The Sco'ish Fe'ival

I, following suit of my dear friend Strong Bad, have now taken up a hobby of not including the middle consonants of things. Actually, I think it adds to the whole affect of it being "Sco'ish". Anyway, we went to the festival in Look Park, in NoHo Massachusetts, and it turned out that we got there just as everyone was leaving. I mean, seriously, guys. What's a little bit of rain? Nothing to be frightened or ashamed of! But no, everybody left. Probably because we got there. It was sad. But then Danny and I ran around in the sprinklers, and froze on the way home because of the AC. So it was worth it. And the fun drive with my family. Especially to have Danny there, and to feel completely myself. It was great. 

What a great birthday for Papa! Hopefully, next one we'll give him "The Big Green Egg." More on that later.

PS

I did put back the envelopes that I took. And the lady I worked with took the change I left there as she cleaned out the closet. So it was a lose-lose situation that made me feel good inside.

Short Work

So I only have to work 3.25 hours today, but Kate has to work all 8 (sorry Kate). I'm going to get bored and lonely pretty fast, so I'm planning on running to and from work to drag that out a bit; also because it's fun. Kate is at work by now and will probably be reading this within 5 minutes (her job has a lot of down time in front of a computer). I'm going to leave for work now. I LOVE YOU KATE!!

They call me "Breck Girl"

This is hilarious. One of the ladies who works here told me that I remind her of "the Breck girl" from the old shampoo ads. This is what wikipedia says about it:

"In 1930 Dr. John H. Breck, Sr. (June 5, 1877 - Feb 1965) founded Breck Shampoo of Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1936, son Edward J. Breck assumed management of Breck Shampoo and hired commercial artist Charles Gates Sheldon (1889-1961) to draw women for their advertisements. Sheldon's early portraits for Breck were done in pastels, with a soft focus and haloes of light and color surrounding them. He created romantic images of feminine beauty and purity. He preferred to draw "real women" as opposed to professional models."

Hilarious. Here are some pictures of the various "Breck" girls that exist:






















One of the original Breck girls from the 1930's.






















Cheryl Tiegs, 1968





















Cybil Shepherd, 1968





















Diane Harris, 1978

Envelopes: Episode II

So, in fact, I took two envelopes. The most crucially urgent things to be mailed are mailed. I left $.30 in the box where I found the envelopes.

But tonight, when we got to the grocery store, I will be sure to buy some envelopes and replace the two I took tomorrow. I know what I did was wrong. Still. It was urgent!

Envelopes

Right now I feel a little bit stressed because I need envelopes. I am sitting here at my computer, temping. They are very slow, and freely let me wander the internet. Although I would really like to be exploring the new. familysearch website for some reason, I just don't feel right about doing that here. Instead, I am stuck here saying, "hello!" and answering phones. That ring. About. Once. Every. Hour. And writing for my blog. And figuring out finances and stuff. That I don't feel bad about.

In truth, I'm not sure why I'm so worried about not feeling good about doing family history research here. There is nobody else around. The only other thing for me to do is browse the internet. Which is what family history work is. But I will follow my feeling. Sigh.

I need 4 envelopes. Two are urgent, one is not, the last I know how to get. I don't know where I will possibly go to get them during my lunch break. I need to mail three checks. The last check is a tithing check, so it is a specific envelope that I will get at the Bishop's office on Sunday. The reason it's a specific envelope is because his address is already printed on it; one less thing to worry about. But these other two checks I had better get in the mail PRESTO PRONTO. But the only envelopes available to me here are not technically available to me. They belong to the company I'm working for. It would be stealing to take these envelopes. So I won't. Augh. How will I get these envelopes?

Cambridge

I like this place. As in, I really like Massachusetts. It's not that bad of a place. It's not really the same as Utah, which I find I actually do miss a lot. Probably just the familiarity of it. Realize that I have lived four entire years in Provo, Utah. So it's a huge change to be here, and we aren't that close to family.

Except, we are closER to family that we have never been close to together. It's so neat to be able to be with Danny, here - where my parents and sister Dot can get to know him better. I really like it a lot.

I'm temping - actually, as we speak. It's EXTREMELY slow here, and they told me that I could just amuse myself with the internet. Cool. That's basically me getting paid for what I usually do! I like that!

We got an apartment in Provo!!! Hooray! More about that later.