another tag...from my dear friend Kristina

I think I'm bored at home....so thanks to Kristina for giving me something to do

8 TV shows I like to watch:
1. Bones
2. Private practice
3. What not to wear
4. House
5. 30 min meals
6. Fringe
7. Psych
8. Extreme Makeover Home Edition

8 things that happened yesterday:
1. slept through the day
2. Watched "Funny face"
3. Were swamped at work...but I got a good assignment :)
4. ate at In-N-Out
5.Was reminded I need to help promote Prop 8
6. talked to my mom on the phone
7. Got a text from my friend Lynette
8. Dealth with some really gross stuff at work that you don't want to hear about

8 things I'm looking forward to:
1. Going to Texas
2. Getting books in the mail
3. having almost 2 weeks off work soon
4.The holiday season
5. Getting to see my sister and her family for Thanksgiving/Christmas
6. Sunday dinner (I missed last sunday :( )
7. the day I don't have to work nights for the rest of my life
8. finding a good man

8 things on my wish list:
1. To be 100% healthy
2. be find a good man to love
3. Eternal life with my family
4. a job that I love that doesn't require working nights
5. to go on a vacation to one of my dream places...someday
6. to own my own home
7. for the economic problems to calm down
8. for YOU to be happy

8 People I am Tagging:
whatever 8 people who read this and respond ;)

life is good

I've been feeling good. Made it to work this last few days and life is just plain good! In less than 2 weeks I'm heading to Texas and I'm so happy. It will be great to have time to just get away. Can't say I've done a whole lot lately. Been pretty lazy...reading, watching some old classic Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn movies, and working here and there.

That's all for now. Sorry this is short. maybe some tall, dark and handsome guy will come along soon to talk about for next time. ;) until then

S.

prop 8

survived...

Well, I got through the presentation on food storage/72 hr kits tonight. I talked way too fast, knocked things off the table and skipped around too much. But I think the message got across that I wanted and people said it went well. I'm just grateful that part is over. I think this calling is to get me over my fear of public speaking. I don't remember being so freaked out in High school, but it is so scary for me now. I think I went too long without doing it.

I'm off work till Thursday night and am very happy about that. It will be nice to have a break. I don't have any thing planned for tomorrow and I plan to enjoy that. Wednesday will be busy with doctors appointment, staff meeting at work, and Prop 8 fireside. Nothing too exciting to report for the week. I did get to enjoy General Conference in between working and it was great! It is always a great experience to get to hear the words of prophets on the earth. We are so blessed!

time for a little change...

I was just surfing my friends blogs and saw that one of my friends had changed the template on their blog and decided it was time for a little change. This isn't my favorite, but haven't figured out how to get the super cool ones yet. This is pretty for now.

I haven't posted in awhile because not much is going on in my simple life. I've worked a decent amount, paid bills, visited with my folks, did some fun stuff here and there. But nothing too thrilling. Work is super busy right now. It fluctuates so much lately that I never know what i'll be coming into. Some times it is so slow we are just looking for things to do and then there are other nights where we are so slammed we barely even see each other. It seems that the kids that we admit keep getting sicker and it is truly sad.

I was recently called to be a part of the emergency preparedness committee and as such I've been working on getting our ward more informed and excited about all of that fun stuff. For someone who has no food storage, 72 hr kit, and really any experience in this area it is quite entertaining at times. Tomorrow I am scheduled to do an "Emergency Preparedness Kickoff" and some how I'm supposed to make this fun. Really I have no clue what I am doing. Trying to motivate single people in this area I think will be a challenge. I know I am not incredibly motivated to do any of this. Maybe this is my kick in the rear to get started on it myself. Wish me luck :)

100 Books to Read

My "cousin" Megan posted this on her blog and I've been looking for a good list of books to tackle so I figured I'd look at where I was at on this list
"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.”

1) Bold: I have read.
2) Italics: Those I intend to read.
3) ?: don't know enough about it to judge

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nine-Teen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Phillip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ?
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ?
16 The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife ?
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ?
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ?
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh ?
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky-tried and failed
28 Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck -tried and failed
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ?
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milner
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell?
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
44. A Prayer for Owen Meany-?
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins?
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy?
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood?
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel?
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons--seen movie :)
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth?
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon?
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez---started...never finished
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov?
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt?
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac?
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy?
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding?
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie?
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson?
75 Ulysses - James Joyce?
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath?
77 Swallows and Amazons?
78 Germinal - Emile Zola?
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray?
80 Possession - AS Byatt?
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell?
83 The Color Purple, Alice Walker?
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro?
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert?
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry?
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton?
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad?
92 The Little Prince – Antoine de St. Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks?
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams?
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole?
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute?
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

birthdaypics

so, I promised to upload some pics from my birthday dinner...so here they are a bit late



my surprise "birthday pie"




enjoying my pie :)






My friends that joined me...