The Game of Life

Who here likes the game of life? (Gage raises hand) I'm in the library, just finished my religion homework. The lights are off and the theme from starwars is playing for some reason. They play music for the last fifteen minutes before they throw you out. It's 11:18 right now and so I've got 12 minutes to post a blog. My life is busy. Not impossible. Just busy. I'm writing three stories for the Scroll Newspaper right now. Finishing one tonight, one tomorrow, and one by Saturday. This is that first part of the game of life, where you decide to go left instead of right and that means go to college. The funny part is that your really not more likely to get more salary in the game if you go to college, you just get more life cards. That's what I'm in this for. Life cards. Hopefully the money will come but whatever. This college game can be rough. I'm taking 17 credits (and a workload of more because one of my 1 credit classes is much more work than it should be.) I'm writing for the scroll, and I got called to be the Elder's Quorum President of my ward last week. I got two counselors called who I don't know, but their names kept coming back to me and it felt right when I prayed about it. I try not to question the Lord so they're my counselors now. Steven Cheng and Taylor Lyman. I'm excited for the calling though. I have to make assignments for home teaching and then keep up on everyone's home teaching and other things, but I think it's going to be a wonderful opportunity for growth. Who knows, maybe I'll even make headway this semester on getting the pink figure into the car with me and make that long drive towards "Countryside Acres". That's been (as I'm way to vocal about) a frustrating point of my life, but I'm learning to trust the Lord's time table and enjoy the chase. I would be much more concerned if I hadn't listened closely to my setting apart by my stake president. He blessed me specifically to meet my academic goals (4.0), meet my ecclesiastical responsibilities, and find time for a fulfilling social life (friends are great, check; #1 goal for dating? Get past a second date, no Idea what happens after that but hopefully I'll figure it out) Luckily I've been blessed with great friends, 4 brothers, and one heckuva parentals set. I'm out of time, the girl just told me I have two minutes. So goodnight America. Hopefully I spin a 10.

It's like a jungle in this Habitat.

I spent four days last week trying not to quote Dr. Dre while working for Habitat for Humanity. It's it's a great example of how my brain works that working for a charity would prompt an entire week of "Forgot About Dre" being stuck in my head because the line "Where's all the mad rappers at? It's like a Jungle in this Habitat" because they happened to share one word.

But seriously, last week was like coming back to life for me. I had the opportunity to be a part of "Project Inspire" which was a service project put on by my school. For four days I got to help out Habitat for Humanity in Pocatello in a small way. Mostly lending muscle and shoulders to the effort to build affordable, quality housing, for low-income families. I got to meet the father of the family, Will, and work with him for a little bit when we were reinforcing the stairs. It was such a blessing to get to work and help out a genuinely good person who just needed a little bit of help. Getting to serve and work for awhile and not worry about the things that follow me around was the best thing possible for me.

I was able to make such good friends so fast in just four days I got 11 people more who have blessed my life. Everyone put up with the craziness and bad weather and my nicknames for them, and the week was a blast for everyone I think.

I feel ready now to take on this next semester in spite of the break not being as long as I would like. This time went way to fast, but it was way too good to complain. And as the song I'm listening to right now says, "Some things last a long time" (Covered by two of my favorite bands Built to Spill and Beach House)

I don't think I said anything interesting in this blog but man, it was such a great week for me.