Throwing Around Colors

This post is for yesterday...I didn't write yesterday, because after I had finished with the days activities, I went straight to bed.  I am super sick.

It's amazing how far you will go to fake that you're not sick in order to have something you really desire!  Weekends (and Monday, because it was Martin Luther King Jr. Day) are really the only chance I get to hang out with some of my friends, and I had planned a pretty awesome adventure...and there was no way I was going to miss my only chance of the week to have some fun with them by being sick.  Sure, it probably wasn't the smartest thing to do, but it was worth it.

I made a dream become a reality today, one of my very most favorite pastimes.  This is how it happened:  I spent my day making a couple trips into town.  I bought a cheap pool cover that I put in my garage to make the ground a little less hard, then I bought four bottles each of green, red, blue, and yellow paint.  I found a large amount of protective plastic to put over the pool cover in my garage.  Then I bought four pairs of hideous white women's slacks, two dress shirts, three white women's blouses, a white hat, a white purse, a white scarf, and some white shoes.  And we were ready to begin.

We played PAINT TWISTER.  I don't know if you've ever heard of it...rather than using a Twister board, we painted our own, and then put big globs of paint on each of the dots to ensure slipperiness and messiness as we played the game.  It was so epic.  I spent all morning as I was sniffling trying to wash all the red and blue paint out of my hair.  Really, it was brilliant.  If you ever want to try a ridiculously messy date, choose this one.

We headed on over to Wendy's to eat dinner.  Generally, this is an unremarkable action.  I only mention it because I would like to do a quick bit of advertising.  You see, when I went there, they had a little sign up that said you could by a little Frosty key chain for one dollar, which Frosty key chain entitles you to a free Junior Frosty every time you visit and buy something...through December of 2013!!  Seriously.  Free Junior Frostys with every visit to Wendy's for an entire year...for one dollar.  I totally bought one, and I'm very excited.

Then we played Apples to Apples...up until someone played the card "Donuts."  Marissa immediately started searching on her phone for the nearest Krispy Kreme shop on her phone (there is not one anywhere near Logan), and she found one in Layton, which is about an hour away.  On a whim, Marissa, Madison (more about her later), and I drove to Layton at 9:30 at night for a Krispy Kreme run.  We got back at midnight.  Goodness, those doughnuts are stunning.

After buying 24 doughnuts among the 3 of us, and only eating 6 collectively, (the 2 1/2 hours of driving was still worth it), we just sat in the car and talked for a couple hours.  I love it when we do that.

A common phrase in Latter-day Saint culture is that we were sent to this earth to be tested.  While the general and obvious meaning of that is true, I think it is easier to find correct direction and perception in our lives if we can recognize what is more true.  A belief a more correct way to describe the reason we are here on earth is to test.  We are here to test things in ways that we can never do in a more spiritual realm.  A mortal life is such an incredible opportunity to test all sorts of emotions, ideas, actions, and desires to see what happens when we allow them to take place in our lives, and how we feel about them.  We are here to test to see what we want and who we are.  We're not here to get an A, B, or C to determine if we are celestial material or not...we're here to test all the different levels of thought and living...and to determine what we want.  And, if we are to say we were sent here "to be tested," I suggest we use one of the words from which this word we use takes its root:  texere, meaning "to weave."  That is why we are here.  We are here to be made.  To be weaved into some new great tapestry, depicting a vision of the beauty of our innermost desires.

Don't worry about passing the test of mortality.  Rather, worry about whether you are conducting all the tests that are available to you.  This earth is a treasure-trove of knowledge and experience.  Seize it!