A Return to the Blog

So it has been a long time since I have posted anything on my blog and while I was on one of my recent travels, I got to thinking about how I could actually use my blog. Before when I was writing my blog, I was trying to write about more major things that were happening in my life, and yet to try and maintain privacy, I would be intentionally vague about the details. I sure this was no doubt frustrating to those who were reading my posts. So I've decided to try a new approach. I'm not necessarily going to write about the great and important events of my daily life, but I'll write detailed descriptions of events and experiences that are less personal and private. So you might not be able to really take away what major things are happening in my life, but hopefully you can enjoy with me some of the small but fun things that go on in my life.

So for starters, I feel like I've been blessed with a very good memory. I can remember people's names, birthdays and random facts about them for quite some time after just one conversation. In fact, for many of my close friends, I can re-create entire conversations that I had with them months and in some cases, in even years ago. For example, two years ago, my roommate Jon and I were up late taking a friend to the hospital and had quite the adventure trying to find someplace to get food at 3am on a Friday night. I can remember the looks on the faces of the Wendy's employees, half dazed, half spacey, telling us that an oven fire "contaminated" the entire kitchen, and that not even the drinks were good. I can remember the hand motions Jon made as he tried to convince the McDonald's cashier that he could fit more french fries in a medium fries than a machine. Anyway, the point is, I remember things very well.

But my memory's Achilles heel is my habit of constantly leaving my scriptures behind whenever I leave someplace. I usually forget at least once a day. Today I had just finished buying lunch when I realized that my scriptures were missing. I went back into the Twilight Zone at the Wilk trying to see if I left them there, but no luck. I then backtracked to the computer lab in the basement of the Kimball Tower and found them there, sitting next to the computer I had been working at a couple hours ago. I was lucky no one had taken them to the lost and found because that's usually what happens. I swear, the people who work at the lost and found must know me by name these days. I can't tell you how many times I've had to go there to get my scriptures back. And it's never for anything else - always the same thing, getting my scriptures back. I wouldn't be half surprised if they had a bin reserved for my scriptures there, knowing they're bound to be back soon. And if I didn't learn my lesson at lunch, after getting a quick microwave dinner, I started off to Institute to find what was missing? You guessed it. I had left them by the microwave in the Math building. And I was heading to Institute class, the one place I'd really need them all day, so you'd think I'd remember to check for them. Nope. One day I'll figure it out. Maybe I'll just permanently glue my cell phone to my scripture case. Then I can just have a friend call my phone whenever I lose my scriptures...