curlers

As I mentioned in my last post I tend to wear curlers out in public. Of course, this is temporary. I'm in a production called "Savior of the World" which tells the story of the birth and resurrection of Christ. It has been an amazing experience to participate this Christmas season! It is also required me to have curly hair. . . Which brings us back to the curlers and how I wear them in public. Sometimes I just don't have time to sit at home while I wait for those suckers to cool. So instead I run some errands (mostly the kind that I can stay in the car for).

Today was one of those days. I went to the drive thru at the bank with my hair in curlers. I prayed a girl, who would understand, would be the teller. No such luck. Instead a moderately attractive man was my teller. I then prayed this could be one of those quick bank transactions so if I ever ran into him he maybe would recognize me. Again, no such luck. Instead he saw on one of my checks the company I work for. He then began to chat with me about how his sister works there too! Oh goodness.

Why? Why on the day when my hair is in curlers does an attractive man want to chat with me? I embraced the experience. . . Kind of. . . And continued with my errands.

Apparently those curlers are guy magnets so don't worry, I took them off before I entered classy wal-mart land.

dr. pepper slurpees

I have an obsession. Or an addiction. I'm not quite sure what the difference is, but either way, I like DP a lot. I had been good at resisting my constant desire to purchase a DP, until of course my office started selling cans for a quarter...

To the point... a couple weeks ago I discovered a magical 7-11 in SLC that sells... wait for it... Dr. Pepper Slurpees! Crazy, I know. My mind was blown and if it hadn't been 8 am and I hadn't already purchased a hot chocolate, I would've purchased one on the spot. My friend Dee, another DP lover, and I determined we would return, but due to a brownie catastrophe we lost time and our opportunity.

I returned to that magical 7-11 a week ago to surprise to my fellow DP addict sister. I had been waiting for this moment for weeks and as my sister and I entered that 7-11 I could sense something was wrong. . . the slurpee machine looked different and my worst fears had come true. The DP slurpee was currently unavailable!

I almost cried. But I remained hopeful that someday I would partake of the DP slurpee. Well, yesterday, on our way to SLC, Dee and I stopped by the magical 7-11 (after calling, of course, to verify the availability of the DP slurpee), walked right in, and bought ourselves DP slurpees!

Of course, it didn't quite taste as delicious as real DP. In fact, it tasted a little like swedish fish. But see all that joy on our faces? You can't fake that kind of childlike happiness!

(and yes, there are curlers in my hair. The people at 7-11 didn't judge me... And neither should you)

adventures

I recently read an article about Mormon mom blogs. The author, who is not LDS, admitted that she has an addiction to these blogs. She explained that she reads them not because she has an interest in our religion, but because they are uplifting! And after a long, hard day at work, she enjoys reading about their lives and their families and remembering how beautiful life is. I loved that. Then I immediately felt guilty for not keeping a better record of my life or for sharing my thoughts. I should be expressing gratitude for my life, my family and friends and bearing my testimony, not only to share with others but for reminding myself of the beauty and joy that is found in the simplicity of every day life.

So here it goes. My thought for the day:

Life is an adventure... made up of little and big adventures we experience every day! We are meeting new people, trying new things, playing new games, having new thoughts, etc. every day, that make up this grand adventure we call life. Sometimes I forgot this simple truth and I say to myself "I need to go on an adventure." And while that is a perfectly fabulous thing to say to yourself and to do, I should also be acknowledging the adventures I have every day (the ones I have at work, in the car, at the store... the new things that happen when I'm doing everyday things.)