September has come and gone. I feel rather pathetic because I can't remember anything. I remember Jason and I gave blood together and going to home football games.
October.
I've been knitting a lot and some of the things I've been making have turned out very nice. They are all Christmas presents and so I can't say what they are so they will be surprise. A friend of mine FINALLY got married and we went to it in Waco. We met Mary Beth, David and Jennifer at Teryaki Park for some really good Asian food. Jason seemed to like the sushi. We went over to MB's house to change and met Jennie and Ben there. I gave Ben a blue crocheted cap for winter. It fit, thank goodness, and he was pretty cute.
The wedding was nice. We BARELY made it. We thought we knew where it was but the Mapquest map was wrong. It was about 2 miles south of where it really was. We walked in, all the seats were pretty much filled up with Latinos. Jason and I sat on the second row. There weren't enough seats for all of us together. The ceremony took place at the Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall Church and the ceremony was in Spanish. There was a lot of reading from the Bible and I could pick out the books and chapters and sometimes verses. I heard the word "pantalones" and laughing, so I assumed it was about Sammy wearing the pants in the family. Afterwards we went to the reception and waited forever. Jason and I had plans to go to the restuarant Edelweiss in Ft. Worth. It was getting later and later and finally we just told MB and the gang to say hello to Sammy and Roxanna for us. There was some discussion of even going to the restuarant because of some disagreements about behavior during the excursion but ended up going. All I have to say about that is you should never use your gender as an excuse for behavior you can control...
Oh, the day before the wedding, Jason and I went to the home game and we won $50 because the program I bought had a sticker in it. The only one apparently. This is the second time we've won. Last year Jason won $100. It was great!! The money paid for our German food at Edelweiss.
After the wedding, we started counting down the days until our Fall Break which was last week. We had two days off. Thursday and Friday. It was a pretty hectic week because we were trying to get our grades in for the end of the first nine weeks. They have gone by pretty fast and will probably go faster until after Christmas. Then it will "slow" down. Looking forward to Thanksgiving already!!!
We first went to Arkansas to see family. I hadn't seen them since July. It was nice and cool and we slept pretty good. We went up Wednesday after school. Thursday we went fishing and I caught some decent fish and watched my two brothers in the boat almost tip over. It was pretty hilarious. When they get together it's like the three stooges but with just two people. They also "claimed" they saw a mountain lion. They may have but I was on the far side of the pond and didn't see it. That would have been cool. We also practiced shooting a little bit. I shot Pat's .45 handgun. Jason and I headed back early from fishing to pick up Aunt Paula from the airport. She was staying for a week because mom was having a minor procedure that next Monday. So I showered and then picked up Aunt Paula. Jason was having a time with his allergies too. Sniffiling and coughing a lot. Later that night we all went over to Drew and Mandy's house to eat hamburgers and have surprise birthday cake for Mom whose B-Day is on Halloween. It was fun playing with the girls.
That Saturday Jason and I went over to Dad's for breakfast and then trekked on over to McAlester to stay the night at Jason's parents. His mom was by herself while his dad went hunting. He should have stayed home because there were deer in their backyard the night we got there and then Sunday morning. It was pretty cool. Came home and took a nap and unpacked and tried to get ready for the week.
I'm frantically trying to get all my knitting done, so I've been sitting on the couch A LOT!!! I do nothing physical so I feel like a fat slob. I did, however, clean the ceiling fans in our bedroom and living room with this handy dandy cleaning too that is washable microfiber. I love it and there is no embarassing dust pileup on the fans or anywhere else for that matter.
Last Friday was our HUGE rivalry football game agains the Davis Wolves. We were 7-0, hoping to go undefeated. No such luck. The game was a literal nail biter. It really came down to the last play. We just couldn't make it over the goal line. It ended up being 8-14, Davis.
This weekend we laid low and did nothing which was fine, but it needs to be colder. I sleep better when it's colder and I was too hot.
Jason and I watched Ironman finally. It was really good and funny. Robert Downy, Jr. pulled it off very well.
Well that's it and we are going to start a new week. I'm dressing up for Halloween as a pirate and then I think I will retire the costume. I've got pirate music to play that day too. The kids will think it's great.
OH!!! I could tell you what my government class has been up to. I'm pretty proud of it too. Because the elections are so close, we held mock elections for the presidential candidates. I assigned everybody a political party to research the issues (they didn't have to vote for that party). First I made them register to vote using the official forms. If they didn't fill it out right, they didn't get a voter identification card. So they had to research the issues for two days and then we held debates based on their notes, and then the next day they voted using a sample ballot the county is actually using. It went rather well. I could definitely tell which students had their parents' political views, who had their own views and who didn't care. All in all it was pretty cool. The final outcome was McCain with 17 and Obama with 12. The last question I asked the kids was this: What if Obama was an Arab American or Musilim? Would it matter?
