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It's that time again

Ok, so I think it's that time again... time for a new blog post. But you see, nothing really eventful has happened, aside from my wife officially abandoning the blog, leaving her poor husband to maintain it. But I humbly accept the forced-upon duty to solely maintain our blog. But the thing is, people love my wife more than me, and as a result, want her to blog. Its an unfair world.

So today during sacrament meeting, we had a wonderful testimony meeting. During our neighbor's testimony, something unexpected happened. As he was bearing his testimony, he was talking about how he felt about certain things. I quote,

"I'm not sure how I feel about doing the minimum (to stay active in the church). I'm not sure how I feel about just gliding by or how I feel about cats in church. But I do love the gospel and all that..."

Then he proceeded with his testimony. Those who were listening shot confused glances at their spouses to make sure they heard correctly while others gasped and pointed toward the front of the chapel. There, before the eyes of those who could see, was a black cat with a neon pink collar, stalking carefully up the aisle onto the stand like a little child going for the cookie jar before dinner. The man speaking kept talking as if nothing was happening. Well, the cat decided it got tired of the stand and walked back down the other side and went out into the congregation. One could track its progress by the excited whispering or women jumping up out of the way of the cat. Though not as drastic or comical, you can imagine the situation was something like (not really like, but similar to) this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_067ahbXfg

Finally, one of the ward members reached down and grabbed the cat by the skin of the back of its neck, and carefully and kindly removed it and took it outside without a scene. Then all went back to normal.

Well, nothing else really happened worth mentioning in our lives. I hope you enjoy! Hopefully I'll blog more often. I do really enjoy blogging.

Mail bombs and bugs

Today, I ate and bug. And you know what? I liked it. Yep, I sure did. See, I was about to eat this wonderful, scrumptious coffee (don't worry, not really coffee) cake that I made, and this renegade flour beetle careened into the bowl of cake. After the utter destruction of many of its immediate family members and the removal of all food stores upon which he became dangerously addicted, it decided that he must risk all for food, and dive-bombed directly into my bowl. Unfortunately, due to its expertise in camouflage, it was impossible see where exactly he went. So you know what I did? I poured milk in the bowl and ate it. As I chewed the delightful cake, my thoughts were drawn to the little desperate beetle that had surely met its demise to the enzymatic compounds contained within my saliva. It was an enlightening experience as I thought that this beetle, so lost, so destitute, would now forever be a part of me, its atoms and molecules fusing with my being, becoming one with me. Then I finished my cake and went about my day.

Later on the day I got a mysterious package. The picture is the address that it was shipped to.

As I opened the package from the unknown recipient, my eye focused on the "fragile" stickers placed inconspicuously over all the surface of the package, I carefully broke the its seal. Half expecting a flurry of ominous white powder, half expecting an explosion, I peered into the opened package. I found packing paper. Still cautious, I removed some of the packing paper to reveal the purpose of the parcel. It was a book. Not only was it a book, but it was a hard covered book. Since when are hard covered books FRAGILE? You got me. Anyway, it was a book we'd ordered from amazon.com, and in an ironic twist to the doubt and suspicion, the book was The Illustrated Jesus Through the Centuries, a compilation of many of the painting of Jesus Christ throughout history.

And thus ended the exciting things of my day today.

Vacuums are to floors as...

