Olives

Last night I went to the store and bought stuff for to day New years eve. I was buying stuff pacifically for 7 layer taco dip. One of the ingredients calls for a can of chopped black olives. All of the other ingredients got paid for, with the exception of the black olives. I got out to the truck and realized that I had stolen property! For some unknown reason the olives didn't get paid for. I was soooo embarrassed. I went back into the store explained the situation to one of the check outs clerk and paid for the black olives. All the while she was laughing and thanked me for my honesty. All what she could think was one small 4.25 oz. of black chopped olives, and I still came back into the store and bought it. Well I'll bet she will remember me after that incident. I know, by now all of you ( my4 readers) will be laughing right this very moment.

I think that if all people everywhere would be more honest then this world would be a better place to live.

Happy New Years !!!!!

I never make any resolutions. I'll break them any way. With that one year a friend of mine Char said her resolution was to never brink Mountain Dew any more. 5 sec. after she said that she stared to drink Mountain Dew. No Lie.

Also Congrats to Char and Al they are having a boy!!!

Blunders! My cooking gone bad

Well I did it again. I tried to make banana bread yesterday. It came out looking like it came out of an elephant's back side. So right now my Aunt will read this and laugh. It does tastes a lot better than it looks. It does, not kidding!!! What made it worse is that well I tried to take it out of the pan and it crumbled. On top of that I did put in M&M'S in it. So if you want anything that looks disgusting but taste great for Hallowing put M&M's in your banana bread. It does look seriously disgusting! No I will not put a picture up, my S.I.L Andria will freak and laugh at me forever.

On top of that I have discovered that my brother Jeremy has a "dog" that meows. She will play fetch. So if you believe in reincarnation the cat was a dog in her former life. In her next life she will be a mouse.

Beethoven 5th

Music teacher adds lyrics to classic works

December 28th, 2008 @ 12:15pm

OGDEN, Utah (AP) -- Ludwig van Beethoven likely never imagined adding lyrics to his Fifth Symphony, but Debbie Rowe did.

A music teacher, Rowe added lyrics to about 70 classic works from Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi and others as a means of teaching her students the history behind the masterpieces and the details of the composers' lives.

The results? Students with traditionally low performance started acing tests.

Rowe first began writing the lyrics three years ago, while teaching classical music at a treatment facility for juvenile offenders. Rowe's brother-in-law, who holds a doctorate in musical arts, helped her with arrangements and made any necessary musical tweaks to accommodate the words.

Rowe says the lyrics helps expose kids to a new world of music. She says many of her students have never attended a symphony.

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Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

So I was looking on line for the lyrics to this masterpiece. I wanted to know what the lyrics are; in stead I have found this. It is How Great Thou Art with Beethoven's 5th. It works and it is very imaginative.

Putting lyrics to the classics has happened before. Like for example Mozart wrote the tune to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. So things like this is not uncommon.

The Kiss of the year!

Now this is just............wow holy cow!

Happy boxing day!

This clip reminds me of my friends Al, Kyle and more of my special needs friends, that I have worked with.




I can see Cathrine Clyde doing this. You go girl!!!

Merry Christmas

Click on the link below. This is cute.

Dog loving the snow.



Have a Merry Christmas!!!!

All in fun

Now remember this blog is all in fun. People don't need to read this blog if they don't want to. It doesn't bother me at all if it is never viewed.

Also note that all of my personal, and exciting stuff is written in my journal. This blog is just for everyday mundane stuff. If you don't like it by all means don't read it.

Happy Reading!!!

See Mother, Funny, Funny, Mother

See Mother. See Mother laugh . Mother is happy.
Mother is happy about Christmas.
Mother has many plans. Mother has many plans for Christmas
Mother is organized. Mother smiles all the time.
See Mother. See mother smile. Mother is happy
The shopping is all done. See the Children watch T.V.
Watch, children, watch.
See the children change their minds.
See them ask Santa for different toys.
Look, look Mother is not Smiling.
Funny, Funny Mother.
See Mother. See Mother sew.
Mother will make dresses; Mother will make robes; Mother will make shirts. Look---
Mother put the zipper in wrong.
See Mother sew the dresses on the wrong side.
See Mother put the material away until January.
Look, look. See Mother take a tranquilizer.
Funny, funny Mother.
See Mother. See Mother buy raisins and nuts.
See Mother buy candied pineapples and powdered sugar.
See Mother buy flour and dates and pecans and brown sugar and bananas and spices and vanilla.
Look, look. Mother is mixing everything together.
See the children press out cookies.
See the flour on their elbows.
See the cookies burn. See the cake fall.
See the children pull taffy. See Mother pull her hair.
See Mother clean the kitchen with the garden hose.
Funny, funny Mother.
See Mother--see Mother wrap presents. See Mother look for the end of the scotch tape roll. See Mother bite her fingernails.
See Mother go. See Mother go to the store 12 times in an hour.
Go Mother go. See Mother go faster. Run Mother run.
See Mother trim the tree. See Mother have a party. See Mother make popcorn.See Mother scrub the rug. See Mother tear up the organized plan. See Mother forget the gift for Uncle Harold.
Go Mother go. See the far-away look in Mother's eyes.
It is finally Christmas morning. See the happy family.
See Farther smile. Father is happy. Smile Father smile.
Father loves fruit cake. Father loves Christmas pudding.
Father loves his new neckties. Look, look. See the happy Children.
See the children's toys. Santa was very good to the children.
The children will remember this Christmas.
See Mother. Mother is slumped in a chair. Mother is crying uncontrollably.
Mother dose not look well. Mother has ugly dark circles under her blood-shot eyes. Everyone will help Mother to her bed. Mother sleeps quietly under heavy sedation.
See Mother smile.
Funny, funny Mother.

