All-American Breakfast?

This morning for breakfast I had kefir, creamy buckwheat cereal and borscht. Sometimes I look at what I eat and think, is there anyone else in America who eats the way I do? Probably not. Not unless they just immigrated from Russia or Thailand or something. That’s ok, though. I haven’t converted my family, however. I think Amber would be the easiest to convert – she already likes red rice and soy milk and stuff no one else in the family besides me will touch.

Well, here’s the rundown:

Meagan – turned 18 on Black Friday. For her birthday we had a family dinner and invited Tyler over. David was even sort of ok with that (?). Meagan got an MP3 player (her old one was stolen from her gym locker at school) and a “Labyrinth” DVD. She was so excited to get “Labyrinth” that she squealed for almost two minutes. Tyler kind of rolled his eyes. Meagan loves David Bowie and the muppets. I can’t say I blame her.

Meagan has decided she wants to go to UVU for college. That’s ok, as long as she can figure out how she’s going to pay for it. I suspect she wants to go to UVU because that is where Tyler is planning on going. In March. I guess he’ll graduate early from HS – at the end of this semester. I think that’s mid-January.

Cameron – I don’t really know what Cameron is up to, except that he is doing well in all of his classes except Honors Physics. I would have struggled, too, if I hadn’t taken Trig first. I tried to talk him out of it, but he wouldn’t be talked. Oh well.

Jarom – Jarom finally finishing his autobiography for English. He has been working on it for months now. He sure had to find a lot of photos for it.

Jarom marched in the day-after-Thanksgiving Christmas Parade with the Jr. High Band. I didn’t even recognize him when he marched past because he was wearing a beanie. He almost never wears hats. That parade was sure cold!!! I sat in the suburban for most of it. It was nice when it was time to go in to the warm mall.

Amber – Has been playing Nancy Drew computer games. She played both of the games Holly gave me and has started checking them out of the library. The last one, she had to have Jarom help her, because Nancy kept getting blown up in the theater demolition. She kept wanting me to help her, but I’m clueless when it comes to those games. (That was punny, wasn’t it? It wasn’t intentional.)

Last night Amber had to write a list of 20 family traditions. I ended up thinking up most of them, because Amber couldn’t think of very many. It was really hard. There are some things we did for awhile, then quit doing. Like when I worked for Holiday Inn, we’d usually go on a short vacation in either Utah or Idaho and stay at a hotel for a couple of days because I only had to pay $25 a night for a room. We don’t do that now because I just can’t bring myself to pay $89 a night for a hotel room. Maybe I should…Meagan’s almost old enough to leave home! Ack!

David – is visiting his silly skin doctor today. He sees Dr. Williams in Murray. Dr. Williams is always entertaining. Last time David was there, Dr. Williams was telling David that Shania Twain had just gotten divorced and was now available. Apparently Dr. Williams is not married. I told David he’d have to ask Dr. Williams if he’d gotten a date with Shania yet. When Jarom went there, he was teasing Jarom about becoming a dermatologist. I don’t think that’s gonna happen.

This morning I had David check the anti-freeze in the suburban. It was really, really, really low. It’s a good thing I saw a drip of anti-freeze on the driveway and had him check!

Me – I found a new job that I think is going to be much better than my current job. My new boss was sure alot nicer to me when he hired me than my current boss was.

I gave my two weeks notice the day before Thanksgiving. Gary (my current boss – who works in the Denver office) didn’t seem too sad about my leaving. Maybe he was stunned? I asked him for a raise a year ago that never happened. “We will talk about it,” he told me. We never did. He did thank me for giving them two weeks notice. Kenny (the sales rep at the SLC office) told me yesterday that he wouldn’t stay the whole two weeks. Quint (the vitamin guy and former owner of the company) said, “Heidi’s a good girl, she’ll stay the whole two weeks.” Yup, that’s me. The good girl. Quint’s old enough to be my dad. He’s also my favorite Graves (the family that owns the company).

Here’s the weirdest part about my leaving, though. Lisa suggested to Sue (the office manager at the Denver office) that her daughter Sara replace me. Sue said, “Oh, Sara can’t work for the company, she’s related to you.” What? Apparently you can’t work for them if you’re related to anyone who works there UNLESS your last name is Graves. Then you can “work” there, be incompetent, not show up, irritate customers and still get paid for your entire shift. Hmmm…