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At Parented Pre-school today, our question was about Technology and what we liked and disliked about it. A LOT of people said the computer. They love and both dislike it. The other ones were cell phones, and digital cameras. My feelings on cell phones are this; there is no way on this green earth that a teenager needs a cell phone. One person said they knew of grade 3 and 4's that have them! What the heck!!!! What does an 8 year old need with a cell phone? People are so dis-connected with each other now adays. It's really quite sad. I think to have a cell phone for emergencies is okay but not to carry around with you for part of a social outing or get together. They are so over-rated. Wouldn't it be easier to pick the phone up and just talk to someone? And what's with all the text messaging? It makes me think of "secret combinations". People can be so lazy! And why do people need to glitz up their cell phones? It's as ridiculous as dressing up your animals. Who do people think they are? I have a cell phone but I only got it after Tanner was born and use it 90% for emergencies. It's nice to have when we are out and don't want to get up to use the pay phone but we don't talk on it in groccery store while we're shopping, or text people when we're at the movies, or heaven forbid you should have to put your phone down to order something! It can be really frustrating when, at work, you're trying to make a sandwich and the customer is chatting on their cell phone. Sorry for interrupting your urgent phone call about getting drunk tonight because you just turned 18, but please hang up and tell me what you want on your sandwich.
Matt used to carry his cell phone to church and let me tell you, we had a discussion about it at least twice a month about it. Who carries a cell phone into church??? That's just so rude! Who's going to call you that's so important that it can't wait 3 hours? I mean, honestly. Can you even imagine a cell phone ringing in the middle of sacrament? I've heard police/fire radios but they are low and you kind of expect that if you know you have a fire or police man on call in sacrament. It's part of the job. But a cell phone?!?!
As I am sitting here typing this, I just looked down and saw that Tanner has put his Backyardigans puzzle behind the computer desk. What a funny boy! He has been so cute lately...well, with the exception of today. He was kind of a pickle at Parented Pre-School and wasn't overly coopertive. I'm not sure why, but it's been one of those afternoons with him.
I had a great chat with one of the girls at work tonight. I happened to go in to finish a shift for someone and one of the other girls, who wasn't working but drove by and saw my car, came in and we had a great chat. I really enjoy getting to know the girls I work with and what they think about certain things. It makes me think back on my days at that age and the experiences I had and what I wish I had known. I love, mostly, talking about the gospel (of the 16 girls that work there, only 3 are not members) and sharing my testimony and the things that I've learned.
Well, I think that's it for tonight. I'm going to try to go to bed.

Just a few comments

I wanted to get these written down before I forgot. Tanner left one of his precious Cars in my Aunt's vehicle last week when we went into Lethbridge with her and we went over last night for an early birthday dinner for her and when we got there he said "Mommy, can you do something for me" and I replied "what do you need" and he then told me "I need to you to tell Aunty Elaine to open her door to her garage so I can get my car".

Then today, he was informing me that he has Speech at school today (as if I didn't already know) and I said "you have speech with Reegan today?" and he said yep. Then I reminded him that he also has speech up in Calgary next week and he said "I like Allison the best because she plays games with me".

For lunch we had soup and he asked if it was still hot and I said I didn't know. Then he says "I better stick my finger in and check".

He was playing on the snow banks while walking home the other day and I said "be careful Tanner, I don't want you to fall" and he said "you always say that to me"

On another note, I ran for 21 1/2 minutes straight this morning. I was really really tired and thought I'd just run for 10 minutes and be done but then I was on the treadmill and thought "this is easy. If you can run 10 minutes twice with only a 1 minute walking break, you can run the entire 20 minutes...no problem". So I just did it. It made me feel really successful and like I accomplished something. I have also decided to keep my mouth shut for a while when conversing with other people because I feel lately like every time I open my mouth, I say the wrong things or I stick my foot in my mouth or people look at me like I'm stupid. So I'm going to "talk" on the computer and not verbally when I have something to say. Well, that's it for now.

What have we been up to lately?

Let's see...what have we been up to????

Me-Running for 10 minutes at a time this week, making cookies, working, playing really intense games of hide and seek with Tanner, starting to read my book "Eat, Pray, Love", doing 8 loads of laundry (more than usual), going to FHE at Suzanne's house, making a Sunday Activity box for Tanner (it's going to be amazing), cutting and pasting things to put in the Sunday box, and sleeping when I can...lol.

Matt-working, playing with Tanner while I'm at work, making pancakes, and looking for a job

Tanner- school, playing with friends, skating on the ice on the sidewalks and edge of the roads, throwing snowballs at Mommy, having 2 baths in one day, playing with his Cars and toys, getting himself dressed, watching the sword in the stone, practicing printing and printing his letters, doing puzzles, climbing on the couch, getting a treat at Subway with his piggy bank money, learning to push the pedals on his bike all by himself, and eating like it was going out of style.

That's our short update for this week.

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This is a fun little quiz I took that I came across on Amy's blog. Thanks!

Five for Friday

Stolen from Kelly....AGAIN!!!!

1. Who's the best hugger you know? Tanner is the best hugger by far.

2. What were you doing at midnight last night? That's classified information

3. What's something you cannot wait to do? In this lifetime- get a house, In the next life-Meet the Savior and see my Dad again.

4. Have you ever donated money for a good cause? Yes, Hurricane Katrina, MADD, Cancer and I think a couple others.

5. What's the last piece of clothing you borrowed from anyone? I was walking to Sharon's to get on the treadmill and silly me, wore my crocs so my socks got wet and so when I got there, she lent me a pair of her socks to run in. Thanks Sharon!