My mom loves this poem. All she says is "what mothers will do........"

Calvin's Snowmen

We have snow in Ut. and more is on the way. So I thought this would be fun!!! I know that it is 1:00 A.M but I am doing laundry and got bored so I thought that I would do a post about snowman.

"I want to wash my hair and face with snow, and build a man made entirely out of snow." Yes that was from the song "Snow" but I don't need to dream of snow. All I need to do is look out side.

In God we still trust

This was done very well! Enjoy!!!




This was sent to me by my auntie Jeanie. Their is a message that was attached to this. I don't know who sang this but I think that he has done a very good job. The Story goes like this. Now remember that I wasn't their so I don't know if this is true at all, and lets face it, it is a great way to protest!

The song you are about to listen to is from a Las Vegas Diamond Rio Concert. They received an immediate resounding standing ovation, and continue to do so every time they perform it! Sadly, major radio stations wouldn't play it because it was considered 'politically incorrect'. Consequently, the song was never released to the Public. So America , see what you think. If this offering speaks to your heart and if you feel you want to share it with friends and loved ones, please do-.

Birthday wishes!!!!

Happy birthday to me, Happy birthday to me!!! (hehehe)

I know, it is horrible of me to put this up. But during this time of year my birthday gets swallowed up by Christmas. So I do need to do something to make myself feel better. Even if I'm telling myself happy birthday. Hey I'll take what ever I can get even if it is from me.

Did you know that I was 19 before I got my first present that was wrapped with happy birthday wrapping paper? The wrapping paper was of Garfield and Odie with a birthday cake on it, it was so cute. My birthday presents was always wrapped with Christmas paper. I can't remember what I got that year because I was so happy that I got happy birthday wrapping paper. I will never forget that.

Last night I went to go and see "Babes In Toyland a New Musical" The Empress Theater put it on. Thank you for all of came with me last night it was very fun thing to do for my birthday. Thank you Andria for suggesting it. A friend of mine Daniel Eggers was in it. He played Alan, he haven't changed a bit. Any who the story was good and the players/actors did a good job.

Hyundai

This is clever and cute advertising for a car.

Secret Speakers

I have been reading an e-book sneak peek called "Secret Speakers and the Search for Selador's Gate." By K.S.R Kingworth. I am receiving this e-book by email one chapter at a time. I had received chapter 2 today. Now I am used to read books about the equivalent of one day, so it never takes me long to read a book, but when you receive one chapter at a time once a week it makes the book go painstakingly slow. I want to know what is going on and why?? It makes me want the hard copy in my hand in its entire form.

So far I can see a lot of Christen values in it, but remember I am only on chapter 2 so I can't tell you if it is good or not. I have read Christen authors as well as LDS authors, both I admit can be kinda out their, but both can be good and entertaining. But I love her imagination; so far I do like what I see.

Christmas and True love. What we do!

I have found this in my mothers big and I do mean big book of Christmas stories and poems. She collects them.

On the twelfth Day of Christmas, My true love saved to me:

12 bags of laundry
11 shirts to iron
10 canning jars
9 rugs to beat
8 pies to bake
7 walls to paint
6 floors to scrub
5 shirts to mend
4 logs to split
3 ties to make
2 dinner parties
and a partridge to clean, stuff, and cook

The Horn Guy

Wow!!! He is very entertaining. He will play classical music using only horns.

Christmas Poem

It's Christmas time at our house
and we're putting up the tree,
I wish there was a simple way
of remembr'ing Christ's gift to me.

Some little sign or symbol
to show friends stopping by,
The little babe was born that day,
but he really came to die.

Some token of His nail-pierced hands,
the blood He shed for me.......
What if I hang a simple nail
Upon my Christmas tree!

