So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.-Sidney Poitier

Today I bought a handmade Navajo wedding basket...mostly because it was beautiful and I thought it would be a good reminder of my time spend on the reservation.

I thought I should take a picture of its loveliness and then I remembered that my camera is in my other purse. And even if it was, in fact, in this purse I still wouldn't be able to take a picture because the battery has not been charged.

I'm not really sure why I have had such a problem charging the battery considering that the battery charger is in the purse that I am currently using. And if I hurried and charged the dang battery, then I could post pictures of my beautiful basket as well as some other exciting things that are happening right now in my life.

I might even take a picture of my new haircut...because I did get it cut last night. After way too long of not getting it cut. And while I think the cut is super cute, I suck at actually doing it and I was disappointed this morning by the outcome. Please tell me that I'm not the only one that feels that way???

And I've been meaning to take a picture of my current living situation for quite sometime...but that is a whole other post completely.

So what I'm trying to say is that despite my best efforts to be optimistic and organized and on top of things...I seem to be failing miserably. At least when it comes to the blogging world (I'm doing okay with the work stuff but I wouldn't say I'm succeeding at that either).

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'-George Bernard Shaw

I had a dream last night that I was spending time in Tokyo. Ya know, because I've spent so much of my real life in Tokyo that I know exactly what it looks like. And I had to get on this elevator that was eerily similar to the great glass elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. But I was squished into this one corner with the bell hop (speaking of which...do bell hops even still exist in real life) because people kept getting on and no one would stop them. I literally couldn't move at all. Then the elevator started moving sideways and down and up all over Tokyo. I personally was headed to a metro stop where I thought my friends might be waiting for me, I have no idea where everyone else was headed.

Then the guy sitting next to me said we had to stop at this factory place so a worker could check out his glasses. Instead of the light in the glasses turning on, his glasses kept fogging up. Because those two things are obviously connected, and it is obviously necessary to have a little tiny light inside of your glasses. The lady couldn't fix the glasses though, sad news for dream man.

I got off the elevator but my friends were still no where to be found. Too bad I had to be squished in an imaginary dream elevator with way too many people for so long for no reason. Why can't my dream world be a little nicer to me?

Once upon a time, a game was invented called forest golf. Where you go deep into the woods and hit a golf ball off of random pieces of nature trying to hit it into a cup. It's pretty amusing and it doesn't matter if you have any golfing skill. Therefore it turned out to be a pretty awesome day.

Oh and the guy in the red, he totally made a hole in one teeing off of a tree stump. I didn't know that it was possible to get a hole in one in forest golf but James proved me wrong!

Where have I been the past couple of days you ask?

Working my butt off...it seems like no matter how hard I work and how many hours I put in, I never seem to be on top of things. Today comes closest to actually having most things finished but I guarantee that I'll show up to work tomorrow with a whole new list of things that I must, absolutely, positively get finished.

The good thing about being so busy is that the days fly by and I really do leave work each day feeling like I accomplished things which makes it much easier to enjoy my time away from work. And now that it is 6:39 pm, I'm closing up shop here and heading home.

I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill. I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it's good for me, it's the perfect way to start the day. -Michael Scott

Happy Office Day everyone! I can't wait to see what they come up with this season....

I saw a trailer for New Moon yesterday which reminded me...

I once totally saw a werewolf. People think I'm delusional and what I really saw was a huge bull elk but I know better...I saw the mythical werewolf (except I guess since I've actually seen it, it is no longer mythical because that implies that it isn't real).

Which reminded me that I am currently reading "The Last Olympian" in the Lightning Thief series and it is a-ma-zing. It makes me believe that other mythical beings might also exist in real life...and living above New York.

Which reminded me that I can't wait to read Catching Fire...the sequel to Hunger Games. I read Hunger Games this summer and I am totally obsessed. It was an awesome book.

Which reminded me that yesterday I had book club and we are getting ready to read Water for Elephants which apparently some people feel is a little too risque for a book club taking place in Blanding Utah. I loved the controversy so I'm even more excited to read it.

