I know, I know, It's been half a month since I've written. I wish I could tell you we were off doing exciting things and were too enthralled in adventure to write. But honestly, I didn't write because I didn't have anything new to say. Stephen and I have found a good routine for our lives and we comfortably go about normal day-to-day activities. There have finally been enough happenings that I feel justified in writing a post, though, so yay you.
First off, I got a new calling! I'm now the Relief Society Weekday Meetings Leader. Or something like that. Basically, I'm in charge of the activities formally known as Enrichment. I'm very excited for this calling. I grew up planning parties and I enjoy being in charge in order to move plans forward and get things done. In fact, I've already started organizing the first activity. We're going to have a ward swap meet. I've been wanting to do this for a while, and I tried to get things going before, but it was hard to coordinate. But now that I'm in charge, I can take on the responsibility of putting it together. It's in less than two weeks, so there's plenty to do between now and then, but I have a committee to help me, and it's really not too hard to prepare for. I'm mostly just excited. I look forward to organizing more activities in the future.
There are 38 more days until I graduate. That's less than six weeks! But there's a lot packed into those few weeks. However, I've been able to get a lot of things done this past week. Two and a half of my four major papers are already done or at least have a solid draft. It's nice to get things done in advance--I don't know why I waited until my last semester to get my academic act together and be on top of things. Not that I was a bad student before; I just lost a lot of sleep the nights before assignments were due.
Speaking of losing sleep, I don't know what's been wrong with me and sleeping lately, but I've completely thrown off my body's sleeping schedule. I was having trouble falling asleep, and thus spent the majority of the night awake. I use that time to do my extra homework, but the hours between midnight and seven are scheduled for my sleeping time, not for homework. I would be awake for several hours at a time with very little sleep. I would maybe take a quick nap, but besides that, I was awake for days. In order to make up for it, my body decided three times last week that it needed to sleep for 12 hours at a time. I missed some classes one day because I was far too tired to function, even though I had slept a lot. But considering the lack of sleep the other nights, I guess it balances out. Stephen gave me a priesthood blessing last night, and I slept very well. Hopefully I can get my body back into a normal sleeping pattern.
So story time. Anyone who knows me well enough will know I am not a graceful person. I've lost track of how many times I've had to use crutches in my life. I've been hit by a car twice. I sprained both of my ankles at the same time once (yes, I'm THAT talented). So don't be surprised when I say I tripped down the stairs last week. I was going to get the laundry, but tripped on my shoe and tumbled down the concrete stairs. Luckily, I only rolled one ankle and got a rug burn/scratch on my knee and a bruise on my leg. It could have been much, much worse. There wasn't even blood.
I climbed back upstairs where Stephen rescued me and took care of me for the rest of the night. I went into shock a bit and sobbed for a while, even though I wasn't really in pain. He just held me and got me ice packs and sang to me until I calmed down. He's the best husband ever. My ankle healed after a few days, and my knee has a scab and the yellow remnants of a bruise, but I'm fine. Stuff like that happens in life--especially in my life--and it helps to remind me to be grateful for the functioning, healthy body I have.
So once, I posted on facebook the idea to do a Q&A blog post. But I only got two questions. So I'll wait to answer those and ask for more. Send me a message with a question and I'll make a blog post about it! For now, I have to go to class, so I'll wrap this up. Life is good. We are happy. Trials happen and we handle them. We love each other. Gospel is true. Amen!
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