So mom calls me this morning to tell me sad news...
Mexico Harmony died. Har-moh-nee (so you can pronounce it more correctly)... is the Korean word for Grandma. She was half-Mexican and half-Korean and married to the Bishop of Dale and Cindy's ward in Texas (now there's a sentence with all sorts of issues, mostly, too many prepositions). She had an aneurysm on Friday and passed away. Cindy was very close to her and is not taking this very well, especially since her own mother is ill and not doing as well as she could be. So it is always nice to wake up to the news of someone's death.
But then I got thinking, this is the second death that affects me in some way, President Hinckley's was the first, so really, I have one to go... They always come in threes.
So it keeps me wondering, who is next? And then James will tell me not to think like that... I think he is always afraid it will be someone closer... As long as none of the potential long range tornadoes don't take out any of his family members in either Arkansas or Missouri, we should be okay. I won't say more about that, for one reason and one reason only...
"I'm in a hospital, what could go wrong...?"--from Hot Shots
And if you don't know what happens after, well, you'll just have to watch the movie to find out.
I'm just hanging around now, dragging my feet about going to bed. Listening to the political mucky-muck on the TV, not that I can stand it, but it's hard to avoid...
I did vote today in the primary. Like mom said, a lesser of the evils vote. Course I had to figure out which precinct I was in as they moved my polling location. Usually I vote at Forbes, but today I went there, found out they weren't polling there, and had to call the county office to find out which district I am in so I could figure out where to go to vote. I ended up going to the high school. Then, they were kinda snooty (not totally my polling site, but everywhere) about whether or not you were registered as independent or unaffiliated. If you were going to vote democrat, that was fine, but if you were going to vote republican, you basically had to fill out a new voter registration form and declare yourself as a republican. UGH!!! I believe I am with mom, screw this two party system, it doesn't seem to work very well anyway. I mean look at all of the yay-hoos we have had running for president for two years now!!! But that should tell you something about the current administration, like IT SUCKS!!!
Okay, I seriously have to get off the soap-box. I did go with James to see his P.O. today. Hopefully, everything said and done he will be free in April--I hope, I hope, I hope. I'm so sick of this nonsense. That's another aspect of our so called wonderful system that really doesn't work as our forefathers imagined it would. But then I guess it tends to be better than other potential systems. Actually I believe our system has been perverted by the red-tape bureaucracy and nonsense that congress and the respective state legislatures have heaped upon it. That and the judges who get a small taste of the power and let it go beyond their heads and over inflated egos.
Sorry, soapbox again... It's so easy to get up there, I have such a height complex...
I had a new course three class begin tonight. Students I have had before, so it was fun. We are covering cakes in fondant next week. I promised them I would bring a cake to do with them, so I have to be sure I get one baked and such...
Okay, I guess I'll go to bed. I want to read some of the Book of Mormon so I can stay on top of my challenge. I'll update my chart tomorrow. I charted my progress this morning, but I didn't copy the link over to here.
Until next time...
