I just quite realized that I haven't written anything for a while . ..

This is my life.

1. Work. I'm now officially an 8 to 5-er. I live at 223 TMCB in the Department of Statistics. It's a wonderland. Noelle and I have some pet balloons that we decorated. I made Charles the ferocious lion, and Noelle made Zamboni the Zebra. It's kinda awesome.

2. Church. I'm now a ward organist and a Relief Society instructor. Which means that the second sunday of each month, I go insane and freakishly nervous and Mike can't stand me. then I'm home free for another four weeks. It's pretty tight.

3. Michael. He was sick yesterday, but now he's not. Sunday and Monday we made sugar cookies, and I made Gary the snail and a Nose, and Michael made an alien cow. They're quite attractive.

That's it. I decided to write another story, but I'm NOT TELLING ANYBODY what it's about . . . except mike, but that's just because he's always there and sees me when I'm writing it. It's just, last time I put it here and then it kind of . . . well . . . died. I'm going to keep this one to myself until it's published. And then I will be richer than J.K. Rowling.

Not really. I just wish I were.

Anyways, probably should get back to work. Peace.

SCHOOL IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just needed to get that off my chest. :)

I forgot to mention:

That film was a short adaptation of the last section ("The Brother") from Thomas Wolfe's short story/novella entitled "The Lost Boy." It's a fabulous story. Very deep. It inspired my brother Parker (who stars as the surface interpretation of the lost boy himself) to say, "so, what's the point of this story exactly?"
ACTUALLY, my interpretation of the story is based on section where Eugene (Mike) is going back to find his own memories of his older brother Grover (Parker) who died when Eugene was four (Sammy). The POINT, my dear Parker, is that Eugene's childhood was lost when Grover died, because the happiness and ambition of everyone else in the family died along with him, and in remembering his brother, he is fulfilling his own lost childhood. It's about time--constantly passing--and what we do with it when we have it.
That's what I tried to do with my limited means and rather embarrassed actors. I hope it worked.

The Brother

Directed by: me!

Starring (in order of appearance): 

Mike

Mom

Dad

Parker

Sammy

Music: Mendelssohn's "Venetian Gondolier's Song"

I'm pretty sure the menu will be this cute pic I have of the two boys in their 1904 outfits. And if I add credits, it'll be the post-production pic of Sammy when he dressed up in a reflective orange vest, tied at the waist into a dress, and an '80's bike cap turned sideways. It was awesome.

Please tell me what you think!

Why does it always have to rain?

Okay, so just this weekend. Driving both ways to and from Boise in thunderstorms = not very fun.
This weekend was awesome. Saturday we filmed my movie, then let all the children swim for a long time. I have to tell you, Sammy was SOOO cute! He followed all my directions exactly and was even better at keeping a straight face than Mike or Parker or Mom! He was amazing! I'm SO going to post my movie on here as soon as I have it all finished. It's going to be really good.
In other news, Mike and I are regulars in my parents' ward. They stopped introducing us in Sunday School and Relief Society and Priesthood. It's kind of funny.
You know what's crazy? This week, Wymount announced they're starting to replace everyone's carpet, starting with our quad. But they said they would post all the individual apartments, so we didn't move anything. I'm torn. Having new carpet is a REALLY good thing, as ours is kind of old and nasty, but having to move everything when we're not home from 7 or 8:30 am to 5:30 pm is kind of a drag. Yeah. We'll see.
But it's still rainy here. I was all expecting it to be nicer here after the crazy storms that we passed on our way back down yesterday. The storms were moving north, so I don't know what's going on now . . .
Oh well. My weekend was amazing, and that's all that matters. Only 4 more days of classes!!!!!!!

Yay! We have married friends!

Yesterday our upstairs neighbors invited us over for dinner, so we, the Rays, and the Gardeners all had dinner outside (bbq chicken) and Rich (our home teacher) came too but he didn't eat as much because his wife is out of town and he used the excuse to get himself a giant steak. :)
Then, after dinner, we all played Kubb with the Capeners (it's pronounced Koob) and then invited them and the Richardsons all up to the Rays apartment and had cheesecake and played Apples to Apples! I love having friends!
Now I have to worry about finishing my school in the next couple of weeks . . . :( blegh.