YUM

I am one step closer to becoming a domestic goddess. Grandma "G" showed me how to make peanut brittle today -- and it is sooooo easy even I can do it. I love the stuff and now I can make it whenever I want to. YUUUUMMMM

singles ward

Aren't singles wards kinda crazy? I went to church with some friends a couple of weeks ago and we stayed after for a "mingle". We were standing in a group and one of our friends, Dustin, was standing a couple feet away from us, and the stake president came up to meet us. He then turns to Dustin and asks his name, and tries to introduce him to us girls. When we all answered yes that we knew Dustin, the stake president's face fell and you could tell he was disappointed that he didn't get to play matchmaker for us. It still makes me smile to think about it.

Faith

I am grateful that my family has so much faith in me. That they continue to believe in me even when I don't follow a well defined path. They believe that I am capable of doing anything that I choose to do and they continue to encourage me to keep trying new things. I am grateful that they are there to point out the good what-if's and could-be's because a lot of the time I can only see the bad ones.

Friday Pie-day

My sister-in-law Andrea and I are officially renaming Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) Friday Pie-day. We think that there is too much food on Thanksgiving to really enjoy dessert, so there needs to be an extra day for people to enjoy just the desserts (namely pies). For pie-day I will be making a chocolate whip cream pie and a chocolate-peanut butter pie. Yum!!!!!! Andrea will be trying a new recipe for raspberry frozen yogurt pie. My dad will handle the traditional pumpkin pie, that actually requires baking. We will come home after shopping on Saturday (we really only plan to go to one place : JoAnn's) and enjoy our absolutely fabulous pies. Feel free to join us for Friday Pie-day!

Interviews

I hate interviews. I hate the questions they ask because they are so general and I just don't have good answers for them. I want to have totally unique answers ( e.g. Give an example of how well you work on a team. Well there was that time in the Philippines when there was a hurricane and I helped the orphanage account for and keep all of the children safe during the storm.) but really I am just a very average person and have very average answers. I'm not a world traveler, I'm not the worlds' greatest leader, I am not superwoman, and really I don't want to be. Right now all I want it is a job that will pay me to come in and do my work and then let me go home - I really don't think a ten minute interview is going to tell anybody anything about the real me or what I'm capable of.

Phones

Do you ever just want to run and hide from the phone? I hate talking on the phone. I don't know why exactly but I think its genetic or something cause my dad hates it too. I never know what to say or how to introduce myself and have no facial clues to help me....aghhhh. Anyway I tell you this because I'm really bad at calling people back and I know it probably drives my friends crazy... So today I am going to be better and am going to call all of the people (I actually have a list) that have called and left me messages or that I haven't talked to in a while.

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

So I just graduated (well ok, like 2 months ago) and am supposed to be looking for a job. I told myself and everyone else that I wouldn't be too picky, but guess what? I am being totally picky. It seems like all of the jobs that I want to do, I am overqualified for. My dream job would be working at the library, and be surrounded by books, but after discussing it with many people I have pretty much decided this would not be the most emotionally healthy thing for me to do.

Someday though I think I will get a Masters in Library Science and end up working at a Library. I don't even care what kind of library it is (law, public, youth, school) I would love learning and researching all day long. Isn't that kinda nerdy?

The begining

I started a blog like three years ago and never did anything with it so hopefully I do better this time.