This past week has made me wonder if they started handing out driver's licenses without the need of taking a class to LEARN how to drive. For those of you who haven't here are a couple of pointers and for those of you who have, let this be a refresher course.
1. Turning signals have been around for a while, all you have to do is push it up or down to signal which way you are going when changing lanes or turning.
2. Following one foot behind my car is NOT going to make me go any faster. I'm sorry but many of us choose to follow traffic laws, especially when traveling with a 4 month old baby in the car. If you would like to go faster you may go around me in the other lane.
3. Learn what the right of way is. This week I was driving one a two way street and a car was turning onto the street to go in the opposite direction than I, he was on a side road with a yield. Luckily, I saw this car in my peripheral vision and felt I should slow down a little, no sooner did I do that but the car cut in front of me, missing me by a foot and crossing me perpendicular into the other lane. SERIOUSLY?!
4. If the light is going from yellow to red for the car in front of you, you don't get to go...can we say accident?
These are just a few of the highlights to my week of driving with thousands of 20-70 year old novices. I don't like the Utah stereotype for bad driving, so PLEASE don't make it true.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
All that glitters isn't gold
So now my wonderful america is on a spend trend. It's happened once again....someone has gone and made debt look enticing.
Cash for clunkers, and now cash for clunky appliances, and for kids??? cash/discounts for clunky kid stuff. Come on America!
CAUTION!!! I think we should all take a moment to remember the generation who lived or were born during the Great Depression. Many of us still know or knew someone from that Era. One of the characteristics of this generation of people is the need to keep what has been accumulated over the years. SAVE, SAVE, SAVE. While it is good to be frugal I worry that now, this new recession generation will be caught in a bargain trap. The words "sale", "clearance", and other low price jargon catch our attention as many of us allow the fear of not getting this "deal" again rule our wallets. BEWARE this hazardous habit and think twice, or three, or five times if you have to about what you are about to do. Remember, spending money that you don't have, even if it's a good deal, is still putting you in debt.
Cash for clunkers, and now cash for clunky appliances, and for kids??? cash/discounts for clunky kid stuff. Come on America!
CAUTION!!! I think we should all take a moment to remember the generation who lived or were born during the Great Depression. Many of us still know or knew someone from that Era. One of the characteristics of this generation of people is the need to keep what has been accumulated over the years. SAVE, SAVE, SAVE. While it is good to be frugal I worry that now, this new recession generation will be caught in a bargain trap. The words "sale", "clearance", and other low price jargon catch our attention as many of us allow the fear of not getting this "deal" again rule our wallets. BEWARE this hazardous habit and think twice, or three, or five times if you have to about what you are about to do. Remember, spending money that you don't have, even if it's a good deal, is still putting you in debt.
Back to the drawing board
It's been a long time since I've been back to the blogging world, but really I'm still new to this whole thing, so I am assuming that it didnt miss me so much.
This return is a part of my "mid year" crisis.
I sometimes like to think of the year as a representation of our lives. The first few months, like the first years of our lives are full of hopes and goals, new life, and excitement. And for myself, sometimes a lot of goofing around. Indeed, we have the whole year ahead and plenty of time to get done what is needed, or start anew should we get off track of those new year's resolutions.
There are springs and summers and falls and winters in our lives. They might be quite literal to the time we have left, or they might represent a frame of mind/point of view in regards to certain aspects of those lives which we lead. Just as there is something wonderful in every season of the year, there is also something wonderful in every season of our lives. Once, while holding my son, an older woman looked at me and said, "You know, this time as a grandmother is the best time of my life. Don't get me wrong, I have such great memories as a mother, young as you are, but I love where I am right now." What an attitude to have!
It can be so easy to see the bad things that come upon us through each phase of life. Just as some people complain about the snow, or the heat, or the rain, or the cold, so too come the complaints of the things we are alotted in life.
So, I've decided that what I'm going to do is take the advice that this wise woman gave me and enjoy where I'm at. I look back with fondness on my young single adult/girlhood and now I enjoy my young, married, mother, adulthood. Right now is the best time of my life. Right now is the time to love with the precious moments as well as the frustrating. Later, it will also be another time to look back upon as I graduate through the seasons of my life.
In the meantime, I've still got the blog:)
This return is a part of my "mid year" crisis.
I sometimes like to think of the year as a representation of our lives. The first few months, like the first years of our lives are full of hopes and goals, new life, and excitement. And for myself, sometimes a lot of goofing around. Indeed, we have the whole year ahead and plenty of time to get done what is needed, or start anew should we get off track of those new year's resolutions.
There are springs and summers and falls and winters in our lives. They might be quite literal to the time we have left, or they might represent a frame of mind/point of view in regards to certain aspects of those lives which we lead. Just as there is something wonderful in every season of the year, there is also something wonderful in every season of our lives. Once, while holding my son, an older woman looked at me and said, "You know, this time as a grandmother is the best time of my life. Don't get me wrong, I have such great memories as a mother, young as you are, but I love where I am right now." What an attitude to have!
It can be so easy to see the bad things that come upon us through each phase of life. Just as some people complain about the snow, or the heat, or the rain, or the cold, so too come the complaints of the things we are alotted in life.
So, I've decided that what I'm going to do is take the advice that this wise woman gave me and enjoy where I'm at. I look back with fondness on my young single adult/girlhood and now I enjoy my young, married, mother, adulthood. Right now is the best time of my life. Right now is the time to love with the precious moments as well as the frustrating. Later, it will also be another time to look back upon as I graduate through the seasons of my life.
In the meantime, I've still got the blog:)
Sunday, January 11, 2009
The secret society of pregnant women
My husband and I recently discovered that we were expecting our first child. Like most couples, this has been a very exciting time for the both of us। As we have announced the news to our family and friends we have recieved the customary congratulatory reactions and enthusiasm that one would expect from news such as ours। Nothing was so interesting;however, as was my recent induction into the unrecorded secret society of those women who have experienced the joy of motherhood.
They say there's a glow in your eye, the pregnant woman's dead give away which opens the door to magical remedies of how to tell what sex your child is, how many children you'll have, and so on. Indeed you hear the tales of gruesome first trimesters and labor pains, such things they would never dream of telling you till it was too late. In fact, these unscientific, unapproved by americas surgeon general, and definitely not chicken soup for the mother's soul pieces of advice actually are quite helpful, insightful, and interesting.
I'd like to share them with you....but you must be inducted yourself. So rest assured ladies when you see that double line, like a scene out of the hulk or spiderman or xmen or something you'll have entered that society. And don't be surprised if, as you've seen in one of those crazy horror films, you hear a knock at the door or the phone ring...it has begun.
They say there's a glow in your eye, the pregnant woman's dead give away which opens the door to magical remedies of how to tell what sex your child is, how many children you'll have, and so on. Indeed you hear the tales of gruesome first trimesters and labor pains, such things they would never dream of telling you till it was too late. In fact, these unscientific, unapproved by americas surgeon general, and definitely not chicken soup for the mother's soul pieces of advice actually are quite helpful, insightful, and interesting.
I'd like to share them with you....but you must be inducted yourself. So rest assured ladies when you see that double line, like a scene out of the hulk or spiderman or xmen or something you'll have entered that society. And don't be surprised if, as you've seen in one of those crazy horror films, you hear a knock at the door or the phone ring...it has begun.
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