Happy for no reason day

Today I was happy for no reason. I was just happy. I was tired, but that didn't matter. I laughed a lot. I gave big hugs. I spent time with good people and I just generally enjoyed today. There was nothing special to start me being happy, but I was and I loved it.

I hope everyone else can have a random happy for no reason day!

Everyday Miracles

Today I read 1 Nephi 17. Reading in Spanish again has gotten me to pay more attention, or at least think about the scriptures because I have to focus. In the chapter Nephi's bow breaks and they can't get meat. This is hard, but later in the story we are told that the entire journey, including this part with the broken bow, the Lord had made their raw meat sweet so they didn't have to cook it. Everyone murmurered about not having food. The sad part is they had had an amazing miracle in front of them every day. Instead of remembering that the food they had been eating every day was a miracle, they instead focused on not having it. It just makes me wonder what small miracles are in my life everyday. I have miracles and it makes me sad that I don't thank the Lord for the small things more often. Instead we focus on little problem, when we have amazing miracles placed in front of us all the time.

Small things I am thankful for today: A phone. Legs that work. Friends. New shoes that are warm even in the winter. My family. Farsi

Heavenly Father Loves Me

Today I was having a little bit of a bad day. This song came to my mind, especially the last verse. I love how much my Heavenly Father goes out of his way to show me in little ways that he loves me.

Firedrill

I don't know if you can read the picture, but the other day I was chatting with Dell, and the guy had to leave because of a fire drill. After a few hours he emailed me and found out if I still had a problem. I just thought it was funny.

Beardless

For that past 5 or so months I had been growing a terrible terrorist beard. The reason being was that I could be an extra in a church made New Testament movie. I got to do it for one day and hopefully I will make the cuts and at least be in a scene for a second or two.

My mom suggested and I went for cutting it off this weekend. Before I cut it, I made a silent film with my friends of tying my friend to the railroad tracks and her boyfriend saving her. I even bought a bowler hat for it. Which hat I wore the whole first day of school. It was really fun. I made sure to get some cool pictures of each phase of the cut.

Now I barely recognize myself... but I look good, even thinner.

Simple Answers to prayers

I think it is amazing how often simple prayers are answered. It is sad how often they go unnoticed or forgotten about.

Today there was a fly buzzing around me for about 5 minutes. It was really annoying. After trying to swat it and failing I just said a simple prayer to have the fly leave me alone. IT DID. After a few minutes I realized that it was just gone. I had barely remember it being there. Prayers are great and I am thankful for a Heavenly Father that listens to simple requests.

Hotdog King

Often my friend gets a text from iHappi:) which is a service that tells her about food deals in the Provo\Orem area that day. I have tried signing up, but for some reason it doesn't send me the texts.

Today was Hotdog King for 50% off a combo, which is amazing. I had never had a gourmet hotdog, unless you consider Costco

dogs as such, which I

usually wouldn't, but this one tasted just about the same, but with way better toppings.

I got a Chicago style one, and my friend go a guacamole. Mine had two

hot peppers on it, which was fun and scary. My lips just barely stopped burning. I am trying to be better about eating hot things. All and all it was fun. The best part is they have a sign saying that amateur musicians and comedians are welcome.

That is way cool. Maybe I will tell some amateur friends to try it out.

On another note, I will never get an XL shirt again, even if it is free. That shirt looks like I have lost like 50 pounds. Also the beard will probably go soon.

Being Yellow

I have two roommates that love the Color Code. After the test I have learned that I am a Yellow-White personality. White the admirable trait for being white is being a peace keeper and able to hold people together, but there are a lot of white traits I don't like. Most of them stem from when I was younger, fatter and had low self esteem. Whites feel bad about things all the time, and are not willing to stand up for things and other terrible things that I am trying to overcome.

Thankfully my main trait is Yellow. Yellow people have a main goal of having fun. This is good and bad. It means that when my personality actually comes out people love me. I can get people to do things. People even enjoy my company. I love this and since I have gotten skinnier and more outgoing I have become an active person.

I love being an active person. I love being able to hike a mountain if I like, or just do things with people, and not be afraid. I have run 5 and 10K races, often without training, which is terrible but awesome. I love it. I love doing things especially with people. It is great.

