Three is the magic number.

Post number three. So far, so good. This past week seemed to fly by. The weekend ended and I felt like I needed a weekend from my weekend. But alas, Monday arrived like it usually does. Good thing I really like my job, it helps a lot.

I once again forgot to make a new experiment for this past week. Or at least an official one. My unofficial goal was to not freeze off any extremities. I wonder how I have lived in Canada my whole life. Has it really always gotten this cold? And then I think of the brutal reality that it just gets colder from here. California may have made me a cold weather sissy. While I dislike cold and winter driving. I do love the beauty of a freshly fallen snow. Very pure.

This week I decided to take on the challenge given in this months general conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I can't remember who it was (my notes are downstairs and I'm a bit too lazy to fetch them right now), but he said to pray every day for a opportunity to serve. And then spend the day aware and looking. Obviously this is something I want to carry on, more than just a week. I'm happy to report that after day one (being today) I was really looking for things. And I only had a couple really small seemingly insignificant occasions. I hope they count. I am really excited to see what this week brings.

In other news, its Halloween this Wednesday. I am so excited. I just love holidays!!! So to all that read this before then, Happy haunting!! I myself plan on eating copious amounts of candy. I've already began!

PS the picture is of Lisa and I. She is a fantastic zebra and I am the explorer who found her. Along with a meerkat.

Blog Post the Second

I have officially made it to my second entry. Pretty sure the one time I tried to start a blog last time it really only lasted for two entries. So the real test will be surpassing this one and moving onto number 3. I think the real celebration will come when I hit my 52nd entry cause that means it will have been a year. Or maybe it won't even be a year, I will just be so into this blog that I can't stop writing. Either way a party of some sorts will happen after 51 more posts. Feel free to give me ideas of how one is supposed to party over blog.

My first week is done, along with my starting point of going a week without TV/movies. Honestly, it was a needed break, though at first it was hard. Just imagine, I lived for 19 months without it. Now I'm back to that point, I don't think about it as much, which was the purpose. Also, my sleep schedule improved significantly. So I'd say TV/movie free week was a success. Now to go from there. This week, while not completely void of TV/ movies, I have limited them significantly.

My week was very full, lots of fun things happened. And while this is not the only purpose of my blog, I figure its okay to give a brief run down of the things I learned and observed.

First: Good friends are people that make you a better person. My old roommate Tristin came over on Sunday and told me this, so I didn't come up with it on my own. I had never thought about it that way. And it made so much sense to me why I enjoy certain people so much and want to spend time with them. They help me to be a better person. Win.

Second: I attended a concert on Sunday for Joshua Radin and A Fine Frenzy. Both amazing artists. And probably one of my favorite concerts. Why? Because the venue was McDougall United Church downtown. So rather than being crazy and having various crowd surfers kicking you in the head, I could sit back and enjoy the music. Win.

Third: Pumpkins are more fun to carve whilst in the presence of friends and family. Actually everything is. But I carved pumpkins with friends yesterday so I thought I would throw that in there. Well done folks.

Alright, I'm going to end this here. But I do need ideas for future 'experiments' I should try. Lisa sent me a suggestion to see if I could go a month without eating processed foods. That would be tricky, and so crazy that I just may try it. I certainly will not be starting that anytime this year though. Halloween and Christmas are fast approaching and lets face it, one of my favorite things is food. So send me ideas, and I most likely will try them in at least some way. Then you can be infamous on my blog, cause I'm pretty sure its going to be a movie one day. Fame awaits you!

A Beginning

Well, here it is. I find that I face mini "life crisis" moments after I have done or completed some big milestone in my life. Crisis might be too strong of a word, but for lack of a better one at the moment I will stick with it. An example of one of my personal mini life crisis' happened when I finished University. I found myself staring into the future going "What next?". As a result of that particular occasion I ended up joining the Kokopelli Youth Choir. These 'mini life crisis' moments have been few, but have always resulted in wonderful new chapters in my life. So now 4 months after I finished a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I saw the cycle repeating again. My mission was wonderful, and hands down the best thing I have ever done in my life. I will share more about it later, but at this point I mean to explain the reason for this blog. Last week I was wondering what I should do next, and the idea came to me that I was watching way too much tv/movies. And so I planned on cutting them out, at least for a week so I could refocus on my goals in life, and the person I wanted to be. That was my jumping off point. Then through many conversations with various friends I decided to make blogging part of it. And just a sidenote, I am really not a great writer. In University I had weekly essays for my English class, and a majority of them returned with "F+" written on the top. I really don't know what an F+ is supposed to mean...."you failed, but good try". Either way, consider this my warning. So if you continue to read, then I don't feel personally responsible for your offense to any grammatical errors I may make. But I will do my best.
Back to my current mini life crisis, I was telling my good friend Lisa about this plan and she thought I should make a purpose for my blog. More than just publishing my journal. Lisa's scientist side came out and she suggested I do various experiments and write about them. I liked it. So thats what this will be.

First up experiment wise, as previously mentioned, is my cutting out tv and movies. This week it is completely, but in weeks to come I am just going to monitor it more closely so that I don't get carried away. After this week I will take on different 'experiments' ultimately in my journey to find a 'sense of place' through out life. I feel that it involves constant evaluation on ones self. I know what I want my end goal to be, but finding that happy content feeling in everything I am is the tricky part. Self betterment in all aspects of life. So this is a beginning. And if nothing else, I already feel better because of it.