Something must be in the air

So Liisa received flowers from an agent today to thank her for her help on a case. And then I got a call this afternoon from an agent telling me that he was sorry he was so grumpy to me earlier today. He felt bad and wanted to apologize. Crazy, huh! (might not sound that way, but believe me, this is a rare day)

I am stuck at work until 5 o'clock tonight. Ugh. I wanted to go home five hours ago. This has been the longest week. Even though I love having three day weekends, I hate the four day week afterwards. There is always so much to cram in and the week seems longer than a regular five day week.

So, Katie had her baby about 4 weeks early. She had a boy, he's actually very healthy for being so early. He weighed 3 pounds 5 ounces and was 15 inches long. Very tiny, but cute. They named him Alijah Wayne. (not that thrilled with the first name, but whatever)

Let's see what else is going on? Hmmm, nothing much, really. Work is work, pretty much the same thing over and over as usual. Except, I totally miss Woolsey!!!!! Woolsey, come back, please!!!

I'm supposed to drive to California in September, but Gas is already at $4.00 a gallon out here and I read on KSL today that "they" are predicting that by the end of the summer it's going to be up to $7.00 a gallon! I can just imagine how much it's going to cost to get to Cali and back. UGH!

Thrusday, May 29th

Woolsey, I'm TOTALLY missing you!!!!!! But, I'm heading out the door to the dentist and so I will have to expound on that subject later. :-)

What is Fruit Juicy Red?

This was on the can of Hawaiin Punch I had today and it just struck me as a funny way to put things.

Made me laugh, so I thought I'd share.

May 5th

Whoa, five days into the month already. So, I went and saw Ironman yesterday. I think I just renewed my crush on Robert Downey, Jr. Wow, he looked good. It's nice to see him in a movie again. The movie was good, but not fantastic. I liked it, but looking back I have to say that I liked Transformer's and Fantastic Four better. I know they are not the same exactly, but they just seemed funnier and that they didn't take themselves as seriously as Ironman did. Anyway, it's just my opinion. I can't wait to see Hancock later this year. It's with Will Smith and it looks very promising. We'll see.



Anyway, nothing much new is going on here. April, Teegan and I went to the Great Salt Lake on Saturday and looked around the Salt Air gift shop. It brought back a lot of memories. I remember as kids, Heather, Ione, Kathy, Roni, and probably Joy all used to hang out there all of the time. It was so much fun. Of course this was all before the flood of 1983. It's too bad about that because it was a great place to hang out. Now you go out there and it seems so lonely and sad. I told April we'll have to start going out there more often and walking down the beach.

Getting close to the end of April

Wow, where has this month gone already? Here it is the 21st of April already. I swear it just started and now it's almost over. As you get older it seems that time speeds up and passes you by before you even realize it's happening. How do you slow it down? They say that you should take time and enjoy every moment of life, but it seems to be one of those sayings that people just say, but don't really know how to do. We are so busy during the day, you know, you go to work, you're busy, trying to get everything done and you sit there wishing it was Friday even though it's only Monday. It's like you wish your life away, because before you know it, it will be Friday and then Monday again and another week, month, year has gone by and you look back and ask,
"Where has the time gone?"

How do you slow it down? That's my question.

Another Great News Story

5th-Grader Finds Mistake at Smithsonian
April 2nd, 2008 @ 3:54pm
ALLEGAN, Mich. (AP) - Is fifth-grader Kenton Stufflebeam smarter than the Smithsonian? The 11-year-old boy, who lives in Allegan but attends Alamo Elementary School near Kalamazoo, went with his family during winter break to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington.
Since it opened in 1981, millions of people have paraded past the museum's Tower of Time, a display involving prehistoric time. Not one visitor had reported anything amiss with the exhibit until Kenton noticed that a notation, in bold lettering, identified the Precambrian as an era.
Kenton knew that was wrong. His fifth-grade teacher, John Chapman, had nearly made the same mistake in a classroom earth-science lesson before catching himself.
"I knew Mr. Chapman wouldn't tell all these students" bad information, the boy told the Kalamazoo Gazette for a story published Wednesday.
So Kevin Stufflebeam took his son to the museum's information desk to report Kenton's concern on a comment form. Last week, the boy received a letter from the museum acknowledging that his observation was "spot on."
"The Precambrian is a dimensionless unit of time, which embraces all the time between the origin of Earth and the beginning of the Cambrian Period of geologic time," the letter says.
The solution to the problem would not involve advanced science but rather simply painting over the word "era," the note says.
"We did forward a copy of the comment and our paleobiology department's response to the head of the exhibits department," said Lorraine Ramsdell, educational technician for the museum.
While no previous visitors to the museum had brought up the error, it has long rankled the paleobiology department's staff, who noticed it even before the Tower of Time was erected 27 years ago, she said.
"The question is, why was it put up with that on it in the first place?" Ramsdell said.
Excited as he was to receive the correspondence from museum officials, he couldn't help but point out that it was addressed to Kenton Slufflebeam. In Allegany.

A Mind Cleansing Experience

So, I added some links to some of my favorite sites below. Check them out sometime.