Here's to old friends

The last couple of weeks I have been on a Facebook Frenzy. :)

It has been so much fun catching up with old friends. Among the most amazing of my old friends is Aaron. I could chat with him for hours!!

I am now starting to organize a large multi-class reunion (at the request of a couple of friends). I'm getting really excited about seeing some old faces! I don't know if I can wait until next summer.

I'm seriously considering a pre-reunion mini reunion.

But who to invite to the mini?? That's the hardest part. So far, I've narrowed it down to about 100 people. lol I think to have a 'mini' anything, the number needs to be less than 100.

But Aaron, if you are reading along...THANKS! YOU ROCK!

I don't have much time today and sit and blog, but I wanted to make sure I got the pictures of Bryan's first football game on here. :) We lost 40-6, but the boys had a great time! It was perfect football weather; 75 degrees, partly cloudy, slight breeze...awesome day!

Halftime Extravaganza 2009

Tonight was Bethany's Halftime Extravaganza. The choirs did the national anthem and the Georgetown fight song. The dancers danced, the band banded, and then the Texas Tech band came onto the field.

I'm glad that the Tech Band got some glory tonight, because when Tech plays UT tomorrow they are gonna get crushed. Which means not much playing time for the band. lol

I took a few pictures, most of which were blurry.

San Gabriel Flood, 2009

Last weekend, we were kinda just hanging around the house doing nothing but watching football. Bethany's friend Riley was at the house chillin' with us. Totally blissfully boring Saturday.

But it was raining. It hadn't rained here in months and months and months and everyone was loving it. Well, that was day two of the rain. I got a notification that the weather service had issued a 'flood statement' for the river that runs thru town.

The statement said that the South Fork San Gabriel river was officially flooded at 9 feet and that we were currently at 9.8 feet. So we decided to go check out the river.

Just two days prior, there was NO water in the river. Not even a drop. You could walk across the river bed to the other side and not get anything on your shoes but dust.

When we got to the river, we were amazed. The water was coming up over the banks in some areas and threatening to in others.

We got some great pictures (which I will share with you later when I find the disk).

After getting our first pics, we got back in the van and drove further down the river and got out to take some pictures from that end. When we got there, all the geese that frequent the river were huddled together around the banks, honking.

I wanted to get some pictures of all the geese; there must have been 50 of them. So I tried sneaking up on them so as not to disturb them.

That was a mistake. They turned, as a group, and started chasing me. Well, the ENTIRE gaggle didn't chase me, just about 30 of them.

I was wearing flip flops and it was raining buckets. Not good running conditions. But I tried. when I turned around to run, I discovered that I was all alone. Bill, Bethany and Riley (Bryan stayed home) had abandoned me to the geese!! And they wouldn't come back to help me and the geese were getting dangerously close.

At this point, I decided that the best defense is a good offense and I started chasing the geese. They took off in the other direction and I was safe. *whew*

I looked up and there was Riley.

FINALLY somebody came to rescue me (a little bit late, but better late than never right?)

I pointed out to my "loving" family that I didn't give birth to him and HE came back to help.

and then Riley said (and up to this point he was one of my favorite teenagers...) "I didn't come back to save you. I was going to push you down and sacrifice you to the geese so the rest of us could get away"

Nice, very nice.

Madcow disease

Since I am making a good effort to get this blog up to date...I will start with how madcow disease has impacted our lives.

Last school year (08-09 ) Bryan was in cubscouts. I was the "popcorn kernal" for the pack. The pack committee chair, webelos leader, pack treasurer, and district popcorn kernal(all the same person) decreed that it would be so and so I was the kernal. Dubious honor at best.

But I did my very best, as I always do. I receipted all the popcorn in and out. I receipted all the money in and out. I asked that all families sign popcorn in and out within 24 hours of them having a popcorn booth. The only family that would not comply was the pack committee chair/webelos leader/pack treasurer/ district popcorn kernal.

Red flags started going up for me when she FINALLY brought their money to me and it was 50% pennies. If you've never bought boyscout popcorn before, it ain't cheap. Not very likely that so many people were paying her in pennies. Obviously, she was using the money she raised for her own purposes and when I called her on it, in an effort to not get caught stealing, she rounded up all the pennies in her couch cushions.

She ordered about $7000 worth of popcorn for our tiny little pack to sell. Really?? That's a lot of freakin' popcorn.

We sold about half of it though and I returned the other half to Trail's End. She THEN ordered another several thousand dollars of popcorn for the door to door portion of the sale. We ended up with several THOUSAND dollars worth of popcorn that we did not sell.

Now at this point, the parents are starting to get concerned why we have no money in the account and why we are stuck with so much popcorn.

So while Bill and I were in Georgia for thanksgiving, she told the parents that *I* had over ordered both time. WTF??? I wasn't even in the pack when she made the first order. She ordered the second order too. That was her plan to confuse everyone about where the money was. Well, of course we had to pay for all that extra popcorn that *I* ordered.

In January, Bill got a phone call from the cubscout council wondering why I hadn't turned in the money. Again, WTF? OF COURSE I turned in the money to MADCOW (yes, that is what I call her. I cannot stand to even say her name) and I have the receipts to prove it.

So they finally get some of the money from her and launch an investigation based around my incredibly meticulous receipts. They proved later that she stole approximately $4000 from our little pack. They suspect that she stole about $3000 more, but that can't be proven at this point.

They stripped her of any official positions but they did not press charges. WTF for a third time!!!!

We left the pack. I refused to be a part of that. She is currently attempting to gain her previous power in the pack. And I tell you what, if they let her come back in and start messing things up again they are all idiots and deserve what they get. :(

I'm very glad that Bryan opted to play football this year instead of scouts. Too much of a chance of getting madcow disease again.

ell check?

My first official remote post!! I rock!

Haha Bethany haha...I'm not totally computer illiterate...but that spelling looks wrong...does my phone have sp

the technologically challenged meets the 21st century

I've finally set up my phone so I can blog from wherever I happen to be when the spirit moves me to post.

Ten years ago, I didn't even know how to turn on a computer, much less post something to a webpage while NOT at a computer. lol

crazy times...

Well again, it's been WAY too long since I updated the blog.

I'm addicted to facebook. That's the problem. :) There's a whole lot to post. It may take days. Possibly even weeks. We had a crazy busy summer. Well the first two months of summer anyway. Then I got sick. Again.

At least this time it wasn't staph. Looks like that is finally over. This time it was E. Coli. Ended with surgery. I do NOT wish that on anybody.

I've decided that I'm going to get something really exotic next time I get sick. Swine flu? Nah, not weird enough. Radiation sickness? Easy enough since Bill has nuclear gauges in his office. Nah...I'll think of something good and rare. Maybe the Plague.

But facebook has been amazing. I've gotten back in touch with so many dear old friends. I spend a lot of my free time chatting with high school buddies that I haven't seen in 20 years. Turns out a large number of them live very near to me. lol

So if I don't blog as often as I should, don't worry, just look for me on facebook. That's where I'll probably be.