Sometimes in my home the parent and the child seem to switch roles. I often watch Bread with her kids when she is cooking. And Skyguy and Bowtie are very helpful and want to help with everything. Bread is very good about warning them about what not to touch. Like the stove, the beaters, knives. “No, No, Skyguy, that’s hot!” Sometimes kids don’t listen and they may burn their little fingers BUT they learn a valuable lesson from their mistake. I believe that we as adults still have to learn through making mistakes too.
For example: Yesterday morning after we read scriptures my mom was making breakfast and I was unloading our dishwasher. I usually go back to sleep after morning scriptures, this morning I didn’t. Now we were just talking about random things and my mom was about to plug in beaters and somehow she got her hand caught in the beater! It all happened so fast that I don’t really remember who unplugged the beaters and who pulled her hand out, but her hand was a mess when we got it out. bruised and bleeding and apparently numb. I had to go to the first aid kit and bandage her up. It looked like it hurt so bad. Her middle finger was cut pretty deep. We went back to the beaters to find that they were bent and barely usable! Anyway, apparently my mom had never really learned why we aren’t supposed to put our fingers in the beaters, 
but dont worry, I dont think she will be doing that again! I think she learned her lesson.
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I got tagged by Fuffy so here ya go:
Three things I’m afraid of:
1. Deep holes
2. being physically deformed
3. hurting peoples feelings
Three People Who Make Me Laugh:
1. DW
2. Talls
3. Fuffy
Three Things I Love:
1. Gum Balls
2. Swinging on swings
3. Water. Oceans, lakes, rivers, water falls, skiing, boating, tubing on water. The sound of it, how it looks, swimming in it, drinking it, basically everything about it.
Three Things I Hate:
1. saying the wrong thing and not being able to take it back.
2. being late
3. being really tired and not being able to fall asleep
Three Things I Don’t Understand:
1. Sometimes my emotions
2. People who get mad easily
3. How some people seem to have SO much energy ALL the time
Three Things On My Desk:
1. A computer
2. Landos homework papers
3. my favorite pen
Three Things I’m Doing Right Now:
1. Typing
2. Drawing a vine with flowers on the paper next to me. (Lando’s homework )
3. biting my nail. Its not really a habit of mine, I just ripped one of my nails this weekend and I hate when it catches on things and I am too lazy to find a nail clipper at the moment.
Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die:
1. Golf barefoot
2. go scuba diving
3. Go to Maine
Three Things I Can Do:
1. Laugh at myself
2. The Rubiks cube!–Thanks Fuffy!
3. A back flip on the trampoline
Three Things I Can’t Do:
1. Drive Stick
2. Breathe under water
3. Say no when Skyguy says “Pweese jump on tramp wif Sky-e”
Three Things I Think You Should Listen To:
1. My grandma play the accordian
2. Harry Potter books on CD-The guy who reads them is amazing.
3. Mindy Gledhill
Three Things You Should Never Listen To:
1. Pessamists
2. Me when I am in a bad mood
3. My moms oven timer. It is SO annoying.
Three Things I’d Like To Learn:
1. How to sing well
2. How to arange flowers
3. How to drive a motorcycle
Three Favorite Foods: (Just 3??)
1. Cheese
2. Mandarine oranges
3. Accordian sandwhiches. (French bread sandwhiches with ham and swiss cheese)
Three Shows I Watched As A Kid:
1. woody the woodpecker
2. Ducktales
3. Rescue Rangers
Three Things I Regret:
1. Not keeping track of friends that I cared about because I am lazy.
2. Not doing Track in High school
3. Not have enough good conversations with my dad.
Three People I’m Tagging:
1.Great, the only people I know that blog have already been tagged.
Tonight was my night for dishes. And this is what I have decided. Music helps even the tedious chores go by without too much torture. Now, I am slightly exaggerating about doing the dishes being tedious and torturous because honestly I LIKE to do the dishes. Strangely enough I like the uniformity and sameness of it. It gives me time to think about things while doing something that doesn’t require too much of my concentration. Which is why I usually end up with soap and water all over myself and sometimes the floor. I get too lost in my own little world I guess.
Great, now I have strayed from what I was talking about initially. Lets revert back to the real subject. Music. What an amazing gift! I have a lot to say about it, but for this post I just want to talk about it how it is a great companion to work. As I was washing the dishes and listening to a favorite CD my mind drifted back in time to when I was younger and HATED doing the dishes. But that is when I discovered that music could help. I would listen to either Ace of Base or Cranberries. (I still love those CDs) I would dance and sing using the utensils I was washing as a microphone. And what a change! Music makes all the difference. I remember my first job working in the orange groves on HOT HOT Florida days and if we had a good enough radio the music could even distract us from the summer heat. And now, the only way that I will go exercise is if I have good music to listen to while I do it. Anyway, that concludes most of my thoughts on that subject for the moment. Mostly, I think I just forgot what else I was going to say. Oh well. The short posts are easier on the eyes anyway.
