Smells like Teen Spirit...or Aarid Xtra Dry

Good Friday to you! What a day this has been. I was up early enough to have two Eggo waffles and a glass of apple cider for breakfast before I took off for school today. It was a good start for the morning. I dressed up in shirt and tie for school to look nice for the kids. And if I am in a picture or two, that's great too!

We celebrated with our pumpkin party. Instead of having a Halloween party we have a "fall" party, filled with games, food, and festivities for the kids. Bag decorating for the prizes, cookie frosting, apple spooning, M&M graphing, spider web painting, bean bag tossing, and the maze. I took the place of attendant for the maze this year. Once the kids travel the lenght of the maze they recieve a piece of candy. It was all Hershey chocolate this year. Kit Kat, Hershey bars, Reese's Cup! A bucket was not nearly enough as I was out of candy within the first 10 mins. But I just used that as my reason to get smaller candy and slide it along the floor to the kids sitting far away from the maze. They would grab the candy, tell their mom who it came from, and run over and say thank you. It was a very warm filling sensation for me, to see the kids really happy.

We also decided to murder the pumpkin we picked from the apple orchard. A very simplistic look, probably the most traditional I have ever made. Triangle eyes, rectangle nose, and a content smile. Very classic.

We also read a story entitled "The Pumpkin Patch Parable." It was a very good read and the kids seemed to enjoy it.

Overall a fun filled day. I ran out of time following the cleanup from the party, but I snuck into Foodtown and bought some Lunchable type snacks for lunch. I had ham, turkey, and bologna. I was relieved to see that they all came with american cheese, rather than swiss like they used to. That was always gross. What kids ask for swiss cheese with crackers?

Maybe a swiss kid? Or a Swiss Miss?

Anyways, came to the bank, and it's been a pretty slow day. Sheryl came in this morning for about 10 mins and then went home sick. That was sad. Hopefully she's doing well. Due to Sheryl going home, Beverly had to come in. Bev was supposed to be collecting donations for the Lion's Club at the Foodtown in Lambertville. I will be going to Kroger tonight and working from 630-1100. Should be filled with all sorts of promising fun!

In closing, my apologies to those who went out last night. I was feeling pretty good until after choir practice, and I did not really want to go out after that. Thanks to the Francophile for the fun phone message. I'm still decoding it.

Everyone enjoy your weekend!!!!

Same song, different hour

Ugh. I lost 93.5 FM at the bank, so we've been subjected to 105.5. The music is different, but not too much, in that they play the same songs everyday. Their current rotation looks something like this.

Journey...commercials...Josh Groban...Greenday's new song...commercials...new Nickleback...trivia question...commercials... and that's only if it's withing an hour.

That's pretty much what you hear about every hour from roughly 9:00-5:00.

I would at least like to hear something I like or even know. Not something that's being drilled into my head.

It's like this with most of the radio stations around here. I kind of stinks because you can finish hearing a song, not like the next one, and switch to a different station, only to hear the original song you just finished listening to.

Booooooooooooooooring...

Oh, and there's a really annoying commercial about the musical Hairspray that they keep playing. I would really like Nov 8-13th to come so I don't have to listen to that one. APerhaps they will advertise something that's slightl less annoying.

::yawns::

Terrorism Alert Update

Due to the recent "Al Quadia" activity on this blog, I have now assigned word verification for any comments made on posts. With the difficult time our country is going through, I feel it is important to maintain a safe and functional posting procedure. The Office of Homeland Security will be reviewing this post, and I believe that we as a nation will be able to defeat the blog commenting terrorists.

Monday Morning Quarterback

This weekend flew faster than a flea flicker from Carson Palmer to Chad Johnson. Maybe you don't know what a flea flicker is, or who Carson Palmer is, either way, it just means that is was quick.

It began as I left the bank and saw a transfomer explode as I was turning out of the lot. Sparks, sizzling, and thick black smoke pulsed from the small grey can. Then, power outage. I found that out when I went to collect my check from Kroger. They were running on the generator. From Kroger I went to the Werner's.

Watching five children for the weekend.

Needless to say, doing something for ourselves was not on the agenda. There was plenty of running around, dropping off, picking up, and everything in between. We were able to watch the movie Robots which was a bit funny, but there were some parts where it was just stupid. Some jokes were so fast that you didn't know it was a joke unless you watched it again. So we did watch it again. I think I saw that movie five times this weekend.

