All Alone

Before I go here to spend my evening,

Let me think about how I get to see this girl on Monday for the first time in 4 months

And just reminisce on all these beautiful places and times.

You know, those times were wonderful and I like to look back on them and even wish I was there again sometimes. Still the best 2 months of my life. BUT the past week has definitely been one to rival some of those days. It has been fabulous. Life is good right now in so many ways. I can't wait to see what else it has in store for me. Um. And I get to see my soul mate Christine. It has been way too long. Why did she have to go away to Chicago for the summer? This is the longest I've gone without seeing her since I met her over a year and a half ago. I don't like it, not at all

Impatience

It's hard to keep some things quiet when all you want to do is shout it out to the whole world.

STERLING JAMES MASON gets home from his mission today. HAHA! Awesome. I want to pelt him with cream puffs before he can get to me. But before then I probably want to talk to him. He IS my older brother after all. And so much has happened lately.

Football season is fast approaching. Especially after reading these articles today after someone's post on Facebook, I'm interested in seeing what happens after this season, even though I'll be on my mission. Utah joining the PAC-10? BSU going the MWC? My own BYU going independent/WAC? Things are changing. I'm curious to see how everything plays out. But let's get through this season first. I'm a bit nervous, not going to lie. But very excited. First game on September 4th. I'll be there, wearing my WE ARE BYU FOOTBALL shirt, maybe with my face painted. Can't wait. Old friends, new friends and Cougar Football. RAH RAH RAH RAH RAH! GOOOOOOO COUGARS!

TWOWEEKSTWOWEEKSTWOWEEKSTWOWEEKS. And then just about another 2 weeks after that.

Friday is only a couple days away.

I'm not very patient, but some things--secrets, missionary friends, BYU football, mission calls and the weekend are definitely worth waiting for. As my dear friend Kent said earlier today, the things in life that are valuable cost a lot. They make the waiting worth it.

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Things I Have Learned . . .

. . . (or re-learned) lately, in no particular order:

• John Williams is The Man
• Landie makes the best chicken pot pie
• My management isn't as good as it used to be
• I might be slightly allergic to mosquito bites
• Muppet Treasure Island is an awesome movie
• I am more-than-slightly allergic to Kate moving out of the apartment
• Losing at Settlers can be fun
• So are water fights in the kitchen
• It's really inconvenient not having your own computer (hopefully I get mine back tomorrow!)
• Ice cream tastes really good
• Long, tight hugs are the best
• The Book of Mormon is true, clear, wonderful . . . and beautifully well-written to top it all off.
• Shopping for text books actually makes me really happy, usually because my text books are AWESOME. I less than three being an English major SO MUCH. Just saying. Shakespeare and Film with Dr. Siegfried--you are going to rock my socks.
• Sterling James Mason, my older brother/best friend (well, one of a couple), gets home from Deutschland TOMORROW! Ah, I can't wait to give him a hug and tell him all this important stuff that is going on in my life and speak auf Deutsch with him.
• Dance parties are also the best.
• Um . . . I think that's it.
• I need my computer to get this one picture that I had in mind for this post and can't find on the internets anymore. Sad day.

More Apologies

I haven't been the best blogger lately. Blame it on trips home and then not having a computer. Here's my past week in a nutshell: Twin Falls, Australian accents, Shari's, best friends, family, forgetting things, Settlers, computer viruses, doctor and dentist appointments, TB and blood tests, driving, Provo, work, many late nights, phone calls, roommates moving out, roommates moving in, perfect weather days, Temple Square, dogs, friendly cops, stars, outdoor plays, naps, and ice cream. Needless to say, I'm wonderfully, pratically perfectly happy in lots of ways. Who wouldn't be after a week like this?

Iron Man

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I saw Iron Man for the first time last night. I've been meaning to watch it for 2 years, and just never got around to it. And it was good. I really enjoyed it. And Robert Downey Jr. is quite the actor, although this isn't the best movie I've seen him in.

I have to admit though . . . the company was a lot better than the movie. :)

P.S. I am now 21. Weird much? Yes.

Gutter Streams

(Joe Lamos)

When I was little, I lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was there I learned so many primary songs in church; one of my favorites was "Give Said the Little Stream." But living in a city I didn't see many little streams. I had the great rivers of Pittsburgh. And I had what I thought were little streams, what the song was talking about: the water flowing through the gutter down the steep, tall hill we lived on.

I remembered my silly 4-year-old self with a smile just a few minutes ago. After stepping in a puddle that was deeper than I thought it was, I listened to the resting storm around me. Instead I heard the trickle of water flowing into the storm drain. Give, said the little stream.

This is what I have to give. My testimony. My words. Which is so meager after what God has given me. The past 21 years of wonderful. My family and friends. My life. This world. This gorgeous red-orange-gold sunset in the northwest. Beautiful dark blue gray clouds in the south and a hot pink sky in the north east. And all at the same time, with lightening all over the sky striking the mountains and illuminating the mist covering Timp. To complete it all, dinosaurs lovingly growling at each other, thundering.

Words just don't do it justice. But the stream, the water trembling and tinkling in the gutter, just might. Give. Or perhaps, instead, Gift.

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Today is the last day of my 20-year-old existence.

Tomorrow is August 5, 2010, my 21st birthday. Weird.

The day after tomorrow is Friday, when I get to catch up with a best friend from high school and also maybe hopefully get to see someone I'd really, really like to see. It is also a HORRIBLE but wonderful movie. Horrible because it's just ridiculous dumb. Wonderful because it provided my freshman family with so many awesome jokes and a ridiculous fun night. "If the blood gets back to your heart too quickly, your heart could stop!" HAHAHAHA.

The day after the day after tomorrow is Saturday. It is the Saturday I am working and then driving home to Twin Falls for a couple days.

Life happens. It comes at you fast. And so you dance and laugh and love. And maybe actually get dressed after sitting around in your pajamas for 2 hours...