Last Saturday I realized at 1:00 that it was baseball tryout day, and it ended at 3:00. So I was rushing around getting Tanner ready, couldn't find a glove, drove to the sports store to buy one, etc etc. While in the sports store looking at way overpriced gloves Tanner told me he didn't think he wanted to play this year anyway. I was surprised, but we've certainly learned our lesson about forcing them to participate in something they don't want to do. So I took him back out to the car and we had a long talk in the parking lot. I made him weigh the pros and cons of playing or not playing baseball. Made him list his reasons he likes it and reasons he doesn't like it. So on and so forth. I probably made a much more scientific evaluation of the situation than absolutely neccessary. But in the end, the only thing he said he likes about playing baseball is running the bases, and everything else he is tired of. And he really does not want to play now that he's reached the age that the kids will be pitching. (That's when Tyler started hating it too). So I let him decide not to play this year. I asked him to try to think of something he'd rather do instead, and taekwondo came back up. So we may be getting back into that real soon.
Rusty spent most of Saturday helping his dad again with the Windows Vista/Lexmark printer problem. They ended up exchanging the printer for a different kind that promised compatibility. Sunday, Rusty's stepsister asked for some help with her computer, it was doing weird things. We went there, but ended up bringing it home where I discovered it had a virus. So I spent several days salvaging her photos and then formatting the hard drive and restoring it to new as best as I could.
Sunday Blake called needing a computer for a report, and mom was out of town. So he came by and printed some stuff off the computer and I visited briefly with Squeekie and Kyle. Was glad to get to see the guys, I have not seen them since Christmas. They change every time I see them. Also Sunday, me and the kids went to the funeral for Micheal's dad. It was a nice ceremony, as funerals go. They had a lot of old pictures out, I always love looking at old pictures. Micheal seemed to be doing alright but I know it was tough on her.
MOnday I had to work but nobody else in the house did. I was in meetings all day. While in my first meeting, I mentioned to another music teacher that I was considering moving up to high school band if i got the opportunity. She said that she heard that WC would be needing someone for color guard next year. I got excited, but then I realized - there's no way I can work at WC. I would have to miss every one of Tyler's Friday night football games and that is just NOT happening. But, still, the band director thing stayed on my mind all morning. My afternoon meeting was at Tyler's high school so I thought maybe I"ll just drop by the band room while I'm there and mention to the guy that i'm interested if anything ever comes up. But then I thought.......nah, not today, they're probably busy, etc. Half way through my meeting, another group of people started coming in to the other side of the library for some other meeting. It was none other than all the football coaches and all the band directors lol. So I figured that must be a sign that I am SUPPOSED to talk to this guy today. So I did. Turns out, he knows me and I know him. He wanted to know some things about my background in case something should come up, or if someone he knew was looking for a director. We discovered that we were both in Lions Band together back in the day. And he was glad to hear I am a former student of Gary Cook also. Mr. Cook remains legendary lol. It did not sound like anything would be open at VHS soon, but I believe I at least have my foot in the door for when it does. And I've realized there's just no denying it anymore, I need a change! lol
Tuesday, pretty crappy day at work. And I finally took the couple of days off that I have needed so badly. I stayed home Wednesday and Thursday. Basically, I was sick. Mental illness more like it lol. (But I did have a migraine Thursday.) I just needed to stop the world for minute so I could catch up to it. Wednesday I slept til 1:30pm, then took a nap from 4:30-6:30, and was in bed by 10:30 that night. Thursday I slept til 12:00, and that was all I needed I guess. I hope to be recharged now.
Monday night we had band practice - went well, better all the time. But we finally decided on a band name. We had a 3 page list of possibilities then wrote some more in too. We narrowed it down to 2 names and decided to just combine them both and be done with it. So, we are now the "SMASH ALLEY WAREHOUSE" band. Kinda has a ring to it lol. We were all satisfied. Here is a sneak pic I took.
I went in Tanner's room to install his printer and discovered he's been jotting down notes off the computer for his video games. However, he did not take the time to find a piece of paper to write on. So. Yeah. He's in big trouble. He wrote down cheat codes for his video game on the WALL.
Terri's cell phone she was gonna give us did not work out because it's not a Cingular phone. And Cingular could not give me a decent price for a replacement cell phone. They even suggested to me that I look on ebay lmao. So that's what I did. Got him another one exactly like the one Mamaw Gin gave him for $58. I told the teacher just to cover half and I would cover the other half, since he should not have had it out in her class. But she sent me the full amount. Heck, I guess I'll just take it. Since I had to buy an additional $25 SIM card to make it work.
I took a picture of my latest "set up". I have everything I could possibly need right there. I sit in that chair, and I'm surrounded by all the things I love to do, and I even have a nice view out the window too lol. I'm getting like Mom lol.
It's been everything from 25 degrees to 85 degrees this week. Somehow the other day, my boys ended up dressed alike lol. So I made them let me take their pictures.
I got to make the KFC cole slaw for people this week. THey had a fish fry where Rusty works. And yes, they thought it was awesome too! I've stayed with the Dr. Gott diet most of the week. I like it. I've lost maybe 2 pounds since last Friday, and that's about as good as I do on Atkins. And I've enjoyed the heck out of some apples, bananas, oatmeal, and soups. I'm gonna stick with this for awhile, if for no other reason but to load up on some vitamins and stuff. As long as I'm not GAINING weight, then I'm doing as good as I've been doing eating meat. But I still don't have the guts to eat potatoes or rice. And I still can't eat bread or sugar on either diet. I was cleaning out some stuff at work last week and found some old pictures of me teaching. Makes me feel better to look back and remind myself that I've lost weight. It's been so long now that I often forget and get discouraged sometimes. So here I am. I swear I don't remember myself as being that big. Thought I was a little plump was all. Here is me in about 1999 and about 2002.
This afternoon about 4:30, Uncle Ronnie was driving the fork truck across 61 South and somebody ran smack into him in a small car. From what I hear, he is basically ok, has bruises and scratches - it knocked him off the fork truck. The person driving the car was HOLDING a 19 month old baby. The baby was sent to Jackson, don't know anything on the driver. It sounds like a big mess and we're very lucky Uncle Ronnie is a tough old fart! Guess we'll hear more later.
This weekend is a birthday party for Dustin. And Tyler has another "acting party" at church. The dinner party where everyone has to be a certain character, kind of a whodunit thing. Hard to believe it's about to be March already. Spring Break is coming......just not fast enough.
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