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Being a doofus
So it’s always fun finding out that you’ve been (or are being) a doofus. Thankfully it doesn’t really happen to me TOO often (he says with all humility). I mean, there are certainly times when I’ve been wrong on things but not often to the level where I sit back and think “Man that was…
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Sunday Sacrament meeting
So as I mentioned in my last post, we’ve been dealing with some kid sickness. Because I have meetings and such that I have to go to church anyways, I went by myself last week. Church is definitely interesting with the no-kid factor in there. So while I was sitting there in sacrament meeting, actually…
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Good vomit story
So – classic story that I want to share. We have recently been sick in our family, of the vomitous variety. As many of you undoubtedly know, one of the downsides of having multiple children is that they all get sick. And they don’t even have the consideration to all get sick at once. Nope,…
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A little blog makeover
I did a little blog makeover recently. So if you only read TPMHTDM in Google Reader or such (As I do), you might want to check out the actual site to see the newness. Carolyn called it “…all minimalist. very opposite of how i like my blogs.” Which is kind of what I was going…
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Overheard on the radio yesterday morning…
The high today will be 30… right now it’s 33 degrees Wha-huh? Also, after taking the kids to Achievement Days I stopped by Meijer and Sams Club. It was about 8:15 and I thought well if Sams closes at 8 then I already missed it – otherwise they’ll close at 9 or 10 so it…
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Return to Virtue
In my ongoing posts about General conference talks, this week was from Elaine S. Dalton (General Young Women President), called “Return to Virtue” I liked how she talked about how you get desensitized to things, whether it be sex, violence, or whatever. She also referenced Lehonti and Amalickiah up on the mountain (which I talked…
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So I may have been mistaken for a homeless person
First of all apologies to those of you I’ve already told this story. But yes, I fear I may have been mistaken for a homeless person yesterday. I was out at the mall last night with my 2 older children. I had gone there to walk around because I was in a pedometer challenge (who…
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2008 college football bowl contest
Okay. So as many of you know, I like sports. And I also like nerdery. So what better than to combine sports and nerdery??!? It is the annual bowl contest sponsored by pro-football-reference.com. Here is the contest page (picks due this Saturday before the first game) as well as last year’s contest and their NFL…
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Holiday song / carol quiz
This is a quiz that I came up with as something to pass the time while we waited for people to arrive at our recent work gift exchange party. So I thought I would pass it on to you guys to see how you do. Below you will find the first lines of 25 holiday…