Month: January 2008

Time, There Is Never Enough Time

There was an episode of Saved By the Bell where Jessie was on speed and that was her “melt-down” line. I am not sure why, but that is one of the random facts stuck in my brain.

As part of my new calling, I get to clean out the Primary closet. This is a great way to exercise my obsessive-compulsive abilities. In doing this, I am finding some great stuff, and then there is stuff from the early 1980s. Why on Earth is there stuff from 1981 in that closet? OCD to the rescue. 1981 to the dumpster!

Don’t get me wrong it was a decent year. The musical Cats began its 8949 performance run on London’s West End. Simon and Garfunkel performed a free reunion concert in New York City’s Central Park attended by over 500,000 fans (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1981_in_music&oldid=184211809).  Sandra Day O’Connor was sworn in as the first female judge on the Supreme Court. (http://www.multied.com/dates/1980.html#Anchor-35829)

However, garbage from 1981, that does nothing for me.

Happiness Is Homemade

Today is the day we put Rick and Ginny’s wedding announcements together. They are cute. She is glad though that we only get married one time! Too much work. For one day, perhaps I am projecting my latent Wedding preparation stress onto her. If she is lucky that is all there is to it. I don’t know, Ginny, is it stressful?

Also, I made the tart things again, I think they are good, but I will never loose weight if I keep making yummy foods. Ronda made cookies and Gavyn made brownies. We discovered that G2 and G3 are allergic to peanut butter cookies. A bit of Benedryl and the hives and rash go away. At least Gavyn can still have peanut butter.

Pictures coming if I get some from Ronda, I forgot my camera.

How Shocking

Tonight we had the missionaries over for dinner and we invited our friend John over who we haven’t seen in over a year. It was nice to have him over and visit.

Jacob made fettuccine from scratch and Alfredo sauce too. I made white chocolate mousse tarts with strawberries for dessert. (The same kind from New Years, only a different shell) Sadly enough, no pictures, again.

After we ate, the missionaries shared a message and left. We then went and picked up Emily and the four of us went bowling. It was a lot of fun, even if that alley hates me! we got ice cream and went back to out house and played life. I believe I won (notice I didn’t mention my score in bowling-again, that alley hates me).

However the best part of the evening had to be John’s zapper thing. Which he used many times to shock Emily.

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Today we drove to St Louis to take Erin back to the airport.  We will miss her and hope she has a great semester.  After we dropped her off we went to find the Panera Bread Company and The Viking Store that we found on our honeymoon.  So we took Karen to see the cool store and while there found The Container Store, the ultimate OCD enabler.  And amazingly enough the weather was pretty good.

Also, yesterday our friend Evan did a photo shoot for us (Jacob’s family).

Quiz 40

This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.

Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!

Do You Remember The Quizes?

Here is the answer to the last quiz I posted more than a month ago.  I apologize for such a delay.  We had some holidays take over my life.  I updated and now I will be back on task, I hope.

I figured mom would get this answer easily.  She has a remote just like this one.  It is pretty close anyhow.

Look for the quizzes on  Mondays and the answers on Sundays.

All Caught Up Or Information Overload

I have been keeping a list of things I needed to post about, and the location of pictures to go with said posts for a long time now. Today I finished posting them. Now I can get back to a regular routine of posting. That means on Monday the Quiz is back!!!!

Today we got a Christmas 2006 card in the mail, from Kansas. I love you! This brought back fond memories. Thank you for the card.

Porcelain Bucket, My Friend

The crazy Schedule of the holidays has caught up with me and now I am sick*.  I haven’t felt this bad since May of 2001**.  Next Christmas I am definitely starting in August, and getting my beauty rest each night.  Anyway I have been working on back posting for a while now, I hope to get it all done tomorrow, if I am feeling better.

*It may also bee little noses that were snotty on me.  I have been around so many kids, it would be hard to say which ones got me.

**This is not a random date, I may Expound on it in the future.

Dishwashers Are Our Friends

Today I went to the store to get groceries and I needed more deodorant.  While I was in the deodorant aisle, a family passed though.  The little girl, probably about 4 years old** said, “Daddy I need new deodorant!”  he said she has some already, and she answered, “Yes, but it is dry.”  I am not too sure what thy are teaching her, but I want to put on dry deodorant.  I figured that was part of the purpose.  Besides why does a 4-6 year old need deodorant?

*I am writing this after the fact as though it is current, and pre-dating my post. As it is my site, I reserve the right to do so.

**I’ll give her the benefit of doubt, she may have been 6.