A Good Day after a Great Weekend

I had a hard time sleeping last night because I was overstimulated by all of the General Conference we watched yesterday.  I kept rolling through the talks and the music.  Not a bad way to spend the night but I was worn out by this morning.

Jeppe asked what we did this weekend, so I told him.  He was intrigued that we would/could watch the broadcasts from our homes.  He asked even more questions when I told him that in a few days the proceedings would be published in Danish.  I will give him the address as soon as they are in Danish.

We started the indexes for all of the protocols we have done.  We got 7 of them finished today.  Hopefully we can get this project over with quickly and move on to our next one.

New Resolutions

I have said this in several blogs after General Conference, but now is when I make my resolutions for the next 6 months.  I evaluate what I have done and how well I have progressed and then sit down and start fresh.  It is Spring and the time of new beginnings anyway.  What a fitting way to start the new season.  We still have one more session to watch (which we will watch tomorrow evening after work) and then I will fully decide what needs to be my new goals.  I have already committed to doing my 'duty in the Gospel', thanks to President Eyring's talk yesterday.  I am definitely implementing an 'Attitude of Gratitude' as President Uchtdorf suggests.  Those 2 will be my primary goals.

Tomorrow is a new day at work and we will begin the indexes.  Hopefully we can get this out of the way and start on new projects soon.

General Conference

General Conference is today.  We get to watch the first session on Saturday in just a few minutes.  Tomorrow we will watch the 2nd session and Priesthood before watching the Sunday morning session tomorrow evening.  For Family Home Evening we will watch the final session.

Clyde got our taxes done.  It never takes him as long as it did today.  He was very frustrated with the process.  Retirement has thrown several monkey wrenches in our work.

We went shopping this morning and they had Old El Paso refried beans!  Tonight we had tacos and it was like a bit of home.

Enjoy Conference.  We will.

Why is the sky so blue today...only because it's Spring.

Yesterday as Clyde and I were coming home on the train we saw a sight that made us (and everyone else on the train) smile.  It was a class of pre-school children coming home from a field trip.  They were holding hands, two by two down the aisles.  Even if they couldn't negotiate very well while holding hands, they did not let go.  They were happy and chattered all the way through the train.  Children until 12 ride free on the public transportation here.  There are no school buses so it makes it convenient for all.  I do marvel at how young the parents let their children ride the buses and trains alone but the children are confident and know what they are doing.  Clyde and I usually sit in the silent car in the back of the train but decided to move closer to the front, since that was closer to the mall we stopped off in last night.  I am glad we did or we would have missed that sweet sight of the children.

We went to the temple this morning.  I made 2 men cry.  One man when he helped me finish up and another man when I explained that we had just finished the cemetery records for Copenhagen.  It was quite interesting.  The second brother has family in Copenhagen and he hates going to the city building to search.  He is going to look into indexing for the city of Copenhagen.

Just barely made our connections today but we did it.  We scoped out where we will be attending Stake Conference in a few weeks.  Our stake center is being renovated from top to bottom, so we will be using a high school (they are called Gymnasiums in Denmark.  Pronounced Gim-nah-zium with a g like in good.) 

It has been a wonderful day.  I will post the pictures of the 'popcorn' on the trees all over Copenhagen.  It is gorgeous.  Love it here.

Full Day

I did go back to work this morning.  We found a bunch of loose pages in the German protocols as we were doing them.  We added them at the end.  I figured out that they were cremation records for some of the German Soldiers.  It was in German.  I felt more comfortable with that than I ever have with Danish.  It was interesting.

FamilySearch insists that we do the indexes.  We will do all 67 books but it seems like a waste of time to me and the officials of Copenhagen.  Oh well.  We are finished with what was originally contracted for us to do.  We will do this and the next 3 projects they have ready for us to do.

Jeppe gave us a party this afternoon, to celebrate our finishing the contract this morning.  Everyone in the archive came and asked questions about what we were doing.  It was very interesting and fun.  I love our office mates.  They were thrilled for us and impressed with how quickly we got the work done.  Hopefully we can get through the indexes quickly.  Jeppe figured out we did all of the protocols in about 60 days.  Interesting.  (By the time you add in holidays and sick days - I think he is right.

I couldn't stand it anymore and got my hair cut.  It was a different place than last time.  Hopefully in time we will get used to each other and be able to communicate better.  I think the sides of my hair are too short but not bad.  I also would have liked the back a bit shorter.  Oh well.  At least I look better put together and not like a bag lady.  The price was half of what I spent last time and $10 less than when I got it cut in Rhode Island.

We finished all of our work this morning and had to wait for the party to start at 1:30.  We went for a walk down a park pathway and enjoyed nature for a while.  At our party, Jeppe served fresh vegetables.  The big hit was fresh peas - eaten the way our family likes them best - fresh out of the pod.  Jeppe had served a bowl full and that was the vegetable that most people ate.  I guess that is where our family learned it - it was brought from the "Old Country".

I'm still home...

...but Clyde has been at work for the last 2 days alone.  This morning he got to work and found out the files he did yesterday were somehow corrupted.  He doesn't know if he needs to redo all the work of yesterday or not.  He is waiting for Chris Norton, our area supervisor, to let us know.  I will hopefully feel well enough to go tomorrow.

I love Danish honey.  That sounds odd but here is why.  It is like the spun honey you sometimes can get in the states - but it is not whipped.  Somehow their cooking process brings it to a candy like state.  I have to say too that since I have been eating some honey everyday, my allergies are so much better.  I guess the old wives tale is true.

Fortunately Clyde was able to download the books he did today with no problem.  FamilySearch wants us to digitize the indexes to the protocols.  Copenhagen said that the new data will be indexed pretty quickly and would be much more informative.  They want us to spend our time doing documents that matter.  We will see who wins.

I finally had time to watch the Women's Conference today.  I sobbed through the whole thing.  Not sure why.

Sick again

I had to let Clyde go to work alone because I have stomach bug again.  It started yesterday but it is not getting much better.  I hope I feel up to working tomorrow.

Clyde had to leave the shuttle drive running.  For some reason the download was taking a very long time.  Hopefully all will be well tomorrow and it will have successfully downloaded.

Not much to say.  Have a good first day of April.