7 Days

So seven days from right now, my parents will have returned from a year and a half mission! It feels like it's been about 8 months now but nope, try 18! It will be good to have them home but with it comes changes. It will be different living under my parent's roof again (yes I know I've been living in their house, but it's different). So who knows I might be ready to move out in a month or two.

I also have a new calling. I'm not at liberty to say what it is but if you come to my ward on Sunday than you might find out. I will miss my old calling. I loved serving as a Ward Clerk. I believe it is one of the best callings in the Church! Almost no other calling has a definitive end of what is required! Once all the paperwork is done then there is nothing more to do! I guess I brought this on myself though. I've been in this ward for almost two years now...the longest I've been in one ward since my home ward back before I was 18! Crazy!

Anyway these are my random thoughts on this last day of June, my last Monday night without parents in the same country, the last night I hopefully sleep without installing the AC unit from the basement!

What would you do?

As some might know, my parents get home in a week and a half, July 7th to be exact. At that time I will be once again, living with my parents. So I have some options I could pursue. First is change nothing, stay living here and just keep on keeping on. Next I could purchase a place down south closer to work. Now comes the real questions, should I buy a motorcycle? This option would most likely be for living in Bountiful to save on gas money but could be for anything cause I've always wanted to have a motorcycle.
So here it is, your chance to have a word in what I should do.


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Gain of money...Loss of time

So today I went to my brothers place in Farmington. We had spaghetti for dinner and then went outside to enjoy the nice afternoon. I decided to go pay my horse a visit. It had been over a week since I'd gone riding. I walked into the pasture and my horse saw me and walked right up to me. I petted him and looked him over for any scratches or wounds of any kind, and then walked back to the gate. He followed me over there and seemed to be saying, "Please let me out or stay for a while and do something with me!"
I couldn't resist. I grabbed his halter and lead and put it on. He nearly ran over to some flat ground, excited that someone was going to do something with him. After making sure he was thinking and wasn't going to do something stupid, I jumped on his back and rode bareback for awhile. Then I climbed off and started walking toward the gate. He followed, trying his best to show how good he was so I could stick around.
I felt horrible that I hadn't been riding or even coming over to see him. I realized I was stuck in the rat race! It sucks! There is a scale for most of us in life, on one side there is an excess of time, on the other is money. Unfortunately one cannot have both, or so it seems. I had been living favoring the time side and life was good. Now that I've shifted toward the money side I want to find a way to have both. Maybe it's greed, but I think of it as working smarter not harder. There has to be a way to make money work for you so you can enjoy time and still have money coming in. I'm not doing it now and it's driving me to figure out how to live the good life.

I'm open for suggestions!