Thursday: I took a dive into the pool next door for the very first time this whole summer. Last year, I went in the day it opened...early April. It was freezing...the air, the water, and me. After a few hours at the neighbor's house, I came home and a rainstorm came almost instantly. It was perfect timing. My friend had been texting me how rough his life had been going, but he somehow found and ran towards the positive and happy wall rather the negative and unhappy wall most people run to a little too quickly. It was pretty random, but like I said, it was all perfect timing. The rain started falling, and the sun was beaming through the clouds towards all of our windows in the house and the whole scene related perfectly to those times in our lives. The rain will fall boisterously, and it may ruin some plans, but that doesn't mean we can't find the sun.
Friday: Dain spent the night. We woke up at noon. We were aching to finger paint. No paint in the house. No paint next door. No finger painting happened. So we made jewelry instead. We then spent a little over an hour singing-nay, belting...wailing songs in spanish. I still am to figure out why half of her ipod is foreign. That's when we decided to make a soundtrack for our lives. Landon suggested to make a list of top 100 songs of all time. We'll see what happens. Dain, mama and I ate enchiladas and drank homemade limeade as we watched the Tribute to our Beloved Michael Jackson that mama recorded last week. I came really close to tears more than once. Barely did anything yesterday...but the day was what summer's all about. Sleeping in, creating things, singing while laying dog tired, limeade, and watching the king of pop.
Today: I went to sleep around 2ish this morning...no solid explanation. My best excuse is probably still trying to get used to the switch in time differences from Utah. Anyway, I woke up at 4:30 this morning to take Charlie out and head down to the Washington D.C. temple for volunteer work with my ward to help clean the grounds. We couldn't have picked a more perfect day when it comes to weather. Everything was absoultely beautiful. When we were done, I went into the visitor's center to see their new universe exhibit. It had pictures of stars and galaxies along with scriptures describing God's creations. I was the first one to leave a comment in their "comment book" saying how much I enjoyed the exhibit.
I apologize if I used this entry as a journal, for it's probably not as interesting as what goes on in other entries, if interesting at all. But I felt that I had to somehow record what's happened over the course of these past few days, and I don't really have a journal. Oh, and by the way...thanks to Dain Broadbent who introduced me to the incredible song "Postcards from Far Away" by Coldplay...I've finally mastered it on the piano within these couple of days. I hope you all love it as much as I do, because frankly, I can't get enough.
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