SDNEIRF

Aren't friends just wonderful? Especially those ones whom you know will be the same after long times apart, waiting to pick things back off right where you left them. My brother came home last night and said he'd seen my buddy Gordon at the grocery store...the Gordon who has been gone working in Idaho since before I got back from Ukraine. I was so excited! He let me come over today around noon and we had some catch up time. Felt just like the old days. Friends are beautiful I can't even express how much I appreciate them.

Sadly I can't find any pictures of him and I on this computer. And since my camera got stollen in Ukraine....the LAST week I was there....it's been a bit tricky documenting my life on film. But I am starting to make money at my new job so maybe a camera will come up on the wishlist soon...

I am so excited to find out what other fabulous people I will meet.

"Life is a shipwreck...but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." -Albert Schweitzer

Thus is life...or is it?

"Nobody can go back and make a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

"If you live life by the books you'll never make history."

If there is one thing I've learned about my life, it is that my life's destiny is not to be prediscovered or mapped out. It would seem that although I set off confidently in one direction with complete determination that I'll make it to the end of a road...I've aquired this rather bad tendency of detours. And, as anyone who knows my mind well enough will tell you, I usually don't find my way back once I detour.

So here I am sitting back in America after a splendid adventure in the Ukraine, trying to peer into what the future holds for me. I was planning on leaving for Moscow in August...but 'fate' has lead me elsewhere. I am doing really well at my new job as a financial planner with Primeria. In fact last week I passed the huge nasty test that will get me a paper saying I'm officially licenced to be doing what I'm doing. Woopdeedo! If all goes well I should be making bank within the next few months, which will open doors for all kinds of possibilities. By the way if anyone ever needs a job I can so hook you up if you give me a shout.

Current major focuses:

*Spiritual development and knowledge

*My family

*MUSIC

*Work

*Organizing my home base (cleaning my room...)

*Eden

*Dancing

*Physical well-being

*Mental well-being

Possibilities for the next few months:

*Ice hockey!

*Volunteering at Courage Reins

*Volunteering at a domestic violence shelter

*Taking Macgyver to hospitals for thereputic work with patients

*Road trip to St. George to see Tarzan the musical

*Road trip to Nauvoo

*Building houses in Mexico

Possibilities for January and onward:

*BYU

*Saudi Arabia (my aunt&uncle live there and I could go teach in a school for a few months and live with them. This is a MAJOR possibility I am VERY interested in pursuing.)

*Africa...

*Equador

*EFY couselor during the summer

*California to take horse lessons with Monty Roberts (the horse whisperer)

The future is exciting. I have about 17 months until I can go on a mission, all of which I hope to be full. We'll see where God needs me. For now I'm taking things one day at a time. Which...can be hard to do if you're counting down each one in anticipation for somone's return. 21 days left by the way....




...but that is for another post.