Life Goal; Fulfilled

Animal safety: A concerned student reported nine endangered ducklings which had fallen through a grate. The reporting student and a dispatched officer saved them, reuiting them with their mother.

:D

Kawaii!

Aren't they CUUUTTEEE!!! Well. That aside, I have a story for you now.
I was walking home after visiting the LRC at my local library when I saw a common sight. There was a mother duck with (what luck!) baby ducks! They were SO CUTE!!! But I noticed something as I was walking, the mother duck was quacking and her baby ducks were responding. However it sounded like there were a lot more ducklings than the two that were visible. It turns out there were some ducklings who fell down a storm drain! I looked down the drain and saw that there were 9 down there!

So what do I do? Well...I have always wanted to make it into this. So I called the police to get some help. I needed help because I couldn't reach the duckies with my arms to help them they were so deep down the hole. The cop came and then left again to see what materials he could get to help. While he was gone I got a little creative. I realized I had two shoelaces and a byu bookstore bag. So I attached the bag at the end of the shoe laces, lowered my contraption into the drain, and went about catching me some ducklings. I caught 5 before he came back and then he helped me catch the remaining ducklings. We returned them to their mother and all was well in the world!

So what is the moral of this story? Well...when the 8 people before you fall down out of sight, you probably shouldn't keep walking in their paths. Remember Earth Day! And remember that there's always something you can do with the tools you have at hand.

p.s. I REALLY hope I make the Police Beat!

Microsoft Office

So I'm trying to improve my understanding of Microsoft office to make myself a better potential secretary. I'm doing this by taking online tutorials provided by Microsoft. Those can be found here -> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/default.aspx . However, being somewhat familiar with some of the Microsoft Office packages I also feel that this exercise is a tad tedious even though I am learning new things about the programs. As such, I must needs make fun of them. :)

Microsoft Word Tutorial

"Ready to print? Or ARE you!?" Thank you Word tutor for making printing seem ever so risk-kay. A voice should come on every time I'm about to print on word and ask me this just so that I get unnerved about what I'm about to print. I don't want to waste paper and all that jazz!

"Sometimes as you formulate ideas and build your outline, you realize that a sub-heading is gaining prominence in your mind, or its own set of sub-entries is growing. You might also realize the opposite, that certain high-level ideas aren't going anywhere and don't merit their current outline level." It's probably just early but when I read that a bullet point doesn't merit something it amused me. Being unworthy of being tabbed in a Word document has to be an all time low.

"If you have a bulleted list that uses the same dull, boring black circles, there's good news: You can change the bullet design to one of many different built-in designs." Even Word likes to insult Word! Those poor, dull, boring black circle bullet points never get a break.

"Brilliant, this is exactly where you need to go to create your own list design." And then Word because British? I think the person who was writing the responses to the correct answer to the quizzes at the end of each section was getting a little bored here.

There's more, but I'm stopping there for now because I'm done studying this right now.

Friday Thoughts-Part 9

Songs that, for right now, I will always stop for whilst my iPod is on shuffle.

"In Too Deep" Sum 41

"Rocky Raccoon" The Beetles

"Rapid Roy" Jim Croce

"Ok It's Alright With Me" Eric Hutchinson

"Wouldn't It Be Nice" The Beach Boys

"She's a Rebel" "Whatshername" "Basket Case"Green Day

"We are the Champions" Queen

"Smile Like you Mean it" "Spaceman", "A Dustland Fairytale", "Jenny Was A Friend of Mine" -The Killers

"Short Skirt, Long Jacket" CAKE

"Perfect Situation" "Photograph" Weezer

There are a few more, but those are about it. I should make a playlist, save my forward button a lot of clicks.

Protestors; You Don't Know Who's Reading Those Signs of Yours

So I went to General Conference for the first time in my life. I find that everyone that goes to General Conference usually likes to geek out about it and how amazing it was. It was amazing. On to the REAL reason why I went ;)
Protesters!!! Ok, so this first photo is actually a group of men who were singing hymns. So I suppose they were protesting sin? Yes. Either way, I include them cause they were right next to the protesters.
See! They line the sidewalk and the protesters are the ones with the signs in the back of this photo. I found it amusing


I took many candid shots. This man had a sign over him. It was really cold, so this guy must be dedicated in his opinions...


I was actually kinda disappointed in the array of protesters. There were only about 5. D: And they didn't shout or make a ruckus or anything. How respectful...but very detrimental to me making fun of them.Ok, so the real reason I went to General Conference was to watch General Conference. This is where I sat. It was quite the view. But I kept watching the monitor!!! I had to keep telling myself "You're here in person! Watch the speaker not the screen!" and then I did.




