The Making of a Giving

I selflessly took my wife to work at 9am on a Saturday morning. She hadn’t eaten breakfast so I graciously thought to get her some Jamba Juice and something warm at the next-door harvest garden bakery. While standing in line for the juice my sister called and asked if I could drive her to a community action service project so she wouldn’t be late.

The desire to serve is in the blood, I guess. I quickly dropped what I was doing and altruistically drove my sister and her friend to their service site. After daring to risk life and limb in Provo City traffic I thought only to fulfill my previous quest to quench my beloved wife’s thirst for morning nourishment. I proceeded to press forward baring the ominous gloom preceding this nights BYU football game.

As I approached the cash register to purchase a Jamba Juice with my $10 gift card, a remnant of my wedding gifts from three months earlier, I thought of the gentlemen behind me in line. He was dressed to exercise but still “well dressed”. Obviously he was not in need but I couldn’t help myself, after purchasing my wife’s juice I good-naturedly left the remaining amount on the gift card for the gentleman behind me.

I thanked the cashier then quickly left the juice shack and after taking my time buying some freshly baked goods, came out to find the gentleman just exiting the juice shack. He threw me the keys to his new Jaguar and asked me to pay it forward. I genially accepted his gift, sold it at a near by dealership and donated all the money to the poor.

Actually the man had already left and I have now idea what he thought about my making of a giving. I did enjoy a few bits of the cinnamon role and muffin I got for my wife before dropping it off to her. Then I spent the next hour trying to get home through the ESPN game day mobs and a homecoming parade. Didn’t they realize the great things that I had just done?

Soapbox

So its midterm time, and i'm not gonna lie, I'm thinking I am going to kinda suck up a couple of my tests because they are crazy hard and they cover so much material! How in the world am I supposed to memorize 6 weeks worth of lectures and homework and readings? Its pretty much impossible and then you always have the issue of how each professor is completely different. So some of them test your understanding of the theories and ideas and such, while others test that you have memorized every chapter and every word they have said in class, so when you go take the test and you have studied for hours and hours on the theories and ideas and you go in feeling pretty confident and then you sit down and look at the first question, you dont recognize the question or any of the answers at all, nothing rings a bell, and then the confidence you had disappears like water in a strainer and you do awful despite your long hours of studying. It drives me crazy! I enjoy learning, I love understanding things I have always wondered about and learning things I have always wanted to know, but I don't like being tested on those things, because its hard and frustrating and doesn't really show what you understand or don't understand; and really all they are doing is comparing me to someone else. How is that ok? For some people their very best no matter how hard they try or how long they study will never be a 90%. When others don't have to study at all and they get a 99%. Why is it that students who get an 80 or a 70% are called average? They don't know what else is going on in their lives. For example: I am a full time student, I am taking 6 classes, I work part time, and I am a wife. I know many people before me have done the same thing and have been very successful in school, but I have to study long and hard to do well, and I don't have time. To me it is more important to be a good wife, so most of my free time is filled with spending time with my husband, or cooking, or doing dishes (which takes forever! because we don't have a dishwasher), or cleaning. Whenever I don't do these things and focus on homework, my life gets much harder because then I have a house that is a disaster, no dishes to eat on, which I guess doesn't matter to much because there is no food to eat anyway, and a cranky husband because the house is dirty and we have nothing to eat. So I have decided that we should all be graded separately because it is unfare for me to be graded on the same scale as a person who still lives at home with a mother that will cook and clean for them, with no job and only school to focus on. I am pretty sure that if I was graded on just me and what my life involves and my learning capacity I would be a pretty darn good student. So anyway, just had to vent, better get back to studying for my tests :(

~ Catherine

Guess what!!!!

No! I'm not pregnant, but we are going to be home owners shortly!!!!! We have had an offer on a home accepted for a while now, and have kept it on the DL because we were nervous that it wouldn't appraise and the contract would fall through. Well! Good news! We got the appraisal back Monday and the house appraised for MORE than our offer! It was soooooo exciting. Joshua and I are just thrilled and are starting to relax a little and believe this might actually happen!!! We have been house hunting since June and trust me, it has been very fun. There were lots of times where either I or Joshua got very discouraged, so to finally reached this point is a huge blessing! We are both still pretty stressed out because we want the process to go as quickly and smoothly as possible, but getting the appraisal done was a huge step!! So we are going to go look at the house again tomorrow, so I will take some pictures and post them asap! YAYAYAYA!!

Dear Calphalon Customer Relations Representative:

We love our brand new 13 piece contemporary stainless pots and pans. My wife convinced me that this is the set we needed saying that we would get a free “Calphalon” wok with the purchase. I have lived in China for nearly four years of my life, so I know the importance of having a good wok in every home. However, it wasn’t until after we made the purchase that I realized the wok was not contemporary stainless like the rest of our pots and pans. I use only metal cooking utensils to fry my rice and noodles. I need a stainless steel wok. We are planning on making our new pots and pans part of the décor in our now seemly new kitchen by hanging them up, but a nonstick wok would have to be left out, hiding in some lowly cupboard with all its plastic utensils. Please send us a contemporary stainless wok and bill us for the difference if needed. You could even keep the knife we qualified for as well.

Calphalon LR155P - Contemporary Stainless Steel Flat Bottom Wok

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