Carol's random babble

It's 1:43 a.m. Saturday. The wind is picking up. There's a wind advisory until 4 p.m. Great. Hope I get to sleep when I finally go to bed. Kent has decided to go visit some friend of his in Canada. Some Internet friend. Allegedly a male. Whoop-ti-do. He's going to buy his bus ticket next week, then go the following week. Doesn't matter what goes on here - the fact that I work evenings and even if I can get Mom or my nieces to babysit, I would be bringing the girls home late and disrupt their sleeping habits doesn't matter. Just lovely. I haven't prepared my Sunday School lesson yet. I'll do that after I get up. I have to remember to go into work a bit earlier because I have to make sure a fax gets sent by 5 p.m. I was watching an episode of Farscape - Home on the Remains - the other night and a commercial for Claritin came on during the show. Wow - talk about synchronicity . There was a "Fall Festival" at church - Friday night, tonight...

I taught my second Sunday School lesson today. I've come to the realization that I may experience stage fright on a weekly basis as long as I'm teaching. Fun. I've signed up for NaNoWriMo . I have no idea what I'll write about, but I've started a blog about it. So, we'll see how that turns out. (Update: I've delected the blog because there wasn't that much to it and I didn't get very far on the novel. Oh, well, there's always next year.)

I was on the Nauvoo forum reading a thread about making do. People were discussing how to get by when income decreases due to job loss. Someone posted a link about working at home . I started reading when I came across a familiar name. One of the people mentioned in the article has been doing genealogy on some of the same names in Kent's family. I really need to write to her. That's the plus side. The down side is that I haven't finished preparing my lesson for tomorrow. I have to work today. So, I can either work on it now or after work. My hours are somewhat flexible so I can go in now or in a couple of hours. I probably won't get off work any earlier either way. Kent wants the computer right now. So I guess I'll go work on it in another room. ;)

Well, I got to church on time, and the girls and I sat in the second row from the front, right in the middle. Debbie Johns came over and asked me if I could teach a class next week. I told her to talk to me after sacrament meeting - that all would be revealed. I said I would be busy next week. (after the meeting, she said she understood) Ward business was the confirmation of a girl who had been baptized. There was some stake business, then the sacrament was passed. I was confused. Two weeks ago, Bishop Dick asked me to accept a calling. Because of General Conference last week, this was the first week I could be sustained. During the sacrament song, Brother Thomas came down off the stand and asked me if I had been sustained yet. I said, "no." He went back up and I knew that it would be taken care of after the sacrament was passed. I was right. Mary Dick gave the first sacrament talk - and talked about families - past, present and future. I think she figured she was ru...

since I blogged. The last time I attempted to blog, I couldn't even sign in. Then, I wanted to add in our trip to Nauvoo, but I won't do that today. Either I'll put it in Notepad and then add it, or I'll post it on my personal Web site. We've had a lot happen in the last 2 1/2 months. Cayla cut her finger badly on Aug. 7 and had to have stitches. We went to Nauvoo on a 2-day trip. That is not nearly enough time to see anything at all. Even Kent wants to go back, which is amazing. Especially since we spent time with Dad and Michele, probably Kent's two least favorite people in my family ... which is saying quite a lot. School started at the end of August. Cayla is in third grade and the TAG - Talented and Gifted - program at school. Amanda is in sixth grade. Kent still hasn't found a job, but we're trying to get an Internet business going. Interested in learning how to sell on eBay and make money ? We have two more Web sites that we are paying fo...