ONE RULE!!!

I have been Chauffeuring the Smith kids to a few of their activities lately. They are used to having many rules in a car about food and seat belts and so on. So I just told them that in my car I don't really care if you get food on the seat or take your shoes off because the car's name is Junker and it lives up to it's name. So yesterday I had Cami and Jared, we were on our way home from getting baby food and doing scout stuff when Cami says in a very loud voice so I will completely understand her," I really need to go Pee!" If you live in Prescott then you know about the all the construction on Gurly and Shelton, I was in the middle of it. I turned in my seat and asked in my patient voice if she could hold it till we got home. The answer was of course a very impatient/apprehensive voice,"NO!!!" I made a few really quick choices and decided that I needed to change the direction of the car! She then informs me that she really needs to go and really can't hold it much longer. I was in front of the college at the time and cut through the back roads to get to the nearest place with a public restroom. Thank you Whataburger for the use of your toilet! I don't even think I shut the door to the car as I ran Cami in and informed Jared that he should come inside the fast food place with us. As we are waiting for Cami to finish (she really did have to go!) Jared looks at me and said he was going to go to the restroom too.
That is my one rule! You are not allowed to relieve yourself in the car.

~Night~

This is a book that I think all people should read to understand some of what was happening during the Holocaust. This was an amazing book that made me really think about our freedom in a new light and understand their pain. Some people might say that this book was not that bad but whoever say that has been desensitised by what is acceptable in the media now days. The really sad thing is that all this we like to think is just in the past, when every day things similar to what is in this book are happening lots of other place all over the world.
Some how I managed not to cry through the whole book. I then got to the Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance speech of the author's at the end. This is one of my favorite quotes from it:
"one person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death.As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs."
~by Elie Wiesel in Oslo on December 10, 1986

How much do we complain about our lives when there are people on other sides of the world that are treated like cattle.

S.H.P.

Patriotic. That was the Scavenger hunt photo subject this week. I haven't done any of the others lately because I have been working up a storm and just breathing the rest of the time. A.K.A......School. I really love being busy with it all though. The breathing is from a very intense book I am reading right now about the Holocaust. I have to breathe every few pages because I can see all that is happening. Some people will say,"oh, I'm a very visual person!" I am that phrase in a nutshell. It is all like I am really there when I start to read. That is one of the reasons I am so selective in what I read.

Just to tell you about these photos though! I was walking to seminary this morning and was looking for a good photo. I could just do one of the many flags that I see on the walk there. Imagine my delight when I see my friend Caleb walk up with two layers on(both blue) and a rose in his pocket for a good friend of his at school. The only thing I needed was something white. That is a wall in some person's yard that we walk past every day! At first he didn't want to go alone with it but in the end I got the shots!

Qutoe of the day!

"Chaiya, I love your car! It sounds like a motorcycle. pause... But it smells like dirt so I don't think that I like it."
~Camile M.

I have been

Working myself almost none stop with babysitting/maid work all week! other then that some school here and there. I am not going to bore you with that sort of chatter, though. I will tell you about my adventure! Are you ready?
For those who have driven with me will say that I am a good driver,even (not quoted exactly,Sarah) a 'PANSY' when it comes to the road and it's rules. I find that I owe other drivers and my passengers a safe drive! I can now say on the little tag things that I get in emails that I have been stopped by police officer this year. Yes. I said it. I couldn't stop thinking as I saw the lights behind me," was I speeding? I know that I was trying to get around that person because they were driving at odd speeds but was I really going that much over that I will get a ticket?!!? I won't be able to drive if the insurance goes up! " I was thinking this and many other thoughts like it.
I think that the cop was a bit surprised when I told him the window didn't roll down and the back door opened... I have a really cool car(no sarcasm in there at all)! It's name is Junker. I was asked if I knew why I was pulled over, when I answered no he told me that he had been following me since the square and my lights weren't on! I then check to see if they were working properly and it just ended up that I hadn't turned the nobbie all the way and they were on hazard.I was asked twice if I had been drinking and was asked jokingly if I was a BRAT after he saw my Air Force ID(which I might add is expired). At the end of this the police officer was joking with me though I was still really shaky, that just made him ask if I had done anything wrong or I was just really nerves? "Just nerves."
I think that that is the smallest voice I have ever heard come out of me!

