AAARRRGGG!!!

I can't get in to comment on ANY ONE'S blog. I loved everything everyone said. Maybe I can respond here and you will all get it when you read my blog, so here goes:

Emilee, it does get better. When they're about 10 or so you can teach the kids to do their own laundry

Flee, don't be sad. She will get better and now you know what staff looks like so in the future you will know it when you see it. So this experience will be for your good,

Karla, I loved your recap. I can use it until; the November Ensign comes out, Thanks.

Michelle, YEA! for honesty. I pays to keep rhe commandment in more way than one.

Stace, You hit the nail on the head. This was a bad day for the little people. They lost over a
TRILLION dollars in investment and retirement funds and also many 401k's were affected. And now for a long time people won't be able to get loans to buy houses, cars, your credit limits on any credit cards will be frozen at whatever you now owe, jobs will be lost small business loans will dry up. It's a bad deal all around. It will be a miracle if we don't go into a depression for the next 5-7 years.and that's the good bad news. If they come up with a bill on Thursday it will help but it will be too late to stop the credit freeze unless congress comes up with a bill that preserves a free market (capitalist) economy and even then the government will have to insure wall street loans. Again it could lead to the collapse of the government and that is the worst case scenario.

Just to give you an idea what a TRILLION dollars is, think in terms of seconds as an analogy. a MILLION seconds is 12 days, A BILLION seconds is 32 years, and a TRILLION seconds is 32,000 years.

The best thing the little people can do is get a years supply of food, buy clothes and shoes for your kids in the sizes they will need for the next several years (DI would be an option if you are short on money) and get out of debt. And then trust in the Lord that he will see you through because he will know you have done all you could do.

Good news! I'm not wigging out about this. We are so fortunate that we got our retirement out of our IRA and put it in our savings. More bad news, Inflation over the next ten years may make it almost impossible to support ourselves for very long when Joe retires. He may not be ABLE to retire in that case.

More good news! I am thankful that I have been bless to have had such a good life up to now and except for retirement we are out of debt and well prepared for what is coming.

Oh, and my fingernails are still long :)

BTW

Emilee I forgot to say that Tamara is invited to any and all family events she would like to come to including tonight's B-day party.

I think that really is all for now unless I think of something later today.

Bye bye

I should read more carefully....

I meant to say IT should be cute, the cake, not me. Freudian slip? could be ;)

Random notes

Karla, your directions on how to leave comments on your blog were Greek to me. I don't have that much of a command of computers to even understand what to do. Unless Michelle can make it easier for me I'll have to forgo commenting on your blog but I do enjoy reading them.

Flee, come to our family b-day party tonight at 6:00, we would love to have you and Michelle is making one of the cakes. I should be cute (the cake, not the party :)

Stacey, now might not be such a good time to buy a house. If the country suffers a depression because of the bailout there will be a glut of homes for sale at rock bottom prices. Ask Brian about it. (I think you could get out of your offer as long as the bank hasn't approved your offer but I'm not sure about that)

Emilee, Daniel may want to borrow the money for the tools right away and get them bought. If this bailout turns into a depression, the price of the tools will go way up because of inflation. Just some friendly advice.... no pressure.

Have a nice, spiritual Sabbath everyone.

Lub lubs

What's the deal here....

Michelle set up this blog for me since I am computer illiterate (almost) I don't know why but when I go to comment on some of your blogs it doesn't publish them. I think I have been able to get published on Flee's and Michelle's and maybe one other. So if I haven't commented on your blog it isn't because I haven't tried. Sorry :( I'll have to get Michelle to figure out whats wrong.

Semi-good, Bad, Good, Sad and REALLY BAD news

Semi good news....
The bailout didn't happen yet. The conservatives wanted to have a say in what happens to 700 billion dollars so they didn't agree to the plan yesterday. I am in favor of taking a little more time to work this out, as it's a will mean a huge tax increase for us "little" people. Or as they say in the media on "main street" as opposed to "wall street." I hope they can come up with a plan that will allow the tax payers to receive the profits from the eventual sale of the mortgages they will be buying. That way we will have a system which will include some capitalist provisions in the bill instead of having a totally socialist bill.