Being a combination of white and yellow is terrible. I love people and I want them to be happy, that is what my colors do, the thing is I worry a lot as a white instead of just enjoying it. Another thing I have noticed is how much of a super turn off it is when girls tell me that the cannot do something. I have no problem with any girl that might be a bit heavier, they are cute, but when I say I ran a 5K and they respond with something liek "I'll think I would die if I tried that, I could never do it and never will." I just lose all interest. Being a white\yellow I still want to be their friend, but I don't want anything more.

I really need to learn how to let girls off the hook. One day I will be a better person. Maybe I just need to get married or something.

Pool Party

On Monday I discussed with some friends that it would be kind of cool to have a pool party where we met the capacity of the pool, which is only 52 people. Today at about 5 o'clock a few of us decided to try. At institute we gathered as many people as we could, then knocked on every door in the apartment complex to get more people. We had around 25. About half way there, but it was still fun.

We took pictures of everyone jumping in, and other pictures of us in a big simile face, and even in the shape of a Y. It was fun.

I am glad that I could have that kind of effect on people. That I could want a party to happen, then have friends help and get a crowd together. If I had planned it further in advance it would have probably worked. There is always next time. I like having friends.

Today I followed Jesus

Since about April I have been growing a beard so that I could be an extra in a New Testament movie that the church is making right now. Last week they finally started filming, and today I was called in.

I have never been part of a movie set. Everyone was really nice. They gave us costumes, they did hair and make-up, and even gave us meals plus forced water on us all day. It is hot in the middle of no where Utah.

I got to take part in three takes. The first was following Jesus to where he blesses children, hence the title "Today I followed Jesus", it was a literal statement. The next seen was after blessing the children we followed him away. While I was "acting" I tried to put myself in the character of someone actually following Jesus. It was a nice feeling. I pondered if I would be able to leave work and everything behind to go and just follow him. It would be hard, but worth it.

The children were a miracle. They did their scenes amazingly and I couldn't help but smile at them. They were patient and did everything asked. Some of the mothers said there was no way those kids would act like that all day in the sun normally. It had to be a miracle.

My last scene was sitting in a group after the Resurrection when Peter, James and John were in charge of the church, and they gave us the Sacrament. I am straight on from the camera. I hope I get to see myself in the movie whenever they actually produce it.

I don't know if I will be called in again, nor know if I would want to, but I would do it anyway. It was a good experience where I met some good people. I met the guy from Saints and Soldiers, he was our medic. Also I met the guy who played Joseph Smith in the newest church movie. He is a nice guy. I also met a Jamshid. That is my middle name, and I don't come across it much because it is Persian. He was only half like me, and knew less Farsi that I did.

The only thing I didn't like was that some people complained. Even thought the sun was very hot, it was tolerable. There was a non-member man, that was sad that they had postponed the casting, was not happy about how little we know about when we are needed. He is keeping a beard like all the men, and thinks he can't get a real job till this is done, so he wants to participate more. I guess that is understandable, we all need money, but I only came for the experience, getting paid was just a bonus.

We all learned about it last night at like 9 pm, so getting there at 5 or 6 something was hard but worth it. Some people traveled really far. One guy, Jeff, drove from at least 100 miles south into Utah both ways today so he could participate. He was a really great guy. I knew at least two that even came down from Idaho. I really hope everyone made it home safely, not implying heaven.

My only regret is I should have talked more about how amazing it was to be on the set, and even just act as a disciple of Christ. It was nice.

Yay, the months of growing a beard and looking iffy have paid off. Now to see how much more they call me.

Giggle

This might be a bit weird but I have a giggle. I use it when I am sad or just generally not happy. When I hear it, it makes me smile. That usually fixes sadness or general unhappiness. I think it is great.

Lost Pictures and a iPhone Jailbreak

This weekend I went to the Apple store with a friend of mine. She had a computer that when some other Apple Certified care tried to fix it really messed up the enclosure. Since I was there I asked about my iPhone, it has been draining the battery a ton, but only while I travel, and calls didn't work while in crowds. They tell me the crowd part is AT&T's fault, which I mostly understand, but still. The said there was nothing they could do about the battery. I was sad, but I at least wanted my head phones replaced, because jiggling the end would make one side not work. Turns out that was a short in the phone, so they were able to get me a brand new looking, probably refurbished iPhone 3gs. Note: IF YOU EVER BUY AN APPLE PRODUCT GET APPLE CARE FOR AS LONG AS YOU CAN, it is worth it, their customer service is great.

