Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Pizza Hut & Spider Bites

Something is seriously wrong with me, the world, with what spiders are dining on OR D. all of the above because in less than a week I have gotten unwanted decorations on both of my arms.

With barely any sleep and with my eye lids extra droopy I went to work.I remember being taught by three Elders: Elder Preece, Elder Jones, and Elder Smith this morning. They were teaching me about the atonement of Jesus Christ and how with God anything is possible. I remember reaching and scratching my elbow and thinking...that feels funny...but then went back trying to focus on my task at hand. My day has been super busy. After clocking out I set up my laptop a few doors down from where I teach to have a room to take an online quiz...which i found out was cancelled! Time to go home...

Walking home and texting "Gina" (one of my best friends and I call each other the same name--a story will explain it in the near future). We met up at home, chatted, and planned on going out to eat.

Pizza Hut and Dairy Queen are not very far from my apartment so we went and took Jeff ("Gino") along with us. As we were waiting in line in Dairly Queen while our Pizza Hut pizza was making it's way towards our estomagos by it's preparation. While we were waiting we decided to all get a cone-- dipped of course (just say no to butterscotch, it's not real!). That's when Gina noticed the grossness of my elbow. I felt it, looked at it, and internalized it.  Questioning myself...what is seriously wrong with me? Why do these things get attracted to me? I am a spider magnet. Joy. They find me while i sleep and then stick their fangs into my defenseless elbow and arm. Should I be scared to go to bed tonight? What if I wake up and my face has a giant hive on it? Oh goodness...

...maybe I have elephantitis, or, lepracy? -______-

guestimated size: a deformed baseball
to be continued....

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

A Surprise Convo


~ I was walking to school one freezing cold morning and I saw this aged man running quite far off behind me. My first thoughts were, "You crazy old man, you have more discipline and drive than I do and I am half your age. I hope you don't fall. I turned my head back toward the direction I was going and fiddling with my headphones as to untangle them to put them in my cold ears, the runner caught up with me. I knew that because he spoke saying:

"Do you want good news?"
Fighting with myself since I prefer not to speak in the morning due to tiredness I forced out my polite response:
"Of course," with which he replied:
"There is only 49 days left until spring!"
Many thoughts flowed into my mind such as: he really must be counting down! and Maybe I look like I really need to know this with my marshmallow snow-beast coat on and a WHO IS THIS GUY? :)
"That is good news." PAUSE
He kept running by me and i closed the conversation with "Thank you", yes, very profound of me.

I don't think any runner can top that very precise informational conversation with a pedestrian.