Late Thoughts

I have to get up early tomorrow. Thats one of my least favorite things in the whole world. Because of that, I find myself putting off going to bed which really doesn't make sense. It just makes the inevitable harder, but here I am still up and wanting to put off going to bed because it means I'm going to have to get up early.

Anyways, I was leaving a long comment on Melanie's blog when I thought to myself, "self, this is turning into a blog entry, so you should just write it down." So here it goes.

I've been reading on some of the blogs I follow that they are going private. Some are blogs of people that I grew up with and now live far far away and have lives very different from mine (ie married with kids). Many of them were good friends of my little sister who lets face it is way cooler then me and so had a lot more friends then me (thats why her middle name is "favorite") or siblings of people I do know etc.

I totally understand the wanting to go private. Who knows what wierdos out there right now are reading this. But frankly, if someone is going to stalk/murderate me, its most likely someone that I know (ie maybe someone who hates me because I took away their kid or something, or someone who thinks they love me because we had a conversation at institute once :) Its true that I don't link to others' blogs on my blog just in case. But I still must not understand all the reasons for people going private......

At any rate, it makes me sad when I'm not able to secretly follow someone's blog anymore. I guess its because then I don't feel obligated to leave comments if I don't feel like it. So maybe its because at the heart of it all, I'm really lazy! That is probably true, but I'm sad also because some blogs I only check on occasion or just stumble across briefly before they go private, I'd feel weird inviting myself onto someone's blog I only sort of know.

Well thats my ramble for now. I've been getting these headaches because I think my contact perscription needs to be upped, but I'm too busy right now to schedule it. Its only gotten bad this last week or so, but I'm having a tough time reading road signs, and I realized I'm squinting at the computer screen (hence the headaches at work?). I think I will try a new pair tomorrow just in case I got a bad one this last time.

Domestic?

So this week was very crazy busy. In many ways its good to be busy again, but its kind of stressful. This Saturday I was very busy but didn't get much done. I did Can some tomatoes which look pretty, but I only got 3.5 quarts. That was a lot of work for not much reward, nonetheless after canning those and making spaghetti sauce today, our tomato pile has gone down significantly. On a happier note, the grape jam fiasco actually wasn't as disasterous as previously recorded. Some how they set. Weird. Probably still tastes funny!

More news of the dehydrator: We've done many batches, but it seems as soon as one is done, that it gets eaten up. Interesting because we can do about 12 apples in a batch. Needless to say we are getting plenty of fiber in our house. So we also tried making some fruit leather with apples and grapes. I think I would like one with peaches and strawberries. Grape skins are a little bitter!

We went on a Sunday walk (Jamie, Kate, and I) up South Fork towards Big Springs. It was beautiful! The sky was so blue!

and we were following a beautiful stream most of the way. Maybe its because I grew up in the desert, but anytime I hear water I'm amazed. Its such a beautiful sound, and I just want to jump in. This water was cold so I only put a foot in.

We came up to a beautiful meadow where we took beautiful and silly pictures! It was a glorious fall afternoon that just made me happy to be alive. I sure like Jamie's camera!

This is me trying to catch a lucky leaf. I got one!

I picked 3 of our pumpkins today. Here is a picture of the mini pumpkin and a carrot from our garden!

Vegas...again

So, those of you who follow Melanie's blog know the reason I didn't update what my exciting plans were for the weekend. For those of you who don't, its because I made a suprise visit to Melanie to support her triathalon! I am very proud of her and she did awesome. I took good pictures (yes, self compliment). The drawback was getting up at 5:30!

This tri was more fun because I got to drive along the bike ride and cheer Melanie on at a couple of places I stopped. Its fun because I could tell when Melanie would be coming in because I recognized the people who she was near. There was one lady running in a fairly skimpy outfit who was (yes its possible) whiter then Melanie. She beat Melanie in the run, but it was easier to guess when Melanie would finish. The only annoying part of the whole race was the announcer guy.

