MOVIES, EXISTENTIALISM, MARRIAGE AND BUGS

We honestly need to stop buying movies. Back in April we owned about ten movies and now we have almost fifty. We just keep finding great deals! For those of you who don’t know, Hollywood is forcing the people who edit the gore, swearing, nudity ect. out of movies to go out of business. Because of this there are some major sales for edited movies going on right now and you can buy movies like Braveheart, Schindler’s List and others for under $15.00.

Our internet was out for almost all of last week. This was mainly my fault since I forgot to pay our internet bill for two months in a row. I have since set up the account to take money directly out of my bank account so it won’t happen again. I have since found out that this particular internet company puts peoples names on a list to get their service disconnected. Once on the list, the cable installation guys will come by your house and disconnect you, without telling you. Well, I paid for the two months, got everything set up so I wouldn’t get behind on my payments again and then one morning we found that we had no internet. Remember that for us this is particularly bad since our home, business phone and fax are run through the internet, when we have no internet we are really cut off in a bad way. I spent hours on my cell phone with tech support people from four different countries trying to find out what the problem was. It wasn’t until a repair man was sent out that I was informed that although the company puts people on the list, they don’t bother to take them off. They wait until you’ve been disconnected and for you to ask to be reconnected.

Church was really nice today. During the third hour I participated in a wonderful discussion about agency. I think that Mormon’s are some of the biggest non-atheist existentialists you’ll ever meet. I think that our decisions are what define us more than anything else. Being imperfect individuals, the ability to choose will inevitably lead to mistakes and therefore sin. For this cause, Jesus Christ’s sacrifice is all the more meaningful. He allows us to learn from our mistakes without having to pay for them eternally so that we can eventually return to the presence of the Father and experience never ending joy.

After a four week absence, HERE’S BECCA!!

Well, even though I haven’t written for about 4 weeks…not much has really gone on. I’m “chugging” along with work, and still interviewing at other places. So far things have been going pretty well. I miss The Heavenly Spa in Modesto though…*sigh*. It was a really good place to work.

I have been buying little things here and there for our basement apartment. It is getting better and better. OOOO….I did buy some of that silicone bakeware. IT IS AMAZING!!!! (not to sound too enthusiastic) I absolutely love it. Baking has never been easier. The light in our bedroom still likes to only go on when our upstairs neighbors are home at night and rollie-pollie/potatoe bugs love our home. I don’t like that they love coming inside, so I have a can of raid on hand. One spray and they are gone. Too bad their relatives don’t get the idea. I tried saving them at first by putting them outside, but it became too frequent. Now I just kill them. I’m not talking about one or two a month, it is more like 5+/week.

You all know how I hate them. Ryan continues to be my “bug slayer” when it comes to spiders. Anyway, enough about bugs. An 80 year old woman just got sealed in the Provo temple yesterday (Saturday). She has never been married before, and couldn’t be more happy. She was a sweet blushing bride. I took near 400 pictures for them. I’ll pick like the best 50 and print them out and put them in a photo album as my gift. There were other people who volunteered to be the photographer as well, so it will be a nice combined effort. All of the pictures are going to go on a CD for them as well. I don’t know if they have a computer with a program that will work, so I’m giving them some hard copies just incase. It was a lot of fun. I’m sure they will be quite happy together.

Well, it is getting late. All Boothes in this house should be going to bed. We love you and hope all is well.