A crimson bow tied 'round the nail
His perfect blood they spilt;
He freely gave His life for me
and took away my guilt.

I know it was His love for all
that held Him to that tree,
But when I see this simple nail
I know He died for me.

-Author unknown

I got this poem from Colett Guffy one year. As my friends and family know that my birthday is just 6 days from Christmas, right smack in the middle of everything. Because of that friends and family have forgotten my birthday, even me, ( yes me, it's sad but true). Because of that I would turn into a Scrooge around my birthday. Christmas has a way of swallowing up everything. But I am proud to say that a few years ago I have made peace with Christmas and my birthday. My birthday is not the only birthday people will forget. There are people on this earth who don't know why we celebrate Christmas.



I know that I do have this song on my play list, but this video is amazing. Bing did this one month before he died.

Christmas cookies

Okay as I have promised hear are the cookie that I have made this year for Christmas.

Cottage cheese cookies (that's right cottage cheese cookies very good try it )

4 c. all-purpose flour
2 Tbsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 1/2 c. powdered sugar
2 sticks butter, softened to room temperature. = 1 cup
1 (15 0z) tub of cottage cheese = about 1 3/4 cups.
2 tsp. vanilla
2 large eggs
2 Tbsp. Milk

Method:
Preheat oven to 350. Combine flour. baking powder, and salt; set aside. In a large bowl, cream butter and eggs until well blended. Add in flour mixture a little at a time until combined. Drop by the tablespoons into greased cookie sheet. Bake for 20 minutes, until lightly golden brown.

Tip: my dad has high blood pressure so for years I have been taking out the salt in cookies and other things. Believe me with out the salt the cookies tasted better, so try these cookies with out the salt.

Glaze Topping:
1 c. powdered sugar
one orange
2 Tbsp of cream cheese

Method:
Combine powdered sugar, Orange zest, orange juice 1/2 of the orange juice. Mix until smooth. Put on cookies.

Oatmeal Cranberry white chocolate chunk cookies

1 1/3 c. butter softened
1 1/3 c. brown sugar
4 large eggs
3 c. old-fashioned oats
3 c. flour
2 teaspoon baking soda
16 ounce package craisins
16 ounce white chocolate chips

Method:
Preheat oven to 375. Using a electric mixer, beat butter and sugar together in a medium mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs mixing well. Combine oats, flour, baking soda in a separate mixing bowl. Add to butter mixture in several additions, mixing well after each addition. Stir in craisins and white chocolate chips. Drop by rounded spoonfuls into sprayed cookie sheets. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on wire rack Makes about 2 1/2 dozen bookies

This is what I gave to my family and friends for teats this year. The cookies are rely good. All I can say is the Cottage cheese cookies; don't knock them unless you have tried them. They are very good.

One Happy Penguin

I thought this was cute.

But to all friends and family on January 4th 1:00 P.M at the Loch Ness Ave LDS building. my nephew Scott will be blessed.
On Dec. 28 at the same building but some where around 11:30 I will be singing Silent Night in German and doing ASL at the same time. Hmmmmm wounder how will my brain will work with that, at the rehearsals wasn't to bad. But rehearsals are always different then the performance. Maybe we might change it Hahahahah!

Christmas Wreathe

Hi everyone. I just need to revive the Christmas Wreath's recipe. We found out that if you half the recipe it will fit the Angle food cake pan just perfect. We also found out that the more food coloring you put in the cuter they are, we also put on different colors of gum drops on the wreath. Also you can get the red licorice rope and make a bow out of that and put in on the wreath. (we didn't do that. Did not think of it until the wreaths were done. Sorry) We also sprinkled red sugar on it. It looks way cute!

Christmas Wreaths
2 Tlb butter
20 big marshmallow's
Green food coloring
3 cups of Rice crispy
gumdrops
Red sugar sprinkles

Method:
Melt together butter and marshmallow's on med. heat. Put in green food coloring (the darker the better). Mix in 3 cups of rice crispy. Pour in to the buttered Angel food cake pan. Mold the mixture to the pan. Sprinkle on red sugar sprinkles and place on the gum drops, and the red licorice rope (made into a bow). Let set up and enjoy!!!!
  

Genealogy Pictures

These are great. I had a friend of mine scan these for me. He did a great job. Thank you Rick!!

Christmas goodies

Ok everyone loves my family's recipes. People keep asking us for them. So now I'll tell put up the recipes for this years Christmas goodies.

Chocolate Peppermint Bark

2 bags of semi sweet chocolate chips
1 bag of Andes Peppermint Crunch baking chips
3 Peppermint candy cane's crushed

Method:
On a double boil melt the semi sweet chocolate chips, with the peppermint baking chips. On a baking sheet put on wax paper pour the melted chocolate peppermint evenly. Sprinkle on the crushed peppermint. Put in fridge and let it chill for 1 hour.
Tip: you can substitute the peppermint crunch baking chips with Creme de'Menthe baking chips. On the top put on chopped walnuts.

