Where We're At

Nothing too fascinating going on over here lately, I'm sorry! Ken's been busy working, I'm not, and the boys have been fairly mellow lately. I have managed to set a new personal record, though, THREE WEEKS people! (See tracker if you don't know what I'm talking about.)

That means we've saved over $180 so far, $180 which should be sitting in a clear jar for me to gawk at whenever I feel like it. Sadly Ken took it to mean he had an extra $180 to blow this month. On what? Not too sure, you may have to ask him. I would complain, but the money will appear (magically, if need be,) just in time for two little trips (Texas and Alaska,) I hope to take over the summer. Which reminds me, anybody want to watch the boys for me?

Today I took the boys to a Mad Science workshop at the library. Mad Science is a company that teaches kids science in a fun, hands-on manner. The boys seemed pretty excited about it and I got them settled in the classroom and went to an adjacent area to read a book. Well... we all know how Corey takes things way too literally, right? Let's just say it got really ugly when the mad scientist introduced himself and told the kids that they were going to get to handle ACIDS and bases to test for pH. Guess who didn't get to read her book? Hmm, that was fun.

As if that wasn't enough excitement for one day, I decided that we needed to do a family activity since Daddy's pretty much a stranger to the boys lately. I brainstormed for an idea that wasn't too pricey, (you know why,) and it occurred to me that we had a ton of Chuck-E-Cheese tokens courtesy of Santa, we could take a free trip there! On a Saturday night! Well that sure beats, oh... I dunno, getting my head stuck underneath the wheels of a forklift, so why not?

Chuck-E-Cheese wasn't too bad, considering. Corey only got separated from me once, and we only had to wait about 20 minutes to turn in our tickets for a slip of paper and then another 15 minutes to turn our slips of paper into tacky little toys that would end up in a garbage can by Monday. Whew, fun!

Let's see... I finally decided to get a subscription to the local paper again; no, not for the deep, informative articles (it wishes) it provides, but for the job search (and also to line the guinea pig cages with.) The job search has pretty much been a dead end, as far as walking by places and seeing if they're hiring or browsing the internet goes. My only decent job offer in this area came from a job I'd located in the Gazette, so for $11 bucks a month I thought I'd go for it. I got my first issue and all I could say after scouring it was thank goodness we have guinea pigs. There were a whopping ten jobs listed in the entire paper, ten! And not one of them fit any of our silly requirements, either. So that's where the whole job thingy is at.

Hmm, what else? Crazy beautician #83 decided to leave the chemicals in my hair a little too long and I'm a blond again. Ken loves it, Corey asked a lot of questions. My talented stylist also worked around the pesky scar in my eyebrow by simply removing most of my eyebrow, so there's that, too.

Shannon has discovered beat-boxing and LOVES it; I should have known how talented he was when he couldn't whistle through his lips so he taught himself to make the noise with his vocal chords. Now he searches youtube for the all the latest and greatest beat-boxing ideas.

Oh, yeah, one of Corey's former teachers is now giving piano lessons! (At $15 a half-hour, boo!) I'm very excited and we may just go for it if I ever manage to find work.

And Riley. Well, he's learned the art of talking back, but 99% of the time he keeps it in check. Tonight he got caught so bedtime was way early, which explains why I had time to sit and write this post. Which I am now done with as well. I'm going to go try and read that book that I wasn't able to get to earlier...