Degree @ MindSay

Well my first exam of the year is now three hours away.

 

Wish I was in there doing it now because I'm all ready to go now.

Eee Gads, Watson!  It's a dayum cold out there.  Actually we are in a heat wave today!  A whole 1 degree.  With windchill it is still 1 degree out!  Way better then it was yesterday when we went to the tkd tournie!  From about 4 am till 9 am it was -12 but with windchill feeling like -27.  When we finally got on the road an hour and half late (we was tired from the night before and everyone was CRABBY) it was up to -10 with windchill feeling like -24 the rest of the day. 

 

The kids thought I was crazy because I made them load the van up with 3 blankets, the small bag of kitty litter, the rest of the salt, a couple cans of soups, a small propane blow torch and a couple of spoons.  I also made them run down stairs to grab a few jugs of water and my last tin coffee can.  There was NO WAY in hell that I was getting strandend even an hour and half in IA with out being able to take care of my kids yesterday.  When we stopped to fill the tank up, I grabbed some other small foods also and had a friend of mine that works at the store double check under the van to make sure my jack and tire where under there.  Chad is such a nice guy!  Grew up together, hung out together, and disappointed our families by not ever dating!:D  He helped carry out the bags of grocieries (not his job anymore at the store-he helps the owner with the butcher counter now) and noticed we were loaded up to go somewhere and got right after me about my spare tire and cables to jump with and how i shouldn't have the kids out on a day like yesterday and with my knees I shouldn't be out on a day like yesterday.  But he knows I won't listen so he crawled on the cold ground to make sure everything was there and then procedded to chew my ass more.  He got right after Coltin about listening to me (he knows my kids are onery like me:D) and told DeLaney to keep her cute lil ears covered at all times.

 

We got to the tournie after opening ceromonies and in time to see one of our lil classmates take all three trophies in her age division and rank.  Which would have been DeLaney's and Coltin's age division and Rank.  Mr. Johnson gave me a bad time and said see should have just signed up for the tournie!  Poor Amanda had no competition out there!  Then we wondered all over the place trying to find my cousin Joe and his boy Kody.  Kody is a black belt, just turned 8, and we wanted to watch him.  Finally found them right when they were getting ready to start his age group and division!  Kody did rather well considering this was his first time at this age ranking.  Poor boy had to go up against two different state champions.  One from MN and one from IA!  He got 4th out of 8th so Joe and I had to do some fast talkign to get him to realize that was dayum good when all those other boys were closer to 10 and he just turned 8!

 

Another lil girl from our class, Britney was going at the same time as Kody, so we wondered down to her area when Kody was waiting his turn and she did really good also.  Took 1st and 2nd but the lil boy she kept having to compete with took over all.  She started crying and I pointed out to her that for her first tournie that is dayum good.  I convienced her to wonder over to watch Robin a 12 year old 2nd degree black belt who was competting against a state champ and a regional champ and this was her first go as a 2nd degree black belt.  Britney realized that if Robin can go out there and not cry when she got 3rd overall that she did a good job.  Then we watched Mr. Bel a 16 year old 2nd degree black belt on his way to 3rd.  We ended up wondering over to the women's comp that I would have been in and didn't get to see how he did, but we saw the first part of his form and Mr. Bel rocks!  His name is actually Ryan but since Mr. Johnson's name is also Ryan we call mr. bel only half of his last name to keep them seperated. 

 

Mr. Jones and Mr. Johnson was right, if we would have competetied yesterday I would have came home with a couple of trophies.  But I refused to get points awarded just because I had a knee surgery and couldn't jump on #2 front kicks when I should be doing #1 jump front kicks.  By the time 2:30 rolled around we were all tired.  Joe and Kody drove up with Mr. Jones and Mr. Bel (they drove the others jumped in with them) so they had to stick around till Mr. Jones competeted.  I really wanted to watch Mr. Jones and Mr. Johnson compete.  Mr. Jones is a 1st degree black belt and Mr. Johnson is a 3rd degree soon to be 4th degree.  That would have been interesting.  But alas we loaded up with our tshirts we got, gave Kody a hug again and teased cousin Joe about not competiting himself.  Joe's excuse is he gets way to nervous and wasn't like me and his sister Tammy (that's my vet) who took speech in highschool, college, and 4-H (tammy not me) nor did he take part in plays, muscicals, one acts, or debate team like we did.  I giggled at him and said tell you what coz, you partake in our academy's tournie and we can talk Mr. Johnson into letting us do a expidetion sparring match between the two of us.  You as a 1st degree black belt and me as either a Cami or a green belt when ever the tournie comes around.  You can attempt to beat the crap out of me.  He perked up and said hmmm that might get me into that tournie!:D  So he is going to think about it and talk to his wifey and if she thinks he should do the tournie (she will-she likes tournies) then we will see if Mr. Johnson will let us try to beat the crap out of each other:D

 

Anyway, by the time we made it back into the city it was about 4:30 and I realized due to my busy week and weekend I had no food in the hosue, called Randy and he said to pick something up.  The kids wanted chicken.  So we stopped at KFC's and got chicken.  I am not a big chicken eater so I let the kids pick out what kind of chicken and the sides.  we got home and I put the food in the oven and the kids helped me to clean the mudporch and change litter boxes.

 

Now that the kids are off to Mass with Granny, I need to deciede if I am showering up and after they get home if we are running back to the city for grocieries or doing what Randy suggested and just email him my grociery/dollar general list and he and Arjan will stop on the way home and get it all for me.  Randy is feelign crappy cause he worked out in that -24 weather pulling wire, conduit, and double checkign the structuour and mechanical engenerring on a packign plant and a mill yesterday.  But the weather is suppose to turn crappier today and he knows I HATE the cold and refuse to drive in snow and ice as it comes down.  Randy looks at it this way, he may feel like crap and be cold but he can at least move with out being stiff and have his joints lock up like I do during the cold.  Bree called right before my mom picked the kids up and said she is going to call back with a grociery list of her own and said to just have the hubby's pick up the crap.  She is at work and her house is empty also of food and this way neither one of us have to run to go get grocieries the guys can do it! 

I probalby will just take down her grociery list and email it along with mine and make our hubby's do the shoppign this weekend!

 

I am down rambling for now.  My dad called and left a messy last night saying he is running low on fuel oil and needed some more wood.  He won't take the split wood (to hard to push back intot he furnace with his back and knees) so instead of telling him we dont' have any 3ft length cut, I am going to bundle up and cut him a pile of 3ft length wood and this evening with Randy's help take it down to the parental units.  I'll go out about noon to do that cause I have to get my house back in order!

 

Talk to you all later!

Right now, I have my head screwed back on and I am just concentrating on my degree, my job and the gym currently. We have decided that we will be moving out of where we are living now for next year and have begun to look for a house to rent.

 

The girl and I have swapped a couple of messages over facebook this week which pleases me as it means she will talk to me but not sure how far things can go. 

M & Z Trading Co., Ltd.(www.mztradingco.com) was founded in 2007. The major business is inclined to sell Ace 925. silver jewelry. We do retail, wholesale, and OEM business of Ace.

Well, here goes nothin'. I am officially starting my first course in college: Developing a Business Perspective. And after reading the syllabus, unit outline, and looking at the text I just know it's going to be every bit as dry and boring as it looks.

I am now officially for the Pill described by Frank L. Baum. Said pill is popped and said education is received. Simple. Painless. And all together more fun that reading books on how business networking can help your career. No? really??? Who'd a thunk!