Only a girl like you could be lonely

This morning I was blow-drying my hair, thinking of all the delicious treats my mother makes, and trying to come up with a finalized list for my 'Mcdonald family Christmas Eve Smorgasbord' requests. You may say it's too early to think about Christmas this much. Retail stores everywhere would disagree. And I would too. Mainly because I do what retail stores tell me to...they keep me hip.

As I thought about puppy chow [muddy buddies][monkey munch] I remembered ye olde time tradition of Chex Mix. And I remembered how much I hate chex mix. Well, at least the 'mix' part. I actually really love the chex part. But the pretzels and peanuts and other paraphernalia really ruin for me. And then I thought wow, that would be an important thing to tell a boy before he married me.

It really could be a deal-breaker.

I am not dating anyone. There were a few good prospects at the beginning of the semester but they have waned as predictably as the moon.

That being clarified, here are some other deal-breakers I have thought of [I figured it would be smart to get a list together]:

• I like Miracle Whip.
• I prefer Margarine to Butter.
• I don't like pictures of landscapes.
• I love the game Boggle.
• I'm not above stealing candy from children.
• I like to watch movies and [good] TV shows over and over. In fact, I would rather watch re-runs of 'The King of Queens' 'According to Jim' or 'Home Improvement' than something new.
• I like to color.
• I always have music on.
• I have a crush on Ira Glass' voice. And possibly the rest of him, too.
• I have a terrible memory [long and short term].
  
• I find blatant sarcasm uncreative and in poor taste.
• I like to fill up on free things at restaurants [chips and salsa, bread, bottomless french fries] so I can take my main entree home and get two meals out of it.
• I really like giving nice gifts.
• I'm addicted to crossword puzzles.
• I need a lot of sleep.
• Kalamata olives trigger my gag reflex.
• I prefer to wear skirts.
• I hate hiking.
• I need encouragement to be adventurous.
• I like power tools. And the use therein.
• I like to make things myself, even if it would be easier or cheaper to outright purchase them.

So. those are some of my faults and possible deal-breakers for future dating relationships.

It's a long list. Maybe I should just go on a mission...

In other news:

[that's got to stunt something]

[puppy] Ciao!

O Remember, Remember

I had a fantastic summer. One day I will post a few photos from EFY. Right now I am missing my family, and will post a few pictures from my trip to Florida to visit Chad, Erin, and their little girl Marissa.

Indian Leg Wrestling Tournament (ILWT). [mcdonald tradition; no one has ever beaten chad].

nightly walks around the neighborhood...
swinging at the park!
Playing games the Mcdonald way after the child is in bed:

I've never seen a child more excited to go to the beach!
Post-beaching festivities:
Hitler 'stache:
Birthday cupcake:
Absolute Bliss:

I'm not sure why I don't have more pictures of Erin...she is the prettiest one out of all of us...but I had a great time with her. She's a great mother.

I can't wait to see my family at Christmas! love. is the answer.

Life Lessons from Situation Comedies.

I'm not sure the term 'sit-com' is actually short for 'situation comedy' I just guessed it one day and now I say it a lot. One day I will look that up. Or now.


I watched 'Friends' with the roommates today and one episode in particular had some cool lines that made me think. I love that.



>>>cool line #1:

When Ross is fighting with everything he has to convince Pheobe that Evolution is the only theory that exists:

Phoebe: Uh-oh. It's Scary Scientist Man.
Ross: What? Okay, Phoebe, this is it. In this briefcase, I carry actual scientific facts. A
briefcase of facts, if you will. Some of these fossils are over 200 million years old.
Phoebe: Okay, look, before you even start, I'm not denying evolution, okay? I'm just saying
that it's one of the possibilities.
Ross: What? It's the only possibility, Phoebe.
Phoebe: Okay, Ross, could you just open your mind like this much, okay? Wasn't there a time
when the brightest minds in the world believed that the world was flat? And up until,
like, what, 50 years ago, you all thought the atom was the smallest thing, until you split
it open, and this, like, whole mess of crap came out. Now, are you telling me that you
are so unbelievably arrogant that you can't admit that there's a teeny tiny possibility
that you could be wrong about this?

>This made me think about fixed reference points. And how empirical 'evidence' can be so encompassingly convincing that good, smart people will take 'evidence' and create their own reference points. Until, 50 years later, when something else happens and it changes the entire frame of reference. 'The philosophies of men have no fixed reference points' (a quote from 'The Enoch Letters' by Neal A. Maxwell).

Knowledge of absolute truth, things as they really are, brings power. The [absolute] kind. And, as a child of God, I've inherited that power. His power. It takes work to learn to use it though because with great power comes great responsibility.

Oh, did I forget to mention? You've inherited it too. So, you and I, we can continue to let people tell us that we're not pretty or handsome or smart enough. We can let people tell us it's not socially acceptable to disagree with now widely accepted immoral lifestyles and situations. Or, we can choose to discern what sounds right from what is right. We can choose to accept the power that we have. We can decide to be in charge of ourselves, rise above empirical limits, and do and become what according to now is impossible, but according to God is kind of the point of our lives here on the earth. The time to take control of your own frame of reference and accept your birthright and all that comes with it, is yesterday.

>>>cool line #2:

Chandler: I reject anyone who's crazy enough to actually go out with me, and then I complain
about the fact that there aren't any great women out there.

>Umm, all I have to say about this is amen. Both genders are guilty. If you think about how perfectly everything must be timed and said and done, it's a miracle that any of us ever wind up falling in the kind of love that happens every day. Scratch miracle. replace it with blessing.

So, no one told you life was going to be this way? I'll be there for you. [He'll be there for you too].

Shalom!

[disclaimer: I believe in evolution as much as the next guy]
[in fact, I love evolution and the study therein]
[so, that's good]

[also, I don't condone the watching of 'Friends' as a particularly good use of one's time]

let's talk.

I don't have much to say.

I am in Provo.

I am happy.

I am jobless,

I am hopeful.

I feel my Savior's love
for all the world around me.

In search of: feeble knees & hands that hang down.

Inquire within.

(He knows)
I will follow Him,
Give all my life to him.


I want to be the best I can,

chae chae.

(tonight I will see UP! and I will miss U.P. all at the same time. What a funny [p]sound).

case of the Mondays?

the perma-cure for any grump: