This is new day, a day for repenting, a day for change and a day to start over.  It has been months since I last wrote and I have to change my ways.  I can't waste time debating whether or not it does me good to write.  I simply have to do it and leave it at that.  It seems funny to me that I found a half hour to use during a time when I seem to have more on my plate then usual.  But I do so I  made a choice to use it this way.  I think I just made a bit of a booboo because in my effort to do something about my 50 year reunion I started a facebook thing that actually has Sheila's name on it instead of mine.  At least I am trying to do something.  Several weeks back I had called our class president to spur him into action but nothing happened.  Then I got a call last week from a class mate so I decided to do something.  My efforts to date are small, but at least it is a start.  (Imagine  50 years!!)

There has been lots of other stuff going on with work, the family and our mission.  Last Saturday Linzi went through the temple. Then yesterday Shelli and Phil sent Toby away.  Robert and Cicily are going to be moving quite close over the next 2 weeks. And Cortney is carrying her team.  I filled out my calendar for February and listed the state tournament in the last week.  One thing that has been consistent for me whether I was writing or not has been my schooling.  I consider myself a forever student, and my lessons have been ongoing.  Just ask me about my 'curriculum'.  Oh, I forgot about the trip to vegas for the 'girls' and the overnight drive home so Sherri and Sheila and I could be there for Russ' setting apart.  I find it hard to accept the fact that January is almost history.  And in just two weeks our 45th will be here.  I wonder if we can figure some nice way to celebrate it.  There is so much on my mind:  HMMS is my new watchword and is on my mind lots.  It stands for a new and higher plateau for  me, and as with any 'new and higher plateau' there are some stretching pains that come too.  But it seems the way that it needs to be, seeing as how I am now closer to my end then I am to my beginning!