Tuesday, February 12, 2008
George Washington
When I posted my little bit about Abraham Lincoln's birthday today, and when I said that I'm glad that at this time of year we can all eat cherry pie and remember Presidents Lincoln and Washington, I forgot to say that in Illinois at this time of year, they only remember President Lincoln :-) I don't think it's that they don't like George Washington here--they just don't want him stealing any of the spotlight from their native son. I'm being totally serious though--we don't get this coming Monday, President's Day, as a day off of school. Instead, all of the Illinois schools will be closed this Friday for "Lincoln's Birthday Observed." Then President's Day is just a regular old day for everyone except at the banks and post offices. Ha ha ha. They're funny here! And none of my compadres here had ever heard of eating cherry pie for President's Day before, which has been a tradition in my family for a long time, but the compadres think it's a wonderful idea--especially since in the movie "The Washingtonians," the scary Colonial people who were trying to eat everyone's kids had a cherry tree patch on their shoulders. I would prefer having Monday as a holiday instead of Friday--since I don't have classes on Fridays anyway, but it's okay. I think I have reached mid-stream in the semester, when it feels like I'm getting swept away in the current. But I need to just keep swimming until I get to the other side, right? Tomorrow we have to leave really early to go up to Springfield for our Collections Care class, so I'd better head to bed. I always enjoy the Springfield field trips, so it should be a very good day.
The Big 199!
BIG NEWS: The Master's program in History at BYU has officially been "furloughed"!!! I don't know exactly what that means for the program, but they are no longer accepting applications; and it kind of sounds like the program will be suspended for an undisclosed period of time. Wow!! Maybe they just got too many "smart" students who got perfect scores on the GRE and who could bake a lot of cakes, and the whole program imploded from smart-ness. :-) Just kidding--I'm being facetious (I learned that word from Dr. Barnhart). I guess it is good that I didn't end up in that program even though I was totally crushed when I didn't get accepted. My favorite history professor, Dr. Rugh, told me that it was better for me to go somewhere else because she thought the program at BYU would go under someday, and she thought I would learn more someplace else--thus, I ended up at EIU. I thought she was just trying to make me feel better about not getting into the program, but there was obviously some foresight there on her part. Anyway, today is Abraham Lincoln's 199th birthday!!!
No, your eyes are not deceiving you--this is Abraham Lincoln that you see here, and he is indeed winking at you :-) Unfortunately, since Stryder is still at the car spa, I don't think I'll be able to make it out to the world's tallest Abraham Lincoln statue today, but I will still pay tribute to my favorite President here. People sometimes criticize Lincoln for things, but in my opinion, he always did what he believed to be the best thing for the country, and when you consider the incredible burden that was placed upon his shoulders, it seems quite remarkable that one man was able to bear all of that. And, he did it with a smile on his face. My favorite Lincoln quote is: "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" :-) If Abraham Lincoln hadn't done what he did during his presidency, what would have happened to the country? If you think about it, allowing the South to secede could have opened a gigantic can of worms. Where would the whole secession thing have stopped? If Lincoln had recognized the Confederate States of America as an independent nation, then what would stop New York from seceding from the Union, or Vermont, or Illinois? The United States could have become what Eastern Europe is today--a whole bunch of little independent nations that are always fighting about something. I think he was a very remarkable man and did a job that only he could have done--with help from God, who, as I mentioned yesterday, he wasn't afraid to acknowledge.
My favorite Lincoln speech is his Second Inaugural Address, given on March 4, 1865--just a little over a month before the Civil War ended and he was killed. I love the end of the speech, when he said:
"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.' With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
I also love his most famous speech, the Gettysburg Address, given at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863, when he said:
"The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Abraham Lincoln was a great man, and even though it's really cold and they have tornadoes here, it's cool that I get to live in his home state right now. John Wilkes Booth thought that he would be recognized as a hero for shooting President Lincoln, but his plan backfired on him, and instead he made Lincoln into a martyr and one of the most famous and beloved American Presidents. I'm glad that at this time of year, we all take time to eat cherry pie and remember Presidents Lincoln and Washington.
