Sunday, January 30, 2011

Words:

Respect
Esteem for or a sense of the worth or excellence of a person, a personal quality or ability, or something considered as a manifestation of a personal quality or ability.


Chivalry
The ideal qualifications of a knight, including: courtesygenerosityvalor,  and dexterity in arms.



Gallantry

Dashing courage; heroic bravery; noble-minded behavior.
Amorous or courtly attention to women.
A gallant act, action, or speech.




Whatever happened to these words? 
Why can't people act like this? 

Thursday, January 13, 2011

People.

People make me laugh. Like the old woman at my early morning water aerobics class, yes laugh I am going to the old people class...you may snigger but it is a good work out that doesn't hurt my knees, feet and back, I am pretty much an old lady, so it works out perfectly, and it is the only time my mom, bee and I can go together, so any way this particular old lady made me wonder about people. Not just her but a few people this week. Mostly old people I guess. So the story, my mother was saying something about how normal workouts, running, walking, standing, is really bad for her feet because she has some medical foot problem, so the workout in the water is good for her feet. Then this woman goes on about how she totally understand, but really she doesn't because she started talking about how she always wears water socks and that you can get warts and what not, she is a 'huge advocate' for water socks and that Smiths is having a sale, we should go get some. I think she just heard the work feet and jumped on the opportunity to talk. Did she listen at all, no. But I don't think that mattered to her. Then there was the instructor. She was pretty much the worst instructor ever. But the funny thing was, she asked if we had just gotten passes at the fair, my mom said yes, I said that I had one all last year, which I did, and she asked if I had ever come to this class before, I had, then she quickly said that I had looked familiar. But little did she know that I had only been to the class twice and she had not been the instructor. I had never met her in my life. Isn't it funny how people just grab onto the smallest speck of anything to feel smart and included, even if it means making stuff up and looking stupid? I find it fascinating.
I also find it fascinating how people get mad at you for not listening or not reading something when they are really the ones who don't understand. I had a volunteer get pretty mad at me for that reason. Here is the story. We had reports due. So I sent out the reminder and the report form. It is a new form that the state is having us use. It is saved in a newer version of word so I send out a patch they can download to it is compatible with their program. Most people got it to work. I had a few people email me with problems. So I sent them the patch again, with detailed instructions on what to do, You click on this page and then click the big blue download button. I also copy and pasted the form right into the email so that they could either copy and paste it into their version of word or just type it up into their email and send it back. But I didn't hear from this person and they didn't get their report in so I sent them an email seeing if I could help them figure it out. Well it turns out this person didn't have word so I again sent it in the email so they could copy and paste it into whatever they did have and I saved the document as a .doc instead of a docx and sent it to them. They need called me telling me that I didn't listen at all, that they don't have word! This person read the first line of my email and called me upset and while they were on the phone with me they opened the .doc I sent them and guess what it worked! Amazing how I fixed the problem my not listening. I really don't understand people. Why don't you try first and then get mad instead of getting mad and then try and have it work. You waste a lot of time and energy and you make me upset. I really frustrates me when people don't use the knowledge and common sense I know they have, but they take the easy 'solution' and blame someone else.  Do you know how many conflicts we could solve if we just thought about things first and tried to see things from other peoples persecutive? Because I am sure if this person thought about it they could have figured it out the first time I sent it out, but instead they gave up, blaming me for changing it, festering bad feelings towards me and then blew up at me when I tried to help them and solve the problem. Something I didn't need in my busy day.

Just my thoughts.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

I love Sundays

So I really love Sundays. They are the best day of the week. Today was an especially (said in a Nacho Libra voice, you know the part I am talking about)  good Sunday. It is a new year, so that means church is at a new time. The best time ever. 11:30. Best time. You get to sleep in and you still have time to make dinner after. So it being the first Sunday of the month that means fasting, testimony meetings and ward council. The ward council was at 10:30, so much better than 8:00 in the morning. It was all good. We had good discussions and all that. We got to hear some really good testimonies, and some I could have lived with out, (you know there is always that one person who gets up every month and tells everything that happened in the month, not a testimony, just a story, well we have that guy, but he also tries to be funny and fails horribly. Today it was something about everyone should know his name and that he knows that he gets up all the time and if we are tired of hearing from him, there is an infirmary down the hall and we should go there to...something...that is when I put my head on my knees and my fingers in my ears, and hummed a hymn.) So anyway a pretty dang good meeting, a little over but pretty good. The best part was the callings and releases. Mister, from the last blog post, got released, he is apparently moving to Provo, and a new RM got called. He is from my home ward and will be wonderful! I am very excited! So church was good. I got home changed and started on dinner. I have to brag a bit, because it was a really really good dinner, and I didn't think it would turn out this good. Someone ALWAYS finds something not to like about it, but every one ate it happily, even my extremely picky little brother. It was apple soaked pork chops and scalloped potatoes. It was really good! I am going to have to make it again, because it was good and because my sister and brother in law were sick and couldn't come up. Good day, only down side I didn't get an afternoon nap.

Oh so I start my new institute classes this week. I am very excited. Pretty sure I am a stoker and might have another class with Mr. P ;)