Things That Make Me Go 'Huh'? Part 2

The other night my neice Becca and I were driving home from dance class.... Well, I was driving, she was riding along with me.....
Anyyyyhowwww....
We saw a man dressed up as a clown with one of those signs that he was flipping around....
Advertising....

Are you ready for this....

A Tattoo Parlor.........

Huh?

Things That Make Me Go 'Huh'? Part 1

Cell Phone: RING RING RING
Me: Hello?
Lauren: What is that thing. That thing that is like a cake but it has all that stuff in it like fruit or whatever?
But no one likes it.
What is that thing called?
Me: Fruitcake?
Lauren: FRUITCAKE (Insert hysterical teenage girl laughter here) Okay Bye!
Me: HUH?

Things I Hate

Raise your hand if you hate those motion controlled paper towel dispensers that they have in some public restrooms.

Are you raising your hand?

Because I am not sensing it.
Okay put it down next to the monitor and wave it around
Do some jazz hands

I am just not sensing it, are you sure you are waving?
Are you SURE????
Try doing that move from 'Grease' the hand chuck or something

Are you doing it?
Because I am JUST NOT SENSING IT and I can't dispense more wit on this blog until I sense it

Forget it

Wipe your hands on your pants then

What-Evah........

Adventures in Higher Education

Most of you know that I am on a quest to complete my Bachelors Degree in Business. I started my college education off with a bang and an AA way back in 1982-- mere weeks before my wedding. Yea, verily, I can see with clarity the moment I veered off the path..... and neglected to take the road less taken.........

Anyyhooowww....

I have taken courses here and there over the years but started back with a goal in mind about 2 years ago. Thus far I have accumulated an additional 19 credits toward the 3959 that I need to graduate (slightly exaggerated for effect).
And I have met with advisers at CSUB regularly. Today I went again to review what I have taken and have yet to take only to find out that some of my ancient transcripts were mis-interpreted because the course numbers have changed over the years. I mean some of my earliest stuff was in hieroglyphics. And an art course I took a few years back was Art XVII so there you go....

The good news: The ONLY course I had managed to register for spring I have already taken!!
The bad news: The ONLY course I had managed to register for spring I have already taken!!
By the time I got to register virtually everything I needed was closed. As it was I had to beg my boss to let me take off time during the day to take this course.
So NOW what do I do?????
Thankfully.... the course that follows this one Managerial Accounting had a few openings for the same days and time so I am good. Apparently there are actually classes that are too boring for even desperate students to take.
The other bad news is I discovered there is another course I need to take.
You better sit down for this one: FINITE MATHEMATICS
Finite Mathematics? As opposed to what.... INFINITE MATHEMATICS????
Egads, isn't it enough that you have to deal with IMAGINARY NUMBERS without having to deal with FINITE MATHEMATICS?
Can anyone tell me what the heck this is???????
I mean, if I can ever register for it I will be sure to educate you all on exactly what it is because I will become an expert you know.

It IS A Small World After All

QUICK IMPORTANT UPDATE TO TURKEY TROT POST!



Remember this freak, I mean Wonderful Interesting Woman who plucks out her leg hair? CLICK HERE to refresh your memory

I just found out that her nephews by marriage came in first in the Turkey Trot. Oh Yeah Caleb and CRITTER Schroeder are her husbands nephews.

Who would have thought David would have a nephew named CRITTER???
Raise your hand if you aren't surprised!!!

Tuesday Update

So... how was your Thanksgivings, Geeezers????

I started mine out with my very first 5K Run!!!

Errrr make that Walk!!!

Ssslllooooowww walk even. Okay we only made 4.2K....

OKAY FINE STOP PUSHING ME!!!

We are pretty sure we came in dead last. And we came in from the wrong side of the finish line too!

WHAT EVER

Still, we did it Chandra and I and we are VERY proud of ourselves!!!

It even made the newspaper!! CLICK HERE to see the news article!!! FRONT PAGE!!

The actual newspaper article had a COLOR PICTURE too!! But they don't show it online probably because so many people were destraught that they didn't go participate like some of us did (coughLeAnnandChandracough).

I took a quick pic while people were gathering so here it is.

Pretty Cool Huh!

Thanksgiving

I suppose you all expect me to do something out of the ordinary and not just a post about all my blessings.

Well, this time you are wrong.


I am feeling very blessed this Thanksgiving. And not because everything in my life is wonderful and perfect but because this year I am particularly aware of how fragile life is but how Big God is. My faith and relationship with God has gotten me through it all and given me hope and strength. I am in awe that the God of the universe told us in His word that He knows us and loves us anyhow. HOW COOL IS THAT???? I am amazed and comforted by this every single day of my life.

And there are SO MANY PEOPLE whom I could name to give thanks to God for and trust me, I do every day... But for this special Thanksgiving Day I am going to talk a bit about someone who means the world to me; my sister Monica.



Monica had a big health scare about 8 months ago. If you missed my blogs about that time, click HERE I must say, reading it again just now, that it is pretty darned hilarious. And that is me-- always trying to pull off a Big Laugh because life is just too scary. And this was a very scary time.
You never know when something is going to happen that will change your life forever. You can be having a perfectly normal day and WHAM something rocks your whole foundation. When Monica had her seizure we didn't know what would happen: Was this an isolated incident? Was it going to happen every night? How was life going to change?
And it did change in many ways. It made me appreciate this incredible woman even more than ever before and not take her for granted. Since she couldn't drive for awhile we learned to depend on each other in a way we had not done before. We saw how comforting it can be to have someone to take care of you (more than us single moms are used to). And these are some thoughts that led us to looking at buying a home together which eventually led to establishing the great household that we have today.
Sure she is the butt of a lot of my blogs (with her permission of course) and she puts up with a lot of my monster fighting and she does it with patience and support and laughter. SHE LAUGHS AT MY JOKES and not just because I know where she lives.
She handles almost all of our parents' health problems partly because she is an AMAZING PROFESSIONAL NURSE (seriously ya'll she saves lives for a living. I count beans.) and partly because I am so unable to emotionally handle a lot of that stuff. Yet she never gets angry at me for being weak that way-- or she keeps it to herself and lets me try to make it up by cooking or something else.
She puts up with my crazy furgang sleeping in her clean laundry, peeing on her curtains, napping in our kitchen cupboards.
She hasn't strangled my daughter even when she probably deserved it.
She has been a really good sport about my obessive need to organize the house and put all the stuff in baskets.
There really aren't enough words: I just love her.
And I am especially Thankful for her today.