Dreams of Women

Happy 50th Anniversary Paddington!

Fifty years ago, on 13th October 1958, "A Bear Called Paddington" was first published. I remember watching this exact show when I was little! Here's how it all started out!



www.paddingtonbear.com

Trouble Magnet

So, I went to a wedding reception in the Riverside area, kind of by Sutherland's, off of Redwood Road. Well, while I was in the church enjoying myself, and my car was broken into AGAIN. They took the stereo and some DVDs from the library. I was so upset, I'm still upset! How dare they! I called the police, but they just gave me a case number and that was it. I honestly don't remember if I locked the door or not - I think it's habit but did I forget or is my little Honda a magnet for trouble? I might be responsible for the library DVDs (one costs about $60), but I'm going to attempt to fight it because it's not my fault! We'll see if they are merciful! Oooh, I'm so frustrated! I'm praying for peace about the situation, and also that they culprits might take my DVDs back to the library because they are not hot titles (one is a British tv show season, one is an episode of Doctor Who from the 70's, and one is a children's book on CD) - but I'm not crossing my fingers!

Caliente!

Work's the same and I getting more and more involved in programs and what not. I decided that even though I'm still applying for full-time jobs, I'm not going to miss out on neat stuff in the meantime. I'm going to be doing some storytimes next month, including one for babies. Also, next year I'm apart of a puppet show team. We are doing stories from "the south" including South America, "Caliente!". It should be fun and a good learning experience. One of the stories will be a shadow puppet show - cool huh! (I'm such a nerd! hehe)

The Spider and the Fly

So, at the library I have the October window display. I did it last December and did the little fireplace, etc etc. Well, Oct is Halloween month but I didn't want to do the token witch and what not. I thought it would be fun to do words from a scary poem and I remember a poem called, "The Spider and the Fly". It's about this spider who entices the fly to come inside his house and he ends up catching and eating the fly. It's a cautionary tale, and quite symbolic if you think about it. So, I used the first paragraph of that poem and now needed some pictures to go with it. I also remembered this neat illustrated copy of this poem:

So, I enlarged images from this book, with our opaque projector, and colored it in with black artist chalk. It turned out pretty well for my first time. I'll send pictures along as soon as I have them. Well a dilemma developed when I attemped to get the big spider laminated. The spider is as wide as butcher paper and his legs are kind of sprawled out (he's bowing the fly-girl) Well, I knew our library laminator wouldn't be wide enough for such an endeavor so I took it downtown to Kinkos. I learned later that Kinkos is expensive for laminating and it was true because it cost 50 bucks to laminate the spider and fly! Can you believe that? I obviously didn't understand how the pricing worked and was upset with myself for letting that happen. Well, I talked to my boss about it and he said for me turn in my receipts and see how much they would be willing to reimburse me. If even half of money could be paid back I would take it! I've definitely learned my lesson! Yikes! Well, at least it looks great and we'll have it for a long time! (hehe)

ALSC National Institute

All this weekend I had the opportunity, sort of last minute, to attend a nation Association for Library Service toal conference for the Children (ALSC). It was downtown, at the Hilton, and it was great. Since Utah hosted the event they had a western theme and the local crew all wore denim shirts and cowboy hats. One even wore a Some of my co-workers came and it was fun being with them. The whole weekend was about services for children and new books, etc etc. I was wonderful. They even had some famous authors there and I got a few books signed. That's like a celebrity for a librarian! (hehe) One was William Joyce, who wrote "George Shrinks" - which inspired that PBS show! It was great! What an opportunity - hopefully I'll get to go again!

Regional Conference with President Monson

My stake, and Mom & Dad's stake, had our regional conference. My stake was invited to attend it in the conference center, but the their stake was having it broadcasted in the church building. My roomies were out of town, so I opted to go down to Rose Park to watch the conference instead of going to the Conference Center alone. Also, it meant that I could go with them to Gentree's baby's blessing in Provo. Anyway, President Monson presided over the conference and it was great. He talked about organizing ourselves and building a house unto God. He mentioned 7 ways to do accomplish that: establish a house of house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order and lastly a house of God. Pres. Monson said, "We are the master builders of eternal homes, let those stones be sacred because our hands have touched them."

Another Praxis Chimpanzee

I finally took my second Praxis (Teacher) test. I was so upset about taking this test, I was so ready for it be over! I didn't really study very much, but I did take a practice test and passed ok. I felt encouraged about that. The test was multiple choice, about 4 different subjects. Language Arts (English), Math, Science and Social Studies. I finished each section with time to spare and I even had time to go back through questions I didn't know as well and reworked answers, etc. I ended up being totally finished about 10 minutes before the time was up and I ended closing my eyes and I think I went to sleep for a little bit until the proctor finally called for times up. I'm so glad to get that over with!

Twilight Gansta Ballad

I just saw this silly video. I don't necessarily agree with it - but it made me laugh.

IT CONTAINS SPOILERS OF THE TWILIGHT BOOKS!

A little more baklava...

I accompanied Grammy to the Greek festival with her care center group. It wasn't a big group, and we rode in their bus/van. It was ok. I thought it would be big, with lots of things to do and see. Unfortunately, they didn't have very many vendor booths, but lots of food booths and a big stage for dancers. We did get to see some of the dancing - pretty fun. We had some connections to a Greek family and they totally hooked us all up with some free food. Unfortunately, most of didn't look too appealing to me, but I did eat some sort of meat shish-kabobs and they weren't too bad! Later Grammy and I got a baklava ice cream sundae, now that was good!