Ben and I started a little garden!!! It’s out on our little patio, and it’s so cute! We’re growing one planter with wild flowers, and one with onions and cilantro, and one with strawberries, and last a tomato plant. Lots of good ingredients for SALSA. I’m so excited about it. I haven’t grown anything since I was like 8. So far the cilantro is having a little bit of a hard time, but the strawberries and shooting up like weeds, and the tomato plant is steadily growing. The rest of them are seeds, so time will tell. I’ll post some pictures soon so you can see how cute they all are.

~Crys

I want to send out my condolences to Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series. For those of you who don’t know about the recent event here’s a recap. She had send out a small number of unfinished copies of the new Twilight book (written from Edward’s perspective) to some close friends and it leaked to the web. Now the book is on hold indefinitly.

I can’t believe that someone would do that, and what for? You can’t get famous from it because if they know who you are you’ll go to jail for it. Also, it’s not great for readers either, since it’s not a finished copy and it’s not complete the way that Stephenie would have it. Wow, what a violation of rights. I sure hope whoever that person was they weren’t a fan because his or her loyalty just went down the drain. So, to Stephenie Meyer from this one fan, I’m sorry. That was a terrible thing done to you and I don’t blame you for putting the book on hold, and if you never finished it I wouldn’t blame you either.

Currently just re-read “Ender’s Game”.

Fantastic as always! I just get so wrapped up in that book. One of my top favorites; a must read.

I am now reading “Ender’s Shadow” for the first time (one of the sequels). Also a NY Times Bestseller.

In case you ever need a good smile on your face here’s a fantastic website (and I don’t use the word fantastic lightly).

www.improveverwhere.com

These guys are amazing, and amazingly cool. They got a big group together and all at the same time they froze in the middle of Grand Central Station in New York. Everyone else just kept walking around them freaking out ’cause like 60-80 ppl had just frozen in time. Then all the sudden they just started walking around like nothing had happened. That was just one of the stunts. They also got arrested because they put together a mock U2 band playing on the top of their building accross the street from where they were really supposed to be playing that night. Lots of funnies just waiting to be shared. So check it out!

Take Luck!

~Crystal

Since I was a wee young woman I would keep all my Young Woman handouts, and Seminary handouts in an old shoebox, labeled “Young Woman’s”. Well, I thought that sometime I would paint cute little wooden boxes for my Young Women girls for them to keep their handouts in. 

As it turned out we didn’t have an activity planned for yesterday, so on Sunday I said we should paint cute little boxes to hold our handouts, and so we did! Here’s what mine turned out like:

The boxes were only $3.99 at Joann’s, and super cute. Also large enough to hold full sized papers if they were folded in half.

Have you ever wondered what life would be like as a musical??

I did tech crew in high school, and was in a couple plays so it felt like I was constantly living in the state of a “musical” mind. We new the songs for all the plays and would break out singing sometimes, I know, I know…sad but true. It was good times (:P) after all.

Well, here is a crew that truly made life a musical. Granted they don’t sing very well, but still it’s hilarious.

Well, I might end up with a lot of flack for this post, but oh well. I recently went to see “Batman:The Dark Night.” Ben, John, James, and I all went an hour early so that we could get good seats, so Ben and I brought our books to read while we waited in line. I was pretty excited to see it, since the first one had been such a success. From the previews I could tell it would be kinda dark, but doesn’t every great drama have some darkness to it? Maybe that’s what I thought.

After 20 minutes of previews the movie started. 30 minutes later I was sitting back in the hallway reading my book again.

I know that everyone has been commenting on how it was the best acting ever, and how Heath Ledger stole the show…true, it’s all true. It was fantastic acting, so good that I was convinced that he was the joker and not an actor at all. Here’s the problem. Movies don’t know where to stop. There’s a rumor that the movie was originally going to be rated R (and I wouldn’t blame them!), but you know how Hollywood is, they lowered it to PG-13 so that they could get more people of all ages to see it and make more money. Guess what, it worked. They made the record for most money in shortest amount of time for a new movie. We all pretty much knew that would happen, but here’s what’s worrying me.

Like I said, they don’t know where to stop. They show everything bad and gory, and what is produced in stunts looks so real that in our minds it becomes an action, instead of the movie “illusion.” Some may say, “Well, I know it’s fake”, then why do you cringe and jump when it becomes intense? 

I think that it was much too dark and real for it’s rating. If you loved it, great. But I don’t think that it’s appropriate for 13 year olds, and especially not for any younger than that.

You know for Brittan being such a small country is sure does pour out a lot of talent and inspiration. Just like Paul Potts here’s a young boy that has the voice of an angel and is still as humble as can be. 

(If you haven’t heard of Paul Potts, check him out on youtube.com)

But check this out first. Truely inspiring.

Today Susan (a woman I work with) came in with this cutie in a box. Steve said that it’s a female, and I think that Susan has decided to call her Michelle. Isn’t she adorable!

This morning Susan went out on her front porch and low and behold Michelle was scuttling around in the front yard! So, she put her in a box and brought her to work for Steve to take home, since his family already has several.