Surviving It All

I think I have recovered.  Spent much of today working on articles for this charity organization I am involved in. 

Love Man successfully hiked the Grand Canyon, Rim-to-Rim!  He went down the north side across the bottom and up the south side!!!  He did some of it at night, because it was cooler and there was a full moon.  Maui Jon also did great!

I spoke to Love Man at 3:45 this morning.  They had to walk a mile or so to their campsite.  He was tired. 

Hopefully they are recovering and got some sleep.  I will keep you all posted.

Casa Loco, Loco

I  might need to drink some of this!

I spent all day at auction, after working all week at my school and on the auction.  I so tired, I can not sleep, but am so glad it is over.

I have no food in my house.  My grocery shopping day has come and gone.  I may need to go to the store in the morning for stuff for the girl's lunches.  It is bad!

Love Man has a friend coming to visit and they are hiking the Grand Canyon.  Hopefully, it will all go well.  John arrives Monday and they leave Friday for the Canyon.

Love Man's friend has never been married and does not have any children.  This ought to be interesting.  Hopefully, we will not scare him off.

I need to improve the cleanliness of our house, fold what Love Man could not fold, buy groceries and make a nice dinner after I get home from school tomorrow.  Calgon take me away!  Miss Brunette has a badminton match, but that actually buys me some more time.  I told Blonde Girl, "the minute you get home from school, you are helping me shop at the Winco."

Winco is different.  It is a giant box grocery store and they are cheaper than Walmart.  Alledgedly.
Love Man read in some business magazine that the groceries are the lowest price in every market Winco goes into.  It is okay.  A bit overwhelming to shop there.  Blonde Girl loves it!  You have to bag your own groceries. The store is huge.  Blonde Girl bags and goes on hunting excursions for me.
She finds the whole thing endlessly amusing.

Auction Mania

 

 

I am on the committee for Miss Brunette's parent organization annual Golf Tournament/Auction.
Last night I cello wrapped a lot of things and put many others things in bags or containers or tins or whatever with tissue.  I think we worked about 9 hours yesterday, starting at high noon and ending around nineish.  Today, we are doing other things - so I have that to look forward to.

On a side night, Love Man thinks I am insane.  It is a sick amount of work.

Hopefully this will make a lot of money for the general fund of the high school, which is why we all work ourselves silly.

Fair Entry

This is the photo Miss Brunette is entering in the Arizona State Fair for her photography class.
This is the one her teacher wants her to enter.  I don't know.  I think some of the others are better.
This is of that church that is very near the red mountains in Sedona?  If you have ever been to Sedona, you have been to this church.

I personally think this one is better.


Or maybe this one.  But, I am no expert.  I guess the teacher likes the first one, because it is different. Really, it is easy to take a great photo in Sedona. 

Weekend Update

 

I can't really think of anything terribly exciting that happened this weekend.  Both girls attend the high school football game.  Love Man and I stayed home and watched TV, but that was nice.

Saturday, I ran some errands and we went to visit the mother of Love Man's college friends (brothers) who recently had heart surgery.  On Sunday, Blonde Girl began the year three journey of confirmation and reported that "it wasn't that bad."  I guess that is good.  I wrote my articles for NCL and worked on this auction for the high school that I, crazily enough, agreed to help with.  Miss Brunette babysat for one of her favorite babysitting kids.

That is it.  Somehow, someone did not record the Adelle interview on "Sixty Minutes".  Oh God!
I think that "Married to a Jonas" or whatever knocked it out.  Or, it could have been those dumb Kardashians.  Oh my!  This is the repeat and the same thing happened the first time.  I love Adelle.

TTYL.

Got Crabs?

The crabs are doing fine.  Yes, crabs.  We had to buy another, so the other one wouldn't get lonely.
We also needed more calcium sand and coconut mulch.  In fact, Blonde Girl tried to sneak another bag of coconut mulch at the PetSmart.  "Oh no, I said, we are not buying more.  This will do for now.  And, you are paying me back every penny." 

She babysits and usually scores big with the dollars when she gets a job. 

One of her BFFs is evidently some sort of crab expert and has advised us every step of the way.
Every step of the way, bless her heart.

So, the habitat is fine and BG was losing a lot of sleep as she was sleeping with the light on.  We now run the lights during the day.  I am sure the crabs wondered what was going on - but, they are crabs and I am sure they adjusted.  If not, they can vacate their crab shack and move on down the road.

