Fractured

I am feeling fractured! When I have more than a few projects that I need to attend to, I don't do well! That will not be news to most of you. So I am trying to figure out how to get moving in a forward direction! Yikes...maybe a list


SOOOOOO..............................
centerpieces
texture the bathroom wall
clean fridge (and freezers)
laundry
Sunday school lesson
Christmas finished and wrapped for out of town folks
organize wedding junk
mailing lists
figure out how to get invitations down here
turn RS stuff over to Amy
baby shower tonight and gifts to about five babies now that I have missed
Natalie's ICS people
phones exchanged (7-10 days if I can get Missa to authorize them because Kerry has her listed as an authorized account member but not me!)
budget/funding management
money to Missa's account
talk to Jenny
send Halloween treat to grandkids
call Bobbie
walk the dog
AND..........
clean up my little old MESSY house!

Does it just make you want to jump off a cliff??!!!! The boys are saying to themselves, 'then quit blogging and get busy' and they will be accurate in their response to this frustration............so enjoy your day......I am off!!!!!!!!

From Dad's Files

My dad has been cleaning out his file cabinets...a task I ought to attend to instead of blogging... and he sent some silly stuff to me instead of tossing it; a brief historical note...Dad was known throughout the region at church for his speaking ability....he was funny and would quote poetry and scripture from memory and write his own poetry (he was also an artist...his favorite class in school....I don't think he really liked academics for some reason...he was plenty bright but I think that the formality of education caused him feelings of inferiority...he may have had some type of dys----something-a) He was sought after as a speaker and had opportunity to hone his skill with his fairly non stop years of church leadership and service....his like-a-bility was enhanced by his reputation as a problem solver and a tireless servant...he was forever running little old ladies catalog orders out to them so that they wouldn't have to come to town...then he would hang the little curtains they ordered or weed the garden on his way out or scrape their walks....he has ever been a historian at heart; hence his love of antiques. He would go through the VERNAL EXPRESS on Thursday afternoon and cut out articles that involved people near and far and drop them in the mail with a note congratulating them or commenting on their event or expressing appreciation for their effort and then he would cut out articles that would have something to do with our family or close friends which he would then paste in a scrapbook...so from dad's files:

Think you Know Everything?

A snail can sleep for three years
A dime has 118 ridges around it
A crocodile cannot stick out it's tongue
An ostrich's eyes are bigger than it's brain
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age
Cats have over 100 vocal sounds. Dogs about 10.
Our eyes are always the same size at birth but our nose and our ears never stop growing.
The Bible does not say there were three wise men, only three gifts.
The cruise liner QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
and.............there is no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins!

I posted a POLL at the bottom of my blog page just for fun. It is a silly poll but I think I will have fun with a few polls in the near future! So weigh in!

End of Week Review

Ike came in and kind of chewed up our September so we are happy to be working through (although it is going by VERY quickly) October. I am having a hard time getting some forward motion going...experiencing lots of starts and stops.......this week a bit more starting than stopping which pretty much characterized all of last week.(the stopping) The wedding plans that have been needing some attention are beginning to swim through my head......black.....white......pink....a little green......websites and numbers and layouts and black dresses and pink shoes are all running together in my head. Addresses need to start running through my computer and columns of numbers with receipts that are being tracked need to run through my notebook. I am getting a clearer idea of what we need to do so hopefully in a week or two we will have it jelled completely or at least almost completely. I did buy very cute black shoes today for little ole me. And a suit for John that Steph and I looked at and little outfits for Cavin and Caden (Chira, I need to talk to you about those)
Other events of the last few weeks:

• watched Conference and loved it
• did a little Christmas shopping...need to be done in three or four weeks
• Kerry came and went to Turkey...he is going back the end of next week or the first of the following week.
• Corey's neighbor came home from his place of evacuation and now we can get the car fixed
• worked on wedding
  
• Nan is working a bunch
• met with a caterer this week...yikes!
  
• I am down little bits at a time at Weight Watcher's...at this rate you will note a difference in a year or so but what do you do!
• John and Madi lost power at school again for a few hours the other morning
• Alana says my 'little grandson is totally adorable' (I knew that)
• watched Conference and loved it
  
• working on wedding
  
• Our tree limbs and logs and debris that have been piled up from the storm is almost 100 per cent gone as of today; we have one more pile behind our gate which will hopefully be gone tomorrow
• Worked two shifts at the temple this week
• watched Conference and loved it
  
• working on wedding
• have some RS stuff that Susan needs me to do (invites to Board Meeting in TWO WEEKS! and Board Meeting)
• a gospel doctrine lesson to get ready for Sunday
• LSU tackles Florida tomorrow and the Longhorns are taking on the Sooners in the Red River Rivalry........go Texas!!!!!
• and, I AM WORKING ON THE WEDDING! and LOVED CONFERENCE