Last night KSL 5 News reported on the congressional race between Jason Chaffetz and Chris Cannon. Mr. Chaffetz was talking about–you guessed it–”change,” and Mr. Cannon was talking about his “experience” in Washington. Well, tonight KSL 1160 reported that 69% of the precincts had posted their numbers by 9:45 p.m. and so far Mr. Chaffetz had a 61% lead over Mr. Cannon…i.e. Mr. Chaffetz will be the Republican Congressional front-runner for our district.
Incumbents should pay heed. The people are tired of “experience.” Experience has brought our nation nothing but problems. We are sick of incumbent experience. We are sick of inaction. We want change. We want something done about the myriad problems that our country faces.
I was listed as “unaffiliated” but changed my party to Republican today just so I could vote for Mr. Chaffetz because I wanted to send a message to Mr. Cannon. I haven’t seen any results out of Washington regarding issues that are very important to the American people. Your turn is done. It’s time for someone else to give it the old “inexperienced” college try!
An interesting read. There was nothing in this book that I didn’t agree with, or that I haven’t heard many times before. The thought that kept coming to my mind as I read the book was: “If just one of these things happens, it will be bad. If more than one thing happens at once, then heaven help us.” Furthermore, some of the things that he predicted (the book was published in 2007) have already happened in 2008. The good thing is that the last chapter is filled with advice on what “we,” as individuals, can do. But then again, it is nothing new. The advice is what we have been told for years.
Jed, Abby, and I visited This is the Place Heritage Park with Grandma Baldwin and the Parker family. The day started out blustery and cool, but warmed up as the afternoon wore on. The last time we visited the Park, it was Pioneer Day in 2002. There were shoulder-to-shoulder people all over the Park that day. This day was much more manageable with few visitors. We were able to meander through the buildings and exhibits and take part in the activities. It was a fun day.
Abby and I visited the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy with some of the Parker gang: Jodi, Mason, Lilly, Olivia, and JT. We enjoyed viewing all of the water habitat, local and tropical. It was pretty crowded, however, as you may notice from the background noise. It must have been because the weather was cool. Enjoy the movie.
On Saturday, we ventured North again to the Dole Plantation. It was a lovely drive, and a lovely day for some time in the World’s Largest Maze, the Plantation Garden, and on the Pineapple Express. We also had some yummy food in the cafe. Abby couldn’t handle the entire Maze, so Bridget, Abby and I sat around the gift shop area and waited for the boys to complete all eight paths. Abby decided to try out her lungs a few times but decided that it was better to be quiet than to wait in the van all alone while we finished our visit.
After the Plantation, we visited Shark’s Cove, where we got rained on. After realizing that Shark’s Cove is not fun without reef shoes, we headed over to Waimea Bay and enjoyed the large waves throwing our bodies up onto the beach.
BTW: you may want to sit back and watch the movie from a distance or it may make you dizzy. Think of Cloverfield.
Yes, it’s true. Children graduate from school every year now. Even though Abby will still attend preschool next year, she graduated from preschool this year. I guess that she is graduating from two-day preschool to three-day preschool. She had a preschool graduation last year too. That was from one-day-a-week preschool. We are going to have a lot of diplomas and caps by the time Abby graduates from college. Whew!
I have come to the conclusion that there is a conspiracy between the modest t-shirt businesses, and the fashion industry. The modest t-shirt businesses must give a percentage of their earnings to the designers so that the designers will continue to make clothes that are immodest and impossible to wear alone if you are a temple-endowed LDS woman.
Every time I go clothes shopping, I spend a good deal of time trying to find a shirt that I can wear alone (strange concept, I know), or some pants that don’t show six inches of my panties when I bend over. I am getting so tired of it.
Low-waisted pants DO NOT look good on a woman who has a baby pouch, regardless of how thin she is. The baby pouch is located in just the right place so that it bulges out and over the pant line that sits just below the waist. It looks disgusting. Add to that a tight t-shirt, with a snug shirt over that, and it is not a pretty sight. And you can’t tuck in the shirts…they are cut too short in length. Plus, same problem as mentioned above.
If a shirt is not cut too low, then it is cut too wide at the neck, and if not, then the underarm area is cut too low. Any of these situations require a t-shirt underneath, which are “all” round-neck, by the way. Why can’t anyone create an under-t that is v-necked? Some shirts DO NOT look good with a round-neck t-shirt underneath. The cut of “many” shirts require a v-neck, or a “straight” neck. And I’m not talking about camis either. If you have a low-cut underarm area, a cami won’t work.
Would somebody out there start designing modest clothes again? And not just t-shirts? I am tired of wearing t-shirts! The cycle has past! It has been years! Hey, why not the modest t-shirt businesses? Why can’t they venture out into other modest apparel? I think that they would double their sales because I have a sneaking suspicion that every one is SICK OF IT!
I have come to the conclusion that there is a conspiracy between the modest t-shirt businesses, and the fashion industry. The modest t-shirt businesses must give a percentage of their earnings to the designers so that the designers will continue to make clothes that are immodest and impossible to wear alone if you are a temple-endowed LDS woman.