Picture Time!

I'm all out of steam, running on about 1/8 tank right now, so I'm turning to my old standby for my weekend wrap-up post. Pictures! Yes it's picture time indeed....I thought I'd recap the week that is now mercifully behind me! Knock on particle board for thinking it will be better next week, because I'm just smart enough to know not to expect that!

A bright note--Alex in effort to hasten his earnings spent part of late Wednesday evening cleaning my bathroom. It's quite an undertaking, especially my counter...it's pretty hopeless. I was so tickled to see the end result:

Just like a guy thinks--if it can all be shoved together, clearing room on the counter, then it's good! The black fabric in the foreground is actually a piece of lining that fell off one of my tops and onto the floor. The soap box is empty, but bless his heart the root lifter spray looked so good on it! Why not? Loved loved loved it!

It snowed good Tuesday (or was it Monday--I forget) and the good news is, I do believe this is the last of the snows for us. Again, knock on particle board.

This is how skewed I am when I view my little boy (who is almost 11 now)....the other day I was cleaning the basement and came across these old outdoor end tables. I was going to throw them out when I had an epiphany! Alex loves to cook...sweet little tiny baby that he is. If I stored them in the laundry room off the kitchen, he could grab them and use them for step stools when he's working with me! And.....here you see how off my view of my little baby boy is:

WHEN did he grow ten inches?

Finally many of you already know Friday mornings are deadline mornings for me. Which means if I've dawdled around too much, I'll be up all night and into the morning typing. Last night (morning) 3:30 was threatening to catch me before I finally shut off the lights. I had time to capture this at about 2:30, dark circles and all:

And here is the stack I've already completed next to my very much coveted XM radio....of course Coast to Coast AM is always on from midnight until I wake up.

I've missed checking you all out over the past few days, so I'm excited to have the evening to myself tomorrow (John's got suite tickets to arena football and is taking Jeff, Cat's husband, and his brother, Jeff).

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****Hurdy Gurdy, JenGi!

I'm Around....

This hasn't been a banner blogging week, but I can 'splain. Swim meets Wed, Fri & Sat. Cody's best friend who moved to Virginia is here for three days (pics later promise), we entertaining him and his mother and grandfather (I adore his mom, so this is a good thing!).

Of course VBS. And..I got slammed with a lot of typing! But I got through it so far without invoking Blogging Without Obligation (see link on the right). I am not convinced my hit stats won't be engraved into my tombstone. I can't take a chance. *I picture tombstones kinda like a laser beam, digitalized, satellite -kind of thing in 20 years, what do you think?* Can you just HEAR it 100 years from now? "Oooohh, your great grandma, she didn't have a lot of friends according HER hit count...clearly you didn't inherit your fun personality from her!" I cannot chance it, no I need to invoke only in an emergency, my great granddaughter is counting on me. If I have nothing else, I have my camera:

Niki and her b/f dropped in to watch a few races (can you tell Corle is good with Alex?).

Cody on the block (lane 4):

Alex opted out of the caps early on--they hurt his tiny hairs! Poor baby. If you click and enlarge, then gasp, it's not a tat--it's a Sharpie!

Last day VBS, Coach Dribble and myself (Pom Pom Polly) had a rough time containing our excitement at that prospect! Okay, we didn't. They knew.

Friday, Alex's class came to our locker room (on the left). The big bubble on the wall (hence the fan and air purifier) formed because the air conditioner leaked condensation right down the middle of our wall! I know--eww! You could touch that wall and get wet. Naturally.

My son, Cody (seen below), was the Head Coach for Alex's class all week, so HE was in our class all day as well. We present the kids with dilemmas and they are supposed to solve them. One child drew "a kid in your class wears the same old clothes every day" and they huddled to solve it. THIS class didn't need to think very hard before they quipped "tell him to wash his clothes and save money to buy new ones!".

Okayyyyyy.....hmmmm....onto another card. It reads "you hear about a hurricane in another state". So kids, what can YOU do to help? I explain to them this did happen to a child in our church--Cat's family came out of hurricane Katrina. They lost their home. This is when Cody leans over and whispered "Mom, this class is soo dumb". Not nice. About to give him "the look" when the group bellows "they just need to stop worrying and save money to buy a new one!". Oh. Help. Where have they BEEN all week?! Give Cody 'knowing' look, shake head grimly.

My radio pooped out on me. I mentioned in another post I cannot sleep without Coast to Coast AM--so I needed a good AM radio. Sent my husband out because I needed to type last night. He came home with XM Radio. Proudly spread out the contents on our bed as I looked on. Okay. I'm working again now, I guess this will be a good thing. What we didn't realize is that we need to pose the receiver in our bedroom window (take out screen) facing south. In just the right angle....It needs a little fine tuning, but what d'ya think? Attractive, no?

Here it is---get ready for more acoustical treats, friends, I have access to a LOT of stuff now! However, because it isn't free, the radio was pricey, the subscription will cost us quarterly, guess I'd better finish up typing. I did this last night:

Help. Me.