No, your eyes are not deceiving you--this is Abraham Lincoln that you see here, and he is indeed winking at you :-) Unfortunately, since Stryder is still at the car spa, I don't think I'll be able to make it out to the world's tallest Abraham Lincoln statue today, but I will still pay tribute to my favorite President here. People sometimes criticize Lincoln for things, but in my opinion, he always did what he believed to be the best thing for the country, and when you consider the incredible burden that was placed upon his shoulders, it seems quite remarkable that one man was able to bear all of that. And, he did it with a smile on his face. My favorite Lincoln quote is: "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" :-) If Abraham Lincoln hadn't done what he did during his presidency, what would have happened to the country? If you think about it, allowing the South to secede could have opened a gigantic can of worms. Where would the whole secession thing have stopped? If Lincoln had recognized the Confederate States of America as an independent nation, then what would stop New York from seceding from the Union, or Vermont, or Illinois? The United States could have become what Eastern Europe is today--a whole bunch of little independent nations that are always fighting about something. I think he was a very remarkable man and did a job that only he could have done--with help from God, who, as I mentioned yesterday, he wasn't afraid to acknowledge.
My favorite Lincoln speech is his Second Inaugural Address, given on March 4, 1865--just a little over a month before the Civil War ended and he was killed. I love the end of the speech, when he said:"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.' With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
I also love his most famous speech, the Gettysburg Address, given at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863, when he said:
"The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."Abraham Lincoln was a great man, and even though it's really cold and they have tornadoes here, it's cool that I get to live in his home state right now. John Wilkes Booth thought that he would be recognized as a hero for shooting President Lincoln, but his plan backfired on him, and instead he made Lincoln into a martyr and one of the most famous and beloved American Presidents. I'm glad that at this time of year, we all take time to eat cherry pie and remember Presidents Lincoln and Washington.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Addendum
Before heading to bed, I wanted to make a quick addendum to my earlier blog post. I was so busy being upset that I forgot to say some positive things that I was thinking today: first of all, Camden and Riley make beautiful princesses!! They would surely be the belles of any ball. And, I am so happy that Mom and Dad got to wear white cotton gloves yesterday and handle an original copy of the Book of Mormon! I only wish I could have been there to see them in their archival gloves--that makes me so proud. And, I am very happy that Sarah, Joel, and Eliza get to go to the beach and enjoy nice, warm weather and hang out with people who think that strengthening the family unit is important (unlike some people I see every day)! I am also very excited for Valentine's Day on Thursday when sweet, kind, and handsome Greg will be coming down here to make a delicious Valentine's dinner! It will be great to spend Valentine's Day with my Valentine! I'm sorry that Mom and Nate aren't feeling well though, and that the whole Barrett family had a pretty miserable week last week with colds, strep, and the flu. Hopefully this cold and flu season will go away very soon.
I know I probably sounded kind of raunchy earlier today--sorry about that. As far as the Mitt Romney thing goes, it probably seems like I was kind of asking for it by flaunting my support of him all over the place, but really all of my Mitt Romney hoopla was just my response to a never-ending barrage of Hillary and Obama talk that has been directed at me by my classmates for the last few weeks--because everyone knows I'm different. I'm the only student in the program who is from someplace west of the Mississippi River, and I have very different beliefs and social opinions than all of my classmates and professors. I decided early-on that, even though I usually try to avoid confrontations like the plague, I shouldn't be afraid to stick up for what I believe. The whole political scene out here this year kind of turned into a religious/family values kind of debate--which I have never experienced on this level before because I've always been in Utah during election time. For the past few weeks, it's all kind of been fun and games. The drill has been that they all tease me about my political and personal opinions, and I laugh and wear my Mitt Romney t-shirt, but today they just caught me on a really bad day, and I didn't feel like joking about Mitt's statement that he believes in God and strong family values. Tonight when Catherine came to pick Aly and me up for class, she said that she was sorry about the Mitt incident earlier today, which was nice of her to say--especially since she's not the one who instigated the whole ordeal. I've always considered myself as being pretty good at getting along with people, and I'm going to try really hard to not clash with the compadres on things, but I still am not going to put up with them bashing things that are really important to me.
