It's Friday, Friday!

Yeah, the song is stuck in my head now. Go figure.

Well, the Taco Bell job interview went...well, it could have gone better. I ended up totally upset that I sorta fail at life, but I only gave myself around 19 hours of being upset and then I ended up spending time with Nathan. We ate ice cream and watched classic Disney movies, Mulan and Beauty and the Beast. Lots of girls saving their daddies, which was entirely coincidence. Maybe we should have watched The Little Mermaid. Pretty much the opposite there, I've noticed. Disney aims to please, and sometimes the themes of some are contridicted by the understory of other movies. For example, in Tangled and The Little Mermaid, they find themselves ready to take on the consequences of leaving their parents and searching for their dreams. Which is important. But in Mulan and Beauty and the Beast, they learn that by doing everything they can to keep their family as a top priority, they find true love. Dreams and love are both very important.

Disney is Timeless. This fits nicely with my general theme.

Timeless is an interesting word. I think it means that you can't just erase it. Pretend it's part of another era. People say chivalry is also timeless, that it belongs in all times, but that seems to be dying. Disney, though, that is some seriously timeless stuff. Dreams, love, family...I can't watch the Lion King enough times in my life because it really is just timeless. They say love-- the true kind-- is timeless. It doesn't matter if you spend a moment or an hour or a year together, that it's still perfect and beautiful and important. The hard part is discovering if it's the timeless kind, or if your moments in love with one person are just grains of sand in your hourglass. I think that's the thing with dreams, too. What happens when you dream too low and you get there too fast? Your time in dreaming has ended, and here you are just coasting. I think that's why it's important to have big dreams. Little dreams, too, but the big dreams that will take a whole lifetime are important. You can never coast in those timeless things. Because life here on earth is NOT timeless. So you have to make every moment count. Every second we live, we are a second closer to saying goodbye.

Our legacy can be timeless. What we leave behind. I want to leave behind words of inspiration and wisdom. I want to leave behind a family that I taught and raised with the right ideas of the world. I want to leave behind dreams I didn't quite reach but I spend my whole life reaching for. I want to leave behind love and the results of my work. Stories, strength I helped others find, something that someone can lean on when they can't lean on me anymore. And Disney. I'll leave that behind, too. Because that seems to have the right idea about how to handle yourselves if you look at the positive side of things.

So as our hourglass runs out of sand, I think we should be respectful of it, but live like we have forever. Because leaving behind something unfinished is better than being finished and just waiting to leave it all behind. This weekend I think I want to focus on the timeless things I have in life.

Until next time.

The First Day

I  have been alive for 6,602 days.

For you non-math geniuses, that means I am 18 years old (and some change). I don't feel 18 years old, but I am. One day I will feel 18 years old, I'm sure of it. Unfortunately, I'll probably actually be 23.

I think that's my favorite thing about life. You can literally take it one day at a time, but you can think about the days-- previous and future-- as if they are a part of today. It's all relative to how you consider moments, seconds, hours, days...Time. It's one of my favorite concepts. That's why I started a blog. I wanted to be able to document each day as it comes. I keep a journal, but this seemed somehow...easier. How sad is that? In this day it is far more reasonable to have a blog and type out a documentation of our lives than it is to write out what we think and feel.

The days have gone by so fast.

So, about today. I have a job interview at Taco Bell. It's my third interview in my life but the other two didn't sound promising, so I got desperate. Fast. Food. I would normally make a disgusted face at it but, at this point, a job is a job. And I need to pay for college somehow.

More craziness!!! I'm going to college!! I know a guy who went to college at the same place I'm going (Brigham Young University- Idaho) over the same time that I'm going to be out there (Winter/Spring track, January through July). He was gone for 203 days. That's intense. Especially since the whole time, I was admiring from afar. No, I'm not going into mushy boyfriend stories today (there are other days for that, like our one month anniversary in 2 days or his birthday in 6 days), but it does put things in perspective. I leave for the same experience in December (I'd say how many days, but I don't know which day I actually leave). Time certainly flies.

So, here goes my very first day with this whole blog idea. I have a plan for this little project, but for now I shall conclue my first post.

Adios, See ya, Good-bye, Adieu...however else you conclude a blog post. Until another time.