The Sunday Post - Issue #4

I must admit, Sundays are being unkind to me.  Only in the morning really.  It ties into eating in the morning, and as you know I have a hard time doing just that.  This only really became a problem after high school.  It is a bad thing, because I should be, and need to be, eating in the morning.  It is vital and healthy to do so.  So how does Sunday, of all days, relate to all this?  It forces me to eat something.  Because if I don't don't eat something my stomach will make noises in church.  Note, this ONLY happens on Sundays.  If I want to avoid such awkwardness I have to force myself to eat, and like today I chose a banana and milk, harmless right?  HA!  The milk was fine, I can drink liquids, its the eating that gets to me.  The banana went down well enough up until the last bite or two and a few minutes later my stomach was not happy but I made it fine and kept it down.  Thanks Sunday mornings and thanks grumpy stomach.

In the past I could focus on the speakers to a perfect "T".  Now, though, it is a joke.  If they start saying "uh" or "um" they tend to lose my focus for some odd reason, or if they are monotonous, my mind becomes restless which in turn makes my body restless which of course turns into my A.D.D. that loves to shine its face around.  Being restless ties into what I thought was something good from one of the talks.

You should act instead of waiting to be acted upon.  This may relate to why I don't have many friends any more, but only to a certain degree, merely because I think I fall more into the "waiting to be acted upon" group, but I also think of what I've been doing lately and I think I'm in between both right now but headed towards the "act" group.  It hit me pretty hard though.  You shouldn't sit and wait for opportunities or for things to come to you because they may never come and you'll miss out on many things.  If you act, and go forth, expend the energy and effort to keep yourself active and doing this or talking to that person, your chances of living life itself are so much more exponentially higher as opposed to sitting and waiting, doing nothing.

On a side note, before I forget, I noticed two silly things.  One - in sacrament meeting I popped my knuckles and noticed that two other people were then inclined to pop theirs, I thought it was funny and put a smile on my face.  Just because I did it, something triggers in them which makes them do this bad habit.  Two - in priesthood meeting, a guy was using his phone to play a dumb little game where you are Spider-man swinging from building to building, that is all you do.  I noticed as the bishop walked in he quickly went to his phone menu or whatever and then when the bishop had passed by he pulled the game back up.  I couldn't help but laugh inside because this isn't a job, nothing is going to happen to you if the bishop catches you playing that silly game, you are a grown up, why hide what you are doing?  Just a couple of dumb things I noticed.

So, one of the speakers brought up a kickball game they were in.  Her team is mostly people from our ward, so they are all members.  The opposing team, according to her, is a really good team and all members too.  Beforehand she prepared herself to just have fun anyway even if they got owned.  Surprisingly her team was holding their ground and doing really good against the opposing team.  Which made the opposing team mad.  Even though her team was trying to show good sportsmanship and attitude, the opposing team kind of went out of control and made the game miserable for her and most likely others on her team.  She tied this into her talk in relation to people of the church should be kind to everyone all the time, not just during certain things, like work, or church events, or whatever, but that we need to be better than this opposing team in all aspects of life and at all times.  She mentioned that competitive games or sports tend to bring out the worst in people.  Which I can agree on, it brings out our competitive and aggressive side.  And you all know that I love basketball and soccer, and played them both growing up.  I reflect on myself and see how I handled situations and simply what my character is like.  Maybe that is why I like playing them, I can see someones true character and how they would truly act.  I am pleased to say that my character is in well order.  Not to toot my own horn by any means.  Simply that I know who I am and how I act in those types of things and the outcome is good.  Not only in attitude but in other aspects, such as I would never hold someones wrist in basketball so they couldn't run away, or I would never hold onto a jersey, or flop to get a call.  Cheap tricks is not my character.  If you truly want to be good and have the skill you wouldn't need to do those things or throw a tantrum because a certain call was made.

In other news, I met a new girl who just happened to come to our ward today by mere chance.  She seems pretty awesome.  I got to talk to her a little bit during class and then some more during our "Linger Longer".  I got her phone number, but hope to see her come back to our ward and to our activities.  She isn't supposed to go to our ward, thus I had said by mere chance she ended up going to ours, and she is only here for the Summer.

Also in other news, I have an interview tomorrow.  I really hope it goes well and that I get the job.  Having no job for over a year now has really taken its toll on me.

I'm also putting together an exercise routine that works for me, so we'll see how that turns out.

Quote of the Day (Virtue) -
"Because of the knowledge of our divine identity, everything must be different for us: our dress, our language, our priorities, and our focus. We must not seek guidance from the world, and if our true identity has been clouded by mistakes or sins, we can change. We can turn around and repent and return to virtue. . . . The Savior's Atonement is for you and for me. He invites each of us to come unto Him."   -  Elaine S. Dalton,  "Come Let Us Go Up to the Mountain of the Lord," Ensign, May 2009, 122