Travel Plans

Today we went and saw Kennedy at the airport. Kennedy had wanted us to come, but Amber didn't know for sure if she wanted to go, since seeing him would make her miss him that much more. I wrote him telling him that we might not come, but then I explained to Amber that he would be looking for us and probably feel bad if we didn't come. Amber, Billy, Ben, Molissa and I all went and he was really excited to see us. He had even been looking for us, like I knew he would be. We all had written him letters too to make sure that he had something to do on the plan ride. Although, unlike Will, he had said that he was going to call and then he never did. I am a little disappointed in that.

And speaking of disappointing Elders, Will didn't write me this week, when I know that he wrote at least three other people. People keep telling me that my letter probably got lost in the mail. I am a little jealous that he would write to them and not me, but more specifically I just want to know why he wouldn't want to write to me when he has been so good about it so far.

Mom and I now have travel reservations for going down to the Shakespearean Festival. I am really excited. It will also be really nice to get away from work for a weekend. I have been to the Shakespearean Festival before, but I have never seen one of the plays outside, so I am looking forward to that too.

Dawn of Roses

"Now Will, Tasha, and Chelsee sat soaking in the sun as the roses did. Chelsee was only eight and had instantly attached to the two friends when she arrived two weeks ago. She was the only thing that kept the two sane. She gave them something to look after and something that many had lost, love. With her shining brown hair and eyes Chelsee was, despite the anguish around her, always smiling. She always looked at things in the most optimistic way that quickly spread to those around her. Many would be gone now if she hadn’t arrived."

-- Dawn of Roses, short story written by Will McLachlan

Thanks Allie!

Last night, I had a dream that Allie came up to see me from Nevada. She said that she could tell that I was having a rough week and she knew that I liked it when people came in to see me at work, so she had driven all the way up here to make me feel better. She stayed for a couple of hours but then she had to go back home. So, thanks Allie for making my week a little better. :)

Family Thoughts?

I wanted to get the family's thoughts on this because I think I might just be over-thinking it. I got another e-mail from Will today, but it was a forward to everyone from his old account. It was one of those messages from hotmail saying that if you didn't forward it to at least 18 people you would have to start paying for your account next summer. I found this strange because in my last e-mail from Will he told me that he wouldn't be able to check his old account again and that he wasn't allowed to return any of my e-mails with another e-mail. I find it odd that he would be willing to break the rules in order to pass along a forward, so I think that he is homesick and trying to reach out to something familiar. So, what do you guys think? And, if you do agree with me that he is homesick, is there anything I can do to help him out?

Cakes, Cakes and more CAKES

Never fear! The world of cake decorating is back on track! All 85 back-up cakes are done. I only had to work nearly 27 hours in the last two days in order to get it done. In the middle of all of that, I really started to stress out. A lady had ordered a cake, and somehow the order must have gotten lost, because she came in for the cake and not only did I not have it, I didn't even know that I was supposed to be making it. She was really upset and really stressed me out. I already had a million cakes to make, but she just added one more! I text my boss and said, "Remind me why I like doing this again". But, today is my day off and I got plenty of sleep, so bring on the cakes!

Harry Potter

I think people like this are dumb. I sometimes go to mugglenet.com to check up on the updates for Harry Potter. Today I read an article telling about a woman that tried to have all six of the Harry Potter books removed from school libraries. She said they are full of "evil themes, witchcraft, demonic activity, murder, evil blood sacrifice, spells and are teaching children all of this." She hasn't actually ever read any of them because she said that they were too long, but she took this matter to court. Needless to say, she lost. Harry Potter has remained in school libraries, but she is appealing the case.

Outburst!

On Saturday night, I finally got up the courage to go and talk to Will's mom. I figured a nice ice breaker would be taking her copies of the pictures that Will had sent me from the MTC. So, I went over there and showed them to her. She was very greatful because the ones Will had sent to her got lost in the mail. She told me all about how he is doing now that he is in Portugal. I told her that he wasn't allowed to e-mail me so I hadn't really heard from him yet, so she offered to forward all of the e-mails he sends home to me! I had been thinking about that, but I didn't ask and then she offered! It was really nice. His family had just finished cooking dinner, and she invited me to come and eat with them. After dinner, they wanted me to stay and play games with them. We played Outburst! It was really fun. We played boys against girls, and Will's sister warned me that the girls never won. But then we won both rounds. It was really nice of them to let me hang out with them.

FINALLY!!!

