Somebody Loves Me

No, you are not seeing quadruple. My sweet, wonderful, kind, hard-shopping niece, Cassie, sent me four, count 'em, four jars of Postum! Though Postum is not to be found here in Mormonville, she scooped up what she could find at stores near her in Ohio. Thanks to her I think I have not just my year's supply of Postum, but my life's supply. THANKS! THANKS! THANKS!

We got the call

We got our mission assignment to the Brazil Fortaleza Mission. It is on the eastern coast, actually the only coast of Brazil, quite far north, but below the Amazon. It's about as far out into the Atlantic as Brazil's bulge goes. For more info and a few pictures and a map, go to Becca's Blog aka Blog Hog. I've been giving her a bad time about posting the news before I did. In reality, it's a good thing she did because I doubt I could get all the pictures and map on the blog like she did.

I GUESS WE'RE PLAYING TAG

WHAT WERE YOU DOING 10 YEARS AGO
I have a tough time remembering what I was doing ten minutes ago, let alone ten years ago. I was probably just doing Mom stuff and Mini Bazaar stuff and church stuff. We were probably starting to get excited about Russell coming home from his mission like we are starting to about Tyler now.

5 THINGS ON MY TO DO LIST
I don't really do lists unless it is just a few days before a major event like Christmas, a wedding, or company coming. I usually just make a mental snapshot of my day and try to go with that. (I recently read that in an article on time management, so I thought I would throw it out for public opinion or ridicule.) BUT if I had made a list these things would have been on it:

Make an appointment for our immunizations... DONE... YEOUCH!

Make bread...DONE, but it tuned out pretty horrible because I let it raise too long.

Reply to a letter from Yvonne Williams of Australia I received almost a year ago. Hey, at least I didn't lose it...ALMOST DONE

Study for my Portuguese tutoring session...DONE and it went OK

Post blog because I got TAGGED...DOING IT NOW

SNACKS I ENJOY

Grape Laffy Taffy (Thank you Lee and Kim)

Cottage cheese on wheat thins, potato chips or saltines.

Peanut butter and honey mixed on a plate and eaten with the knife.

A cupful of Multigrain Cheerios eaten dry

Most kinds of candy that have chocolate and nuts.

The super delicious tamales Sally Ellsworth made for Alan. (Sorry Alan)

WHAT WOULD I DO IF I SUDDENLY BECAME A BILLIONAIRE?

I can't really relate to that amount, but I do a pretty good job of spending, so I could probably figure out how to do it. I would like to do things for people I've noticed that they could use. It would be fun to pay to have a house painted, or yard landscaped, or a kid's teeth straightened and always have them wonder who paid for it. I might also have myself a beautiful garden built AND maintained.

3 BAD HABITS

Procrastinating, being messy, wasting time on the computer.

SOME THINGS PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME

I'm a terrible bookkeeper, not that I don't know how, it's just not fun. I misplace things often but am a little more organized than I appear, thank heavens. I like to shop at thrift stores. I enjoy other people, but don't mind being alone sometimes too. My car is usually a mess. My real name is Mildred.

I'll TAG somebody when I'm not so tired. Hey, I'm an old lady.

Mitt Quit

I really don't know what to think about this. It's a true dilemma. I knew Mitt's candidacy was a long shot, but John McCain? Yikes! Does Ross Perot have a son?

Posting on Postum

What the heck! I just learned today that Postum has been cancelled, discontinued, no longer made. I couldn't believe it. It's always been there for me when I couldn't think of what sounded good and wanted just a little something. On the Internet it said it was dropped because of lack of consumer demand. They made it sound like the only people that drank it were 85+ and apparently the numbers in that age group were dwindling. I guess they didn't know about those of us, not in that age group, that grew up with it. In fact it's one of those little memories I treasure...my Dad asking me to make him a cup of Postum, really hot so he had to sip/slurp it so it wouldn't burn him. He really enjoyed his Postum, or at least enjoyed the noise he made drinking it. So if you see it, you better buy it because you probably won't see it again unless you want to pay through the nose for it on Ebay. Who ever thought you'd find Postum listed on Ebay? First they discontinue Thoro, a great cleaning product, then Postum. What's next? Oyster soup or Melba Toasts? What's happening to America?