Christmas Wreath

40 big marshmallows
4 Tlb of butter
6 cups of rice crispy
green food coloring
red gum drops

Method:
Butter an angle food cake pan. Make your basic rice crispy treat as in melt the butter on medium heat then melt the marshmallows now put in the green food coloring. Judge on how dark you want the green to be, yourself. Now put in the 6 cups of rice crispy mix well. Now put the hole mixture into the buttered angle food cake pan next place the red gum drops on. After set up put on plate and Enjoy!!!

Cookie Recipes will fallow. Also visit chef Joe's blog. For all of you who have different food allergies go to his food blog he knows how to cook with being very conscious with food allergies. Besides he is a Gourmet Chef. So who wouldn't want to have some of his recipes????? You can also ask him all kinds of questions.
Joseph Hall's blog

The 12 days of Christmas

The 12 days of Christmas

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/christmas/carols_3.shtml

I thought that this was fascinating and had to post it. I don't know if it is true. So pleas don't take it as Gospel truth. It's fascinating all the same.

The Twelve Days of Christmas

The Twelve Days of Christmas is different from other Christmas carols, because it doesn't seem to have a religious theme and it doesn't deal with the Nativity.

Origin

The most likely origin of the carol is in a memory game played on Twelfth Night many years ago.

The players would sing a verse in turn and each player would add a new gift when it came to their own verse - the catch was that they had to remember the all the earlier gifts as they sang their way through the list of presents. Anyone who forgot a gift would have to pay a forfeit to entertain everyone else.

That's the story given by The New Oxford Book of Carols, which records that the version we sing nowadays was printed in 1864, although other versions appeared earlier.

The book goes on to point out that some people have tried to find religious images in this carol - suggesting, for example, that the partridge is a symbol of the devil. There's also a folk belief that if a girl walks backwards towards a pear tree and then round it three times she will see an image of the man she's going to marry.

But there's another story about this carol that gives it much greater religious significance. It's most unlikely to be true, but it illustrates the way in which a popular song can be reworked as a hymn or carol.

The legend

This 'urban legend' says that the song was written at a time when Roman Catholic worship was illegal in England and Catholics had to find covert ways of communicating their faith.

The Twelve Days of Christmas, the story goes, was written to contain the basic beliefs of Catholicism, masked in secular words.

A partridge in a pear tree. Said to symbolize Jesus Christ, a mother partridge protecting her nestlings (Jesus's followers).
Two turtle doves. The Old and the New Testaments.
Three French hens. The Christian virtues of faith, hope and charity.
Four calling/colly birds. The four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Five gold rings. The first five books of the Old Testament telling the story of man's fall from grace.
Six geese a laying. The six days of creation.
Seven swans a-swimming. The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Eight maids a-milking. The eight Beatitudes.
Nine ladies dancing. The nine fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Ten lords a-leaping. The Ten Commandments.
Eleven pipers piping. The eleven faithful disciples.
Twelve drummers drumming. The twelve points of belief in the Apostles' Creed. Common form of the legend

Some of the concepts said to be symbolized by each gift vary between versions.

The real story

There's no evidence to suggest that the carol was written as a covert catechism - and since there's nothing particularly Roman Catholic in the concepts it contains there would have been no point in doing so, since the beliefs it's said to refer to could have been openly taught.

Perhaps the idea that the song was religious was inspired by number carols like The Seven Joys of Mary or The New Dial, a song that uses the hours of the clock to relate Christian concepts. Another folk song, Green Grow the Rushes-O, is closely related to The New Dial and it is full of hidden religious references which the writer Erik Routley has listed in his book The English Carol.

But, legend or not, if anyone wants a song to teach a few basic Christian beliefs and test their memory, The Twelve Days of Christmas would seem to fit the bill nicely.

Amazing

This is awesome!! Take a look.




This is how amazing people can be. We all can over look our weakness and rise above them. This movie is prof.

An' Arkansas Christmas

An' Arkansas Christmas

'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, AND ALL THROUGH THE SHACK,
NOT A DARN THING WAS A MOVIN', FROM THE FRONT TO THE BACK.
THE KIDS WERE IN BED, WE HAD NINE AT THE TIME,
THE WIFE IN HER CURLERS, WES LOOKIN' REAL FINE.

A COLD WIND WAS BLOWIN' UP THE HOLLER IT MOANED,
THEM DOGS ON THE PORCH ALL HOWLED AND GROANED.
THE BOYS ERE ALL DREAMIN' OF WEAPONS AND GUNS,
FOR KIllIN' GOD; CREATURES,..... THERE'S NO BETTER FUN!

