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Ode to Kia

Oh my Kia, the days have far gone
when we zipped around Logan
and loved all things sawn.

We spent two years or more
getting used to our kinks,
the only car I adore.

Your parts are now old
my bank account shrinks,
I hate to leave you in the cold.

I have no choice but this
to make farewells and
give you a last kiss.

I'll miss you Kia

Work

Well, today was my last day at the UPS store. It hasn't really hit home yet. I am sad though to leave my boss, coworkers, and a few regular customers. Sometimes I really hate getting attached to people because eventually you have to say goodbye. I wont miss the grumpy customers though. Let me tell you, there are plenty of those. I discovered there are many people out there who are onery complainers and I don't like them. I know, I am an onery complainer, but at least I am only like that with people who know me and can just ignore me or get onery back without getting in trouble, and not to innocent workers who are just doing their job and have no escape. Well there was a vent I wasn't really planning on posting but I did. Anyway, back to happier things, my new job, for those of you who have not heard, is as a librarian assistant in inter-library loans at the USU library. It is a salary job, and a job that I want and don't just need! I have wanted to work in a library again and I absolutely love the library on campus so it is a double scoop of goodness. I start Monday. I am nervous. I am also happy that I can see Ryan at lunch and we can carpool. I get to wear real clothes(no uniform) and have an identity again. And, I get to wear my wedding ring!!!!! I kept bending the prongs on it at my old job so I could only wear it on weekends.
Well, Brad, Candice, Heath, Kody, Aubree, and you nice customers, I will miss you a lot. You have been great, and have become my friends. Thanks for everything.

Long, long time ago...

I don't know what happened, but somehow I forgot to post pictures on my Thanksgiving point trip!!! Ryan and I met Mom and Dad and Jen, Garrett, and kids there. It was a lot of fun! I am missing some pictures so I will have to just describe some things. One thing was a pond full of Coy. There were so many that they were up against each other. Some of them were over a foot long! Another fun feature there is the waterfall. It is a VERY tall man made waterfall. I love water. The picture above is a pathway that goes around the rose garden. Garrett rented a golf cart so we got to take turns riding and resting because it was so hot! It was an enjoyable day!

Art

I was sent an e-mail a while back that had some cool photoshop pictures done. Here is my favorite.
I am trying to work on my art skills, so if any of you artists out there have any suggestions on how to do this, I welcome the help.

New desk

Ryan and I built a new computer desk(which you have seen from Mom's blog) and it works perfect! We love the size. We got to unclutter some of our living room and rearrange it. It is much more open now, especially by the door. We still need to put pictures up though.

BOWDLERISE

The Answer is:
BOWDLERISE: To remove material that is considered improper or offensive.

I liked the origin story of the word so here it is:

This advertisement appeared on the front page of the Times of London on 15 December 1818, to announce the publication of a new work:

Bowdler, a man of independent means, had trained as a doctor but following a breakdown in his health spent the rest of his life in charitable undertakings, such as continuing the work of the prison reformer John Howard. Though it was once thought that the Family Shakespeare was his idea, it is now known that his sister Henrietta (also called Harriet), had previously published expurgated versions of 20 of Shakespeare's plays anonymously in 1807 under the same title and that her efforts formed the core of the later publication.

Both Harriet and Thomas were concerned that in Shakespeare’s works, as he put it in the introduction to the 1818 work: “Many words and expressions occur which are of so indecent a nature as to render it highly desirable that they should be erased.” He also complained about the unnecessary and frivolous allusions to Scripture, which “call imperiously for their erasement”. Alas, the Bowdlers’ attempts to sanitise the works of the master played sad havoc with their quality and Thomas was bitterly criticised for his prudery and heavy-handed editing (though the ten-volume work went through five editions by the 1860s). He died in 1825, having done much the same job on Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

The verb is recorded as first used by General Perronet Thompson in 1836, in his Letters of a Representative to his Constituents during the session of 1836. Though the Family Shakespeare has long since vanished from booksellers’ shelves, the name of its editor (or editors) lives on as a byword for prissy censorship.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-bow1.htm

Facts of Life

Several people have answered these on their blog and I liked the idea so I am joining in.

I know: that there is so much to learn and I forget it anyway.

I have: dance dance revolutions waiting for me to play

I wish: I had tried harder to learn while in school

I smell: bad when I don't shower :)

I miss: the piano department

I hate: rude people. They infuriate me

I fear: people, they intimidate me

I crave: sleep and peace

I search: the scriptures

I regret: not practicing my piano more

I love: being with Ryan and having a day off with nothing planned to do

I always: read a book

I believe: people shouldn't be so stupid.

I dance: the cha cha, my favorite!

I sing: when no one is around

I don't always: use my brain

I am not: social, but sometimes I wish I knew how to be.

I write: beginnings of stories a lot, but never finish them

I lose: my train of thought a lot

I win: Egyptian Rat Screw, the best card game in the world.

I never: try hard enough

I listen: to classical music, and lately opera.

I am scared: of people dying

I am happy about: my life. I have a great husband, and I still have lots of time to keep working on things.