life aquatic

Yes, it's happened again. My basement is under water. Well, now it's under towels, but you get the point.



(look for the water line on the carpet)

I was up late last night dealing with the mess of my basement. Kelly got home and noticed a big puddle in the laundry/furnace room. We frantically mopped it up and thought everything was over and done with. I went to bed and kept hearing water noises. Not sure how to describe said noises, but they were water noises nonetheless. So I roll out of bed and check on the laundry/furnace room. Yep, you guess it. It's covered with water.

Since it was well after midnight at this point, I decide my landlord won't be calling back soon so I should do something about the problem. I trekked out in the cold backyard, and found that the automatic sprinklers were still running. I then found the control box and shut them off. After mopping up the second mess, I went to bed. Luckily I woke up the next morning and there was no new water.

Our maintenance guy should be here soon to try and figure out how to fix everything.



UPDATE: I was right, those darn sprinklers were flooding the house. Apparently the pipe underneath the front porch was totally busted. Todd the Maintenance Man should be back later this week to fix it.

Luckily we still had those carpet fans on hand since our last aquatic adventure.

whoops

NEWSFLASH: I'm an idiot.

So I thought I booked my flight to Disneyland months ago. Apparently not.

For some reason I had the feeling to get online and check my flight info for the trip next week. I thought I booked a flight that perfectly matched my family's flights, and we were to meet up in Ontario about the same time. As I started looking, I couldn't find any reservations. NONE.

Then I started to panic. I checked my mom's email, then Betsy's (change your passwords if this bothers you) but didn't find a thing about my flights there. I called both Southwest and Delta to see if they had my flight info. But they said I didn't have a flight booked. Awesome.

Luckily I found a pretty good deal online, so I'm still going to California next week.

Talk about a heart attack.

q & a

Watch me bumble through my words asking a dumb question to new General Young Women's President Elaine S. Dalton. It's a little more than halfway through, and I'm the first question in the Q & A segment.

In other conference related news, I got to meet the new apostle, Elder D. Todd Christofferson. I wrote the story about his call and spent much of the day Saturday doing research on him. Just after a press conference Saturday afternoon, he came out and shook hands with everyone in the audience. I was lucky enough to meet him. The next day, I also met Sister Dalton and her first counselor, Sister Cook.

Meeting general authorities is one of the reasons I volunteer to cover conference for the paper. I don't know how I would ever get to meet these folks without working.

family feud

We played a rousing game of Family Feud with the Warnings last night. Everyone is in town for general conference (including my parents) and it was fun to all get together at my new place for a family game night.

The kids teamed up to take on the parents. One question asked us to name five boats without motors.

We had all the basics. Canoe, kayak, row boat, paddle boat. Then we took a twist and put gravy boat. I thought Bryce was pretty smart on that one. We thought we were going to sweep the board.



Then we find out the number one answer is one we didn't even think of: sailboat. Yeah we all felt like idiots.

Never fear, however. The young team (black, black, black) creamed the old folks in a grudge match. We won two out of the three games. Take that!



I highly recommend the Family Feud DVD game. A good time was had by all.

tada

Introducing our newest kitchen curtains:





Many thanks go out to our super seamstress, my mama. We were up really late last night, and mom finished them off this morning.

kitchen decor

Two posts in one day. Amazing, I know, considering my blog history lately.

Mom and I have been busy all day decorating the kitchen. Check out the spread above the cabinets:



We also bought a cute plate rack to put above the bay window, and the star for the wall by the stove. LOVE IT!



Now we're working on the curtains in both the kitchen and living room. Stay tuned!

ready for greatness

Yes, even if the Lord doesn't me call me to be a stake relief society president, I'm ready. My mom got into town last night to go to a stake relief society training meeting with the General Relief Society Presidency. Now, Mom didn't want to be alone, so she guilted me into getting into a dress and tagging along.

It was a two-hour training session in the Tabernacle, and I actually enjoyed myself. Yes, none of the information applied to me nor will apply to me any time in the near future, but I still enjoyed it. I even took notes (since Mom claims she is a horrible note taker, although we all know she has her fancy little shorthand system as witnessed by her nervous tick).

So for all your stake relief society presidents who missed the training, give me a call. I can now train you to train ward relief society presidents.

Oh and for all of you who think the presidency is full of nice, quiet women who do what they are told, these ladies are nothing of the sort. Sister Beck, the president, was very impressive and definitely CEO material. Sister Allred seemed like the sweet one of the bunch. My favorite was Sister Thompson. She knew how to crack a good joke, and even asked if her mic pack made her look fat.



So, did it?