10/21/09

Letterboxing: My New Hobby.

Fort Utah.
Fort Utah stamp in my letterboxing notebook and my personal stamp.

Sometimes I think to myself: "I have a lot of free time." I usually fill this time with mind numbing TV watching or Guitar Hero playing. Sometimes this makes me feel like a slacker and a loser, so I decided I should do more with my creativity. (Remind me to tell you about my novel writing that is coming up next month)

A wonderful friend of mine, Elizabeth, took her kids on a letterboxing adventure a few weeks back and I decided that it was way cool and I was going to try it. Basically, letterboxing is similar to geo caching but different. You are given clues in order to find a box. Inside the box, is a notebook and a stamp. The whole idea is to find a box and then leave your stamp (which you create) in the notebook that is in the box. You also take the letterbox stamp and put it in your own little notebook to keep track of what boxes you have found. You can find out more about letter boxing at this site.

I found my first letter box today at Fort Utah. It was very fun. Enjoy the pictures from the adventure. I included a pic of my own stamp. I am very fond and proud of it. You should be too.

Must sleep. Parent teacher conferences tomorrow.....LONG.DAY.

I am adding to my negative list...

The University Inn located in Logan in my favorite place to stay when I go up for the pumpkin walk. There are no rooms for this friday! BOO. Super 8 here I come and I AM NOT happy about it!

Testing SUCKS!!!

This is the week of crankiness for various reasons:
1. I don't feel very well. (my stomach has been weird.)
2. I am constantly tired. I think it is because I don't feel well.
3. There is state testing at our school this week. I am an administrator of testing. This is pretty much the real reason it is the week of crankiness but I didn't want to put it at the top of the test because that may send a bad message to all of the people who read my blog who think state testing is wonderful.
4. The economy stinks.
5. Nobody has made me a pie in a while.
6. Kids who ask to go to the bathroom in the middle of a test and then everybody all of the sudden feels like they also need to go!
7. I have run out of reasons and am going to make up one: my dog died.

Positivity is contagious. So would you be positive already people? I have tried so hard to be positive these days but this week is really trying me. I think I need a vacation. Of course, I just had a vacation. So what do I do now?

I realized that I sound pathetic right now. I will quite complaining and tighten my bootstraps. Oh wait I do not have boots or bootstraps. I am screwed.

Tonight, I get to have dinner with two of my favorite people on the planet. There is a positive for you. I also get to go to Logan this weekend and hang out with another one of my favorite people on the planet. Take that negativity.

I need to add a countdown to the concert sidebar. That would make me happy. I will now go and do that. You go and be positive would you...and then breathe on me or send it out into the universe for me. I will catch it...I am positive!