Uhhhhhhh...

what? :-$

Validation!

I enjoy e-mails in which the subject is "crap, you were right"

particularly when reviewing grammatical rules and misconceptions.

I will clear things up for everyone right now. "Friend" can be used as a verb. "Heart" cannot. Using heart as a verb is like dividing by zero. The world just collapses in on itself. Nobody wants that.

I love when people do this sort of thing...

Teehee

Nephew and Me

He had fun with this =)

Hrmmm..

So.... breathing is kind of difficult.

Booooooo.

Another game of Good vs. Bad

Good: Taking a break from my schoolwork to blog.
Bad: Still working on so much schoolwork that a break is in order at 11:15 PM
Ugly: Doing all this on a Sunday, which was my New Years' Resolution to not have to do.

Good: I've read my scriptures every night now for the past week or so
Also Good: I've been choosing to read my scriptures instead of other books that make me feel icky
Ugly: I've neglected reading my book about eating disorders (which makes me feel icky because of language and stuff) for Abnormal Psych that I have a book report due tomorrow for

Good: Fasting on Fast Sunday
Bad: Accidentally breaking the fast while making a salad for the ward's collective "Break the Fast" dinner (because you usually have to taste test stuff)
Ugly: Realizing that you accidentally broke your fast, pray, then proceeding to eat girl scout cookies til it's time to leave for the actual dinner

Good: I start teaching my Kaplan class on Wednesday

Good: I'm feeding the missionaries tomorrow

Great: Today I brought my first non-family non-LDS friend to church with me
Greater: He thought it was really cool and wants to come again another time
Also Great: He took home a Book of Mormon with some scriptures to read marked.

Hmm... sooooo... writing this blog has made me realize that I am very pleased with some of the last things I put on here, so I don't feel too bad about my mess-ups from the beginning of this post. I'm going to go read that icky book now. Goodnight.

Have you seen the new pirate movie? It's rated "Arrrrr"

So, I have decided that it is time for me to give up my rated-R movies. It's been that one commandment that I've let myself get away with for a while, but something we talked about at institute changed my thinking a little bit. We were discussing the idea that people will often accept that they break one or two commandments, and just say "well, I'm not screwing up other things, so I'm doing okay" or "That's just my weakness". Our instructor asked us, "What are you afraid of?", "What's keeping you from giving wholeheartedly to the Lord?"

So I thought about it. What's keeping me from giving something up as trivial as some movies? I might say that it will be hard to get rid of some of the rated-R movies that I own, since some of them are my favorites (like Se7en, Love Actually, Crash, Memento, Fight Club, etc.). Yeah, that will be hard. But that can't be all of it, because that hasn't kept me from watching some newer movies recently (Lucky Number Slevin, Dane Cook's Vicious Circle, etc.). It will probably be hard not to see some of the movies that are coming out soon (Zodiac, Hannibal Rising, etc.).

So, all in all, I think it might be a little hard, but I can do it. I think once I just get rid of the movies I have, I won't miss them, and I have a pretty good group of friends who will help keep me from going to see the new movies. I'm not going to go if I don't have anyone to go with! Plus, it helps to really think about it the way it was put at institute. There's nothing to be afraid of that should keep me from giving these up, especially with all of the counsel we are given by church leaders about why these movies are bad. I know it's the best thing to do, and giving my best effort to following the commandments has to feel better than watching a good movie, right?