I am beat, and I don’t even feel like I’ve really done that much today.
Got up relatively early and did my morning routine stuff. The super productive first thing in the morning, just checking things off the list right and left for routine stuff and random errands of different kinds.
Heather and Hans were in Rapid City most of the day today getting a house stuff taken care of. Since I head already done pretty much everything that I could do with the backhoe for now, and since I hadn’t done much in the way of earning a living for myself, I decided to spend the day today working for just answer online.
At first, it was super slow going. I waited and waited and waited, and barely sniffed a nibble for reasonable questions to answer.
I ate breakfast, worked on some online errands and such. Worked on some online to-do things, and then the questions started heating up. I started getting question after question after question, and it was like that for hours. My goal when I started the day was to have something like 20 Questions finished for the day, and I think by the time the day was over, I probably had more like 30. 🥳
Talked to a guy who got blown up in a backdraft while working as a firefighter. He has nerve issues a lot worse than what I have, and he can’t sit down pretty much at all, so he is in the process of designing a car that he can operate while lying on his stomach, just using hand controls to work everything.
The technology for hand controls is already out there being used on a regular basis by people, but doing so while lying on your stomach… Well, that’s a different matter, I think!
Anyway, talk to him for a while. Talk to a lady who actually lives right nearby where we are here in South Dakota. 🙃
Fun stuff.
Had really good news for Heather and Hans on the home front. They took all their house design stuff to accompany up in Rapid City, and worked with the people for like 3 hours and came away with diagrams and plans and whatnot, and the company is going to be coming up with the materials list.
So awesome!
Progress is happening. 🥳
I ordered some doggy goggles for Zora, three different versions, hoping that one of them might work for her. Cross the fingers, and one might. 🤞
We’ll see. I also got my suit coat/garment bags today, so I should be able to get my temple stuff out and hanging up and protected. 🥳
It’ll be nice to be wearing my own Temple stuff next time I go to the temple. 🎉
Chatted with my friend Matt (Texas Matt) for a little while.
Made myself some lunch, red beans in hot chili sauce and cheese. Nothin’ fancy.
Just spend all day answering questions. 🙃 Tough I did get my van cleaned up a bit and made progress in other things as well.
Probably an hour or two after Heather and Hans got back from Rapid city, Hans and I headed over to Cascade Falls again, this time with our snorkeling gear, mask, snorkel, and fins (which I still personally had from my New Zealand trip).
Oh, I miss New Zealand. 🙃
Anyway, we had a heck of a lot of fun snorkeling around, swimming all over the place. I actually saw more water creatures snorkeling in the section of the river below the falls here then I saw snorkeling in Costa Rica and New Zealand combined. It was a lot of fun, and the world underneath the water is so much more exciting than the little bits of it that you see above. It was super cool to swim around and around and around. Hans saw an absolutely massive snapping turtle, probably about the size of a dinner plate, or a dinner plate and a half.
We also saw probably four or five different species of fish, some really cool looking fish species, one of them being about an 18-in bass, I think.
It was either the same one that we saw the other night, or there might be more than one, but it’s definitely one heck of a massive fish for being in such a small river.
It was super super fun today. 🥳
Came home, worked a little more, chatted with Heather and Hans for a bit, chatted with Corey for a bit, ate dinner, did a little more work, and here we are. It’s 11:15, and I’m late for bed, but that’s okay. I’m trying, and I made some decisions that are getting me to bed later than was necessary, but I’m learning, and I’m growing, and I’ll be better tomorrow. I’ll peel back my bedtime a half hour to an hour each night until I’m in bed at the time I want to be in bed in order to be able to get up early and have really good morning studies.
Gratitude:
- I’m really grateful that I was able to answer so many questions today. I was in danger of being demoted for just not answering enough questions, I think, but today I totally turned that around and I’m now solid, at least on being confident that I’ve answered his sufficient number of questions. Who knows what they’re going to think about anything else.
- I’m grateful to have had such a fun time at Cascade falls. It’s fun to hang out with Hans and to go out and do fun things. Lots of good things going on. 🥳
- I’m grateful to be able to uplift and be uplifted by Cory. We have so many wonderful conversations, and both our lives are trending in such beautiful directions right now. Hard, but absolutely brilliantly beautiful. I’m excited. I’m really excited.
- Speaking of excited, as I look at my life, I’m realizing that the person I want to become more than anything… It doesn’t seem like I have to be that far away from it. I feel like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. I feel like the destination is on the horizon now. I feel like I have a handle for what it’s going to take to get there, and I have a hunger to get there. The requirements don’t seem so… ridiculously challenging anymore. I feel like what it’s going to take is actually what I already want anyway, and so it’s just a matter of pushing through. So exciting!
- I’m grateful that my little purple and black toe on my right foot that is quite possibly broken, didn’t give me really any issues at all today. It looks pretty gnarly, but my toes are so darn small anyway that having a broken toe doesn’t really cause me any grief because the toes are so small that I don’t know they really do much anyway. 😆
Success:
- When I wanted to be irritated and impatient with customers today, I was able to deal with it very quickly and move away from those feelings.
Improvement:
- I wasn’t so great in the same thing with freelancer.com. I was finally able to set up the transaction to have my remaining funds transferred back to me, but I’ll tell you what, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an organization who’s monetary policies are more ridiculous. They owe me $200, and it’s taking forever to get it back. I have to jump through all sorts of crazy ridiculous hoops, today having to take a video recording of myself saying that I authorize the transfer of funds back to my account. 😶 They certainly didn’t need such ridiculous authorizations to take my money. And then when I finally got everything to go through, they say it’s going to take something like 3 weeks for the PayPal transfer to be approved and for the money to go into my account. Anyway, I wasn’t so patient with them today and can definitely, definitely do better.
It’s just shy of 11:30, so it’s time for me to talk to the Big Guy and crash for the night. I guess those are a couple of more successes. I’ve been much better at posting at night before I fall asleep, removing the need for trying to journal catch up later. And I’m starting to remember that I want to chat with God before I crash for the night. So… progress. 😊
Loves. 💚
Lift the world.
Bring it on.
~ stephen
Lift the World 