Day off from Work

I had today off from work and I think I worked harder. I planted many flowers around my house. It was a beautiful day. The sun was out with a little breeze blowing. I got really tired though after planting for many hours. I also went to an emergency preparedness meeting at church. It was very good. We learned about what we should do if there is an epidemic like the bird flu. It's always good to get together with other LDS women and talk. Ian and are going to the Washington Temple tomorrow. He just finished his calculus class today and has tomorrow off. Marvin Goldstein is going to perform at night. We are going in the morning and going into the Temple for a while, then eat, and then got to the performance in the visitors center. It should be a good day.
I really got a good laugh from Carrie's blog tonight. Gwen is very funny.

Frustration with computer

Well my computer got attacked by a nasty virus about 3 weeks ago. I couldn't fix it so I took it to a computer professional??? Well he couldn't fix it either so he reformated my hard drive. Now it turns on but I can't connect to the internet. I have to find all kinds of cd's and information to get it up and running again. I wish he hadn't reformated the hard drive. I could have done that myself. I couldn't even find a comcast bill to get my account number or their phone number. I've wasted a lot of time just gathering disks and information. I have to work today so I can't spend more time on it today. I have tomorrow off so guess what I will be doing!
On a brighter note. I had a really good day Monday. I went to buy some white impatients to plant with some red ones I had bought on Sat. Well I found a great sale on flats of flowers and ended up buying 3 flats and a few other plants. I went to my Mom's and planted some at her house. Then I wanted to plant some at Aunt Doreen's so I told my Mom that we could go there and plant them probably without her knowing. So we went up to her house and she was asleep in a chair right by the window where I was going to plant the flowers. I started planting them and had them all planted but one when she started to wake up. I hid by her garage. She was just sitting there so I had my Mom call her on the cell phone so she would move from the window. That worked and I got the other flower planted. My Mom told her we were coming up so we hid for a few more minutes and then knocked on her door. We visited for a while and when we left she noticed the flowers. She was surprised and laughed. It was fun. I like to do things that aren't expected of me for other people.
Another great thing happened on Sunday. The Washington DC Temple district is getting ready to use a new family search program that will let us search all the church records and print our family names and take them to the Temple. Then the information gets put right on the program so we will know right away what work has been done and by whom. It really is a great way to get Temple work done. But the best thing I have a trial version I am suppose to use and get used to. So Sunday I put in my Mother in-laws Father's name and found a whole line of information. It goes back to the 1600's in Switzerland. I haven't had time to tell my Mother in-law yet. I think she will be thrilled because her parents died when she was young. She didn't know much about her family. Now we have tons of information, thanks to Family Search and the Church.

A Really Hard Sunday

Even though it was Seminary Graduation day in Church it was a hard day. When I first got there I heard the news that Jane Marino's Husband had passed away suddenly on Sat. Frank Marino was not a member of the church but was a very good man. I felt really bad for Jane because just a week ago her daughter Vicki Cook had major surgery and we were all praying and worrying for Vicki. And my friend Tammi Torpey had just gone throught surgery for a serious infection in her ear. Then her mother Diane Browne just found out she has Thyroid Cancer and will be getting surgery this week. Another young man at church is recovering from intestinal surgery, he has serious Crohn's disease. There is so much suffering going on right now and the way the economy is and the weather with all the tornados it get's pretty overwhelming at times. I started reading the Book of Mormon again hoping that will easy my discomfort. On the brighter side I do have my health. I have an interesting job. A very comfortable house and plenty of food so I really can't complain.
I marvel every day at the birds, squirrels, chipmunks and other animals that live around my house. They are always busy and seem happy. I don't have the hummingbirds any more. I don't know what happened to them. They don't come to the feeder any more. I really liked to watch them.
I tried to make Puerto Rican Rice and Beans the other day. Ian really likes Spanish food. I bought this stuff called Sofrito and it gave everything a good taste but he said it wasn't quite right. So I asked my friend Iris if she would give me her recipe. We are hopefully going to get together on Tuesday. We are both off from work that day.