Texting Conversation

Lu: :( save me!!!
Me: From what?
Lu: From dying of boredem
Me: I think you'll survive. LOL
Lu: I dunno i'm running out of air and i don't think I'll live much longer!!
Me: Uh huh. Yeah. Well, I'll pick up your bored body on the way out.
Lu: You're willing to let your ungrateful daughter die?!?! How could you?!
Me: Because I'm cool like that.
Lu: Nope! You're just a mean mom
Me: You know it! :)

Heads UP

My neighbors down the road seemed to have a bit of a problem the other day:


Notice the size of the car and the house next to the tree... yes, it was really that big. And that's not the amazing part:


Yes, that's a LIMB of the main tree that came crashing down. And, yes, that's a full-size telephone pole in the photo next to the tall, tall tree...

Where I Went On Memorial Day

We needed some landscaping rocks (I love being able to relocate pieces of our beautiful mountains to be displayed in our yard!), so I got a permit from the BLM to go gather rocks from West Mountain near us. We spent a few hours on Memorial Day loading up the trailer and truck with views like this around us:




Beautiful day, beautiful views, beautiful weather... what more could you ask for?

Wordless Wednesday

Random Tuesday Thoughts

It's Tuesday already? Where did the rest of the week go? Two posts ago, I was tossing out Random Thoughts... which means I either had a week of boringness, or a week of busyness.

One of the problems with having a Monday holiday is that you spend the rest of the week trying to figure out what day it is. Your week equilibrium gets knocked out of whack.

What is it in our minds that tells us that it is weird if "old people" have a dirty sense of humor? Is it that whole "my parents NEVER have sex" mentality? :)

The governor of Utah, John Huntsman, accepted an Obama-nomination (ha! I love how those sound together…) to be the new ambassador to China. Awesome pick, if you ask me, since Gov. Huntsman knows Mandarin already. And since he’s a savvy businessman, he’ll be very, very smart where business relations are concerned. (And then I fully expect him to run for President in 2016.)(You saw it here first!)

I want a live-in maid, like Alice on “The Brady Bunch”. She would be at home all the time, except one night a week when she would go bowling with Sam. All meals prepared, house kept spotless…

I won a lottery ticket over at Sprite’s Keeper. Since I live in a no-gambling state, I’ve never had a scratch ticket before. When the ticket arrived, I felt particularly sinful as I scratched the stuff off to see if I was a winner. And Utah influence ruled—I was not a winner. Sniff. (Now I know where the phrase “scratch and sniff” comes from.)

And now I have to get back to a workday I'd rather not have... Tuesdays after holiday weekends are always awful. Sigh.

Wordless Wednesday

Random Tuesday Thoughts

I must be doing something right in the parenting department if my teenager says to me, “You’re looking particularly nerdy this morning.” My transgression? Wearing socks that cover my ankles. I’ve warned my daughter that someday she, too, will be Completely Uncool to her children. She doesn’t believe me. But then again, when I was 16, I vowed that my kids would never think I was out of style or old. Ha! Her turn is coming…

Middle School is hell on earth.

The older I’ve gotten, the more life has taught me. I think that’s called “wisdom”. Now I just need to put more of that hard-earned experience into action on a daily basis.

I wish I had some pics of some of the girls in my high school who had these most amazing bangs... they stood straight up from their foreheads. We used to call them "surf's up!" bangs. And it was just the bangs-- the rest of the top of the hair was flat. I thought it was weird even in the era of big hair.

When Ron and I announced to the kids that we had eloped, Violet (then 8) said, “But… you’re a beautiful swan! And he’s a hairy moose. Swans and moose don’t breed!”

Forgiveness

Yesterday's lesson at church: forgiveness.

Some lessons you hear over and over again at church-- and I think those are the ones we need to pay attention to the most. Forgiveness is definitely one of those.

Things I've learned about forgiveness over the years:

• It's not about them. It's about you.
• If you cannot forgive someone else, how can you expect the atonement to work for you?
• Most people on this earth are reasonable people. If you are wronged in some way, it was most likely by a reasonable person. So ask yourself-- why would a reasonable person do this? After all, we've done our fair share of hurting others without meaning to.
• Forgiveness is a process. Plant the seed, and nurture the growth within you.
  
• Forgiving is not necessarily forgetting. As a friend of mine once stated, "I choose not to be around that person so they will not have the opportunity to sin against me again." :) You can forgive, yet still protect yourself from further harm.
• We judge others based on their actions towards us. We judge ourselves based on our intent. We need to give others the benefit of the doubt and assume that their good intentions didn't work out the way they had planned.

This was a good lesson, given at a time I desperately needed to hear it again to work through some issues with my ex-husband. Even though he committed suicide almost 3 years ago, I can still forgive him for the aftermath he left me to deal with. It is time to really work on letting it go.

I am tenderly watering the seed that was planted yesterday.

Texting Conversation

Me: What's your favorite animal? :)
Ron: i would have to go with a dog, some breeds more than others, and only the ones that don't keep me awake at night.

15 minutes later....

Ron: Now that i have had a little more time to think i will have to say you are. ;)

Huh?

Sign posted at an area hospital: