Hypaethral

Hello blog world! I'm back...for at least this one post.  I want to blog more, but obviously I want to do other things even more. A lot has happened since I last blogged, but I'm not going to list it all out because it would either be a dreadfully boring list devoid of the exciting details or it would be a terribly long post with paragraph after paragraph of every little thing I could remember.  So instead, I'm just going to tell you our latest big news. We are pregnant!  Our little bug is due July 25 and we couldn't be more excited! I am currently 21 weeks along (that's about 4 and a half months) so I am a little more than halfway done baking this baby! We had the opportunity to find out our baby's gender yesterday and we (more like I) decided to give in to the calls of Pinterest and have a little gender reveal party with our family. We bought cheap-o necklaces in pink and blue from Zurchers and I made a cute little decorative sign.  

I realized last night that I broke a covenant I had made with God.  Now that I think about it, I've probably broken this covenant dozens of times and not even realized it. When I was baptized at the young age of eight I covenanted with God that I would strive to keep His commandments, that I would help buoy up those around me, and I would stand as a witness of God. In the Book of Mormon,  these passages from Mosiah 18 explain the covenant that I, and several others, have made. 8  And it came to pass that he said unto them: Behold, here are the waters of Mormon (for thus were they called) and now, as ye are  a desirous  to come into the  b fold  of God, and to be called his people, and are willing to bear one another’s burdens, that they may be light;     9  Yea, and are  a willing  to mourn with those that  b mourn ; yea, and comfort those that stand in need of comfort, and to stand as c witnesses  of God at all times and in all things, and in all places that ye may be in

How's everyone's 2013 going?  As you can tell from my lack of updates, my 2013 is either rather boring, rather busy, or I've gotten rather lazy.  Let's go with busy, that sounds better than the other ones. This past New Year was the first New Year that I actually sat down and made a list of resolutions for the year, and I love it!  It's so great to have a goal to work towards and to make little steps each day towards a better you!   In December our Sunday School teachers told us that we should be well rounded people, so a good idea for New Years was to have resolutions that improved you in four areas: Spiritual Social Physical Educational So, on January 1, 2013 just after 12:00 am I made a list. My Spiritual Goals The first spiritual goal I made was to read through the Book of Mormon this year.  I've read through the Book of Mormon before, but in my stake growing up we were always encouraged to follow the 2x4 (two by four) plan.   Th

I've had a range of different jobs short working life time.  I started as a lifeguard, then I became a veterinarian assistant.  I worked in a call center for 6 months, then moved on to working at the BYU Creamery flipping burgers, serving ice cream, and stocking the small grocery store, and now I work as a QA engineer at Domo inc. Of the five jobs, I was only at three for a substantial amount of time, and from each job I developed a little quirk. The lifeguard quirk is by far my favorite.  When you think of a lifeguard what do you think of? (Besides the hottest people at the pool).  Yelling at kids.  More specifically, yelling, "NO RUNNING!" at kids.  After a few months as a lifeguard a strange urge presented itself whenever I saw kids running anywhere.  Kids running at Target, at the ballpark, outside the library.  My lifeguard senses kick in at it takes all of my control to force those words back down my throat. For most of my time at the BYU creamery I worked up

I've been sharing this blog post any way I know possible.  This man has known he was gay since he was 12, and his wife has known since they were 15.  He served a mission. The two got married, both fully knowing that he was sexually attracted to men.  And now they've been happily married for 10 years.  They are an astounding example of love the extends beyond mere physical attraction.  The world needs this example. http://www.joshweed.com/2012/06/club-unicorn-in-which-i-come-out-of.html?m=1

If you checked out my vlog then you'll know that my company is performing a social networking experiment.  (If you want to know more check out domo.com/social ).  Those of my readers who have been with me for a while will know that I am notorious for not proof-reading any of my posts.  I don't really care to.  This blog is for me, and it's where I can be completely real.  Real people don't write the perfect post the first time and real people make typos.  Whatever.  I'm sure it drives the English majors crazy, but I'm not making anyone be here.   Well, up until now that refusal to proof-read and revise my content on social media has been pretty solid and has spread across most sites.  However, today I find myself struggling to form the perfect tweet.  Normally and idea sprouts in my head and I put it on the internet and that's that.  Not this idea.  I've been doing this mental revising all morning, trying to make the words flow and trying to get that