Crunched

Oohhhh, Saturdays.

Saturdays really throw me off.  Well, only some Saturdays.  But this is one of them.  I wish you could see schedule most days...actually, you probably can!  One moment...

In between all those commitments, I am doing homework, planning an epic music video, putting together a 3-day murder mystery, and trying to let at least a couple of my friends know that I still exist and like them.  But this is what I am used to, so Saturday comes along, and I have no specific times I need to be anywhere!  It only takes me about two hours before I am just running around the house with so much energy I don't know what to do with.  I'm so overscheduled, when I have one day without one, I go bonkers!

Dance Central is great.

...I feel like dancing comes up a lot in my blog posts...But with good reason!  Dancing is definitely one of the four main purposes of life.

Don't worry, I didn't end up having nothing to do; I had a lot of leftover work from my other days that had piled into my Saturday.  You see, I recently was reading in the scriptures, and came across the bit that says to "retire to thy bed early" and to rise up early in the morning.  I've always just thought of those as cute words to live by...but as I was reading them this time, it really hit me hard that it was, in fact, a commandment from the Lord.  And I have been ignoring it.  Filled with a repentant spirit, I have decided to go to bed by 11 pm.  Getting up early hasn't been a problem...have the time I have to be in class by 7.  But this going to bed early thing is a struggle.  This just doesn't integrate with college life!  There's not enough time in the day to do everything if you're going to bed by 11!  It seems impossible.  And at 11, most of my friends are still hanging out.  But I have just girded up my loins and decided to trust God.  It's scarier to really just put all your trust in God when you see possibilities closing as you follow a commandment than it seems it would be!  Though I don't know how I will survive while being in bed for such a ridiculous amount of time, I will do it.  It will work out.

I hate sleeping for longer than 4 hours.  It's a terrible experience.  So I spend like three hours just rolling around wishing I wasn't in bed.  But I will do it!  And I have a friend who is doing it with me (or professing to).  It always helps to do something hard if you can find someone else doing it to.  Somehow it gives you more strength.  I don't really understand how, but it does.

With this new development in my life, it may become impossible for me to write a daily blog.  We'll see.