okay so i am walking to work and to school this morning (my second week of school! third day... haha) and im just walking and having a good day... its so pretty that early in the morning... and people keep passing me on the sidewalk. i didnt used to think that i was that slow of a walker... but apparently i am. theres this one dude that has passed me 3 times on 3 different days. i dont know who the dude is, but he is always wearing the same shoes... haha. anyway, so i figure that either i am a really slow walker or everybody else in utah just walks abnormally fast. i think they just need to slow down and look around and see how amazing everything is... and take the time to see the small things- which brings me to my "what made my day" moment:
so i am walking (with people passing me... keep in mind! lol...) and i look down and there was a snail on the sidewalk! a snail!! it was just moseying along going from one side to the other. and i was like what the snail? ...and started laughing... who wouldn't?! i kept walking.... i obviously couldnt just stop walking and help it along (i would have slowed everybody else down more than i already do... haha) so i kept walking... but it reminded me of my pet snail rasputin... he was definetely my favorite pet snail...okay so i only had one, but still... its actually i really funny story (i told paula about it, and she laughed at me...) okay so this one day my senior year i was planting flowers for my mom... we had gone to mesquite valley growers and i got these cute little pansies... maybe they were petunias.... i dont really remember. anyway, we got home and i was looking at my flowers and one of the stems was broken, and i was really bummed! but then, all of the sudden i saw this snail on my flower... it wasnt broken.... just weighed down a bit. and apparently im not a fighter... im a lover. i just couldnt bring myself to step on it or pour salt on it... and i couldnt just let it free to eat all of my flowers, besides it wasnt a natural species found in the desert... so i cleaned out a fishbowl and i put some potting soil in it and a little dish of water... and some sticks and carrots and i kept the snail... named it rasputin and we became best friends. i even took him to college with me. i had him for almost a year then he died.... and i burried him and mourned his loss... and this morning when i saw that snail, i smiled and thought of rasputin.... and it made me happy.... the end.
*this is my little rasputin!
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Shoot dude! That is random! But I do remember that snail and how much you loved it! haha! So... I'm pretty sad that you aren't going to be at the cabin! What are Ashley and I going to do without the funnest person in our family?!?
Ok seriously?!?! That's funny that Kelsey remembers that because I so don't! I want to be surprised that you named your snail, but i'm not...because you named EVERYTHING!! Everything from the our little dog that we had for 13 years to a little bird that was already dead when you found him, you gave him a name to put on his headstone. Oh Kendle! I'm glad you find joy in such simple pleasures!
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