Sad things in Utah

I keep up with the news in Utah. Last night I read one of the sadder things I’ve read in a long time. Zim’s is closing. 🙁 How can that be? I love Zim’s. If you ever needed anything craft related, that’s where you’d go. They’d always have it, plus ten other things you didn’t know you needed for your project.

I remember getting bags of fake fur remnants when we were little. We made stuffed creatures out of them, or glued the pieces to the big rocks we were always pulling out of the garden (maybe my parents should’ve stopped planting rocks) and made punk rock bands.

For a class my freshman year of college we had to make an object that represented us. I made a quilted felt mobius strip (yes, I’m that weird). I needed black felt and couldn’t find any anywhere. So I went to Zim’s, and of course they had some.

Now I’m wishing we had stopped in there this July when we were there. Just for old times sake. I’ll definitely have to make a stop at the down town store when I’m there in December.
What do you do without Zim’s?

Two days ago I read a story up there about how the computers from an elementary school in the district I used to teach in were stolen. That’s sad too. But part of me is laughing just a little teeny bit. That was my frequent nightmare my first year teaching – that I’d show up to teach and the computers would all be stolen, only I was the only one that noticed, and all the kids kept acting as if there was a computer in front of them. And the principal and parents and district people would always be there to observe me that day, and they wouldn’t notice either. Until halfway through the lesson it would be like they awoke from a trance and would realize the computers were gone and then the police would come in and arrest me because everyone would think that I did it.