- 1 hour PTO (vacation)
- 1 day to wear jeans
- 1 item from our department snack shack
I'm trying to do the mono-contact deal again - wearing one contact in my right eye for distance and my left eye is contact-free for reading. I'm building up my time to wear a contact and right now my two eyes aren't working together real well (it's only my second day doing this). So if something isn't spelled correctly or looks weird in this blog - I'll blame it on my vision.
All day Tuesday and Wednesday morning Christi and I got to sit in on training that was held for the Proposal Specialists (PS) that work in our offices across the country. The PS does my job in the local office but they can also quote for groups over 100 lives. I was able to meet the PS from the Arizona office that supports my Denver office. Wednesday night there was a social hour that Christi and I went to where there were really good appetizers - basically supper. I heard someone say that they were serving calamari (squid) and I thought to myself to make sure I stayed far, far away from that - blick. I remember holding squid feeding them to the dolphins in St. Martin. So I get plenty of veggies, fruit, cheese and some small onion rings. We start sitting down at tables and my trainer sat on one side of me. After a while someone mentioned how good the calamari was and I wondered what it looked like because I hadn't seen any squiddy thing on the food table. My trainer said it was really good so I look at her plate and we have the same thing foodwise but one thing and I knew that wasn't squid. So I pop a couple of onion rings into my mouth - remember they were really small - and ask Amy/trainer where her calamari was....she points to the onion rings! I immediately stop chewing what is in my mouth and just stare at her. She asks me if that's what's in my mouth and I just nod my head. I finally swallow it and mentioned I wondered why those onion rings had been kind of chewy - and I had eaten several of them..................... blick.
Last night we had quite the storm. Butler and I were enjoying Saturday night racing under the lights (NASCAR at the Texas Motor Speedway) when of course Dish TV lost the signal - and then we finally lost power around 8:30. So I lit a couple of $1.00 WalMart candles - so you can imagine how big those were. And I played Solitare on my cell phone to have something to do. I finally went to bed and something woke me up around 1:30 a.m. I couldn't figure out what woke me up until I realized the lights were back on :)
This morning as I drove around the neighborhood before church I realized I was very fortunate to not have any damage. I didn't really have many branches down in my back yard. Just the block south of me I started seeing trees split in two and some trees were completely blown over out of the ground. Also some roofs were blown off.
I didn't mow last week Saturday so I had to mow this week and had hoped to mow yesterday but the grass was too wet - so that left today to mow. And I don't like mowing on Sunday since that is my day of rest but I had to. The front yard was long and I ended up bagging the part of my lawn that is the high part but I knew I would have to bag the back yard. I have four bags of grass and sticks at the front curb for tomorrow's pick up. My mower started just fine after letting it set between the front yard and back yard but the last time I had to start it to finish the last section of the back yard it wouldn't start. Now normally I can mow both yards without adding gas to the tank - I fill the tank before I start mowing. I'm thinking what is wrong now since it started everytime - and I decided to check the gas level. The mower needed gas - once I put some in I was able to finish mowing!!!
Mike's Easter lily is living in my kitchen sink until I get a chance to plant it in the back yard.
One of my dwarf lilac bushes - they really started blooming this week.
The other two lilac bushes.
