Blog Time

7-15-15

Oh yeah, blog. Gotta work on that.

The last few days have been good. A weekend full of downtime along with pool play was all kinds of good. I also have to say for having been in said pool multiple times with the boys I am impressed with our diligence in sunscreen. No burns for any of us! WOO! Ok, one of the times the boys were in the pool at night, so maybe that is helping our odds, but I will take it!

Yes, night swimming was done on Friday night because I cracked the 40 glow sticks received from my mom and tossed them into the water. It was so cool! I feel the need to order 100 or so as I think it would look even cooler. The boys certainly appreciated the spectacle. I actually worried I had over-sold the activity but in fact it turned out to be much fun.

Today is a day in which I get home and I can work on the house. Monday I had dental appointments for the boys and myself and yesterday I hung out with my mom and introduced her to the awesomeness that is Brave. Ok, she didn’t like it as much as I do, but she humored me which I love.

Tomorrow I am excited and nervous all at the same time. The nerves are due to the set up of the region booth at a Torrance event. The historical society has an event that we will be present at, giving out shirts and flyers trying to get more players. I have to be there no later than 4 where I will get our pop up and a table and chairs into the venue. I am doing this mostly solo at first. Thankfully I do have possible help from one of our board members and support shows up later, but I worry about getting parking and getting everything there on time. My excitement, though, is that I am a huge fan of the historical society and the work they have done with everything from the newspapers to their museum which I hope to finally see tomorrow night. YAY! Who knows, maybe once this whole soccer thing runs its course I might volunteer for them!

I need to prep the house since our game night is this weekend. I always look forward to these. Aaron has purchased a new game for the night in which the description said something about nerf guns of some sort so this should be entertaining. Sadly Jerry and Nicole won’t make this event, but I think the rest of the regulars will be in attendance. Now I need to figure out what I will make for food! Perhaps a Costco run is in order for Friday night.

Ken pulled out the Pack N Play for me so I can let the kittens run. Spazzy explored a bit of the garage yesterday while I was cleaning their cage and a little bit more when we were medicating them. They need to be able to run. For now, though, they still have to stay in relative isolation. I wish I had a bigger pen that I could set up and let them really get up to speed. But until they are shown to be disease free, we have to do this for their protection. Moody’s eye looks much better, but it seems pretty cloudy to the point where she most likely will lose sight in it. Of course, one never knows.

I am once again frustrated with some work stuff. I had three voicemails this morning when I came in, all of which were supposed to have been directed to other departments. I got another 2 calls transferred to me today in which they should have gone elsewhere. Sadly complaints don’t get anywhere since ultimately my manager seems to feel that all of these calls should be returned by our department despite the fact that we are not the customer service department. It is a waste of resources and the mistakes being made are truly aggravating. I am hopeful that my trip in a couple of weeks will provide some much needed fun time that will reinvigorate my soul to deal with these yahoos.

I am sad that Amazon’s Prime Day isn’t nearly as awesome should have been. I was hoping for amazing deals that didn’t take place. I did enjoy some of the backlash, though. Did anyone else know that Amazon has a barrel of 55 gallons of lube? Holy hells bells, that’s a lot of lube!!