David Journal

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  • A disappointing revelation

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    I discovered this morning that my car is still leaking oil (right after the oil leaks we supposedly fixed for the second time). This makes me fear that I will need to significantly accelerate my timeline for a new car. That has been bugging me all day. On the plus side, I ordained Enoch as…

  • Early test drives

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    I spent a good chunk of the afternoon test driving cars to get a feel for which of the models I like the feel of among those with a really good history of reliability. I drove a Honda Civic, a Nissan Altima, and a Honda Accord Hybrid. There are several more I will want to…

  • Time for a new car

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    Today was adequate as far as my performance. The big takeaway today was when I found out my car needs another $1600 of work. It’s definitely time for a new car even though I am paying for this repair and planning to drive the car for a few more months. I still think the car…

  • A solid beginning

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    I woke up at 4:45 this morning and despite the fact that I hadn’t finished 6 hours of sleep I just felt so ready to go that I didn’t try to go back to bed. I enjoyed a nice prayer to start the year and just had a very relaxed morning. I made Stuffed German…

  • Know thyself

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    One of the big messages of Wind and Truth (Storm light Archive #5) was about people coming to truly understand and accept themselves—their limitations, their strengths, their desires. I feel like I’m in that same process with myself. One thing I am coming to learn about myself is how much I enjoy being able to…

  • Christmas activity

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    Laura noticed a couple of weeks ago that there was a Messiah sing-in and decided she wanted to go. In the end it was only Laura, me, and Emma who went but we had a good time even though they skipped many of the choruses and Emma and I had a hard time following along…

  • Pushing through

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    I’ve felt that I was slowing down or running out of steam and so I’m looking forward to Christmas break but today I got a push at work as Mark asked me to help with replacing the old ignition servers and ignition database server at Big Cottonwood. In four years I’ve never done any work…

  • Christmas begins

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    Bex arrived home today and I think that officially starts our Christmas season. We will now have at least 1 extra person here for the next 2 weeks. Perhaps that is what prompted Laura to do the dishes even though she’s still feeling just a little sick. If I’m lucky she’ll make a habit of…

  • Imperfectly perfect

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    Today didn’t look like the template of how I hope/plan to spend Sundays but I feel like I was making the right choices throughout the day. I didn’t read anything in Saints but I did choose to spend a good deal of time playing games with the family. That’s the kind of thing where it…

  • A possible foothold

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    After Laura expressed a sentiment I really understood—the lament of feeling outside the active interest of Heavenly Father—I decided to see if that could be a foothold to talk to get about making goals and adopting a creator mindset instead of a victim mindset. I decided that instead of going home after our play we…