Just thinkin out loud

I think I am going to start a food blog. Caleb and I (admittedly) eat out A LOT. Too much. It seem like every time we buy groceries and vow not to buy any other food for the rest of the week, the groceries just stay in the fridge (or are donated to my Mom) and rot. So maybe if I start blogging all of the places we eat or want to eat it will help me to see that we really do eat out a lot. I don't, but we could also help some people find some really really good eateries that they may never have tried before.
Anyways........ I am making a scarf. It is so cute. I think I will finish it today (this evening). It is lime green and all twisty-N-stuff.
Oh, and Thanks Mom and Dad-according-to-the-law. Caleb set up our camping kitchen last night, it is totally AWESOME. Seriously I was really impressed. LOL he hasn't taken it down yet either. He said he wants to set up ALL of our camping stuff on it, so I can take a picture and post it to the blog. What a Weirdo. So right now it is sitting in the middle of the kitchen. I am afraid it may become our new kitchen table.

Good Bye

Yesterday my Mother's Brother (my uncle) died. I personally only met this uncle about two times that I can remember. Regardless, it is my Mom's brother so she is taking it pretty hard. When we arrived in from Fresno last night, I called her to ask if there was any food left over from Christmas. She said yes and then started to cry as she told my about her brothers death. The family sort of knew that he was going to pass on pretty soon. He had been admitted to the hospital last week, and a couple of days ago he was taken off of life support. I guess in those few days he seemed to be getting much better. Everyone grew hopeful. My Mom said he died yesterday around five (pm?), she never got to visit him in the hospital. I think that is one of the reasons her hurt has been compounded. Please say a little prayer for her, that God will comfort her. This is the third family member she has lost in the last two years.

Too much good stuff

Woke up. Starbucks. Snow went, but a no go-no chains. Turned back. Wild Cats. Fast down hill driving. Mud Pie Twister. Visiting time. Thai Fusion. Rough housing with Sam. Family Conversations. Blog uploading.

