in the middle

So it’s a new year. Not much has changed. Really nothing has changed, but that’s life. It’s like President Hinckley quoted ( I never knew it was a quote, learn something new everyday.)

"Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he has been robbed. Most putts don't drop. Most beef is tough. Most children grow up to be just people. Most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration. Most jobs are more often dull than otherwise.... "Life is like an old-time rail journey - delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.'"
("Big Rock Candy Mountains," Deseret News, 12 June 1973, A4; as cited in Ensign, March 1997, p. 60.)

On the night of the Sugar Bowl I had been at the Gateway shopping with my Mom. On our way home the car died. Right in the middle of the road, some scary side road off of 3rd west. Right in front of the Trax line. Scary. Then it started to rain. We were stopped in front of some propane store. Oh yeah, the emergency flashers were connected to what ever was wrong with the car, so they weren’t working right either. This really nice guy at the propane store helped us push the car in to there lot while we waited for my Dad to get there. And then it started to rain. Just like in a movie. Except it was like slush rain. Like I said this all was happening during the start of the Sugar Bowl. Perfect timing. By the time we had figured out that we were just going to have to tow the car before the 8 am semi delivery of propane the slush/rain had turned to snow. Took forever to get home. Missed the first three touchdowns. But what a game. Go Utes! This is a really great article on the Utes and the BCS.

On a third and completely unrelated note. Read this book!!!

The Hunger Games.
I started to write a summery but then just decided to let Stephen King do it for me. This link is his review for EW. The summery at Barnes and Noble.com is also really good:

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival.

I almost bought it at Barnes and Noble on Saturday but didn’t and on Monday Katie gave it to me to read. She got it from the library and finished it in a week, and still had three weeks left on her library card, so I read it. In less then a day. It took me about seven hours to read it. It’s an easy read. It’s also very worth reading. I kinda didn’t want to read it, it sounds depressing and sad. Warning it kinda is. Read the summery, people die. I almost cried a couple times. But it’s good. Really, really good. Stay-up-all-night- reading, can’t-wait-until-September-for-the-sequel-good. So read it, OK? OK.

xoxo~ s