Bueller...........Bueller...........

So, the HOA annual meeting was on Monday evening. Are you sitting down? Out of 171 homeowners in our community only 22 bothered to cast their ballots. Which means, obviously, not a majority vote. What does that mean for me? I have to wait until a board meeting happens, and hopefully there will be a quorum present, then I can be "appointed" to the board. What an apathetic society we live in. Where is the love people? It just made me think of another funny movie from my youth.

This is fun!

In the spirit of "Thievery Thursday", I stole this idea from someone else's blog. The rule is you can't use your own pictures, they must come from "The Web".

My Name:

My job:

I want to travel to:

Bad habit (hee, hee!):

Favorite Author:

Favorite Song: Songbird

Favorite Food:

Favorite object:

Favorite Color:

Pet's Name:

Favorite Animal:

Where I live:

Wasn't that fantastical fun? I haven't blogged in a while since I was sick this weekend. It was a great weekend not to feel well since General Conference was on TV. What a great conference. I could definitely see in President Monson the weight of the mantle he now carries.

If elected, I promise.....

I'm on the ballot! I have decided to run for a seat on our homeowner association board. Since we moved into a home with an HOA, I have made it a point to attend the meetings. Having worked for a company that manages HOA's for so long, and hearing the complaints of so many homeowners over the years, I've decided to be part of the solution rather than the problem.

I have a dream......uh, actually I decided to run due to the fact that our current board seems unable to be bothered to attend the meetings themselves. In fact, a gal who is also running stated that her qualifications for serving our community was that, and I quote, "at least I will show up to the meetings unlike our current board." How sad that merely attending a meeting is the qualifier.

If elected, I promise that we will have better lunches and longer recesses.

Happy April Fool's Day and Happy Birthday to my father-in-law, Roger L Johnson. He's no April Fool!

Monday, Monday

Okay, turn your head to the right. Yep, my shelves fell down! Celeste, this one's for you! I heard a loud crash in the middle of the night. Of course, me being way too exhausted to get up and investigate, I told myself I'd check on it in the morning. I had the semi-conscious thought that if it were a burglar, Berkeley was welcome to eat him.

So this is what I found. Lucky me! A trip to Home Depot! I love wandering around in there looking for nothing in particular, and collecting ideas for my home. I found the metal shelf supports, the ones that broke were plastic. I escaped Home Depot having spent only $5.oo.

I went home and took everything out and then back in again. Fun, Fun.

I got my visiting teaching done this morning. I was feeling really good about myself for doing so. Yes, I know it is the last day of the month, but I did it right? Anyway, I had a ton of work to do for my paying job and some errands to run. I ran my errands and was ready to leave my last stop, when lo and behold, I can't locate my keys. I frantically run out to my car knowing exactly what I would find. Yep, there they are sitting on the front seat! Stupid, stupid, stupid! I don't have time for this today!

Brittany has our other vehicle and is on her way to EVIT. My husband is at home with his keys and no way to get to me. Long story short, thank you Lisa Perry for driving my husband to rescue me. I finally get home and the first thing I do, drop a can on my big toe! So I'm blubbering like a big baby, it really hurt! I hear that sucking sound again! It's still not the vacuum.

Silence is Golden

Did you notice how quiet it was when you viewed my blog today? Some have expressed displeasure with my eclectic musical taste. I chose to delete it because I forgot my password to add new songs and the darn folks at Project Playlist would not, could not respond to my request. After some of the songs had been there, they would get an error message and not play so I decided to do away with the whole mess.

I'm trying to use some new tools to make my blog more interesting, but apparently I don't know how to do it right or I'm just dense at following step by step instructions. I wanted to have some cute "Shabby Chic" paper and embellishments. My techno savvy has been exposed. "Don't pay attention to the woman behind the curtain, the Great and Powerful Oz has spoken!"

Does anyone have any hope of help for me?

I don't think I'm ever going to live through this

Well, today we were supposed to have sold our former home. The deal fell through because our buyer couldn't get the funds. I've stepped in gum, Melissa! It's Monday and I had such high hopes for today, but it was all for not. Would anyone like to kick me in the teeth while I am down here? I am at a complete loss as to what to do, in more ways than one.

Do you hear that sucking sound? It's not the vacuum. Yeah, it's my day and my year.

Easter

The Reester bunny made a mad hop to our house last night. "The children were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of chocolate eggs danced in their heads." I say Reester bunny because my kids love "Reester eggs." You know, those Reese's creations that are just melt in your mouth yummy.

We did manage to color some Easter eggs, so this Spring Break was not a complete bust:

Some delicious egg salad will be had this week. I love Easter. I love the reminder of our Savior's life and why we are here. I am grateful to Him for the hope of returning to Him through His atoning sacrifice. I am so far from perfect, and it is a blessing to me to know that I can overcome my imperfections and always strive to be a better daughter of our Heavenly Father.

Happy Easter