Monday, October 29, 2007

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Dear Dairy





That's how I began my journal entries when I was seven. I couldn't spell "diary," so for about a year, most of my personal journal was unintentionally dedicated to milk cows.

I love my journals. It's fun to read back through them and remember. Want to know what I have written in them? You can get a clue here.

Monday, October 22, 2007

Take Cover






The Satan, I mean Santa Ana Winds are blowing. Do you know what that means? I will explain.

Where I live there are three seasons: tourist season, fire season, and mudslide season. We have now officially entered season number two. Every year it's the same. One day you are playing at the beach, the next there is a slight chill in the air and a few brown crunchy leaves on the ground. DO NOT BE FOOLED! It isn't really autumn here until the Santa Ana Winds begin to blow. Then BAM!, the temperature soars 20 degrees, the humidity drops 70 percentage points, and there is smoke in the air. How often can you actually see the air you are wheezing? Oh, and did I mention sinus headaches, earaches, and the feeling that you've just been stuck in your Grandmother's dehydrator? Yeah, I pretty much feel like fruit leather. No wonder they are called the devil winds.

Ah, fall!


(On a more serious note, dozens of fires are burning and these horrible winds always bring out lunatic arsonists. I pray for all the families and homes that are threatened. I hope you will too.)

Friday, October 19, 2007

One of Many Reasons on Why I Am Conflicted about Blogging







Today I was going to limit blog time to 15 minutes. I just checked the clock.

It's been 48.

Guess I should have used my timer.

Have a great weekend! How will you be spending YOUR time?

Monday, October 15, 2007

A Real Superhero

Look! It's a bird. It's a plane. . ."

It's SUPER PUMPKIN !



Thanks Wynne for that INCREDIBLE flying Jack-O-Lantern. You brightened my dreary day. :) You're my hero.

Now to brighten your day, a great hero quote from The Office.

Dwight:No, don't call me a hero. Do you know who the real heroes are? The guys who wake up every morning and go into their normal jobs and get a distress call from the commissioner and take off their glasses and change into capes and fly around, fighting crime. Those are the real heroes.

I am not a hero. I am a mere defender of the office. You know who's a real hero? Hiro, from Heroes. That's a hero... Also, Bono.

This one's for you, b.





You know how I said that blogging can be really, really fun sometimes?

Well, the other times it rots.

Gonna miss you b. =(

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Thank You

I love that a one sentence post can get comments! Sometimes blogging is really, really fun. I also love being able to post my own pictures (this is a recent skill I have acquired). So just for fun, please enjoy the mini Jack-O-Lantern that my son carved today. It seems to have sort of a snide expression, as if it were telling a joke. So guess what--you get goofy pumpkin jokes today. No need to thank me. I just like to spread a little Halloween cheer.

Pumpkin Jokes



How do you mend a broken Jack-o-lantern?
With a pumpkin patch!

Why do jack-o-lanterns have stupid smiles on their faces?
You'd have a stupid smile, too, if you had just had all your brains scooped out!

What's the ratio of a pumpkin's circumference to its diameter?
Pumpkin Pi

When is a pumpkin not a pumpkin?
When you drop it; then it's squash!

Monday, October 8, 2007

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Life Lessons

So yesterday I was planning a Family Home Evening lesson on Priorities and Time Management. My sister gave me the fantastic idea to use an object lesson. Using a quart jar, blocks, and black beans I demonstrated how sometimes it is a challenge to fit all the necessary things into our lives.



HOWEVER, if we plan and put the most important things FIRST, then everything else will fall into place.
(Yes, that is the same amount of beans in both pictures.)


I felt it was effective. This morning I was reminded of another important thing I need to fit into my life: To put objects away after I use them.

Want to guess where the beans are now?
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