Talented

I have many talents. Sometimes I get down on myself and I have a pity party with myself and I feel sorry for myself. But other times, I'm very proud of my life accomplishments and the things I've done in my 27 years. Here are some of my talents:

* I'm a good friend. I'm crazy loyal to those that I love. I would happily give my true friends one my kidneys or even one of my bladders!!
* I'm pretty dang funny sometimes. Often I think that I'm a lot funnier than I really am. But everyone once in a while someone will throw me a bone and laugh at one of my jokes. And then sometimes I'll say something that I only think is moderately funny, and it will make another person howl with laughter until tears come out of their eyes. Go figure!
* I think I'm a good listener. When I'm not distracted that is. Like right now, I'm updating my blog, and Marcelo is watching a MLS game and he keeps trying to ask me questions. I'm CLEARLY not paying attention, and I keep having to ask him to repeat his question. He gets frustrated by that. But I make no promise of attentiveness when I'm CLEARLY preoccupied with things like blogging, or reading or watching TV. Why hasn't he learned this after nearly 4 years? Crazy Latino guy!
And finally, the subject of this blog:
* I'm a FINDER. I cannot REST until I find something that I've lost. Sometimes, if it takes days to find that item, I will have dreams about finding it, and I'll wake up happy until I realize that it was only a dream and then I'll start searching again. I search the same places over and over again, even if I've already looked there and I KNOW they aren't there.

So what did I loose? I lost the CD with ALL my wedding pictures. I had it at the office because I was mailing something from there like more than a year ago, and for some reason, I never took it home. But I finally did a few months ago. So today, I was reading Amy's Blog (I would put a link to it here, but she's one of those "Elitist" bloggers that makes hers invite only. YOU ARE MISSING OUT ON SOME GOOD COMMENTS AMY!! THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING!! I kid) So on Amy's blog she had posted one of those question and answer posts that she had seen on Beths' blog. (Link here)

Anyway, I decide it might be a fun blog post and so I decide to get my picture CD so I have pictures to put on the blog. I go to our "junk drawer" in our kitchen and look for where I'm SURE I've put it after bringing it home from the office. It's not there. I clean out the drawer, look under everything, still not there. Panic sets in. I know KNOW KNOW that I've brought it home from the office. However, I know that there is nothing written on the CD cover or even on the CD!! What if Marcelo in his cleaning haste has thrown it away because he doesn't know what it is?

Then my mind starts to think, "if I had it in my possession right now, where WOULD I put it?" and then I go look in those places. I did that. And I look in those places 2 or three times. And then I started looking in weird places. I won't tell you all the places I looked, but let's just say my kitchen cabinet with the drinking glasses was covered. Like I said, I get CRAZY when I can't find something.

Krista, Melanie and Carolina will remember the time I HAD to find Carolina's keys that she had accidentally thrown in the dumpster at our place down in Provo. I was in that dumpster for almost 45 minutes looking through people's trash. Carolina actually told me SEVERAL times to give it up, because she didn't want me to catch the clap from the dumpster. But like I said, I'M A FINDER!! I FIND THINGS!!! I wouldn't let it go until I had found them. I knew that they were in there, and I wasn't going to rest until I opened every bag if necessary. (It wasn't' necessary, thank heavens)

Another something that helps me is re-tracing my steps. I also did that this time and said, "Ok, I know it left the office. I know it was in my purse in my car. Did I bring it inside?" When I couldn't answer that question with 100% certainty, I knew that the car was the next place I wanted to look. Luckily we were going to church right then (Yes, we were late for church because I HAD to look for the CD) so I got in the passenger's side of my car so I could look around.

You might have guessed from the light tone of this blog that I did in fact find it. It was in the pocket behind the driver's seat. It was so satisfying to find it. It's like lost and found ZILLS. (if you don't know what Zills is, I'll have to write a blog about it. For now, just know it's a very satisfying feeling deep down in your belly)

But after blogging about my talents as a FINDER, I am FINDING that I don't have time to do that wedding blog post that started this whole thing. I'll do it tomorrow.

Your happy finder here wishes you well this evening!!