Archives for April 2006

OK, I have caught up on a bunch of stuff around here. Including doing my entire weeks worth of bible study homework because it was SO good. I also started a to-do list and volunteer list for the place training. And I got my supply list almost complete for VBS. Oh, and I got all the laundry done and just have one more pile of my clothes to hang up. I think Scott feels a little unnecessary since we are not falling apart here. MIL has had them two afternoons so that has helped but honestly, Scott is usually off doing something even on his days off and rarely just sits at home so it is still feeling pretty normal so far. I hope this bodes well if he ever gets hired with the ATF.

I think I am still in a state of shock over Chris being in the bottom 2. Ugh! I will be breaking out the dialing software next week or voting until my fingers hurt next week. He will not go before Paris, Elliott or Kellie. Or Katharine for that matter. I can handle Taylor winning but would be upset if anyone else did. So I’m glad Ace went home. Finally. Now for next week, I think Kellie or Paris can go.

I think Lexi just said Juice to Mattie. I think she got the J out and the s sound at the end.

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I am quickly beginning to drown in all of my attempts to be “active”. I’m already a day behind on my bible study. I met with Stuart today about the training we’re doing next month. It’s A LOT of stuff to do. We need sign up sheets, bulletin inserts, powerpoint presentations, etc. etc. And then there’s VBS which I haven’t even opened up the packet for. And I’m supposed to have a supply list by Sunday. Wow.

Scott’s training is going well. I don’t think it’s nearly as physical as he thought except they nearly killed him by making him run two miles yesterday morning.

Em and Lexi are gone with MIL again. I picked the kids up from school and took them over to MawMaw’s house. Lexi was asleep so I just left them all there while I met with Stuart after lunch. MIL picked them up from there. Not sure when they are coming home. I really want to go to the gym at 5:20 for Rock Bottom so I need to see how long she was going to keep them.

OH! AI comments from last night. Everyone (excluding Kellie) was awesome last night. That was the best show in several weeks. I loved Chris’s slow song. It seemed heartfelt and not nearly so scratchy of a voice. Which is good sometimes but not for that type song. Paris was excellent. I remembered finally why I liked her at one point. Taylor was really good. Loved that ending. It finally felt like he was really feeling the music again. Elliott was good but I’m not a big Elliott fan so I have a hard time judging him for some reason. Kellie sucked. Big time. She should go home just for that. Ace needs to go home although I enjoyed his performance last night, not so much the greased hair though. And Katharine of course was classic. It was a beautiful song sung with a beautiful voice. She finally was not yelling the song. So I hope Ace goes home just because I think overall he has been the worst. I wouldn’t be too heartbroken if Kellie’s song sent her home, but I do hope it’s Ace…again.

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I was reading Shape magazine this morning while Lexi was in the bath. I was on a page that had the pictures of several things to wear that were corral. Like a theme page of cool new stuff. Emma walks up to me leans over with her hands on her knees and stuff Mom, I think that stuff would look great on you. Thanks, Em. Fashionista in the making.

I did make it to the gym last night. A record 26 minutes on the elliptical and then abs and arms. And bible study was great. Ironically I signed up (without knowing) for her study When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Arming yourself in the age of seduction. Something like that. We watched the first DVD and introduced ourself and got out early. I’m looking forward to the lesson and already hope to do it for our church ladies when we’re done.

I picked up the girls from MIL last night and Lexi fell asleep on the way home and slept all night. So yesterday-Day 1 of no daddy week-was easy.

It is killing me not knowing who is singing what tonight on AI. I did hear Rod Stewart is singing The Way You Look Tonight tomorrow so I would be surprised if anyone sang that tonight.

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Geez, what a weekend. Thursday afternoon we went up to Concord Mills and shopped. Dropped a ridiculous amount of money on clothing for all of us. I’m taking some of it back. They should just go ahead and put a mailing package in your shopping bag so you can mail things back when buyer’s remorse sets in. Friday I took work off and we didn’t get started until about lunchtime. We ended up at KFC for lunch and took it to Cherry Park for a picnic. That was actually really nice. The weather here has been tremendously wonderful the past few days. After that, we headed to Hollywild Zoo about an hour away. They have all kinds of animals there, some you can pet. These animals are animals that have been used for acting purposes in Hollywood, hence the name Hollywild. They had elephants, zebras, buffalo, rhinoceros, camel, cougar, leopard, lions, monkeys, peacock, wolves, bears, you name it, it was probably there. You took a bus through the field and got to feed some of the animals. The kids loved it. So then we stopped in Gaffney on the way home to eat and shop a little more and that was it for Friday. Saturday morning we spent around the house while our family did some MORE shopping. Scott almost got the fence done and washed the cars. I had a friend over to re-do my pots and plant some plants in the front yard. Saturday afternoon we went to a egg hunt at our church and then had a cook-out at Mom’s. Our company left Sunday morning. Emma slept over at Mom’s the entire time they were there.

