My Hair is Short

The title is a takeoff of my son's recent blog entry -- "My Hair is Long".

A couple days ago, I went to get my haircut and told the stylist that I needed a change. I am having a birthday soon and will be eligible to wear a Red Hat! I told her I needed something more fun -- so now it is short and sassy. I really like it although I can't make it look quite as cute as she did. I probably have 1/4 the hair my son does now.

After the haircut, I went to church to help with the Feed the Kids program. We went to the site where we hand out lunches and the supervisor told me that the "reading ladies" would be there that day. The main reading lady is a retired librarian who wanted to give these kids book so she visits each site once a week, reads to the kids, and gives out books. Pretty cool. Well, she needed to leave and left another lady there -- her pastor's wife.

I looked over to where the reading and book giving was taking place and mentioned that she looked very familiar. No one else knew her though including my daughter. After awhile, she came up to introduce herself and she was someone I graduated from high school with! Small world!

I'm excited about working tonight. Today, one of my favorite students is coming back for tutoring. I'm not happy for her that she needs some help -- but I'll be glad to see her again. After that, I think I'll be going to Babe's Chicken for dinner -- so I shouldn't eat much for lunch.

And that's that!

Just a simple update

Not a lot new in my life. My daughter volunteered all last week at the cop camp "Chillin' With the Heat". The police dept here decided a few years ago to sponsor a day camp for middle age kids so they would get to know the local police in a fun manner. The crime prevention officers, school resource officers and some of the Explorers help with the camp. She had fun but was exhausted.

This week she is volunteering with the Feed the Children group from church. They provide lunch to disadvantaged children who usually get fed at school -- during the summer this program steps in. I helped today and it was fun even though it is HOT.

Today I only tutor for an hour - but that's ok -- I had lots of hours last week.

I have set a goal to get 15 pages done on my scrapbooks each week -- at least until I finish the ones that are already started and my son's college book which hasn't been started. I don't do real complex pages -- so it shouldn't be too hard to meet this goal.





I couldn't sleep this morning so I got up around 5:30 and fed the dogs, talked to the cat, worked the NYT crossword puzzle, completed the Babble puzzle online and then went back to bed! Should have scrapped -- but was still bleary eyed.

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Scrapbooking update

UH OH. This is what happens when you look at the far back of your closet -- I found an old CM album that is empty. That means I need to make one more album before I can start the new true 12x12. (Besides the ones I mentioned in the previous post).

It doesn't have to be fancy -- I just hate to see an album go to waste.

I might just use it for insurance purposes -- like put pictures of valuables that we own (not that we own a lot, but dh is a collector of WW2 rifles). I could put the picture there and write in the serial number, etc. Some day we may even own a digital television!

Any other good ideas for this album???? Does anyone want it???

Scrapping

I like to scrapbook. It is the only sort of crafty thing that I can do! I have many albums of our family already done. I am currently working on the family 2007 album. I recently finished an album for my niece. It was her college graduation and my parents asked me to make an album of her entire life! I finished it about a week before graduation, said a prayer, and sent it by UPS.

I am not a scrapbooking snob, but I only use Creative Memories albums and mostly their papers, etc. This is what I started with and I like the quality of the albums. I occasionally buy some paper elsewhere, but my albums are 95% CM. CM stuff has never been true 12x12 like most albums and paper. However, they have now decided to switch to true 12x12. That means that the page protectors, papers, etc are going to change. I have to finish my 2007 album; my daughter's second album; and my son's college album before I can start a new true 12x12. My first true 12x12 will be for 2008. In other words, I should be scrapbooking instead of blogging.


Now that my son is at college, I actually have a scrapbook room. I share the room with his cat who hates the other cat. This cat sort of likes me and does like it when I come into that room to scrapbook. Last time my son was home, we packed up his books so that I could use the shelves for scrapbooking stuff. Now I have my scrapbooking stuff out all the time. The room isn't too far from my computer which is useful for printing out titles or journaling boxes. Gotta go scrap!

Dreaded appts

I was dreading two appts this week. The first was taking my dd to the endocrinologist because I thought the dr. was mad at me. Six months ago, dd and I thought that she said she would take her off one of the medicines she is using to treat dd with. So I didn't refill it. Then doctor calls 3 weeks later to say to leave her on it. I told her that I hadn't refilled it and then she said well don't bother then, I don't want her on it, then off it, then back on it in such a short amount of time.

So I go to the office thinking she will be snippy with me. Our appt was at 11:20. We got to the exam room around 11:45. Around noon, a nurse came in to apologize and say the doc was called to the hospital -- we could wait and they would give us dining cards to use at the hospital cafeteria or we could reschedule. Well, we were ready to get this over with so we decided to eat lunch and come back.

After lunch, we ran into the doc as she was coming back from the hospital and she was as apologetic and as nice as she could be. I told her that I understood getting called out on an emergency and it was fine. Well anyway, she was so nice through the appt and then the meds were decided upon and off we went. We go back in 6 months and then I think dd will be graduated to a non pediatric endocrinologist. Guess I should start researching them now and see which ones are on our insurance.

Dreaded appt #2 was this morning. Dentist. I don't mind the dentist, it's the hygienist that I don't like seeing. I should mention that she is a very nice person, but she pokes my gums with a sharp instrument and then says "oh my your gums are bleeding!" Well duh! They just got poked! But today she told me how much better they are since the last check! I've actually been brushing better! woohoo. They do some kind of measure on them with numbers of 1-5. Apparently 1, 2 and 3 are good...4 and 5 are bad. Well I had mostly 1's, 2's, and 3's with only a couple 4's. She said that was much better -- last time I had more 4's. So yeah me. Also, No Cavities or reasons to go back until next cleaning appt.

Then I had lunch with a friend and tutored her daughter on College Algebra!

Ready to go to work on my real tutoring job now.

Corner Gas and other TV stuff

I watch alot of tv shows with my family. There are certain shows that we record to watch together. So when I am alone at home, I had to find something to watch that no one else in the family watched! I found a quirky Canadian sitcom called Corner Gas. It is so much fun! I record them all and then I just watch whenever I want!

But now I have a few questions -- they are somewhere in Canada (Saskatchewan I believe) and it never snows! Also, even when most of the regular characters are wearing coats, Lacey aka "The pretty girl of the show" is wearing a tank top! This is a phenomenon of tv shows everywhere. Even on SVU, the guys will be wearing suit jackets and the "pretty girls" are wearing lowcut shirts. One of the most stupid things we have seen along these lines is on the cop shows (CSI, Law & Order, etc) some of the gals even get V-neck lowcut bulletproof vests to wear! OK that is stupid!