Yikes!

I have been asked to LEAD THE MUSIC for a funeral on Friday!

Not that it's about me, but it is a little panic making. I have no problem leading the primary children, (I enjoy that), having adults, (and I assume) lots of them, watching me is NOT in my comfort zone!

It is Oral Petty's funeral. She died Monday night. I am sure she is happily dancing around with Charles now.

April Steimle called and asked me to be her partner and lead the music. I tried to get out of it, gave a different suggestion, but April was having none of it!

I said OK!

The two songs I am leading:

• Have I done any good in the world today.....6/8 time!
• Put your shoulder to the wheel.....4/4 time (easy)

Wish me luck!

Sometimes Dinner is NOT all that Great

Ok, at least I have made dinner.

Last night, I tried a new recipe - Potato Soup. Thought it would be so good. It was barely ok. In fact Quinn, Kylie, Griffin and I ate some soup - it didn't do it for us, so we dumped it and ate cereal. Zak does not really like cereal. He said he has to eat it in the morning, he would just keep going with the Potato Soup. (!) Dad came home and thought it fine....then ate cereal too.

Tonight it was Taco soup. I was excited to eat this; knew it would be great. It was a passable "6" for me. Everyone else liked it.

Zak had his Spanish final today. It was hard. Tomorrow is biology.
Griffin played with a friend.
Kylie had violin AND batting practice
Quinn is busy finishing homework.

I will enjoy Lost tonight.

hmm, I should have taken pictures of my meals.
There's always tomorrow....which just may be spaghetti!

Quote From Zak

Toast:

"It is only a bridge from one meal to the next - it only makes you hungrier".


He was still hungry after dinner, so I was suggesting other things to eat, one of them being toast.

Staved Goblet

So I saw this thing on the internet, and I thought I could do it. Plus I wanted to come up with something nice and small to give to Nana & Bumpa for the graduation gift they gave me. It was took a lot of preparation to glue all the different woods together, but I'm really happy with the result.





The middle part is made out of Bloodwood and some stuff I found called Pau Amarello. The outside is done using Walnut.

In other news, Steven and I went snowboarding on Friday night. We don't have pictures because, well, it was dark. But we had a lot of fun going off jumps and just having fun down the mountain.

Friday, Saturday Night

Friday night we watched Appaloosa.
We love westerns....
We didn't love this one.
Ed Harris, what were you thinking??
It was very campy; bad dialogue, bad sets, bad lighting

Saturday night we watched Eagle Eye.
That was much better.
I heard that the ending was bad - I was prepared, so it wasn't so bad for me. It was a "worth it" movie. I was VERY glad for the clear play. Zak LOVED the movie because there was a scene with STEVEN JACKSON in it.


It rained for most of the day.

Griffin got to go to a birthday party for a class mate.

Zak and Quinn practiced church basketball then went to a place in LA that sells old fashioned, long neck sodas. They brought me back a Sarsaparilla. Zak got a Rose Petal soda! (Tasted like soap). Quinn got Orange Creme and Grapefruit. I liked the Grapefruit. Oh, and the Sarsaparilla. Thanks.

The place is called Galco's. You can check out their site: sodapopstop.com

The Caramel Apple

Zak called, I had to race out the door to pick him up from school. Just as I was leaving Griffin told me he was hungry.
I suggested:

• a banana
• a pretzel
• an apple

I had to go, if he needed help, I would help him when I came back home. He told me that he wanted a caramel apple! (What??) I told him we didn't have that - he went on to say he wanted the kind with the stick in it - I repeated we didn't have that. He suggested that he make his own. "How", I asked? He would just eat a whole Popsicle, use that stick to push into an apple. Sure, I thought; it would never happen. I told him to go ahead. Whatever we had in the fridge he was welcome to.

When I came home, he told me that he made his "caramel apple" but now he was done, where should he put it? I was shocked and impressed. (No caramel anywhere, just the apple on the stick.)

Oh, in case you were wondering, this was Zak's arm on Friday (I think). You can see where it was blistered.
In other news:

• AHS finals start on Wednesday
• Zak has 4 (four!) projects due for English (Sis. Swift) Those projects will get him an A. One for a D, 2 for a C, 3 for a B, 4 for an A. Good choice, Zak.
• Raining in Southern CA
• Chicken Stroganoff for dinner (recipe care of Mary Harmon)
• I hope Christopher and Steven take some pictures of their skiing & post them
• CHASE wrote a short e-mail! Check his site to see!
• I am playing the piano for someone who is singing a special number for a Church meeting on Sunday night. She has neglected to tell me which song she chose. I guess she thinks I am that good. Let's all hope.
  

Equal Rights - Boys & Girls

One of my FAVORITE things is to capture pictures while I am out and about in the world. I got this one while driving down Santa Anita to pick up Zak.

See that girl in the front of the line in the cross walk?
Notice her SAGGY PANTS!
I guess she wants to wear her pants below her bottom just like the gangsta boys do.

If she looks at this blog - it's not cool - PULL Your Pants UP!she is wearing pink pants, sagging below her bottom. She took her underwear cues from Christopher & Steven's "gangsta halloween costume".

In other news:

• Jeff Kent announced his retirement today
• Our dinner conversation tonight was what sports players were and were not on steroids
• Those with stomach aches today: Christopher, Kylie & Griffin - hope they feel better!
• Do you know the 3 executive orders that were signed today by President Obama?
• Chase got a jury duty notice in the mail.
  

Artist & Architect

Griffin has been our little artist lately. He quite enjoys making pictures with markers and glue. Hmm, reminds me of someone... Kylie, (I think Griffin helped and so did Zak) made this very tall tower. I think she built it several times. It kept falling over.

In other news:

• Pork chops and rice for dinner, yum - I thought it would take longer to make than it did, it was done early!!
• No e-mail from Chase this week!! I guess I will make it until next Monday.
• Zak has 2 more merit badges to get before his Eagle Project....environmental science, and physical fitness. It will be an Eagle Project summer!! All helpers invited!

Burn, Baby Burn

If Zak didn't burn his arm, what would I have to blog about?

Today, Tuesday, when I picked Zak up from school, I was shocked to see Zak's burn. It had one big blister, 2 smaller blisters (at least). I told him I thought he should go and show it to the famous "Sue". (She is the trainer at Arcadia High School, and today I referred to her as a cheap way to see a medical person; and it worked.)

Zak came back to the car with his arm bandaged. Sue said that the burn could get infected, to watch it and keep it covered! My "medical" training is very low on burns. I would like to keep it that way.In other news:
Griffin got to play with Vincent today
Kylie went to Achievement days
Everyone watched the Inauguration


In TV news:
I really enjoyed 24 last night
Tonight it is Biggest Loser

Dinner:
We'll have spaghetti because I couldn't think of anything else and it will make the burn victim happy

Zak's Burn Day 2

Just know that the red color YOU see really looks purple. Zak says it doesn't hurt so much though.

Other than healing, we did do our cleaning and laundry. Yea. Maybe it wasn't fun, but the results are great.

Thank you.

Back at it tomorrow!

24 is on tonight. I will be watching that.