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I just received a confirmation email that I am registered for the two classes that I can take this quarter at the community college. So, I am starting the four-year trek to my Masters in Computer Science. I'm pretty excited! I think that I will be able to continue to work part time at the magazine. We'll see what happens. I'm just glad to be starting school and doing something completely new. It should be a lot of fun.

My parents have been down visiting since last Thursday. It has been a lot of fun. We went for a walk around the neighborhood on Thursday evening and the Art Walk on Friday. They had some cool booths there and my mom was in heaven looking at all the crafts. We went to see Pirates of the Caribbean 2 on Saturday evening. It was a good movie, but I think I liked the first one better. The acting was good and the action choreography was really cool, but the bad guys were really disgusting and it was a lot to take for that long. I am turned off mussels for a bit. The best part was just being on a date! No kid time is a good time. Our babysitters are real troopers. When we dropped our kids off, they were babysitting two other kids from our ward plus they had their own two girls. So, they had six kids under five years old. Pretty brave. Their apartment complex also did not have any power and still didn't when we pick up our kids four hours later. They are the best free babysitters ever!

We found out that we are having family move to the Tri-Cities. My sister is getting married in November and she will be moving here. We are really excited to have family close again. It should be fun for the holidays and good for our kids to have cousins close. Also, my brother got a job so I am pretty happy about that too. It's nice how things work out after a lot of hard work.

So, Song of the Week... I was on the way home from work the other day and I was listening to the high school run radio station. They had this song that was pretty fun to listen to. I tracked down who the artist was. Her name is Regina Spektor and the song is called On the Radio. It's catchy and I like the part about November Rain. It may remind some of you of high school. I think Guns and Roses Use Your Illusion album came out when I was in grade 10. Good (and bad) memories. I also had to re-format my Song of the Week section due to a hosting issue, but hopefully this will work for a bit.

And... I have been on the South Beach diet for about a month and I have lost 15 lbs. I am pretty happy about that.

M got this in her email and I thought it was pretty funny!

Ways to Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity

1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.

2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice.

3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with that.

4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It "In."

5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.

6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write "For Smuggling Diamonds"

7. Finish All Your sentences with "In Accordance With The Prophecy."

8. Don't use any punctuation

9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.

10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.

11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is "To Go."

12. Sing Along At The Opera.

13. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme?

14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And play tropical Sounds All Day.

15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You're Not In The Mood.

16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom.

17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream "I Won!, I Won!"

18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking lot, Yelling "Run For Your Lives, They're Loose!!"

19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner. "Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go."

20. And The Final Way To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity.......

Send This E-mail To Someone To Make Them Smile.

Its Called therapy.