My life is a 3 step plan

       So, here we are, at the crossroads of potential once again. Right now, this post could be about anything, it may very well become one of the greatest pieces of literature ever conceived of by mankind. Or it could just become another piece of proverbial toilet paper, stuck to the shoe of mediocrity. Unable to even fulfill its intended purpose of wiping the backside of.... ok maybe this analogy is going too far. The point is, this post could be great or it could just end up being, well, less than crap.
       As you may remember from my last update on life, I had a whole lot going on school-wise during the last couple weeks. Well, those days have come to an end, for a few days anyway. And not really over exactly, just slowed down. The good news is I got A's on 3 of the 4 tests I had. The bad news, that fourth test was a real killer. But oh well, what's done is done. I guess.
       Right now is actually 1 am and I'm not even procrastinating any homework by writing this blog so I'm going to save most of what I was planning on writing for another day. Perhaps I will even break this tradition I seem to have going on of only writing once a month and do an update in a couple days, who knows? But I want to share this little exchange my sister and I had on facebook the other day. Some of you have probably seen it, but I kind of wanted to preserve it so I decided to post it here. In my family we sometimes like to play this game where you come up with a 3 step plan but leave out the second step that would explain how to achieve your goal. It seems dumb I know but just read on, you'll understand.

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  Kayla Walke

  Brother dear. I have a wonderful three-step plan. I'm sure you will approve.
  
  Step 1: We drop out of college.
  Step 3: We make millions of dollars.
  
  I've come up with two-thirds of the plan. You just contribute step 2 and we'll be golden.

   ·  · See Friendship · October 12 at 8:36pm near Provo
  

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    You, Holly Woods Meek, Cynthia Sun and 2 others like this.
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      Kayla Walke Don't just like it. You don't contribute and you aren't getting a cut!
      

      October 12 at 8:37pm ·  ·  1 person
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      Becky Walke-Bond Step 2: Cut your aunt Becky Walke-Bond in on the goods!!!!
      

      October 12 at 8:45pm · 
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      Tyler Walke Ok ok how about this, I've created a 3 step plan for how to execute step 2 of your plan.
      Step 1: buy a Bobby pin, two pokémon cards and a can of peaches on the Internet
      Step 3: carefully hide the evidence of our wrong doings so that nobody ever learns of the terrible, dark misdeeds of our past.
      
      That's all I got. Step 2 is all yours.
      

      October 12 at 8:46pm · 
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      Kayla Walke Okay. Got it.
      
      Step 1: Take a suspicious road trip to Canada.
      Step 3: Solve world hunger. Tell no one.
      
      Ideas for step 2?
      

      October 12 at 8:59pm ·  ·  1 person
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      Valerie McGee Walke I think due to lack of planning you should both keep studying. K, how about that ochem test?
      

      October 12 at 9:01pm ·  ·  1 person
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      Kayla Walke I've been studying for hours Mom! I get a break once in a while. Besides, if the series of 3 step plans work out, silly ochem won't matter.
      

      October 12 at 9:02pm ·  ·  1 person
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      Tyler Walke of course! canada, it was always going to be canada.
      Step 1: travel deep into canadian rockies in search of gold
      Step 3: ride out of the woods on a now tame big foot. Dirty, scratched, but victorious, raising the basket of genetically altered tomatoes high above our heads.
      

      October 12 at 9:10pm · 
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      Valerie McGee Walke You guys make me laugh! :)
      

      October 12 at 9:12pm ·  ·  1 person
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      Kayla Walke Woah there. The genetically-altered tomatoes actually correspond to solving world hunger. Careful, we don't want to get too close to actually finishing step 2.
      
      Step 1: Circumnavigate the globe using only a dollar-store compass, hatchet (the book, not an actual hatchet), and a rubber band.
      Step 3: Create transatlantic and pacific trade between the US and Atlantis.
      

      October 12 at 9:16pm · 
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      Tyler Walke well, steps 1 and 3 should be related to steps 1 and 3 of the previous post because they are supposed to help connect it somehow, thats what makes it a viable step 2. the trick is to make it have a connection, yet still be totally random so that step 2 is open to interpretation the next time around. that way if we actually write it all out in order, it would make some sort of twisted sense. notice i didnt say how we got from looking for gold to riding out on big foot. hope that wasnt too confusing but i think you get the idea. anyway...
      
      Step 1: carefully preserve the african crickets we killed with tweeties made from the pages of hatchet and the rubber band, we'll need the protein during the long months ahead as we begin our trek across the sahara
      Step 3: wonder how kayla managed to get a bigger machine gun than me as we mow down hoards of angry atlantians that have come to protest the globalization made possible by the legislation passed by congressman bigfoot and myself.

       So there it is. As it turns out, that was some kind of annoying to format all that facebook stuff, you would think it would just be a simple copy paste but no such luck. Sometimes I feel like my life is a 3 step plan (hence the name of this blog post), I know where I am, and I pretty much know where I want to be, but I have no idea what step 2 is. It's quite possibly the worlds greatest joke. But hey, maybe Kayla and I are on to  something here, maybe we do just need to take a crazy leap into the unknown and see what happens. Anybody up for a trip to the Canadian Rockies to pan for gold?