Strawberries

To the current owners of our future house,

Could you plant some strawberries now please? Because it takes a few years for the plant to produce the fruit and I would like to have my own strawberries as soon as possible.

Also, plant a peach tree.

Thanks,

The people who will buy your house

Chris is funny

He locked himself out of the house today.

And he had a key on his key ring.

No matter what he says, it was only for about 7 minutes. Then I got our of the shower and realized why Kali was barking.

I was like "Why did you lock yourself out? Don't you have the key?"

"No." He looks down at his keys and sees it. "Well, I didn't know I had it."

To be fair, earlier I had talked about taking the house key off. But I took the key from somewhere else.

And, he is going to be upset at me for writing this.

Confessions Thursday

I have a difficult time telling my right from my left.

I have a college degree and I can't do it.

Yesterday I was meeting my dad somewhere to give him something. I was on the phone with him trying to figure out where I was going. He sees me pass and tells me to turn right. I turn left.

You see, I have to use my fingers to make an L with each hand and the one that is facing correctly is where I go. But my hand was preoccupied with my cell phone and the wheel and I couldn't do it. So I followed my instinct, and it was wrong.

I don't think it is something that I will ever be able to overcome. My brain is just wired not to tell the difference.

Ravelry

If anyone crochets or knits, you should check out this website.  There are tons of patterns. Some you have to pay for. But usually, there are tons of free ones almost exactly like the ones that have to be paid.

Also, you can find a pattern to anything. Even if you thought you didn't want to crochet it. Like a mug cozy, or a bikini and some other weird stuff.

Jasper Fforde

I have now read every Jasper Fforde book that has been published. He is such a fantastic writers and the books are so funny.

He currently has three series. My favorite has been the Nursery Crime Series where Jack Spratt works to solve crimes involving nursery rhyme characters. In the first book he must solve who pushed Humpty Dumpty and in the second book he has to find Goldilock's murderer.

Thursday Next is the series that has the most books out. My favorite character is The Cat formally known as Cheshire. In these books Thursday Next is part of Jurisfiction, a group of characters and and Outlanders (people from the real world) work to make sure that books stay the way they were written.

Of course those really brief descriptions don't give the books any justice at all. There is much more to them to that and the only way to find out if you'll like them yourself is to read them.

Here are some quotes from on of the books.

"'…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently?
'What do you mean, odd?'
'Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.' " (Lost in a Good Book)


"How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark."
"A whale isn't a fish, Thursday."
"A whale shark is--sort of."
"All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish."
"A crayfish isn't a fish."
"A starfish, then."
"Still not a fish."
"This is a very odd conversation, Thursday." (Lost in a Good Book)

Supplies

I know where I got everything in my scrapbook stash. It is one of those things that my memory can remember. But one thing is bothering me.

For example, I got this at the Sassafras warehouse sale last summer. It was free with purchase. 

I got this at the Making Memories Warehouse Sale last fall.

But I can't remember where I got this! Charleah found it in my stash a few months ago and it bothered me then. Well, I saw it again tonight and it reminded me of my frustration. I think I might have got it free with purchase somewhere- because it is not something I would buy myself. These are too expensive.

I know. I'm weird.

Couples

I think I am weird sometimes. Like on TV, I am against some of the obvious couples who are supposed to be together.

Example One: Glee

Am I the only person in the world who doesn't want these two together? I think so. He should stay with his wife! I know she was crazy and she faked a pregnancy. But she thought that will was going to leave her! She did it to bring them closer together. When you think of it that way, they should try to work it out. She should get some professional help, but they should work it out.

Example Two: Psych

I just don't buy it. I think Juliet should end up with Gus or Lassiter.  I know, I'm weird. Although, I think that I can eventually get behind this romance. Just not yet.

The Children of Men

I have been interested in this book when I first saw the trailer of the movie years ago. It seemed interesting. It was the world several years from now and no one was able to have children anymore. However, a woman eventually gets pregnant. I don't know the details of the movie, but the book takes place in 2021 and the last child was born in 1995.

From the trailer it seemed that the movie would be more action packed than the book was. The book was very slow moving and I didn't really feel like it expounded much. I guess I wanted more background and details about the way society was.

This book is not appropriate for Relief Society Book Club. It almost made it, but then within the last few pages they started cussing.

Test

I took a TEXES test on Friday. It's like the PRAXIS but for Texas. (Texas is awesome and has all of it's own tests). This one was for Elementary-Early Childhood to Sixth Grade.

I had taken a few practice question sets and failed all of them. I needed an 80% to pass and I got 69%s and 75%s.

I just got the results in.

And I got an 89% which is good enough! I am so stinking excited. This means that I could get hired to teach any of those grades right now if I wanted to. But I probably won't get a job until next year.

This is such a relief. While I would love to teach social studies and history (the other tests I have passed), those teaching jobs seem harder to come by. And they are reserved for coaches at some school districts.

Having this on my resume will make it so much easier to get a job. And honestly, I am warming up to the idea of teaching 4th or 5th grade. Primary is helping with that.

Resolution Assessment

Two months down already. I feel like time is moving faster. But here is an update on some of my resolutions.

1. I read 7 books this month. I am back on track to read 40 books this year.

2. I lost 10 inches, 6 pounds and worked out 19 times in February.

3. I made a present for someone's birthday. (Chris's sister's birthday is on Thursday, so I can't tell what it is yet.)

4. I think I cooked at least 4 new recipes this month. I did at least 3.

5. I am practicing a song to play with our ward choir. I am kind of scared to play with other people singing, but I am trying my hardest.

6. I got two jobs. I turned one down and decided to sub as much as I can so I can get my foot in the door and get a teaching job. So far, my first subbing experience will be on Thursday and Friday. Hopefully I like it.