good morning sunshine

so, i may be learning this a bit late in life, but waking up early is good. i like waking up earlier than i need to so i can get extra homework done. granted, this new discovery clashes with my current lifestyle: stay up as late as possible. what should be done? which is better: going to bed early and waking up early and then taking a nap during the day? or staying up late and getting up late? cause right now it's stay up late and wake up early...which doesn't exactly bode well with my body. but i think i like getting up early just because i don't have to. i do it cause i want to. when i have to get up early i don't like it and i'd rather sleep in. does that make sense? it's kind of like how when you live at home and you're planning on doing the dishes, but when your mom tells you to do them you get rebellious and don't. where's the sense in that?

Happy V Day

Usually I don't really care for Valentines Day but I quite enjoyed today. I sent my mom a cool present that she got today and she loved it, I saw a cute video of my Dad playing with my nephew in the hotel pool in Indiana and I got super jealous but it was cute so I enjoyed it, my home teacher made me some cake, my roommates made me a really cute card in Spanish and the grammar was pretty good, and we made cards for my boss who was sick today and we plastered them on his computer and desk. 

At work it was my turn to do the spiritual thought, and I decided to talk about Love because it seemed appropriate. I said a few things about what people have done for me that let me know they love me and then I asked my co-workers what some examples of love were in their lives. We got some interesting answers. :) But for me it really came down to the love that my earthly parents and my Heavenly Father have shown me. I'm so grateful for them and for all the sacrifices they've made for me. Any time I feel down or sad or alone, I can just think about them and know that I am Loved.

Authority

Wow, I've been posting a lot lately.

So last night I watched this movie called "Devil." Usually I don't watch scary ghosty movies cause they freak me out and give me nightmares. But I was with a trusted friend and we left the lights on. :) But so in this movie there's a group of strangers that get stuck in an elevator and one of them is the devil but we don't know who till the end (don't worry, I won't give away the ending! you should see it for yourself). I thought it was interesting how at several times during the movie the people in the elevator start to fight and this detective guy gets on the PA and yells at them to stop, and every time eventually they do. But, they didn't have to. I mean, it's just a voice they hear telling them to stop. But it's the trust they put into the police system that made them calm down and obey the voice. He was a stranger to them and yet they obeyed his authority. In some psycological analyses they've studied how victims of abuse or rape or torture obey the authoritative figure, not necessarily because they want to, but because it's ingrained in them to follow authority. I wonder why that is exactly.

Also, have you ever noticed how you clam up when you're stopped by a policeman and you get all nervous? Or maybe that just happens to me. But they're a recognized authority figure and you give them authority by letting them issue you a ticket or throw you in jail. Authority is an interesting thing.

But go out and rent the movie. It wasn't all that demonic like I thought; mostly suspense.