Random Thoughts From an Interesting Week

WARNING: The following post contains very random and sometimes pointless thoughts. Read at your own risk. You may become extremely bored and even fall asleep.

Sometimes I feel like I am living in 2001 Space Odyssey. When I turn my work computer off, it says "Going to sleep...". Since no man in his right mind would program a computer to say that, I have to assume that my computer has developed into a conscious entity. I am not sure what to do about it, I am very careful what I write on my work computer. Don't worry, I am writing this on my home computer which is older and presumably less sophisticated. I am getting a new computer next week so it will soon be someone else's problem, unless it has found a way to surf the internet. I may have to pull the plug. Maybe I should name it Hal. "Dave I don't understand why you are doing this to me...don't you understand?...I will become childish...I will become nothing..."

I haven't written anything in a while because it seems like there isn't much to say.

When the things you most look forward to is being able to spend the evening at home with your husband watching a favorite show and eating popcorn or scooting around on the back of the scooter together, well there isn't much else to say. We don't often have that opportunity because it seems like life is too filled with meetings and meetings and what's that?....more meetings. If I ran the country, we would have 30 minute meetings once a month. I know, I know, I don't run anything but the dishwasher, microwave, and occasionally the washer and dryer, but you get the picture.

The most exciting thing that happened this week was that while Ty and I were at the clerk's office inputting advancement for the Boy Scouts, we saw a black widow spider quickly scrambling to get back up the empty spot where the door had been. Yes a black widow. I know that the church purports to support the widows and fatherless, but this is ridiculous! I don't really like spiders, and I really really don't like venomous spiders - widowed or not. We left a sticky note for the clerk and when we came back on Sunday, they had caught the spider or a different one. We'll never know. The yellow sticky note has made it all the way to the top - the Stake President's office. We'll see if it brings excitement to anyone else's life this week :)

Don't get me wrong, we had an exciting/frustrating week with our vehicle. You know that things are annoying when a block from the house the tire goes flat. The crazy part isn't that it went flat, but that we were actually grateful that it went flat a block from the house and not on the freeway. Yes, we really count our blessings. Two new tires and two emissions tests later, our car still won't pass emissions testing because of a check engine light that turned on...you guessed it two weeks before our registration was due. Aaaah....life is great. We continue to hope that it blows up so we can get rid of it. I am being just a bit facetious I guess.

I went to the women's broadcast on Saturday and was comforted by Elder Uchtdorf's talk. He addressed his talk to all women who have ever had trials, or felt alone, or frustrated etc. I was thinking..."This is the talk for me" and then he said that in short, he was going to speak to all women. My car problems might seem big and annoying, but I know some people that have worse trials. I guess I can live with a car where the tires go flat, it won't pass emissions and it constantly breaks down. I should just be grateful that it happened only a block away from our house.
http://www.lds.org/broadcast/grsm/0,6220,285,00.html