We're boring!

It's been 10 days since the last post! That's ridiculous! I need some entertainment people! Ok, so the real reason I'm writing this is because I watched a little video today about Google Wave. It looks pretty awesome. And it looks like they've already released a version of it to some people.

I don't want to mention any names, but some of you (*cough* Dad and William *cough*) work for Google. I assume they've given you accounts to test it out. So...if possible, you should invite all of us so we can try it out! If it's not possible, you should...ummm...like, tell us how it is or something. I don't know, I want some insider information! Really, I just want to use it.

So let it be done.

Sincerely,

The general public

Ok, weird story

Ok, so this is my first time ever posting on a blog. I'm not really sure how to do it. Feel free to critique my blog-writing style or whatever.

Alright, so the story isn't that weird, but it's kinda cool. A few hours ago I went to my first home teaching appointment in a couple years. It was good. We home teach these two girls who are already graduated and like 27. But they're cool.

So after I got home I was on my laptop listening to my "Sunday music" playlist, and I noticed that the singer of one of my EFY songs has the same name as one of the girls I home teach. I wouldn't have thought anything of it, but she had told us that she is a singer/songwriter.

After some quick facebook and wikipedia research, I found out that it's the same girl. She's like, famous. She's recorded a lot of music and even performed at the Salt Lake Olympics. And she didn't even tell us! I've been listening to that music for years! For those of you who are interested and have heard EFY music, a few of the EFY songs she has sung include "The Light (Everybody, shine the light, don't hide the light!...)," "I am a Child of God," "I Know He Lives," and "I Need Thee Every Hour."

So, bottom line is, I home teach a famous singer. Pretty cool, huh? Oh yeah, her name is April Meservy. So that's my story for the day. ps - while I was writing this, the Gomez-Acosta family from Argentina called. I hadn't heard from them in a while. My Spanish is starting to struggle. They made fun of me. But it was really cool to hear from them. Mom, I gave them your email address, so if you get a Spanish email soon, don't delete it :)

Ok that's it. Bye.

Terror at Meadow Park

Here is my story for the day, continue reading at your own risk.

At work this morning I needed to print a paper for the worker who was at Meadow Park to correct the new bells that ring through out the school. I pushed the print button, but nothing happened. I looked at the printer and the yellow light was blinking (not the happy green one). I figured that it was out of paper, so I opened the drawer to add more. You can only imagine my surprise and horror when I found a live, huge cockroach hanging out in the paper tray!!! I quickly shut the tray, grabbed the walkie-talkie and tried to call Peter (the custodian) to come and get it. Peter didn't answer and I was wondering how I was going to deal with the gigantic invader.

The gentleman, who was working with the new bell system, was standing there watching me the whole time (and probably laughing hysterically inside). He volunteered to get the varmint and proceeded to open the tray and pick it up with his bare hand - YUCK!!! Then he tried to throw the kicking and screaming intruder away in the garbage can under my desk. I immediately and loudly, but politely, told him that it was NOT okay to toss that living, moving thing into a trash can anywhere near my desk. I asked him to get rid of it outside. He was completely agreeable and quickly disposed of the disgusting item in a manner that made me happy.

I then tried to print again and out came paper with bits of roach guts on it - double yuck. The second printing also had traces of things. By the third printing all was once again right with the world.

I apologize that I don't have any pictures to accompany this post :-).

I have (ok, so really had) the power!

Cindy is doing a new study about blood glucose this week and next and I'm part of the study (I know, surprise, surprise huh? ;) We had our control test today and, as it turns out, about half of the participants are in my ward. My old first counselor Laura is one of the students conducting the study and she recruited a lot of people. It was fun (the having so many people I knew there part - not the getting up at 6:30am nor the whole getting my fingers poked part). I got to chat and joke around while waiting for the time to pass till the next poke. It made the time go by much faster than last time I was a part of one of Cindy's studies.

Because many people didn't show up right on time, they had to have their fingers poked close to 8am, and Cindy has a 8am class. Which meant that there was only going to be two people poking and that would have taken longer and messed with the timing of the blood test. So I got to help out and poke people!! It rocked! Though the first person I had to poke was myself, that didn't rock too much... but it was awesome to poke other people. The first person I poked jumped a little when I poked her and I had to poke her a few times because she wouldn't bleed! It was crazy! I thought it was me at first, but then she said that she had had a hard time bleeding earlier, so I felt better. The other person I poked was Sean (he's the new Mission Leader in my ward, he's cool). I had to poke him twice because he wouldn't bleed either! I don't know what's up with me and getting people that don't bleed...weird! Anyway, it was awesome to have the power of the poker and to make people bleed. I think I'm starting to understand why Cindy loves it so much...

Doug's Calling

So I haven't check this blog in a long time and was worried there would be a lot of stuff I haven't read yet. It turns out my worries were unnecessary because no one has written anything new. So I will. I was called to be the Elders Quorum Secretary yesterday. I'm not sure what a secretary does, but when I find out I'll be doing it. That's all the news I really have. College is pretty fun so far. BYU beat Oklahoma!!!! I really like going to all the sporting events (football, volleyball, two soccer games... all in three days). Anyway, I'm done. Hope all yall are doing well.