The prognosis came back on Stryder this evening, and unfortunately it was, as I had feared it would be, quite an expensive problem he is having. According to the car man, Stryder's distributor has gone out and needs to be replaced at a price tag of $669. Ouch. But, it could have been worse, and Stryder is a very reliable car, so I will count it as a blessing that it wasn't something more life-threatening that was wrong with him. Tonight as Catherine was taking us home from class, we drove past Midas where Stryder will be spending the next couple of nights safely inside a warm building, and we all waved to him. Catherine told me that I should think of it as sending Stryder to the car spa for a few days. :-)
I know I probably sounded kind of raunchy earlier today--sorry about that. As far as the Mitt Romney thing goes, it probably seems like I was kind of asking for it by flaunting my support of him all over the place, but really all of my Mitt Romney hoopla was just my response to a never-ending barrage of Hillary and Obama talk that has been directed at me by my classmates for the last few weeks--because everyone knows I'm different. I'm the only student in the program who is from someplace west of the Mississippi River, and I have very different beliefs and social opinions than all of my classmates and professors. I decided early-on that, even though I usually try to avoid confrontations like the plague, I shouldn't be afraid to stick up for what I believe. The whole political scene out here this year kind of turned into a religious/family values kind of debate--which I have never experienced on this level before because I've always been in Utah during election time. For the past few weeks, it's all kind of been fun and games. The drill has been that they all tease me about my political and personal opinions, and I laugh and wear my Mitt Romney t-shirt, but today they just caught me on a really bad day, and I didn't feel like joking about Mitt's statement that he believes in God and strong family values. Tonight when Catherine came to pick Aly and me up for class, she said that she was sorry about the Mitt incident earlier today, which was nice of her to say--especially since she's not the one who instigated the whole ordeal. I've always considered myself as being pretty good at getting along with people, and I'm going to try really hard to not clash with the compadres on things, but I still am not going to put up with them bashing things that are really important to me.
The prognosis came back on Stryder this evening, and unfortunately it was, as I had feared it would be, quite an expensive problem he is having. According to the car man, Stryder's distributor has gone out and needs to be replaced at a price tag of $669. Ouch. But, it could have been worse, and Stryder is a very reliable car, so I will count it as a blessing that it wasn't something more life-threatening that was wrong with him. Tonight as Catherine was taking us home from class, we drove past Midas where Stryder will be spending the next couple of nights safely inside a warm building, and we all waved to him. Catherine told me that I should think of it as sending Stryder to the car spa for a few days. :-)
That Makes Me SO Mad!!
One of my favorite Camden sayings is, one time when she was quite little, one of our cars was getting towed away for mechanical reasons, and as the tow truck drove down the street with the car, Camden said, "That makes me SO mad!" :-) That's kind of how I'm feeling today. Today pretty much stinks, and it's only 3:30. First of all, it stinks that Stryder is out-of-commission. When I got home from class today, the tow truck guy was there waiting, and we took Stryder over to the car place. He will be there for an unknown amount of time while they diagnose the problem and figure out what needs to be done. And, with how things are going today, I'm afraid it's going to be something really expensive.