So Lianna and I came home the other day to make a shocking discovery... our entire house was INFESTED with these little red flour beetles. The discovery came over a few days. You see, we noticed these bugs, flying stupidly, all around our house. There was one here and one there, but nothing too big. I just thought that they had come from something that we put in the trash, and removing the trash would bring their slow demise in our home... but I was wrong. Their numbers did not wane, but grew stronger day by day. When I say they fly stupidly, I'm not kidding. These beetles seem to have no purpose in life. They fly, not in a straight, decisive path, but more like as if they are trying out new wings that have recently come to them via evolution. They fly this way and that, bumping clumsily into things and falling out of the air. Then they do the same things with their legs! They walk everywhere and nowhere at the same time! They seemed to have no purpose! We'd find them on the tables, T.V., curtains, bed, bath tub, window seal, computer, couch, phone, door, and any other possible place you could think of. But the day that we came home we realized that it was much worse than we thought. In the kitchen, on the window screen, there were about 157.5 of these bugs, just sitting there, as if they were sun bathing in the lazy, late-afternoon light. There were too many to kill by the hand, because using the hand would knock three or four onto the ground or into flight. So I grabbed the vacuum and started sucking the life out of them all, one by one. After the window screen, I swung my vacuum towards the wall, sucking them off the wall. Then Lianna said, "Look up at the ceiling." We have those dumb textured ceilings that if you touch them, it showers you and everything below with a thin blanket of white particles. Well, nearly every one of those crevasses housed a little bug. There were hundreds, all of them resting is a crevasse as if they had been put in time out. I armed myself with a chair and vacuum and hunted these bugs, hundreds of them, for about an hour. Vacuuming the ceiling, cupboards, food containers, everything. Then this lead us to the source. A box of oatmeal that had been ripped open by the beetles cohorts, the ants. We threw away quite a bit of food, even a bag of dried kidney beans that had been more or less reduced to dust from the massive horde of the beetle-ant army. After about two hours of cleaning, the death and destruction of the bugs stopped. It appeared that we were victorious. Now, after a few days, there are still a few lone survivors that we see once in a while, but for the most part, the invasion is over.

The end is coming!

O ye stalkers, prepare yourself. This blog shall soon be private. Or so I say... see, the problems are these: First, I don't know how to make it private. Second, I'm sure that it takes a lot of time to make it private. I don't have much time. Third, and most importantly, every once in a while someone informs me that they want to have access to our blog, and I am delighted. But the problem is, I really want these people to have access to our blog, and since I didn't think of them before, there must be others that I'm bound to forget. I just can't possibly think of everyone that would WANT to have access. Honestly, we're not terribly interesting people, but it is evident that SOME people out there love us, and occasionally want to know more about us... So I am faced with a dilemma... privatize or not? Oh well, if I keep saying I will, then more people will contact me, and the less I have to worry about forgetting someone. CHEERS!

Flower Power

Where to start

Yes, we have not blogged in a long while. Contrary to what you might think, it is not because we did not have anything to blog about, but rather, we've been quite busy. I don't even know where to start.

So I'll just type. First of all, we bought a wii. It has been quite a bit of fun, and is definitely a family oriented gaming console. Lianna and I can both play, and though we haven't played much with it, it is great fun when we do. Here is a picture of Lianna playing Wii... ( Notice that it is not ME playing, as most of the other gaming pictures are.)

Next, and my favorite event for the entire month, is that we had a Japanese exchange student live with us for two days. Her name is Masayo and she was such a delight to have in our home! So kind and gracious, so fun and interesting. Maybe we had so much fun because we made sure to do fun things with her, such as hiking to a lighthouse that over looks the ocean, a constant game of charades, and PCC night show, seeing turtles at turtle beach, the temple visitors center, family home evening, and much more. It is so funny how she became such a part of our family, and we still miss her today. We woke up after she left and our home just felt empty. But we will certainly keep in touch with her. Shes next to me in the picture.










Also, school started, but that isn't much fun or anything new. Im only a part-time student, taking 8 credits. Lianna is taking 14, and this is our last semester here... sad day. Oh well... Onward.

Lastly, I'm working a lot at dominos pizza. The main driver went on vacation.

And don't forget:

What the internet really is...

So I got online today, and was bored because my wife was at work, so I decided to google myself. Well, I found a few people with my same name... but then I found a link that took people to our blog... talk about creepy! lol. Anyway, I realized that besides being addicting, the internet is really a stalker net. So I have decided to make this blog private. You must now email me to have you put on "the list." If you don't email me, then you can't see it. If you don't have my email, call me. If you don't have my phone number, talk to me. If you can't do any of those, ARE YOU MY REAL FRIEND? =P Anyway, this post may be boring, but oh well. I'm bored.

P.S. The private-ification of our blog won't be immediate... but email me soon though.