One more day....

I have one more day to wake up and go to school before I get 10 days off... I love being a teacher... Actually my class is great so it is very easy to go to school this year... Not much to say so if someone is reading this then I apologize for being boring... I think I am already in coast mood... Night...39

Special Presidency meeting....

I met with Jared, Jason Jay, and Brian for a presidency meeting.... We started out slowly and then the Spirit came and we were able to come up with some special things to do... The Brethern were great to work with.... I am proud of Brian, I think he is going to be a great leader... Joshau and I went golfing and it was blistering cold with a wind of 30 mph and yet we had so much fun playing... I beat Joshua 89-96 but really the score did not matter it was the head to head and except for a couple of bad holes by Joshua we were really even.... I talked to my mom and it was fun talking to her... I had to cut it short so I am calling her up again tomorrow, so be ready mom.... Night... 39

Shot a 75...

I went golfing by myself today and I shot a 75... Yea, I know, I was all by myself, but what the heck, I have no need to lie in this journal entry.... I also went with the missionaries to teach these twin boys that go to Challenger.... They're names are Chris and Alex... They were kind of aloof at first but by the end the Spirit came in and it was pretty powerful... It felt good to help out... It was a pretty good meeting I went to today to miss teaching my class and that doesn't happen very often... I am going to teach "Where the Red Fern Grows" to the EL students... It is a selected group of students that are hispanic and it will be fun to do that novel again... Note to my Mother: Have your cell phone ready because I am going to try and call you tomorrow.... Night.... 39

7th day out of the classroom....

The state of California is making me stay out of my class for the 7th time this year alone... Tomorrow I have to miss another day outside my classroom... This is just crazy and no one seems to care.... Rachelle is going to teach my class and I told them that the sub is my daughter so I don't want to hear about problems... All they told me is that they really like Rachelle and then it hit me that they might want her rather than me... I am looking forward to a week off next week though... night.... 39

What a service project..... and Lybarger update

Today is the Sabbath Day and we had an ox in the mire... An older, senior couple (yes, older than I) had stacks of shingles on their roof that needed to be taken down because it is to cold to put them on so we asked for help from the brethern and 14 brethern came and took down the shingles and we moved them to Jason Jay's garage and we did the whole thing in 25 minutes.... It would have taken a couple of men hours to do and the weight was heavy.... The weight was not heavy with the help of so many brethern... What a fortunate President I am to have so many brethern who are willing to help... I found out today that the Lybarger line is ready to be taken to the temple and we will be able to do work for many, many connections to Barton Lybarger who is my mom's real father, physically... Obviously my mother was raised by Lewis Rigby and he was her true father and whom I love with all my heart, but the Lybarger line has personally prompted me many times and now I will be able to see their work done in the temple... This journal entry is huge and I am thankful for the help from Heaven in accomplishing this task... Jared has been a tremendous help in this area with me also... I am anxious for the work to begin and be done... I am hoping that we might be able to have family outings to the temple so we can do a lot of work in one day.... It felt great to go to church again and being healthy once more.... Night... 39

I beat Bo one on one...

I mention this because I am 57 and Bo is 17... Bo, actually is a good basketball player but from time to time I can get hot and start flinging off balance, unorthodox shots and can beat someone... Bo took it really well and is always complimentary toward me... I love him very much... I beat him 10-6...I mention this because when I was playing Joshua in golf this morning we were talking about my dad... I am not criticizing my dad but he never played me a game of one on one... My memories with him is the great coaching he did in baseball and basketball... Also he took me to so many Laker, Dodgers, and Angels games... That is the big memory I have of him... I beat Joshua in golf today.... I shot a 82 and Joshua shot an 89... I called my mom and it was so neat to talk to her.... I am lucky to have such a wonderful woman to be my mom... I teased Taylor about how she takes advantage of me because she is my baby, but I told her that I did the same with my mom and we both did it with a smile on our face... Venna, Taylor, and I went to see the new 3D "Christmas Carol".... It was great and the special effects were spectacular... Then Venna and I took Bo to get his letterman jacket... We kept busy but it was a wonderful Veterns Day... Michael Good and his wife and child came and visit our family here at our house last night... Health wise I feel really good and I am thankful for that... News wise we had a Muslim Soildier kill I believe 8 soildiers in a camp in Texas and wounded numerous more... It was a really sad event in our country, but good old Obama wants us all to stay calm and not rush to judgement... Glenn Beck on the Fox News channel is a member of the church and is doing an great job of exposing Obama and his cronies of Socialist... If you are reading this many years from now, history will bear out the evil that is taking place in our government at this time... Night.... 39

Michael Jackson, yep, I saw the movie...

