A Penny for Your Thoughts

Saturday, January 16, 2010

"I want to suggest to you that it is your relationship with other people, including your husband or wife and your children that gives you your best chance to say what you believe about the Atonement. Your most important beliefs are not going to be statements made in a classroom. They certainly aren't going to be statements made in a symposium. What you will say best about your understanding of the Atonement, about love and repentance and forgiveness, will come in your human relationships with people who have problems, people who make mistakes, who haven't in every hour of every day done all that he or she could have done in righteousness. You know I'm describing you and me." - Elder Jeffry R. Holland

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Number of Blog Ideas Stolen From Adam: 1

Number of times I lost my keys: 5

Number of times I lost my phone: 30

Number of times I lost my mind: 2

Number of Polar Bear Plunges completed: 1

Number of Times My Sister and I Performed Acroyoga at a Party: 1

States Lived In: 1

Times Moved: 1

Places of Abode: 2

Number of Roommates: 3 (35 is the current grand total)

Number of Times I Taught Max the Fine Art of Cooking: 2

(Once I found a battery that he slipped into banana bread. Here I left him to open the brownie bag...)

Number of Times Max Beat Me at a Water Fight: Once too many

Number of Gardens Planted: 1

Number of Times I Tried to Pass My Dad's Garden Off as Mine: 1

Number of People Who Believed Me: 0

Number of Gardens I Killed Due to Lack of Watering: 1

Number of Times I went Kayaking Under the Stars: 1

(Picture taken the next day. Kayaking under the stars was amazingly beautiful.)

Visitors from out of State: 7 (Nate, Cindy, Zack, Suz, Nancy, Tom, Jamie)

Number of Times I Visited the Arch: 2

Out of State Trips Taken: 6 (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Washington D.C., Nantucket, Tennessee, Utah, New Hampshire)

States seen in Person: 13

State Capitals Memorized: 50

State Capitals remembered: 14

Foreign Countries Visited: 0

Number of Passports Expired: 1 (sniff, sniff)

Boyfriends: 0

Number of car accidents: 0

Number of speeding tickets: 2 (So much for my perfectly clean driving records from three different states that I had when I graduated law school!!)

Number of times my car wouldn't start: 2

Number of times my car ran out of gas: 0

Number of Times people didn't recognize me on Halloween: Quite a few

Thanksgiving dinners: 2

Bungee jumps: 1

Sky dive: 0

Half Marathon Trained for: 1

Half Marathons Run: 0

Number of Awesome Women I got to Know in the Process: 6

Five Mile Run: 1

Football Games Watched: 1

Number of times I convinced people that I was living with a man: At least 2 (He is five, therefore not a man :)

Number of engagements faked: 0 (a record low)

Number of actual proposals: 0

Number of rings my mother had to bite into because she wasn't convinced I was actually engaged: 0

Number of rings my mother considered biting into: 1 (my brother is engaged. She believed him.)

Times I got to visit my K.L.E.B.: 3

Number of members of my family returning from a mission: 1

Number of members of my family: 7

Number of members who are returned missionaries as of 2009: 7