Ah spring

After church today, I was a good girl and went to ward choir (because I've been skipping lately and felt guilty for not supporting). As we were singing, I felt something fall into my hair next to my ear. It felt like a piece of paper, and since the boy's row sits right behind us, and since I'm very used to the way boys act when they are in choirs, I assumed someone had been throwing something and it landed in my hair. So, I reach to pull it out, and instead, my fingers circle a wasp. Yes, a wasp landed in my hair, and it was super mad at the way I handled it. It flew off in a huff, I had a minor freak out, and all the choir was trying to figure out what happened. My thumb did hurt for a bit afterward, but a little cold water helped the finger to stop hurting.

All I can say is, who gets bit by a wasp in a chapel, in March?! Just special people like me.

Celebrity Crushes

I'm not really one to do normal girl things, so I thought I'd try it out and do a very girly thing - share my celebrity crushes/men I think are beautiful. Because I really just like looking at these men.

My first crush was on Gary Hobson from the TV show Early Edition, played wonderfully by Kyle Chandler. I still want to marry a man like Gary Hobson (just throwing it out there).





















I also have worked hard to develop a reputation as a geek (despite the time that Emma tried to kick me out of our geek club made for 2). While for the most part I love science fiction because of the great story lines, the space battles, and the fun adventures, I have to admit, there are some incredibly beautiful men in science fiction. Here is Michael Shanks from Stargate SG-1:






















And Joe Flanigan from Stargate Atlantis:





















And from the fantasy world, there is Prince Caspian, played by Ben Barnes. If any of you could track him down for me, I would be forever in your debt.






















And finally, there is the oh-so-wonderful Matt Bomer, star of White Collar.

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. . .
  

My mind is a blank.

I've decided I want to try my hand at composing music. I've been wanting to for years, but I have one hold up - I never can think of any lyrics, or even a good topic to try. I like thinking of melodies, I'll make up stuff on the piano, but I draw a blank when it comes to lyrics. So, the big question is. . .
Does anyone want to help me with lyrics? Or does anyone have a poem they want me to put to music? Please realize it will probably never be very good, and I might never share it with anyone, but if you have ideas to help me jumpstart my attempt at composing, I would appreciate the help.

Greetings!

I'm teaching my parents the joys of igoogle and google reader, which has lead them to finally reading my blog, which has lead to the confusion about my blog title coming up as "Defying Gravity." So, to help my parents, I changed my blog title so (hopefully) it will appear as "Emily's Ramblings" in your newsfeed. Which, if I do say so myself, is probably more descriptive of what this blog actually entails, because I've never really determined a purpose for this blog. Which actually suits me best.

Ummm, that's about it. I mostly want to post this so my name appears in your feed reader, or however you get updates that I have posted, so that I can tell you "Hi!" and that I'm still around. So Hello, faithful reader, I think you are swell.