I LOVE storms!! When I was younger I loved this song by Garth Brooks called “The Thunder Rolls” I loved the beautifully eerie sounds of a storm in the background. What a Wonderful idea to make a song about a storm! It was my favorite song for a little while. Til one day I found out that the song was really about a man who had an affair with his wife. Funny how that happens huh? You never listen to the lyrics to your favorite song and then when you do… tragedy. What a way to ruin a song huh?
Anyway. I love lightning storms and last nights was SO COOL!!!! Every lightening flash seemed to light up all of the valley! I just laid in my bed and watched out the window until I fell asleep! I was such a wonderful ending to such a good full day. Storms are one of the loves of my life. This is very fortunate because I grew up in Florida. Storms down there are incredible! I think Storms are even therapeutic sometimes! I miss the Florida storms a lot. But I will take what I can get here.
Yesterday I was looking in an old journal of mine to see if I had recorded a certain event in my life and I got to reading more in it and it was funny. It made me laugh a LOT! So, I wanted to post an example of what I was like as a child. I am keeping it exactly how I wrote it. Italics are what I added for the blog.
February 22nd 1998
Hey Liz!! (Kind of funny that that’s what I named my journal huh?)
Today was grrrreat! (As Tony the Tiger would say) We have a talent show tomorrow I am lip singing to “That Thing you do”. I am also reading a poem I made up. The one I wrote in this journal earlier called “What if” and it’s an O.K. poem. I am not a great poet so I am very nervius. Because it doesn’t sound vary good. It doesn’t sound like Shakespere. It sounds like Lorispere. J/K * it isn’t close to any spere.
I really hope it doesn’t rain this Thursday.
I am learning how to crochey. I’ll be learning how to make an afagan (blanket) cool huh?
School is tough I don’t think I will get all A’s this year. Oh, while we are on the subject of school, there are 2 oh, well 3 (But I don’t ever see 1 of them) boys that like me and they are vary anoying. Why do boys have to be like that? I’m not saying that girls are the best! Because there are alot of boys that I like better than girls. Boys are easy to play with because they aren’t woried about breaking a nail or getting “Dirty” Well, better go.
Diligently yours,
Lori Cook
P.S. #1 what does diligently mean?
#2 No afence to you (or me) when I was talking about “girls”
*J/K means: Just kidding I am glad I clarified that.
September 21st 1998
Moooo! Liz, I feel like a cow. Cow’s lives are so boring! Really all they do is eat!
I have a lot of friends. My best friend is Cassie Laura. And my other friends are Laura Cassie, Jamie, Lisa, Todd, Seth, Will, John, and Christian. I don’t tell anyone that I have a best friend because I don’t want people to feel bad.
You know, it’s kinda sad that you don’t talk back Liz we could be great friends!!
My favorite cartoon caractor is Mickey Mouse. He’s cool. At the going away party I wore my Mickey Mouse hat and everyone kept taking it. We’ll not everyone. JustBennett, Jordan, Lance, Josh, Bryan and Todd. They bent it! But you can’t see it so that’s ok. They also got it durty so I washed it.
Well I will talk to you later! Well, write I guess not talk.
Lori Anne* Cook
*Anne is my made up middle name.
So there it is. My mom, Gini and I had a good time reading it last night. It kind of felt like I was reading a Junie B Jones book. (I love those books)
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So really I just wanted to talk about quite simply trying new things. Sometimes trying new things takes courage and at times more than I believe that I have! I can sometimes be a chicken! That is mostly with the bigger things I think. But I feel I have to do new things ALL THE TIME! It’s good I guess. I think it’s healthy and it is beneficial to my growth. New things that I enjoy tend to be things like trying a new kind of fruit, trying a new recipe, painting your nails, (spice it up a bit) or let your nephew paint them for you! I had to throw that in because I let Skyguy paint my nails the other day. It was quite fun. He got more paint on my hand then the actual nail, but I guess what can you expect? So yeah. Well the point of this rambling is to tell you about something new that I tried!
