Who Needs Sleep?

Here's what we've been up to lately:

David - is still writing his book. He's on his sixth notepad. He's read me some of it. It's interesting. Some parts are quite silly.

David, Cameron, Jarom and I did baptisms at the temple last night. The Stake had a dinner for adults and youth. It was nice, except the Stake didn't expect so many youth and didn't schedule the baptistry. A couple of scheduled groups were there already, so it was crowded. The dinner started at 6:00, then we went to the baptistry and didn't leave until 10:15. At least the temple is a good place to hang out.

Meagan worked last night. Holly was nice enough to let Amber hang out at their house. Amber loves spending time with Katelyn. Thanks Holly!

Meagan - finally recovered from her wisdom tooth ordeal. She can eat normal food now. She's ecstatic about that. She's also trying to buy a laptop with windows 7 on it. She found the one she wanted, but they're not selling it with windows 7 from what we can tell on the website. Maybe she'll have one by next semester?

Meagan loves Halloween more than anyone I know - other than Becky. Meagan dressed up for Halloween 5 or 6 times and was way excited about each time.

Meagan also loves Michael Jackson - maybe even more than Becky - which is almost impossible. Meagan, Becky and I saw "This Is It" Thursday night. The movie started at 9:40. Well, 10:05, after all the commercials and previews. We got home about 12:30. All these late nights are getting to me.

We got to the theater at 7:30 and had to wait until the next movie. David had a good point. With 25 minutes of previews, etc, we probably could have made it to the "7:00" showing right as it started. We waited, though. Meagan got 3 point cards, so we went on all 5 rides. Then we went on the bumper cars and the roller coaster again. And again. Then we sat in the lobby. Then we watched some of the very boring hockey game. Then we sat in the theater for a half hour. We were afraid the theater would be packed. We shouldn't have. By the time the movie actually started, there were only a dozen people.

I could have done without one of Michael's dance moves (if you've seen him dance, you know which one I'm talking about). That aside, he was an incredible dancer, singer and songwriter. He was in incredible shape for a 50 year old. Professional dancers half his age struggled with the moves and he barely broke a sweat - and he was singing and directing while he was dancing. Amazing.

Too bad he had such a severe anxiety disorder. That's all I can figure. Why else would he need anesthesia to get any sleep? Anxiety is no fun. Unfortunately, I know from experience.

Cameron - told me the other day that being a physicist might be an interesting career. I almost fell on the floor. Cameron? My writer? Cameron did like his physics class last year - which shocked me. He did really well on the ASVAB - especially in science. Overall he got a 98. Meagan says the military is gonna be hounding him now. That's probably true. Meagan got a 68 on the ASVAB and recruiters were calling her all the time. Until David answered the phone and told a recruiter to stop calling because "Meagan thinks the military sucks." They stopped calling.

Jarom - we finally paid off his braces. Not sure when he gets them off, but we're done paying on them now. Yay! Jarom also finished reading "A Tale of Two Cities." He let me read the 12 page synopsis his teacher gave him. The synopsis was way more interesting than the actual book. That book has an interesting plot, if you can find it through all the wordiness.

Amber - finished her social studies project exactly 15 minutes before 7:00 on Halloween. I told her if she wasn't done by 7:00 she couldn't go trick-or-treating. I was glad when she finally got done. She did a book about 10 ancient Greek gods/goddesses. I really liked her picture of Artemis. She drew a cute deer and two adorable hunting dogs with little tiny fangs. I want her to draw me a picture like that.

Cameron and Jarom were nice enough to take Amber trick-or-treating. I guess Amber didn't line up any friends to go with because she wasn't sure she was going. I was glad it snowed Tuesday instead of Halloween. The weather on Halloween was warmer than I thought it would be. We got about 130 trick-or-treaters. About 100 people came between 6:30 and 7:30, then it died out.

Me - I got my first assignment for ICL done and mailed in. I also entered a story in their Fantasy/Folktale contest. We'll see what comes of it. I'm starting to work on the second assignment now. It's amazing everything I didn't know about writing. The good thing is, I'm writing again. Considering I hadn't really written for a year and a half, that's amazing.

Wednesday wasn't my greatest day. I locked myself out of the office and Joe didn't have his cell phone, so there was no way to reach him. When I went home for lunch I tripped on the back step and banged up my knee. (My knee is ok, I only got a bruise, thank goodness!) Joe didn't get my message on his phone until 6:00. He told me later that he kept calling the office from patients' homes. When I didn't answer after repeated calls, he thought, "Oh, no, Heidi's quit!" I didn't quit and luckily he wasn't mad at me. I went in Thursday morning and finished up what I didn't get to Wednesday. It all worked out...

My work had a dinner Thursday night, so I got to meet Melissa and Steph for the first time. I met Donna when I worked at MSC, but I only vaguely remembered her. Of course, I already knew Joe. What a fun group of people! It was nice to be able to talk to all of them.

Well, I think I'm going to bed!