Please please read this

Dear friends, as you know, I'm hardly ever serious on this blog. But, I do want to share a link with you about a topic that is very serious - emotional abuse. I have seen too many friends and family in emotionally abusive relationships. Some have gotten out before they were married, and others lived through an abusive marriage that broke the person that they originally were. Emotional abuse will break your spirit, and each of you is too precious to ever be broken like that. If you are in an abusive relationship, please seek help. And know that I will be praying for you and will be there to help in whatever way I can.

http://www.mormontimes.com/article/19757/Recognizing-emotional-abuse-in-dating-relationships

Why editing is important

There is a book that I have been helping find images for, and it has been the constant stress of work for the past few months. The man who wrote the book (a 94-year-old who loves to remind you that he might not be around much longer) keeps pestering my boss on the status of the book, who then pesters me, and I in turn pester the editor who always responds "next week I should have a working proof." 2 months after he first said "next week," I finally got a proof!!

When I was looking through the proof, I came to one picture that we had not actually suggested for the book. I want you to picture this image - two Korean women, one holding a bag of groceries, her head tossed back in laughter, the other standing in a doorway, holding a toddler in her arms, smiling at the other woman. The caption? "Humanitarian project in DR Congo."

Thoughts from Work

So, I haven't been posting as of late because work has kept me busy and squashed out any desire to get on the computer when I go home. To remedy that situation, I thought I'd share with all of you some random items from today at work.

• While walking from the parking lot, I realized I put on two different colors of knee-highs: one beige, and the other probably sun-tan. Not a huge difference, but one leg looks much more pink than the other. Reason #53 why I don't like the rule that I need to wear nylons.
• I smiled when I got into my motorpool car and heard a Spanish love-ballad blaring from the radio. Pretty great - I listened to the whole song.
  
• I've been helping with an insert that will be published in the Ensign this June. We've been pouring over it and discussing it for MUCH to long, as evidenced by the final caption the Ensign wanted us to write. The section of the article is on family finances, and the picture is clearly a couple working on their finances. My suggestion for a caption was this: "Husbands and wives should work together on finances to avoid the leading cause of divorce." I don't think the Ensign will go for it. . .