Little bird leaves the nest

Last Wednesday, a little bird flew the coop and landed at college.  She is excited to be there and I am excited for her!

A goal for 2013

Since the last of the pre-scheduled Edna-isms posted last week, I felt I needed to follow up with something else just to move the blog along. So I thought I would divulge a goal I have been working on  this year.  To preface, I need to say that I read 180 books last year and so I thought I would bump that up to 200 for this year. However, for about the first three months of the year, I sat with my bad ankle elevated while I read books instead of watching TV.  So I decided to up that goal to 365 books. So far, I have read about 244 books, which puts me about 10% ahead of schedule. I have to admit that I avoid heavy reading (it would slow my brain down!!) and thick books, preferring to fly through thinner books to keep on schedule. However, I have read some thicker books along the way and the thinner books are not like children's picture books, either. My goal is not in the bag, yet! We will see whether I can pull this off.  

Edna-isms, Part Forty-three

Edna captured in newspaper photo with Pres. Ronald Reagan.

1.  "Lost my zizz-wheel." Well, I looked this up online and I should probably leave this out of the Edna-isms line-up.  I won't even mention what zizz-wheel really means.  HOWEVER, Mom meant her brain or her mind.  She might say, "If I should ever lose my zizz-wheel . . . " which, unfortunately, she really did do eventually.

2.  "What you don't know won't hurt you."  This was usually said about someone who wasn't present and about something that absent person was not likely to discover.  Let's say we were somewhere and were given a plate of cookies, which we promptly ate before sharing with someone at home.  This is total fiction but then regarding the person who missed out on the cookies, Mom might say, "What she doesn't know won't hurt her."

3,  "To make a long story short."  If I had a nickel for every time I have heard this phrase from my mother's lips, I would be a rich, rich woman.

New calling

As of July 18th, I was called to be the stake YW secretary in the presidency that was called back in March.  I was sustained on July 25th, and set apart this past Sunday. 

PGB, JE, LW and DE.  Fun group.  

Edna-isms, Part Forty-two

1.   "Breeding a scab on your nose."  I found only one reference to this online, on some woman's blog, and she said it was a common Midwestern phrase meaning you are asking for trouble and you are likely going to get it. I think my mother used it to mean we were acting up and were about to get in trouble (i.e., punished--although my mother was not a punishment kind of mom).  It was kind of like another saying she used, "You're cruisin' for a bruisin'."

2.  "What in the name of Peter Alice?!"  This was a common cuss phrase.  I have no idea where it came from.

3.  "Spitting distance."  Ah, I always thought this was just my mother's phrase, but it is a known idiom meaning "within reach or not far away."