Taylor, McKenna, and mom went to see Michael Jackson movie and it was a wonderful experience... Now, don't get me wrong I think he is really creepy but Oh my, can he perform... If you don't give that to him then your not being fair... Even Venna like it... McKenna was really cute but I really loved seeing it with Taylor... She is my body for things like this...We watch American Idol together and we like to watch biographies on the TV... She is my body in things like this and we really enjoyed watching this movie together... Jacob calls them his boys and Bo calls them his package but whatever name you want to give them mine are giving me trouble... I have blood blisters on them and when they pop then I bleed... I was bleeding Friday morning and I couldn't figure it out where the blood was coming from... At 1 O'clock this morning I was drying myself off from going into the spa and I was bleeding again and this time I figured it out where it was coming from and yep it was my Boys/Package... It scared me enough to have Venna go with me to the emergency and they held me there until 6:30 AM and they said that my blood count was good and that they did not believe it was cancer but they want me to see my Doctor... Theron Billy and myself are now writing to each other and that makes me so happy... Venna and I are hoping that all our family along with Theron and his family will come to Thanksgiving on 2010 so we can have a reunion... Can you all try to put this on the calender... Theron signed off saying Your Son and I can't tell you how the tears flowed, so yes I definately have 9 children and three more grand children... That makes 23 now... I was told in a dream to start blogging and that dream was a no nonsense dream and now I am really seeing the benefits... Night.... 39... Oh by the way Corine I was really touched by your blog entry on wanting to get help for Darin... Our prayers are with you and Scott and especially Darin... 39

Brian did it he is a school board member...

Wow, I am so proud of Brian... He is not even here a year and he got voted in as a school board member... Now, the work is going to begin... I remember when I was made Bishop that it seem like it was just an hour that I felt honored and then I was on a service roller coaster like I have never been on before... Brian is going to have half of the people happy and the other half is going to be angry with him.... Rachael will be watched everywhere she goes and is going to be judged on a different level, but who cares, Brian is there to serve and I hope that he is successful in making decisions with the best intention and the (sorry Jake) hell with the rest of them... Jake is my language monitor and that is because he doesn't want me to say gray words in front of his kids... I admire that... I had a wonderful talk with Bo today about his ticket... I didn't want to talk to him yesterday because I wanted to be rational, it reminded me of a time when I came home from our cruise just to find out that my son Scott who did not have a licence ran into the building at the dairy here... I just went to bed and talked to him the next day... Both times I believe I did the right thing and oh by the way, they both went to bed wondering what was going to happen tomorrow and I think that might be the greatest punishment of all...Tayor and I are going to the movie by Michael Jackson this Friday and we are going to stop and get her a new IPOD that she saved half of her money for.... I love doing things with her... I think that Venna and McKenna is going also, but I know for sure Taylor and I are doing it... My class has finally stopped treating me like a substitute and we got some good things done today.... With all the headaches I really do love teaching... I am lucky to do a job I love... Night... 39

Jake, Bo, and crap!!!

I was officiating a lousy game and my knees were really bothering me... My knees are generally okay but I felt pain in them... What made matters worse is that Eastside is way better than Palmdale and yet in the third game Eastside was ahead 22-14 and ended up losing the game and that meant that I had to spend another half hour at the match... I was wondering why my knee was hurting and then I remembered a four hundred yard run, pushing Jacob's broken down car with Bo and Jacob by my side.... Four hundred isn't so much unless you are running up hill, yep, we were running up hill and I was drained.... Bo got a ticket tonight... I went to find him and when he was late and yes I did find him pulled over by a cop.... I am not happy and I would rather not talk about this event any more tonight... He was driving 78 MPH.... Crap!!!... I did hear from Theron Billy and that brought some excitement to this day.... I love you guys.... Night.... 39

I'm teaching again...

It felt great to go back to school and teach again... My class seem to be thrilled to see me again also... I've got this constant sore throat and it is painful and feels like it is shredding the back of my throat... And yet I am not sick any longer just in pain... I don't want to go and see the Doctor because I don't feel sick and yet it is annoying.... Any ideas out there.... Night.... 39

Thank you, Julie....

Thanks to Julie I now have faith in blogging again... I wrote the last blog and it told me that there was a problem and that it would not be published and I was so tired I didn't want to repeat it but she told me that the draft was still there and she was right... I had a horrible week of math training and it went from 8:00 to 3:25everyday last week... I also did 4 days of volleyball so invaribably I was getting home at 9:00 every night... The math training was okay but being away from my family and students, well, that stunk... Joshua and I did two games together last week... We did it together at Paraclete and Boron... Josh did a great job on a very difficult game at Paraclete and we ate at a really neat mexican restraunt in Boron... I've been fighting a sore throat so I did not go to church today... I think that was a wise idea... I still have a sore throat but I am not especially sick... I am tired but then again who isn't?.... John Beaudette put on his annual Halloween scare at his house... Tanner was scared to death but Andy just walsed right through all the Beudettes trying to scare her and just said I am here to get a lot of candy... Jesse went up there but Lina didn't.... Sorry Lina but I had to tell on you.... Taylor was scared to death with the monkey mask that John Beaudette had us put under her pillow... Brian is two days away from being on our school board... I hope he is ready because he is going to win... USC got crused by Oregon and it wasn't even close.... The Clippers suck again so I am already a Laker fan... I am having no fun with the World Series because I can't stand the Yankees or the Phillies... Good Night.... 39