OK, so I told everyone else on my other blog to pimp (yes, don’t hate me because I just used the word pimp) the giveaway so I guess I better do it here too. Heather and I are giving away a One Tree Hill Season 4 DVD set on January 8. All you have to do is comment, click a few ads and then tell someone else about it. We’re just trying to get the word out about our site. And if you don’t like One Tree Hill, this is the perfect chance to get caught up in time for Season 5 on Jan 8 or just sell it on ebay–you should get about $40 from it.
Ah, this is a weekend
Now this feels like a weekend. Last night the girls indeed went off to MIL’s to spend the night. After they left I did a happy dance (I REALLY love my kids but I was ready for me time) and decided to clean a bit. Well, a little bit turned into a lot after we had a storm that somehow knocked my cable Internet out for the rest of the evening. I went ahead and cleaned the house, even cleaning my shower. If that gets done, that means I really cleaned. I happily took a sleep aid at about 10 and went to bed and didn’t see a clock until 10:15. Yes! That felt good.
Scott woke up from working last night about 11 and we got ready and ran a few errands. I am fixing mac & cheese for our family dinner tonight so I came home and got that cooking in the crock pot, changed out some clothes in the washer and dryer and here I am Interneting again. I thought I made that word up, but no, already in the urban dictionary. Oh well. Another great idea stolen.
The girls are still gone and I’m guessing they’ll just go to the dinner tonight with MIL and we’ll get them there. Works for me. I now have about 2 hours to use up. I really should go clean my closet out or something but um, don’t think that’s going to happen.
The new hair cut
So I basically just got a trim and it’s nice. The price was fantastic because I had a $50 gift card. But this is what Scott had to say:
Me: What do you think? Does it look any different?
Scott: Not really. Just looks like someone who knew what they were doing styled it.
Well, thanks.
Status Quo Here
Not much going on around here. I’ve been surprisingly busy at work this week with some issues. The kids are still busy playing with all their Christmas toys. Scott has been running errands and just generally hanging out at home.
Last night we had my family over for dinner at the last minute. I had more roast than we could eat and they were hungry so they came. We watched part of Ocean’s Thirteen but it’s a hard movie to watch with the girls running around so they didn’t finish it.
Today I’m going to get my hair cut at lunch to use up a gift card I bought. As for the weekend..Scott works all weekend, the girls are going to MIL’s tonight (I think) and tomorrow night we have our final Christmas dinner at his grandmother’s. All presents have been given away so we’re just going to stuff our faces with yummy chicken and dumplings.
Elliptical Update
Well, after all I’ve talked about having an elliptical here at the house, it worked all of 3 days and still has yet to be fixed. The manufacturer said the parts would be here in 2 days and guess what? It’s been 3 weeks now. I called last night and they said it was on back order until tomorrow and then would take 3 days to send to us. Well, guess what I got in the mail today? Yep, the part. Now I have a call back into the manufacturer to get a technician out here to install it. Maybe by the new year I’ll be exercising with the rest of America.
Emma funny
Emma, on walking in on our living room yesterday with Christmas presents scattered everywhere: Man, it sure is a mess in here!
Scott: Yeah, you can say that again.
Emma: Man, it sure is a mess in here!
Thankful Thursday
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Wow, how do you even begin to express enough thankfulness for what we just received in the past week? My Christmas has been marked with how comfy my new chair is and yet some people did not even have a Christmas to speak of. The girls got present upon present to the point where we can barely hold it all. Some things haven’t even been opened still. It literally has taken days to get through it all. We are blessed beyond measure.
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2007 itself is drawing to a close and I’m of course thankful for this year. It’s been a good year with it’s fair share of drama with S leaving, Scott’s surgery and me having to move companies but also some great things including my raise when I moved companies, Scott’s trip to Turkey, youth camp, getting the Land Rover, the girls getting potty trained (yes,that makes the big list), the big magazine shoot and cover and of course the day to day goodness we have. This year has been a good year. Nothing catastrophic to speak of and I’m thankful for that.
What is with our school principals?
I have to rant for a minute. Two incidents recently have got me questioning what goes on in our schools lately.
The first was with our pastor. He goes to eat lunch with his middle school aged child every week. One of her friends who had visited their house multiple times began swearing at his daughter repeatedly at school. On one of his visits, he sat down with the girl and asked her not to swear anymore and that he would have a conversation with her father. Well, the girl got mad and went and told the principal. A few days later then principal called our pastor and his wife into his office and told him he could not ask anyone to quit swearing and he may be asked to quit eating lunch with his daughter. Like, what the…why is it a pastor can not tell a middle schooler not to swear? It should have been the girl’s parents sat down in that office and given a talkin to for swearing AND disrespecting an elder and pastor to boot.
Tonight I just found out that one of Scott’s best childhood friends who is a police officer that works as a school resource officer was asked to leave the school. He walked in on a high school kid writing on the bathroom wall and tried to convince him to leave. The kid started yelling, telling him to F off and then swung at Scott’s friend who then took him to the ground and handcuffed him. The kid’s friends then come in and start to try to fight Scott’s friend and then he gets his Tazor out threatening to taze them. The principal walks in and tries to blame it all on him and asks for him to be reassigned. OK, exactly what is he supposed to do with a bunch of high school kids trying to beat him up and why is it that they have a resource officer if they don’t want him to handle situations in the way he was trained?
These were at different schools but it sure seems like parents and authority figures have a lot less pull with principals than the students do these days. Am I overreacting? Are these isolated incidents? I don’t have kids in school so I don’t know what it’s like since about 10 years ago.