Scarlet Alta Eaton

Scarlet Eaton was born today, March 24th at 1:13 PM. 7 lb. 4 oz. She is perfect, blue eyes with brown hair, and Mom was looking fabulous afterwards as well. They will be coming home tomorrow. Jane, Charlie and Jacob met the baby late this afternoon, and they were so darling with her. I feel so blessed and grateful for the safe and healthy birth of our fourth grandchild. Pictures on another day, I have them but no way to get them on my computer from here.

Born on a Blue Day - Daniel Tammet

Daniel Tammet - Born On A Blue Day. - For more funny movies, click here

This young man is amazing to me - I have just finished his book, and he is really quite remarkable. He has new book coming out very soon called 'Embracing the Wide Sky', which I definitely will read. His insights into his own autism and the challenges he has overcome to socialize are some of the most interesting reading I have come across. I actually have never known an autistc person but I have had an interest autism just because it is so interesting.

See also Super Brain - Daniel Tammet Parts 1-3 on YouTube

American Idol

My favorites on American Idol:

Allison (she is my top choice)

Danny

Megan (quirky - I don't think she can win, but I like her)

Matt

in no particular order...Anoop was good tonight, but he's not very consistent. Adam is obviously good, but just too out there for me. Who are your favorites?

Poor Manochehr

Now for Mano's sob story...he is the Super for two plants (one would be bad enough) one larger than the other. The larger one has two big boilers that have tubes that go around them that were up for maintenance in the next shut down coming up in a month or two. Well, first the one set of tubes leaked, and unbelievably, and most unlikely, the second sprung a leak...that was a little over two weeks ago...and we haven't seen hide nor hair of him since. This is bad b/c that plant is not producing (chaching). This is where you can start crying...it's been miserably cold the whole entire time, they work around the clock, and his wife keeps calling him to complain that she has to brush snow off the truck, or that her furnace is on and off not working, or some such 'emergency'. I didn't call all day yesterday which was probably a blessing:-) I do miss him though - I hope he comes home soon. (The picture shows a more relaxed Mano)

My Sentiments Exactly

My new motto...

Stake Women's Conference

I was edified today, for about 45 minutes, because, and this is a sob story, I was late for a variety of reasons. First, my furnace is on the fritz - I think maybe snow on the roof or something, so I shivered all night in a 66 degree C house, b/c I couldn't get a fire started, and the starter on my fireplace in my bedroom also didn't work - it has never not worked before, but of course this would all happen at the same time, so I had to fool around with the furnace, and call around to furnace fixers...b/c Manochehr, who's job all these things are, has been at work for two weeks straight (ok this is not a sob story about him, though truth be told, his story is worse than mine). Also, we are buried in snow here b/c the battery on the quad is dead and so neither Jared nor I have been able to clear the driveway, so I literally four by four out of here, over piles of snow. And last night Jared and Mark slept at Eli's, so I was on my own...

I did finally make it to the stake center and enjoyed a really good talk on journals. I was struck by one thing the sister said...to those who think that 'not much happens around here'; to this person she explained that we all have loved ones who will be interested in our thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and that we can stand to support these loved ones in various ways even after we're gone - through our journals. One thing my loved ones will be able to verify from my journals is the depth of my love and devotion to them...I have said it in real life, and it is recorded multiple times in my journals. They will feel loved, that's for sure, and that might feel good sometimes when things are tough.

Some favorite things...random order:-)

Counter stools - it's harder than you think to find the perfect counter stools. For one thing, great stools cost a lot more than you would think. I have been looking for 7 YEARS, and last week, I found them. Bernhardt Smithsonian swivel stools, wonderful quality and half price, PLUS, if you can believe this, I had a forgotten store credit of $250! The stools were meant for me, and happily the price was good too or in this economic environment I may have been forced to walk away.

I have also discovered two amazing skin/makeup products - that are too good not to share. The first is Olay Definity Color Recapture SPF15 Tinted Moisture. On a day when you only want sheer coverage, this is perfect. It goes on smoothly, isn't greasy, blends well, moisturizes lightly and is anti-aging and anti-wrinkle...ok I don't know how you prove that...but that's the promise:-) I wear light-medium. The fairest isn't really super fair, so the very light skinned are out of luck. It's really lovely, and boasts sanitary dispensing.

Next up is Victoria's Secret Very Voluptuous Extreme volume Mascara...my lashes are not curly or thick, but this mascara both thickens and, more amazingly, curls. I've used mascaras that say they curl, but they do not really curl...this one does.

List of 100...how many have you read?

Cool - I love this kind of question (thanks Dana Burgess). I couple of them I couldn't remember for sure...

The BBC believes most people will have read only six of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? I have read _47_ of them; it would be fun to fill in all the blanks this year...but some of them I don't want to read!


1. Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen Yes
2. The Lord of the Rings -- J.R.R. Tolkien No
3. Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte Yes
4. Harry Potter series -- J.K. Rowling Yes
5. To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee Yes
6. The Holy Bible - Yes
7. Wuthering Heights -- Emily Bronte yes
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell Yes (in school)
9. His Dark Materials -- Philip Pullman No
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Yes
11. Little Women -- Louisa M. Alcott Yes
12. Tess of the d’Urbervilles -- Thomas Hardy No
13. Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller Yes
14. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (all the plays) No, but some.
15. Rebecca -- Daphne du Maurier. No
16. The Hobbit -- J.R.R. Tolkien No
17. Birdsong -- Sebastian Faulk No
18. Catcher in the Rye -- J.D. Salinger Yes (Over rated)
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife -- Audrey Niffenegger Yes
20. Middlemarch -- George Eliot Yes
21. Gone with the Wind -- Margaret Mitchell Yes
22. The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald No (Can you believe it? Everyone has read this.)
23. Bleak House -- Charles Dickens No - but it's queued up:-)
24. War and Peace -- Leo Tolstoy Yes
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams No
26. Brideshead Revisited -- Evelyn Waugh No
27. Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky Yes
28. The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck Yes
29. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll No
30. The Wind in the Willows -- Kenneth Grahame No
31. Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy Yes
32. David Copperfield -- Charles Dickens Not sure - maybe?
33. The Chronicles of Narnia -- No
34. Emma -- Jane Austen Yes
35. Persuasion -- Jane Austen Yes
36. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -- C.S. Lewis Yes
37. The Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini Yes
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin -- Louis de Bernieres No
39. Memoirs of a Geisha -- Arthur Golden No
40. Winnie the Pooh -- A.A. Milne Yes
41. Animal Farm -- George Orwell Yes
42. The Da Vinci Code -- Dan Brown Yes
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Yes
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney -- John Irving No
45. The Woman in White -- Wilkie Collins No
46. Anne of Green Gables -- L.M. Montgomery Yes
47. Far from the Madding Crowd -- Thomas Hardy I think so.
48. The Handmaid's Tale -- Margaret Atwood Yes (thumbs down)
49. Lord of the Flies -- William Golding Yes
50. Atonement -- Ian McEwan No
51. Life of Pi -- Yann Martel Yes
52. Dune -- Frank Herbert No
53. Cold Comfort Farm -- Stella Gibbons No
54. Sense and Sensibility -- Jane Austen Yes
55. A Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth No
56. The Shadow of the Wind -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon No
57. A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens No
58. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley No
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time -- Mark Haddon Yes
60. Love in the Time of Cholera -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez No - but I have it to read sometime.
61. Of Mice and Men -- John Steinbeck Yes
62. Lolita -- Vladimir Nabokov No
63. The Secret History -- Donna Tartt No
64. The Lovely Bones -- Alice Yes
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Yes (a fave)
66. On the Road -- Jack Kerouac No
67. Jude the Obscure -- Thomas Hardy No
68. Bridget Jones' Diary -- Helen Fielding Yes
69. Midnight's Children -- Salman Rushdie No
70. Moby Dick -- Herman Melville Yes
71. Oliver Twist -- Charles Dickens Yes
72. Dracula -- Bram Stoker No
73. The Secret Garden -- Frances Hodgson Burnett Yes
74. Notes From A Small Island -- Bill Bryson No but this author is great (Thunderbolt Kid)
75. Ulysses -- James Joyce No
76. The Inferno -- Dante Alighieri No
77. Swallows and Amazons -- Arthur Ransome No
78. Germinal -- Emile Zola No
79. Vanity Fair -- William Makepeace Thackeray Yes (thumbs down)
80. Possession -- A.S. Byatt No
81. A Christmas Carol -- Charles Dickens Yes
82. Cloud Atlas -- David Mitchell No
83. The Color Purple -- Alice Walker No
84. The Remains of the Day -- Kazuo Ishiguro No
85. Madame Bovary -- Gustave Flaubert No
86. A Fine Balance -- Rohinton Mistry No - but I have this one too to read soon.
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven -- Mitch Albom Yes
89. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle No
90. The Faraway Tree Collection -- Enid Blyton No
91. Heart of Darkness -- Joseph Conrad No
92. The Little Prince -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Yes
93. The Wasp Factory -- Iain Banks No
94. Watership Down -- Richard Adams Yes, long, long ago
95. A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole No
96. A Town Like Alice -- Nevil Shute No
97. The Three Musketeers -- Alexandre Dumas No
98. Hamlet -- William Shakespeare Yes
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -- Roald Dahl Yes
100. Les Miserables -- Victor Hugo Yes

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Idol

I've been hanging out with  Roy this week - I love to spend time with my brother! We've been dining out all week though - I will need a mini diet just to handle this week...I could double up on my yoga classes if my body didn't already hurt in every conceivable place. I turned to Sarra for solace, but she likes that 'exercise muscle wincing pain' feeling. I'm opting for an hour of American Idol, emphasis on 'idle'.