Tomorrow's Friday!

Well we were supposed to have Bible study tonight. If I would have known we weren't, I would have gone to the gym after work. Sara left a message for me about 10 till 6. But I didn't get around to checking my phone until about 6:30. And I had just snarfed my supper because I was trying to eat before everyone got to our house. So no gym for me tonight. But, that's really okay with me. I'm okay with having an excuse not to go. But, sitting at the computer at the library right after eating does not cause cramping and sickness. So here I am. And I really don't have anything to say. Sorry.
Sunday is potluck and it's my month to do meat. I have two others doing it with me, thank goodness. But come Saturday I'll be making a bunch of mini meatloaves. Yay, right?
Random: the lady at the computer next to me is on e-Harmony.com. I wish her well.

My Weekend Rocked

I went to the librarians house. Am I cool or what? I went last year too for her annual potato supper that she has- mostly with her church people and a few of us stragglers. They're Church of Christ- which means they'd be really good AC's. We sit around and eat a lot. Then we have an a capella singing out of a hymnbook. It's a little awkward showing up there because we don't know anybody and most of them are pretty old. But the food is good and the singing is good. That was Saturday night. Friday night we went to Huntsville to do a little shopping. We had it planned and then Friday afternoon gas shot up. But we went anyways. I got it for 4.09. One place in Athens was 4.89. I had run up to the gas station right after work to fill up before we left and somehow managed to get stuck behind just one car. (This place was selling it for 3.87 and had about 20 cars waiting) Pulled up to the pump and realized I left my wallet at home. Grrr..... so I said forget it- I'm going shopping. Well, by the time we were done shopping all the cheap places were sold out. But 4.09 was the next best so that's what I settled for. Now the cheapest in town is 4.15. It's ridiculous. An hour west of us in Florence, AL they were selling it for 5.36. Crazy. Hopefully they go down soon since they really didn't need to go up that much in the first place. So anyways, that was my weekend. Maybe it didn't quite rock. Maybe that was a little bit of an exaggeration. But it was good, regaurdless.

Weekend Highlights

We had people from U of I and a few from Indiana down this weekend. Just a few of the highlights:
-First and foremost, Gab and Kristi came down last minute. Thursday night they weren't coming, Friday noon they left cause Gab got called off work. Very exciting news to me.
-Shrimp boil for supper. (I've always called it a hobo supper) A great excuse for being a really messy eater.
-Great games of volleyball in the goose poop filled court.
-Singing
-Willing workers who sanitized almost every last toy in the preschool and did a bunch of other stuff too.
-Playing I Have Never, which deserves a couple of it's own hightlights.
-Person in the middle says "I have never gone more than three days without showering." Every girl got up and traded places and not one guy got up. (I think they were a little disturbed by that.)
-"I have never been older than 22." In a circle of about 20, 3 of us got up. Talk about feeling old.
-An awesome Sunday afternoon nap!

Some of the lowlights include:
-Fire ants. So annoying.
-My breakfast casserole didn't get done in time. It was tragic. And I had gone to bed about 3 am so I was really tired so everything was a bigger deal than normal and I really was about in tears over it.

And now onto a different subject matter. I'm a little sad an homesick this week cause I'm missing the Pumpkin Fest. Even though I didn't grow up in Morton, I did live there for a spell and this will be the first time in about 6 or 7 years that I will have to miss it. It's a very sad thing.

Okay that's all. Bye

Homeward Bound

Anyways, that's the plan. Hopefully the kids go to sleep really fast tomorrow because I'm leaving as soon as they're down. And then I'm rushing as fast as I can to Nate and Jamie's to see Haley. Cause it will be the only time all weekend I can see her. And seeing her is a necessity. Unfortunately I can't speed too much since it's a holiday weekend and the cops will be thick as maggots on a dead dog. That was really gross but it's the first thing to come to my head. Don't ask why. I don't know. Last year over Labor Day weekend when I was coming back home I kept a tally of all the cops I saw. This was on Monday on the actual holiday. I saw 24 cops. 2 in Kentucky, 1 in Tennesse and 21 in Illinois. Crazy.
Then I'm spending Saturday in Gridley after eating with Mandy and Erin and whoever else shows up at Docs. I don't think I've been to Docs since March. It's high time. And going to a wedding Sunday afternoon. And hopefully seeing Angie Monday. And my parents. I'm not sure when I'm going to see them. Good thing I don't have to leave until Monday. Okay, I'm hungry and sick of typing.

