Keeping you posted

Well my fine friends, and others who look at this, it has been a while since last i wrote to you. Here is the short and long of my life so far
1 Married life is great
2 Married life is better than great
3 Married life is the best there is
4 i have to get up at 5:30 Mon Wed Fri for ROTC work out
5 I just took my first Calculus test, and i think that i did fairly well
6 I have 2 more exams this week and i should be studying for those in stead of writing this, but i want to keep you informed
7 I love Melissa
8 She loves me
9 My grandmother Langford died and i went to her funeral over the weekend, It was good to see all of my long lost cousins and such, but driveing home in the snow was a bit of a stresser.
10 I have to go now

so i should write you more often, and i will try, thanks

ps this message will not self destruct in 10. . . 9 . . . 8. . . 7. . .

I'm getting married to Melissa. . .

So that is the long and the short of it my friends, I'm getting hitched. Yippy. So, and this is strictly a secret, we are getting married on the 29th of December at the Manti temple. Crazyness, yes indeed it is crazyness. She is so wonderful, and she said yes. YES YES YES

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ok, that is what i call an out burst of my excited fingers. So friends and family, ahhhhh, I'm getting married. wow. whoa. WOWOWOWOWOOOAAAHHH!!!

My Apologies

If i have ever been discourteous i want to let you know that i am sorry, really truly. If i spelled your name wrong, or if i didn't hear you when you said hello, or was over busy on your birthday, know that i am sorry. If I forgot to mention how wonderful you looked that special day, or was maybe to busy to write a three page response to your short note, please forgive, i'll try harder in the future. If it happened to be your cat that my friend hit with his car, or if it was your dog that my dog beat up, please accept my apologies. If you woke up on the wrong side of the bed, or if you lost your job, I just want to tell you that if i had the time, and if i could i would do everything to make it better.

People, who ever you are, i have my faults, i am working to over come them one at a time. I want to be perfect, please just give e a little time to get there. I am trying to be a friend to everyone, let everyone have a little slice of my time-pie, but . . . I am sorry for letting you down, who ever you are or how ever i let you down, i hope that you can find it in your heart to forgive me. But if you can't do that, than please just go away and don't belittle my efforts; my efforts to be better, to include you in my life, to want to hold onto that which is good. Yes i do things wrong, and i don't know the best way to handle every situation, but i do the best i can, ALWAYS!!

this world and vanity

Sorry, this blog has become my soap box of a sort, i stand up and yell through my fingers at the world, and nobody seems to care. Guess what, I care, that is way i am writing all this stuff. I just finished reading my email, all 1 of them and i saw an add for losing wrinkles. Now i admit that i am a fan of looking my age, and having others do the same. If you are 12 by golly look like a 12 year old, if you are 60, be 60. I am confused by youth throwing away their innocents and their care free years so they can act like adults, and those who have gained 70 years of wisdom, Why do they want to look like the rest of this young and ignorant world? (don't mean to offend anyone my age, but hey, they are older and wiser, hopefully.)
I saw a commercial for best buy, and it was a thirteen year old on her own cell phone talking to her friend about how she is mistreated because her parents won't let her have a belly ring. What is wrong with that? let me tell you
1 It is teaching kids that it is ok to speak ill of their parents
2 it teaches kids that they truly are smarter than there parents, which is only very rarely true.
3 It is putting a larger emphasis on the matirail things in this world than on HONORING YOUR PARENTS
now you might say, some parents don't deserve honoring, Well guess what, that was not the case in this commercial, the girl was being taken care of in every way, and . . . which brings me into my next comment about this world.

The family is the most important thing in this world. If half the effort that went into saving other natuaral resources went into saving the sacred concept of the family, than this world would be a whole lot better off. On campus recently there have been 4 or 5 demonstrations about how this world could be better if we used a little less gas, or ate a little better, or threw our garbage in a trash can. Has there been anything about who much better this world would be if we got rid of overconsuming jobs so that fathers could be fathers, or getting rid of other things that tare families apart so that children will have a family to grow up in. No. there hasn't been any of that, why, because it might infringe on someone's freedom to break up there family with infidelity.
Sorry, i just got sick of all the voices yelling "Save the whales, who cares about the family!!"

a family of geniuses

that is what i have, and it is a great thing. here is what i would like to share with the world, that my older sister wrote to me, it isn't the whole letter, just some.

Be true to your BEST self.  I am 
not sure about you but I know that there are some me's I am not so
fond of.  On the other hand my best self loves the Lord, scripture
study, service, and a bunch of other good things.  When I am true to
my best self I am happy and confident in whatever I am doing.

So, it is true my family all suffers from split-personalities, (not really) but it is true that there are times when we act one way because of the company that we are keeping, or the situation that we are in and that isn't really the way that we want to be known, so . . . Yes i have had one of these recently, and it has also helped me to come to the relazation that i have to be who i want to be ALL THE TIME. Not just when someone is looking, or not just when it really counts, or not just 85% of the time, but all the time. It is just easier that way.

Just my thoughts for the day. thanks.

wall, this is my head, head, this is the wall.

A much more courtius way of introducing your face to the dry wall in your room.

Have you ever had one of those days where everything seems to go slightly wrong and by the end of it you wish that you could just go through it again and fix all of those little things that you did, so that it would be perfect? Well guess what, you can't. all you can do is one of the following

1 Beat your head into a wall
2 Learn from the past and make tomorrow better
3 go spend lots of money on things that make you feel better
3a a pet turtel
3b some kind of addiction
3c gas for your car
3d buy a board game, and rent a movie, or both, and watch while playing, this is really cool if you get a movie based on the board game, or the board game based on the moive, like Clue

Alrighty then, i don't recommend options 3, 3a, or 3b, but if you feel like watching clue, or even playing it that comes highly recommended.
the point of the retorical question and the not-to-be-taken-to-seriously answers was that i am learning that learning is hard. Not the book learning; Read this, memorize it, take a test on it. that is easy compared with the, "Make a choice that will effect your life for ever, better be a good one because you might not like where it takes you," type of learning. So, This blog will be edited, because i think that tomorrow i will wake up and relize that i shouldn't crack jokes about people killing themselves.

Ok here is one I-wish-that-I-could-take-that-back expericence that i had resently. I just started working at Sam's club and i think i handed a lady back her check instead of her reciept, which means that she got all of her stuff for free, not good.

well i have class and i have already learned that one should always go to class.

The many blessings that i have

Have you ever felt like God was forgetting about you? Or maybe you were scared that he wouldn't answer your prayers the way that you wanted Him to? Well I had one of those recently, and as I was trying to call up all my humility to receive the answer, and all the courage to ask the question, I felt the need to count stars. (so obviously this was at night.) when i started, it seemed like an achievable task; there were a few trees blocking some of my view, and the lights from the city only let the brightest stars be seen. I think i counted to 100 or so when i had to go back and count a few of the dimmer stars that my eyes could now pick up because of their being used to the dark. I counted a few more, suprized at how many stars were becoming visible to my eyes all the time, but the task still seemed manageable. I tryed to count in a pateren so as not to recount the stars that i already had. It worked out o.k. until a realized that there were stars behind the tree branches. (this was the mistake that i could not recover from.) I step out from under the tree, just to count a few stars at first. I realized that the night was darker over there, and the stars were more dense. I took a few more steps out from under the tree and thousand of stars flooded into my view. All at once the task of counting them became too overwhelming. I thanked God for my many blessings, relizing that sometimes there are like the stars; at first glance it seems that they are limited and few, but if we take a closer look, and maybe a few steps of faith, they become more than we could imagine.

Thanks for that sermon preacher!

You are most welcome. ^_^