I really love my job!!
Today I worked on a project from 9-1 and it was so fun! I am doing the Teen Bulletin Board for the month of June. I am centering it around the Summer Reading Theme which involves pirates. So I am putting up YA books about pirates and pirate "terms to know"! I am also advertising for the improv group that will be performing in the middle of June. I spent all morning printing up cool graphics and gluing them onto fun colored paper! You will all have to come admire my handywork! I plan on putting the bulletin board up early next week!
Now all I have to do is "antique" the edges of an old map I printed off the internet. I just hope that I don't burn down my apt. in the process! :)
P.S. We have an Adult Summer Reading Program at the library. This year is going to be lots of fun! So if any of you want to join in the fun, we start signing up for the program on June 6th. If you read at least 3 books over the summer and write a short review on them you can be entered into a drawing for the grand prize of a COMPUTER! We will also be having weekly drawings for gift certificates and free stuff!
Friday, May 27, 2005
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Ditto
Ritz did a great job summing up the thoughts that I have been having lately...
"When they say they love me but never make any attempted of keeping in contact with me, Do they really mean it or is it just me wanting to be loved, so I hold on tight and remind them why they love me? But is it even worth my time trying to keep up with all of these people who don't actually seem to care all that much? What am I missing? I keep having this experience over and over. Friends who don't call or care all that much. Yet somehow I am willing to invest much time and energy to them? Who lives like that? That's not joy. What's the lesson? It can't be to stop making friends? It can't be to stop caring about people? Is it to teach me to let them go? 'Cause I'm not passing the test here."
I haven't figured out the lesson yet either. I miss my friends and am lonely for their friendship. I wish I wasn't the only one making the effort.
"When they say they love me but never make any attempted of keeping in contact with me, Do they really mean it or is it just me wanting to be loved, so I hold on tight and remind them why they love me? But is it even worth my time trying to keep up with all of these people who don't actually seem to care all that much? What am I missing? I keep having this experience over and over. Friends who don't call or care all that much. Yet somehow I am willing to invest much time and energy to them? Who lives like that? That's not joy. What's the lesson? It can't be to stop making friends? It can't be to stop caring about people? Is it to teach me to let them go? 'Cause I'm not passing the test here."
I haven't figured out the lesson yet either. I miss my friends and am lonely for their friendship. I wish I wasn't the only one making the effort.
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Gems from my journal
A little while back I was reading over some of my journal entries from when I first started college. When I re-read my journal most of the time I laugh at myself and the rest of the time, I think "man, I'm retarded!!" Anyway... Here are some excerpts from my journal! (They are all from when I was going to school in Rexburg.) I hope you won't think less of me now that you can see how retarded I really am!
March 25, 2001
"I can't believe that the semester is almost over! I am going to be sad to say goodbye to all of my friends. At times, I just want life to stay the way it is now and not change. Other times I can't wait for something different... I am looking forward to not having to do homework for 4 months! But I don't really have much going for me when I get home. My parents want me to work in a hot dog making factory, btu I think that's just gross!!"
April 8th, 2001
"I am getting a little more anxious to go home for the summer, but am pretty certain that will wear off about 15 minutes after I walk through the door to my parents house!"
December 9, 2001
"It has been a while since I last wrote. Things are pretty much the same though. I am still at school and still stressed! I get to go home in 12 days. I am very excited! I need to go home! School is stressing me out and I have to get out of this marriage happy town!"
December 14, 2001
"A guy who is a flake before marriage will be an even bigger flake after marriage. A spiritually weak woman before marriage will not be magically changed at the alter"
These came from a Question and Answer Session that (then) President Bednar did in one of my English Classes at Ricks.
December 23, 2001
"I was telling mom today about our Christmas Tree at school. Our FHE brother Shane cut it down for us at the sanddunes. It was a juniper and not too beautiful! It only had 2 sides and we had to cut off the main branch to get it into the stand. So we duct taped the branches back on to have so sort of fullness to the tree! We decorated it with strips of material and raffia. It looked pretty good...when the room was dark and only the christmas tree lights were on!! Oh the joys of being poor!!
March 25, 2001
"I can't believe that the semester is almost over! I am going to be sad to say goodbye to all of my friends. At times, I just want life to stay the way it is now and not change. Other times I can't wait for something different... I am looking forward to not having to do homework for 4 months! But I don't really have much going for me when I get home. My parents want me to work in a hot dog making factory, btu I think that's just gross!!"
April 8th, 2001
"I am getting a little more anxious to go home for the summer, but am pretty certain that will wear off about 15 minutes after I walk through the door to my parents house!"