He thught he was funny, but he was the only one laughing at his jokes. He even went off on this rant about how the Prius isn't a Green Vehicle, and even has a bigger carbon footprint then a Hummer. Not sure how he came to that one. But he was supposed to be just announcing the finishers. It went like this (anouncer in red, Emily's thought responses in black): Another LA Tri member- Joe Schmoe just finished good job Joe! I lived in Bellvue so I'm familiar with LA Tri, its my favorite Tri team, although later I moved to San Franscisco. I will be here with you until the last finisher comes off the course, then I have to hurry and catch a flight (Nobody Cares!). Hey, you all should come to my house for a party afterwards. HA HA HA (Huh? Nobody is listening, and nobody cares! Who is this guy?)

Anyways it was a beautiful day and it was really fun to suprise Melanie! Melanie didn't get as much studying done as she was supposed to, but I got through 4 books. That is my type of vacation!

Afterwards we took a nap, then spent some time in Melissa's hottube. The nice thing about being back is my own bed! I'm not supper excited about being cold in my house yet, but at least its hot chocolate season. I already bought 3 new varieties today.

Update

so i've been negligent in keeping up my blog. Sorry! Well I had fun that weekend with Melanie, Jared, Amy, and Gage. Gage is a cute kid and I like the way he always has a song to sing. It was even more fun to watch his parents when he was having a tough time! He and I seem to have the same opinion of the Belagio water show....IT ROCKS! Maybe next time he and I will just hang out there and everyone else can do something else. We had fun at the Spring Preserve, even though I had gone there on our sister's weekend this spring, I saw new things and it was fun showing Gage. I liked the animal part the best I think.

Us girls went to the relief society broadcast on Sunday with Melissa's stake. I think its a great idea to do it like that. I really enjoyed it and reminds me of how blessed I am, and that I need to do more good things in my life!


It took me awhile to recover from two weekends in a row in Vegas, but I'm back to my chipper happy self! Conference Weekend was also really good. I was sad when Angela wasn't able to come down, but maybe I got more out of conference that way =) I started (again) a quilting project. I'm cutting up old clothes to make into an easy quilt. However, I think I'm probably just going to end up with lots of square rags and not a quilt. It did keep me awake during conference and it is always fun to cut things up. I'm worried about sewing anything because my sewing machine is in open rebellion currently. Granted I haven't used it that much, but it does seem to be an especially contrary machine!


Couple of other fun things for this past weekend was picking up Jamie's wedding dress and picking out a tiara. As Jamie said, "Everyone should have a tiara." Ok maybe thats what I said, I think Jamie said something more along the lines of "It will be great for dress up!" More practical, but I think my sentaments are applicable. I took some fun pictures of Jamie in her kokopelli shirt, kahki's, a veil and a tiara, but forgot to push save after I took them.





I also went shopping with Jamie and Cathy up to the outlets at Park City. I guess I'm one of the few people that didn't know Park City was more then ski resorts. The trip up the canyon was beautiful. The leaves were changing colors and the sky was soo blue. I'm not much of a shopper, but with great company it was very pleasurable. We stopped at Granny's for shakes, and I got a cheeseburger! We all picked out the same color of shirts at one of the stores (they didn't have the sizes we needed with the other colors, and they were way on sale!) so we can all be twinners! I got a new pair of jeans which I think are now my favorite (I had to replace one of my other pairs as the zipper broke- at work which is awkward!).





This week has gone by very fast. I had an adoption which closed 4 cases, and now I've got a new case. But its great to be doing stuff. I don't have any specific plans for this weekend, but I do need to make sure I go to bed on time as I got back into bad habbits!

I have a new toy! We are happy to welcome the food dyhydrator to the family of random kitchen appliances! I dyhydrated probably a whole a bushel of home grown tomatoes which I eat like crackers. I've heard tomatoes are good for you so I should be extreemly healthy now. I think the apples were the biggest hit as they were all gone sooo fast. I got the apples from a coworker and used my other favorite appliance, apple peeler-coorer-slicer (neck and neck with the noodle maker) and it was super fast, super easy. I'll have to get some more so we can have more healthy snacks. I also did pineapple which is tasty, and carrots (from my garden) which aren't.


In other news, I started excersizing a little every night. Hopefully by writing this down I don't jinks myself. I'm just doing situps, pushups, etc but I figure its a start. Wish me luck!