Sometimes I am shocked by how time gets away from me. Seems like just a few days have passed and suddenly it is a whole week gone. Where does it go? I wouldn't worry so much about this but it is not just a day or two that speed by, it is weeks, months, years.
Lots has happened since last I posted. Where to start? How about with last Sunday (yes, a whole week ago), I will see what I can remember.
Sunday - October 28th - Took my mom, sister Amy, James and Sky to lunch at Fire Lake Grill. That place is awesome. If you haven't been there you really need to make a point of it. I recommend the flat iron steak with their mashed potatoes. The sauce they give you with the steak is freaking great! After lunch my mom, sister, Sky and I went to see the Minnesota Orchestra perform. It was folk music day. They had guest musicians and ethnic dancers. It was pretty cool. It was a Target Family Fun Day so there were tons of kids there. It was fun to watch the kids get antsy and then have their attention caught by something in the music. Mostly I felt bad for the parents and a bit frustrated with them. They seemed to expect that their kids would be more than thrilled to see a live orchestra perform. I think they may have had their sights set too high. It was a good time though. My mom and sister don't really get to go to many things like that in downtown so I really enjoyed being able to take them. And I got to take this humiliating picture of them with Mary Tyler Moore! I love it! I think I will start a new blog called "Mary Tyler Moore & Me" and have it be nothing but picture of people taking pictures of themselves with the statue.
Monday - October 29th - Free movie night! We went to see "Enchanted," Disney's newest movie. It was very good. The beginning was your typical cheese ball princess lives in the woods, talks to animals, waits for prince charming deal and then she gets shoved in a well that turns her into a "real" girl in the middle of New York City. The gal who played the princess was completely convincing as the naive princess who believes in love at first site. I won't tell you too much about the rest of the movie but I will tell you that it is filled with silly songs, dance numbers and elements of every Disney princess story ever told. I loved it.
Tuesday - October 30th - Don't remember doing anything spectacular on that day. So I guess it was another average day.
Wednesday - October 31st - We had a big tour at work - 3M is looking for a new vendor. We made it to the final three. Everyone is pretty excited about it. It could mean HUGE things for our office. It was a very good day - everyone was happy and having a good time. One of our out of town guest decided to play a trick on S. He glued his handset to his phone. I think the build up was more fun then when he actually discovered it had been done.
James was asked to leave the Job Corp today because they think he is a danger to himself and others. He called Oliver to have him pick him up. I find it both comforting and disturbing that he would call Oliver before he would call his own dad. Apparently Sky broke up with him, he was crying and a security guard thought he needed to talk to a professional so they sent him to the Health & Wellness Center where the Dr decided that he needed to leave. I talked to the security guard about what happened and he said that he thought the folks in H&W over reacted and that it was unnecessary for James to leave. The center director was gone for the day so there was no one I could speak to about it. We had on choice but to pick him up. I told him that he needed to go to his dad's house. He was supposed to call the JC on Thursday to see when he could go back. As of Friday we still know nothing.
I bought an aquarium for Meany McMeany. It is a 3 gallon one. Blue base, blue cover, blue rock. He should look very good in it.
Thursday - November 1st - We had a "sales blitz" at work. We had to be out of the office doing 'cold calls' all day. Door-to-door gathering of information. The person who came back with the most business cards won a $75 gift card to Macy's. I did not win but I was second place and I had a very good time doing it. I was the only person to bring back an actual project. It was nice to meet a bunch of new people and do something different. My territory was the Western part of the city. After work we went for a few drinks. It was fun but things like this make me realize just how old I am compared to my workmates. I like them, a lot, but the age difference is incredibly amplified at happy hours.
Friday - November 2nd - I woke up Friday with the worst headache I have had in a very long time. It felt like my skull was bruised on the outside. When I sat up I got nauseous. It was awful. I slept the whole day with my head buried under a pillow to block out the light and sound. I have had migraines in the past that made me nauseous but this was completely different. It was like my balance was off. I was fine as long as I sat still and didn't try to move. I never did throw up but I would not have been surprised. I took a bunch of Excedrin and finally at about 10 O'clock I felt better. I was very sad because we missed a friend of ours house warming party. I always seem to get sick when there is a party to go to!!!! Sucks.
Saturday - November 3rd - I got up rather early, feeling pretty good and decided that this was the day to get my errands done. The ones I had been putting off for weeks. I sat down to make a list and it turned out that I hadn't really put anything errand related off except buying a new shower curtain. So I got James up and he and I walked over to the FEMA gym where Fi takes her self defense and Judo class. We sat in on the last 20 minutes of it and then had Oliver drop us at Target. He ran to the bank while we shopped. After Target we made a trip to the grocery store, dropped Oliver, Fi and James off at home with the groceries and instructions to make lunch. I went to pick Bailey up at her dads. It took me about 8 years to get there because of all of the road work. I was so raging by time I got there. People drive like idiots and construction makes it worse. Bailey and I got home in time for lunch. James left and went to his dads house for the evening and the rest of us lounged and did nothing for the rest of the day. It was nice.
Sunday - November 4th - Oliver and I slept in for what seems like the first time in weeks. It was spectacular. The girls got up at about 9:30 and kept quiet so we could sleep. Yeah good girls! We got up, ate breakfast, Fi played her Nintendo DS, Bay surfed the web, Oliver read, I napped in the chair. It was a hugely productive day. We did go out to a movie in the afternoon. We saw Hairspray. Not certain it was 7 year old appropriate but when drilled about what she learned from the movie her answers included things like: "French kissing is icky," "it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, only on the inside" and "you shouldn't be mean" so I think we are OK. It was a pretty good movie. Lots of silly songs and dancing. I enjoyed it. The popcorn was fabulous and almost made up for the fact that the Roseville 4 Theater smells like URINE!! We took Bay to her dad's after the movie. We had spicy sausage and red beans & rice for dinner. That was freaking great. I am craving it today. I should have brought it for lunch.
Monday - November 5th - Well I think I will do a post for this day after I determine how it will turn out. So far I am lacking ambition and energy so it is blah, blah, blah. I think I will see if anyone wants to have lunch with me.
I got THE most amazing deal on two chairs and an ottoman today. $50 for all three pieces! You cannot beat that!
