lately

i would like to apologize to all the avid readers of my blog (all one of you out there...you know who you are angela rose! :) for the sporadic posting i end up doing. i am often thinking about what my next post will be but it is hard to sit down and find the time to write!

here are a few updates.

we are apartment hunting but it is difficult because our desire level is about $500 higher than our budget will allow. but come on, is it really so much to ask to live in a cute neighborhood in LA? throw in a dishwasher and a/c and i might just collapse and die, my life complete.

speaking of which...you may or may not remember that i mentioned gang activity has ramped up lately (like anyone could possibly forget the excitement of a few weeks ago). brandon's home teaching companion at church is this inactive 14-year-old boy, and yesterday at church we found out that his 17-year-old brother was shot to death, presumably in a gang related incident. SAD. and scary. so yes, we are moving. please pray that we find a nice place to live. it's still up for debate how long we will stay in the adams ward though because it is nice to be needed, but i could use a change of pace all around.

in other news, i don't have much free time (obviously) but i have been hard at work at my other hobbies, old and new.

i just finished harry potter book 7...thought the ending was a little anticlimatic but maybe that's because i was fully burned out. still great though!

i'm also working on doing some geneaology -- i read an article in this month's Ensign about Family Search indexing, and it was like an answer to my prayers! i have been wanting to get involved in family history work (in addition to my own journal keeping and whatnot) but couldn't figure out how to make time for it. after learning about this, you just go to the Family Search web site, download the software and mostly do data entry at your own pace to help other people do their family history work. so fun and so gratifying! check it out for yourself! :)

and, i just had to share because i am proud. i love to bake and yesterday i made a beautiful carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. :)

that's about all that's new in the payzant-wells household! stay tuned...i swear i will catch up soon.