just an update from the past few days

I am going to post some things that have been happening in reverse order.

Today Oct 30th..... Got a call from the V.A. wanting to interview me for a secretary job. Same grade as the SSA job, not as many flexible hour options, and not sure if they would adjust my pay up or not. I think I will just stick with SSA. Will know more tomorrow though. Jordan had piano practice after school. Steve had musical practice until 6:30 (he is on the stage crew), and I had a meeting tonight for design team Paperie Place. Turned in my board book project. Our next project is due the 10th of November. We are to make a 12x12 layout, one card and one ornament. Should be fun. Today at work was Payroll closeout. That was a new experience. But it wasn't as hard as I imagined.! Oh, I finally picked up all the drycleaning tonight.

Sunday Oct 29th.... Church at 7:30, and 5th sunday breakfast afterwards. It was nice to relax and talk to everybody. Sometimes John wants to leave sooner that I do, and I feel rushed. I need my SOCIAL time! hehe. I had to cook my Bill's Dip and head to the forum baby shower at TPP at 11. Kerry was there early and helped me with tables and chairs. Dana arrived and made things pretty. Funny - we got a call from Kristin. She was in a parking lot just 5 blocks away, lost, and panicked as people were flipping her off and such! (as she tried to find the store!). Poor thing. It was a good time. My mom and dad came over from Topeka and brought Missy with them. They took Jordan to her piano recital at 2pm where she played Send in the Clowns. I left the crop at 4pm and headed home to find them on their 2nd game of Scrabble. Mom and dad finished off the Bill's dip. We watched Coming to America. That is a funny movie. Went to bed early, all of us, at 8:30.

Saturday Oct 28th. Jordan was at her debate tourney (Oak Park HS). I typed 3 hours in the morning on Op reports for LH. Steve had set building day at his school. I just hung out, went to the store, watch Star Trek, and took a nap. Sara and I went out to the Blue Springs scrapbook store, forgot the name already. Oh well. Jordan got a ride home from Jarrett Muck. He has a car and a license, and i have known him since he was in Kindergarten. Wild. Took Jordan to Kari's party at 7 and Steve and I just hung out. Picked Jordan up at 11pm. I hear Corey was at the party too, so I'm sure that has something to do with why Jordan had a good time. :-)

Friday Oct 27th. End of my first two weeks at the SSA. I think it's going to work out fine. Had to stay up late to pick up Jordan at 11pm. John went to see Flags of our Fathers tonight in Austin TX. I will be glad when next friday rolls around and he is home for the weekend.

Thursday Oct 26th. Joann and I were supposed to have a SD class. Since they closed down we took our calendars up to TPP and I signed up for a couple of crops. Then we met Jean at The Dish and had the house special for Thursday - Margaritas - top shelf! Ohhhh. They were good. I had to order some nachos though so I could drive.

Wednesday Oct 25th. I didn't win the contest. Oh well. Kids had TKD tonight and Jordan had sundo afterwards. The co-workers in Mod 19 really liked that I brought some to share with everybody.

Tue Oct 24th. AFter work Jordan and I did some cooking. I was making coconut chews for the CFC cookie contest. There was a huge spill. My batter went all over the place on the island. I just kept dropping things. It was crazy. I think I had too much caffeine or something. But, alls well that ends well I guess. Jordan got her homecoming pictures back today. They are gorgeous.

Monday Oct 23rd. Craziness in the house. John leaving for Austin. Much sadness and frantic scurrying. Boring evening without him. I was on the computer all day about the scrapbook events described below.

Saturday Oct 21st. The day I found out Scrapbookers Dream was closing the ISD and NSD locations. I was in total disbelief for an entire day. As it sunk in I panicked. Luckily all my forum friends were able to reconnect via a new forum. But it was quite a shocker. Called TPP and they agreed to let us have our baby shower crop there on the 29th. Very nice of them to do so.