Reviving Some Goals

Today started out my area's Regional YSA Conference, or whatever it's called. We had dinner (ribs. Yum.) and a "workshop," or basically 5 mini-lectures on being prepared: spiritually, physically (health), temporally (emergency kits and such), financially, and educationally. It was all familiar, of course. Stay out of debt, keep a 72-hour kit in your car, eat right, etc. But it was all still useful to me, since I don't actually do *any* of them quite as well as I should. I could eat better and exercise more; I still haven't made up my own 72-hour kit; I don't read my scriptures as regularly as I should; and, well, I don't even have a job, for the financial department. Educationally I guess I did all right. :) Now I just need to put that lovely degree to work, and get going on that financial bit. :D

Anywho, so this is a shiny-new excuse to restart some of my old goals. I've been working on the exercise thing--I've walked twice this week, and plan to up it to three tomorrow. And right now I'm fulfilling tonight's portion of that perpetually out of reach journal-keeping goal. Huzzah! So, Natalia, you should be happy--I'm going to try really hard to write here in my blog EVERY DAY! AHHH! Feel free to text or otherwise nag me if I'm falling short. ;) And this blog will serve as a reminder for my other goals, too. Like getting to bed on time and waking up early . . . hehe. ;)

Some other things I did today, so this is actually jounalistic and not just an intro to my next bout of goal-dodging . . . ;) . . . I listened to a bit of April's Conference on my iPod--Elder Koichi Aoyagi's talk about supporting each other, and Elder D. Todd Christofferson's about the translation of the Bible, and the idea that we need scriptural guidance more in this day than has ever been needed before on this earth. With the hymn "We Thank Thee, Oh God, for a Prophet" thrown in there. :) I've decided recently that I like listening to a Conference talk or two while I eat my breakfast.

After that I started a load of laundry (huzzah!), and promptly forgot about it. I should probably get back to that sometime tonight . . . hehe. And then I went online and subscribed to Dr. Laura Schlesinger's radio podcast, because she's just fun to listen to, and I listened to her while I went on my walk. :) And that's about all I did today that was even remotely useful. Hopefully, with a couple new goals to jump-start my day with (including the goal to, well, start my day . . .), I'll find myself accomplishing a few more tasks each day, until I become, once more, a fully-functional Productive Member of Society. ;)

Won't that be fun?