TDBC Day 7: Favorite Movies

I love movies and I especially love going to the movies (and I have to have popcorn). I can't specifically say I have a favorite movie (except #1 on the list below), but here is a list of the movies I've watched more than once, or even more than twice... okay, some of these movies I watch annually.

This isn't in any order of importance:

1- Pride and Prejudice okay, maybe this one is in order of importance and also represents that I love classic love stories.

2- Summer Magic an old Disney film with Haley Mills that we watch every fall, also a representation that I love the classic Disney movies from the 60's.

3- Watcher in the Woods another Disney show that we watch in the fall; I love suspense movies.

4- Houseboat Cary Grant; need I say more? I watch this every few years, it also represents the good, clean family movies of the 60's that I love.

5- Jurassic Park III I watch this one at least once a year; "rrruuuunnnnn...." What does this represent? I love dinosaur, sea monster, and monster movies!

6- The Kings Speech (I've only seen once) PG-13 version of course, it's a great movie, and of course the fact that Mr. Darcy took time out from being Mr. Darcy, well... 'nuff said.

7- White Christmas this is the "spokes-movie" for all of my favorite Christmas movies.

8- You've Got Mail my movie representation of the fact that I love chick flicks and it also led me to Pride and Prejudice.

TDBC Day 6: A Picture of the Last Thing I Purchased

I bought these micro mini purses last week for Caitlin, Chelsea, and Danielle who have an annual sleepover at our home every summer. The tradition started years ago when they were much younger and includes a treasure hunt with lots of fun little goodies. Every year I say to them, "aren't you too old for a treasure hunt?" and the answer is always the same "NO!!!" So I will continue to purchase little goodies, such as these darling purses. And they will continue to have treasure hunts for, well, probably FOR.E.VER!!!

TDBC Day 5: My Family

This blog is full of stories and pictures of my family, so I decided to do something a little different on this post. Some of you will remember my Family Friday series that I did from April 2009-March 2010. If you are new to my blog here it is in a nutshell: Every Friday. 47 weeks. One family member per week (my parents and their entire posterity). A lot of work and worth every hour I spent.

My Mother desired that Family Friday be published into a book so that she could give it to me and my siblings for Christmas. I spent many, many... many hours on this project and I'm very proud of it. Here is a picture of the book (I hope I don't ever find a copy of it at the DI). If you are interested in finding out what Family Friday is all about, just click on the Family Friday link in the labels section at the bottom of this post. You might find out you like us ;-)

TDBC Day 4: A Favorite Recipe

This is probably not the kind of recipe you would expect, but there is another recipe post later in the 30 day challenge, so I'm going to share this "favorite recipe" today.

Last week at BYU Women's Conference Elder and Sister Bednar spoke at the concluding session. I had never heard Sister Bednar speak before and I really enjoyed listening to her. She shared an experience she had when Elder Bednar was in school and she had a toddler and a baby to care for. Having a husband in school, a toddler to chase, and a baby to keep her up at night was a bit stressful. She asked her husband for a blessing one day and in the blessing he counseled her to do this:

Exercise
Get plenty of rest
Eat right
Study the scriptures daily
Pray daily

I have been thinking about this counsel since I got home from BYU, and then a couple of days ago while sitting in the drive-thru at the bank I thought about this recipe post and it came to me... this counsel is a recipe!

I was reminded that when you take these five "ingredients" and you "mix" them all together on a regular basis, it will "yield" physical, emotional, and spiritual health. I know that when I'm "partaking" on a regular basis I feel so much happier and more fit. I also know that when I'm not, I feel just the opposite.

So what do you do when you find a recipe you love and just can't live without!?! You share it with those you love, because we want to "feed" them good things. So serve it up!! There is no "fat" or "calories"!!! You can have as many "servings" as you'd like!!

TDBC Day 3: A Picture and Description of How Your Day Was

I would say that the 5 days a week I go to work things are pretty much the same every day... but there are other days it is completely unpredictable. As most of you know I manage a deli that my son owns. So pretty much every day I go at the same time, come home at the same time, and do all of the same stuff in the middle.

Today I made deviled eggs (very popular item at the deli), I prepared a weekly special (bbq roast beef sandwich), I prepared soup, I made sandwiches, salads, ran the cash register, wiped down tables and even more... pretty much the basic things we do on a daily basis.

