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On Wednesday all of CN went on a fun day to the horse track.
We were put in groups and with our groups were to play with $100 funny money to see who could win more.
On my team, red, there were a few guys who talked a good talk so I thought we would do pretty good.
Our team was in last place. We got the booby prize which was a Horse Race Betting for Dummies book ;-)
On Sunday we finally moved my closet to the closet that RAW had 95% done. Needed to empty the other one out so he could eventually work on that one.
The next morning a cricket moved in with my stuff in the new closet.
Then there was water on the kitchen counter. I look up and we had a minor leak.
Our roof is in bad shape. We knew this but no leak, no thinky.
The first estimate was really for half the roof (the bad half of course) and it was for only $2,600 with a 10 year warranty.
The next guy for the whole roof was $6000 with a 7 year warranty.
The third guy said he was going to pass after looking at our roof.
The fourth guy said $7500 with a 5 year warranty.
Ok, why is the price going up but the warranty going down?
How dare the roof try to take the money I didn't have for the kitchen remodel!
Today was Hollace's first day of school, third grade. She doesn't want to go. A few days ago I ask if it is ok if I take some photos of the first day. She said ok.
Today I work this morning from home so I can take her photo and see her off. She cooperates as promised.
It has been awhile since I worked at home. It was a little frustrating and it got to the point that I couldn't wait to get back to the office to really get working. I mean, I did work but it didn't seem too productive.
I get back to the office at 1:00.
The network is down in our building.
I can't get any work done.
I guess I was better off at home.
I have been craving a Ding Dong for awhile now but I just couldn't find any. I seen plenty of HoHos, Cupcakes and Suzy-Qs. Don't want those. It got to the point that I thought maybe they discontinued them or something. I contemplated going to one of those Hostess Thrift shops.
I went to the vending machine at work and lo and behold....Ding Dongs!
I run back to get some money, I am not missing this opportunity even though the vending machine has about 8 of them.
I wrap the package in a napkin so no one sees the fat girl walking down the hall with Ding Dongs.
I open the package all excited that my wait is finally over.
I take a bite.
They were stale, yuck.
We went shopping for school supplies last weekend where I bought her a folding ruler. It is quite fun to fiddle with which is why it was bought for home and not for school where it would be a distraction.
Anyway, by that evening it became a ruler snake and she was fishing for it from the treadmill.
By the end of the night there were nearly 15 ruler snakes (who knew we had so many rulers in the house) swimming around down there. Hollace got an under water camera that looked like a small metal mailbox and made a remote control so you could navigate the camera to see what was going on down there.
All the ruler snakes had distinct personalities. The oldest of the bunch was prehistoric and cranky, he was my old pica ruler with was falling apart. There was a family of metal rulers headed up by the dad, the yard stick, mom the 18"'er and baby which was this tiny metal 6" ruler. He was very vunerable and at risk at any time to be eaten by another ruler snake.
The meanest, badest ruler snake was named Yardly. He is was a wooden yard stick. We had to keep control of him with both hands. And at one point he tore a hole in the paper floor lamp in the living room.
Hollace was really upset when that happened. I was in the bathroom so I didn't see what happened but Hollace cried, "you are going to hate me". Poor thing, she was crying. I would never hate her especially for an accident. Beside Yardly is one bad ruler snake. I evenutally got her to smile and all was well. I just rotated the floor lamp so the tear is against the wall.
The next night we were suppose to play ruler snakes again but I got home to party favors for sock people. Hollace was busy making party hats and those blowers where the paper unrolls. By the end of the night after I got my lesson on how to make them, I was fired by her by insisting she get ready for bed.
Tonight we were suppose to continue with production of party favors but tonight after a trip to Rainforest Cafe for dinner I came home to a new addition to the sock family, a baby sock. Hollace made a stoller and some construction paper clothes. Tomorrow night we are suppose to have a baby shower for it. We will see ;-)
Hollace now has 2 sock families:
The Ropesters which includes Ron as the dad, Belle as mom, Petunia who is British and Rose who is Western like dad and was dressed up as Maid Marian
and there is the Sockteens. Dad is Sampson, mom is Samantha and son is Sam (we was dressed like Robin Hood)
I don't know who's family the new baby belongs too. I got pictures of everyone to share later.
Oh and Hollace informs me she isn't Hollace or Kiwi Girl anymore, she is Sock Girl. When I came home she had cut up socks (btw, all the socks are coming from ArtWorks) on her legs (a la leg warmers) and on her arms.
As I pick up Hollace from her last day of Vacation Bible School, I got dejavu again when a mom came up to me to tell me that Hollace was crying.
Every birthday party ended like that as apparently every girl scout meeting. In those two cases it was because it was too noisy and Hollace doesn't handle noise too good.
In the VBS case however it was because they tried to take her picture. Don't you find it ironic that a child of mine hates to get her picture taken? I wonder if one of the reasons was because Hollace may of overheard me joking to someone that the one big reason I had a kid was to be a photo subject for me. I hope not but I do wonder if some of that plays into it.
Always been a Beatle freak. Now 15 year old Read (nephew) is really into them which is fun for me cause I can share my love of them with him. Last weeks CBS Sunday Morning had a Beatles segment that I accidentally seen. Normally I wouldn't watch the Tivoed show if it wasn't Sunday morning but it was Sunday night and I was looking for something to watch. I love their little segment on them that I then DVDed it, digitized it and put it up on Google video so I could share with Read.
Then even though I had no inking of checking out Paul McCartney's new album I went ahead and did and I am so glad I did. I am really liking it. Half the music I like has a strong Beatles influence like the Elliot Smith thing I went through not too long ago. Funny that I wasn't going to get Paul's new album even though he is the ultimate in Beatles influence.