This past week we talked about how misleading polls can be and what types of propaganda the mass media uses to try to influence you. I had them create commercials based on an assigned propaganda technique and then I filmed them. Some were really great. I will put them on YouTube when I get parent's permission. I'll let you know when they are up!
One more thing...(I'm starting to remember other stuff...). Every five years some of our family goes on a trip for about two weeks. 2010 is the next trip and it will be to Germany and Austria and guess who's in charge? ME!!! I've already started the planning and if anyone is interested in going, let me know!!! IT'S GOING TO BE AWESOME!!!! Think about it!
That's about it...gonna go make some supper and watch Iron Chef America!!!
Oh, the day before the wedding, Jason and I went to the home game and we won $50 because the program I bought had a sticker in it. The only one apparently. This is the second time we've won. Last year Jason won $100. It was great!! The money paid for our German food at Edelweiss.
After the wedding, we started counting down the days until our Fall Break which was last week. We had two days off. Thursday and Friday. It was a pretty hectic week because we were trying to get our grades in for the end of the first nine weeks. They have gone by pretty fast and will probably go faster until after Christmas. Then it will "slow" down. Looking forward to Thanksgiving already!!!
We first went to Arkansas to see family. I hadn't seen them since July. It was nice and cool and we slept pretty good. We went up Wednesday after school. Thursday we went fishing and I caught some decent fish and watched my two brothers in the boat almost tip over. It was pretty hilarious. When they get together it's like the three stooges but with just two people. They also "claimed" they saw a mountain lion. They may have but I was on the far side of the pond and didn't see it. That would have been cool. We also practiced shooting a little bit. I shot Pat's .45 handgun. Jason and I headed back early from fishing to pick up Aunt Paula from the airport. She was staying for a week because mom was having a minor procedure that next Monday. So I showered and then picked up Aunt Paula. Jason was having a time with his allergies too. Sniffiling and coughing a lot. Later that night we all went over to Drew and Mandy's house to eat hamburgers and have surprise birthday cake for Mom whose B-Day is on Halloween. It was fun playing with the girls.
That Saturday Jason and I went over to Dad's for breakfast and then trekked on over to McAlester to stay the night at Jason's parents. His mom was by herself while his dad went hunting. He should have stayed home because there were deer in their backyard the night we got there and then Sunday morning. It was pretty cool. Came home and took a nap and unpacked and tried to get ready for the week.
I'm frantically trying to get all my knitting done, so I've been sitting on the couch A LOT!!! I do nothing physical so I feel like a fat slob. I did, however, clean the ceiling fans in our bedroom and living room with this handy dandy cleaning too that is washable microfiber. I love it and there is no embarassing dust pileup on the fans or anywhere else for that matter.
Last Friday was our HUGE rivalry football game agains the Davis Wolves. We were 7-0, hoping to go undefeated. No such luck. The game was a literal nail biter. It really came down to the last play. We just couldn't make it over the goal line. It ended up being 8-14, Davis.
This weekend we laid low and did nothing which was fine, but it needs to be colder. I sleep better when it's colder and I was too hot.
Jason and I watched Ironman finally. It was really good and funny. Robert Downy, Jr. pulled it off very well.
Well that's it and we are going to start a new week. I'm dressing up for Halloween as a pirate and then I think I will retire the costume. I've got pirate music to play that day too. The kids will think it's great.
OH!!! I could tell you what my government class has been up to. I'm pretty proud of it too. Because the elections are so close, we held mock elections for the presidential candidates. I assigned everybody a political party to research the issues (they didn't have to vote for that party). First I made them register to vote using the official forms. If they didn't fill it out right, they didn't get a voter identification card. So they had to research the issues for two days and then we held debates based on their notes, and then the next day they voted using a sample ballot the county is actually using. It went rather well. I could definitely tell which students had their parents' political views, who had their own views and who didn't care. All in all it was pretty cool. The final outcome was McCain with 17 and Obama with 12. The last question I asked the kids was this: What if Obama was an Arab American or Musilim? Would it matter?
This past week we talked about how misleading polls can be and what types of propaganda the mass media uses to try to influence you. I had them create commercials based on an assigned propaganda technique and then I filmed them. Some were really great. I will put them on YouTube when I get parent's permission. I'll let you know when they are up!
One more thing...(I'm starting to remember other stuff...). Every five years some of our family goes on a trip for about two weeks. 2010 is the next trip and it will be to Germany and Austria and guess who's in charge? ME!!! I've already started the planning and if anyone is interested in going, let me know!!! IT'S GOING TO BE AWESOME!!!! Think about it!
That's about it...gonna go make some supper and watch Iron Chef America!!!
