#1 I have no passion for fashion

It is pretty sad that the extent of my fashion sense is trying to decide between K-Mart or Shopko. Then the biggest challenge is to avoid seeing your reflection in the glass doors on the way in. Fashion expert is not my passion.

Random Thoughts

* More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves me.
* I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
* The letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard. This recentlybecame all too apparent to me and consequently I will never be ending a work email with the phrase "Regards" again.
* There is a great need for sarcasm font.
* How the heck are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?*
* Was learning cursive really necessary?
* Lol has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".
* I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
* MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
* Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.*
* You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything productive for the rest of the day.
* Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.
* "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever or "says who!"
* While watching the Olympics, I find myself cheering equally for China and USA .No, I am not of Chinese descent, but I am fairly certain that when Chinese athletes don't win, they are executed*
* As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
* I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
* I wonder if cops ever get annoyed at the fact that everyone they drive behindobeys the speed limit.

OK, so I am not the greatest cook, and never will be. but...

Loved the show!! It was great. Meryle Streep did a famous job and it was really a hoot to watch. They did a wonderful at directing, throwing in the cutest bits of trivia and spiced it up a bit with a litte romance. It was a winner for me. I have thought a lot about it the last couple of days. Partly because of my cooking. I am on the OK-side of being an average cook. I have had some real dosies pop out of the oven. Sometimes I wonder were in heck did they come from because it certaing wasn't the imagined creation that I put in. (Wow, I am so surprised that you instantly thought of the brownies!! ya, I have heard it all before.) Then I have had some actually made some really tasty things. But I think the whole jest of the movie was about how much time and effort do you really want to put into something you are passionate about.

I am not passionate about cooking! I just am not. I have no desire to go into such detail to cook a meal that will be eating in 10 minutes or less and absolutely no conversation carried on in the process. If it were an event, that would be different, but honestly most food is inhaled so fast around here, no one would even breath long enough to know there is something different. So I really am not concerned. I do however want to sometime before I die, cook a really good "moist" roast, and to maybe do a boneless duck wrapped in dough. It will happen, I will do it.

So the question is.....what am I passionate about? What would be the one thing that I would spend a year of constant effort on? What would I give so much for to accomplish? Hmmmmm, I am not sure. I am going to have to give this a lot of thought. Updates to follow. This will be my "Julia Child's Moment".

Time is marching on FAST!!!!

We spent Saturday night at Red Robin to celebrate DJ's birthday. It was a cozy (very) and nice evening. I guess it is important to get as many people setting shoulder to shoulder so that they can all feel close and connected. 4 adults, 8 drinks, 4 meals, a platter of chips and dip, forces one to really pay attention to what is going on. Actually I liked it a lot. I am sure that DJ would have preferred to have dinner with the "red-haired" girl or to get some sleep because he was up all night and had to work on Saturday, it was great to talk about to my kids. It is fun to see the personalities that they have grown in to, to hear about the things they are doing, to hear about their friends and plan for the futue. Things are moving ahead, except........for the fact that Dalllin still ordered the 5 alarm burger (even though they don't make it any more) and an orange-cream shake. Same thing he has ordered for the last 10 years. It is time to move on.

Correction to my first blog

I am trying to learn, so I just want to explain. It is suppose to read "Hare Kirshna Temple and high school bands...".

Summer just doesn't get any better than this.

Spanish Fork has a great home town parade celebrating the 24th of July (Pioneer Day in Utah). One of the best parts of the day is having family around, so this year was especially great. We borrowed Jacks for the night and let Scott and Lori had some rest. It was completely selfish on my part because it was so fun to have him around. Janna was the best because she did all the work.

Dallin brought Jacks down from SLC after he got off work. Jacks walked in the house with his Spiderman backpack, started unloading all of his treasures, two Spiderman toys, a truck, McQueen pillow, his "comfy,warm blanket" and his McQueen blanket and showed them all to Grandpa Bear. We blew up a big air mattress for him and Janna to sleep on in the front room, which only proved to be a big trampoline (or lauching pad) for Jacks to jump up on Grandpa Bear. With the trampoline, popsicles and goodies, he was not going to let Janna get any sleep.

The next morning, we walked down to the middle school where the parade started. The weather was absolutely perfect and the parade was complete with bagpipers, floats, candy tossing marchers, wagons and horses (and the results of many horses), a complete section from the local Hara Kirsand high school bands sadly missing 3/4's of all their members. It is safe to say it would take about 76 such bands to come up with 76 trombone players.

Dallin brought Liberty along. A man came up and asked me if he could pet her. He just stroked her for the longest time telling me about his cocker spaniel he had when he was growing up. He sighed, got up, thanked me and left.

Scott, Lori, Kendall, Chelse, Dallin and Janna were over at the house for a pickle party. It was fun for me because a lot of the stuff, I got out of our garden; tomatoes, sweet onions, cucumbers, peppers, zuccuni and lots of beets that I pickled. In the evening, we went out side to throw some snappers. It was really funny because Jacks couldn't throw them hard enough to make them snap. No matter what he did, he could not get them to pop. So his dad and uncle decided to show him how to do it. They brillantly took turns throwing handfuls on to each other's backs. Do not try to do this at home because it does hurt and does leave welts. That's my boys. It really funny because then Jacks started throwing them at Scott and got them to pop!