December 9, 2001
"It has been a while since I last wrote. Things are pretty much the same though. I am still at school and still stressed! I get to go home in 12 days. I am very excited! I need to go home! School is stressing me out and I have to get out of this marriage happy town!"
December 14, 2001
"A guy who is a flake before marriage will be an even bigger flake after marriage. A spiritually weak woman before marriage will not be magically changed at the alter"
These came from a Question and Answer Session that (then) President Bednar did in one of my English Classes at Ricks.
December 23, 2001
"I was telling mom today about our Christmas Tree at school. Our FHE brother Shane cut it down for us at the sanddunes. It was a juniper and not too beautiful! It only had 2 sides and we had to cut off the main branch to get it into the stand. So we duct taped the branches back on to have so sort of fullness to the tree! We decorated it with strips of material and raffia. It looked pretty good...when the room was dark and only the christmas tree lights were on!! Oh the joys of being poor!!
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
New Toy!
So I have been wanting a computer for a while now. I had been dreaming about having my own little Lappy and typing all the live long day...
So last Tuesday I did it! I ordered a laptop from Dell! And last night I came home from work to find a beautiful surprise waiting on my bed! My new laptop!!!
I spent all day getting my new friend settled in my room and now I am loving having my own computer!
I love technology!!!
So last Tuesday I did it! I ordered a laptop from Dell! And last night I came home from work to find a beautiful surprise waiting on my bed! My new laptop!!!
I spent all day getting my new friend settled in my room and now I am loving having my own computer!
I love technology!!!
Monday, May 02, 2005
School Mistakes Huge Burrito for Weapon
So I found this article on the Internet. Actually it was on Dave Barry's blog, that Nama has a link to. Em and Ritz and I got quite a kick out of it! Enjoy!!!
CLOVIS, N.M. - A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito.
Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High.
The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapenos and wrapped inside tin foil and a white T-shirt.
"I didn't know whether to laugh or cry," school Principal Diana Russell said.
State police, Clovis police and the Curry County Sheriff's Department arrived at the school shortly after 8:30 a.m. They searched the premises and determined there was no immediate danger.
In the meantime, more than 30 parents, alerted by a radio report, descended on the school. Visibly shaken, they gathered around in a semi-circle, straining their necks, awaiting news.
"There needs to be security before the kids walk through the door," said Heather Black, whose son attends the school.
After the lockdown was lifted but before the burrito was identified as the culprit, parents pulled 75 students out of school, Russell said.
Russell said the mystery was solved after she brought everyone in the school together in the auditorium to explain what was going on.
"The kid was sitting there as I'm describing this (report of a student with a suspicious package) and he's thinking, 'Oh, my gosh, they're talking about my burrito.'"
Afterward, eighth-grader Michael Morrissey approached her.
"He said, 'I think I'm the person they saw,'" Russell said.
The burrito was part of Morrissey's extra-credit assignment to create commercial advertising for a product.
"We had to make up a product and it could have been anything. I made up a restaurant that specialized in oddly large burritos," Morrissey said.
After students heard the description of what police were looking for, he and his friends began to make the connection. He then took the burrito to the office.
"The police saw it and everyone just started laughing. It was a laughter of relief," Morrissey said.
"Oh, and I have a new nickname now. It's Burrito Boy."
CLOVIS, N.M. - A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito.
Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High.
The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapenos and wrapped inside tin foil and a white T-shirt.
"I didn't know whether to laugh or cry," school Principal Diana Russell said.
State police, Clovis police and the Curry County Sheriff's Department arrived at the school shortly after 8:30 a.m. They searched the premises and determined there was no immediate danger.
In the meantime, more than 30 parents, alerted by a radio report, descended on the school. Visibly shaken, they gathered around in a semi-circle, straining their necks, awaiting news.
"There needs to be security before the kids walk through the door," said Heather Black, whose son attends the school.
After the lockdown was lifted but before the burrito was identified as the culprit, parents pulled 75 students out of school, Russell said.
Russell said the mystery was solved after she brought everyone in the school together in the auditorium to explain what was going on.
"The kid was sitting there as I'm describing this (report of a student with a suspicious package) and he's thinking, 'Oh, my gosh, they're talking about my burrito.'"
Afterward, eighth-grader Michael Morrissey approached her.
"He said, 'I think I'm the person they saw,'" Russell said.
The burrito was part of Morrissey's extra-credit assignment to create commercial advertising for a product.
"We had to make up a product and it could have been anything. I made up a restaurant that specialized in oddly large burritos," Morrissey said.
After students heard the description of what police were looking for, he and his friends began to make the connection. He then took the burrito to the office.
"The police saw it and everyone just started laughing. It was a laughter of relief," Morrissey said.
"Oh, and I have a new nickname now. It's Burrito Boy."
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