THE GIRLS IN THEIR FEMININE DREAMS WERE ATTUNED,
TO GETTING THOSE FALLON'S OF WAL-MAT PERFUME.
THE WIFE WANTED JEWELRY, LIKE RINGS WITH BIG ROCKS.
I JUST WANTED MY CHEVY DOWN OFF OF THEM BLOCKS.

THEM OUT IN THE YARD, SUCH A NOISE DID COMMENCE,
LIKE SOMETHING WAS CAUGHT IN OUR NEW BOB-WAR FENCE.
I RAN TO THE WINDOW, AND SAW PRETTY QUICK,
THE MAN MAKIN' THAT RACKET, WAS GOOD OL' ST. NICK.

YOU MAY THINK OF SANTA IN YOUR OWN MIND'S EYE,
DRESSED IN A RED AN WHITE SUIT, BUT I'VE GOT A SURPRISE,
THAT OLD BOY'S AN ARKIE, FROM UP NEAR MT. GAYLOR,
HE MARRIED HIS COUSIN, AND THEY LIVE IN A TRAILER.

ON CHRISTMAS, OF COURSE, A SLEIGH FOR HIS RIG,
HE HOOKS THE THING UP TO A RAZORBACK PIG!
HE CLIMBED ON THE ROOF, WITH HIS BAG FULL OF GOODIES,
HE BACKED DOWN THE FIREPLACE, ALL DIRTY AND SOOTY.

FAT LEGS IN HIS BRITCHES, CHUBBY HAND IN HIS MITTENS,
I MUST ADMIT FROM THE BACK, HE LOOKED LOTS LIKE BILL CLINTON.
HE TURNED TOWARD THE TREE, HIS EYES ALL AGLOW,
HE WAS AN ARKANSAS BOY FROM HIS HEAD TO HIS TOE.

HIS NECK WAS A RED ONE, HIS SHIRT SAID "LITE BEER",
HE HAD NO RED HAT ON, BUT HIS CAP READ "JOHN DEERE"
HE LEFT ALL THE PRESENTS, WITH AN AIR OF DELIGHT,
THEN IT WAS BACK TO THE CHIMNEY, AN INTO THE NIGHT.

HE RAN INTO THE YARD, THREW HIS BAG IN THE SLEIGH,
THEM HE YELLED AT THE DOGS, "GET THE HECK OUT TH'WAY!"
I RAN OUT TO ASK HIM WHY HE BROUGHT SUCH GOOD CHEER;
BUT INSTEAD HE JUST ASKED ME. "YOU GET YOU A DEER?"

THEN I HEARD HIM EXLAIM, AS THOSE PIGS TOOK FLIGHT,
"MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL.......I NEED A BUD LIGHT!"

Now some of my family are Arkie's so once in a while I do need to make fun of my family. That's ok they make fun of me being from Utah.

WE ALL ARE MORMONS....by Rabbi Shifren

Wow, I can't believe that a Rabbi said: "We are all Mormons."

We are living in an era of insanity! Witness the latest attempt to remake the nature of our country, founded and established on certain principles that have been the envy of the entire world. The latest assault on our country and its values comes in the form of vicious and criminal violence against the Mormon church in Westwood, California

Interesting how the selective self-righteous indignation on the part of the radical Gay activists is played out here: they bewail the blow to freedom and justice! But I thought we just had elections, where the majority of Californians expressed their views in a free and open manner. Are we not a nation of laws? Dare we relive the McCarthy era, where Americans were harassed and threatened with the loss of their jobs for believing in a certain way? If the Gay radicals should have their way, untold numbers of Americans would live under the threat of the Gay-Lesbian "thought police," where individuals that reject the Gay lifestyle would be sought out and have sanctions brought against them.

It's bad enough for those working in the entertainment industry here in Los Angeles, where a fog of political correctness and a bending over backwards to accommodate, even promote Gay lifestyle is in full gear. Let none dare say that this type of activity is anathema to our country, our morality, and the debauchery of our young people.

Let it be stated unequivocally: The radical Gay attack on the Mormons is the shot over the bow against the United States of America. There was a time when what a man did in his bedroom was sanctified between himself and G-d. Now we are being served an "in-your-face" smorgasbord of smut and licentiousness as being between people who only "want their civil rights."

Hogwash! We are dealing with the equivalent of a moral takeover of the country that has as its bedrock a belief in G-d and His promise for humanity. They don't want civil rights! What they desire is quasi Gay/Lesbian hegemony, where a huge "bookburning," reminiscent of the Nazis, will purge any remnants of the "Christian, White, mainstream America" that has given ALL AMERICANS the most profound scope of freedom, liberty, and justice that Mankind has yet to experience.

