April's a long way away.

Well, it's been over a week since my last post, which doesn't really count as a post I guess since it was a shout-out to basically a whole country. Yeah, it was a little weird. Anywho, nothing interesting has happened. Well, okay. There was thanksgiving, and blackfriday, which wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, and work, and that's about it. I mean, nothing else really goes on in my life other than working. It's a sad life I know, but at least I have jobs that I can work at for money to go back to school. That'll be nice. But that's all the way in April. I've got a looooong way to go. ..
I really want to go back now. It feels weird to not be in school. Plus being in school is easier. It keeps my brain occupied. This whole no school thing is making my brain feel like it still needs to think about things but it's frustrated because it can't think of anything to think about. I don't know if that made any sence but it kinda did to me.
I've also got lots of missionary farewells coming up shortly. That's not going to be so fun. Serving missions are great and all, but I'm afraid that the farwells are going to suck lots more than they already do because I haven't had friends around in a little while. So I'm afraid it will feel like a smack in the face when all that goes down.
"Hey, sorry, Amanda, But I have to make you friendless for a few months, and just in case you forget, we'll throw going away parties for them all one at a time later" Gee, thanks. I appreciate it.
Really though, it's great that I have so many good friends who are deciding to go on missions. Working at Target I get to mingle with lots of people who don't really live thier lives like they should who make me sad and it's nice to see the friends that I have who are out there doing what's right the best that they can.
And since I am staying home in the winter semester, I might just do the Dilettants (sp?) play staring in January. That will be loads of fun! I haven't acted for years. Not since Pirates of Penzance. I miss it terribly. I hope so much that I'll be able to do this play. It'd mean a lot to me.
I'm kinda glad I'm waiting also to miss the Rexburg winter. If Twin has this much snow I can only imagine how much Rexburg has. When I go back up there it'll be spring again and hopefully it wont be so cold! So there are a couple things to be happy about until April I suppose :)

To My Readers From The Netherlands:

In my stats, it says that this week, there were 31 page views from the Netherlands ranking the first country (even above the US) to view my blog this week. Total, there are 89 views from there in All Time. Coming slightly behind the United States. So this is a shout out to my friends from the Netherlands! GO YOU! Now, most people that get on my blog look at my "Topic Generator" post that I wrote a long time ago, so that's probably where these numbers are coming from. But if there is the slightest, tiniest chance that you happen to be a Netherlander reading this post, you should comment! That'd be really, really, really, super cool! :) 

Fun, Weekends, and Friends

I'd like to write this little post today about friends and friendships. I've lost lots of friends with my moves and lifestyle changes that come with age. Many reasons. Each time I loose a friend, I miss them. I miss a lot of people right now. Loosing friends is something that I truely hate. It's another change thing. and I just can't deal with change like a rational human being. It frightens me like no other. Whenever I think of friends that I've lost or just don't keep in touch with so much, I still feel a little sick to my stomache. It's something that I've just always had a problem with.
Though, I can cope and get through these periods of change. But I could never get through it if it wasn't for Heavenly Father. He really cares. Even about the small things.
This weekend, I was supposed to go to Rexburg. I really really really really really reallly REALLY wanted to go so that I could spend some time with my old roommates and just have a little bit of fun before the scary holiday season started. It ended up that I couldn't go and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to have any fun and it would just be holiday time and I would just be stressed with nothing fun to look back on. It's not that big of a deal, even to me, it wasn't that big of a deal. I knew that I had to work, I was just slightly bummed. But, Heavenly Father blessed me with a way to make the weekend much better. All it took was a couple of new friends. Yes! I'm making new friends. Also something I stuggle with a bit. But not as much as change.
I learned a lot of things while I stayed home from college this semester. I think I learned how to better make friends easier. It's always been something that I struggle with. But I hope that when I go back to BYUI, I'll be able to apply these things that I've learned because this has been a blast! I'm so happy for this weekend that I just had. It was so much fun!

To Reach The Unreachable Star

Today's theme was changing my life around for the Savior. In testimony meeting the testimonies all seemed to talk about how they gave more time to the Savior and their life changed for the better. In Relief Society we talked about how we do all these things like go to school and work and whatnot and we leave the left over time for the Savior sometimes.. it should be the other way around. Devote time to the Savior first and He will help you through the things that need to get done. Then there was a CES fireside with M. Russel Ballard. That seemed to talk about changing your life and living for the Savior and living the principles of the Gospel and doing something about it. Then I played The Impossible Dream on the piano and decided that I am going on a quest. Perhaps not quite like Don Quioxte or however you spell his name and go chasing windmills and such weirdnesses. But I'll fight for the right, without question or pause. I'll strive with my last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable star.