Still Turning

My ward has been going through some major reorganizing. A few weeks ago we got a new Relief Society presidency, today it was the Primary and Sunday School's turn. And with my bishop and his wife leaving on a mission in 60 days (but they're not counting!), we know that's coming soon too. Even though I just got a new calling (primary teacher for 8 and 9 year olds) when I was released from being librarian, I got reshuffled today too. I'm now the Relief Society secretary.

When I brought it to the attention of my primary class what the changes meant for them, I thought they might start a riot. And the outgoing presidency said that if they weren't released themselves, they'd be throwing punches. It's nice to feel wanted. And while I'm excited for my new calling, I'm sad to leave my valiant 9 kids.

Memory Triggers

This might not look like much, but it's a pan of yummy goodness, aka Seven Layer Cookies. I've always been a fan of these cookies. But I only got the recipe when I was out visiting Taffy a couple years ago. And even though I've had the recipe for a couple of years, this is my first time making them. I've just never had chocolate chips and coconut and sweetened condensed milk and the other 4 layers all together at the same time until tonight (when I went to the store to specifically get the 7 layers).

As I worked on these I thought about that visit to San Diego. And making snow flakes with Taffy's girls. And going to the Wild Animal Park. And just what a good time that was.

Also tonight Marty and I watched The Incredibles. My associations with that include Carolioness' date and how cute Nagol looks as Jack Jack. And when I watched it for the first time with Ree and Schmoo. I thought about Schmoo's character tutorial beforehand.

"This is Frozone. And this is Mr. Incredible."
"Oh. Is this Mrs. Incredible?"
"No. That's Elastigirl, or you can call her Helen. And this is Dash. This is Jack. I don't remember her name [Edna]...."

Oh yeah, and when I was bringing my groceries in I thought about how when Boss and I lived together and did our grocery shopping, it didn't matter how much stuff we had, we'd try with all of our might to get it all inside in one trip.

One night. Just four hours. What kind of memory triggers do ya'll have?

Fall Fun

Last weekend we went to a "Pig Picking" which is apparently an Autumn tradition around here. The highlight of it was the Pinewood Derby. As you can probably tell from the flyer, it was not your normal Pinewood Derby. The winning car had a battery-operated propeller. But the second place car was the real surprise. It was a "Rock"et Car made by duct taping a garden rock to the 30 year old Pinewood Derby car that the owner had made as a cub scout.

So, my family and friends... what would your car be like?

Another Day, Another Drama

Ugh! Today was an interesting day. And by interesting I mean a day where you feel like you are watching a train wreck and trying not to get caught completely in the middle of it.

I know I shouldn't have to say this, but if you use email, don't be dumb. It's that easy. Don't be dumb. If you are going to use email to vent about an individual, don't cc that very individual on a later email in the same series without removing the offending emails. It might stir up some problems.

And I don't want to deal with those problems.

So don't be dumb.

Oh, and have a good weekend.

Our New Arrival

This is Cher. Marty adopted her a week ago. In the past week we've made quite a bit of progress in getting to know each other. She no longer hisses 85% of the time she sees me. And she doesn't run away and hide the other 15% of the time. She has actually become pretty playful with us (she's been jumping from one knee to the other as I type).

Razor, however, hasn't fully adjusted to the new member of our family. Razor's still hoping that if she ignores Cher's existence long enough, Cher will go away for good. Cher on the other hand is trying to get to know Razor a little better. We'll see how the next couple of weeks go.

Dinner-prep multi-tasking gone wrong

A new twist on "Beep! Beep! Beep!"

About the evacuation

Thanks for the concern. We were not evacuated. We live about 20 miles from the Raleigh suburb that was affected. Hopefully we don't find out later down the road that the evacuation radius should have been bigger. We're fine and haven't noticed any strange chlorine smells in the air. :)

Once upon a Valentine's day

An activity one February in the Young Single Adults group in Minnesota was making each other Valentines. We had markers, construction paper, printer paper, glue, stickers, and WWF and Power Puff Girl grade school Valentines. Anyway, I've been going through some things lately and I happened upon this one:

Sonnet, sweet sonnet:
You make me truly want to be
For I question not my existence when you're next to me
You're poetry in motion, and I'm spinning hopelessly...
Yours truly,
Enchanted

Oh yeah, and it's got a rose drawn on it and each line starts with a heart shaped bullet-point. And it was sealed with a heart sticker. It cracks me up. It cracked me up when I got it too. It occured to me tonight that maybe it wasn't meant to be utterly hilarious. But then again, maybe it was.

Hope

Hope--1. the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best.

Today I have hope. And for now, that is enough.