I tried rock climbing for the first time this week and wow! That’s about all I can say! Who knew climbing on a wall of fake rocks could be so much fun! I absolutely LOVED it!! I went with my friend…we’ll call him Rik. We had a blast! I was a little nervous though. First I signed a paper that basically said that they weren’t liable for any injury or death. (Comforting) We then put on our very attractive harnesses which reminded me a little bit of the ones you wear when you do skydiving. That’s when I started getting excited!
I started off holding the rope for Rik (I wish I knew the technical terms I think it is called Belaying, or something like that) And it made me a little worried that his well being could depend on me holding this thin little rope. But it turns out it is very simple and there were no problems. The man who worked there said that I caught on very quickly! Anyway, Rik climbed up the wall so fast I was impressed! Then it was my turn! Now, I completely trusted Rik, and I am not really afraid of heights so really the only thing that I was afraid of was making a mistake. I am a little prideful I think and I don’t like to mess up especially when someone is right there watching. Anyway, I tried it and I will be honest I was a little shaky and nearly fell a couple of times but I made it to the top!!! YAY and the more I did it the better I got! It is surprising the different muscles that you use! And how sometimes the only thing keeping you on that wall moving up towards the next rock is the tips of your little fingers!
Anyway, there also a separate room where the walls are a little smaller and you can do some free climbing. Now that was probably my favorite part! There was something so satisfying in doing it yourself without the support of your rope. But one thing I realized is that rock climbing is EXHAUSTING!! Rik got tired first and decided to rest on the mats. I made fun of him a bit then when on to climb some more. Eventually I couldn’t make my arms do anything that I wanted them to so that was the end of that. But boy it was FUN!
There are a lot things that I want to write about tonight. So we’ll see if I can keep this fairly comprehensible. I came home tonight and I saw a poem that Trin wrote sitting on the counter. It was very cute, and it went like this:
“Make me pretty, make me sweet. Make me something good to eat. Don’t ask me; don’t ask why, Just make me an apple pie. Yes I’ll share, you can come, I’ll have pie for everyone!”
Now I am very hungry for pie. Especially my Grandma’s raspberry rhubarb pie. Delish!! But it is almost midnight and I think I should be done eating for the night. One more thing about Trin. She told me today that there is this girl in her class that doesn’t like a lot of noise so she wears ear plugs when they are in the lunch room. I just thought that was pretty funny and that it was something that Angela (from the office) might have done as a child.
Ok, now the rest is mostly for me. Just some of my thoughts so, yeah. I think I have been a little down lately because normally around this time I am getting ready to go back to school. I miss school desperately, and I am not really sure anyone would completely understand why. There is something fulfilling in getting an education. And although I believe I am doing what is right for me; I fear I am not progressing. There are so many things that I love about being at school. I miss the social life for sure. There is always something to do and someone to do it with. And I can choose who I want to be with and who I don’t. I am independent. I miss my roommates and I miss the wonderful friendly spirit of the campus. So yeah, I miss school. A lot.
The next thing that I am kind of stressed about is work. I LOVE where I work. I really do. But I just don’t work nearly enough. Today I didn’t work, and although I did find things to do, in between them I was bored out of my mind! And really there are things that I could be doing but does it make sense that I feel like I am playing WAY too much and working WAY too little? My life isn’t balanced and it is driving me crazy! But now I don’t really know what to do. I really don’t like job hunting and when it comes down to it, I really don’t know what I would really want to do anyway! I have started to fill out an application for Maceys, but we’ll see. Another problem is, that I want to keep the job that I have now but I don’t have any set hours and the closest thing I do have to set hours are in the middle of the day. So it would be hard to work around it. So now I’m stuck.
Well this has made me feel a little better. I am going to bed now.
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This is going to be a short(er) one! I just wanted the world to know that I have found the miracle cure. It is quite simply Gatorade. First off I must say that I am a water girl. I love water and I prefer that over any other drink the majority of the time. At least I did. Now let me begin to tell you a sad little story about when I was sick a month or so ago. I had strep throat. And if any of you have experienced Strep you know that it is a miserable thing. Growing up, strep throat was kind of a regular thing for me but never had I had it this bad. I couldn’t talk and I even threw up! (In the hallway even, but I wont go into that) Anyway, forgetting all the nasty details of my misery, I will just go straight to the hopeful ending. I had started feeling better and I wasn’t contagious anymore, but my throat still hurt very badly. One day I was invited over to Fuffy’s house and I really wanted to go but I just still felt miserable because my throat hurt and I was really hungry. I didn’t eat much because it hurt so bad I cried every time I tried. So yeah, hunger makes me grumpy so I didn’t really want to make anyone have to be around someone so grumpy. And at the same time I really needed to get out of the house.
