O Babylon, O Babylon, we bid thee farewell

Let's just get this out of the way first: I don't care about the Super Bowl. I don't care who wins; I don't have "a team"; I don't care about any sports event, not my school's, not my family's, nothing. I refuse to watch it, even more so because it's on Sunday. It's a waste of time.

After dinner, me 'n Schink had a water war, and it was so fun. Usually, I'd be scared to do that, because it makes a mess, but I got over it and I sponged him and he water-bottled me. It was so much fun. Then Jothan and I cleaned up the mess, and we fuzzed a bit, then Giselle joined us, then I photo'd/video'd Schink and Smells fuzzing around, and it was just awesome. Life is so much better when you get along with your family, and laugh at life. 

Da is on call today, but he showed up at church a little bit into Sacrament Meeting, which was a good surprise and made everyone happy. We showed up at church late, because Da wasn't there to help us get ready, so we missed singing #7, and I like that one. 

I took Giselle to pick up some stuff from her friend's house that she left there, and I took Thaden so Mum could have a break and Jothan came with us, and we listened to hymns from my iPod and I sang, and it was fun. 

A couple weeks ago, I was bored, so I modeled for myself, and took a bazillion photos, using a timer on the camera, and then a few days after that I did it again, and then a couple days ago, I set up a "studio" of sorts, and modeled for myself again, and then yesterday Aurora and I played DDR and then she modeled for me, and today I modeled again. It's way awesome, and I've decided to take a photography class during some winter semester, if I stay in R-Town for the winters (if I can, I want to just stay there. Plane tickets cost too much; I'll go to my family in Utah for holidays. I'm just dead bored here). I also downloaded Picasa (free application from Google or something like that), and have been using that (it's way awesome). Da has Corel, but I have absolutely NO idea how to use that, although I suppose I could read a manual....but who reads the manual? ......I might......Actually, I will. I definitely have time.

So I've decided that I'm using this time until April to develop my talents. And it's going smashingly so far. Or at least I hope it is. Photography, painting, drawing (which I do all the time anyways, but I have plans to actually set something up and do a real drawing instead of just doodling), cooking, piano, reading, etc., plus developing inward talents, like patience and all that.

And with cooking: 

Mum wanted me to make dinner. I asked her what she wanted me to make. She said I dunno, we still have some pasta. Make pasta. So I made pasta. And we have had a couple of cans of creamed corn and a couple of cans of cream of chicken sitting in the pantry for a bazillion years, and I hate it when that happens, so I mixed those together, and then cooked some peas, and put the cooked pasta in a casserole dish with the creamed corn/cream of chicken mixture, mixed in the peas, then ground some pepper over it all, and mixed that in, then crushed up some Ritz and put that on top, then put on some italian bread crumbs that I had left over, then some cheese, and baked it for about 15 mins at 375. It was awesome; in fact, it IS awesome, since we have leftovers. 

So I have purpose in life once again. And we had a heat wave: 45 degrees outside!!!!! It made me happy.

I like life right now.