Day 5: Cake with loved ones and biting my tongue

For today I made a yummy cake and ate it with my mom and sister (and tomorrow, hopefully I will be able to eat the rest with some more friends!) I made a chocolate cake with mint chocolate butter cream filling (from scratch- mint extract and everything!). It is really delicious and I put dinosaur sprinkles on top!

Mom and Becky came for Time Out for Women at Weber State

Becky enjoyed two kinds of chocolate:

John Bytheway was super funny!

So, what I love about myself on February 5, 2010.

I love that I can recognize that discussing or debating with someone will get me nowhere (even if I have spectacular retorts), and I hold my tongue. Like the other day I said something in my institute class and this kid freaked out about it and got all debatey and oversharey. I had splendid retorts. I said nothing. Why, because then maybe he will feel good about himself for that much longer. Because I recognized that he's not going to change his mind, no matter what I say. Because religious classes, like institute and gospel doctrine, aren't the place for debates- the hallways and homes etc. are. I'm in class to feel the spirit, to share, to learn- not to argue about something we won't agree on. Obviously I think it's important to share opinions sometimes, but the world isn't a personal forum for you to shove your opinions about and smother people who didn't ask for it. It's frustrating because I feel like my silence says, "I don't have a retort- you win," but that's just something I have to get over. I have to push my pride aside and get over it. I just don't see the point in debating something when it's so obvious they're not interested in what you're saying- they just want to fight. So yeah, it's hard, but I do it all the time. Just remember that, my silence doesn't mean I don't have an intelligent answer, it just means I'm LETTING you have a little victory because I don't care if you agree. I most likely have a million things to say, and I say them...in my head. Haha. So I like that about me, I LIKE THAT I CAN SWALLOW MY PRIDE AND AVIOD POINTLESS DEBATES (the key here is, pointless- I'm not saying all debate and opinion are bad).