Me and My Bobby McGee

I just listened to the song "Me and My Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin for the first time. She has the most interesting line in there: "Freedom's just another name for 'nothin' to lose.'" I like this line—it seems right on when it comes to relationships. There are a lot of euphemisms we use in dating—I'm wondering if it would be better if we just were truthful and said what we meant...

Editing is fun!

Even editing aerospace articles can be fun when the author uses "line-of-sight," "line of sight," "LOS," and "line of site" all within two paragraphs on the same page :) At least this makes me feel like my job is worthwhile.

Just Saw Over the River and Through the Woods at the Hale Center Theater in Orem

Oh my goodness! I just saw the cutest play at the Hale Center Theater in Orem. It was called Over the River and Through the Woods and it made me laugh and cry so much that my roommate and I had to pull over on the way home because we were both sobbing so hard. In the play, the characters sang "Yes Sir, That's My Baby." Listen to this sweet song. It means so much more to me now after seeing the play.

Busted Ankle

So Saturday night, I broke one of my longstanding rules: Never ride down a hill on a block of ice. The last time I participated in an ice-blocking activity, I fell off the ice block and bruised my tailbone, an injury that took months to heal completely and left me with the personal commitment to never ice block again. Like I said, I broke that personal promise I'd made to myself. I agreed Saturday night to ride one ice block down a hill one time. And what happened? Well, what always happens when you break a promise? Nothing good. I sprained my ankle pretty badly and have been crutching it for the past five days. The Bishop has begun calling me "Skippy" and one of my friends and I discussed the etymology of the word "gimp" last night. At least I'm turning this into a learning and growing experience. Unfortunately, lacking health insurance, I haven't been able to go to the doctor for x-rays, so I don't know if I did something worse than just sprain it, but I'm banking on my belief that it really is just a sprain and will get better on its own. My philosophy is purely a money-saving one. X-rays are expensive. I have faith--in another week, I'll be as good as new.

The Prophet spoke to us today

President Monson came and spoke to us today at BYU. He told us storied and quirks of the past prophets he's been associated with. President Kimball liked to crumble date bread into his milk and eat it with a spoon. President Hinckley always took off his hat when traveling through the passageway under the temple. All the prophets were thoughtful and certainly called of God to be His mouthpiece on the earth. I know that is true. I know President Monson is the true and living prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ. If we follow him, we will never go astray.

My wonderful roommates and friends

My roommates are hilarious--tonight, C and I were talking about needing husbands and she said, "Where are our husbands? Come on, it's like what 11 pm!"
J told us that her "Mandrew" as she calls him can break wood with his bare hands. Now, she can use that to protect her and anyone else: "I have a black fiance who can chop wood with his bare hands so don't you mess with me."
S was talking to her boyfriend R and he told her he had gotten a weird fortune at Panda Express where he'd eaten dinner. It said, "Soon you will get what you've always wanted." R said he was excited. "Soon, I'll find out what I've always wanted because I'll get it," he told S. S's first thought was something she didn't really want to say to R, so she voiced her second thought. "What if what you've always wanted is to return to live with God? That means you're going to die any moment!" He answered immediately, "S! I'm driving home by myself in the dark! Why did you have to say that?" "Sorry," she responded. There was a pause in the conversation. Then R said, "You are so much more spiritual than me."
"No I'm not," S said. "You want to return to live with God too."
"Yeah, but I didn't think of that. I was thinking 'Hmm, what have I always wanted? ........ Maybe... A pony?"
My friend JS also was so funny tonight! I asked him, "JS do memorize poetry?" We were reading some at the time. His answer: "Not on purpose."
The best part of the story is that he didn't even realize he'd said something funny. I was laughing hysterically and he just looked at me and said, "What?"