The next thing that stinks is that I had gotten a financial statement saying that we had overpaid the university $94 when we paid my school fees this semester, so I went to get that checked out, and oh, instead of EIU owning me $94, surprise--I owe them $474 more than we already paid for this semester because they had estimated my graduate assistantship amount as being $474 more than it actually was. :-(
Then, I went to the graduate lab to get some work done before coming to work for Dr. Hardeman, and Kristen insisted that I watch this stupid thing about Mitt Romney on the internet. I told her that I didn't want to see it, but she said, "It will make you glad that he dropped out!" I said, "No, nothing can make me glad that he dropped out." She turned it on anyway, even though I told her I didn't want to see it, and she, Catherine, and Alisha were laughing really hard at all of the dumb stuff the guy on the TV clip was saying. I think they're used to me just going along with their jokes and being good-natured about everything, but I was in no mood to be good-natured. When the dumb TV guy started making fun of Mitt's belief in God, that was it for me. I said, "You guys, this is stupid. Turn it off." They were all in shock that I would say something that forward. I said, "I think it's cool that he believes in God and isn't afraid to say it." They all sat there kind of stunned, and then Kristen started going off on some tangent about how there has to be separation of church and state, and then Alisha piped in that George Bush pretends to believe in God but doesn't really. I was soooooooooo tempted to say something about how she's the one who pretends to believe in whatever god her boyfriend tells her to believe in, but I bit my tongue on that one. Kristen said, "Well, we all thought that TV clip was funny." I said, "Well, I didn't." (And I thought to myself, "Of course you all thought it was funny because you're a bunch of crazy liberal people," but I didn't say that out loud either.) So, now everyone is a little mad at me and they think I'm a fanatic religious Republican freak, but I don't care. Sometimes the compadres make me SO mad!!
Lastly, the weather stinks today. It is SO COLD outside! I walked over to school from the car place, and even though I was all bundled up, I still couldn't feel my face or my hands or feet when I came inside. And, it's only going to get worse. Tonight we're supposed to have freezing rain, sleet, and snow. Normally, weather like this would make me really excited for spring to come next month, but Greg reminded me yesterday that here in Illinois, spring means tornado season. Rats! Oh well, I am glad that this week is Abe Lincoln's birthday and Valentine's Day!! So surely things will be better after today. Speaking of Abe Lincoln, he wasn't afraid to talk about God, and people generally didn't think he was crazy for doing so.
The next thing that stinks is that I had gotten a financial statement saying that we had overpaid the university $94 when we paid my school fees this semester, so I went to get that checked out, and oh, instead of EIU owning me $94, surprise--I owe them $474 more than we already paid for this semester because they had estimated my graduate assistantship amount as being $474 more than it actually was. :-(
Then, I went to the graduate lab to get some work done before coming to work for Dr. Hardeman, and Kristen insisted that I watch this stupid thing about Mitt Romney on the internet. I told her that I didn't want to see it, but she said, "It will make you glad that he dropped out!" I said, "No, nothing can make me glad that he dropped out." She turned it on anyway, even though I told her I didn't want to see it, and she, Catherine, and Alisha were laughing really hard at all of the dumb stuff the guy on the TV clip was saying. I think they're used to me just going along with their jokes and being good-natured about everything, but I was in no mood to be good-natured. When the dumb TV guy started making fun of Mitt's belief in God, that was it for me. I said, "You guys, this is stupid. Turn it off." They were all in shock that I would say something that forward. I said, "I think it's cool that he believes in God and isn't afraid to say it." They all sat there kind of stunned, and then Kristen started going off on some tangent about how there has to be separation of church and state, and then Alisha piped in that George Bush pretends to believe in God but doesn't really. I was soooooooooo tempted to say something about how she's the one who pretends to believe in whatever god her boyfriend tells her to believe in, but I bit my tongue on that one. Kristen said, "Well, we all thought that TV clip was funny." I said, "Well, I didn't." (And I thought to myself, "Of course you all thought it was funny because you're a bunch of crazy liberal people," but I didn't say that out loud either.) So, now everyone is a little mad at me and they think I'm a fanatic religious Republican freak, but I don't care. Sometimes the compadres make me SO mad!!