For the most part the watching was fun. We played games, ate really good food, visited a pumpkin farm, walked to an ice cream shop, drove through the hill country, and even made it to Sunday School at church. That was what I was impressed with. Here's how things broke down by kid.

A.W.- Football game, Saturday A.M. PSAT, Pumpkin Farm, Church
B.W.- Friday night he was to go to a haunted house, but it was 1/2 hour away with two girls, so after calling and better informing his parents, he was not going. Then he wanted to go to McDonald's at 10:30 with his friends, that was vetoed. So he went to the game with A.W. Saturday he went to the farm. Then church on Sunday.
J.W.- Spagetti dinner Friday night, Game of Life, Track meet in Monroe, Farm, Puppet practice.
D.W.- Birthday party with friends, farm, puppet practice.
B.W.- Game of Life, Had friend spend the night Saturday, Ballet.

Not much crying, a few tifts, and a whole lot of dishes and garbage. Kori and I did a decent job. I think that everyone had fun and I wouldn't mind doing it again.

Last night Kori and I went to dinner with her sister, Elisha. Afterwards we invited her over for movies, candy, and a possible sleepover. It was fun. We stopped at Kroger and got some candy, pop, and plastic bags. Then we went back and watch Robots. (5th time for me!) I went to bed with about 20 mins left, and then woke up in the living room and got ready for nursery school. I had to take Elisha back home before I went to work, and everything worked out. I'm a bit tired, but the day has been good and it's almost over!

Off to Kroger for a few hours, then home to play the Muppets Gamecube multiplayer game. Should be fun.

Mmmm...onday night football. I'm leading in three of the four fantasy leagues I'm in and tonight I look to close out a great weekend.

Go COLTS!

Where have you been?

After quite the extensive time off, I have decided to return to the land of Blog. The thought of one person reading what I have to say is so validating. Therefore I return today, refreshed and a new, waiting to write down things that I have been a part of, related to, of just find amusing.

I mowed the lawn yesterday. After finally getting a Wednesday off after the loss of my co-worker, I was able to be productive on a Weds. I "borrowed" the Sr. Milks weed trimmer and chopped down the large tropical plants that had been growing from under the handicapped ramp and around the decorative stepping stones in the small box garden. There was a dandelion that had grown as high as the porch and had many heads that would have loved to open and wreck havoc on the small lot of 160. Getting the little mower to fire up is easy, but it takes a few extra passes to get it to cut everything. I think that a sharpening of the blades is in order, and will attempt that sometime this weekend.

In other homefront news, I officially have a grill. A small Chargrill with two pleasent shelves now sits quaintly on the small outset portion of the deck. It looks lovely, and needs only a propane cylander to get going. I could have the first steak Friday or Saturday. I am being a bit too ambitious and will probably settle for sleeping most of the weekend.

Oh, the weekend!

This weekend I, along with my trusty partner Korinne, will be wrangling five children for the sum of $100. It sounds like a lot of work, but how bad could it be. One of the kids drives, one is in track, one eats nothing but hamburger buns, and the other clings to Korinne's side. It should be an interesting time. What happened to the fifth kid you may be asking, well, I haven't quite pegged him just yet.

I also begin house sitting this Monday until the end of the month for one of our senior couples at church. It is amazing how much money one can make when merely checking on the safety or ones home, and occasionaly watering plants.

I have finished my second level of the Career path here at the bank, and that means little to me, I just wanted to work on getting the incentive for completeing it. The incentive may very well take a small chunk out of the cost of a ring for that someone special. Speaking of her...

Korinne is fantastic. She has been working full time at a medical billing facility and has been promoted 3 times within the time she has been there. She now is undertaking a project that closely would resemble what I do at Rep. Bank. She seems to be enjoying herself there, but I know she would rather be doing some English teaching. She has also been working on co-ordinating some of her graduate studeis papers, and getting ready to apply for an institution of higher learning. I'm very pleased with the productivity that she has been showing.

Other than that, the shows are on hold until Charolette's Web is over. It hasn't been cast yet, but auditions are coming up the end of October. I am looking forward to working with a group of people and hopefully reaching, in not exceeding the Deborah Tell that I have inside of me. Or rather, the Deborah Tell inside all of us.

Keep reaching for the stars!