Brain Space is a Terrible Thing to Waste

I can't believe I didn't make an entry all weekend.  I wasn't exactly very busy.  We kind of just spent a nice weekend around the house.  It was gorgeous here on Saturday.  It rained Saturday night and Sunday morning, but then cleared up and the sun came out; it was a little cooler, and we watched old movies with the kids all afternoon.  It was kind of nice not having to go anywhere or do anything special.

Tonight it was back to normal.  Rush in from work, get dinner going, throw in a load of laundry, exercise, feed and water the dogs and help Eler Beth with her homework.  Wow, did she have a lot of homework.  Thomas finished up dinner while I helped her.  She had 12 math problems in her math book, 5 on a math worksheet (adding and subtracting negative numbers!), 10 vocabulary questions, a story to read, 22 reading questions and then she had to work on the timeline for her autobiography.  (Is a 10 year old even old enough to have an autobiography?)  It's a good thing she got a perfect score on her spelling pre-test or we would have had spelling words to study, too!  After homework it was baths and teeth and now everyone is in bed!  I am worn out!

Thomas jokingly said to the kids at 9:00 "We'd better get to bed and give Mom some 'brain space' so she can relax."  That was sweet, but now I'm too tired to use it! 

And it's only Monday!          

First time in 20 years!

 UK knocks off Lady Vols 66-63

Wow, what a game!  For the first time in history the Lady Cats beat a #1 ranked team.  For the first time in almost exactly 20 years they beat the Lady Vols.  

Color to the Left

Thomas went to bed about 9:30 and went right to sleep.  The kids went to bed at 11.  A little after eleven Eler Beth came out and asked me if she could go to bed in our room for awhile and "cuddle with Daddy."  I said sure, but dad's asleep.  He may not be awake enough to cuddle.  (Cuddling to Eler Beth means lying in bed talking as well as cuddling.)

Sure enough she was back out here in a few minutes, laughing.  My hubby is at it again --  sleep conversations. 

"Dad, can you wake up and cuddle?"

"I thought we were coloring to the left."

"No, Dad, I want to cuddle."

"Okay, we'll color to the left."

"Dad!  Wake up and cuddle with me!"

"Okay, let's rock!"

She gave up after that.

If you want a good laugh and didn't read this before, check out my entry from July:  All Through The Night..........  It is hilarious!!

Feeling Dis-orientated

I recently re-read (actually listened to the audio book of...) DEATH IN HOLY ORDERS by P.D. James and was reminded of a word that bugs the heck out of me -- disorientated.  I don't know why, but it just doesn't sound right.  The first time I saw it in print I thought it was a misprint.  But I looked it up and it is actually a word.  It means, of course, to "cause to be lost or disoriented", and the literal meaning is to "turn away from the East or (figuratively) from the right or the truth", thus the "orient" portion of the word, as in "oriental".  (Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.)

I have no problem with the word disoriented, but disorientated makes my mouth feel funny!  And if reading the word was bad, listening to it being read on the audio book was even worse.  Made my head spin every time I heard it.  And I think P.D. James uses it at least a half dozen times in that book.

Oh well.  I'll get over it.  Isn't it funny how some words just bug you or make your tongue feel funny when you try to say them?  I do love P.D. James, though, and DEATH IN HOLY ORDERS is probably my favorite Adam Dalgliesh story.  Love those "who-done-its."

In other news, that barge is still stuck against the pilings of the K & I bridge.  The Coast Guard won't get the right equipment in to get it until Monday.  The barge was full of asphalt, sitting very low in the water, and some has spilled out. 

I felt much better today, so I guess it was just a 24-hour bug.  Andrew was very impressed with the instructor of the Computer Networking class at  Prosser , and I think the feeling was mutual.  He turned in his application today at school.  They enjoyed their spaghetti dinner, too!!

I guess I'll work for a few hours tomorrow, although I really don't want to.  I'm getting very possessive about my weekends!  I am way behind on my alerts, so I guess I'd better go get caught up.  Hope everyone has a great weekend!

                                      

Yucky, Yucky!

