Sunday, Sunday ...

It's Sunday again, and the second time in two days that I'm blogging! Sometimes I think my life is so boring, but maybe I need to just take some time each day to sit down and reflect. In general I think there has been a lack of reflection in my life lately, so I've made an inner commitment to do more of it. I talked to my best friend on the phone last night for an hour and a half and I realized that close, personal friendships are very lacking in my life right now. For a long time I had Joe, but then he left and I haven't really filled the void. Not that I particularly want to, but it has kind-of turned me into a very boring person. Sometimes I just feel like there's no one to really relate to and share all my inner feelings with. Well, more like the only people I want to share those things with are, for the most part, miles and miles away. I am grateful for my brother and sister-in-law who are nearby, whom I feel very close to and feel like I can share most things with. Still, there's something about having a best girl friend that just can't be beat. Someone you can talk to all the time and go places and have girls' nights with ... I love my roommates and everything, but they just can't be that for me. I miss my best friend Kylene!!!

That said, I love Sunday, but I'll be glad when I have my own place. Personally, I find very little use for a television, other than watching the occasional movie. But when it comes to Sunday, I hate that the TV is on ALL AFTERNOON. I realize that for some people, TV is relaxing and an emotional stress reliever, but for me, my stress level increases 10-fold when no matter where I go in the house I can hear the stupid TV, and especially on Sunday when I want to be doing Sunday things but I'm forced to go into my room and turn on quiet music so I won't hear the TV. Okay, so I'm done venting ... We had really good talks this Sunday in sacrament meeting. Two of my very good friends in the branch are getting married soon: one in April and one in May. They are both very recent converts and they both gave very excellent, well-thought-out talks. I really appreciate when people take the time to think through their talks and try to tell us what's in their hearts and heads instead of just regurgitating the conference talk they've been assigned to pull their topic from. I also appreciate hearing personal experiences more than just scripture after scripture after scripture. Somehow it seems to mean a lot more when I see how a particular topic relates to someone else. Then I start relating it to my own life and the Spirit speaks to me. This is a skill that I have not mastered yet. I used to be quite good at giving talks, I think, but I shy away from bearing my testimony and I haven't given a talk in a while. I think part of the issue goes back to what I said earlier; that I haven't spent much time in reflection lately. So, I think I need to go and reflect now ...