Monday's Stuff

1. There's a baby opossum out in the parking lot running around and around in circles chasing it's tail. It doesn't move when cars come at it, it just keeps on going around and around and around. I want to go out and have a look at it again because it's so funny but I'm sure that it would smell my delicious scent and figure it needs a bite. Then I would have opossum rabies.

2. Our washing machine quit over the weekend. It seems to be an epidemic at The Doctor's office - both The Nurse's and The New Receptionist's dryers have quit within the last two weeks. Husband and I spent a super fun Saturday night ringing out an entire load of laundry by hand. It was horrible. This is yet another sign that I was not meant to be a pioneer.

3. We had the missionaries over to dinner on Saturday afternoon. Poor Husband had to cook the entire meal by himself, hobbling around on his bum leg as The Doctor had just found out he was teaching Sunday School and needed someone to come down and type his seven-page-long lesson. The missionaries were nice enough even though they dissed my home-grown tomatoes. As we all know, being mean about my tomatoes is akin to calling one of my not-yet-born-children stupid.

4. The Sunbeams were horrible this week. I'd thought I'd seen bad - boy was I wrong. Even the kids who are normally pretty sedate and well behaved got in trouble repeatedly. Of course, I don't know if you can count not sitting in your chair "being bad" for a three-year-old. That's the major problem I have with Sunbeams. There's no play time scheduled for them at church. The lesson was on Joseph Smith and The First Vision. One little girl, when asked where Joseph Smith went to pray, shouted out, "OH! To the Jesus Village!"

5. And speaking of church, there was a very strange talk given during Sacrament Meeting (I know I'm going to get in trouble somehow, some way for mentioning this). This lady started out her talk by saying that we shouldn't get into situations where Satan can use our body (apparently based on a talk by Elder Bednar). I was thinking about sex, drugs, and rock and roll when she busted out with this, "I'm referring to situations such as extreme sports or excessive use of technological advances such as texting and video games." Wait. What? Satan can use our bodies through cliff jumping and texting? It didn't help that she spoke in that General Primary President voice. I couldn't handle it.

6. Am I a bad person for not wanting my visiting teachers to come?

7. We made homemade chocolate almond ice cream yesterday. I was kind of disappointed in the chocolate factor. However, I was very excited that I was able to keep my hands out of the mixer all the way until the ice cream was actually frozen. I usually can't.

8. My nose itched so bad last week I scratched it until it bled. That's never happened to me before. I think I might have that same disease they have in I Am Legend.

9. I had a dream last night where I discovered the body of this girl I knew in Japan. It was the worst dream I've had in a long, long time. I woke up with my heart pounding. I literally thought I was going to throw up.

10. Today marks the beginning of Hurricane Season. They're already issuing warnings on the radio desite the fact that hurricanes don't really start forming until late August/early September. And, they've also distrubuted some pointers to stay safe which include leaving when there's a mandatory evacuation. Good thing they're here to help us out.