Things that must go....

When I was a young girl and I was entering that wonderful world of puberty, my mom sat me down and had a very frank talk with me regarding the proper way to dispose of sanitary products. She said it was really disgusting when women would just dump their dirty napkins on the floor, or the back of the toilet, or in the garbage for all the world to see.

The PROPER thing, she told me, was to discreetly wrap it up in toilet tissue and dispose of it in the garbage. That way nobody sees the ick.

I think parents today do NOT teach their young ladies this simple thing. Because I have seen more used pads in airports and public restrooms than I care to see in my life.

Nobody wants to see that! So why can't they figure it out how to be clean? Anyhow... that is one thing that must go.

Another thing that must go is people switching lanes while driving without signaling. If there are no cars around... fine. Don't signal. But when you are going to cut RIGHT IN FRONT of me... please signal.

Another thing that must go. Waiters and Waitresses in mexican restaurants that speak spanish to my husband and english to me. Just because he is mexican doesn't mean he knows spanish. (He does, but it is not his first language) and just because I'm white doesn't mean I don't know spanish. I DO!! I hate it that they just automatically do that.

Presidential campaign mudslinging must go! I do NOT care about listening to that crap. A presidential campaign should NOT be reality tv. I want to hear your ideas on exactly HOW you plan to get the problems fixed. What problems you SEE need to be fixed, and your plan on how long it will take and the steps needed. I don't care one guy has money in the Cayman islands. I don't care if somebody else cheated on his wife. I don't care if you are Catholic, Mormon, Presbyterian, or Jehovah Witness.

And I do NOT want these presidential debates to be all about bad-mouthing your opponents. My gosh people!!! GROW UP! This is not for entertainment. It's for informing the public about the next potential leader of the country.

Anyhow. I'm done ranting. I feel infinitely better now.

3 generations

I wish my mom was also in the picture. But I know she was there in spirit. I felt her at the blessing.

Her and Oma, and Grandpa Kramer... and many others.

How special little Adelyn is!!

woo hoo!

My kids and I celebrated our Christmas last Friday. (people heading out of town etc... makes us celebrate early). I got a Kindle fire from them!

I'm LOVING it! I'm playing on it all the time! Even take it to bed with me at night and play Angry Birds until I can't see straight! ha ha ha!

It was so nice of everybody to give me that. I absolutely never thought I would want something like that. But I just love it. All kinds of fun little games and time wasters! LOL.

I want to bring it to work, but I will never get any work done if I do. I'm sure I'll play games all day. ha ha ha.

Inversion

Utah is going through another one of its yucky weather things. We don't see the sun. The air quality sucks. No snow on the ground. Blech.

It's depressing. Day after day.

I hate snow, but I would actually LOVE to see the white stuff falling just to clear the gunk out of the air!

My poor friend has asthma and has had to use her inhaler a couple times a DAY for the past week. She usually only needs to use it once a week.

So, I post a picture of the sun. Because even though we can't see it.... I know it's there. Up there. Up high. In the sky. Somewhere hidden behind the smog.

Prove me wrong!

Not a fun day

Overslept. On my way to work David calls me to say his car is on fire and he can't get hold of his dad.

I freak out.

I try to find him and can't. Good thing is that I did not see a car fire, so hopefully that meant something positive.

Continuing on to work I come soooo close to a head on collision by some idiot who cut in front of me at Eisenhower on Redwood Road. SO close. I closed my eyes because I was sure we were going to hit.

thankfully we did not.

At work. The copier (Big Rosy) is having a PMS day. (Big Rosy is the name of the machine... not a person). She ran out of paper and it is very hard to load her. She takes big heavy rolls of paper. So I get it in, and then the machine won't load it. So I have to unload, re-load. Unload, re-load. Unload, re-load. Over and over. Finally get the paper in but then I hit the wrong button and told it that it was the wrong paper so when I made my copy it printed soooooo slow it took about 20 minutes to print one sheet.

Then the ink ran out.

Then I unloaded the paper and re-loaded it yet again so I could correct the type. Then made my copies which for some reason turned out HORRIBLE. It looked like someone walked all over them with dirty feet. Barely legible.

So I cleaned the machine, and tried again. Didn't make a difference. The prints suck.

Meanwhile.... I have a stack of drawings on the desk that need to be released, but I hate to do it when the machine will make horrible copies. And every ten minutes somebody else wants something so I go off in a different direction. The drawings are still waiting to be released and it's almost 1pm now.

Gotta change my mojo somehow.

Totally sweet

This is my early Christmas present. My grandbaby. I love watching her grow. She changes everytime I see her. She is just a doll.

Absolute perfection in every single detail of her.

She has the most incredibly long, dainty fingers that I have ever seen. I need to make a cast of her hand before that changes.

Why? Why is this happening?

A man in my town was just arrested for child porn. This man is a member of my faith. This man was a scout master. And they found hundreds of images on his computer of children around the age of 10 being molested.

Talk about a betrayal of trust!! This just makes me SICK. If one of my children had been in his charge.... I would be beside myself with worry that he had harmed one of MINE.

What is going on with society that people are so depraved these days? Why are people defiling our innocent children?

Why are people so sick and degenerate? Why are people into weird, perverted awful things these days?

Or has it always been this way? Since the beginning of time? It's talked about in the scriptures.

My heart breaks for the little children.