Compliments of Caleb

TOM SWIFTIES:
"I've had my left and right ventricles removed," Tom said half-heartedly.
"I think my tires are bald," Tom said warily.
"I hate milking cows," Tom uttered.
"I put all my money into an IRA," Tom said interestedly.
"I don't think that leprechaun is telling the truth," Tom implied.
"I think that wasp is in pain," Tom bemoaned.
"I took out the trash," Tom said literally.
"I cut my dog's toenails too far," Tom said quickly.
"You're burning the candle at both ends," Tom said wickedly.
"I hope I can still play the guitar," Tom fretted.
"I feel like a big black bird," Tom crowed.
"My tongue feels numb," Tom said distastefully.
"I want to renew my membership," Tom rejoined.
"My grape juice has fermented," Tom whined.
"Don't try to pull the wool over my eyes," Tom said sheepishly.
"Stop your sniveling," Tom decried.
"Someone removed all the twos from this deck," Tom deduced.
"I just love power failures," Tom said delightfully.
"It's 3 a.m.," Tom said mournfully.
"Thanks for shredding the cheese," Tom said gratefully.
"I love Velveeta," Tom said craftily.
"It's two, two, two mints in one," Tom said certainly.
"Who was pope before John Paul I?" Tom asked piously.
"The river has gotten rough," Tom said rapidly.
"You can't go faster than the speed of sound," Tom said mockingly.
"I'm as busy as a bee," Tom droned.
"Those ants will never get in here," Tom said defiantly.
"Please put some folds in these trousers," Tom pleaded.
"I have plenty of do's but no don'ts," Tom said dauntlessly.
"I have forgotten the german word for 'four'" Tom said fearlessly.
"Someone stole my wheels," Tom said tirelessly.
"Hallelujah," Tom said handily.
"I just won 1000 dollars," Tom said grandly.
"All that's left are the front and back," Tom said decidedly.
"Where can I find a copper figure of Lincoln?" Tom asked innocently.
"I only have 8 bits," Tom said bitingly.
"My sign is cancer, what's my horoscope?" Tom asked crabbily.
"What's in the middle of an egg?" Tom asked eccentrically.
"Venus de Milo is a beautiful statue," Tom said disarmingly.
"I'm covered in blood," Tom said readily.
"I've found the pens used to sign the civil war surrender," Tom said pensively.
"I think someone electrified the corridor," Tom said haltingly.
"There are tiny bugs in the dust," Tom said mightily.
"Hey, Vern! Knowhutimean?" Tom said earnestly.
"I unclogged the kitchen sink with a vacuum cleaner," Tom said succintly.
"My clothes are pressed," Tom said ironically.
"What's that reddish stuff on the cannon?" Tom asked rusticly.
"How come my clock only makes 'toc's?" Tom asked mystically.
"I hate playing craps," Tom said dicily.
"Who is the vice president?" Tom asked allegorically.
"I tripped over the lamp plug," Tom said cordially.
"Who commanded the confederate army?" Tom asked generally.
"Can I go look for the holy grail again?" Tom requested.
"There's the dog star," Tom said seriously.
"I've discovered the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything!" Tom said fortuitously.
"I'm as strong as a sled dog," Tom said huskily.
"You look like a goat," Tom kidded.
"What comes before cocious?" Tom asked precociously.
"I'm building up my muscles," Tom insinuated.
"I hate metal on my teeth," Tom said abrasively.
"What's the capitol of North Vietnam?" Tom asked annoyingly.
"So this is where they make movies," Tom said studiously.
"May I introduce the family Stone?" Tom asked slyly.
"I'd give that hornet a 10," Tom said beratingly.
"I won't be on time," Tom said belatedly.
"I'd like to teach the world to sing..." Tom said coaxingly.
"My voice is deep," Tom said basically.
"I don't trust that pickle," Tom said deliriously.
"I count three horizons," Tom said horizontally.
"That bird is sick," Tom said illegally.
"Paint it blue again," Tom said reassuringly.
"Wanna buy a halibut?" Tom asked selfishly.
"Take sominex," Tom said sleepily.
"This is my favorite chinese soup," Tom said wantonly. "I'm going up," Tom said innocently.
"Is your name Timothy or Russell?" Tom asked timorously.
"How do you like your martini?" Tom asked drily.
"I love the dodgers," Oliver said artfully.
"That ball was right over the plate," Tom said strikingly.
"The PH is too low," Tom said acidly.
"Let's blow up these paddies," Tom said derisively.
"I've locked onto the target," Tom said insightfully.
"Nay, nay, and again I say nay," Tom said hoarsely.
"The Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria, and the Titanic" Tom said forbodingly.
"You must have a lottery in Georgia," Tom said zealously.
"It doesn't smell anymore," Tom said distinctly.
"Many thanks, Monsier," Tom said mercifully.
"I already showed you how to do that," Tom said tautly.
"My hair's been cut off," Tom said distressfully.

Christmas day, and the day before tomorrow.

What a week. I am sure I have gained some major weight in these last three days. Today we did a little after Christmas shopping. We began a trip to Shaver Lake, but had to turn back because we did not have any snow chains with us. We spent the evening playing games at Uncle Rick and Aunt Cathy's house. Now we are off to bed. Tomorrow at 10am we are headed off to Sequoya National Park (or something like that)

Christmas Eve. and Morning

And.... We Are Off

Ok, so not quite. We will be leaving for Fresno shortly, like around 9. Caleb had to work this morning for an HOUR. -Is that weird or what? - Otherwise we would have left last night. For those of you that(or who?) read from Rialto, I will do my best to post photos of our life in Fresno.

There are better ways of removing snow.

Mass. man melting snow with blowtorch ignites home
Tue Dec 23, 9:00 am ET
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. – Fire officials in New Bedford, Mass., say a man using a blowtorch to melt ice on his back porch ended up setting his house on fire, causing up to $30,000 in damage.
Fire Capt. Scott Kruger tells The Standard-Times of New Bedford that no on was injured during Monday's incident at the three-story home.
Kruger says the man was using a torch hooked up to a 20-pound propane cylinder. He got too close to the building's wood frame and ignited the vinyl siding. The fire quickly spread into the building's second- and third-floor apartments.
It took 25 firefighters to subdue the blaze that damaged bedrooms in the upstairs units, and caused damage to the structure and wiring.
The homeowner will not be charged.

