Pretty Lights!

Happy Holidays! I promised a picture of our X-mas lights...here they are thus far...We'll see if anymore get added on! Lights can be very addictive. Notice the nice 'glow' we have eminating from the tree (7 strings!! but it looks so cool). I photoed w/o the flash so you could get the night effect. :)

School is dragging along and I feel very swamped. I have all this library administrative stuff that never gets done b/c I have no time to do it! I'm feeling the frustration and am not very happy with the job. However I like the convenience of where it is located and the paycheck....only 2 more yrs to go. Maybe the schedule will get better next year. Let's hope.

There's not too much going on right now...planning a little Christmas shopping on Friday evening when we have our date night and then going to Dicken's on the Strand on Saturday. I think it will be really cool! Check out their site: http://www.galvestonhistory.com/Dickens_on_The_Strand.asp

The Christmas tree went up this past Sunday. Pete isn't sure what to make of it. He thinks that the tree skirt is his personal rug under the pretty lights. ha ha I also put his kitty tunnel behind the tree for more fun! lol So far he hasn't tried to climb it, but he does like to bite the branches occasionally! I hope he doesn't bite a light strand! He'd end up like the cat on National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation! Fried!

"How nice of her to put this lovely beaded rug under here for me, now if I could just figure out how to play with the beads....."

Jingle bells, jingle bells...

So, tonight we started putting up Christmas lights!! Yea! I've been dying to all weekend so I decided to just start tonight (I prefer to do it at night, b/c then you can see how it looks as you go) I figured that if I got started then Warren would want to supervise *heh* and get in the Christmas light spirit!

So, we got one strand around the tree in the front yard and then promptly went to the store and bought a few more strands of white lights and a Tree for the house (mine is puny...we got a multi-colored pre-lit 7 ft. tree at Home Depot for only $69...what a deal!). Our outside tree is now finished and looks awesome and we have a Light Plan.

Going to take back the shrub net lights I got...didn't like how they looked...and have been instructed to get 5 candy canes, 2 strands of chasers, and some fat bulbs for on the house. (!!! He's so specific!!!) Will post a pic if we get it all finished tomorrow night. :)

Only a half a day left!

And no more Poop!

Yea!

Reno, Baby!

Ok, ya'll so the Lake Tahoe/Reno (This is Lake Tahoe above) area is BEAUtiful! Of course, it could be that I was just happy to get out of the Land-of-Perpetual-Greeness that Galveston is...I mean really, is it too much to ask for seasons?! So far we have one tree that has lost leaves, all else is still green and blooming.

Anyway, I get off topic. So getting there was a trip! I left school at 3:15 to haul a$$ to the other side of Houston to make it to Bush IA for a 6:45 flight out. Since I'd never been there I figured I needed to allow for plenty of time...and I got there with plenty of time to spare. Parking was easy, check-in was quick, I had enough time to buy a book and dinner and Reeses Pieces for later. Then we board the plane. Then we proceed to sit on the runway for 45 min. We did not LEAVE Houston until 7:45. An hour late!! I have a connecting flight!! Needless to say when I landed in Orange County they were paging me and about to leave and I had to literally RUN to the other end of the airport. Good thing it was a small one. I was the last one on the plane and they practically shut the door on my heels and took off!

Mom was supposed to land before me in Reno, but I get there and she isn't there, seems like she had an unplanned stop in Phoenix?! So I waited there for about 45 min...got a car rented from the hott boy behind the desk (which was my total criteria for picking out the car rental place, I had no preference other than he was nice to look at!! and hey, I got a Garmin GPS for the car out of the deal!) heehee

Friday, Mom and I hit the yarn store and some antique places. We've both needed time to relax like this! It was a nice "fall break" for us. Mom, by the way, is looking fantastic! I hadn't seen her since her surgery and could tell a big difference in how she looks and moves. We hit the vendors at the Confrerence and picked up all this free stuff you see in our trunk!! Then Mom and I went to see the place where the Donner Party got stranded! It was almost to the day that they got snowed in by 28 ft. of snow and were eventually reduced to cannibalism to survive! The link is to more info on Wiki... Then we drove around the southern? edge of Lake Tahoe and back into Reno, which looks weird being that there is no grass on the ground! Just large piles of dirt...would be pretty if snow covered it all! Later that evening I made two airport trips to pick up first Esther and then Warren.

Friday evening and Saturday morning, was spent gathering stuff for our presentation and brainstorming before the acutal presenetation...which went rather well considering. Then we wrapped up the trip with a little gambling (Warren's whole reason for coming!) and all you can eat sushi! Yum!

Stay tuned...

...the Poop class comes tomorrow.

...and I'm being lazy about up-loading photos from Reno...they will come soon, but I have a developing sinus infection and just want to come home and curl up in bed w/ hot chocolate and a book..oh yeah, and it got cold today! low 60s. no wonder I'm half sick w/ up and down temps...

POOP in the Library!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, that's right folks...P-O-O-P. A Kindergartener just stood up and pooped out his pants...for some reason he had on magic pants that did not contain the Poop. Maybe no underwear?!?!? But he stood up, beside his chair and the Poop came out a leg of his shorts-that-are-long-and-baggie-like-pants kind of shorts.

Ya'll...this was not ordinary little-boy Poop. This was Poop with a capital letter!! I swear it was the biggest pile I've seen! It looked like doggie-doo only more! Bigger! Grace doesn't even produce a pile that large!

So...I hauled him and his non-poopie pants to the nurse and told the office to send the janitor ASAP. Thank goodness it was at the end of class and time to go!! Also so thankful that 4th grade (who comes right after Kinder) had an assembly.

Oh yeah, it took the janitor almost an hour to clean it all up.