Life of Lauren

Yes this post is a little earlier than usual but I've had a lot on my mind. This next week I am teaching a lesson and in that lesson we are bringing out the Pursuit of Excellence manual back into action. We have been trying hard to get the sister's in my ward to be more goal oriented and driven. We started off with the new year talking about goals we as sisters can do, such as going to the temple, doing a service project, helping out at the cannery, and doing our visiting teaching. My lesson will be like a check point to see how everyone is with there goals. The check point is really what I need because I haven't even written down my goals. They just kind of float around in my head. I can be so indecisive . I have ideas of goals in my head but I hate writing them down and getting disappointed when the year is over because I lot of times I don't know how to follow through with my ideas so I never write them down and they never happen. Sad I know. I've decided that...

This week has been a good meh bittersweet week. My week was rolling as I worked my butt off for my 7.25 dollars an hour job (and yes my job hunt is never ending). I also had some great time getting together and hanging out with friends and family this week. Now that was my sweet part and Tuesday was when the bitter rolled on in. I got home around 6 from work and popped on the computer to check my emails and facebook and noticed that in the left upper corner of my facebook page I had a message. I clicked on the message and wish I hadn't because it wasn't a very friendly how's it going message. It was a hurtful message and part of it confused me because I was thinking about whether maybe other people viewed me in the same way that person was viewing me. Yes, I do sometimes analyze things a little much, but sometimes it's because I haven't experienced some of what people might call norms in their lives(those of you that know me inside and out may understand where ...

Hey friends! So here is the first chapter of some of my free lance writing. I tried to do paragraphs and I did space it all out but it messed up and I apologize. Fill free to comment, and honesty is the best policy.