I'm off to bed, but first an interesting story.
Caleb told me today that he had a patient that was like over 65 years old. It was a man and the man had chest jewelry (if you know what I mean). The sight of the accessories was enough to freak Caleb out. The procedure what was being done required that the rings be removed. Unfortunately for Caleb the poor old man had arthritis and could not take the jewelery off. So (LOL!) Caleb had to take them off of the man. HAHA is that funny or what?! Caleb said he put on like two pairs of latex gloves. I just can't get over it. Can you imagine? "Ah Mr. Talkjdasa, you are going to have to remove those, ah, metal, ah, yeah those." "Oh sorry sonny, I have arthritis, my hands just don't work like they used to. Would you mind doing the honors?" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I LOVE IT!!!!!!

It is finished

I am done with all of my shopping!

P.S.
Everyone go to B. Artistic's blog site, the newest pics are beautiful!

Oh the joys of Shopping

We left at 11AM we returned at 11:13PM. We went, we bought and we are still not done. Almost. But not yet.

So far Caleb and I have bought for everyone on our list. We just need a few extras for two people. Actually we are going to return something because we found something BETTER. Hopefully we will finish after church this morning. I had a personal goal of buying everyone's gift in one day. If we could have gotten ourselves to buy a gift card than we would be done. Oh well, I figure if I buy something for someone and they take it back, than it is just like I got them a really nice gift card.

One thing I did notice while crossing the death trap of a parking lot at Victoria's Garden is: people are a lot nicer to you when you are walking TO your car. Ever notice that? Just pay attention next time you go shopping. When you are walking from your car to the store it's like you are in a game of FROGGER. Dodging cars, nasty words and random shopping carts. When you are walking to your car the world is your oyster? People will stop and do that little hand motion that means "you first". They smile, nod and kindly roll down the window to ask " where are you parked, my precious holiday shopper?" Caleb and I were joking that people would probably give you a ride to your car if you asked. "Oh sure I'll give you a ride. Would you like some Hot Chocolate also?" Maybe I will try that this afternoon.

Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty, I'm free at last

What a great day, I love working with the school district. Today is the beginning of my vacation and the students and staff sent me home with some wonderful parting gifts. I received cookies, cookies, a gift card to Starbucks, and free lunch. I really do thank God for my coworkers, they are so great. We had a wonderful time at lunch today, just laughing away at the funny things that went on at school. The best part of the day had to be when the staff decided it was time to try out the YMCA with the kids again. Of course only the staff was dancing (doing the hand/arm movements), that's why we do it because the kids always just sit there and stare at us like we are out of our minds. One student was trying to dance along, but every time he looked at a certain aide he would just crack up laughing, it was awesome.
After work I decided to participate in some retail therapy. Do you ever do that? You know just shop your stress/thoughts/whatever away? I didn't realize until recently that I really do shop my blues away (don't get all well wishing on me, I don't have the blues). Anyway, I went to Kohl's after work and all was well until I got in line. There were literally 26 people ahead of me and only 3 registers were working (working, the others are broken). I know because a lady in front of me counted all of the sad little shoppers in line. I am not sure how long I was in line, but I know it had to be at least 45ish minutes. The sad part is I was not even Christmas shopping, I bought some stuff for myself. (Therapy)
Today we may go to see some Christmas lights in Alta Loma. A friend told me they are really good this year. I have never seen these said "Alta Loma Lights", but I have heard mixed reviews on them. Has anyone out there in cyberspace been to these lights? and is it worth going?

Tomorrow is a half day!