I know you're all dying to know how my run went today. FAN-FREAKIN-TABULOUS!!!! I ran for 2 minutes after my 6 minutes last set, at 6km!!! It was really fast but it was great. So that was 6 minutes at 5.5km and then 2 minutes after that at 6km! My legs are a bit sore, but it was so worth it.

Tomorrow I am going with some friends to the movie P.S. I love you. I'm really excited to be able to go. Plus, I heard that it's a really good movie.

It's really nice out today. Tanner was able to play outside and he loved playing in the puddles. He found a stick....why do all boys love sticks????....and splashed in all the water he could find.

Well, that's about it for now. Have a great day!

P.S. SPELLCHECKER IS BACK!!!! HORRAY!

8 minutes and Pictures

Normally, I really, really detest posting pictures on my blog because I get a bit nervous of people figuring out all my information and kidnapping my child, but this one was too cute to pass up. I had a friend ask my where I hang my clothes when I dry them because I don't dry my clothes in the dryer...except my towels and underclothing. So this is where I hang my clothes to dry. I usually dry the pants on the following.

I got this at Canadian tire a couple years ago. It's perfect for all the stuff I have to wash and dry. I use liquid softener in these loads that I hang so my clothes are soft. You can use one side to lay things to dry and the other side to hang if you have just a little load to wash and dry. I normally have both of my clothes drying racks up together. So, if you're looking to hang your clothes to dry, this is what I do. It works great.

And I hang my tops on this. If it get's full, then I put Matt's work shirts in the half of the closet in the guest room that doesn't have any clothes hanging. The 2 sides extend and it lowers down so you can put it in your closet and keep it there.

I've had a very interesting morning. Last night Matt was telling me that the owner of SRI homes died and that they are selling the company to someone else. Which means the senior employees got to keep their jobs but everyone else got laid off. Then this morning I was talking to my Aunt and she was mentioning to a friend of hers that Matt was having a hard time in his job because his boss is not a good boss. Well, her friend, who knows Matt's boss, said that they were not surprised! Apparently he has a bad reputation. Which is too bad that Matt got the short end of the stick but a blessing in disguise because if Matt stayed at SRI, he would be out of a job. So we are grateful for that but sad that he is being treated so poorly. Anyways...

My run this morning was AWESOME!!!! My last set (I'm running 6's this week) I ran for a whole 8 minutes and 15 seconds!!!!! It was such a rush. I felt amazing after. Next week I'm up to 8 minutes so I thought I'd better try it out and see how much of a push it will be. It's not too bad. I find it's especially easy to run when I have a great song playing the last 2-3 minutes of my run. It really gets my pumped up and going. My favorites are pump it by BEP and Piece of me by Britney. Those are the best songs, so far, that I have found to run to and get me going. A little less conversation is also a good one.

Last night at work it was crazy! We were so steady with customers that I couldn't do any of the cleaning list until about 9pm. I was SOooooo glad to see one of the managers at about 9:15 because the bathrooms needed cleaning and I couldn't clean them while there alone so she graciously cleaned them for me. Thank you Christine! But just I would start on a cleaning task, someone would come in and I had to stop my cleaning. I ended up doing most of it after I closed at 11, which meant that I didn't get out of there until 12:15....45 minutes later than what I was supposed to be done. Usually it takes me about 20-30 to close but not last night. I didn't even sit down once. Not even to eat. I had to mulit-task. Oh well!

Well, I think that's it for today. Enjoy the day!

Family Day

We had a great family day today. We went with my friend and her work to the movie "The Bee Movie". It was pretty cute. Then we got a few groceries and then we cleaned up the house. I also did all my laundry. I just have to wait to fold it and put it away tomorrow. I hang my clothes to dry so it take about 24 hours to dry all the way and then fold it and put it away.
The weather has been really great here. A lot of melting...which equals high potential for flooding when it gets really warm out for a long stretch. We didn't have any at our place last year but there were a few that I know that did.
I was relaxing today with Tanner and I realized that Matt had cleaned most of the house and also was getting dinner ready. I was really surprised and happy that I didn't have to do much. Matt is such a great husband and an especially great father. I'm just really grateful for him.
Anyways, not much to write about. I'm up to running for 6 minutes at a time. I know, I went from 3 last week to 6 this week. I need to get up to 20 minutes in 3 more weeks so I really have to get going. It feels amazing to run that long right now. I thought I'd be exhausted, but it actually gives me more energy. So, that's it for now.

Where are you spell checker

so i decided that i am not impressed with this whole spellchecker thing not working. now i actually have to be careful about what i write and if i'm not sure about the spelling, i have to look the word up in the dictionary....NOT!!! but really...what's up with that? is anyone else as frustrated and annoyed as i am that spell checker isn't working? it takes 3 times as much work. clearly by this post i was not in any mood to take my time and i didn't even use capitals. what is wrong with this picture....lol

Have you ever seen a mama, wearing her pajama's...

Today we got to go to the Temple together. Finally!!!! We haven't gone together since I think September...maybe even longer than that. Anyways, it was so nice! We got back home and I realized (after we had really good food at Pizza's and Cream, which I highly recommend) we needed a few groceries. So you know what I did????? I had already put my comfy p.j. pants on and I thought "I don't even care. I'm just going to go!" So I did it! I went to the local grocery store in my P.J. bottoms and no one even batted an eye. I think I might do this more often. Maybe, I'll NEVER get out of my P.J's. Wouldn't that be great. There's a Mom who brings her little girl to school every day in her P.J bottoms. It's not an uncommon thing here. I've worn grubby pants or sweat pants but I haven't worn pajama bottoms to "town". So that's my adventurous day today. Then I worked. Well, that's it for now.