Another "deep" thought

He hasn't seen a drop of rain for months it seems
Rollin' river is nothing but a trickling stream
The crops are dying in the harsh sunlight
The dust on his tongue is dry
The fatted calf is down to skin and bones
We carry on

Alone in the city and she's only seventeen
The boy left her black and blue in the street so mean
Just twelve weeks along and she's got a life inside
Says she's never ever felt so alone
She walks in the shelter, they say "welcome home"

And we carry on
When our lives come undone
We carry on
Cause there's promise in the morning sun
We carry on
As the dark surrenders to the dawn
We were born to overcome
We carry on

Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells
The happy endings and the fairy tales
Is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams
We carry on
It's the family that grieves for a lost loved one
It's the soldier who won't leave til the job is done
It's the addict trying to turn his life around
It's picking yourself up off the ground when you've been knocked down

And we carry on
When our lives come undone
We carry on
Cause there's promise in the morning sun
We carry on
As the dark surrenders to the dawn
We were born to overcome

He stands in the field, cooled by the winds of change
She smiles as her baby moves and it starts to rain

This Tim McGraw song has been in my head since I heard it on sunday during my long drive to church. I found it almost inspiring as I sang along and listened to the words and the message. "WE WERE BORN TO OVERCOME!" What an awesome line! I definitely think there is promise in the morning sun and we were destined by our maker to overcome. It empowers me to continue to overcome and it makes me proud of what I have already overcome in my life.

Fun Weekend

To get a few days off of my boring rotation sitting in a cubicle, I went to the New England Pharmacy Convention. It was at Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut. Its a really cool place but what I enjoyed most about the whole thing was the free food, that was not even that great, and the expo. I remember every summer my family used to pack up in the car, sometimes it was our old "Eagle". I swear some of us would be laying on top of suitcases in the back of the car very near the roof. Back in those days I'm pretty sure none of us had seat belts on. We would go play in St. George while my dad attended the conference and later my mom would go as well and it would just be us. CJ's blog referenced this experience once as he convinced all us boys to go on a church history tour of St. George by ourselves. Sometimes we would get to go to parts of the conference and always we would look through the bags at all the cool stuff that my dad would get. Pens, papers, toys, samples.... Anything you could ever wish for and it was free. Needless to say, I still love getting these free things, especially pens. I walked shamelessly around the expo collecting as many things as I could while trying to avoid the drug reps and recruiters that wanted to actually talk to me. It was awesome.

Saturday night I went into Boston and met up with CJ and Tania who were in town for a conference that CJ was presenting at. Not surprisingly, CJ is already presenting at national conferences. Surprisingly the topic he presented was good sexual health (hehehe). Those of us who have known him for a long time know that he was destined to do great things. He is gonna be a successful guy, thats all I have to say. Anyway, we went to a good restaurant in Harvard Square called Spice. We then went to a good chocolate place and got hot chocolate and walked along the Charles until strenous circumstances cut our walk short... It was so cool that they got to come to Boston and that I got to spend some time with them while they were here. I sure do love them!

Follow up

Let me just follow up on my last post. For those of you who have looked in the comments and used CJ's translations, he did an okay job but he led you astray. Here is the translation:

"To love or have loved, that suffices. Don't demand anything after. One has no other pearl to find in the gloomy folds of life. To love is an accomplishment."

What a great quote! I think it illustrates well the fact that life without giving your heart and loving is in fact no life at all. I don't think there is anything more important in this life than learning to love in all capacities. Some loving comes easy, some takes a lot. However, when we can reach a state of reciprocated love with others our lives become meaningful and full of happiness.

A thought

"Aimer ou avoir aimé, cela suffit. Ne demandez rien ensuite. On n'a pas d'autre perle à trouver dans les plis ténébreux de la vie. Aimer est un accomplissement."

