Being 5 is tough. (more…)

Our ward’s trunk or treat is tonight, so I went to Target to get some candy.

I think shopping for Halloween candy is stressful. (more…)

Over at Segullah.

I stumbled across this post today, and I laughed and laughed. Because basically, most of our problems? They are Lame. It’s all about perspective, ladies.

Still, I thought it would be fun to discuss our own first world problems. Because with the right perspective, they are really funny. I’ll go first. Please chime in, because it’s good to laugh at ourselves, and also fun to think that we are all in this together.

My dishwasher is clogged and isn’t cleaning my dishes well enough, so now we have to clean them by hand until we can call a plumber.

Our lawn just got re-seeded because we wanted a lawn without weeds. We have no sprinklers, so we have to water our lawn manually, which means setting up a sprinkler that I have to move every half an hour.

Every time I go grocery shopping I have to rearrange my pantry so I can fit all the food in it, and often have to clean out decaying leftovers in the fridge to make room for the new produce I just bought.

My daughter’s room is too small for all her furniture.

My new conditioner doesn’t make my hair slick enough to comb with my fingers in the shower, so I have to actually brush it when I get out.

I missed a spot when shaving my legs, so I have a small line of hair going up my leg that is itchy.

When my husband updated my iphone, I lost all my cool ringtones, and now have to settle for the default ones that come with the phone.

And my favorite from the other post, not one I can call my own but still made me laugh:

I bought some new toilet paper, and it’s just not that soft.

Please, share with me YOUR first world problems, and let’s laugh together.

If the unthinkable happened, and your husband died, and you received life insurance money (you DO have life insurance right??), would you pay tithing on it?

Keep in mind that life insurance money is not taxed, so you would not lose a large chunk of it that way.

This came up recently, and it was really interesting to hear what people had to say.

Me, I think I would pay tithing on it. You, it’s your call, between you and the Lord. I know I would discuss it with my bishop. But then, I hope none of us ever have to deal with it.

(On a completely lighter, totally shameless promotional thought, my friend wrote this app called Solar Warfare that is totally cool. You should buy it. But maybe not with life insurance money.)

I’m over at my other blog today.

I’ve started and restarted this post, trying to figure out what I want to say. I’ve tried humorous, roundabout I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, straightforward, rude-in-yo-FACE, but none of it is coming out quite right. So I guess I’m just going to say it. (Which means it might come out as straightforward AND rude-in-yo-FACE, so be prepared.)

Women in the church are awful. (more…)

The blog was broken, which is why nobody has been blogging lately. Not that we’re super duper active bloggers lately anyways, but this time, there was a reason. Really.

And the thing is, many times I had things to blog about, and I’d come over here and want to talk about them, and the blog would be broken and I’d think, “Dang, where am I going to dump this?” and I either put something abbreviated on facebook, try to forget my stewing by watching a show, or stew some more and eat some chocolate for comfort. So when I found out the blog was fixed by our best guys (and again, “our best guys” means “The Wiz’s husband when he gets around to it after he finally has nothing else on his plate”), I got excited because I thought it meant I could finally get all my thoughts out of my head and we could have some awesome, cool discussions that have nothing to do with the presidential campaign because I live in a battleground state and I say FOR THE LOVE OF BETSY ROSS enough already. (more…)