Lastly, the weather stinks today. It is SO COLD outside! I walked over to school from the car place, and even though I was all bundled up, I still couldn't feel my face or my hands or feet when I came inside. And, it's only going to get worse. Tonight we're supposed to have freezing rain, sleet, and snow. Normally, weather like this would make me really excited for spring to come next month, but Greg reminded me yesterday that here in Illinois, spring means tornado season. Rats! Oh well, I am glad that this week is Abe Lincoln's birthday and Valentine's Day!! So surely things will be better after today. Speaking of Abe Lincoln, he wasn't afraid to talk about God, and people generally didn't think he was crazy for doing so.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
COLD
It is waaaaaay too cold outside! Yesterday was a nice, sunny day with temperatures in the high 40s, but the high today was like 11 degrees. It's 8 degrees outside right now, but with the winds gusting at about 30 mph, it feels like -10 degrees (according to weather.com, that is; according to my body it feels much colder!). Those big temperature drops are not very good for people . . . or cars, as I learned today. Unfortunately, Stryder died this evening :-( I had taken Aly over to school earlier this afternoon for a meeting she had, and when I went to go pick her up at about 5:00 this evening, I started the car, backed out of my parking space, and then Stryder died just like that. Try as I may, I cannot get him to start again, so I am on hold with AAA right now waiting for some assistance. So, I was stuck out in the middle of the parking lot, and because the parking lot dips down in the middle, I couldn't for the life of me push Stryder back into his parking space. Anytime I would make progress, he would just roll back to his original position. Thankfully the guy who owns the car that was parked next to me had to go somewhere, and I was in his way, so in order to leave he had to help me push the car back into the parking space.
I was only outside for about 15 minutes, but all of a sudden I realized that I couldn't feel my fingers--even though I had gloves on. I hurried up to the apartment, but couldn't get the door open because my fingers were frozen, so I had to jump around outside for a minute while a little bit of blood got flowing back into my fingers. Finally I was able to open the door, and I went inside and pulled my gloves off. I hate that feeling when parts of your body are trying to warm up and the blood is flowing back into them, and they totally burn. My fingers hurt really, really, really bad for about 10 minutes, but they are finally back to normal now. Thank heavens for the heating pad that Lindy sent back with me after Christmas break!! It has saved my life on numerous occasions--and I think it saved my fingers today.
Luckily Aly was able to find another way to get home--now I just have to find a way to fix the car. Dad thinks it's the battery and Greg thinks it's either the fuel pump or the spark plugs. If I could pick one problem for it to be, I would hope for the battery--then the AAA guys could just come pop a new battery in and all would be good. If it's the fuel pump, I don't think I'll be able to afford to eat any food for the rest of the school year :-) just kidding. Poor Stryder--he probably just got too cold out there in the frigid air. His insides are probably all frozen together. I wish I could bring him inside to get warm, but he's too big. Oh, the AAA people just picked up and talked with me. They're so nice! They said that they are going to need to tow me to one of the car places here in town, but we'll have to do it tomorrow after my class because they'll need me to go with the towtruck driver (that was an adventure for Mom and me when we had to do that in Moriarty, New Mexico!). Luckily the car place is just about two miles away, so it shouldn't be a big deal. Poor Stryder. He's such a good car and never gives me problems! I hope he will be okay.
Today when Greg and I went to church, they had the heater on in there which was good, but then they turned it off when church started! :-( It then became an icebox in there. There are some days when you just need to leave the heater on--and today was one of those days. At church Paul Bauman (who completed the same program I'm in a few years ago) came up to me and said that he had talked with my classmate Alisha's parents last night (she's the one that used to be a Mormon but doesn't like Mormons anymore). He said that her parents said she was a regular church-goer until about a year ago--thanks to her boyfriend Matt (who I've heard far more about than I ever, ever wanted to know--since she talks about him all the time) who is a devout Catholic. Paul said with a gasp, "Her parents say she's thinking of joining the Catholic church." I said, "Okay, and . . ." (I kind of already knew that she would probably join whatever church Matt is a part of because she's completely obsessed and infatuated with him.) Then Paul said, "Well, technically you're in charge of the LDS single adults in this area." I knew where he was going with this--he wants me to get her to come back to church. I said, "Um, she's made it very clear that she doesn't want to have anything to do with the Mormon Church anymore." I am not going to touch that problem with a 10-foot pole! She's already made her decision, and anything I would say would be of little importance to her--because Matt would say otherwise, and in her mind he is the one-and-only all-knowing being in the universe. As Aly said this evening, "The plot is always thickening with Alisha." Aly and I think it would be funny if she was with us sometime when we run into the missionaries--which happens quite often around here :-)
Well, I'm off to get into my warm pajamas. Then I'm going to get into bed and pull all of the covers over me while I do some reading, then I'll try to go to bed at a good time since Aly and I will need to take the shuttle over to school in the morning (which means we'll have to leave quite a bit earlier than usual). I think that if my car is fixed by Tuesday, I'm going to drive over to the world's tallest Abraham Lincoln statue on Abraham Lincoln's birthday! How cool would that be??!! Charleston might not have a Super Target, but it does have the world's tallest Abraham Lincoln statue.
