Thank you Single Dad Laughing.

I clicked on a link this morning posted by one of my friends on Facebook.

I must admit at first it was a little terrifying,

but I did what he asked and read the entire article.

I am so glad that I did.

Here is the link to the article

and here,

and here,

and here.

Just in case you missed the first link, it is that important.

I think anyway.

And here on this blog, 

I basically only talk about what I think.

:)

So there you go.

I hope whoever reads it is as glad as I was,

and hopes that more people read it too.

The end.

Project 52

Hey I am on time this week!

Awesome!

13/52

♥ It was exhausting, but I am loving life this week ♥

You sniff like an old Nancy Drew book.

So at the moment I am researching for a presentation I am doing on Friday.

Have I put this off?

Nope.

Life is that busy.

I opened one of the many books 

(it really is a bound lecture from a 1953 inauguration for an archaeology shindig) 

and looked at the due date slip.

The last person to use the book checked it out in 1959.

They also turned it back on the 10th of April 1959.

I know because it is crossed off.

And if they didn't return it, I wouldn't be reading it.

It also explains the weird smell.

This stagnant, dusty, woodsy, mystery novel smell.

The Nancy Drew books I read in elementary school had that smell also.

Not many read them either.

:)

But I did.

There was also a bookmark in the pages which I assume is from the same time.

So there you go.

I thought it was pretty awesome.

Oh!  I found out I get to keep job 2 for winter semester!

I was worried with changing class schedules but it isn't a problem apparently.

So the tale of Job 1 and Job 2 continues...

Project 52

Oops.

Late again.

Here are the latest 2 installments.

11/52

 

and

12/52

Maybe this week I'll post on time.

Maybe not. 

:)

Quick update.

The last few weeks have been CRAZY!!!

And this is how I feel about it.

I may have discovered the sweet webcam. :)

I'm really starting to wonder if time has sped up.

I have never had a semester go so fast.

I just don't have enough time to do everything!

Like Project 52, which by the way is still in the works, I just keep forgetting to post it up here.

Not forgetting really, just not enough time to do so.

Speaking of, I am off again to do more homework.

Adios!

Heard in the Halls - The Museum Massacre

I talk about my museum job quite a bit,

and the strange, strange things that happen there.

Like the moving gnome.

Today the gnome was above a horrific scene, 

in a box.  A massacre in a box.

notice he is holding the small guitar of one of the victims,

with the hand still attached.

And has a sweet mini black hat on his head.

Here is what is in the box.

I don't know if I want to know who made this.

Although I have a pretty good idea.

So that is what people at my job do.

They really like Halloween things.

And scary things.

Creepy!

Project 52

I keep posting these late!

Sorry about that.

Not that anyone looks at them.

But I still feel guilty.

So here is 10/52

Last week was my birthday!

The end!

Tender Mercies - Having Trouble Trying to Sleep...

Because school is awesome.

I love school.

I am so grateful for it.

It makes me so very happy.

In high school I set a goal to not do homework on Sundays.  

This has meant that I have started writing papers and doing assignments at 12 am Monday morning.

This may seem a little extreme.

But, to be honest, I have felt that my decision has been a huge blessing for me.

Take this past week for example.

Here is a summary:

I had a few time consuming  assignments due,

a ton of research to do,

a major research presentation to present,

a few hundred pages of reading to complete, understand and discuss,

a 2500 word essay to write,

classes, 

grading,

and 2 jobs.

Plus the fact that I got the head cold from Hades and was in bed for the bottom half of the week.

Busy week.

I was able to manage except for the 2500 word essay.

I just didn't have any time to prepare for it.

So the due date of Monday became imminent, Saturday started and I had not, and my goal of no homework on Sunday seemed like the wall between me and the completion of my paper.

Not only was Sunday getting in my way but General Conference was going to knock out another 8 hours of my weekend, along with a few more hours of family obligations.

I seriously debated, after years of holding strong, ending the practice and failing the goal.

I mean, I was in grad school now right?

I needed that extra time.

But...

I didn't.

Here is what happened.

 Saturday morning I woke up super, super sick.

We watched the first session of conference as a familia.

During the 2 hour break I was miraculously able to create a pretty specific outline for the paper and the introductory paragraph.

This is the hardest part for me because I think of it as drawing the lines for the picture.  After this point you just have to fill in the blanks.

Then we watched the next session.

It was wonderful.

After being so stressed and numb all week, feeling the Spirit so strongly was so comforting.

Afterwards I intended to spend another 2 hours working on the essay before heading over to Karen the Great's for my birthday party (oh, my birthday was on Monday), but the girls decided they wanted to go earlier.

So I brought my essay stuff but found that T-dog required my unrequited attention for the entire time there.

It was ok, it was worth playing with my favorite 2 year old.

So I got home, sick, exhausted and upset.

I had a quote come to my mind that I heard from President Thomas S. Monson who was quoting Longfellow.

"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight; but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."

So, I got working and worked until midnight.

Sunday was much like Saturday.

Watching conference and spending the day with my wonderful family.

Including cutting the bug's super long hair.

I started my paper at 12:00 am this (Monday) morning.

I finished at 3:33.

I was in bed by 3:45 but didn't get to sleep for a few minutes.

I was awake by 4:50.

I ended up not having to take the kids to swimming and slept another 45 minutes.

Then I left for class.

Now I am at job 2.

And you know what?

I am not tired.  

I am not on caffeine.

(it makes me fall asleep anyway)

I am just really blessed.

I really believe that I have been blessed because I kept my goal to keep the sabbath day holy.

Even though I did it in a very literal way.

So there you go.

Tender mercies.

School last week.

Here are a few images from my week.

From my phone that I think may be dying.

The screen is doing some weird things.

This makes me very, very sad.

But I love this one enough that I will likely buy another one just like it.

We'll see.

Image #1

This is from Monday morning (my birthday!)

It was a beautiful, beautiful day.

Image #2

What is weird about this picture?

Yeah the top of that tree is a bit off.

Image #3

The walk up to campus on Tuesday.

I used to walk along this walkway everyday, but now they are re-landscaping it.

It is looking gorgeous!

Image #4

I love my jobs.

Especially job 1

Where awesome things like this randomly pop up on the wall.

So there was my week in images.  It was a pretty busy but pretty good one.

Project 52

So I took the picture last week but never posted it.

So,

here it is!