People have perhaps wondered: why the Mormons? Answer: they are a small, yet vocal Christian minority. They have been selected by the mobs as vulnerable, a group that might not have such massive support among America's Christians.

We who are friends of the Mormons, their patriotism, their family values, will not falter in our continued support of these dear Americans. Let us recall the Christian minister Niemoller, whose admonition during those dark years of Nazi Germany moved us to our core:

"When they came for the gypsies, I said nothing, because I wasn't a gypsy. When they came for the homosexuals, I said nothing, because I wasn't a homosexual. When they came for the Jews, I said nothing, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I said nothing, because I wasn't a Catholic......then they came for me, and there was no one left to defend me."

My fellow Americans, in the coming battle for the heart and soul of America and everything we cherish, may this call to arms be the mantra of every concerned patriot:

"WE ALL ARE MORMONS!"

=====================================

Rabbi Nachum Shifren

Lecturer and Author, "Kill Your Teacher: An Expose of Corruption and Racism in LA Schools" & "Surfing Rabbi: A Kabbalistic Quest for the Soul"

We are all Mormons

CALMNESS IN OUR LIVES

My aunt Jean sent this to me.

I am passing this on to you because it definitely works, and we could all use a little more calmness in our lives. By following simple advice heard on the Dr. Phil show, you too can find inner peace. Dr Phil proclaimed, "The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started and have never finished."

So, I looked around my house to see all the things I started and hadn't finished and before leaving the house this morning, I finished a package of Oreos, the remainder of my old Prozac prescription, the
rest of the cheesecake, some Doritos, and a box of chocolates. You have no idea how good I feel right now.

HAHAHA!! Well if you count food as things 'never finished'. Then I have lots of unfinished stuff. But I will not eat it on one setting. No thank you!

Christmas edition of getting to know your friends

I couldn't be a Scrooge. I had to be nice after all it is Christmas right?


1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? gift bags

2. Real tree or Artificial? REAL, smells so nice

3. When do you put up the tree? Sometime before Christmas, but after Thanksgiving

4. When do you take the tree down? Sometime after Christmas but before New years day

5. Do you like eggnog? No! I had tried to like it, but it didn't work

6. Favorite gift received as a child? Mmmmmm. I need to think about that one. My birthday and Christmas is 6 days apart. So I get the gifts mixed up. No, I do, I promise.

7. Hardest person to buy for? Jonathan my nephew

8. Easiest person to buy for? Andria (She likes gifts cards)

9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes??? A lot of my stuff is in storage so I cant remember

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? You are supposed to mail them?

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Again I need to think about that one. Birthday-Christmas -so close together

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration. I love the camels singing "We three Kings"

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Sometime in December (sometimes on my birthday)

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? yes

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Home-made candy (but it's not
good for you)

16. Lights on the tree? White lights, colored it's all the same right?

17. Favorite Christmas song? I like the ones that I can sing/play so all???

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? stay home

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Comet, Cupid, Donner and
Blitzen. Dasher, Dancer, prancer and vixen. And the most famous
reindeer of all .....Rudolph!

20. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas Morning after I wake up

21. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Crowds in stores
and long check-out lines

22. Favorite ornament theme or color? Theme: Mmmmmm again I need to think about that one because I like the birthday theme. (obvious reasons)

23. What do you want for Christmas this year? Job security, dreams to come true this coming year.

MERRY CHRISTMAS Y'ALL!!!

Pool Chick

Wow!!!!! How did they do that?!!

Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

I had just found out that Elder Wirthlin had passed away this morning. He will be missed. This great man was 91.

Passing of Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

I now call it my Char Problem

Well yesterday I was talking to my very pregnant friend Char. For one hour and 5 minutes I had heard her complain on how her cloths didn't fit anymore, she cant eat junk food, she is crying during a funny movie, biting peoples heads off, and how so many people are asking her if she is pregnant. Oh dear. I just need to keep reminding myself that I have never been pregnant before.

Two weeks ago she said: 'you know when you are pregnant?'
Me: 'Noooo I have never been pregnant so I cant say.'

Ya well what do I do????????? Poor Alex (her husband).

Well all I need to say is if she didn't know what she was getting into before now she dose. She wanted this so bad. The thing is that I have 6 more months of her complains.

I have found these and thought that I would put it up.

What not to say to Pregnant women:

So how are you feeling?
Do you think that you will have more children after this one?
How much longer?
How did THAT happen? (Char's own mother said this one. No lie)
What? you are pregnant, you don't look 9 months pregnant.
Can I touch your stomach?
Are you buying that to feed a craving?
(At the hospital) Can you make it to the second floor?
You look like you are about to pop!
Wow, you sure are pregnant! Um....., I mean, Wow, You sure look Great!

FYI:
NO. I DID NOT SAY THESE THINGS TO CHAR. OR MY SISTERS-IN-LAW! I do have much more tack then that.

