Monthly Archives: September 2008

Faux-Campout

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Saturday evening, I got together with my friends and their hubbies for a night of laughs and fun.  Unfortunately, Corey wasn’t feeling well, so I went as a bachelorette.

Our group wanted to have a fun get-together with our hubbies to show them that each of us is “normal” and that we don’t always talk about Twilight, Edward, Stephenie Meyer, etc.  In fact, this get-together wasn’t supposed to be Twilight-y in any way, except that all the hubbies kept bringing the subject up! :roll:

Anyway, our party was a little ways up Big Cottonwood Canyon at the Utah Power and Light Hydro Stairs Plant.  We had a campfire and grilled yummy food.  (I actually brought a sandwich from Gandolfo’s for my food.  There were a few others that brought sandwiches from Subway, so I wasn’t alone. :lol: )

Some of us played volleyball while others mingled.  I pretty much sucked at volleyball, but I guess that’s not hard to expect since I haven’t played for a really long time.  And, the ball was friggin’ hard! 8O Once our arms and hands went numb, we had a ton of fun. :lol:

Because I was without a significant other, I got to emcee the game we played.  We played a couple of rounds of “The Newlywed Game.”  I first asked the ladies some questions that they wrote the answers to and then we asked the hubbies the same questions to see who matched.  Then, we swapped.  Some of the questions were really funny and just a tad bit embarrassing, so I’m quite happy I didn’t have to answer any of them. ;)

After the game, we all said good-bye to Holly because she’s moving to Idaho Falls this weekend.  She got a new “top secret” job she can’t tell us about, but she’s going to come down if she can when we have our parties.  We hope it’s often so we don’t miss her too much!  (We’ve already had three of our members move away and had to endure losing them because they’ve moved too far away.)

It was a lot of fun to meet everyone’s husband.  They were all so funny and you could see that each couple belonged together.  I’m excited for them to meet Corey one of these days.

I always hate going home after our parties because I have such a good time.  However, at least this time I had somewhat of a consolation when I left.  I love the smell of campfires, so I always love how my clothes smell when I first go home. ;)

A Cruel Irony

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A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting in Sacrament meeting and thinking to myself, “Now that Corey and I sold our piano, I’m probably going to be asked to play the piano in some form at church.”  Later that day, I was asked to be the Relief Society pianist. :?

I’ve struggled with going to Relief Society for the last few months.  I think a lot of it is just dealing with everything going on in my life right now and I know some of it’s because I miss our old ward, even though I like our new one too.  All I know is that Heavenly Father must really want me to go to Relief Society; otherwise, I wouldn’t have been given a calling that requires me to be in Relief Society every Sunday.

I was sustained in church today and I’ll get set apart next week, so I wasn’t really expecting to play today.  But, I found out there hasn’t been a pianist for about four months, so I was asked to play today.  Luckily, the opening hymn was a hymn I was familiar with.  I didn’t do too badly, I guess.  (You may not know that I love to play the piano and I don’t mind playing in front of people; I just don’t like to play while anyone’s singing.  I used to get mad at my mom whenever she’d sing while I played.)  The closing hymn was a hymn I’d never heard of, so I was really nervous about playing it.  However, because today was Fast Sunday in our ward, our class went over time and I didn’t have to play it. :D I was very grateful.

The Relief Society presidency is going to get me the songs in advance, so I can practice each week, which will be a little harder now that I don’t have a piano.  But, the Bishopric said I can use the ones in the church and I’m sure my co-worker Erin will let me use hers too. *hint hint* ;)

Anyway, I think this will be good for me, even though I don’t like playing while people sing.  I know I’ll be blessed just because I’ll be going to Relief Society each week and because I’ll try my darnedest to do better each week with my playing. :)

An End in Sight

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For the past three or four months, I’ve been working on this evil project at work.  I know I’m making it harder than it has to be, but I thoroughly despise it! I’ve had such a hard time concentrating on it.  I feel like a little kid who keeps crying about cleaning his/her room and doesn’t realize that if he’d/she’d just do it, then it would be over.

It’s due on Monday and because I didn’t go to work yesterday, I get to finish it this weekend. Yipee! *insert sarcasm here* All I can say is that I’m so glad I’m finally almost done with this project!  By this time tomorrow, I’ll feel like I can do anything because I won’t have this stupid weight hanging over my shoulders anymore. I can finally start doing what I love doing most, writing the training manual for the new version of our software that’s being released in October.

Anyway, I just had to post something about this because it’s been the bane of my existence and I’m glad to finally be rid of it. I’m pretty sure my team leader is glad I’m almost done too because I won’t complain about it anymore.

Twilighters For Forks

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While my friends and I were in Forks, some of my friends found out that the Forks High School had been condemned and is in danger of being knocked down.  They wanted to help the city of Forks by raising money to help save the high school since there’s no way the city can do it alone.  Through the affiliations that my friends had made in Forks and with the backing of the Twilight Lexicon, they went to various city officials asking them for a way for fans to donate to the city.  The result was the formation of Twilighters for Forks!

There’re so many Twilight fans that have escaped to Forks many times while reading the Twilight Saga.  By helping save Forks High School, we can give something back to Forks!  Just think of how much money could be raised if every Twilight fan donated as little as $2.00! :D

Visit the Forks Forum website for all the details regarding the high school, the purpose of Twilighters for Forks, and the chance to donate to this cause.