Nine Words Women Use

1. Fine
This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.
2. Five Minutes
If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.
3. Nothing
This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with "nothing" usually end in "fine."
4. Go Ahead
This is a dare, NOT permission. Don't Do It!
5. Loud Sigh
This IS actually a word, but it is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to # 3 for the meaning of nothing.)
6. That's Okay
This is one of the most dangerous statements a women can make to a man. "That's okay" means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.
7. Thanks
A woman is thanking you - do not question, or faint. Just say you're welcome.
**I want to add in a clause here - This is true, unless she says "Thanks a lot" - that is PURE sarcasm and she is not thanking you at all. DO NOT say "you're welcome" as that will bring on a "Whatever."
8. Whatever
Is a woman's way of saying SCREW YOU!
9. Don't worry about it, I got it
Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking 'What's wrong?' For the woman's response refer to # 3.

I've Been Tagged!

I've been tagged by my good friend, Megan Eddie. She is an amazing woman and so talented! If you need help with any home decorating, refinishing furniture or cooking (and pretty much anything else) she is the one to ask!

The rules:
1. Post the rules
2. Answer the six "8" items
3. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving them a comment.


8 Favorite Shows
1. The Office
2. CSI
3. CSI - Miami
4. Law & Order
5. Law & Order - SVU
6. American Idol
7. The Biggest Loser
8. Sesame Street


8 Things I Did Yesterday
1. Visiting Teaching
2. Bonneville Craft Show
3. Had lunch at Johnny Carino's
4. Worked on Scentsy stuff
5. Went to dinner with John and some friends
6. Put Braxton to bed three times... :)
7. Read Primary Lesson for Sunday
8. Finished November's Book Club Book


8 Favorite Restaurants
1. Johnny Carino's
2. TGI Fridays
3. Texas Roadhouse
4. P.F. Changs
5. Jakers
6. Garcia's
7. Sol Rio
8. Mrs. Powell's


8 Things I'm Looking Forward To
1. Thanksgiving Dinner with my family
2. Going to Billings to see John's extended family
3. Christmas lights
4. Christmas with Braxton
5. Card exchange
6. Getting a treadmill
7. Reading the scriptures as a family
8. Bed


8 Things On My Wish List
1. Braxton would still take naps
2. To have my entire house clean all at the same time
3. Braxton will grow up to be a clean, honorable and humble man
4. I would always be happy and kind
5. A good memory
6. My 'To Do' List to be completely done
7. My own laptop computer
8. Dream house


8 People I Tag
1. Christi Billquist
2. Natalie Billquist
3. Angie Hansen
4. Jenny Vance
5. Korrie Davis
6. Jacob Davis
7. Pam Davis
8. Angey Lybbert

Book Club

October's book club was so good! When it was first announced what we would be reading I wasn't super excited. But after reading the book, and then going to book club... I thought it was one of the best books I have read in a long time!

The book we read is Same Kind of Different as Me, by Ron Hall and Denver Moore. This book could possibly be life changing...

I loved the blurb that was on the website (so I just copied it on over to here... but go to the website to read more about this amazing book!)

"It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana... and an East Texas honky-tonk... and, without a doubt, in the heart of God. It unfolds in a Hollywood hacienda... an upscale New York Gallery... a downtown dumpster... a Texas ranch. Gritty with pain and betrayal and brutality, it also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love."

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The book switches back and forth between the two authors lives.

Denver Moore is a black man who grew up in Louisiana and raised under plantation-style slavery in the 1960s. That fact absolutely amazed me... when was slavery supposed to end - wasn't it 1865? Anyway, Denver ends up hopping onto a train and heads to Texas - a man that has never learned to read and has no skills other than cotton-picking. Denver doesn't have a lot of options for jobs. So Denver ends up homeless and then in prison and then again homeless.

Enter Deborah Hall in 1998 - an amazing woman with a very good heart. She is married to Ron Hall, a very successful international art seller who began his career in 1971. Ron loves the money, the job, the prestige... Deborah finds it all a little too much and manages to keep Ron on the ground with it all. Eventually they start working at a homeless shelter....

And then you have to read the book! I don't want to ruin it by telling to much, but it is a great book. The beginning started out a little slow, but after three or four chapters I couldn't put it down! Also, you may need some tissues for the the last 1/4 of it. I did!