Why? Why?

Why?  Why?  We just want to be normal like everybody else.  Somehow tonight, while we were watching "The 40-Year-Old Virgin", Love Man got up to get another glass of iced tea and he stepped on a rusty nail.  Yes, folks, a rusty nail in our house.  I don't know how or why?  We could have drug it in on our shoes or maybe it was used as a upholstery tack.

Don't know.  I was out of rubbing alcohol, so Blonde Girl and I headed to the store to get some.  While driving, I phoned the Walgreen's pharmacist who advised us not to wait and go to the Urgent Care to get a tetanus shot and probably a course of antibiotics.

There is a lovely Urgent Care by our Super Target.  We went there and they naturally closed at 8.
We stood at the door and the med tech came out.  He couldn't help us as their computers are locked and down.  I said, "could he come back at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning?"  He said, "I wouldn't wait on this."

Now, I have taken Red Cross First Aid fivetimes for my job.  I have to take it every other year.  I knew this, but needed Love Man to be told by this guy and I said, "the Walgreen's pharmacist said the same thing."

So, we headed home and I found an Urgent Care that is open until midnight.  I have already checked him in online, so he should not have to wait forever like he would at an Emergency Department.

I told Love Man and Blonde Girl to go.  I needed to sit home and wait for Miss Brunette to return from a "Sweet Sixteen" birthday party.  I don't know if she has her key, despite this being a mandatory rule in our house.  I tried to get Blonde Girl to stay and wait for her, but she did not want to do that.  I didn't want to argue with her or have her be afraid, so I said, "fine you go on and I will stay here."

OMG.  All we wanted to do was relax and watch at movie. 

P.S.  Love Man just got home and said he was scheduled for his appointment at 10:00 p.m.  I will keep you posted.  If Miss B gets home, I will accompany Love Man to the Urgent Care.

Herm the Crab

 

Blonde Girl told me she was saving her money to buy a hermit crab and create a habitat.  After, she babysat on Friday night, she was hot to go to PetSmart and begin her purchasing. She had watched several videos on the internet and had a list of what she would need.  Luckily, I had shells from Mexico and fish accessories that I have kept long after the fish were flushed to heaven.

 

 

That is how we got Herm.  She spent most of Saturday night working on her habitat.  She even called a friend's daughter and asked if they were still using their terrarium after the death of their lizard, Bobby.  They were not.  My friend said, "take it, it's yours, but don't throw it away.  Keep it in your garage if this crab thing does not work out.  You never know, we may need it again." 

 

 

With that, we were off.  The neighbor girl came over and they made the habitat.  I did have to drive them to PetSmart to purchase calcium sand and evidently, we do not have enough as we are getting more tomorrow.  We also need some kind of mulch.  Idk,  I don't care - whatever.  I said, "You are paying me back, I am not funding this."  So there it is, I am mean.

 

 

 

 

 

On Monday, she had a play-date with her friend who has hermit crabs.  The little girl arrived with her sister to pick her up.  She had a box with her filled calcium sand and actually thought Herm was going to their house. I said, "absolutely not."  Both girls thought the crab should go.  I remained firm and refused to let the crab go.  Seriously.  

Love Thy Neighbor?

Sign written by Blonde Girl years ago. 

There is really not much to say about our neighbors.  They still do not speak to us.  If we pull in our out of our driveway, they generally look the other way.  In fact, we are all so used to it - I really don't notice if he or his wife are out in their yard.

In July, I was out in the yard talking to this lady I know, who was out on her bikes with her sons.
The wife walked by, we said hello and she smirked at us and finally said "hi".  She did not really want to say hello, but my two children and my friend's two children were standing there.

Abby and Sadie, see they are trouble!

Whatever.

They have not sprayed our dogs with the hose all summer.  The last time they sprayed our dogs was before the end of the last term's school year and Love Man went over to their house and talked to them.  They have sprayed the other neighbor's dogs and now they are not getting along with them.

We try not to let our dogs bark outside and if I am doing something and the dogs bark, it is not more than about 5 minutes.  And, we are talking about day-time barking only. 

Jeesh.  I don't know what else to say about this.

Sadie doing one of the things she does best.

They do not get cinnamon rolls from me on Easter, Thanksgiving or Christmas like they used to.