A little Mormon humor...

A good friend of mine recently joined the same church that I attend, that being The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. She just sent me this link. It makes me laugh. It will make you laugh, especially if you are a Mormon.


http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D1ydG2iYibr8&h=c9158be164d5ceed5324f310c1fe55a3

For those of you who have met them...

For those of you who have met Naomi and Victor, this little note will be more amusing.

V: (giving me a big hug.) " I am just SO full of love!"
Me: "yes, yes you are Victor."
Naomi: " And I am just so full of ideas!"
Me: "why yes, yes you are."

G-20

I never thought there would come a day in my life when I would care/ be effected by the happenings of a G anything summit. It has come to Pittsburgh. My husbands boss owns a limo company. My husband speaks portugese. The limo company scored the Brazilians based on the fact that they had someone who could fluently speak the language. So on my husbands merits they got an extra deligation. That makes me pretty proud. Sadly that means that he is going to spend all week driving Brazilians around. I can always hope that they are paying him the limo driver rate....

She just doesn't get it.

I have a friend who took my eldest two children out for an adventure yesterday, Caleb was heartbroken as they drove away. She promised she would take him out today, at approx 11:00am. As far as I am concerned he isn't going to be any fun anyway because that is really close to nap time, and as an 18 month old that is IMPORTANT to him. (Yesterday I took too long cleaning up lunch and by the time I found him he was already passed out in his bed.) She just called to tell me to expect her about 12:30. Yea.... hope she has fun shopping with that monstrous creature. Glad I will be taking my own nap not dragging him around. Fun shopping adventures are only worth taking if they are actually fun. When you are under 3 nap time is IMPORTANT, especially the timing thereof. Granted she works night shift so mornings are rough for her. Yup glad I am not coming along.

Good notes of my day.

These are some of my thoughts right now.

Ethan got a fair sized unexpected raise yesterday.

I ordered 3 new windows today.

I think crock pots are fabulous.

Kindergarten open house tonight.

It is awesome when I send my eldest two to the basement to pick out a new cereal and they do, without arguing about which kind.

I think it is great when the 6th grader from the bus stop thinks I am cool enough to just stop by and chat with while we are outside playing. Now I need to learn his name.

I love fans.

I love running water, especially hot water.

I also happen to love indoor plumbing.

I love being able to squirrel away a few things from my own garden for food storage.

The window guy remembered that my daughter is "full of personality" even though she was in bed napping the whole time he was here. I think that is excellent.

I just heard from the other room, " Caleb get off the table."

While reading scriptures, when the word kiss was read aloud, my 17 months old NEEDED to climb into my lap and up in my face in order to give me a kiss.

I had popcorn today, popped previously and flavored with the cheese packet of a mac-n-cheese box. Surprisingly delicious.

I wasn't willing to bite my tongue when the nurse at the hospital told me she was sorry. I just smiled at her and said, "No.... you're not." and then walked away. Kinda made me feel good.



Now, I will go change my clothes and try to make my children look like miniature adults instead of barbarians and then supervise all the colored pencils that are "waterfalling" onto the floor. Cursed boxes of 72 given to children much to young to appreciate more than 20 colors.

This is why I don't have run a day care.

I don't really like other kids.

Taking a moment to rant.

I want to vomit when I see a girl who is so desperate for attention that she is willing to dress herself in such a way that any guy around her couldn't possibly carry on an intelligent conversation with her. Are you honestly that pathetic? Couldn't just be an interesting person.... no... we would much rather make it so that any DECENT guy would run and cower from you from sheer embarrassment rather than acknowledge you. Seriously do you really think that any guy you could attract by NOT wearing clothes would be the kind of guy you actually want? AHHHHHH!!!!


I know guys who can't even look at some women because they are wearing such a plunging neck line that these guys are incredibly uncomfortable around them. Sometimes I wonder if women would actually dress the way they do if they realized that the men they would seriously want to date are terrified of outfits like that outside of the bedroom. (That and so few of women actually look attractive in their get up... upper arm flab... gross.... )


Skin just for skin's sake is NOT sexy. Tastefully done skin is beautiful.

OK... I can go accomplish something now.

Passions

Right now if Ethan died I could probably get a job at um... a gas station... maybe even McDonalds. I don't have a degree in anything, nor do I really have much job history experience. I have decided that I want to go back to school, problem being.... for what? I have very seriously considered becoming an ultra sound tech, though I am not 100% sold that it is something that I would really love. Luckily this plan is actually just me wanting to have a back up plan, not actually going out and finding a job. So today I sat down and wrote out a list of things that I am passionate about or at least enjoy a lot.

My husband
Raising my children
My religion
Gardening
Identifying plants
Canning/ food storage
Emergency preparedness
Doing Service- I really honestly do LOVE this, though I have no idea how to make a living from it.
Surprising people
Quilting
Cooking
Traveling
Camping
Making collages
Stage productions
Politics
Home improvement projects

I don't have any idea how to make a living at any of those. Surely there is some degree out there that I can pursue and really enjoy studying. I am in all seriousness asking for suggestions for things that you think that I have strengths in and would succeed at.

Went to an apointment yesterday...

We went to an appointment yesterday. After weighing and measuring Naomi and Caleb and then plotting them on a chart the lady turned to me and said, " It appears that Caleb is gaining on her."

Any suggestions on how to encourage body length growth as apposed to only hair length growth? Naomi, my eternal pixie....

Update on aliens

This morning Victor and I had a very thought provoking conversation about aliens. It went something like this.

V: I have 5 fingers on each hand.
me: I do too, I really appreciate my fingers, I would be sad if I didn't have them.
V: Ya, picking things up would be really hard without fingers. Aliens only have 2 fingers on each hand.
me: Oh yea? how do you know that?
V: That is what aliens look like.
me: I see, Victor no one has actually seen an alien so we don't know what they look like. We haven't even seen any life on any other planet. So maybe there aren't even aliens.
V: We haven't seen any aliens on other planets because we haven't BEEN to any other planets mom.