Procrastination, Mum's Birthday and other stuff.Not in that order

I really love this picture of me and Quayde. It was taken at Copper Basin Lake when we were finished with our "walk". I can't remember what we were talking about but I had a cattail in my hand and was goofing off with it.

This is one of Mum's presents for her Birthday! I don't know what it is made out of, but the cool thing about it is that you can take the seat part off and put it in the washer! I know, cool huh?!? I just hope that they remember to tell everyone when the seat is not on, because otherwise it could be a bit messy.
There will be more pictures of the event later when it is all done.





Have you every had the feeling to do something but you ignore it. Then you feel bad later on because you know that you should have done what that feeling was telling you to do because you know what was going on/what had happened? I have, and I am sorry to those two people that I have put off. I know (or now know) what is happening. Sorry for not listening and acting on that prompting when I should have.

To all that this concerns: Baby M will not be a 'distraction' anymore. Sorry that She was I didn't mean it to end up that way. She will not be coming to church with me anymore.

Have you ever had the sugar crave? Well, that is what I have right now! It only comes this bad once a month. Hint: the second day is worse on emotions and cravings. So you might want to keep your distance from me, I might eat you. I don't even think that that's a joke.

poems, life and other things

This week for fun/school we wrote a poem. The title is Where I'm From. It wasn't hard because of the way that we did it, It just took me long time!:)

Then, being me, I drew on the corners of the paper of my main lesson book.On one corner there was Horton hatches the egg's elephant-bird and the other had Puck.I think that my Puck looks more like peter pan though. For those who do not know who Puck is I'll give you a hint...William Shakespeare.

Here is my poem.

"I am from the softness of silkies, from laughing at myself and singing at the top of my lungs to songs I only know half of.

I am from where mistakes are creative adventures, nothing is impossible and where white walls are unheard of.

I am from catching bugs, from the light that warms me, the wind in the trees and the sound of the sea.

I am from large family parties in a very small town, from JR Wilson, and Micheal and Tracie, from the green of England and Ireland and the lands of the Blackfoot.

I am from spit wads with Nick, Blading with Julian, Scaring Cindy and wondering in the woods with my family.

I am from cider in winder, Flagstaff in August and a gold throne on Birthdays.

I am from I love yous, be happy,'Dancing in the morning' and skipping Thursday!

I am from what rings true, from manifestation and meditation, from my Father in Heaven.

I am from bubble teas and pumpkin bars, from all kinds of bread and hot cocoa in the summer months.

I am from Impressionists paintings, a car crash, a young man's smile, from Shakespeare's pen and a Glass blower's hot shop.

I am from laughter and tears, the purple in a sunset and the yellow in Autumn trees, from the works of Dr. Seuss and William Shakespeare, from Happiness."

This is who I am accentual.

This week was the wedding down in Mesa. I was happy to have the trip. Even more so for the heat. I thought that it was a bit cooler there than usual down there but that was just me according to the thermostat!

This last Saturday was also my last youth conference. It really makes you think about time when you know that unfortunately you are going to be in singles ward next year. I even had a really good time at the dance which is the first time in a long time. Most dances aren't that much fun because of the little detail that not very many people come. This dance I hung out with friends, danced pretty badly, gotten all those said friends to dance with people no one really knew and got to know one friend better. T.V. is a really cool guy and I didn't really know much about him other then surface stuff. He also tried to teach me how to swing dance.'Sign'. I don't know when all my friends will finally give up on this, they know I don't have the balance for it but they just keep on trying!

I think that I should probably try to sleep considering it is 11:04 and I have seminary in the morning. I don't think that I am able to be in bed before 11 unless and I am sick because it just never happens. Anyway. till next post and I don't think that I will be waiting a month to do so.

"Give me your hand if we be friends,

And Robin shall restore amens."

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