even cats get dandruff

lisa's back and she brought me a bracelet from american eagle.  i dig it.  my stress level at work has taken a dive.    i didn't realize that i was that stressed out but i guess i was. huh. shrug.

yesterday i started on a project that i have been wanting to work on for years and years and years and years.  but i always put it off for a day in which i had unlimited time to spend on projects.  in the wisdom that comes in your late 30s i've realized that this day will never come.  it's a record keeping project.  maybe not everyone's cup of tea, but it gives me a thrill because, hi, i'm a record keeper.  i remember mom telling me when i was young to never throw away things that i wrote because she did and she always regretted it.  boy did i take that lesson to heart. i took it as gospel and wrote it in my heart. i want to remember everything important and special and meaningful.  i don't want experiences to be lost. i even keep things like old slang teaser definitions that we did that we laughed especially over.  i treasure those kinds of things.

anyways, this project is a compiling of records having to do with my mission.  i have almost all the letters i wrote home, my mission journal, my letters to the president and all the photos i took.  i want to fit them all together and make a book.  i'm super excited about it actually.  it's the kind of thing that probably i'll be the only one to ever look through and read, maybe if i ever have kids they might one day look at it, but it doesn't matter.  it will be something i will treasure.  so yesterday i took all my letters that i wrote and put them chronologically into their slots in my journal and started typing everything out. it can be my sunday geneology project. yahoo!

i also got some individual family pics developed and tonight i framed them.  martha, evan, sarah and katie joined the twins.  one day i'll have everyone.

i was going to get up early this morning to go for a walk-run but inexplicably i slept in instead.  when i got home i was feeling  really tired and so i told myself i'd go tuesday morning.  but after lazing around in bed looking up what restaurant to eat at for my birthday and watching a show i suddenly was not tired and although it was almost dark, it wasn't yet.  so i went.

and so you see, i am feeling very pleased and satisfied with myself.  you must see this. i'm going to enjoy it while i can.

oh and brother roeder fixed my bike seat for me yesterday when he home taught me.  home teachers are great.

i'm dwindling into boring utterances.  good bye.

Comments

Beth-a-knee said…
you are just on a productive roll! What an undertaking. Good luck laurbee.
Sarah-Lynn said…
That's really cool. I wanted to do that with mine and Kyle's letters from his mission, but we were duds and didn't write the dates down. DUDS. I think your posterity will love it. I see that you are pleased. I understand it too. I'd go on walk runs with you if I could.