And on your left you will see my life

15 October 2008, 7:30 am by Giggles
Categories: Books, Education, Family, Gospel, Life, Meme, Quilting/Sewing/Knitting/Crafting, Science & Tech, Work

Laylabean suggested keeping track of everything you do in one day and posting it. She thought Monday or Tuesday of this week would be good. I didn’t keep track of times like she did, so all my times are in -ish, but here’s a general run down. You get a tour of both days, starting with Sunday night.

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You Stink!

13 October 2008, 11:52 am by Giggles
Categories: Venting

Seriously? What are most people thinking? They stink. One man got on the bus a few days ago and sat near the front. I was sitting in the back. During the block he was on the bus my nose started to burn and my eyes started to water. He stunk!! It was another block before I could truly breathe again. It’s ridiculous! Why on earth would anyone think smoking would be a good idea?

But, because I take the bus to class, I only fill up my car every two or three weeks. I guess that’s why I keep a book with me on the bus, something to bury my nose in.

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The Thinks I Thought

11 October 2008, 11:11 pm by Giggles
Categories: Questions, Random, Science & Tech

What banged together at the Big Bang? Scientist say there was nothing before then. So a whole bunch of nothing with no mass, no energy, no gravitational/electric/magnetic/nuclear force, smashed together, and out of that nothing we got a whole universe? Scientists can be weird.

The pizza guy knocked on my door this afternoon. I didn’t order pizza. He had missed a number on the address.

Milk is $1.49 this week!

I bought the cutest little tiny pumpkin today. Since getting to my Autumn/Halloween/Thanksgiving decorations would require unstacking pretty much my whole storage closet, that pumpkin and the Halloween quilt top I made last year are probably going to be it for my Fall decorations this year. I’ll make the effort on the closet for Christmas.

Around 9:30 tonight I get another knock on my door. Guy asks if Paula is here, and then if I’m sure she doesn’t live here. Yup. I’m sure. Apparently she gave him the wrong address. I tell him to try the address the pizza went to this afternoon. He then says “You’re cute, what are you doing tonight?” Huh? I told him, “not tonight,” and closed and locked the door again. He knocked one more time, I didn’t answer, but I did grab my phone and put my finger on the 7 just in case I needed to do some speed dialing.42D

Note to guys: That is not the appropriate way to respond when you find out you have the wrong address.

There are currently 183 pages on my website (if I counted right, and not counting the blog at all). That’s a lot of pages.

I wish it was snowing here. At least it’s kind of cold.

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Love everyone, but don’t marry all of them

9 October 2008, 11:34 am by Giggles
Categories: Family, Gospel, Politics

California isn’t the only state voting this November on an amendment that defines marriage. I wonder if we’ll have to have constitutional amendments to define all the other words in the dictionary some day. But anyway…

Arizona is also voting on such an amendment, Proposition 102, a grand total of 20 words to add to the state constitution: Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid and recognized as a marriage in this state.

That sounds good to me. That’s what a marriage is. From an even greater power than the Arizona legislature we learn that, “marriage between a man and woman is ordained of God.” So for a legislature to come up with what they did, they aren’t that far off.

But what about love?

Actually, you can get married without love, and a lot of people have. I happen to believe a marriage is better with love. But no one goes into a marriage with the same amount of love they have 1, 5, 10, 50 years into a marriage.

It is also perfectly possible to love someone and not marry them. I’ve done it many times. There are many many people that I love, but I have yet to marry any of them. The Primary song says “Jesus said love everyone; treat them kindly, too.” It does not say that we were commanded to marry everyone we love, just that we are to love them.

This amendment will not change at all who people are allowed to love. In fact, it would be better if there were more love in the world, without us having to be legislated to love people. This amendment says absolutely nothing about love. All this amendment does is define what types of relationships will be called a marriage. This amendment is legislating a definition only, with no regard whatsoever to love.

And there is absolutely nothing wrong with defining a word.

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Speaking of drinking…

8 October 2008, 6:43 pm by Giggles
Categories: Random

So, um, drunk people say funny things.

I was at Wal-Mart today to get one of my photos printed poster size to hang in my home. As I was leaving I overheard a rather scraggly man talking to a store employee.

Scraggly man: Where are the bad elves?
Store employee: Excuse me?
Scraggly man: Santa told me to get bad elves. Where can I buy bad elves?
Store employee: Um?
Scraggly man: Santa told me to come here and get bad elves. Where are the bad elves?

I have no idea if that poor man ever found his bad elves or not. One thing is sure, he has the wrong idea of Christmas “Spirit.”

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Voting, fighting, and … drinking?

8 October 2008, 8:21 am by Giggles
Categories: Education, Politics

Recently in class we talked about peer influence as it relates to substance abuse. It was very interesting for me to sit there and listen to the six other people around the table talk about drinking and alcoholism and how a parent’s use influences a child’s use. And then there’s me sitting at the table thinking all drinking is wrong and the criminalization and negative associations of it is not a bad thing.

The way they were talking though, everyone in the world has had a drink, everyone in the world has smoked, everyone in the world has had sex. Which is interesting, because I know many many many many people who have never had a drink, who have never smoked, and who have never had sex outside of marriage (like me). These are adults who were saying, “but everyone’s doing it.” Isn’t that something that teenagers say and then we grow up and realize there is more to the world?

The age limit of drinking came up as well.

At age 18 in this country you can vote. At age 18 in this country you can join the military and fight for this country.

And for some reason, there are those that believe that those two things mean you should also be able to legally get drunk. It’s kind of an if A=B and A=C then of course we must also agree that A=D. I’m okay with the argument B=C, but where in the world does D come in to this picture? (A is being 18, B is voting, C is military, and D is drirnking, in case you hadn’t figured that out.)

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Learn something new – Moons

7 October 2008, 8:15 pm by Giggles
Categories: Learn Something

I have known for longer than I know (life long fascination with the heavens can be blamed for that), that the same side of the moon always faces Earth. The moon rotates at the same speed that it orbits.

I did not know until recently though, that the same is true of just about every moon in our Solar System, and probably anywhere in the Universe.

That’s just amazing!

That moons do that around their planets but planets do not do that around their suns, must mean something. I shall have to figure out what. My guess would be something to do with how they were formed.

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