I got a message from Will today! He hasn't been able to write me a letter yet, so he e-mailed me. He wrote saying that he was breaking this one rule this one time to send me his address since I haven't been able to write him either because I didn't have his address in Portugal. He told me that I should appreciate the e-mail because he was breaking the rules to do it. Like we haven't been breaking them before?

Dear Elder.com

So I have been trying out this new way of writing to my missionary friends. It is supposedly a lot faster and more reliable. It is also free to the MTC. They make it possible to send care packages to the missions. They even have a study about Dear John letters. :) I don't know how well it all works yet, but it seems like it could work. I still haven't heard from Will yet. That makes two weeks! I am going crazy! (Just ask mom or Geoffrey.) Even though this website makes the letters a little less personal, I am hoping that it will help me keep in better contact with them when they all go to different countries.

Grizzly Bear

Last night I had a really strange dream. Will and I were going to go to Prom, even though we were both out of high school. I had decided to wear the black dress that I wore to Prom the year before, and I needed to take a shower so that I could do my hair. When I walked into the bathroom, though, the window had been open and there was a huge branch on the floor. I went into my room and Geoffrey was asleep on my bed. My window was open too. It was as I walked in that a grizzly bear saw Geoffrey and me in my room. The window was open so he tried to come in. I started screaming to wake Geoffrey up. Then the bear threw another tree branch into the room. The crash finally made Geoffrey wake up and then we ran out of my room. That is when I woke up. So the moral of the story is: Don't leave the windows open because the bears will get in and Geoffrey- don't sleep in my bed!

X-Men: The Last Stand

Geoffrey and I went to the midnight showing of X-Men last night. We both thought that it was awesome, even if it doesn't really follow the comics... The rumors that this will be the last X-men movie are false. The ending of the movie leaves no doubt that there will be more. There were some things about the movie that I didn't quite like, but I think it just like watching Two Towers and knowing that there is more to the story that you aren't catching yet. So, for anyone going to see it, stay after the credits for an extra scene!

Father Dante

Yesterday I had the day off so I was at home with all of the kitties. At one point in the day, all five kitties were in the driveway. Mael had started a fight with Scout, so Dante walked up to Mael and pawed his face. Mael then walked off and sat a little ways away. I think that was Dante's way of breaking up the fight since he is declawed and can't do much damage. However, if Dante is the one protecting all of the kitties, I hope that whoever hurt Mael's tail got his ass kicked. I can hear Dante saying, "Kitties, be nice to each other..."

PCD and BEP

Last night was the Pussycat Dolls and Black Eyed Peas concert! It was awesome, but I have to say, I was much more impressed with PCD than the BEP. BEP was fun, but PCD was just really fun to watch. They played songs from their CD but they were extended to add more time for PCD to dance longer. Since they are mainly dancers anyway it was so cool! While I was there I also got the sweater that Nicole is wearing in the music video for Dont'cha. (The white hoodie with the words "Dont cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me" across the hood.) I was only really disappointed that Will.i.am didn't sing with PCD for Beep. I don't understand why he didn't since he was obviously there. They just had his part sung on the screens next to the stage.

BEP was cool, but they kept stopping and singing other people's stuff while some of the others left for costume changes. They ended with "Where's the Love" and made us cheer for about ten minutes before they came back out for the encore. (Which was long enough for another costume change.) During the encore they sung their more well known song like "My Humps" "Lets get it started" and "Don't Phunk with my Heart". The only songs that I recognized before that was "Hey Mama" and "Don't lie" but it was still fun.

The Da Vinci Code

Critics aren't really liking this movie, but I saw it and I love it! I haven't read the book yet, but I want to. The movie has a great cast: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou and Ian McKellan. It is directed by Ron Howard and the music is composed by Hans Zimmer! I think that it is all put together very well and the concept is really interesting to me. I wish that dad had seen it with me so that he could tell me which parts are actually based on historical fact, because I know that some of them are. Anyways, I really liked it.

45 minute phone call

Will called back later that night. We talked for 45 minutes. It was great to be able to just talk to him again. He told me stories about how one of the guys in his district sleep walks, and they had woken up to find him chewing on a book. His brother also snuck into the MTC to see Will while he was still there. He also kept saying things to me in Portugese so I couldn't understand him. He had fun with that. However, the only downside to this is that I really miss him again. I mean, I always miss him, but it kind of made things worse. It is like the first few weeks all over again. Oh well.

Corrupting Missionaries

Will left for Portugal from the MTC today. He had told me that he was going to call me and sent me a copy of his irtinerary. Since I knew that he was breaking the rules to call me, I figured it was okay if I broke the rules and went out to go and see him. It was really good to see him! He didn't know that I was coming, so as soon as he saw me and Tasha, he turned bright red and kept saying, "No way!" His mission companion was very nice and didn't seem to mind that we were breaking the rules. Will seemed really happy to see me and I was really happy that I was able to talk to Will a little before he had to go.

