Thursday, October 11, 2012

Old Friends?

I have recently started watching Wings again on Netflix.  I will admit that I laugh at every episode.  Its almost like reuniting with old friends, you  know the ones I had about 15 years ago.  It is fantastic.  It is especially great since I do not have 3-D friends at home. 2-D friends work pretty well, at least for the time being.
FYI Wings is in the same universe as Cheers and Frasier. Frasier and his wife visit the island as well as a few other Cheers bar bums.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

I found this poem in the Random House Book of Poetry for Children today while looking for poems for school. I like especially the part of when I'm getting old, at twenty-eight or nine--I guess I am past due to go to the orphanage...

If No One Ever Marries Me (1897) by Laurence Alma-Tadema

If no-one ever marries me--
And I don't see why they should,
For nurse says I am not pretty
And I'm seldom very good--

If no one ever marries me
I shan't mind very much;
I shall buy a squirrel in a cage,
And a little rabbit-hutch;

I shall have a cottage near a wood,
And a pony all my own,
And a little lamb, quite clean and tame,
That I can take to town;

And when I'm getting really old, 
At twenty-eight or nine--
I shall buy a little orphan girl
And bring her up as mine.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Family History and Temple Work

Yesterday I went to meeting for Single Adults in my stake. There were only a few representatives from each of the wards. Apparently 1/3 of my stake is single including everyone from people like me 31 and never been married, to single parents, to widows and widowers that are elderly. They were working on a way to try to "help us." Sorry to say I don't know if this will really help because our needs are so different. My needs are different than those single members that have kids. One person who was there said he worked for the church in the family history department and according to him soon you will not be able to go to the temple unless you provide your own names. I seriously hope that is not true because that would mean not only am I the awkward one at church because I am single, but that I am not allowed to go to the temple too. I am sorry that my family has been diligent with family history for decades and it is incredibly difficult to find names to do temple work for. It is almost impossible. Well if that is the case, I guess I wont go. In his little pontification he said people would bring their own names or use those from their ward. Well if this is the case, why would people want to share their family names if it meant that they couldn't go when they ran out? Besides the fact that it is nice to do your own family names. I just don't see how this will work. There are a lot of people who are doing extraction. There are a lot of temple workers. There are missionaries who go to the temple. Are we going to forget extraction? Will missionaries not go to the temple because they don't have time to find a name? It just doesn't make sense besides the fact that it is not allowing me and my family to go to the temple any more. Overall I left this meeting feeling discouraged.