This is the beginning of my drawing of Billie Joe. I'll get it finished by the morrow hopefully. :D



This is our little band of members that went! It was fun!


This picture is specifically for Alec. She said there wasn't a Chipotle in Utah. :)

Friday Thoughts- Part 8

I always feel like a stick in the mud when I complain. But something had to be done about a particular aspect of my work. As such, I'm going to make fun of myself and the letter I sent to address it. These will be in red :)

The Shirt Room First off, NO ONE is going to read this if it's send out en masse to the workers of catering because of two things. 1) This letter is too long and 2) No one cares.

It has come to my attention that Catering workers as a whole have taken to leaving the shirt room in a slovenly state. This is me being very nice. I wanted to start ranting about how I am not the mother of Catering and don't feel like cleaning up this pig sty of a room everyday! But then I thought this would be inappropriate 1) because I'm sure people are more neat in their rooms at home than they are in the shirt room (really they are) and 2) everyone would start calling me the mother of catering :( Vests are thrown askew on the lower rack, on the floor, and put away in the wrong size section. Also, coat hangers are left on the rack and floor and forgotten. I must emphasize that while it is my responsibility to organize the shirt room, it has become an extreme situation that can only be corrected if every person that uses the shirt room cooperates. The best thing about this statement is that whenever I'm putting shirts away in the shirt room, people do what they are supposed to. Too bad I like to think I have better things to do than pic-nic out in the shirt room all day in order to make sure my mere presences scares people into submissive tidiness.

Firstly, when getting a shirt or vest, do NOT leave the hanger on the rack. There is a coat hanger holder conveniently put next to the door of the shirt room and I ask you to put them there. I’m sure that all of us can manage to go the 5 feet distance between the shirt rack and the coat hanger holder by the door in order to maintain some order in the shirt room. (Captains, I realize that some of you are not tall enough to get hangers off of the top shirt rack. As such, I have provided a blue crate to use for an extra boost so that you have no excuse not to put your hangers away as well.) bwahahah! A jab at the other captains. I really don't think this should be funny to me, but I wasn't the one who put the captain's shirts on the top rack so I don't feel bad when I laugh about this.

Secondly, when there are bags of recently cleaned shirts from laundry, do NOT take from them unless you plan on putting the whole bag away in the correct shirt/vest location. When you do go against this rule, shirts and vests often end up in the wrong shirt section. This may not seem too horrible, but tell that to someone who goes for a small vest and finds out as they change that they actually have a 3XL. It’s a nuisance that adds unnecessary time when getting ready for work that is easily avoided. Plus I love taking the wrapping off of new shirts. It's like unwrapping presents! Except I don't really get anything I want...

Lastly comes the question,‘when do you put vests that you have used back on the shirt rack?’ Dirty vests constitute vest that have blatantly visible dirties on them. I like to think of it as an obscene amount of crud on your vest. If you notice a small spot, you should ask another worker if they also think it is sufficient enough to label the vest ‘dirty’. If so, then yes, please put it in the dirty vest bag. Otherwise the vest can be re-used. This saves money for catering on laundry expenses. Wearing a vest once does not constitute it being dirty like a shirt does.

Vests that need mending should not go back on the rack. Please fold them up neatly and put them in the gray bin with the other vests that need to be mended. When the bin gets full, I make sure that laundry takes care of these vests. This helps us to look professional when our vests are not torn up and have the right number of buttons on them. I've been expressively forbidden from mending them myself :( Missing buttons annoy me so much.

If your vest has passed these two inspections, now comes how to go about putting your vest back on the rack. Button the top button of your vest and put a coat hanger in it with the hanger facing to the left. Buttoning the top button keeps the vest from falling onto the floor after you put it on away. Then hang your vest up on the left of the black shirts if it is a men’s vest and on the right of them if it is a women’s vest in the proper size section. I think this may be the point where any reader of this letter thinks I'm a little to organized for my own good. Yes. Yes I am.

In summary, don’t put your uniform clothing slovenly over the rack, on the floor, or on the blue crates full of aprons. Put it where it belongs. Thank you for your efforts. It seems a nuisance for you to take this small amount of time to do these things, but if you don’t, it negatively affects others who use the shirt room.

- Sincerely

- Your Friendly Neighborhood Opener I love spiderman :D

(I can provide a diagram of where clothing articles go in the shirt room if so desired. ) I love to draw!

So I hope you enjoyed my rant and my successive making fun of myself. Somebody has to care about the shirt room, poor thing.