Story

Do you like the title of my post? I guess I'm not feeling too creative right now. But I have a story to tell. It happened Friday at lunch time. On either Tuesday or Wednesday we had a wasp in the kitchen during lunch time. So me, being the brave one, took it upon myself to kill it. With a flyswatter of course, and if you had a video of me doing it, you would realize I'm not so much the brave one. Anyways, mission accomplished, I killed the wasp. But we couldn't figure out where it went too. It came flying to the ground after I swatted it, (at my face mind you) and I just figured it must be blending in with the tile on the floor. Then I forgot about it and that was that. Well then Friday I was getting my lunch ready, eating leftover taco meat. I got it out of the fridge and started breaking it up with my fork cause it was all sticking together like greasy, fatty taco meat does. And I found a piece of burnt meat and went to throw it out. But rather than throwing it out, I pretty much freaked out, because there was my wasp friend, hanging off my fork just begging to be eaten. It was so gross. But even grosser is that the day before Miss Louise had eaten meat out of there and somehow missed the wasp. It really did blend in- I really thought it was just burnt meat at first. The ironic thing is, is that the pest control man happened to be there and asked if we had been seeing any bugs. So I held it up for him to see and told him that yes, we have been seeing them! So needless to say, I didn't have tacos that day.

Coming up in the World!

Well here I am, blogging somewhere besides the library! Jena came with a laptop and full intentions of getting internet so ta da! Here I am. It's been really busy around here lately. This weekend is the first in a long time where I don't have much going on and it's great. Funny- I used to dread the weekends with nothing to do. Now I look forward to them.
Did I post about our flood yet? Last Thursday we had a storm come through with lots and lots of rain in a short amount of time. And when that happens, a lot of times the preschool will get water in it. It's happened before since I've been here, but not this bad. The power had gone out about 5:00 and came back on about 11:00. When it came back on I went over to make sure everything was cut off because the kids had been messing with all the light switches and stuff. And when I walked into our big room, I heard squish, squish, squish. And looked down to see water pooling around my shoes. Man it was a mess. So last Friday I had a really long day because I worked from open to close cause I went in early to help Miss Louise get things cleaned up. So until Wednesday we were cramming the kids into the two smaller rooms and having naptime in the Fellowship Hall. We're finally back in the big room, but it still smells terrible. And it probably will for a long time.
This week was kind of a sad week. Kindergarten started which means my Devin is gone now. I thought he would be coming Monday and Tuesday so I didn't make a big point to say goodbye last Friday, but then he ended up not coming at all. Tuesday night I cried and cried cause he's going to big school, and I didn't tell him goodbye and I just miss him a lot already. But Thursday his mom called me and said she'd swing by after school on Friday. So I did get to see him for a few minutes. I absolutely cherish last Thursday though. When the power went off and it was storming outside, he was scared and sat in my lap the whole time. And his dad was late picking him up because of the storm and so I had about a half hour with just me and Devin. And he's so cuddly and smells so good and I decided that it was worth it to have the preschool flood just because of that. Boy, I sound a little obsessed. I'm not really, I just love the kid to pieces.
I'm really excited for next weekend. We're going up for the Leo sale. I had to miss it last year, and have been excited for this years sale since then. And it's finally almost here!
Okay well I need to go do stuff at the preschool. We're starting all over with the letter A on Monday and I need to go get my room ready. Bye!

Pride Cometh Before the Fall

Well this weekend was Mark's bapism. Yay! It was an awesome weekend. Abslolutely, incredibly awesome. It's been awhile since I've had one of those spiritual mountain top weekends and it was so refreshing to have one. Anyways, don't ask me why, but Saturday during testimonies. Or, testimony, rather, I had this random flashback of walking into church without my veil. I was probably 12 or 13, and completely and utterly mortified. And I was thinking how it's such a habit now, and I never do that anymore. But guess who paraded up and sat down in the second bench without her veil on Sunday morning? I wasn't quite as mortified this time around but I was a little emarrased. Because my veil was definitely not with me so I couln't just slip it on real sneaky like.
On the other hand, not only was it an awesome weekend, it was also really busy. Like, you know you've had a long weekend when you wake up Monday morning and you're feet still hurt. But that's okay it was worth it. But I got woke up by my phone Mon. and looked at my clock which was flashing. I thought "Oh no, the power went out and I overslept." But it was Melissa calling to tell me that she overslept and could I please go open for her? That's when I picked up my watch and realized it was 6:15. We open at 6:00. So I threw on some clothes and grabbed a brush and a hair tie and ran over to open. Then no kids showed up until about 20 till 7. Melissa got there at maybe 7:15, 7:30, then I went back home and went back to bed until 9:00. I decided I would rather go in late than take a longer break.
Okay switch gears now. I've been working here and there on my bathroom for the past three weeks, stripping wallpaper and trying to get the glue off. Finally, FINALLY, it's all taped up and ready to paint. Which is what I'll be doing tonight.
Saturday I'm going to Kentucky. Hip hip hooray! Also Saturday, our new teacher (Jena Runion from Bluffton) is moving in. Monday is my first official day as cooridator of the preschool. Very scary larry. But I think I'd rather be a little busier like I have been than just sitting around each night with nothing to do. But I gotta go now. Ta Ta!