I Can Do Anything Good

The Dryer was Framed!

So I was doing my laundry one day and thinking about how everyone blames the dryer for eating socks and decided that there is no way it is the dryers fault. I think a more likely suspect is the washer. Think about it, don't you agree that the washer probably ate the sock? Here's my thinking: the washer has the agitator where the sock can get stuck under or if you have one of those new-fangled washers like my mom does the sock could get stuck in the lip part of the washer. Plus, the dryer is nice and make the clothes all dry and warm and snuggly whereas the washer basically beats the dirt out of them. Yep, the dryer was framed.

It's a Beautiful Day...

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,

A beautiful day for a neighbor.

Would you be mine?

Could you be mine?.

I need to study, but...I procrastinate. So, I was looking up random things and happened upon a website and looked up something and came upon something else that reminded me of when I was little and would watch Mr. Rogers and came upon this delightful little page that has a bunch of songs from the show. One of my favorites that I just listened to was You Can Never Go Down the Drain isn't that just dang reassuring. I was worried. Also, this song is great, I especially like the part about riding a bicycle. 

If you want to ride a bicycle

And ride it straight and tall.

You can't simply sit and look at it

'Cause it won't move at all.

But it's you who have to try it.

And it's you who have to fall (sometimes)

If you want to ride a bicycle

And ride it straight and tall.

You've got to do it.

Every little bit

You've got to do it, do it, do it, do it

And when you're through,

You can know who did it,

For you did it, you did it, you did it.

There are some great messages that came from that show. You just can't beat Mr. Rogers. 

It really is a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Fall is definitely in the air (literally in the air because my asthma/allergies are making it so I don't get any!) The beautiful fall weather is making me want to do fall things like go on a hike up the canyon, jump in piles of leaves, wear sweaters and hats, make soup and pumpkin flavored things. YUM! 

The Delta Girls

So Mom is AWESOME and played Softball in the Huntsman Senior World Games this past weekend. I find that uploading pictures to blogger is sort of annoying and this way I only had to upload one, so click on it and zoom in. :) I dare say that Mom had one of the biggest cheering sections for her at the games (that I saw at least) Mom hit a HOME RUN, caught a long throw home as catcher to get someone out and WIN a game and did AMAZING in the outfield. She also tore her hamstring and has a pretty purple bruise. So all in all I think the weekend was successful. She did awesome and we had a lot of fun being entertained by the situation. 

They call it softball, makes it sound like it's harmless, you know. You ever take a line shot to the face with a softball? You don't go "Hey, that's Downy Soft. That was like a big ball of cotton! Hey, don't worry about that! That's Blood Light! We're playing softball, we're all going to float around like angels!"- Brian Regan

To Top it all Off

I have been pondering a change with my hair and had a great example in my niece Mary. She was playing beauty shop with her cousin Emma and somehow the real scissors got in the mix of supplies.Mary claims that she told her that she didn’t want her to do it and told her no.  Needless to say the girl who was born with only a few strands of hair and at 4 years old could FINALLY put her hair in a pony tail now has a cute little bob hair cut courtesy of Emma and Asher (the girl that fixed the original hair cut). It really is cute, but I think that Mindy was way more traumatized by the event than Mary was.
 
So occasionally I have mini-crisis in my life and decide that my hair needs to change. I was trying to grow my hair out for a while but then gave up in July. So my hair is just below my chin now and I dyed (spelling?) it red. But now I want to get it cut shorter but I want a picture to show the girl that is going to cut my hair so I turned to my friendly neighborhood Google to help me with this. Do you want to know what I have found out about my hair? It has multiple personality disorder. Yep. You read right. My hair is thick, sort-of curly, but the individual strands are kind of thin. Plus my face shape is neither round nor square..All of these factors mean that I should stop trying to find a picture on the internet because all the hair looks either really weird or I think would look weird on me. So hopefully going short short is a good idea. Perhaps I will post some before and after pictures and you can all see for yourself and maybe Mindy will update her blog and you can see the cute cut that Mary has.
By the way, since I am going off about hair, did you know that having a different color of hair is kind of fun? I have only dyed my hair once before in my life and that was not permanent. It was kind of scary to just dye it. But having red hair is kind of fun. It is not too extreme and either people just haven’t noticed or don’t think it looks good not that many people have commented on the red. But hey, I like it, It makes me happy and it is my hair. :)

How can I control my life when I can't control my hair? 

Tumbling Random Thoughts

Here are some thoughts that were tumbling around in my head lately, this list is in no particular order.

• It is good to have folks
• I am a VERY lucky girl to have all of my grandparents in my life. I love them all so much and am grateful for everything that they do for me and their amazing examples
• Pray for my Grandpa Johnson
• I have an amazing family.
• I need to study...but just don’t want to.
• Life without school is cool, but kind of weird.
• The fuzzy headache that I have had for the past 3 days needs to leave...now.
• Having a girls night with Angelia, Mary, and Emily was a ton of fun and should happen again...
• Mindy and Melissa are good moms.
• Angelia is going to be a good mom.
• I get a new niece in approximately 13 days!
• I get a new nephew in approximately 2 months and 16 days!
• I need to get working on the presents for the above mentioned new little people.
• I want to do something cool this weekend...any ideas?
• I have some pretty awesome roommates.
• Hanging out with Carla a few weeks ago was fun.
• Went golfing with Jac (who I was not avoiding, by the way), Melissa, Mom and Dad on Monday and golfed horribly but had fun with my family.
• I should golf more than once a year because my back kind of hurts.
• I got par on one of the holes, it was over a water hazard and everything! (the ball splashed in the water and rolled up the hill and landed about 4 feet from the hole. Be impressed. I gave up when I saw the water splash, Melissa had to tell me what happened)
• I miss Mike, but I used his golf clubs so that was happy
• Mike comes home in 3 months!
• Mike is awesome to be on a mission!
• I want to go on a hike
• I want to ride my bike
• I can waste a lot of time playing this game http://games.yahoo.com/game/bricks-breaking
• My parents are awesome!
• Brittni must be the most patient person ever. She is with me all of the time and is still sane.
• Marcia and I live in the same town and never see each other. This should change.
• Marcia has to get up way too early in the morning.
• Lynsie is taking Organic Chemistry. I think she deserves a blizzard or some other treat every day of the week.
• Mindy Crockett  brought back guitar hero with all of the rock band stuff. I like that game but am in no way good at that game. I can, however, occasionally hit the pedal on the drums...Lame, I know
• I get to go to Zumba tonight.
• My family is going to be doing the Biggest Loser for the rest of the year
• I need to be more diligent at exercising
• I have more random thoughts going through my mind but this list is getting kind of long so I will stop

I mean, really, when have I ever been pondering what you've been pondering? So, what are the chances that this time, I'm pondering what you're pondering? "Next to nil." "Well, that's exactly what I'm thinking, too." "Therefore, you *are* pondering what I'm pondering..." - Pinky and The Brain

A Bad Case of a Drowned Cell Phone

I have effectively put two phones out of commission within the space of two months. The first one just decided that it didn’t want to work for no apparent reason so I went back to the phone that I had about three years ago that liked to drop calls and had a few other glitches but it worked okay until my pocket decided that it had had enough of carrying the phone and ejected it right into the toilet never to live again. So…if you need to get in contact with me I have an email, a blog, and a facebook account that I check…occasionally. My plan on my cell-phone lets me get a new phone on Sept. 3 and now I am counting the days. If anyone has an old phone that they would let me borrow until then I would very much appreciate it :)

Somehow I think that I am supposed to learn a lesson from this. On Sunday the talks in Sacrament Meeting were on being too attached to technology. I like to think that I am not that attached, but I think that this experience is teaching me that I am a little too dependent on it. I didn’t think that I used it that much but I no longer know the time and it scares me to use my actual alarm clock as an alarm clock (plus it makes the most annoying noise to wake up to). I am afraid that the alarm won’t go off and consequently wake up every 20 minutes for hours before I need to wake up. I am still using technology to get this message to the world so maybe I am not learning as much of a lesson as I should.

Dilbert: I'm addicted to e-mail. My endorphins spike when I get a message. When there are no messages, loneliness and despair overcome me.

Dogbert: Have you tried sending e-mail to yourself?

Dilbert: We don't talk about that.