What Name?

I have really exciting news: Toby and Stephenie are going to have a baby. I just don't know what to be called. I don't want to be Grandma or Grannie. Tallie's grandma is called Nana, so I don't want to use that. I am leaning toward Grammie, and Dennis being called Poppy. I am open to any suggestions.

Don't seek revenge

Don't say, "I will avenge this evil!" Wait on the Lord, and He will rescue you. Proverbs 20:22
This was the verse this morning during my Bible reading and journal time. It is so much easier to seek revenge when someone does us or our family wrong or unjustly. It is even worse when it is a follower of Christ. God calls us to a higher standard of behavior of what just comes naturally or that we think is best, if we are truly following Him. When we are mistreated, we should seek refuge in God instead of seeking revenge. Sometimes it seems impossible, but with God's strength we can do it and even pray for the person that wronged us. I really have a hard time to pray for God to bless them, but that is what I should strive to do.

Captain Underpants

Since I have been working as a library assistant, I have started reading lots of children's books. I asked a student last Friday to recommend a book for me to read. He suggested a Captain Underpants book. So I thought I would read the first one and let him pick out his favorite in the series for me to also read. So over the weekend I read The Adventures of Captain Underpants and Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants.


George and Harold, a couple of elementary age boys, enjoy playing practical jokes and creating their own comic books. And together they have created the greatest comic-book superhero in the history of their elementary school - CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS!
But George and Harold's principal doesn't like their pranks or their comic books. He devised a plan to catch George and Harold and stop their trouble-making - once and for all! The original book is about what happened when that plan backfired, and Captain Underpants leaped off the page to save the day!

Dav Pilkey has written several sequels to the original. I think if you are a 3rd or 4th grade boy with a 3rd grade reading level, then you might think Captain Underpants is funny. Oh, who I am kidding, there are several adults boys that would think this is funny. I really don't enjoy the potty humor in the book (no pun intended). Ornery, troubling making boys is not very funny to me. I don't think I will be reading any more Captain Underpants.

Back to the room

We worked a little on the scrapbook room yesterday. We got away from it for awhile when we were building bookcases for the Intermediate Library. They are finished and don't look too bad, for amateurs. Yesterday we framed in for the window. I can't stay out there and work much until ragweed season is over. I just get so stuffy and my eyes hurt too bad, if I stay out much.
That is one of the best things about my new job is that I am inside all day, and my allergies don't get the best of me. I may even skip the shot this year.

Gotta love a county fair

Dennis and I went to the county fair this evening to see some of the displays and have a free meal. You know you are at a small, local county fair when you walk in the door and smell manure and barbecue at the same time. Then you sit down to eat the free barbecue meal and even with the order it tastes good. Then the bowl of free ice cream is yummy. Life in a small town. Ain't it grand. Gotta love a county fair.

Election year

I did something last night that I don't remember ever doing before. I watched some of the republican convention. I haven't watched the democratic one either, so I don't go into the election swayed one way or the other. I really don't care for election years. I am not very political, but mostly it is because they are so mean to each other. I change channels when a commercial comes on for a particular candidate. I do vote in every election, then I can complain if my candidate doesn't win. I only watched a few minutes last night to hear Sarah Palin speak and was impressed until she put in some negative jabs, which I guess is expected. My favorite part of the speech was the camera on her youngest daughter licking her hand and smoothing down her baby brother's hair. Wonder where she learned that trick?
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