outside right now. That shouldn't be allowed. The temperature should never get below 40 where humans live.

*I want to be the master of DDR. And I shall. I definitely have enough time

*I used my college ingenuity and created soup from a can of 98% Fat-Free Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup plus a can of Turkey Gravy, with a lot of water, some parsley, some salt, some pepper, and some onion powder. It tasted okay with some crackers crunched up into it. Better than nothing. 

*I'm hungry

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