Opening

I'm grateful for opening at my job.  It gives me the rest of the day to do what I want.  Booyah.

Jeans

You girls know what I'm talking about.  The jeans that you've had for years and just hate to take off because they are so comfortable.

Realization that technology is lame

I'm a loser.  Literally.  I lose way too many things to be even close to being a winner.  I've been a loser all my life.  As you may recall, I lost my camera a while back and miraculously found it 2 months later.  I have a feeling that will not be the case this time.  Yes I lost the camera again, what of it?  Apparently, Clifton is accusing me of leaving it on the bench at the dog park.  There is a 98% chance he may be right.  I mean, he was right about the camera being at Olive Garden last time.  What are the odds he's right again?  Ok ok.  My husband definitely keeps my head on straight so he has to be right.  After searching all the places we went to today we came to the conclusion it was left at the dog park.  I made my first "Lost!" sign in my life.  I'm 22 and I've never made one of those before?  How is that possible in my family?!  That's beside the point.  I hung up my little paper all over the dog park hoping somebody honest took/found my camera.  Yeah right.  

This whole day just made me realize how much I loathe technology.  My computer crashed a few months ago, taking all of my pictures with it.  I am fairly certain I have all my photos either on facebook, my flash drive, the memory card, or the parents computer but I'll really never know.  It's upsetting for me to lose so many precious memories!  So I'm boycotting technology.  I am going to invest in a typewriter, get my photo books made, and live in a tree house like the Swiss Family Robinson.  I already feel so much more productive!

Living Scripture Videos

I got asked to substitute a primary class and it made me realize how grateful I am for the living scriptures videos.  I grew up on these bad boys!  And I still love them and continue to learn.

Gods timing

You know what?  God knows perfectly well what he's doing.

Tolerance

Today a friend and I were talking and he revealed that he did not believe in love.  He said that at first people are just infatuated, and then as the years go on they just tolerate each other.  I was humored by his statement but as I thought about it more and more I realized he was right.  Not about the love.  I believe in love.  I believe that's why me and my husband cry together after resolving a big fight, or why he selflessly takes care of me regardless of whether I'm sick or not.  I think my friend was right about the tolerance.  I think tolerance is love.  You don't tolerate someone unless you care about them.  It's hard sometimes to tolerate people.  Especially for me.  I don't know why but I get sick of people really fast.  If I'm around the same person every day for a week, I begin to loathe them.  It's all in my head but I get very perturbed being around the same people constantly.  The exceptions to this is my family members and Clifton.  Clifton is the ONLY person outside of my siblings that I can bear to be around for very long. That's one of the biggest reasons I knew he and I will always be together.  I'm grateful for tolerance and the people loving enough to tolerate me.  I know that I am a lot to handle.  I don't need much attention and I don't need many clothes and I'm always up for getting dirty.  I'm not high maintenance in that aspect.  I'm high maintenance in the emotions aspect.  And you know what?  It's ok, because my husband enjoys maintaining me.  Don't think I don't take care of him either.  I have learned that I haven't treated Clifton the best, but that has changed.  I am continuously making an effort to jolt him the way he jolts me.  Why?  Because of tolerance.  He's an easy person to tolerate anyway, but even if he wasn't I'd still tolerate him because I love him.

Dog park

You want to know the most brilliant creation ever?  Ok well I was going to make it a picture surprise, but it's all in the title.  We discovered the dog park today and it is seriously ingenious!  We've been wanting to get Scout out to be around dogs but had no idea how or where.  We didn't see any opportunities.  Naturally we were very happy to see this park.  It is so good for dogs to interact with other dogs.  They become less violent, terratorial, and moody.  It is always great exercise for them.  My favorite part, besides the sign of the dog picking up poop, is that we don't have to bring anything but the dog.  There are plenty of chairs, toys, doodoo bags, shovels, trash cans, dogs, and water bowls.  Cool right?

This really is the sign on the fence.  I just find it hilarious.

CLOSE friends.  Actually that dog is the worst, we always leave now whenever we see him.  Little did we know that first day though.