Dreams

(I stole this picture from Jill's Blog...Jill...don't be mad! Love you!)

This last weekend I went on to a "Rendezvous" with my ward. The theme was "The Power of Balance". I must have gone with an open heart and mind...or just been deprived lately, because I came away with some amazing ideas to mull around. I will explore more of these ideas here publicly and also privately...but the one I want to start with is this...

We had a concert Thursday night with Sam Payne (AMAZING, I love scatting), Ryan Shupe, and Ryan Tilby. One of the songs they sang had this line:

"When you dream, dream big. Because sometimes dreams come true."

I have been thinking of my dreams lately so this line struck my particularly hard. It is making my think about my dreams and are they big or small? Are they want I REALLY want or just what I think I can achieve or what will be easy to achieve? Who doesn't deserve to have their biggest dreams come true?

One of my dreams, aspirations, or whatever you want to call it: When I have children of my own I would like to be financially situated so that we can spend some or all of the summers doing humanitarian service along with vacationing in other states and countries. I would love my life long job to be a volunteer, and I would love to do it with my future husband and children. I can almost see summers spent working in an orphanage in South America, or teaching English in China, building a school in Africa, or even working to build/repair homes in the United States. I love the world and have a strong desire to learn more about the people that live here and would like to have the opportunity to do this with my future family. What a better way to learn about a culture than by serving the people? The key is me starting to work on this now...so that I have a good chance of achieving this dream, and the many other dreams I have.

So, what are your biggest dreams?

A Story About Two Lovely Ladies

A long time ago (June) two fair ladies, DaNarla and Kisterina, went on a journey to the southern region of their state. Whilst there they had a grand time. The reason for their journey was to attend very important meetings for their rulers (our boss at our job). Since they had to go such a long way they decided to have fun while going.



They went to a town that has been known to have a constant carnival (Las Vegas). They visited local industries (Hoover Dam for a DAM tour). They learned all they could about the building and construction and even ventured to go deep inside the beast. They were brave women and were not afraid.



Wanting to get into the spirit of the town, they participated in local good luck customs. (Rubbing the toes of the weird statues at Hoover Dam to be lucky in the casinos.) However, they determined later that the good luck customs did not work.



They also partook of the local spirits and food, finding both to their liking. (Mine were virgin drinks lest you get any ideas about me.) The tavern they choose to rest a while was magical in nature and had bricks of fire lining the outside.








Of course, in the new land they encountered many wondrous and strange creatures. Thinking that descriptions were not enough, they pulled out the paints to capture the creatures full beauty.



Now DaNarla, was known in her village to be very vain and loved to look at pictures of herself. It is no wonder that she had some portraits painted of her whilst at the carnival. She was assured that even though the pose was quite unnatural, she would nonetheless attract many men with just one glance. (So, I like to take pictures of myself...sue me.)


As a final act in the City of Carnival the fair maidens received the carnivals mark. Each one choosing a symbol to represent themselves. Kisterina chose a flower because she is as a delicate little flower. DaNarla choose a butterfly to represent her longing for frequent travel. The maidens were not overly concerned about their ruler finding out as they were assured the mark's were only temporary and would wear off within a fortnight.



The next day having conveyed the necessary information from their ruler at the meetings they departed for home. Whilst on their way home they were lured by signs of sweet frozen cream in the land of Beaver. Had they known before they stopped what danger laid in wait, they may have forgone the temptation. Alas, while purchasing their treat Kisterina set down the magical key to their chariot. When the fair ladies were getting ready to depart they discovered they magical key gone. DaNarla and Kisterina looked high and low to no avail. The magical key was gone.



Since they had borrowed the chariot from the ruler for this important trip they sent word and were directed to have the chariot taken to the nearest city with wizards able to produce a new magical key. Kisterina was quite distraught, for the nearest town was several leagues away (Richfield) and it would add half a work day to their journey home.





However, DaNarla upon hearing the news decided to put the time to good use and have many additional portraits drawn of her practicing the pose she learned in the City of Carnival. For she was young and wanted to snare not just one man, but many men to use and play with as her moods changed.














Epilogue: Kisterina was sent a parchment a week later containing the magical key. A distracted woman picked up the magical key thinking it was hers and did not discover the error until the next day.





Moral of the story: Losing the keys to your work car in Beaver is junky. But on the bright side I did have a lot of fun taking pictures of myself!

Fillmore, Beaver

Playing At Work

Remember that one blog I wrote about HATING plastic covered paper clips? Well, I was out of the office one day and what do I come back too?

PLASTIC COVERED PAPER CLIPS hidden ALL over my desk. On my chair, in my papers, taped to bins, inside of drawers, on my can of soup, behind things hung on the wall. Pretty much everywhere.




And who would do such a thing???
THIS GUY.
Chay.
My arch nemisis and BFF at work. I have to admit he is pretty fun MOST OF THE time to keep us all entertained.

I took me days to find all the paper clips. With the last one being found on August 6th. Every time I find one I shake my fist and then silently laugh.


But now, I have all these paper clips just hiding in my desk and waiting.Seeing them gives me inspiration in thinking up a new prank for CHAY.


Although the best thing you can do to him is stare at him. Too bad he doesn't sit by me anymore. I would stare at him for 10 minutes everyday. It freaks him right out of town and he has to get up and leave his desk. I know because I did it once and it made me laugh so hard.

(p.s. I finally learned how to use some things on my camera and took all these pictures and the pictures of the Afrikan coins. I love the MACRO setting. Thanks Megs.)

You're Going To Have To Wait...

Today I went on a roller coaster ride, an emotional roller coaster ride.

I have been happy, excited, annoyed, irritated, dumbfounded, sad, giggly, hopeful, crying sad, tired (if you don't think tired counts as an emotion...just come talk to me), proud, elated, calm, holding back tears, thoughtful, and finally NUMB.

So, if you want to see me express any emotion...you're just going to have to wait because mine are all used up.

Just consider me for the next week or so DEAD INSIDE.

(Do you ever have days like this. I hate/despise them. And then later...looking back...I appreciate them...but NOT for a long long long long time.)

(((Opinion POLL))) - This Guy

One question: ultra-fantasti-fabulous OR how about ultra-fabu-lame? Also, please feel free to tell me why you feel this way?