So Sunday we had our choir special. We had a few glitches but I think overall it went well. We went to Scott’s parents for lunch to eat a ham dinner and had another egg hunt for the kids. We came home for naps (of which I did not get) and then spent the evening at Mom’s. It was a great Easter weekend and I certainly am not in the mood to work again.

Today MIL is off so she is going to get the girls this afternoon. I have the first bible study with D tonight. I sort of forgot about it actually. I’m hoping MIL can just keep them a little later tonight. Which means, da-dadah-dahhh, I might get to go to the gym and go to bible study tonight. Yipee!

Scott is gone for the entire week this morning. He called about 9 this morning and said he was there and he was going to have to stay at the academy instead of with a friend in Columbia . That’s a bummer. I know he is not really looking forward to being gone for the week.

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My apologies for spreading rumors about AI…they are not doing Rod Stewart songs per se. They are doing the songs from his Great American Song CDs which are songs I believe that were written in the 50-60s era. So, maybe no Do Ya Think I’m Sexy by Taylor this week.

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Whelp, Jaynee, you were right. It was Bucky, not Ace. I honestly was surprised. I fully expected Ace to come out of Ryan’s mouth. I’m not disappointed, just surprised. I do expect Ace, Elliott and Paris to be voted out the next three weeks. Of course, with Rod Stewart next week Ace and Elliott may do well. Well, maybe not. Rod Stewart has a pretty unique voice. I think Chris should do well. He seems to have a similar quality to his voice. And I think Taylor will do well if he does an upbeat song. What if he did Do Ya
Think I’m Sexy? Wouldn’t that be hilarious? I have a feeling Ace or Elliott will do something like Have I Told You Lately. I wonder if they fight over the songs?

Family got in a little early so we went to Mom’s to see them last night and Emma stayed the night. I got a good nights sleep last night since we went to bed at like 10.

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Last night Lexi was doing both her hands in sort of a opening/closing wave type thing and chanting something. I realized she was saying Tickle, Tickle, Tickle and doing her hands. I did the same thing and tickled her and she just loved it. She kept doing it over and over. How cute! And she has started holding up her one finger and saying “Two!”. Emma and I show her our two fingers and say two but of course she can only do one of them now.

Family should be coming in today so I’m thinking the next few days will be really busy. I need to go buy Lexi some shoes for her dress on Sunday. At the moment the only sandals she has to wear is her Dora sandals.

Last night I ended up at a Mary Kay facial at CT’s house. Which means I missed the first part of AI. Thank goodness for TIVO. So the rundown:

Ace – oh boy, Ace. That was bad, you’re my pick to go home tonight
Paris – you have a great voice but please don’t do rock again
Elliott – not as great as the judges thought you were
Chris – i was a little disappointed, VERY obscure song
Taylor – lots of energy and good voice but i just don’t get the dancing
Katharine – loved it although everyone else says the song was too big for her
Kellie – although i also thought the whole concept “on paper” was horrendous i thought she really, really did good
who else is there…oh yes, Bucky – he did well but was obviously a little forgettable

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A guy at work who is G’s roommate showed up today at our office. I have never met him but it was pretty awkward when we met each other. Somehow without speaking he said I know who you really are and I said yes I know, you know what I did. Nothing was said but it was just one of those unspoken awkward moments. Speaking of that whole scenario, it seems to be a non-issue now. If it’s not for him, I haven’t heard about it.

We spent last evening with a bunch of people over at the house last night. Scott had two friends over to help dig the holes for the fence and their wives and kids all showed up too for pizza. We had 6 adults and 7 kids, 6 of which were 3 and younger. It was a zoo but it was nice outside so we mostly stayed outside on the new deck and at the swingset. It was GREAT, actually.

So another Lexi moment happened last night. She was playing with something and coughed and acted like something was stuck in her throat. She went to get a drink and still coughed every couple seconds acting like she was getting something out of her throat. So I took her up the road to the urgent care center. By the time we got there, anything that was stuck wasn’t stuck anymore and I got nothing out of the visit except for a speech by the dr and nurse that I shouldn’t have small objects around her. Thanks. I didn’t know that.

So I’m supposed to help organize a training at our church in May. I’ve never done anything of the sort. I told Stuart I wanted to help do something and that’s one of the many things he suggested. I guess I’m just in charge of the publicity. Which I’m not sure what that entails really. I do hope people come though. I think it would be good. It’s basically a training to find out about your personality and spiritual gifts which I do think a lot of people are on overload on personality tests but probably not spiritual gifts. And I firmly believe we all have them but I don’t think many people have gone looking for them.

Another Emma moment I was supposed to write down the other day…Lexi was babbling about something at the tv and Emma says, “Is she speaking Spaanish?”

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