Some days we do things that don't happen on a daily basis. Here are a just a couple that happened today:

"Hey, Lesley... where's the roast beef?"
"it's in the walk-in."
"no, it's not."
"Yes, it's in the box on the bottom shelf."
"No... that's sausage."
Silence
"What's in the sausage box in the freezer?"
Freezer is opened
"Roast beef."
My bad.

Our delivery that usually comes in the morning is still not there after our rush. Now the stragglers are coming in and we have just run out of tomatoes. A customer is told that we currently don't have any tomatoes, so she asks if she can have cucumbers instead. Cucumbers are an additional cost, but of course being the good manager that I am, I tell the person making the sandwich not to charge the customer for the cucumber (because of the missing tomatoes of course). Just as the customer turns to leave, sandwich in hand, our delivery truck drives up. I say (half joking, half serious) "our truck is here, do you still want tomatoes?" She went with the half serious and said, "yes!" So I send an employee running out to the truck to retrieve one tomato so that we can add it to her sandwich. And she still got her cucumber for free.

Oh well, at least I didn't have to do this post yesterday, when a bird decided to perch it's little self on the store window and stare at me all day!!!

TDBC Day 2: Meaning Behind My Blog Name

"It's just a pleasure being nominated". I'm not sure when I started to use that phrase, I just know it was a long, long time ago. I suppose it's one of those phrases you might use when things don't go just the way you wanted, expected, or needed them to go; case in point: let's say you were a contestant on a game show like, hmmm.... The Price Is Right! You are 'called on down' but you never make it up to Bob Barker on the stage, that would be one of those times you would say, "it's just a pleasure being nominated!"

When I decided to start a blog, choosing a blog title was the biggest decision I had to make. I pondered over a few ideas, but none of them seemed to click. And then inspiration struck! I was at the deli in Sandy on that particular day, working with Jeff; he was encouraging me to come up with a blog title so that I could get my blog up and running. A couple of ideas were tossed out, when suddenly the light bulb went on and I knew the name of my blog... "It's just a pleasure being nominated!!!" I proclaimed with much enthusiasm. A big grin came across Jeff's face and his hand went up for a high five, confirming to me that I was spot on. And that's the story of how I got my blog name.

TDBC Day 1: Introduce self, recent photo, interesting facts

Soooo... I've seen these 30 day Blog/Facebook challenges and they look fun, buuut... I hadn't seen one I thought would work for me until I saw this one on Kimmy's blog. So here goes. I'm probably crazy to commit to this, but what the heck.

This is my introduction:

I'm a wife, a mom, a grandma, a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a cousin, a niece, a friend. I don't really like the word "in-law", so if you are an "in-law" to me in any way, I would place you in one of the above categories (you should know which one applies to you). Family is very important to me.

I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Today I was witness to a monumental event as I attended the first stake conference of the newly created Bountiful Utah YSA Stake. A new Stake President was sustained and my husband was sustained as Bishop of a YSA ward. I love the church.

Although some people would claim that they don't have time to do this... I love writing on my blog. I've always loved writing and this is the outlet I have chosen to use at this time. As my friend Tiffany said recently on her blog, "this is a record of my people", I feel the same way about my blog and my people.

I love where I live. I live in my hometown and raised my family in my hometown. I don't ever want to leave here, but if I had to choose anywhere else to live, I would move to Southern California to a place with a great view of t'ocean (the ocean) and just a few steps to the beach. L.LOVE.T'OCEAN.'nuff said. Oh, wait, not 'nuff said... one of my dreams would be to visit the beach at least once a year and stay for two weeks. I think I'd be satisfied with that. Now... 'nuff said.

These are my... hmmm; interesting facts:

Disclaimer: I've been blogging for over three years now, so there aren't too many (interesting) facts about me that I haven't already revealed, and if I haven't mentioned it... I've either forgotten it or I don't want to tell.

I was born in Ireland

My 17th birthday was 31 hours long (all on the same calender date.... seriously)

I never, never, never.... ever, eat spaghetti noodles

I am a Price is Right loser

I don't love shopping; I didn't say I don't like it, I just don't love it

When I was 16, I was stranded in London's Victoria Station... I was all alone, and SCARED (and it was late at night)

My recent photo: