All I Want To Do I Read

I would say I have many different sides to my personality as all of us do, I am sure.

I think one of the one that is most frusterating for my family is I have some compulsive behaviors. Hmmm imagine that. Never would have guessed it huh.

I have been reading the Fablehaven series of childrens books. Lets put it this way. I read the first one Thursday and Friday. Saturday I did absolutly nothing but read. Katie ended up cleaning the kitchen and Del did the laundry. I finished book 2 the same day.

I had to wait until I got back to work Monday to buy book 3 and 4. I am over halfway through book three, starting it pretty much when I got home from work Monday.
Katie cleaned the kitchen again last night and vacuumed.

I really haven't cooked since Thursday, we haven't had to start the dishwasher. Needless to say that this morning when I got up to have breakfast, I had to drink my milk out of a milkshake glass.

When I was reading the Harry Potter books several years ago, my kids would come up to me and say "Mom, are we going to eat soon?" When I do take a day to do nothing but read, which isn't really that often, I will be sitting on my bed reading, and various family members will just come in and lay down next to me. After a few minutes they get up and leave the room. It is so nice to know that they really miss me when I am not around.

Well hang on family, I only have 2 and 1/2 more books to read in the series.

(but just don't tell them I heard about 2 more series that sound really neat)

Who are these old people and why don't i look like i feel

So here is the story. I was working at a lunch counter in a store call Newberries in downtown Portland. My sister worked there, her best friend worked there, 2 people she rented rooms to worked there. Our manager had a new assistant come join him. It also happened to be his brother in law. It also happened to be Del. There were 3 lunch counters in the store. I usually worked by myself at the hot dog counter. Del came in as the new assistant manager and tried to tell me what to do. Well that didn't go over very well as you can imagine.

I had made friends with one of the other girls there and we would go out after work and grab a snack. We started talking about religion. She had joined the church a year previous. When I started asking questions she couldn't answer she told me to go talk to Del or Bill (the manager who is now my brother in law). Del and I would go for long drives. I would show him around Portland and we would have religious discussion in the car.

I had just ended a 3 year relationship. I had a promise ring and we had planned on getting married the next year. But due to shall we say an awakening of how things were really going to be the relationship ended.

So Del was going to get me to join the church being the good return missionary then move on and I wasn't sure how to get back into the dating pool and Del seemed to be safe enough to practice on then I was going to move on.

I guess being together for the last 34 years we forgot to move on.

I joined the church. Del baptized me and Bill confirmed me 2 days before my 19th birthday. We were married year and and 4 days later in the Idaho Falls Temple.

I can't say that life has always been perfect. But is it so much more amazing than I could ever dream. Del and I will celebrate 33 years of marriage in Oct. of this year.

I am so grateful he has stuck by my side. He is truly my best friend.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Canada?

My phone rings at 6:30 this morning.

That is never a good sign.

It was my oldest daughter, Nicki. "Mom, do you want to run away to Canada with me?"

"What is going on?

"The kids have been up coughing, my kitchen hasn't been cleaned in 2 days, I am exhausted"

I remember those days. But I lived to far away from my mom to call for help. I may not be going to Cananda this afternoon, but I am off to Pocatello armed with toys, coloring books, wii games, magazines for nicki, and chicken noodle soup fixins.

Grandmaisms

I wrote a few weeks ago about my Grandma. She was the wisest woman I have ever met. She could do anything (except drive a car)
She had wisdom about everything in life. She had a little saying for just about everything so I thought I would pass some of her wisdom on to you.

For example here is some well know wisdom . . .

If your nose itches you are going to kiss a fool
If your ears burn someone is talking about you
If you step on a crack you will break your mothers back

Now a lot of you have probably heard those three but did you know. . .

If there is enough blue sky between the clouds to make a Dutchman a pair of pants the weather is going to clear up

I know she was always right with that one because she was a seamstress in a factory for years

Then we have more weather up dates . . .

Red sky in the morning sailors warning
Red sky at night sailor’s delight

And how about . . .

When you are walking with someone and you have an object come between you like a telephone pole or a fire hydrant you have to say

Bread and butter

Speaking of bread and butter . . .

If you eat burnt toast it will give you white teeth
If you drop a fork you will have a female visitor
If you drop a knife you will have a male and female visitor
If you drop a spoon you will have a male visitor


Then there is the one that always creeped me out. . .


If you have a shiver someone is walking on your grave

And finally my love hate relationship . . .

If your left palm itches you will receive money
If your right palm itches you will pay money

So now you are just about as smart as my Grandma.
It is too bad these kind of traditions get lost along the way. My kids look at me like i am nuts when I call out randomly

BREAD AND BUTTER

But what do they know i just wished them good luck.

And what every happened to the good old silly songs and poems
But that is for another blog.

When the Cat's Away the Mice Will Play

WHAT MORE ABOUT MICE!

Just kidding.

Whenever the management of the Bookstore got to conferences we have something that has been lovingly called snack day.

I love snack day.

Everyone just brings a treat. Anything they want to bring. My favorites are shrimp dip, fresh veggies and of course cookies.

Today was snack day.

Life is good.

A Moment Of Silence

They caught the mouse last night.

Well, caught is a much nicer word that what really happened but we won't go there.

Welcome to My World

I am sitting at my desk this morning at the start of the day. When the lady I work with all of the sudden says "OH". I said what's wrong. She said "are you afraid of mice?" My first thought was, "am I? I really don't want to find out!" She said "come over here and maybe go out the door a mouse just ran under your desk." I was very obedient. So Linda and one of our managers spent probably 1/2 hour trying to get the mouse out from under my desk. My desk is metal and attached to the wall so this makes it much more difficult. I went into the storage room so i would not have to be in my office to complete an inventory I had been working and the next thing i hear is "he just ran out here"
Holy Cow he is after me!
But alas he got away. So I proceeded to vacuum my office and my desk drawers making sure there were no crumbs left.

Needless to say so far today i have had may attempts by my co workers to try and scare me or send me mouse emails. I think i just need to bring some of my Mickey Mouse decorations to work.

As a side note i told my blog fans about how my ceiling caved in at work. Well last night the conference room ceiling caved in from a large water leak from food services.
Gotta love new construction.

Out of Control

I have had so much on my mind lately. And if you read this blog on a regular basis you know my mind in always going (in one way or the other)But lately it has been out of control. One of the women i work with teaches RS in her ward. Her lesson last sunday was to not worry about the things you can not contol. I need to learn that.

apology

Ok i guess i owe oakland construction an apology. We are now thinking that the flood in my office that colapsed the ceiling tile was from foodservices upstairs. great just great.

Spring Thaw

I get to work this morning and find out that since the snow is melting we have water problems. We are 3 flights down from the roof. They think water leaked in around something called a mechanical room where all the duct work from the building meet. (as I understand it) Well it must have gotten a ton of water in it from the snow melting and the ducts above my desk filled up with water, soaked the insulation and leaked onto the ceiling tile. The tile soaked up so much water that it fell out of the ceiling on to my desk. They cleaned it up over the weekend but when I got here I looked at my phone and keyboard and they were disgusting and I just cleaned them Friday. Then I picked up my calculator and there was a puddle of water under it and I have it by my space heater trying to dry it out. My mouse pad was wet so I had to get a new one. I took Clorox wipes and cleaned everything up. I hope there are no more surprises today. Gotta love Oaklands (the contractor) roofing skills. This is the 3rd leak the bookstore has had and we are on the first floor and it is a brand new building.