Beware the box...

I love my little black cat and THIS made me laugh.

I AM MARU

CHECK OUT THIS LITTLE CUTIE FROM YOUTUBE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_AbfPXTKms

Lost in Translation?

My nephew Daniel and his wife Holly have been posting silly messages on Facebook about the baby coming. [They just found out they're having a little boy on August 13th]

Well, I wondered what Holly had written in Chinese, so I copy the Chinese characters, paste them into a Word document and print it out.

I give the paper to Mike Miao, one of our engineers from mainland China. He starts slowly translating into English… “I can’t believe that you are going to be…” here he starts stumbling and looks up at me with an odd expression, “my ... baby’s father?”

I suddenly realize how insane that probably sounds to him coming from a woman he works with!

I hurriedly explain that it’s not personal! It's from my niece in law to my nephew and they are expecting their first child.

Then I go into my office and laugh myself silly.

Congratulations, Nils!

My nephew Nils Evensen is graduating this coming Thursday, June 4, 2009, from Itineris High School with a high school diploma and an Associates degree from Salt Lake Community College. Bravo, Nils! Nils will be attending BYU.

My Great Grandmother's Heritage

My great grandmother, Margrethe Hansen was about 17 when she was forced to leave her home of Bornholm, Denmark.

A convert to Mormonism, she faced ostracism by her family and persecution from her Lutheran neighbors.

Becoming an indentured servant, she got the money needed to immigrate to America. It was in the 1870s and a long way to go for a young woman traveling alone.

In Utah she met Nils Evensen, a handsome young convert to the church from Ringsaker, Norway. They evenutally married and moved to Colorado.

It is a long way from the green island in the Baltic ocean to the Red Mesa of Kline, Colorado. I've often admired my great grandmother for her courage. My father said Margrethe loved visits from her grand-children and would encourage them to stay, plying them with cookies and saying, in her broken, heavily accented, English, "Plenty time! Plenty time!"

Bornholm, Denmark

“I have an IQ of 15 squared (1.6) /2”

I love the Big Bang Theory. I just had to post a little tribute to them. Few TV shows make me laugh out loud. Big Bang Theory is one of them.

Sheldon: “Yes, well, I’m polymerized tree sap and you’re an inorganic adhesive, so whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off me, returns to its original trajectory and adheres to you.”

Then there’s: String Theory VS Loop Quantum Gravity… do you prefer your space stringy or loopy?

And my personal favorite: “Oh, Gravity, thou art a heartless bitch”.