Beauty Pageants

Why does one enter into a beauty pageant? Scholarship money? What would be the qualifications to win? Looks? So if you win and you get money and your in college and someone asks you what your scholarship was for do you say "because I look good"? My father got a scholarship through track and he was on the track and field team at Weber State University. but they don't have groups or clubs for good looking people. If they do I've never been invited to join. Is that a hint?
Then there is the question and answer section. "If you had one wish what would it be?" "World piece!!" "Stricter fire arms laws for criminals" What would you answer? I can't really argue with world piece I mean wouldn't that alone solve a lot of problems?
There was a question section not to long ago when the answer was soo... bizarre and it made no sense that they are still making fun of it all over the web. What kind of scholarship would you give that girl? A scholarship to a "special" school?
What about children's pageants? My nephew was entered into a pageant. Mind you he was a really cute kid. They had a little talent portion and they talked to them and they saw how comfortable they were around the other kids and on stage. He did win a few pageants and I am not aware of any money he was given. So his parents tried a pageant in California and from what I recall they were so serious it wasn't fun and they never tried again.
I have been told I have cute kids but I just don't find that on any of my to do lists.
Have you ever been in a pageant? I was on a cheer leading squad my freshman year and it was just about being popular and not having fun so I dropped it but I had fun at the games.
What do you think?

I34

well moving day has come and gone. We've been living with my parents for a few weeks now and last Saturday we managed to scrape up a few people to help us move our left over things to a storage unit. I34 is the number for the storage unit. I tried to be as organized as I could be but now that it is time to clean the apartment I have found out how big of a pig I really am. I wrote on the boxes what was in them. Now that it's over I should have written some fun things on the boxes so that the people helping to move would have a little bit of entertainment trying to figure what's in the box they are carrying. Examples: "Weeds and Peters", "Earthquake shifters", "man jewel protectors and slang heads" Could you figure out what was in the boxes. I quized my husband but he isn't that interested. He used to draw pictures on burned cds and make me guess what was on the cd. One had a drawn picture of abraham lincoln and a playground. "Lincoln Park" fun game but I guess he forgot.
Well I hope we get our deposit back and I can get the apartment all clean and pretty. it's a mess.

Books

Well I have 50 boxes. Perfect for groups of books. I packed 7 boxes last night. Church Books, Classic Novels ("Dune" is included in that), Motivational and Money books, Art books, ect.
What type of books groups would you have?

Moving Part 2

My dad retired about 2 years ago. He seems to keep busy but he was not satisfied with how much money he was bring in so he decided to try something new. He is now a truck driver. He will start his 35 day training for Covenant Transport in California in a few weeks and then his new route will be 14 days on and 2 days off for 1 year.
My mom has chosen not to travel with him and so my family will be moving into the house I grew up in. I will be available to help my mom and we will save money so we are all hoping this will help us all.
We will have lived in our cozy basement apartment for exactly 4 years. I assume you can imagine how much we have accumulated through those 4 years. Hopefully we will be able to JUNK a lot but like a mentioned before we will be storing things also.
We have 2 dressers we want to keep and two great couches that we also want to keep. We will have to go through the other apartment to get them out of our apartment so I will need to inform the new neighbors upstairs. BOOKS- that's all I have to say about that.
Ammon says we may have to get rid of decorations. No too excited about that but if he will give up wires he claims he will used but has yet to do in 6 years of marriage I can buy decorations in the future.
What kind of lists would you have if you were moving?

Moving

We are moving. Save money help my mom. Hopefully this will be a win/win situation.
I have to store things. My dad says if you have to store it you just need to throw it away. Well... I am going to use it again so why throw something away when it will just have to be replaced in the future?
I have to junk things. That's just a given. I don't need all this material. I don't have any plans for it why keep it?
I don't fit into these clothes I have to junk them.
I love moving because it makes me clean house.
I have a lot to fix before moving out. One of my electric burners broke I need to replace it.
I have 4 great looking plants if anyone wants one or two or all of them.
Do you like moving? Does anyone have any boxes I can have?

Follow

I am sure you noticed that when you sign into your blogspot account and you have listed yourself as following anyone it gives you a list of the most recent people who have posted a blog.
I want to follow YOU!!!!!
Please put a link on your blog for followers. You'll be amazed at how many people follow your blogs. I know I am I have 2 followers.

BTW Your blog is AWESOME!
What do you think of mine?

Tag

Chelsea tagged me.

