Best Wedding Story

So a wedding post wouldn't be complete without some baby drama. Meet Molly and Cole. They were, of course, the cutest 3-month-old babies at the wedding (though I have to admit I am a little partial to Molly). They both struggled all day. Lots of people were trying to hold them. They missed their regular beds, their regular quiet homes, and their regular eating schedules. Molly slept for about a half hour in her stroller and then slept for about 20 minutes at home. That was it . . . for the whole day. I asked Maddie how Cole had done and she said he was about the same.

The best part for these two culminated in the women's bathroom. Both babies needed clean diapers. Molly had stopped screaming mometarily, but Cole came in and was giving us all a piece of his mind. Molly heard this mysterious cry laying on the counter behind her. Her lip quivered. She screamed! Cole, hearing a cry that definitely was not his own, settled down for just a second and listened. Then, he started to cry again. Molly stopped for a second. Then, she started up again. Cole's turn. Molly's turn. Cole's turn. Molly's turn. This went on until Maddie and I were laughing so hard we couldn't stop. Oh crazy children.

I texted Maddie today to see how Cole was doing. Both babies slept all night and most of the day. Phew!!

Wood Wedding

Congratulations! My cousin Preston married Katie on Thursday. Here are some pictures. We started at the Salt Lake Temple early in the morning, then headed to the Joseph Smith Memorial Building for lunch, and ended at a reception in Bountiful! Everyone looked great and congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Wood!

Such a nerd

As if the post below this doesn't show enough what a nerd-dork-doofus I am, this one surely will. Did I just say "Shirley?" Your name is Shirley?

How fast can you type?

Ok, so I'm actually a big enough dork that I Googled "typing test" and I tried out the tests on three or four different sites. This one gave me the highest score. My lowest score was a 67, but it required typing a paragraph with a ton of grammatical errors and punctuation problems. That really messed with my mind.

Click on my score to take the test yourself and post your results in my comments.

(Maybe it's time for me to go back to school and stop worrying about toilet brushes and typing speeds. Or yet, maybe toilet brushes and typing speeds are something I can control and thus I am worrying about them instead of blogging about the things that are really freaking me out, most of which are beyond my control. AaaaahhhhH!!)

Good night!


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Typing Speed Test

Dang toilet brush

While cleaning the bathrooms on Saturday, I became disgusted by the creepy crawlies growing on the toilet brushes, so I threw them away. Unfortunately, that presented a problem because, well, I was out of something with which to scrub the toilets on their next cleaning. What to do? What to do?

I put it on the grocery list, but soon found that a toilet brush at Harmon's (with its own holder) is more than $6. Now, I know a clean toilet is important, but come on, $6 for a brush to stick in the human waste disposal. My husband thinks I am a total moron (no, not Mormon, though I am that, too) but I was not going to spend that kind of money on such an item. I like to spend money and splurge every once in a while, but for the most part I am very frugal. I'm no grocery guru, but I shop grocery sales for things like meat, Coke, detergent, etc. I use coupons. I buy multiples of things that are on sale (Last week Arm & Hammer detergent was on sale for $3-something a bottle instead of the usual $6, so I stocked up. This week my deodorant was on sale for $1-something instead of the usual $3-something, so I stocked up on it, too.)

So, what should I do about the toilet brush issue? I was in Shopko today and found that their toilet brushes are just as expensive as Harmon's. I'm beginning to think that the toilet brush industry is in cahoots with the ink cartridge industry (these things can't be that expensive to produce, but they know people can't live without them, so the price is high). This was becoming quite the saga.

Well, I finally solved the toilet cleaning problem. No, I'm not going to be scrubbing my toilet with my hand. (I'm frugal, but not crazy.) I am now the proud owner of not one, but two brand new toilet brushes with their own holders nonetheless. Where did I get these lovely devices . . . . the dollar store!! (Too bad I didn't think to go there yesterday when the $1 Store becomes the $.88-on-Tuesdays-Store. Dang it!)

If they fall apart and get creepy and crawly quicker than the last one, then I'll give in and by the $6 brush. But until then, I have two toilet brushes (purchased with 2 candy bars) for a whopping $3.17! Sweet!

Big White Flower

I'm just not sure if this is quite my style.