Anyway, Bread suggested Gatorade. It was a liquid so it shouldn’t be too hard to swallow and it also has some nutrients in it and should help a little with the hunger-grumpiness. So, I tried it. And it stung SO badly! And after that I thought “forget it!” there is no way I will be able to drink any more of that. So then I began to tell Bread of the pain that I felt and then I realized that I could talk. A lot better than I had been able to before! So then I realized that I was feeling better! I tried one more drink (still very painful) and I felt miraculously better. So I went to Fuffy’s house and wasn’t grumpy at all!
I had one more experience with Gatorade when I had this strange lump on my throat that wouldn’t go away. It was not painful, just annoying. I tried drinking water to push it down, with no results. So I tried Gatorade, and guess what? It went away instantly! So there you go. Feel free to try this at home and tell me what other miracles that Gatorade performs!
Ok, well so far so good. The first post showed up. Now I will proceed to tell about my family and friends. I can be longwinded when I have something that I want to talk about. And really, is there anything better to talk about than family and friends? Family: I am going to try very hard to be brief because I have a big family and they each play a huge roll in my life.
—First there are my parents. My dad passed away when I was 16 in a car accident but he is still a part of my life in that I think about him every day. There is so much more I could put about him but that’s for another time.
—Next is my mom. I was thinking about giving her a nickname, then I realized that I would just be calling her mom. So yeah. Ill just abbreviate if I need to use her real name. My mom got married when she was 19 and I think had maybe one semester of college done and is now going back to school at Utah State University. She is amazing. She balances being a mother and going to school beautifully. Even when she is taking killer classes like she is now. My mom constantly surprises me with her personality. We (my brother DW and I) like to tease her about having a hard time saying “butt” she really doesn’t like that word but even worse to her is “shut up” She has always been pretty proper but sometimes we get to her. The other day I made her laugh so hard she cried and it was at something that I would have never guess she would have thought was funny. I think she will continue to surprise me for the rest of my life.
—-Next is my oldest sister Bread. She is the responsible one and usually the first one I go to for advice. She is married to one of the funniest guys that I know named Tee. He is so smart too. Together they are perfect. They have 2 little boys. Bowtie and Skyguy. Skyguy was my first nephew and it was love at first sight. He was a preemie so the first time that I saw him he was in the hospital with tubes and machines all around him. When I saw him I said his name and he responded to my voice and from then on we have had a strong connection. Next there is Bowtie. Bowtie is adorable and all smiles. He is a chubby little toddler that is very independent and likes to do his own thing. Together they are sometimes a handful but SO much fun.
—Next is my older brother DW. He is one of my best friends and I get along very well with him. He is my hero in so many ways. (For example, he jumped my car the other night when I was stranded at my church building) We have the same sense of humor and often times when we are laughing no one else has a clue what it is about. I love it!
—Nickel is next. Nickel is 3 years older than I. When Nickel and were younger we didn’t always get a long. I am sure I was the most annoying sister to grow up with. Things are better now though and we get along fine! Which means… I have grown out of the annoying stage? Either that or Nickel realized I never would grow out of it. Anyway, Nickel is married to Char and they live in Florida. I will be visiting them in June!! I am so excited!
—Then there is Gini. She just turned 18 and is getting ready to graduate! Look out world, here she comes! She is beautiful and fun to be around.
—Then there is Lando. Lando is a stud. What more can I say! He has grown up SO much even these last few months. He is the biggest tease though and he LOVES to play “gotcha last” it’s a game like tag where someone hits you and you are it until you hit them back. (Preferably soft hits.) Anyway it’s not really my favorite game but my competitive nature keeps it going even if I don’t want to play.
—Trin is the youngest and definitely the one in charge in the family. She is more mature and probably more responsible than I am. She does gymnastics and is very good at it she practices at least 3 hours a day. And when she isn’t at gym then she is begging someone to jump on the trampoline with her. Out of my family I will probably have the most to say about Trin because she is just so funny!
—Okay, now for my friends. Man, where to start. Hahaha that makes it sound like have millions of friends. I didn’t mean it that way. Anyway, I will go in the order of who I have known the longest. And really I am just going to mention the friends I am closest too. I have a ton of good friends though.
—First I will mention Smelly. I grew up with Smelly in Florida. She is SO good at keeping contact with people. And that is why we are still friends. She knows that even though I don’t call I still care. I have gotten better though. Anyway, we have been through a lot together and we have a lot of fun. I have other Florida friends that I could mention but that would take TOO long and this is already TOO long!