Even though I went to the airport, he still called me. He had called his mom before me, and they took too long, so he actually called me to tell me that he couldn't call me. He said that they were already boarding his plane, but he had another layover in Atlanta. So, he said that he was going to call me from there if he could.

Mother's Day Disaster

All week I have been stressing out about getting all of the Mother's Day orders ready on time. I have been going in at 7:00 for the last couple of days to have everything ready. At 2:00 this afternoon, some idiot ran into the power pole and turned off the power to the entire block. Now, with ice cream, that is a big problem. We were able to stay open for about another hour. One of our registers is hooked up to a back-up battery. But, the one that it is hooked into doesn't work without the other one, and that one didn't have the back-up. However, I was able to call the company and make them help me make a back-up file server so we had a register. We were able to help customers with anything, except the drinks that needed a machine to blend them. But then the back-up system failed and turned the register off. I have a key to the register, so for a while we were just figuring out the total by using a calculator and then figuring out the change ourselves. After doing this for about an hour and a half, my boss called me and told me that we needed to close the store because the ice cream was going to melt. We had to put all of the night covers on and keep all of the freezers closed to help keep them cold as long as possible. All of my cakes had to be evacuated into the bigger back freezer to keep them colder. I then tried to by dry ice to keep it cold, but Smith's was almost all out. Later, Justin had me drive out to the Bountiful Smith's to get the dry ice. By this time it had been over four hours, so everything was getting soft. I bought $85 dollars worth of dry ice and was two blocks away from the store when my boss called me again. "Good and bad news..." he said. "The power is back on."

Dumb Co-Worker

Since Mother's Day is coming up, Baskin Robbins has to have 50 back-up cakes by then. We start on the first and all of the back-up cakes have to be done by the tenth so the remaining days can be spent on the cake orders. However, like Valentine's Day, I have done most of this myself. All week I have been behind because my fellow cake-decorator has hardly helped me at all, that on my days, not only do I have to do my cakes, but catch up on hers as well. I FINALLY had everything caught up by the time I left on Monday. But when I went in today, she hadn't done ANYTHING! And I really do mean anything! So, today I started off behind again!! I was really pissed off and let me boss know how angry I was. He said that he had already talked to her about not getting anything done, but I don't know if that will solve the problem or not. Some co-workers are just worthless!

Season 3

Today the third season of Scrubs came out. I thought it would be nice to give to Kjersti, since her and Jay have been borrowing all of my movies to watch since they have been staying home with Kameryn. Plus, Kjersti likes to watch things while she is feeding the baby. I bought the season for her and then took it over. I told her that on a scale of 1 to 10 she was going like it a 12. She was SO excited, but Jay got mad at me because I had stolen his Mother's Day idea for Kjersti. However, when Kjersti brought Zepher home, he is now shaved and looks like a lion, she told Geoffrey that her and Jay had already watched half of it.

When I was over at Kjersti and Jay's apartment, I got to hold Kameryn! She is so cute! She stopped fussing while I was holding her, except she kept hiccuping and that was pissing her off. When I said hi to her she made a little noise, and when I told Kjersti I had to go, she started to get fussy again. This is just proof that Kameryn is already really smart and aware of what is going on around her. I think it was the Harry Potter her dad started reading to her while she was still in the womb. :)

The Customer isn't always right

Last week while my boss was training two new girls at Baskin, we got pretty busy, so my boss stopped what he was doing to help us with our rush. During that time, a kid in about Jr. High that always comes in came in with his mom. Justin recognized the kid so he said hello to the kid and got his ice cream without having to be told what the kid wanted, since he always gets the same thing. I helped the kid's mother to help the line go faster. The lady took her son home and then came back to yell at Justin. She wanted his name to report to the owner since Justin was being "too friendly with a minor." She said that he had an unacceptible tone with minors and that he should never greet younger children without greeting the adult that they are with. She also was mad that I had been the one that helped her because that furhter proved to her that Justin had only wanted to talk to her son instead of her. When Justin finally got a word in to tell her that he WAS the owner, she made him write down his name and phone number so that she got report him to the FBI. He shook his head and wrote it down for her. She said, "Don't laugh! This is very serious! You could go to jail for six years for something like this!" Before she left she yelled at Justin that if her son ever came in again, he wasn't to talk to him, or help him. He was to make sure that one of the girls helped him. Justin agreed and she stormed out of the store.