With the encouragement of my wife i did make a couple of new year's resolutions. One that I really needed to make was to get to the temple more often in 2011. After thinking about it throughout the week we finally made it there this morning. As wonderful of an experience as it is I find it exhausting. I work so hard because it is a great opportunity to study things out and really exercise my gray cells. I hardly watched the film because if was focusing so much on the dialogue. It was beneficial but affected me for the rest of the day in two ways. First, it took me right out of the mood to work. I had planned to come back home and do something in the office. But once back it just felt so good to relax and simply be here that I never could get in a frame of mind to do any work. Second, as I already wrote: "I find it exhausting". I am ready to call it a day and its just coming on 8:00 p.m. (I noticed that the time on my posts are off by an hour so it will probably say that I did this closer to 7:00 p.m.) So I will finish and do some reading and stuff and go to bed.
I did go out in the cold to help get some groceries into the house. When I picked a couple of bags I dropped a can of my left big toe. I am not crippled for life, but it still hurts! Sympathy anyone?
Sherri comments:
ReplyDeleteSympathy? Yes. No good deed goes unpunished.
I think it is great that you are venturing into the wonderful world of blogging. Am I to understand that this blog is replacing the newsletter?
If so, then we need "Grandma's Corner" too. But I like "Jay's Journal". It might be fun to find some old, I mean "original" journal entries that you can share about each of your kids. It would be fun for the grandkids to know that their parents were actually young once too.
Also, we all like funny, embarrassing stories of your youth---like shooting a hole in your ceiling and drag racing, etc.
And an update on Nick's wreckage---the car is fixed. He only had to pay $200, insurance covered the rest. Of course, there was also the $130 he had to pay for the ticket. And that's cheap compared to what it is costing to apply to colleges! He just applied to Washington University St Louis.
Sherri did you miss 'grandma's turn last Sunday?
ReplyDeletemaybe I can get her to do something more as she just snuck up on me and is now sitting right beside me!