First time blogging with an iPhone?

Fail. 

A real Sister Wives post to come later.  Yeah, you KNOW you can't wait.

What to do when you're sick

To continue my trend of two blog posts a month (so very sad, I know...) I figure it's long past time to check in with you.  Maybe you've been wondering what I'm up to?  Well, I'll tell you.  I'm sick.  I've got the fever/body & head aches/coughing but no nasal congestion illness that I'm thinking is the flu.  I don't recall ever having the flu before but it's been a year since my last flu shot and I'm thinking those things sort of wear off eventually, right?  Anyway, this is what I've been doing the past few days that I've been housebound:

• Coughing a lot.  Okay, okay.  That's not very exciting but I may or may not need a little sympathy to help me get better.  I seriously sound like a 3 pack a day smoker. It's not pretty.
• I finished reading another Sarah Dessen book, "Just Listen."  I liked it a lot but it took me longer to get into.  I think the jumping around to the past then back to current time writing style bugged me the most.  I'm not a patient reader. Next I'll be reading "This Lullaby."
• I sorted through my retired Stampin' Up inks and ribbons.  For my few stamping friends out there, you can surely feel my pain...I haven't even touched the cardstock yet. 
• I watched the Emma Smith: My Story movie after watching the RS broadcast.  So loved it.  I loved it even more after seeing the Joseph Smith movie last summer because it had the same actors. I really, really, really don't know how Emma lived through all that she did.  Really.
• Cancelling visits from my home teachers.  I hate doing that but one of them also has an immune system I'd classify as weak and I certainly do not want him to get this sickness.
• Accepting meals from my bosom friend Kim.  She gave me pasta one night and then brought me taco salad (enough for two days!) and a warm brownie that I at first thought was black beans.  Ha but yum.
• Skipping out on the play Kim and I had tickets for, not going to the movies with Mr and Mrs KMZT and missing the stake youth dance. Sigh, sigh and woo hoo, I mean sigh.
• Watching a bunch of TV shows I've TiVo'd...Chuck (not the same without Jazzy & Phil but still good), Hawaii Five-O (meh), Oprah (being kidnapped would not be fun), Blue Bloods (Donnie Wahlberg + Tom Selleck = dreamy.)

Here's hoping you've been having a more fun & productive weekend than I have.

Stuff I'm thinking about

1. I love "The Sound of Music" and it makes me happy when it's on TV back to back because then I can watch it twice. 
2. Haircuts feel great (no change - just trimmed up the layers on the ends.)
3. My mom makes really good potato salad and I love that I go to her house and she has a container for me to take home plus a bag of homemade caramel corn.  Yeah, not really WW food but it's a holiday weekend, right???
4. My goal for tomorrow is to clean out two closets.  I want to get rid of the stuff in them that I haven't looked at in ages to make room for all of the other stuff that needs a home.  Yes, I have too much stuff.
5. I've said this before but I love Dean Winters.  His Allstate commercials make me very happy.  Yes, it's partly because he reminds me of a certain Mr. something or other but I also just find him to be very enjoyable. 
6. I fnished my third Sarah Dessen book, "Keeping the Moon."  I'm like a broken record but until you all start telling me you're reading her books too, I will say it again.  Her books are so GOOD.  Next I'm reading "This Lullaby."  My mom started reading her books too and also loves them.  Nobody is too old for young adult fiction, people.
7. My sister and her family are at Disneyland so she's texting me these totally awesome pictures of them on roller coasters and they make me laugh so much.  Excuse the fact that it's an iPhone photo of the roller coaster photo but you can hopefully get the idea.  Matt's in the back covering Jen's eyes and then Matthew is kind of hidden.  Next is Kenzie in her Minnie ears, Nathan and Natalie.  Such hilarious facial expressions.