Which reminded me that Twilight is apparently also controversial in some Utah communities (trust me...I had a whole "conversation"/"argument" about this one).

Which reminded me that I can't wait to see New Moon. Because I'm hoping that it wasn't Jacob that I saw on the side of the road.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.-Herbert Henry Asquith

Thoughts for a 4-year old:

-growing up isn't all it's cracked up to be so don't be in such a rush to do it...you'll have plenty of time to work and write checks and drive...enjoy having someone else doing those things for you

-life ususally won't go the way that you have it planned in your head...there will be a lot of surprises and a lot of changes (and a lot of them will be things that you might not want at first) but things turn out in the end...so have faith and keep pushing along

-life gets busy as you get older so take some time now to lay back and look up at the clouds...it's amazing how little time you have to do that as you get older and busier

-forgive others...and forgive yourself...there will be plenty of mistakes made but it isn't worth it to waste time being mad or hurt...forgive and move on

-friends will probably hurt you and boys will definitely hurt you...but remember that when good friends and good boys come along...the good outweighs the bad

-your family will always be there for you so hold them close to your heart...they might drive you crazy most of the time but never give up on people that love you the most

-have fun with everything you do...if you aren't having fun, then it probably isn't worth doing

-never forget to tell people how you feel...life is fleeting and you never know which day will be the last

-cry when you need to, laugh when you can, and smile all the time...life is good if you let it be

Happy birthday to my most favorite 4 year old in the world!

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.-Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Love must be in the air. At least for everyone else, that is. Have you ever been enjoying your life, moseying right along, and suddenly you realize that you missed the memo to find a significant other?

All I'm saying is that I'm sitting at church on Sunday and I look around...and everyone has suddenly paired off! No kidding-I have one friend left in the Blanding/Monticello/Mexican Hat/Montezuma Creek radius that is still with me enjoying the single life.

Except that when there are only 2 of you that are single and you are always hanging out with couples, it isn't so enjoyable anymore. Unless my fairy godmother suddenly appears and provides me with my prince charming...I'm not looking forward to the next couple months of love-fest.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.-Herbert Hoover

Some thoughts for the week courtesy of the students of MXH Elementary:

-Your breath smells like candy (said at 11:00 when I hadn't brushed my teeth since 5:30 and hadn't had anything to eat since 7...I was incredibly grateful when he said candy and not something else!)
-Don't do drugs! (a 6th grader pretending to be me during charades...at least something is sinking through, right?)
-You look like you could be Mrs. Kensley's daughter. me-Really, why do you think that? Because you are both belagana (for those of you non-Navajo speakers that means white)
-You are my new favorite teacher because you are pretty and have sparkly earrings

You've got to love the honesty of the K-6 grade crowd!

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. ~John Archibald Wheeler

I just found out that I have to stay at work tonight until 7. Which means that I won't get home until 8. Which means that I will have been gone for 14 hours by the time I actually make it home. At least I'll be able to get all my stuff done, right?!?! Please tell me that there is some positive to working 14 hours in one day without getting paid extra.

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.-Oprah Winfrey

Today I'm wearing a pair of cute blue shoes that cost me exactly $1. Did you even know that you can buy a pair of shoes for $1? I didn't until Monday morning when I stumbled across these gems. You know what else costs me a dollar...a bottle of water, a refill of Diet Coke, a movie if you live in Provo and are willing to face the crowds at the dollar theater, a loofah (I also discovered the price of this one on Monday), and anything off the dollar menu at those fast food places that exist in the "real world" (by that I mean not Blanding).

And I'm pretty sure none of those things will make me as happy as these shoes do right now.

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. ~H.G. Wells

That's right people, I-who hates exercising-have purchased a bicycle. I thought maybe by buying a beautiful shiny new bike I could trick my mind into believing that I wasn't really exercising. And I'm happy to report that I have had some, though not complete, success. Our own minds are kinda hard to trick. But at least I now have this beautiful "toy" in my possession: