Cute Anecdote

This is a story shared with us in Young Women a couple of weeks ago, as we talked about Finding Joy Now. Hope you like it!

THE CREATION

ON THE VERY FIRST DAY, GOD CREATED THE COW. He said to the cow, “Today, I have created you! As a cow, you must go to the field with the farmer all day long. You will work all day under the sun! I will give you a life span of 50 years.”

Cow objected, “What? This kind of tough life you want me to live for 50 years? Let me have 20 years, and the 30 years I’ll give back to you.” So God agreed.

ON THE SECOND DAY, GOD CREATED THE DOG. God said to the dog, “What you are supposed to do is to sit all day by the door of your house. Any people that come in, you will have to bark at them! I’ll give you a life span of 20 years!”

Dog objected. “What? All day long to sit by the door? No way? Let me have 10 years and I’ll give you back my other 10 years of life?” So God agreed.

ON THE THIRD DAY, GOD CREATED THE MONKEY. He said to the monkey. “Monkey has to entertain people. You’ve got to make them laugh and do monkey tricks. I’ll give you 20 years of life span.” Monkey objected. “What? Make them laugh? Do monkey faces and tricks? Ten years will do, and the other 10 years I’ll give you back.” So God wearily agreed. What is it with these creations, He wondered?

ON THE FOURTH DAY, GOD CREATED MAN AND SAID TO HIM, “Your job is to sleep, eat, and play. You will enjoy very much in your life. All you need to do is enjoy and do nothing. This kind of life, I’ll give you 20 years for a life span.”

The man objected. “What? Such a good life! Eat, play, sleep, do nothing? Enjoy the best and you expect me to live only for 20 years? No Way, man! Why don’t we make a deal? Since cow gave you back 30 years, Dog gave you back 10 years and Monkey gave you back 10 years, I will take them from you! That makes my life span 70 years, right?! So God agreed.

AND THAT IS WHY;

IN OUR FIRST 20 YEARS, we eat, sleep, play, enjoy the best and do nothing much.

FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS, we work all day long, suffer and get to support the family.

FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS, we entertain our grandchildren by making monkey faces and doing monkey tricks.

AND FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS, we stay at home, sit in front of the door and bark at people. ;)

apology and a little bit more.

wellll. i need to make an apology to Justin and Jodi. :( I'm sorry, unfortunately I will be unable to go to your guyses graduation in April.

Now!

I have an excuse! (i know, i'm sorry, lame excuses!!!) but mine is really not TOOOO lame....


It's just that April 24 and 25 are the days of the Virginia All-State Honors Choir, and it just so happens I have to go... so i really am sorry.

but DAAAAAAAAAAANGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm excited!!!!!! :D


yep. so. yeah. that's all. and I got a valentine's day gift. well, actually, more than 1... tehehe.
Mom made me a giant YUMMMMMY cookie! well, actually, I haven't had any yet, but I ate some cookie dough... :D and I got some, well, maybe a DOZEN roses... :D hehehehee. and a box of chocolates! which is why the pic is here.

and the other picture is me freakin' out after all-district today. seriously. i've been freakin' out for um, about 7 hours!!! :D
yep, and I got to go to dinner :) and went to see Pink Panther 2. HILARIOUS!!!!!! and i'm really tired, which makes it EVEN better! :D mk. hope you enjoyed this.

GUYS I GOT INTO ALL-STATE!!! SERIOUSLY!!! HOLY COW!!!!! :D LOVE YOUUUU! oh, and the other picture of course is of me. being freakin' excited for all-state! :)

Happy Valentines Day

Valentine's Day 2009

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MY update! yayyy!

hello lovely family! i love you so much! glad you are all doing so super well and grand!!! :D

well, here is an update:

today was the first day of all-district chorus. It was crazy. singing from 10-5. crazy crazy. but fun! It went by fast than I thought. Today was also All-State Auditions. AHHH!!! but, actually, I think they went pretty welll. Probably not a perfect score... :) but that's ok with me. (although it would be amazing!)
So tomorrow is another day of all-district. we have to be there by 9, and our performance is at 2. it's gonna be crazy! :D AH! and I find out after the last choir performs if I got into All-State. TOMORROW. So i'll let y'all know.

hmmm.... i don't think I ever told you how my Governor's School audition went. well, it was ok. My songs were great, my interview was ok, but my sightreading...daaaang...... not so hot. I was ok the first line, and then about 1/2 way through the second i completely lost it! but i'll let you know. i don't find out until mid-April.

anything else? anything else? i don't think so right now. The Crucible was super fun! SUPER fun! wish you guys could have seen it! :D but I'll be getting a DVD, and someday i'll show it to everyone. Auditions for the Wizard of Oz are next week. the 21st and 23rd actually.

hm. ok. i think that's it for now. oh no wait!
the other thing i posted. yeah. somebody in my spanish class said it. it was hilarious!

and now i think that's really it. i love you all. i don't really know what pictures to put up, so here's some random ones. :)

oh! and we've had some MEGAAAAA wind here! KARAZYYYY!!!!

ANDDDD. these swings are so empty...visitors? visitors? :) love you guys!


imposter pea story coming soon....

Shell Belle, This Ones for You

I just thought on this photo phriday, that I would post a few pictures for you that Marquie took of your family at the reunion. Hope you all enjoy them!

Okay...really I'm here

Thank you all for being so super patient with me. I am more computer illiterate than I previously thought. No surprise there. I was quite proud of myself for figuring out how to download firefox...sadly Ella could have done that. Oh well. Patience right? I 'm feeling kind of uninspired tonight with words so Ill try again tomorrow. I'm sure by then it will be way more exciting. Love you all.