My Day.

1. Went to school.
2. Went home.
3. Took a nap.
4. Watched American Idol/Hell's Kitchen.
5. Ate.
6. Got on the Computer.
7. Went to bed.

How uneventful. But did you see that nap? Yeah!

Pet Peeve #1

Okay. So I have a lot of pet peeves. I have a good farm of pet peeves, but here is one of them. It drives me crazy when the chorister or whoever is conducting the meeting decides that when time is running short to take out or sing the first verse only of the closing hymn. Absolutely crazy. Don't they think that we sing so many hymns for a reason? If they weren't an important part of the meeting they wouldn't be standard. Hymns are a form a worship that the entire congregation gets to take part in. But when Bro. Smith decides he needs to get up and bear his testimony at 10 min. after the hour when Bishop clearly said we'd be ending testimonies 5 min. after the hour (a different rant which I'll save for another day) and it's perfectly right to make time for him, why can't we take 3-4 more min and sing a full hymn?

Why at the end of RS do we give 5 minutes to the sisters for them to bear their testimonies, so that everyone can look awkwardly at each other while no one actually gets up, and have to skip the closing hymn? Most Relief Societies are already skipping the practice hymn in the first place. I can't understand why music in church is so neglected. We have conference talks on the importance of hymns and good music. No one would ever think it's appropriate to skip the closing prayer at sacrament meeting.

It wouldn't make me so upset if it was just that odd ward that I went to that did this. Or if it was just an odd week. But it's so consistent. Every 3 hour block that I've attended this year has had at least one song curtailed or removed altogether from the program. I hate it.

From the Teacher's POV

Megan had parent teacher conferences yesterday. They went pretty well. She has a student whose parents are deaf and they attended their first parent teacher conferences. So that's cool. One of her top students came in. With a push from her dad she tearfully admitted to adding some minutes to her reading log and forging her parents signature. Megan reports that she had to fight back her laughter. I can fully imagine this students fear of coming in and telling Megan this. I can imagine me having to do it when I was younger. And Megan just thinks it's the funniest thing, and really doesn't care about it at all. I like being on this side better.

Happy Groundhog Day!

I'm going to be a bridesmaid!  Guess for who--Beth.  Yeah, so I need to be planning a trip to Spokane, WA for late July.  She's asked me to start thinking about dresses. There is still a lot of time though.  So that's nice.