Sep 302011
 

5 things that have happened this week that I haven’t bored you with previously.

1. By 9:00 a.m. on Monday, this is exactly what I wanted to do:  take flight and get the hell away from work.

It’s never good when a Monday (or any day, for that matter) starts out that way.

Too much stress and BS.

But I think about December (GAH!  Did I just say that?!?) and I get to start my Monday’s off again for 7 months.  Starting a work week on a Tuesday just doesn’t have the same affect on me.

2. We are loosing 2 more people at the college.  They are going on to other things in their lives.

The one that hits me the hardest is my office colleague Christi.  She is just a gem to have around.  When she leaves, I will be the last of the original team from 2 1/2 years ago.

I may just be found curled up in a corner somewhere babbling incoherently after she leaves.

I’m sure somebody will take a picture and post it on Facebook.

3. I did not clean any more wild rice this week.

I was lazy, depressed and pissed off.

7 pounds still sit in bowls waiting to be sorted through.  Somehow I was hoping that the house elves would do it while I was at work.

Maybe they were lazy, depressed and pissed off too.

4. September is over with already?

How the hell did that happen!  It just got here and brought fall with it and now it’s leaving?

You know what that means, don’t you?  Wally World will start putting out Christmas decorations!  GAHHHHH!!!!

5. I am grateful to have insurance.

One prescription that I bought could has set me back some major ching, but instead only cost the $5 co-pay.

And to top it off, the drug was the generic kind!  I thought all of those were cheep.  Well, at Wally World they are, but at Walgreen’s notsomuch.

Oh, and I was gonna pick up some soup when I was there, Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom, to be exact.  Price:  $1.67.  And they even had the balls guts to label it “on sale.”

Yeah, didn’t need it that bad.  I’ll wait until I go to a normal store this weekend and do my shopping.

Have a great weekend everyone!!

 

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Sep 282011
 

When the kids were up last weekend, Nichole wanted to get a family picture of Rick & I and the Grandkids.

Have you ever tried to get 5 kids ages 4 – 9 to sit still for 2 minutes without making silly faces?

Walker, dude, are you OK?  You look like you’re trying to pass a kidney stone or something.  Relax bud.

And Alexis, now is not the time to show us your whistle technique thankyouverymuch.

Kayla darlin’, we know you’re cute, no need to flaunt.

Why do I look as if I’m saying “Are we done yet?”

Because I wasn’t.  Saying that, that is.

Rick must have tickled Alexis in order to get this reaction.

That’s probably why I look like I’m telling him to behave in my nice “I’ll kill you later” voice.

And who hasn’t run into the “Child who wants to look at anything except the camera”.

Maybe I had a stray nose hair or something.

After 7 tries, this is the winning picture.

No giggles, no painful facial expressions, no adorable poses.

Just a normal photo.

Well, as normal as you can be with our family.

Sep 272011
 

I love Elder food.

I look forward to the start of the school year when these wonderful ladies return and cook for the employees and students of the college, and anyone else in the community that wants to partake in their fabulous cooking.

It’s homemade.

From scratch.

Delicious.

Food coma heaven.

And the measly 5 bucks they charge for all their hard work and humongous portions?  That all goes back to the students in the form of scholarships.

They just keep on giving!

Do you think it’s crazy to ask Santa for an Elder for Christmas?  Purely for the cooking, of course.

Oh, and maybe for the love that just oozes out of them.

 

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Sep 262011
 

Thor has been renamed Twitchy by Nichole.  They were having a love/hate relationship at the moment.  It was all about the catnip…

It was a showdown at the Big Bed Corral.

Nichole had something that Thor wanted, but she wasn’t going to give it up without some playful teasing first.

It was the catnip sock.  The one thing that Thor cannot resist.

She had it.

And he wanted it.

Thor tried the “stare down” approach, but he didn’t know how skilled his opponent was in this sport.  After a tie was declared, the teasing commenced.

This is the tricky part, because the proper technique needs to be used to keep the sock just out of reach of the swinging paws.

OH NO!  A momentary lapse of judgment!  Once he gets his claws in the sock, the tables are turned.  Thor has the upper paw.

He even tries the old standby “Give it up doll face, the game is over now” look.  Clearly, he thinks he can play mind games with a pro.

But Nichole knows how to try and throw Thor off of his game.  The good old “poke the nose” distraction is sure enough to get him to release the sock.

After this move, things turned a little ugly.  While the poke was semi-effective, one paw was still firmly on the sock but the other one swiped Nichole’s hand.

A temporary set-back.  After more teasing and a quick nip from Thor, it was time to declare a winner.

This round went to Thor.  A first win and great triumph by this young challenger.

You can bet that next time Nichole won’t be so easy on him.

And I’ll try to have his claws clipped so that injuries are kept down to a minimum.