Friday, September 26, 2008

It is Friday!

It has been a crazy week! I am glad that it is finally Friday, and Hoopla! We look forward to Hoopla at our house, maybe I should explain. On Friday we watch movies, eat junk food, pop corn, candy etc., and stay up way too late. It is something our family looks forward to each week. It is our time to unwind and relax. It is also a nice change from the business of the week.
I am glad that pack meeting is over. Pack meeting was causing me a great deal of stress. We had a b-day party with the Peterson side of the family right in the middle of it. I had to leave the party, go do pack meeting, and then come back to the party. Thursday was just busy. Jacob had a game right before pack meeting and the party as well. Unfortunately they lost. They had 2 good opportunities to score, one they got stopped at the 1 yard line as time expired in the half, the other they had a play that put them first and goal called back for holding. It was a heart breaker.
I have been trying to get to the temple all week. I tried on Tuesday and Thursday, I was in my suit and ended up not being able to go. I did finally make it this morning. Barb and I are called temple patrons. We have been going together once a week since the first part of the year. Just recently Barb and I have decided to step it up a notch and go another time each week on our own and do initiatory. Since we have decided that we would go an additional time each week there has been a great deal of opposition. The first couple of times for me it was easy, now it seems to get harder to make the time each week. This week has been by far the worst, I am glad I was able to go. I have noticed that it makes a big difference in the way my week goes.
It is Swiss Days in Santa Clara, tomorrow morning is the Swiss Days parade. I will be using dad's tractor to pull a trailer with hay on it in the parade. I think that this will be the first Swiss Day parade that I have been to. Defiantly the first one that I have been in. There may have been another one when the kids were smaller, can't remember.
Good news today, one of Worldwide's customers got a big job in my area that should last through the winter. Work has been incredibly slow throughout the summer, which is normally our busy time. Things have been picking up a little bit the last month or so, but this job starting next month will be a big boost for me. It will help get me through the next few months.
I have been able to catch up to some old friends through my Facebook page. I have always heard about Facebook, Youtube, blogs, and others, but I have never got involved with them. Now that I am getting familiar with them I really like them. It has been a lot of fun, I have especially liked being able to share some of the digital pictures that I have that I will never print off. Barb and I have wondered what to do with a lot of them, many are not good enough to print and would turn out grainy. The internet is a cool thing.
It is funny, I think of all sorts of things to write about during the day and throughout the week, but when I sit down to write my thoughts down I can't think of anything I was going to write down. In the end I start babbling on about random stuff that makes no sense at all. That is why I stopped writing in my journal. Poor excuse I know, but that is why. When I look back at what I wrote I wonder why I wrote it, and who would ever want to read it. At least with this blog I don't waste paper, aaahhh am I doing something green!
Barb has started our family on the recycling thing again. Our county is doing a big push and started a recycling program. It is like it was when we moved to Cache Valley, we save the stuff out of the trash, keep it in the garage until it takes over and finally gets bad enough that I can't stand it any more and take it to a collection bin. Cache Valley finally gave everyone a trash can and started collecting it every other week with the garbage. I don't mind that kind of recycling, the saving it in the garage and having to haul it to a bin bugs me. Hopefully Washington county gets to the trash can pick it up at the curb stage soon.
I have started playing the guitar again, my fingers finally have callouses on them. I bought a couple of Johnny Cash CDs and it got me motivated again. I have even started to learn some old rock and roll stuff. Elvis and CCR mostly. They are enough like the old country (simple) that I have been able to learn some of them. I hope I get to a point someday where I can take lessons again. I would also like to start playing in a band again. I think that I learned more from playing with the band than from anything else. I would like to get into a band again. It has been nice to start playing again. It helps me to relax.
See what I mean? Babbling on and on like some kind of an idiot.

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