-Les miserables

I love working in the pharmacy

I have to share this story because I find it quite hilarious. I was at work and I answered the phone. A patient was asking me if there were any prescriptions for her to pick up. I looked up her profile, which was hard because she was of a certain nationality and kept talking really fast in ghetto talk. I try to ask her several times which medications she is looking for. She tells me to speak up because she has children screaming in the background. I repeat myself and tell her I am speaking as loudly as I can. She then proceeds to say to me: "Can I speak to someone else without an accent. I can't understand you." I put her on hold and laughed my face off. I then passed her to the pharmacist who happens to be asian and have a real accent. People are CRAZY! I'm not used to being told I have an accent so it was really funny.

Tired

I just did eight hours of weed eating and I have never been more exhausted. I was pretty dirty too. I hope I don't ever do that much again in one day. On another note, I am in full swing at my first rotation and despite it being terribly boring, I am enjoying the fact that I don't have to go to school anymore. Basically, I just go to an office building, sit in my cubicle and do projects on my computer for eight hours every day. Sometimes I have to get up and walk around just cause I'm bored to death. Other times I face the computer and put my head in my hands and take a quick nap before anyone notices. And on occasion, I find myself playing solitaire on my palm pilot to pass the time. I'm convinced that you can get through six weeks of anything!! Life is pretty sweet. Last night, I went with Trisha to watch a free movie in the Boston Commons (which is the park in downtown Boston). It was pretty cool!

Summer Break

I've been on vacation the last few weeks and it has been awesome! I went to Utah for over 2 weeks and spent lots of time with my family and friends. Here are just some highlights of what I did... Be prepared for lots of pics.

Balli cousins on Rattle Snake Rapids at LagoonLily walking around on the beach (she's so cute!)
Me swimmin in the lake with my nephews, Zach, Caleb and Landon
Coke is great, never too young to start
I haven't gone waterskiing in two years, so I was so happy to go twice while I was in Utah. I love the boat and I love jumping the wake and getting sunburned
Me wakeboarding. I can't wait to grow up and have my own boat and go to the lake all the time!
Jill and Rob let me ride their new scooter. They probably won't ever let me drive it again since I didn't really know how and I almost hit the curb, so I'm glad I got the chanceOut to dinner at Spaghetti Factory with Lauren, Cristie and Jeremy
Me trying to push Trisha off the tube...
I won! If you look closely, you can see Trishas arm as she hit the water
Zach and Caleb riding the slip-n-slide in their backyard
Playing 500 with the Sorenson cousins at our family reunion. I had a few battle wounds and I'm pretty sure I gave many wounds to others (scratching and hitting people in the face, sorry guys)
Jimmy and I after the pie eating contest
All the Sorenson Bachelors had to participate in the pie eating contest. Some of them decided to cheat and push my table over, which made the whole event even more entertaining for the whole family to watch. My little brother, Shayne, won even though he had to eat his pie off of the grass At the Sorenson family reunion, we always gather around every night and sing songs for hours. All 92 of us usually sing and it's our favorite part of every family get together
The other half of the room singing
This is one of my favorite things of all times. It's called "Shooting the Tube" and my siblings and I went right before I went to the airport to leave Utah. You walk up this enormous tube about 100 yards where you block off the other end using a number of boards that act as a dam. Once the pool on the other side of the dam fills up, you pull the boards and everyone goes shooting down the tube. Don't worry the water is about 40 degrees and sometimes you get trampled on as you land in a pool at the end and everyone lands on top of you. I still think its the best thing ever! If you haven't tried it, you should join us sometime
This is a video of my brother, Tyler, riding down our sisters stairs at midnight the first night I was in Utah! this is also a really fun activity. We did it several times and it never seems to loose its excitement. I was sitting at the bottom of the stairs and I was afraid he was gonna hit me and kill me, thats why the camera goes crazy. Hilarious video!

This is a video of Lisel box riding the stairs at Tylers house. I'm not lying when I say this is really entertaining. It only hurts your butt a little bit, but you recover quickly and its worth it

This is a video of my nephew, Zach. He memorized one of Bill Cosbys comedy routines that he listens to on CD. He then performed it for us at our Sorenson Family Reunion. It was the hit of the night. He is gonna be a talented kid!