Rules:
1. Go to the file that holds pictures.
2. Go to the 6th file or if there aren't 6 files skip this step.
3. Go to the 6th picture and blog about it.














In June of 2008 I thought I had a good idea for an anniversary gift to my husband. BTW our anniversary is in Oct so I had awhile. I thought I would loss some weight (hopeful thinking I know) and make a music video for him of me in several different outfits lip singing to our song. "You are the Reason" by Michael Mclain. So anyways one night I decided to dress myself up a little punkish and slapped on some darker makeup then I would usually wear and wear a costume tattoo sleeve. Needless to say the weight never came off and I didn't do the video. I did end up making a dress I had planned to make but ended up wearing it for Halloween but that's another blog all together. So do I look "Punkish"? Does my nose look big? Do my lips look small? The eye make up doesn't look to bad right?

OH!!! I have to Tag now.
Maren, Christian, Mellissa, Nathan, Memo, & Charity

Valentine's Day

What do you think about Valentine's Day?
Do you go out?
We went out Thursday before Valentine's to avoid the crowds and the costs.
Do you give or get flowers/chocolates?
I like flowers not so much chocolates but this year we are tightening our belts a little so they were neither expected nor given.
What about kids giving Valentines and party's at school?
Titan had a small party and gave valentine's but I kinda think its fun to recognize your friends. I don't think they need another reason to eat candy. My nephew's teacher decided to do a ediquett breakfast and the kids dressed up and used/learned manners.
If they did away with Valentine's seriously do you think your relationship wouldn't suffer?
I can't say my relationship would suffer but we do get caught up in life even though we celebrate our anniversary it's nice to have another day to go out by ourselves.

I hope you all had a great one and show love to your loved ones.
What do you think?

Her Morning Elegence

Million Dollar Baby

I saw this movie when it came out on video. I didn't really like it that much. I guess I'm a happy ending kinda girl. That night I had the biggest night mare I have EVER had. I cringe when I think of watching it. I walked into a waiting room and it was on. In one scene I could hardly stay there. Of course I couldn't leave so I had to bare through it. I didn't like it but no bad dreams that night. What do you think? What gives you nightmares?

Toilet Seat up or down?

At the beginning of our marriage I asked my wonderful husband if he wouldn't mind putting not just the toilet seat but also the lid down when he was done in the bathroom. He in a very unusual manner asked me why. I don't believe I was demanding it so I just told him because I don't like to be able to see right inside the toilet when I walked into the bathroom. He was very satisfied with that answer and agreed.
Of course I was curious about his attitude and asked him about it. He told me that he once had a female roommate who insisted that it was her womanly right to have the toilet seat down. Of course my husband is a very kind man but he does not believe in ridiculous reasons for doing things and so from what I understand he did not follow through with that demand.
I am of course please with his reaction to my request but...

another story... Don't worry it will all come together.

Many years ago I watched a show about a snake getting into the pipes of an apartment building. A boy went into his bathroom and there was a snake sitting in the toilet. He ran to get his mother and when they came back in she saw a small part of the snake's tail escape down the toilet.
FROM THEN ON I always check inside the toilet before I use it.

One Last story to wrap things up.

One day while we where potty training "Hunter" I went in the bathroom to do my business and did my routine as I have mentioned above but instead of nothing or even a snake I discovered a dirty pair of little boys underpants. I of course rinsed them out and disposed of them properly and then went back to the bathroom.
After I came out of the bathroom my husband who had just noticed me coming out of the bathroom with surprise in his face rushed to ask if I had flushed the underwear down. I said no that I had taken care of them. He asked how I noticed they were there so I told him my snake story and thanked him for putting the toilet seat and lid down even though he hadn't taken care of the underpants.

What makes you stop and think?

why do I blog? I really don't know. Why do I enjoy blogging and reading others blogs? I don't know.
There are several different kinds of blogs out there. Photo book blogs (one type that I do). Pictures with a little journaling. Journal blogs (another kind I tend to do) that tell you what someone has done and how they feel about it.
I don't find them very often and some blog sites don't always focas on haveing them but there are some that as I am reading I have to stop and actually think about what I just read. somersbysentinel.blogspot.com just posted it's second blog and it was awesome. livingabalance.blogspot.com has some pretty good blogs like "life out of balance" posted on January 22 was pretty good.
I think about what they have posted for awhile after I have read them.
Read enjoy and tell me what you think. Don't forget to leave comments there too. Everyone loves comments on their blogs.

slip of the tongue

I was at a relatives house the other day. The adults were sitting around a table playing a game. I said something. I paused and realized what I had said. Wow that was really vulgar but kinda funny so I laughed. While laughing I apologized and told everyone I did not mean to say that in that way. I noticed no one else was laughing. I also noticed the chick across the table giving me a very nasty look. I was kind of impressed with the fact that I never thought of saying that before and it just ended up being that what I said was taken wrong. What is the really sad part is that these people actually thought I meant it the way it came out. Am I that pathetic that people think of me like that? Later I told the story to someone and I could just tell they thought "sure you really didn't mean to say it that way. Right!! Whatever!"
This really sucks
what do you think?

