Day Before Road Trip

Moses Hogan!!!! Its taken this day long enough to come!!! Tomorrow will probably be unbarable! But I can't wait! Bachelor Road Trip here we come!!!!!

One last fling with my three best friends!!
5 days in the glorious California Sun, then its on to the WEDDING!!!! YEAH!!!! Oh, I'm not excited about getting married at all. . . Okay thats a bald-face-lie! It's never going to come soon enough!!!!! Do the exclamation marks get my point through?

Today I voted for new student government at the U. It was between NOW and ICE groups. I had no idea what they were about, until i got out of my A.A. class early(no I'm not an alcoholic) and saw their booths set up by the library. I walked up to them and asked what they were out to do. They told me their shpeal (yeah say that one to yourself out loud, can't spell) and then I walked into the library and voted. I picked NOW. They were more organized and promised to save 4,000 more dollars than the other group. Plus they were wearing green. :)


Speaking of green "HAPPY SAINT PATRICKS DAY!!!!" I was walking to class today and no one around me had green on. I was like: What is this?? Did they miss the memo?
I was sorely tempted to run up to them and pinch them, but. . . my moral compass actually worked. Yeah.


.....Yeah these are creepy.......

I didn't see any dogs yet today. If I had one, though, I would dye it green.
Is that animal cruelty?

Monday

This morning has been eventful! After sitting through yet another "prejudice" movie in my A.A.(don't ask) class today, I spent my institute time talking to a fellow student in my class that I didn't even know. Turns out he is just like me, LDS, returned from his mission about 8 months ago,
from England, and is getting into the whole college scene. I forget his name, but he was nice and personable. We talked about life, history and of course our mission.
The conversation was so refreshing! I love talking about my mission and the gospel, and even more so, hearing others experience and testimonies. I love it! This world gets so caught up on the rusty nails of the floor of life. They already got tetnis from the first stub, now their intent on infecting their entire body. Come on! Lets focus on the sky! Whats around you and what really matters!
So to that new friend I made today: Thanks for the pick-me-up.





I have 58 days left till marriage! They drag on like the line at the DMV. I think I'll hit 70 before May 12th comes. Love is a funny and amazing thing.

No dogs yet today.

Writers Block

I can't think right now. I just wasted a lot of gas, walked a long way in the rain and stressed over a class that never happened. Life just isn't good tonight. Now I can just only pray that I make it out of here alive and without a parking ticket.




I feel bad for the shark. Hey, at least its not my dog. . .

A thought . . .

How do you live your life? Do you live it to impress others? Do you live it just because? What is it worth? Can you pick it up and pocket it in all of its entirety? Is it something to be of consequence? Will it shake the world? Change peoples lives? Will your life be remembered by generations? Will it be forgotten by the future? Will it be reflected on again and again as a lesson to be learned from, or a mistake to be avoided?


Who do you live your life for? Yourself? Love? The world? Money? Friends? Family? Are those things or people well loved by you? Do you even care about them? Are they strangers to be looked upon for judgments? Is your life a pearl to be cast before swine?


Today I realized my life is so much more than just for me and my experience. I learned that I can't only live for my wants and dreams. Life becomes a one way street when lived like this. You and only you are at the end of that road. And when you come to it, there's nothing else for it.
Life should be lived, but for a person or persons other than ourselves. Family, the love of your life, brothers, sisters, grandparents, friends. All are there to be influenced by and gain influence from. Like a drop in the sea, or a voice in the choir. All has a place and a function, sometimes a separate entity, an individual but always accompanied, surrounded or sustained.

I want to live my life so in the end, I won't be alone. I want to see my friends, my family, my children, my grandchildren, all at the end, cheering me on, just waiting to celebrate together, as one.

It's been a thought provoking day.

The Greatest Place On Earth!

I just have to give a shout out to all those people who find the city just too busy and crazy! This place is one of the sleepiest towns you'll ever find: Oakley Idaho.

Here there be nothing! And that's the best part! My family has owned this cabin since my great grandfather George Erickson built it. (If any of my family read this, please correct me if I'm wrong). Since then the Erickson Clan has enjoyed peace and quiet among the cows and sage brush. I have so many fond memories of playing in the creek, and flying kites in the fields. Time always stands still here. Worries are set aside and its time to reflect and enjoy the creature comforts of life.



The cabin itself is located 15 miles to the east of Oakley, in the Oakley Bason (once an active volcano. . . a long time ago). There surrounded by volcanic rock and rediculous amounts of sage brush, is the crown jewel of our family.

A place I can never get enough of, and miss terribly.

Thanks so much George and Rhoda! Would would have known how many people your dreams would influence!

There was an old farm dog named Bob that use to live next door. I remember hearing a story of how one day when my younger cousins were playing in the front yard, they came across bob, with his head in a ditch. They thought he didn't have a head. They ran screaming into the cabin, "Grandma, Grandma! The coydoties got Bob!"