End of Year Program

So, we went to the Quest End of Year Program tonight. Amber and all the incoming 7th graders were welcomed in to the program and it was Jarom's farewell. Mrs. Silleto always makes predictions for the outgoing 9th graders. She said that Jarom is "going to be the next Willie Hays - the screamingest infomercial announcer on TV." Yup, sounds just like Jarom.

I told Mrs. Silleto after the program that we keep telling Jarom he's going to get an engineering degree then become an actor. She thought that sounded about right. Jarom said, "They keep saying that because of Rowan Atkinson." It's true.

Two years ago Mrs. Siletto told Cameron he was going to write and illustrate books with big words in them. I looked through my tags and can't believe I didn't put her Cameron prediction on my blog...

I worked 7.75 hours today. Can you believe it? It was supposed to be one of my "short" days. It's cuz we had a ba-zillion visits the last two weeks with one of the home health companies we are contracted with. OK, only 115. I got to "bill" last week's visits and invoice all of the visits for the last two weeks. Plus all the fun scheduling and re-scheduling. Fortunately, Joe is getting someone to help me in the office. I guess we'll be co-office managers. Which is just fine with me. And, Joe is interviewing 2 new PTs. Joe is even more swamped than I am. Poor Joe.

In other news (and I thought this was going to be a short post!), we have a woodpecker living in the apple tree in our backyard. The hole it literally drilled into one of the branches is perfectly round. It's amazing how round it is. It looks like somebody took a hole-saw and drilled in the tree - except a hole-saw couldn't weave into the branch in the cool way the woodpecker hole does. Amber took pictures of it. Maybe I'll have to figure out how to post them. That would be cool.

Meagan got to deal with the other insurance company today. She said the insurance adjuster kept asking her the same questions over and over again. He mostly asked if it couldn't have been someone else other than his client that ran into our car and did she leave it on the side of the road unattended. Good heavens! How silly.

Stomach Cramps & Whiplash

I have been up most of the night because Magic Wok put MSG in our food after I told them 3 times I wanted NO MSG. Oh well... I'm not going there again. I guess I need to learn to cook my own Chinese food. Problem is, I really hate cooking. Sheri and I discovered a few months back that her idea of hell is having to exercise and mine is having to cook. Of course, my FAVORITE thing is exercise and Sheri's is cooking. LOL.

The Crown got smashed in to by a white SUV on Wednesday while Meagie was driving it to pick Amber up from school. I guess I could have been worse. Meagan's neck is sore, but other than that she seems to be OK. The car is still driveable, but the rear passenger-side door is dented in about 6 inches. The entire door. It's amazing the window is still in tact.

Funny thing is, I was talking to a guy at work earlier on Wednesday who was at the ER because his face got smashed in during a car wreck that morning. Better the car door than Meagan's face, that's for sure!

What I want to know is how did my part time job that was supposed to be 22 hours a week turn in to almost a full time job? I guess I should be glad that I've got a job in this tough economy, but I'm just tired.

We went to Jarom's art show at the Jr. High on Tuesday. He had 3 pictures in it: a pastel parrot, a colored pencil seascape and a colored pencil mountain. He is getting to be quite the artist. He is working on a colored ink dragon now.

Guess that's about it. Maybe I'll try to go to sleep for 10 minutes before I start the day...Did I mention that Meagan left her cell phone in the living room and it kept buzzing every 5 minutes for about an hour. Apparently some boy is trying to get in touch with her in the middle of the night. Ah, youth!

Haircuts, Crazy Music & Eclipses

I was thinking about going to Bountiful today for haircuts, but Mom and Dad are gone to Downey today. Cameron is glad because he got to go to his friend Chris's house. Not that he didn't want to go to Grandma and Grandpa's, but he's been planning all week to go to Chris's and I forgot.

Meagan was up all night with the Girl Scouts. She got home around 7:30am and regaled me with stories of her exciting night - especially the girls that kept screaming about spiders at 5:00 am. I'm OK with spiders as long as they don't bite me. I just scoop them up, take them outside and tell them not to come back in the house. So maybe I'm Buddist as well as Jewish.

David is waiting to get on the computer. I have taken it over. Which is kind of hard not to do if I'm on it. It doesn't really work for two people at a time.

Last week I changed my work schedule. Now I work Mon - Thu from 8:30 to 12:30/1:00 (depending on how long it takes me to get everything done). On Friday I work 8 hours because that's schedule day. Calling everyone and shuffling appointments around takes a while. I like this schedule better - I'm not stuck in Joe's basement doing paperwork for 8 or 9 hours a day (except Friday). About the time I'm getting really tired of it, it's time to go. Yay!

My cute sister Becky made me a Spring cd. I listened to it at work a couple of times yesterday. The first song on the cd is by Tiny Tim. For some reason I thought he was a midget and lived in the late 1800s/early 1900s. After googling him, I found out he was about 6'3" and born the same year as my Dad. Who knew? I played the Tiny Tim song for David and the kids. They were kind of freaked out by it. I think it's called "Living in the Sunlight, Loving in the Moonlight." I thought it was silly and kind of catchy. That and the song "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga have been stuck in my head.

David said, "Why does Becky keep making you cd's with weird songs on them?"

I said, "Because she knows I like weird?"

David rolled his eyes. I think he is disgusted with our taste in songs...

This morning I told David that the Robby Benson movie he has (on VHS, I'm sure - I can't remember the name of the movie) where Robby is up against a punk band in a talent contest, I liked the punk band better. I'm pretty sure the point of the movie is for everyone to say, "Oh, that punk band was horrible, Robby totally deserved to win!" David thinks I'm crazy, but that's OK. As you can tell, we don't have exactly the same taste in music - except that I'll go to a Styx concert with him and he'll go to an Oingo Boingo concert with me...

Amber just came in from the kitchen. "It's too small," she said, holding up a racquet ball.

"Too small for what?" I asked.

"Too small for a solar eclipse," she replied.

"A solar eclipse?"

"Yeah, I tried to block out the kitchen light with it, but it was too small. I could still see the light. Or is that a lunar eclipse? What is a lunar eclipse?"

So then we had to google "lunar eclipse." We decided what she had tried to recreate was, in fact, a solar eclipse.

"Maybe you need to use a basketball," I suggested.

She just looked at me like I was a bit crazy. Yup, my whole family thinks I'm crazy. And I think that's not a bad thing.