Opinions

Everyone has one... I am interested in almost everyone's. I blog about what I have thought about more then once today.
I am very fortunate to have a great companion to discuss and make decisions with. About 95% of the time he is on the same page with me.
He is a great listener. These blogs are just to reiterate about things I've already discussed with him.
He has really helped me straiten out a lot of the curves that I have had in the past and still have.
He makes me look at everything from every angle and that really is amazing. Just like he is.
So for all the opinions out there and I do like hearing them. There is only TWO that mean the most. Mine and His!

Not Pregnant

Despite the fact that everyone I am normally pregnant with is going to have a baby and I am about due to get pregnant. I am not pregnant and not trying to get pregnant. In fact we are preventing (none of you business how) me from getting pregnant.
I have imagined myself consumed with children. Having a child that is in high school and still having little ones around but that was awhile ago and my three little ones are a hand full. Don't get me wrong they are really good boys. I think I've got it pretty easy compared to others. Like the ones that have girls. I think girls are generally harder then boys in many ways.
I think I want to try one more time for a little girl despite the above statement but I just don't think right now is right for us. I do want my kids close together so why not right now? Well... I don't know it just doesn't feel right. Maybe because I don't want to be pregnant during the summer even though that is not a very good excuse.
My boys are just about 2 years apart. If I got pregnant right now then the baby now would be over 2 1/2 years apart from the new one. Not that bad right? except I am not going to get pregnant right now and I'm not sure when I will get pregnant. I don't want them to be so far apart that I would have to have another close after so they can have a buddy. But I don't want more then just one more.
Anyways so there's my daily "dilemma".
What do you think?

To Do:

I like writing lists. I think it helps me with things I need to do or get done.
I of course have the usual grocery list but I also make list of what to bring places like camping. Fine I guess but I also have lists of how to properly clean the kitchen. I have a list of what I want to get my kids for this Easter. I have a list to get the kids next Christmas. I have a list of what I want to get in the future. My husband wants a big screen t.v. I want a new mattress. I am almost tempted to make a list of lists that I want to make.
What do you think?

Money Money Money

What kind of say does the Lord have over what I do with my money?
As long as I pay what he asks (tithes, and to the poor) what else should I be doing with my money.
I have to admit that I am not the most fashionable person but I recognize when I see something I think is cute but I could never justify paying over $100 for shoes. I've never seen shoes that cute. I could buy a shirt for only $2.00 at Walmart but it wouldn't "call my name" as my sister would put it. But I like to go more appealing then a $2.00 shirt.
So... If i give my tithes and give to the poor can I do whatever I want with the rest as long as it's Moral? I am leaning toward No.
When my husband and I decide to scrip and save for that house someday (maybe this year) we will only get a modest house. Sometimes I like to drive by huge houses and ask him if that is modest. He always says no. Do we need a room for each of our kids? Would we like a room for each of our kids? Would it be easier if they just had their own room?
I am not a simple person but sometimes simple is just nice. My little apartment isn't elegant but I can clean it in 3 hours (the whole thing).
My husband has a Great job and we do well but we probably won't ever buy a new car. It's just kind of a waist of money to us. Yes there is lots of good reasons to buy new but we got such great deals on the cars we own. I don't think we could ever get such a great deal on a new car. Even they eventually break down.
So there's another soap box what do you think?

amnesia

I was reading a short story about a woman who was in a car accident and lost 10 years of her memory. No Husband No kids No old boy friend.
What would you want to forget?
Of course I wouldn't want to forget my husband or my children but if I didn't have a choice with that, How far back would I go?
Let's see...
Maybe my first marriage. yes I was married before but I have known my ex-husband since I was in elementary so I wouldn't want to go that far.
What about old boyfriends? Well there was good times and bad times so I guess I would want to forget right before I started dating my first husband but after I started dating that guy with the leather jacket I am glad to be finished with him.
What do you think?