takes the prize

I love my job! I am constantly running around "fixing" printers, monitors, computers, etc. some problems are minor, some really challenging but I research and keep on till I fix it, or send it off to repair.. Sometimes it is really minor but hey keep calling me when your printer cable comes unplugged or your monitor is turned off, or you have a paper jam, job security! Well this one I have to share. A teacher was logged off his computer and didn't know how to log back on so I told him to press Ctrl Alt Del, then it will say thornert13 and ask for a password, I told him there is no password just press Ok and it will log back on. A little while later he called me into his room and said he couldn't do it, so I walked him through it, he pressed Ctrl Alt Del then it popped up Thornert13 and asked for a password, I said now press OK, he looked blankly at the keyboard and said I can't find the OK key, I politely pointed up to the screen and said click OK, he was so embarrassed. I just laughed (job security) LOL

Six Flags

We went to Magic Mountain for Emilee and Jazmine's birthdays, and we have a great time. A couple of highlights. We went on the log jammer and boy those logs seem to have gotten a lot smaller, lol. Me, Blaine Emilee and Gary squeezed into one, I think our log was dragging the bottom, on every turn water just poured into the sides and on the big drop the splash created a wave that absolutely drinched us. We looked like drowned rats. At least it was in the 80's and so we weren't too uncomfortable and dried out by the end of the day. We went on viper, revolution, batman (my favortie) althought that line was too long, Ninja, gold rusher, and others, Blaine also kept saying he wanted to go on the colossis backward, which they were doing for Halloween. (mind you he swore he'd never ride it again the last time he went on it) He kept saying it won't be so bad backward, the drop won't kill my stomach, welllll it was worse!! Going down backward wasn't so bad but then when you hit bottom and start to go back up your stomach ends up in your throat, he screamed and yelled the whole way and kept trying to look over his shoulder to see when the next drop was coming, I was laughing so hard and the guy in front of us also turned around and laughed at dad's yelling. (He kept yelling oh no, oh no, it's worse than I thought, here comes another drop.) Wish I had a picture ofhis face!!
Fun times..

This Blog Thing

I'm not really good at this yet, I have a journal that I write in almost every night when I can't sleep, but no one reads that! I guess I am a little afraid I'll say something that will offend someone or make people think I'm crazy, lol. It sure is hard to raise a teen. When they don't get their way, they "hate" you and threaten to run away, move out etc. I went through it lots of times with 7 kids. on a light note, I am ever so amazed at how nice and clean Emilee keeps her apartment, when she was a teen you'd have thought I was trying to give her poison when I asked her to clean up her room, lol. But serioulsy, sounds like she takes after me more than she knows. I don't know if that is awlays a good thing? lol. I am looking forward to going to Six Flags and hopefully Jazmine will be out of her "mood" and pouting becasue Blaine grounded her from the football game (long story from her last football game fiasco) and "oh my gosh it's homecoming and what a jerk he is" No I told her he's just a dad. What good is grounding someone from something they don't care about doing. But you know how it is we just know "so little". Ok well once I got started I guess I said a whole lot. lol I pray everything is going alright with Garrett, I haven't heard from him since he started his job. Hopefully that is a good thing. I hope Quinn is doing well, I hope he gets his car fixed! Maybe that is why I don't sleep at night, I just worry too much about all of my kids. I sure love them all. I am looking forward to the Holiday's. I love Christmas and I love the weather turning, although it's taking it's sweet time here. Guess I have to go help Blaine with dinner, the Rocks are coming over tonight.

Funny Story

Well I was going to call Carla and see how James did with his soccer game. (papa decided he was too much of a distraction for James so stayed home and took a nap instead) well I called and the answering machine came on, I thought to myself wow Carla sounds just like me, oh wait that is me, oops I called my home phone. I laughed out loud!
I am looking forward to going to Six Flags with Emilee and Gary next Sat. Just no free falling rides, that Tower of Terror at California's Adventure just about killed me. Roller coasters I love!!

So I guess I type here

This is all new to me, I don't even know what being tagged means? Anyway I think I am supposed to tell you 7 random things about myself?

1. When Blaine was on his mission I started dating and told myself it was just for fun so I wouldn't miss him sooo much and I actually had someone ask me to marry him, I was so chicken that I wrote him a letter, left it in the mailbox and ran, telling him why I couldn't marry him. I was not going to settle on anything less than a Temple marriage. Needless to say Blaine came home in June and we got married in August.

2. I started watching General Hospital when I was 18 and down for 3 months with Mono and Hepatitis. I still record it and then watch it in about 15 minutes fast forwarding through the storylines I have no interest in.

3. When I was growing up I used to go to Catalina every summer and when I was about 15 I started a tradition of hiking up to the bell tower and looking out over the ocean and thinking about what my life would be like the following year. Some memories of thoughts: next year Blaine will be gone, next year I'll be graduated from High School, next year I'll have gone to college in Idaho for a year. Next year I'll be married in the Temple. Next year I'll be here on my honeymoon. Next year I'd like to be a mom. Next year I will be a mom. Blaine and I then started going every other year so we could take other cross country trips.

4. I don't like face hair on men!!! Bad experience as a teen. So sorry Blaine, everytime you try to grow a beard I can't look you in the face, or kiss you, you finally get mad at my quirk and shave it off.

5. I hate spending money on food, I will buy groceries, but eating out or buying food of any kind seems like flushing money down the toilet. lol, no pun intended.

6. I love to lay on the beach and listen to the waves crash.

7. I used to run away up to the cabin (only got to do it maybe three times) when we had a house full of kids and stress was high. I would go up there and spend the night, I would sit in the hot tub and eat a half a tub of chocolate frosting. Then get up early and come home. (I miss that hot tub)