Sharing our Likes

We had a great first this week! Michelle ate sushi, and she ate a lot of it! It has been a fun tradition of mine, with some old roommates (Kent and Andrew who started me on this tradition), to go get all you can eat sushi up in American Fork. Granted it's not super high quality of fish, but they have fun sushi rolls to eat and they are pretty tasty. It is always a treat to be taken care of by a Japanese man named Randy, with Mexicans rolling the sushi behind the bar, and music in background that ranges from Avril Lavigne, to Taylor Swift, then Techno. It's quite the experience, let me tell you. But we had a contest this time, to see who could eat the most pieces of sushi. Brian did the best eating some 40+ pieces of sushi, I ate a fair amount at 35 and Michelle did 22 pieces. What was funny was that Andrew had only eaten 20 so when Michelle ate the same amount he was forced to eat more. He wasn't too happy to do it seeing as he is a lightweight when it comes to eating sushi. Other fun features of sushi night are that Kent will post the best comments of the night on Twitter and that they have paper place settings for the occasional drawing or doodling, which includes pencil, wasabi, ginger, and soy sauce. You need to get creative at these places.

That's "Asian Michelle eating Sushi" drawn by MOI

Another highlight that we had this week was the attendance at the Provo Temple and JCW's after. The temple was a sweet time as Brian and I were able to sit next to each other and we both were thinking about the health and well being of our Mimi, who is sick and in the hospital now. Michelle and I decided that we still love each other after 2 months and 4 weeks being married, always a plus :-). JCW's has some good eats. Great Guacamole bacon burger, Michelle can't stop eating the fries. I have figured out a way to prevent her from eating mine and that is to put Malt vinegar on it with extra salt.  It keeps her sticky fingers off my fries.

I have kept with the family Saturday tradition of playing classic rock in a black leather interior car. Saturday mornings can have any music or video played as the house gets clean but in the car stereo in the morning and afternoon belongs to "The Doors". Thanks dad.

Now since those are the highlights of the week, I get to share some of the fun videos that Michelle and I like.  We found this the other night and we still don't fully understand what is going on.

The light bulb to houses part still gets me... I get that the baseball is an onion and it is "diced" but a pepper to houses?

This one is a fun one to watch. The only problem that Michelle has with it is that the car is hitting the piano in the same place each time but it plays different notes, my untrained ears can't tell.

Now Michelle mentioned last week that we had to give a talk in Sacrament meeting today, and we may or may not have procrastinated writing those talks till only a few hours before church started. We were assigned the topic "Listen to the Spirit." Michelle drew most of talk from Elder Jay Jensen's talk in a CES fireside in January and I remembered a Mormon Message with then Elder Faust of the Quorum of the Twelve.  Here it is: 

If you watch any video, make sure it is this one and the one by "The Doors". When I looked up the full version of this talk I was very much impressed by the prophetic nature of one the paragraphs in his talk, "The Voice of the Spirit" which was given in 1993.

               " In your generation you will be barraged by multitudes of voices telling you how to live, how to gratify your passions, how to have it all. You will have up to five hundred television channels at your fingertips. There will be all sorts of software, interactive computer modems, databases, and bulletin boards; there will be desktop publishing, satellite receivers, and communications networks that will suffocate you with information. Local cable news networks will cover only local news. Everyone will be under more scrutiny. There will be fewer places of refuge and serenity. You will be bombarded with evil and wickedness like no other generation. As I contemplate this prospect, I am reminded of T. S. Eliot's words, "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" (The Rock [1934], I)." 

 When I heard and read this part of the talk i could only think that this talk was given when Mark Zuckerberg was still in on the playground pulling girls' hair to show that he liked them. This is what competes for our time and sadly I sometimes listen to a social voice that does not satisfy, nor uplift. I guess some reassessing my time is in order. 

Well friends, another Monday comes and I hope you aren't attacked by a case of the MUNDAYs

SORRY ONE MORE, and I promise it's the last.  When I was talking to my dad this week he made me think of a scene from "So I married an Axe Murderer"  

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