Post Valentine's Day Rundown

Just a couple awesome quotes I heard in English.

"When love is not madness, it is not love." Pedro Calderon de la Barca

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." Plato

And my favorite, "Without love what are we worth?.....89 cents." Hawkeye (M.A.S.H.)

When I began my day yesterday (Valentine's Day), I woke up with slightly smaller expectations for the day. It started with my English class, which I love because our professor gives us lots of opportunities to write and lately, I LOVE to write. He gave us the nasty heart shaped chalk candies that you would kill anyone for when you were 5, but now at the age of 20 consuming such a high dosage of sugar and corn syrup would knock you out for a day (my body doesn't deal well with sugar.) I then went in to work from 11-to 1 because someone had an emergency at work and asked for me to cover for them. I made twelve dollars on one run, it was great! Then I went home to go to math, ended up watching a movie with my roommate Abram and eating our left over ice cream from the night before. Half way through the movie my neighbors/friends Bri and Jess came over to say hello because they had spent the whole weekend down in the valley, and claimed to had felt like they hadn't seen me in years. I then proceeded to clean the house, shortly after cleaning it was time to play rugby.

It started awesome! We had 14 people out this time and in the first five minutes Justin tackled Jarom and landed right on the outside portion of my right leg, my leg buckled in and my ankle popped loud. So loud that the guy who had tackled, Justin, jumped up asking if Jarom was alright not noticing me lying on the ground next to him. I laid in the grass for about 30 seconds and jumped up and fell right back down. Luckily it is only a minor 2nd grade sprain, but enough to put me out of comission for 2-3 weeks. I'm going to try to let it heal. We'll see how well that goes. I hopped on one leg basically playing two hand touch as best I could the rest of the game.

Next I had to go to FHE. It was short, it always is. So then after FHE I had asked Jessica on a date! I went to her place and picked her up. We went to the store and got chicken terriyaki stir fry ingredients and we went back to my trailer and prepared it. All was done except for the chicken so we set it on the stove on a low heat and left to go steal flowers from someones yard. Note to everyone who is reading, flowers DO NOT grow in Thatcher in the winter time. We got back to the house and I could smell something burning, going as fast as I could with my busted ankle I bolt inside the door and pull the now charred remains of what once was chicken terriyaki off the stove and wept with sadness, because our delicious meal was now unedible. Instead of trying to stomach the remains of the meat and veggies we went to sonic and bought food, came back and watch the movie Valentine's Day, and then talked for what seemed like not to long. Until we saw my roommates room light flip on. My roommate works out at the mine in Morenci and has to be up at 3:30am everyday to make it to work on time. We looked at each other and laughed, unknowingly we had spent seven hours talking/preparing food/laughing/watching a movie and hadn't even once thought to look at a clock. I walked her home, as best I could and said goodnight.

So that is my Valentine's Day rundown, probably the most successful and most fun I've ever had on Valentine's Day! Love ya all!

The Art of Self Discovery!

Today as I was sitting home alone watching "It's Complicated" starring Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, and Alec Baldwin-good cast by the way-I had some sort of epiphany hit me in the face. Meryl Streeps character was going nuts after having initiated an affair with her ex-husband, Alec Baldwin. Gasp! She then instantly threw her hands in the air and shouted I need to see my therapist. It got me thinking...if you need to see your therapist after having done something in hopes of justifying those actions then save yourself the money and justify it yourself. Today in English class we had talked about how todays schools don't even come close to reflecting the societal business world. We live in the information age where everything is do it yourself! So why not try to work out your problems yourself. Yes you can use outside sources, yes we all have needs that we ourselves can't fulfill alone, but unless it's something truly traumatic who needs/wants to lay down 150 dollars (Average cost for a hour therapy session...google searched it ;)) for an hour of bull$#!^. Grrrrr.....Society. Ok I'm done venting.

The last few days have been fun, just working a lot, eating a lot, and working out a lot. I've been shirking doing my homework because that's just who I am. Knees are doing great! My left ankle I sprained, not so much. My hernia surgery is holding up really well, no more problems at all, and my body is just sore from rugby 3 times a week. I've been writing this blog to avoid homework, but now I'm hungry enough to go get some food so I have a new excuse! Love you all!

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