I don't wanna grow up!

Hey there everyone! It's time for another round of absolutely nothing! I really don't lead a very exciting life, but that's okay! I've been busy today trying to get some church work done. I figure if I spend Sunday the way it's supposed to be spent, actually doing church-type things, then I don't need to feel stressed out during the week trying to fit in my regular work/day to day life and the church stuff. Of course you can't always avoid that, but if I get the bulk of the work done, then I don't feel too stressed.

I helped out at a funeral yesterday, an older lady who used to live in our ward. There wasn't a real great turnout for the funeral, but I think that everyone that mattered to this lady was there and that's what's important. I helped out because I'm in the Relief Society presidency now and that is part of what we do. So, after about 4 hours of helping out, including setting things up for the luncheon, attending the funeral, serving the luncheon, and then cleaning everything up, my poor feet hurt!!! Then, being a glutton for punishment I took my poor tootsies out to the mall looking for a few new pieces of clothes because I realized that with spring coming up very quickly, I have NO SPRING clothes to wear, they are all TOO BIG - yeah, I know, poor baby! So, anyway, I traipsed (sp?) all over and found a few things. Have you noticed that you can't find ANYTHING out there that isn't loud and geometrical, and jersey, and babydoll-pregnant looking! What is the freakin' deal with that! I thought for sure they would be "out" this year, but apparently they are still "in." I think what has happened is that people are just tired of not being comfortable, and what is more comfortable than a jersey stretchy blouse which pooches out in the front, so you can let your guts hang out all you want! I don't get it. In my day (yes, I know, the stone ages), women sucked in their guts, actually combed their hair and styled it, hardly ever wore jeans, and wore nylons to "hold everything together!" I always tell my girls that's why I still have a waist at 50, all those years of wearing control top pantyhose and belted pants.

But, I digress. Hmm, what was my point with all of that, I can't recall! Oh yeah, I was trying to find some stuff that would pack without wrinkling for my first official "business trip" on Tuesday. I'm flying down to Boise for municipal clerk training and will be gone until Friday. WAAAHHHHH! I don't wanna go! When did I become a career woman? Yikes, I never wanted it, and I still don't. I am perfectly happy being a secretary, oh, I guess the P.C. term is "Executive Assistant" now. But, I feel stuck between a rock and a hard place because my boss is retiring in about 5 years and she is supposed to be training her replacement and there really is no one else to train but me! So, I just try not to think about it and figure that maybe in five years I will be ready for something new.

Hmm, what else, still missing my little Jace, like always. I can't wait to see him again. My little Jordan and Jayden are so awesome, though, that they make me happy, even though there is an empty place in my heart for the Jacemeister! I need to be taking more pictures, though, because I realized that I haven't been doing that lately and they are growing up so fast. Every minute is precious!

The Big Randoon is sick today. He went out riding his motorcycle yesterday and thinks that maybe he didn't clean out his water pack thingie as well as he should have, and his tummy has been bothering him since last night. I'm not so sure it's that as it is that he hasn't been riding in awhile and it maybe took a lot more out of him that he thought. Time to hit the gym again big time!! :-D

I talked to Joshie today, he sounds really good. He and Stephanie went to the Black Forest this weekend. I am so glad that Stephanie is making him get out and see some sights! They are scheduled to deploy soon. They are all packed up and living out of their "ready boxes" I think is what he said. He can't tell me when they will be deploying, or where, though. Nothing over the phone or the internet! But, he does sound happy. He and Stephanie have been together for I think 9 months now!

Hmm, what else. The world is getting pretty scary, I think. I heard today at church that in the last 10 months the price of wheat has tripled. The long-term effect of that will be, according to the news article that was quoted, that it will affect the cost of over 80% of the things that we buy in the grocery store. That and the gas prices have me feeling just a little nervous. AND, our stupid 401k account has consistently lost money for I don't know how long. We were just this close to 100,000, and then it started losing money, even though we put it 10% of our gross income every month, it is somewhere around 87,000 and has remained in the 80,000's for it seems like the last two years!!!! ARRRRRGGGGHHHH! I know that we are supposed to just leave it alone, but it is sickening to think that the money we are contributing to the account is just disappearing, we aren't even staying steady, we are losing! Where is the almost 10,000 we put in every year going? It makes me ill to even thing about it. I don't know what to do!!! I wish I had a crystal ball that I could look into that would tell me what to do with our money. I want to be smart and everyone says to ride this out, but I'm just so afraid of losing everything!

Whelp, that's about it for me. As I said, alot of nothing! I have pretty much quit on working on the family room for now. I do this every time. I start spending some money on a project and before I know it, the cheap part of me takes over and I start feeling absolutely sick about the money I'm spending and I stop!!! At least the family room looks tons better than it did, and maybe someday when my ship comes in I will have tons of money and not worry about overspending, but for now, I can't take it any more and have reverted back to my penny pincher miserly self for awhile! :-)

Okay, I'm done!