Good news....
My buttonhole foot came yesterday. It is huge, it must weigh three of four pounds. Hope I can learn to use this monster. This time I will pray first.

Sad news....
They pulled up all the beautiful flowers at the MTC, Now they have planted pansies which will last through the winter but will never be as beautifu as the bed of flowers of all colors and sizes. Sighhhh

Bad news....
Dad and Michael see this bailout as being the first volley in the eventual collapse of the Government. Happy thought, isn't it :(.

REALLY BAD NEWS.....
binge eating all afternoon yesterday. AAARRRGGG!!!!! (tasted good though)

Good news.... (don't want to end on a bad note)
Hmmmmm! Lets see, What can I say that's good!
My fingernails are finally getting long again (I know. That's pretty lame.)

From the MTC to FHE (wide spectrum for one day)

The MTC was it's usual spiritual high. Beats drugs and keeps me centered on what matters.

Tonight we are going to visit our son who likes to talk politics (Michael) for FHE. I wonder what he will say about the bailout of the wall street crowd. It should be interesting as he and Dad both think it could lead to one of the signs of the times coming to pass.

TA DAH!!!! (florishes sounding)

It was the bobbin thread all along, nothing wrong with the tension now. It took me about 15 minutes and a prayer (first) to figure it out. I think I'm past the halfway point of the learning curve now. Glad I didn't give up!

It should have been obvious to me to pray first but it didn't occur to me that I might not be able to pick it up easily. I could have saved myself 7 hours of increasingly frustrating

mental strain. Good lesson there for life's problems. Hope I've learned it now.

Sorry, Ems, I think I'll keep this machine and not trade back.

(Wow! I was almost an Indian giver.)

Duh

I do know how to spell "early." Just too tired to read well. Sorry

Horrible Thought

I just realized that the reason I can't get the tension right on my new machine is that I didn't have the needle threaded properly. So all the earlly morning hours I spent trying to figure out how to use the machine have only produced more questions. :[

It was a girl at last ~ Emilee Marie

Our eighth and last child (except the ninth) was born 28 years ago today. Her sisters thought they had died and gone to Heaven to finally have a baby sister after four brothers in a row. They reconsidered when they had to change her diapers. But now that they don't have to change her diapers anymore they have come to like her again. In fact they are joined at the hip now days... I should say that her sisters are joined at the hip to Emilee's two little ones. Emilee is one of the most spiritual women I know (I don't either say that about everyone, Daniel.) She also sings, dances, plays the piano and a wonderful mommy and wife. One of the highlights of my week is to go with her to visit my mother. Happy birthday, sweetie. Cheers!

Learning New Things.... Hmmmmm

I spent the hours from 4:00 am to 11:20 am reading about, puzzling about, pondering, figuring out, trying out, failing, trying again and can finally say I know how to thread my new sewing machine.

Haven't yet figured out how to get the tension right to sew a straight line ~ finally quit after gnawing on my knuckles for the third time.

I will not give in to the thought that I am too old to learn new things.

I am soooo tired.

Testing Testing Testing

So, Michelle is testing some colors and fonts on my blog, so disregard this post!

Testing Testing Testing

So, Michelle is testing some colors and fonts on my blog, so disregard this post!

What a great day

I spent the morning at the MTC working with the missionaries which is always a spiritually uplifting experience. This afternoon I spent two and a half hours working on a full wall sized mural for a woman in our ward. It is a whimsical forest with fairies for her little girl's bedroom. This project will take several days to do but I love the picture and am excited to get started. Then I spent two luxurious hours resting and listening to last April's Conference on my ipod with the earphones. I sounds like I'm right there. I love it.

Tonight I will start working on Janice's baby girl's blessing dress. No.... Janice isn't pregnant or married yet but we are planning for the possible future and doing the dress now so I won't be too old to see to do it when the happy event happens. I bought a new Singer sewing machine last week and can hardly wait to use it. Emilee is coming over tonight to get my 40 year old Singer (one of the best machines they ever made - it should last through the Millennium) She wanted to learn to sew better and I felt guilty keeping both machines even though I like some of the features on the old machine better. But the new machine can do several things more and better than the old one. So.... on to newer and better things