I have that yucky stomach/intestinal thing.  I guess.  I worked today, though, since it was my half-day.  Then I came  home and crashed.  I am feeling a little better, and they say it only lasts a day or so.

Thomas and the kids went to the Open House at Prosser Vocational School, because Andrew will probably be taking a class there next week.  They are having an "All you can eat for $2.00" spaghetti dinner there, too, so I didn't have to make dinner.

In the news:  Our local Ford plants were spared cuts this time around, but I think they'll get hit soon;  There were some runaway barges on the Ohio this afternoon.  They just showed one as it hit the railroad bridge.  It is stuck there now, so maybe the Coast Guard can get it.  I guess they got the others already.

I'm going to take a little time to catch up on some alerts, maybe make another entry if I feel up to it, then I'm going to take a shower, have a nice cup of tea and go to bed.

That Warner Brothers Frog

       Does anyone else remember that Frog that went around singing and playing the banjo in some cartoon?  Well, I've had that song "Hello, my baby, hello, my honey, hello my rag time gal" in my mind all day and I have no idea why!!  And that's all I remember of the song, so it's just that one line going 'round and 'round in my poor little head.  I thought this graphic looked like that frog, so I'm sharing!

My kids are both feeling better.  Everyone ate dinner and no one has a fever or a stomach ache.  Hopefully that means no one will be home from school or work tomorrow!  I had a very long nap this afternoon, so I'm having trouble getting sleepy for bed.  I did a little housework and read my newspaper, and that's about all I did.  The front page of the paper was, indeed, about the Army National Guard 623rd Field Artillery getting home yesterday.  Of course, most of the article was on the two mothers who lost their sons in Iraq last year.  Both families were there, though, to welcome home the rest of their son's battalion.  One of the mothers also welcomed home the twin brother of the son who was killed.  I can't imagine having the courage to get up and drive all that way early in the morning to welcome back your son's comrades, like the one mother did, knowing that your son would not be with them.  But she said that that was one way of accepting that he was gone.  That it was hard to completely deal with it while the rest of his company was in Iraq.

The local news tonight lead off with possible lay-offs at the Ford Truck Plant in Louisville.  At first they were saying that it probably wouldn't affect the Louisville plants, but now they're afraid it might.  I know a lot of people who work there. 

I must try to get to sleep.  I don't know what kind of hours I'll be working this week.  Last week was hectic.  We had lots of meetings.  Friday we did an orientation for five new Kelly Associates and as soon as that was over Erica and I had a Safety Team Meeting with the big shots from corporate.  There will be a fire drill sometime this week, and we have a lot of knew people, so we will need to go over evacuation procedures with everyone early in the week.  Also, we have lost a lot of our safety committee and we have to coordinate with the other teams on our floor to form one 8th floor safety team.  Well, there was only one other person at the meeting from our floor, and she is brand new to the company.  The job was just sort of handed to her.  So I suggested that Erica remain the Safety Captain for the entire 8th floor, the other girl agreed and our manager is seeing to it.  Because Erica works hard and is very good at communicating to the rest of the team, besides going to every meeting and making sure we have everything we need.  I didn't want to see her nudged out of that position by someone who couldn't even make it to the meeting on Friday.  Anyway, we are still in overtime mode, and I haven't been working any lately because it wore me out in November and December.  But I guess I will do my part now.  Besides Thomas' overtime hasn't yet picked up and I guess we can use the money.  So, I'm going to go try to get a few hours sleep now.  More later!

Slow Sunday

Well, I stayed home with both kids this morning while Thomas went to the meeting.  Eler Beth slept fitfully through the night, but she hasn't  had a fever.  She is sneezing this morning, but she just ate some grapes and some French toast.  Andrew says his stomach is bothering him, too, and is still in bed.

On the local news this morning they showed coverage of members of the Ky. Army National Guard's Battery B, 1st Battalion, 623rd Field Artillary arriving in Louisville yesterday.  I looked for Laura  in the crowd, but didn't catch a glimpse of her! :)  I know she was there, though!  I'm sure she is having a great day today with hubby home!  I haven't looked at the paper yet, but I'm sure there's front page coverage.

I think I'll try to accomplish a few things this morning (and read my paper), then I'll come back later to write some more.