Telling Auntie Jeanie how to change her back ground

Hi ya all. This morning I got to tell my Auntie Jeanie how to change her back ground on her blog over the phone. She wanted to have the Three Wise Men on her blog for Christmas. It looks cool on her blog. She also told me that after this month she is going to call me again so I can help her change her back ground again. When it was done she was so happy!!!

So check it out at:
Aunt Jeanie

Fedex-Castaway

If you remember the movie 'Castaway' staring Tom Hanks, This is the spoof.

New heights

Each day I always think that I have reached my limit. I find that each new day I have reached new heights. Each day is always a new first for me.

I like what Audrey Hepburn said: 'Walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.'

The day after Thanksgiving

I don't do black Friday. So yes I was lazy and didn't get up until 10:30 this morning. It was nice, the simple joys of life. Right???

Now what I must do (no matter what) is to clean up after Thanksgiving. So yes I have lots of cleaning to do. Wash dishes, a lot of dishes. Oh joy I can't wait.

Canadian Police chase

HAHAHAHAH! What?????

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Julie Andrews on her 69th birthday

If you google this you will find this on so many blogs and joke pages. So I don't know why I have it on mine. Hmmmm oh well.

To commemorate her 69th birthday on October 1, actress/vocalist,
Julie Andrews made a special appearance at Manhattan's Radio City
Music Hall for the benefit of the AARP.

One of the musical numbers she performed was "My Favorite Things"
from the legendary movie "Sound Of Music."

Here are the lyrics she used:

Maalox and nose drops and needles for knitting,

Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings,

Bundles of magazines tied up in string,

These are a few of my favorite things.

Cadillacs and cataracts and hearing aids and glasses,

Polident and Fixodent and false teeth in glasses,

Pacemakers, golf carts and porches with swings,

These are a few of my favorite things.

When the pipes leak,

When the bones creak,

When the knees go bad,

I simply remember my favorite things,

And then I don't feel so bad.

Hot tea and crumpets and corn pads for bunions,

No spicy hot food or food cooked with onions,

Bathrobes and heating pads and hot meals they bring,

These are a few of my favorite things.

Back pains, confused brains, and no fear of sinnin',

Thin bones and fractures and hair that is thinnin',

And we won't mention our short shrunken frames,

When we remember our favorite things.

When the joints ache,

When the hips break,

When the eyes grow dim,

Then I remember the great life I've had,

And then I don't feel so bad.

(Ms. Andrews received a standing ovation from the crowd that lasted
over four minutes and repeated encores.)

Summit ward talent show

I was going to put up something else, but it was too personal to share with the world.

Times as such as this

With the government saying: "we are not in a recession. Just in hard economic times." Who do we believe??? I believe in numbers and facts of today. Like the housing foreclose and the inflation. We have inflation in food, clothing, electronics, and etc.

The good news is that gas prices are going down!! The one bright spot in these dark times. But that is not enough. The Utah food bank has more orders for food assistance in about 15 years (give or take 5 years). More family's are living on the streets and in shelters. Their have been states that have shut down their food banks. Hawaii food bank shelves have nothing on them. The grim reality of our times.

How will President elect Obama and his team fix this??? The US people and the world would like to know how they will accomplish such a task. Such a big challenge for the Obama team. We will be watching, waiting, and praying.

Evolution

This speaks for itself.

UTES

I must say I'm sorry BYU fans you will not take part in the BCS. UTES are bound for the BCS. Score Utah 48 BYU 24.
Good job boys you deserve it.
GO UTES!!!!!

phycho cats

My cat is much like these cats. But when other cats or animals try and bully him, he will ignore them, and look at them as is there is something wrong with them, he wont up a fight.

Go UTES!!!!!!

Utah vs. BYU

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

The stakes are high!! Utah must win.

Red neck christmas tree

I know that it is not yet Thanksgiving. I also now that their are people out their that will get upset when you say Christmas in front of them. I could be wrong if so please tell me so, but I think that this is because Thanksgiving get overshadowed by Christmas. So to set the balance I have a small history lesson about the first thanksgiving:

" The legend of the five kernels"

The first winter, the Pilgrims spent in their new home was very cold. Food was in short supply. Some days they only have enough food for each person to have five kernels of corn for the day. But spring came. They planted food. It grew; and all the Pilgrims did not die.

From then on, when Thanksgiving came around, the Pilgrims put five kernels of corn in each plate to remind themselves of their blessing.

Let us Remember:

The first kernel reminds us of the autumn beauty around us.
The second kernel reminds us of our love for one another.
The third kernel reminds us of God's love and care for us.
The fourth kernel reminds us of our friends.... especially our Indian brothers.
The fifth kernel reminds us we are a FREE PEOPLE.