Tomorrow is the day before my TWO (count 'em, T-W-O-O) week vacation. Whoot, Whoot- and I don't mean the dog- which by the way I need to post pictures of, he is so big he can rest his head on our dining table-not that we allow him too, he just does it sometimes. Any-who, I am a little hyper and a little out of my mind at the moment. About two hours ago I took some heavy duty pain meds, so I am happy as can be right now. (too much info, I'm sure) Caleb came home this evening and we got our picture order from Laura. They turned out really really well. (if I do say so)
Not too many new stories from school. Spidey's Mom gave us all a Christmas card with a gift card to McDonald's. That was really nice.
LOL "Sammy" almost wee'd on me yesterday. I was changing his diaper (he stands,I sit on a little box, I take it off the diaper, wipe and put a new one on) and it was really cold in the restroom. All of a sudden he starts yelling, "pee, pee!" (from what I have heard tiny baby boys sometimes wee when they are wiped with a cold wipe) So I freaked and just tried to cover the "area" with the diaper before I got sprayed. Thankfully it was a false alarm.
Ugg, Spittoon boy is still at it, but the other day was just sick. He came off of the bus and the driver was like "SB has a little baggie and he has been spitting in it, his Mom said he has a cough". OK? what does a cough have to do with loogies? Anyway, he steps off the bus and he has a clear sandwich bag FULL, literally (I am gagging right now-mental pictures) FULL of green phlegm. There was nowhere close by to throw the bag away, so we had to walk all the way to class with this baggie of mucus. Gross!

Poor Caleb

So this is weird, but Caleb is stuck in Victorville tonight. The 15 freeway going to and coming from Victorville is closed due to extreme weather conditions. Therefore, my poor husband is stuck. Thankfully, my sister lives up there so he is just going to spent the night at her house. The funny thing is my sister and her family are stuck down here, so they are going to be spending the night at my Mom's. Hopefully the freeway will be open tomorrow evening when Caleb gets off of work.
On top of everything else Caleb forgot his jacket this morning and he said there is like six inches of snow outside.

sunday school

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Christmas Practice

Ladies Brunch/ Luncheon?

Youth Party

So the youth party was AWESOME. We had kids everywhere. outside, in all of the rooms, it was really cool. Thanks ilcLIVE for being THE BEST youth group ever.
I will post pics when I remeber to bring my purse in from the car. Obviously my camara is in there and today it is kinda rainy so I am not really trying to go outside if I don't have to.

dun da da dunham

1. Dont read the quote of the day. :)
2. Someone tagged me so here goes.
The rules of the game are:1. Grab one of the books closest to me, go to page 56, type the fifth line and the next two to five lines that follow.2. Pick five people who love books and who could receive the Bookworm award with honor.

We shall sing on that beautiful shore, The melodious songs of ablest, And our spirits shall sorrow no more, Not a sigh for the blessings of rest. In the sweet by and by, we shall meet on that beautiful shore. In the sweet by and by we shall meet on that beautiful shore.
SING UNTO THE LORD. lol they meant physically close right, not like "close to my heart" or anything.
Ok so what does ablest mean?
I am not tagging anyone because most everyone has already been tagged.

Homework

Does anybody know the words to Disney's "A Pirates Life for Me"? LOL the kids keep requesting that we (the teachers) sing this song to them, but all we know is the yo ho part. I have the song, but I still can't understand what they are saying. A coworker seems to think they say "wake up me hearties?" at some point. I don't know.

It's been HOW long?

ok, ok, ok, so I have been really bad about updating my blog. There has been a lot going on and this evening (as I sit at home sick again!) I finally have some time to sit and babble a while. Too bad our laptop battery is dying.

Quickly:

The Ladies thingy was fun. We fit quit a few women in our humble abode. We had wonderful food. I think I gained some more weight, but it was totally worth every bite.

Work as been fun and busy as usual. I realized that I am being warped by these kids. I am starting to think their behaviour is normal. Scary I know.

We had music practice all night yesterday, or at least it seemed like all night.

This Friday my home is going to be invaded by at least 30 teenagers and the like. We are the host house (say that five times fast) for our annual ILClive scavenger hunt. I am sure it is going to be a total blast.

No surprise here: we still have not put our order in for our Christmas pics. Sorry Laura!

Freeze! (lol, get it freeze, like cause it's cold)