Since I had driven an hour to Salt Lake City to get the the Apple store my friend and I decided to go to the top of the conference center to see the park on top, and wander a bit around temple square. I took 30 great pictures. I like tulips a lot, and Temple Square was covered in them.

When I got home, I plugged my phone in and "Restored" it back to what I had on the other phone that morning, which is a pretty cool feature, it brought back all my texts. notes, info in apps, and even pictures. S

ad thing is it completely deleted the pictures I had taken that day. Really annoying, I should have copied them first, but I was in a hurry and didn't think.

I really liked a few of those pictures so I did what any knowledgeable computer person would do, and tried to find a way to restore the pictures. Most devices this would be rea

lly easy, just download a program that does photo restoration, and it will look though your hard drive for deleted files and find what it can, as long as it hasn't been covered with something new. Computes don't actually delete files, they just forget they have them, and replace the space with something else eventually. Sadly this is an iPhone, so Apple wouldn't let me see anything. There was no way to check the drive, and therefore no way to get back the pictures.

I really liked those pictures. This gave me the motivation to try and mount my iPhone to be able to search the drive. I never did figure that out. Instead I found other pages that told me how to completely copy the entire drive over ssh. I have never really used ssh for anything, but I really wanted those pictures so I learned how. On my windows computer I had an ssh client, but still needed a ssh server so I found it. The program I wanted to copy with wasn't installed in the command prompt, so I downloaded it and even added it to the windows path. Real complicated stuff. The program I added didn't work through the ssh, so I tried again in ubuntu linux. It was able to work.

The process to get ssh on the iPhone started with a Jailbreak. That just means using a hack that does non-apple prog

ramming. I was a bit afraid of breaking my iPhone, I tried twice unsuccessfully luckily not bricking it and the third time the Jailbreak took. From that point I installed ssh and got it all working and copying. The copying took about 8 hours, but I was able to do it, after one unsuccessful attempt of about 3 hours. 14GBs is a lot to copy. It is a good thing it lies about being 16GBS. After I had the memory saved, I got my iPhone fully restored with

apps and all and all my music back on. I hadn't put everything because I didn't want the pictures coverd. Luckily it didn't auto copy all the music back.

Now I still have to make a virtual drive on my PC to be able to scan for those deleted files, but that means clearing 20 GBs, which I haven't had time to do. I might do it tonight.

Since I was already Jailbroken I decided to see the perks. I am not going back. There are two things that make it more than worth it. Two simple programs: Springboard and PlayAwake. Springboard lets me hide the icons Apple stocks that I never wanted and also gives me easy access to simple controls I wanted of turning on and off wifi and bluetooth, and changing brightness. Apple makes you go through like 20 options to do that. PlayAwake lets me choose a song from my music library and then use it for an alarm. That has been my biggest peeve about my iphone. I am not going back now. I even paid $2 to get the office PlayAwake because I support it, even though it is super easy to get a cracked version. If only apple would give me those shortcuts and the ability to choose my songs, I would never Jailbreak, but those two simple options make me never want to go back to stock.

Springboard PlayAwake

Unacceptable

Yesterday I was walking home from campus and came across an emergency call box. There are many located around campus, that have a blue light on a tall pole so they are visible from a distance if someone is in trouble. I walked past it and this is what I found."Out of Order" just isn't acceptable for an emergency box. As far as I know, the main purpose of this are if girls are in trouble and someone wants to attack them they can run over and be safe. How you would feel if you were a scared girl and ran over just to find that it was out of order, your only safe haven lost. It truly would be sad.

Blue Hair

The other day I met a girl on campus with blue hair. In most universities that would not have been anything special, but here at BYU where it is strictly not allowed it is. Here at BYU some teachers might kick her out of class, but I guess they haven't. The main place at BYU where checks for "inconsistencies" in dress and grooming is the testing center. There if a man doesn't shave or a girl has blue hair they will get turned away. This girl says she makes sure to wear a hat or hide it somehow when she gets there.

I guess I should be sad that she is breaking the rules, but rather I was really refreshed to see some individuality. Blue hair rocks.