This Country is based on people who sacrificed so much for such idealism. They wanted a better world for the generations to come. My family history dates back to the men and women who build up James Town. I am grateful for their decisions to come hear and sacrifice to build such a nation.

New offices

DUE TO BUDGET CUTS, THIS IS YOUR NEW CUBICLE:



















EFFECTIVE AUGUST 1, 2008

NEW OFFICE POLICY

Dress Code:

1) You are advised to come to work dressed according to
your salary.

2) If we see you wearing Prada shoes and carrying a
Gucci bag, we will assume you are doing well financially
and therefore do not need a raise.

3) If you dress poorly, you need to learn to manage your
money better, so that you may buy nicer clothes, and
therefore you do not need a raise.

4) If you dress just right, you are right where you need
to be and therefore you do not need a raise.



Sick Days:
We will no longer accept a doctor's statement as proof
of sickness. If you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work.

Person al Days:
Each employee will receive 104 personal days a year.
They are called Saturdays & Sundays.

Bereavement Leave:
This is no excuse for missing work. There is nothing
you can do for dead friends, relatives or co-workers. Every
effort should be made to have non-employees attend the
funeral arrangements in your place. In rare cases where
employee involvement is necessary, the funeral should be
scheduled in the late afternoon. We will be glad to
allow you to work through your lunch hour and
subsequently leave one hour early.




Bathroom Breaks:
Entirely too much time is be ing spent in the toilet.
There is now a strict three-minute time limit in the
stalls. At the end of three minutes, an alarm will
sound, the toilet paper roll will retract, the stall
door will open, and a picture will be taken. After your
second offense, your picture will be posted on the
company bulletin board under the 'Chronic Offenders'
category. Anyone caught smiling in the picture will be
sectioned under the company's mental health policy.


Lunch Break:

* Skinny people get 30 minutes for lunch, as they need
to eat more, so that they can look healthy.

* Normal size people get 15 minutes for lunch to get a
balanced meal to maintain their average figure.

* Chubby people get 5 minutes for lunch, because that's
all the time needed to drink a Slim-Fast.


Thank you for your loyalty to our company. We are here
to provide a positive employment experience. There fore,
all questions, comments, concerns, complaints,
frustrations, irritations, aggravations, insinuations,
allegations, accusations, contemplations, consternation
and input should be directed elsewhere..


The Management

The Blond Antelope

HAHAHHAHAHAH!!!

Twilight Trailer Spoof

There is a lot of people out there who likes Twilight, and there are people who don't. But this is fun just the same.

The Real Story!!!

A DOG'S DIARY:

7 am - Oh boy! A morning walk with Daddy! My favorite!

8 am - Oh boy! Dog food with breakfast scraps! My favorite!

9 am - Oh boy! The kids! My favorite!

Noon - Oh boy! The yard! My favorite!

2 pm - Oh boy! A car ride with Mommy! My favorite!

3 pm - Oh boy! The kids! My favorite!

5 pm - Oh boy! Welcome home Daddy! My favorite!

6 pm - Oh boy! Playing ball with Daddy! My favorite!

7 pm - Oh boy! Dog food and table scraps! My favorite!

9 pm - Oh boy! Tummy rubs from Daddy on the couch! My favorite!

10 pm - Oh boy! A moon light walk with Daddy! My favorite!

11 pm - Oh boy! Sleeping with my Mommy and Daddy
in the Big Bed! My favorite!

A CAT'S DIARY:

Day 183 of my captivity. My captors continued to taunt me
with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on
fresh meat, while I am forced to eat dry cereal. The only
thing that keeps me going is the hope of escape and the mild
satisfaction I get from clawing the furniture.
Tomorrow I may eat another house plant.

Today my attempt to kill my captors by weaving around their
feet while they were walking almost succeeded - must try this
at the top of the stairs.

In an attempt to disgust and repulse these vile oppressors,
I once again induced myself to vomit on their favorite
chair - must try this on their bed.

Decapitated a mouse and brought them the headless body
in an attempt to make them aware of what I am capable of,
and to try to strike fear in their hearts. They only cooed
and condescended about what a good little
cat I was. Hmmm, not working according to plan.

There was some sort of gathering of their accomplices.
I was placed in solitary throughout the event. However,
I could hear the noise and smell the food. More important,
I overheard that my confinement was due to my powers of
inducing "allergies." Must learn what this is and how to
use it to my advantage.

I am convinced the other captives are flunkies and
maybe snitches. The dog is routinely released and
seems more than happy to return. He is obviously
a half-wit. The bird, on the other hand, has got to
be an informant and speaks with them regularly.
I am certain he reports my every move. Due to his
current placement in the metal room, his safety is
assured. But I can wait; it is only a matter of time.