Life goes on

Well, President Hinckley passed away last night. Please visit the following (and browse around to read about the wonderful things he did for the church):

http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/

I'd appreciate it. If you don't relate to this right now, that's fine. I'll try to explain in the best way possible.

Pretend for a moment that your parents came home right now and told you that your grandfather had died. You are in shock, but you later realize that you had never met him, yet he had influenced so many things of yours (interest in music, animals, whatever). You are sad, yet you know he's in a better place [with his wife, no less].

It's kinda like that. It's just knowing that he cared so much for the youth, and did so much to help us be better people. Y'know?

Anyway. In remembrance of President Hinckley, 23 June 1910 to 27 January 2008, the 15th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints...

Talk

Oh brother I can't, I can't get through
I've been trying hard to reach you, cause I don't know what to do
Oh brother I can't believe it's true
I'm so scared about the future and I wanna talk to you
Oh I wanna talk to you

You can take a picture of something you see
In the future where will I be?
You can climb a ladder up to the sun
or write a song nobody has sung
or do something that's never been done

Are you lost or incomplete?
Do you feel like a puzzle, you can't find your missing piece?
Tell me how do you feel?
Well I feel like they're talking in a language I don't speak
and they're talking it to me

So you take a picture of something you see
In the future where will I be?
You can climb a ladder up to the sun
Or a write a song nobody has sung
Or do something that's never been done
Do something that's never been done

So you don't know were you're going, and you wanna talk
And you feel like you're going where you've been before
You tell anyone who'll listen but you feel ignored
Nothing's really making any sense at all
Let's talk, let's talk
Let's talk, let's talk

Time
Neither speeding nor slowing
It's course is set
Slowly,
Unchanging.
Though seemingly flying faster
The more or less we pay attention
Nothing can be done.

I wish...

• people would tell each other how much they appreciate them more often
• people would make sure other friends knew how much they love them
• friends would support each other no matter what
• friends would never ignore a friendship, no matter what the situation
• people would be straightforward
• life's important decsions were spaced out over a couple more years...
• graduation was tomorrow
• I would stop feeling like this

It takes a road to go nowhere
It takes a toll to make you care
It takes a hole to make a mountain

But you don't understand that... do you

Missing friends that are at theatrefest... but by the time they read this, they'll be back home and I won't be lonely anymore.... which'll be good. =)

List for life in the next few days...

• Sociology final tomorrow
• Pep band game tomorrow night! We'll see how that turns out. We're facing Minooka...?
• Sleepover at Lindsey's house (after the game, ouch)
• LDS girls basketball the following morning. woo!
• Theatrefest people come home.

Busy, busy. When am I not, anymore?? Seriously.

Anyways... I'm off to study for my final! woo! ouch. >.>

I'm BAAAACK!

And aren't you just so happy to see me? [Or read my updated blog?] =P

Back from Utah, one of the only places on Earth where you can see 14 LDS temples in 2 hours! (That's when you're driving, by the way.) Haha, I've got some crazy stories (find the white Y on the side of the mountain that's covered in SNOW!) ... and awesome pictures! But I'll upload them after I practice.

Coconut bon-bon. Tastes like I'm eating fudge... (Oh wait, I am.)

nevermind if you don't get THAT reference... xD

Woo! Another short and sweet one. Doesn't that make you excited inside?

Utah post!

Short and sweet. At least, that's what I'm aiming for.

Quick word about "THE BREAKUP." *scary music plays in background* lol. just time to move on, I guess. y'know, see new people. (that's another "mormon" thing, btw... we're advised not to steady date for long periods of time.) plus, some things were kinda screwy, so all the better for that. (see me for details.)

Anyways, I'm in Utah! Odd to hear me saying that with a smile on my face, huh? lolz. Yep, this was just supposed to be a lesson for us to get aquainted, to see if we'd get along. Turns out, that was my AUDITION! Oh snap. It went pretty well, though, so no problems there. Still, one down, three to go. >.O meh.

Short and sweet is what I was aiming for. Do you agree?

Merry Christmas! =D

It's been a while! But trust me, it hasn't been any less busy around here. ;)

Christmas is TOMORROW! Woo! I'm excited.

I hope you guys liked your Christmas presents! I didn't have much time to talk to you guys about it. =P Go figure.

Yep, just a short update. Enjoy your holidays! I'm quite the busy one this week, and then the next week I'm in Utah! (Never thought you'd hear those words come out of my mouth, did ya?) So let me know if you've got any parties going on, I've been staying up until midnight the past few days. =D Yay for mormon parties that stay up until 1am! lol long story ask me about it some other time. ;)

~Rayla