List #6: Covering all the Bases

When you go to the library, they will print out a list of everything that you have checked out for the day. This list is one belonging to someone else, left in a book that I later checked out. I am fascinated by the list's diversity!

Games to Play with Toddlers

Kid's Book to Welcome a new baby

Games to play with two year olds

Sing a song activity and idea book

Sunday fun activities and ideas

Little hands fingerplays and actions

CTR A gospel games

Family Home Evening games galore (3 separate volumes)

Family home evening favorites

Sacred Path of Reiki: healing as a spiritual discipline

Ronald Reagan: fate, freedom and the making of history

His Excellency: George Washington

Liberal Fascism: the secret history of the American left, from Moussolini to the politics of meaning

General George Washington: a military life

In the footsteps of Churchill

The Mormon way of doing buiness: leadership and success through faith and family

American Fascists: the Christian Right and the war on America

I wonder if this is person is a homeschooler?

Let the stress fest begin

I've ordered all of my textbooks for the first semester on-line. Seemed brilliant; I saved anywhere from $100 to $150 dollars over just buying used at the U bookstore. Today, the first 3 arrived. One of them weighs about 6 pounds, all by itself. So:

I've always mentally sneered at those people who dragged their air-line luggage style backpacks around campus in the past. I have 3 classes on campus, on Thursdays and Fridays. All three classes, both days. Of the other two, one is on line, and the other is clinicals. Those three that meet twice a week comprise 6 of the total 9 textbooks I've had to purchase. I may well become one of those I've sneered at.

Also, ordering on line is cool to save money. Not so cool is watching the time til class starts tick down, and still be waiting for confirmation that the order that you placed 2 weeks ago is being processed. (According to the relevant web site, my books are "on order.") Maybe there is a reason that the books were so cheap.

Next time, I'll spend a little more and go with one of the other sites that has gotten me my books already.

List #5, and an addition to List #4

PS to List #4: Things I have worked on to justify my Dr Who obsession:

Sarah's Easter Dress.

List #5: On Today's Agenda

1. Ironing at Mom's

2. Drop off Tom and Lizzie at the Tey's

3. U of U: text book, parking sticker, student id (I'd better take alot of quarters for the meter!)

4. (Wish I could attend the Tea Party taking place down town)

5. Visit with Grandma

6. PIck up Addie, Jake, and assorted musicians from school

7. drop Addie and assorted musicians off at Symphony practice.

8. Contemplate what it means to be described, in part, in the newest Homeland Security memo on "right wing extremists" and the danger they present to the country.

List #4: Things I have done to justify my Dr. Who obsession

1. Ben's Star Wars quilt (pictures to come later)

2. Sam's Denver Broncos quilt (pics later)

3. Sarah's Spring sweater, hand spun and hand knit (pics later)

4. tons and tons of family history research: record condensing and ordinance confirmation.

If I could find a way to watch Dr. Who and walk around, I might actually get some exercise!

List #3: Things We've Decided to Put in Our Garden

Pumpkins (what they charge for those at halloween is nearly criminal, when you have four kids who want to do jack o lanterns for the holidays).

Tomatoes

Peppers (green and chili)

Raspberries (we spend a fortune on these at the grocery store)

Leeks

Maybe some peas or beans on a trellis, depending on how much space there is left over.

List #2: Addie is amazing

Reasons I am amazed by my teenager:

1. She practices her violin for at least 1 hour per day, and also paid her own money to rent a cello and expand her repertoire.

2. She is getting straight A's at school. I didn't do that from 6th grade until my second time at college!

3. She's decided she wants to graduate a year early, and is checking out summer classes.

4. In addition to summer classes, she wants to do Granite Junior Youth Symphony; that will be two hours a day, M-Th, starting at 7 am.

5. She's just decided she wants to run for student body officer: Lieutenant Governor (which is her school's version of Vice President)

6. Like me, she wants to be an author. Unlike me, she actually writes. Copiously.

7. She's diligent in her Young Women Personal Progress goals. She's set major goals for herself, spiritually.

Wow. I can't believe I've been trusted with this amazing person.

Stealing Shamelessly: List #1: Shows I love to Watch

I have things I want to write about, but they involve photography, and so they shall be added as part of a theme: lists. (I confess, I'm stealing this idea from a friend; she did lists for a month).

So, withour further ado, my first list: Shows I love to watch (in no particular order)

1. Robin Hood (BBC's most recent series)
Filmed in Hungary, with no particular attention given to accuracy in language or dress, this show is wonderful. We laugh, we cheer, watch it together. It's possible that part of the enjoyment comes from the family celebration. Lizzie doesn't care for it much, but the rest of us gather together in the living room, pop corn, and hush each other, laughing and watching and having a great time.

2. Doctor Who (again, the recent BBC incarnation)
I came to this one reluctantly. The men of my family growing up were into the older series, but I only had a memory of a man with curly hair, a big nose, and the worlds longest scarf (which I have knit twice, now). It didn't inspire interest or confidence. A friend recommended this series to me and after a few episodes, I was hooked. I can't say exactly what I like about it; but then I couldn't tell you anything that I don't like about it. I didn't like that they switched the Doctor until I got used to the 10th regeneration. I don't feel like I'll like the end of Rose, but maybe the next travelling companion will be good, too.
Again, part of the joy of this one is being able to share it with my family. Only Honey doesn't enjoy it (the first episode wasn't to his taste, and I haven't been able to bribe him to watch another yet). The rest will watch and enjoy.

3. Chuck.
I love the humor, I love the techy (techie? technological?) stuff, and I think the Buy More is perfect. Honey likes that stuff best; he did work in an electronics store for a few years, and that may be why he likes it so well.

There are a few shows that I loved in the past, which are fading, a bit.

4. Bones
I enjoy the medical and experimental stuff, but the actual "Bones" character reminds me of an idiot savant. She's brilliant medically and professionally, but don't cut her loose on an unsuspecting public. She has no manners, social ability, or common politeness.

5. Pushing Daisies
I'd like this one more, except the show was cancelled. It's hard to have an enduring love affair with a dead person (which is ironic, considering the show's premise).

I laughed like crazy when I heard it

Today's blog is courtesy of Jake. Honey asked if anyone had a joke at dinner, and here is what Jake came up with.


A boat crashes on an island. Two men volunteer to go looking for food. As they wander, they are captured by natives who turn out to be cannibals.

As they are sitting in a large pot, waiting for the water to heat, one man is sobbing, the other is grinning.

The grinning man says, "What's the matter?"

"I'm going to miss my family, I'll never see my home again, and I'm being turned into dinner! What have you got to be so happy about?"

The reply: "I've peed in their soup!"


Maybe it isn't the world's funniest joke, but today, it hit my funny bone just right.