Emotional Torment

I've got a story inside me, just busting to come out. It's a story I've been wanting to put together, and it hadn't clicked until the wee hours of this morning.

Of course the problem is that it is a rather long story, and I find myself at work, and with an actual list of tasks to accomplish today. It's not like I don't like my job, but it has been rather boring of late.

I actually have a job interview on Thursday, which is looking somewhat promising. I would ask y'all to remember me in your prayers, but... Well... How about you just direct some positive energy my way on Thursday morning?

Anyway, so with all of that, I'm going to have to find some down time this week to allow the story out of my head.

Moving on however... I had a great weekend. And next weekend should be really good, because the large vinyl orders which me and the Mrs (And a good friend of hers - thanks Em) have been working on, should be 100% done and delivered by next weekend.

As we've been working on getting these orders ready, we've been listening to podcasts from Mormon Expression. They've been wonderfully entertaining and informative.

We started listening to one this past weekend by the author of an audio play, entitled Little Happy Secrets. We got about 15 minutes into the podcast though, and figured it would be best if we actually listened to the play first.

You can listen or download the play here.

And if you want to listen to the related Mormon Expression Podcast, you can grab that here.

Little Happy Secrets was written by Melissa Leilani Larson, and it was phenomenal.

We started listening in the early afternoon, and due to a couple of interruptions, weren't able to finish it, until later in the evening. We were hooked though... It sucked our hearts in, chewed them up, and then spat them out, and yet we... Well, I wouldn't say we enjoyed it, but it changed us.

I don't want to give away anything, but will recommend highly that you give it a listen.

At one point in the middle of one of the interruptions, I remarks to Mrs Koda, just how stressed out I was feeling. And both of us seemed on edge.

Melissa's writing and the performance of the peace had such an effect on us, that we became Claire - the protagonist in the piece. We got to feel her pain and her joy, if only in part, but it was real and amazing, devastating and comforting.