God;s secret angels

Don't you love it when someone outreaches your expectations ? There is a lady at my work and she always has something negative to say about everyone... so I try to be nice to her but I also try to limit the time I have to talk to her, but the other day she overheard me say I was nervous about an interview I was going to and she told me not to worry and just be my normally happy self.... She made my day and gave me so much confidence going into the interview. The weird part is that I had avoided saying anything around her because she had just been complaining about how she had applied and hadn't gotten an interview. She was the perfect person to give me confidence because I rarely hear her say anything nice about anyone so I believed her when she said I would do great. I am not avoiding her so much now and I hope she interviews for a job soon so I can wish her luck and return the favor.

Thank goodness, it was just an earthquake.

so my job at the Tax Commission has been going pretty well. It is pretty mindless work so I get to listen to books and music all day... which I like but will eventually get bored of. On Thursday I even got there early so I could leave at 2:30pm. Getting up early involved a bit of a change in routine, so at about 7:30am when my computer screen looked like it was moving I started taking deep breaths and telling myself that I was fine and if I needed to get up and take a break I could. I blinked a couple of times and relaxed my shoulders. I then opened my eyes and noticed the cord for my earphones was swinging quite a bit and heard a couple of people asking if they felt that. Needless to say I was relieved that my coworkers did not see me having an anxiety attack (which usually involves puking), but I quickly moved onto being afraid that I was going to be crushed to death in an earthquake because my cubicle wouldn't provide enough protection. Don't worry though everything turned out all right and I am obviously still alive.

Clifford the little red truck

My dad has been trying to get me to drive a manual transmission for the last six years. He made the mistake of trying to teach me in his Toyota, which had a tricky clutch, and I was too freaked out by stalling every ten seconds to want to continue trying, so I only occasionally gave in to a lesson and drove around the neighborhood. On Monday however I walked out my front door and was confronted with the fact that the only cars left at my house were the two trucks (both are stick shifts) and if I wanted to get to the library ( the library is the most relaxing, comfortable place in the world) I would have to pass through numerous stop lights while operating a manual transmission. I made to the library and back without stalling once, although I'm sure if anyone saw me they thought I was crazy because I screamed every time I shifted gears without mishap. I was even able to find the lights in my moms truck and didn't forget to turn them off when I got home. Yeah for me!!!

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!