so soon?

anna prayed this morning that we would all have a happy holidays. could the christmas music on fm 100 and kosy 106.5 be affecting her already?

like mother, like daughter

anna: "mom, i need to find my library book. where is my book."
me: "i don't know. it's not my book. did you put it away?"
anna: "last time i saw it was at the old house on the dining table."
me: "huh. that was a long time ago. i have know idea where it would be."
anna: "mom, if i don't find it, it will be overdoomed."
me: "well, i don't know what to tell you."
anna: "but mom, i can't be overdoomed. i just can't be overdoomed."
me: "you will just have to pay for it."
anna: "but i will be overdoomed. i can't be overdoomed."
me: "you should be more responsible--i don't know what to tell you."
anna: "i don't want to be overdoomed! i can't want to be overdoomed. sami was overdoomed. i don't want to be overdoomed...overdooomed...overdoomed...overdoomed."

i am thinking that anna may have the same bad library habits that i do. i know i should have said more comforting things to her, but i just loved hearing her say "overdoomed".

post script: i still haven't paid my fine. i am terrified i will get pulled over one day and haul me off to prison for my outstanding fines. i hear they do that.

homeless?

7393 South Pine Street, Midvale, Utah no longer belongs to the burton family. we are officially all done. closed. moved. finished. it has been such a hectic month but really, things went very quickly and fairly smooth. i was really sad at closing. selling a house, i learned, is an emotional process and i didn't know how i would react. we are now renting until we can decide what to do with our lives. so the new house is temporary and i am having a hard time adjusting. i keep thinking i should go "home" when i am home. and randomly i still go the old way home. but it is good. things are good. life is good.

failure to fail

so i missed the celebrating of National Fail Miserably Day. wow, i must be real good at failing. oh well, i suppose i could celebrate today, if that is okay. i really need to celebrate something. and failing sounds pretty good to me. anyone want to come over for yummy chocolate cake i will probably fail to make? anytime is fine with me. just please, don't fail to let me know.

my time of year

i really love autumn. i love the colors--reds, oranges, yellows, chartruse, browns. i love the smell of fall. it's the leaves or something else naturish. i love when you wake up in the morning and jack frost has left a sprinkle of powdered sugar on your grass and car. i love going for walks and crunching throught the fallen leaves. i love raking leaves and jumping into the piles. i love when the days are cooler and you go outside and stand in the sun to warm up or you take a nap in your cool house and lay on the bed and let the sun warm you as it shines through your window. i love pumpkins and gourds. i love to make (well, sometimes, it is still cooking and we all know how i feel about cooking) soups and casseroles because it doesn't make my house unbearable. plus, the warm foods warm my body. i love the days getting shorter. i love the good new tv shows. i love the smell of the woodburning stove being used somewhere in the neighborhood--maybe even at my house. i love halloween. but not the creepy scary stuff. the fun stuff of halloween. kids, costumes, cookies, candy--especially halloween candy, popcorn balls, caramel apples, trick-or-treating, making jack-o-lanterns, costume parades at school. i love making costumes (but i don't do it every year). i love football games--mainly college, and mainly the university of utah. i even enjoy going to the games--taking along a sweater and a thermos of hot chocolate. i feel alive and happy. i really love autumn.

a random bit of info i bet you didn't know about me

i don't like the chicken in campbell's chicken noodle soup. i pick it out. the rest of it is great.

theme songs and funeral songs

do you have a theme song? asks the el presidento of the would-be writers guild. i wish i did. i am sure i could. but it would take some time and research. which i will do. some day. and although i do not have a "theme song", i have been keeping a tentative list of songs i would like sung at my funeral. here are a few (i have not decided the order yet--and the list is not complete):

• "Perhaps Love" a John Denver song. Before he died, i wanted him to come sing it along with Placido Domingo. I bet it would be great live.
• "Livin' on a Prayer" but only if Bon Jovi will come and sing it personally--i think he would. he seems like a really great guy (i saw him on oprah once)
• Handel's "Water Music" played by some philharmonic orchestra
• "It's a Wonderful World" could you please find someone to sing it who has a "louis" voice?
• "I Could Have Danced All Night" from "My Fair Lady"
• "Lonely Goatheard" from "The Sound of Music". I would prefer this to be a sing-along--i LOVE yodeling!

wouldn't that be a great funeral? i hope you all will come...one day far far into the future.