In the words of a great friend and brother, “It’s time to make a quilt.” “Wow, that sounds lame,” you might be saying to yourself. Oh, how wrong you are. Making quilts is what some people do, we’ll call him Josh C. Superstar to protect his identity, when you need something to take your mind off the pain in your chest that evidences itself in random bouts of crying. Josh once made the best quilt in the world after one of the many times my sister broke up with him.

At this point, I have nothing else to do but “make a quilt.” Sure, I don’t have any quilting supplies but I’m going to keep myself busy in other ways to keep my mind off things.

My first step was singing in the Institute choir. I only did this because I thought that was all you had to do to get into the choir that will be singing in General Conference. Turns out you actually have to be enrolled in Institute to be in the Institute Choir. Absurd! So now I am enrolled in Institute. Then I found out you actually have to audition. What the?! Auditions are this Thursday. We’ll see how this goes. I’m hoping it works out, if only to have something else to occupy my mind during the week.

What I’m most excited about is …. drum roll please ….. Drum lessons! That’s right, drum lessons. My sister Kris got me lessons for Christmas and I am crazy excited. It was really the perfect gift. I don’t know why, but when I was like 15 years old I decided I was a great drummer. Had I ever touched drums? No. But I was sure of it. Now we’re about to find out if I was right. This could be a huge disaster, but it’s going to be the best! Thanks, Kif!

I also have about 800 books to read, my new ukulele to break in and perhaps some buzz.io work. There’s my quilt. I’m feeling better about 2010 already.