I was only outside for about 15 minutes, but all of a sudden I realized that I couldn't feel my fingers--even though I had gloves on. I hurried up to the apartment, but couldn't get the door open because my fingers were frozen, so I had to jump around outside for a minute while a little bit of blood got flowing back into my fingers. Finally I was able to open the door, and I went inside and pulled my gloves off. I hate that feeling when parts of your body are trying to warm up and the blood is flowing back into them, and they totally burn. My fingers hurt really, really, really bad for about 10 minutes, but they are finally back to normal now. Thank heavens for the heating pad that Lindy sent back with me after Christmas break!! It has saved my life on numerous occasions--and I think it saved my fingers today.
Luckily Aly was able to find another way to get home--now I just have to find a way to fix the car. Dad thinks it's the battery and Greg thinks it's either the fuel pump or the spark plugs. If I could pick one problem for it to be, I would hope for the battery--then the AAA guys could just come pop a new battery in and all would be good. If it's the fuel pump, I don't think I'll be able to afford to eat any food for the rest of the school year :-) just kidding. Poor Stryder--he probably just got too cold out there in the frigid air. His insides are probably all frozen together. I wish I could bring him inside to get warm, but he's too big. Oh, the AAA people just picked up and talked with me. They're so nice! They said that they are going to need to tow me to one of the car places here in town, but we'll have to do it tomorrow after my class because they'll need me to go with the towtruck driver (that was an adventure for Mom and me when we had to do that in Moriarty, New Mexico!). Luckily the car place is just about two miles away, so it shouldn't be a big deal. Poor Stryder. He's such a good car and never gives me problems! I hope he will be okay.
Today when Greg and I went to church, they had the heater on in there which was good, but then they turned it off when church started! :-( It then became an icebox in there. There are some days when you just need to leave the heater on--and today was one of those days. At church Paul Bauman (who completed the same program I'm in a few years ago) came up to me and said that he had talked with my classmate Alisha's parents last night (she's the one that used to be a Mormon but doesn't like Mormons anymore). He said that her parents said she was a regular church-goer until about a year ago--thanks to her boyfriend Matt (who I've heard far more about than I ever, ever wanted to know--since she talks about him all the time) who is a devout Catholic. Paul said with a gasp, "Her parents say she's thinking of joining the Catholic church." I said, "Okay, and . . ." (I kind of already knew that she would probably join whatever church Matt is a part of because she's completely obsessed and infatuated with him.) Then Paul said, "Well, technically you're in charge of the LDS single adults in this area." I knew where he was going with this--he wants me to get her to come back to church. I said, "Um, she's made it very clear that she doesn't want to have anything to do with the Mormon Church anymore." I am not going to touch that problem with a 10-foot pole! She's already made her decision, and anything I would say would be of little importance to her--because Matt would say otherwise, and in her mind he is the one-and-only all-knowing being in the universe. As Aly said this evening, "The plot is always thickening with Alisha." Aly and I think it would be funny if she was with us sometime when we run into the missionaries--which happens quite often around here :-)
Well, I'm off to get into my warm pajamas. Then I'm going to get into bed and pull all of the covers over me while I do some reading, then I'll try to go to bed at a good time since Aly and I will need to take the shuttle over to school in the morning (which means we'll have to leave quite a bit earlier than usual). I think that if my car is fixed by Tuesday, I'm going to drive over to the world's tallest Abraham Lincoln statue on Abraham Lincoln's birthday! How cool would that be??!! Charleston might not have a Super Target, but it does have the world's tallest Abraham Lincoln statue.
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