—Makilla-She was my first friend in Utah. Other people reached out but no one that I cared to be around really. She invited me to eat lunch with her friends. She said that they were tons of fun and that I would love them. So I started going with Makilla to lunch and there she helped me meet others that I could get along with. My favorite memories with Makilla came from our trip to Washington DC. It was such a fun trip and we got to know each other better. We would laugh a lot when we were together. She is now on an LDS mission for a 1 ½ years. I will miss her!
—Next is Rizzo. Where to begin with Rizzo? I will forever be grateful for her reaching out to me. When I started eating lunch with the group that Makilla introduced me to everyone was really nice but I still felt like I couldn’t be myself and that no one would really be themselves around me either. Then there was Rizzo. I wish I remembered what she first said to me. I don’t, but I remember it was some sarcastic remark and then I responded back with one of my own and we laughed a little. (Finally someone I could be myself around!) Anyway, we have been friends ever since and I think we will be BFF! (Sorry, I couldn’t resist) So yeah. We have a lot of fun. And she is so patient with me and my crazy life.
—I met Fuffy around the same time as Rizzo. Fuffy goes into that a little more on his blog, so why bring it up again? Basically I feel the same way he does. There are very few people that I can have so much fun with and at the same time be serious with when it’s important. He is a good kid and has blessed my life probably more than he knows.
—Gnome is next. And whenever I think about that kid I have to smile and kind of laugh to myself. I think he is one of the funniest guys I know. I love when he makes up stories. The first time I ever met gnome was on a date. Fuffy set it up and they kidnapped me in the morning along with a couple other girls for the other guys in the group and they made breakfast for us. I still think it’s funny to think that we went on a date. Anyway, He and Rizzo are perfect for each other and they are so fun to be with
. —Next is Ron. I met Ron in Rexburg when I was going to school at BYUI. The First thing that I think of is that he is absolutely Hilarious! He seriously could be a comedian! He makes me laugh so easily. That was one thing that drew me to him. Ron and I were neighbors for a semester but I didn’t really know him. He kind of met my roommates and thought that they were weird so he stayed away from our apartment. But the next year that I went back to Rexburg I met up with him again at a party and it was one of those parties that wasn’t the most exciting so you have to kind of find your own entertainment. So we did. Ron and I decided to see who could stuff the most cookies in their mouths. He won. But I just had so much fun with him that night that I told him he should come by the apartment and visit us. He did a few times and every time I wasn’t home but he also got to know my roommates better and decided they weren’t too bad after all so he kept coming over. I always had so much fun when he would come over. We played a lot of card games, made fun of my roommate Talls with me and things like that. The biggest thing that I learned from Ron was that relationships can be fun! I think when I dated people I had a hard time completely being myself but he helped me be comfortable with myself. And I realized that people can still like me when I am myself. (Weird) Anyway, if I ever publish a book he will be the first person that I dedicate it to. Mostly because he also brought out the creativity in me. Right now he is living in the
Philippines.
—I want to mention my roommates also, but that will end up taking up even more room. I will do a separate post for them later. Also, I have recently made some new friends that I have had a lot of fun with that I will probably bring up later. I am kind of interesting when it comes to making and keeping friends. I don’t always keep good friends for very long. Not that we stop being friends I just stop caring I guess. I don’t know if I get sick of people or I just like change. Either way I don’t think its really one of my best traits.
—I realize writing on this blog that I have been incredibly blessed with wonderful friends. And my family is amazing.
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I just might be way over my head with this blogging thing. Mostly I just have no idea what I am doing. Anything that has to do with computers I usually have my roommates help me with it. So yeah, we’ll see how this goes. I am actually very excited about this though. I guess I will start out saying that I love to write! I think I have always been a writer at heart. If you were to look through my planner you would find all sorts of little sticky tabs with notes on it of things that I want to write about or phrases that come into my mind. Someday I am going to write a book. It may not be good enough to publish, but I am going to do it anyway. I am actually planning on a few. My first book will be an autobiography. Mostly because it seems like that would be the easiest thing to start with because I don’t have to make anything up. Eventually I will write a realistic fiction book for young adults. When I was… younger (I don’t remember how old I was) I wrote a children’s alphabet book. I illustrated it and everything! It was pretty much amazing! After that I was addicted to the idea of writing books. I may not be the best writer but it does something good for my soul. So yeah, I kinda like the idea of typing here. Even if no one reads it I think it would be good for me. Kinda like a journal that anyone can read. Anyway, this is just a test to see if I really know what I am doing. On my next post I will tell more about myself and my life.
