Bathroom Counter, Monday Morning Thankfulness

As I am blogging right now, I am hiding from a spider who I'd like to believe is dead on the doorframe of my bathroom. I'm sitting on the countertop straightening my hair when I then realized that I am thankful for so many things. I am thankful for the house I live in. I only have to run into a spider every so often, while there are other people sleeping on the Earth's carpet (grass, for all you unimaginative folk) with them. I am thankful that the spider was/is only the size on a thumbtack, but when it comes to me and spiders, they are all about the size of bowling balls.
I'm also thankful for today's means of communication, since I've had to turn to some rather crazy ways of trying to contact people. My phone broke once, last Monday. I went out and spent all the money I had (I was saving up, so it hurt even worse) on a new phone cause the next day, I was going to One Act Play Competition a few hours away. In which we won first place and will be going to state the same day I take my SAT. Yeah, don't talk about it, or I'll cry. Anyways! I bought a new phone and kept the broken one to use as a flash light with is white screen of death characteristics. My phone all of a sudden turns on and starts working normally. A miracle! Took back the new phone and my savings, only to have my sister break my original phone again on Saturday. I am very thankful for Facebook messaging, which I have hated and neglected for some years now.
This weekend I received some sad news. Someone who I used to call my friend has decided he/she doesn't believe in the church anymore, and doesn't want to be apart of it. It breaks my heart for this person's family who are very good people. It was very sad news to hear and made me think really hard. I am very very thankful for my openness to the teachings of the Gospel. I'm thankful for every primary, sunday school, young womens, seminary teacher I've ever had. Anyone who has ever devoted time to teaching me the gospel and strengthening my testimony is a kindred spirit in my book, so thank you! You know who you are!
I'm also, incredibly. In. Cred. I. Bly. Thankful for my Noah Compton. And soon to be Elder Noah Compton, in that matter! We are getting closer and closer, approaching the time of arrival that his papers and interviews are all done, recorded, stamped as "we are excited, please hurry and return call" and thrown over to Salt Lake City! I am so soo thankful for his choice to serve a full-time mission! Especially when it seems like everyone (especially with lady friends) is taking a mission so lightly, or choosing to just not go at all. I'm thankful for my missionary and the amazing influence he has over me and others everyday!

Well, I may as well try to make an attempt at a mad dash to my room. I need to change clothes for seminary and school. One, because I'm not wearing pyjamas in public. Two, because I think I'm sitting on a toothpaste blob. Have a great day!

Okay so I had to come back and edit this blog post. I got down from the bathroom counter only to meet my foe once again. This time being thankful for my smarter-than-me-in-spider-survival-skills brother who once told me if you squirt water on a spider, it paralyzes it. So that's what I did and I ran off and escaped. I am thankful for my brother!

Seriously this time, have a good Monday!