Thanksgiving Week

Little things can make your day

This past week had been the much needed break for me.  This semester has been stressful, but manageable.  While I had my rest, I also worked many hours, especially Thanksgiving Day, which resulted me working for over 16 hours with double pay.  It feels good to have earned a pay period's wage in one day.

The long hours were made better because of great coworkers.  You may wonder why those people were there with me.  The truth is, most of them had family here in Utah where they could come and go.

On the flip side, there are many things that I'm grateful for.  The question now is trying to be happy.  I can be grateful for life's many conveniences today; however, I'm not so sure if we could equate gratitude for happiness.  Perhaps I'm just thinking too much or most people have the natural gift of being happy with what they show gratitude toward. As the status quo stands, happiness?  What's that?  I don't need people's garbage about how happiness is a choice.  Happiness is only a choice when there's something non-superficial and non-generically laughable that you care about and is quite pleased with it.  Whatever that is, I hope I'll find it.

I've been told that I should go home for once.  The sad reality is that if I want to be able to pay for my expenses, I can't go home and miss out on the pay dished out during the holidays.  Life is rough, so I'll have to deal with it.  This is primarily the reason why I don't show any sympathy towards people who haven't gone home in the past year or so.  Wanna know the last time I spent time with family, etc., during a major holiday?  It was back in December of 2006.  The last time I was officially home was January 2010.

Luckily, my roommates returned around late Friday and Saturday.  The only other person that was with me during this time was Jonathan.  Fortunately, he had family and places to go.  So, we did wind up cleaning the apartment and marvel and its cleanness until the rest of the crew returned from their trip.  Since everyone was so busy with their families, it was obvious that I didn't make too much contact with people over the phone and whatnot.

But look at it this way.  It's only Thanksgiving.  The real kicker is when Christmas break rolls along.  What am I going to do then?  I don't know.  I'll work for 38 hours a week during the last 2 weeks of break.  It's gonna be a major bore-fest!  Such is life...what can you do?

I hope the rest of my BYU career will offer something for me to do during future holidays.  Although, I highly doubt any new development will happen in the near future.