Happy Monday Morning to you! I have a day away from the kids. Well sort of. I need to meet with the boss about a client so hubs is staying home and I am heading to the office today. It’s going to be weird, I am used to being there at night. All by myself. With no interruptions. Kinda like it that way. Anywho several short topics popped up over the weekend so I figured I would just cover them all today.
Google Reader & Buzz yea does anyone know how to get Buzz recommendations out of my google reader? I don’t even use Buzz to be honest. I signed up but it just hasn’t really been a convenient tool for me. Now I get a bunch of posts that are recommended by my buzz followers. And it’s crap I do not want to read nor care about. Like crap about iPhone vs Android and PC’s vs Macs. That’s where the ranty post came from last week. My Google Reader should be full of the blogs I want to read, not crap I can’t stand! Anywho if you know how to fix it, please share. I am getting to a point where I don’t even want to look at the Reader anymore.
Moving it’s that time for me to be in the mood to move again. Over at Secular Homeschool there was a thread started about moving wherever you could. Someopne posted this cool website (I don’t have it bookmarked, sorry!) where you answer questions and it gives you recommendations on where to move. Oregon and California were the two most popular states. If I could ever get myself established with a work at home job I would be all over moving and Oregon is sounding nice. Hubs isn’t so much for moving that far, he seems to be drawn to Florida the most. Florida is just so humid and I am not all about that. Oregon would be cool cause hey we could visit Canada! Besides, I have never really visited anywhere but the East Coast. Ok, once I went to Houston TX. But I haven’t really been anywhere else and I would love to see what the midwest or west looks and feels like.
Church LOL this one is a fun topic. Alex and Claire had VBS all last week and really enjoyed it. Yesterday evening was a family event at the church as a closing ceremony type thing to VBS. There was a potluck so I made some cookies to take as my contribution to the meal. I giggled when I arrived to drop it off because there were ALOT of desserts. Sadly not as many homemade desserts though. Anywho for the most part I am not bothered attending the church. I am well known as being “that pagan mother” but no one has really been outright rude to me. We get lots of friendly hello’s and I know a couple people there that I can have a lengthy discussion with. On occasion though I am amused by some people’s reactions. When I went I had my pentacle ring on. I honestly take things like that into consideration because we still have people who would absolutely freak out and run in fear. Last night I forgot I had it on. I mean I wear it everyday, it is as important to me as my wedding band. So here I am and it took a long while for anyone to pick up on the fact I had it on. It was actually after the service and comedy show that someone noticed. It turned out to be our old neighbors daughter. She paled and the fear was intense. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong at first until I caught her looking at my hand. I wanted to say something but what? She made a point to seperate herself away from us (no easy feat in that crowd) and she was terrifed. Now in this case I wasn’t so amused because I felt bad that she was that terrified. I mean she needs to know she isn’t going to be bbq’d to the gods…ya know? As we ate is when I became amused. About a year or so ago there was a man who came to our door and had asked if I wanted to “know and have a relationship with Jesus”. My answer was a simple “no”. It took him by surprise but he did graciously say “well thank you for your honesty”. We have seen him around town and he was always polite. last night he seemed quite angry that I was at the church……which didn’t make alot of sense to me considering he wanted to bring me to Jesus at some point. But then I realized he was staring at my hand as well. He never said anything but he stared at me hard as I ate which is really uncomfortable because at first I wasn’t sure if I had some food plastered to my cheek or something. Kyle was getting pissed because he felt like if he needed to stare that hard he obviously had things to say rolling around in his head and should have just come and said it. I agree although it would have sucked because I could see wolfpack mentality happen…..or I am uber paranoid about having a couple hundred baptists descending on the lone pagan in the room. Anywho we finally finished and headed up to the play area where they had a bouncy house, some games, and balloon animals. One of the employees from the party company cracked me up because she tried to whisper to her boss the disdain she was having with the “hypocrits”. I don’t know her religious affiliation but after I cracked up I assured her that what she said was safe with me. Because she had a point. Ok here was the issue. We had kids cutting in line and most times they were encouraged by the adults to do so. I waited 30 min in line with Alex for him to be in the bouncy house 2 minutes. Half that time was due to parents bringing up kids to their friends who were in front of the line. It was really freaking rude. One kid did it on his own and I called him on it. By that time I was so frustrated I couldn’t stand it. Claire had even tried to cut in line by joining me and Alex, I loudly announced she had to go back to the end of the line because it wasn’t fair to the kids who had already been waiting so long. Another parent commented even louder that she wished other parents would send their kids to the back. LOL sometimes passive aggressiveness can be amusing. I mean it didn’t do anything but I still giggled. The other issue with the bouncy house was some of the overly protective parents. Bouncy houses can cause injury and if you don’t want your child taking that risk, don’t put them in there. Most kids don’t set out to purposely hurt others and the attendant was doing a good job of matching up the kids by size. But there is always a risk. Anywho one mom wanted her two daughters in by theirselves because she didn’t want them getting bounced around. Uhm what? It’s a BOUNCY house! Another family, one who had a party of 3 that turned into a party of 5 when they got to the front of the line, actually told the kids not to bounce inside because of the youngest in their group. Who goes into a bouncy house and doesn’t bounce? Really, I want to know! That poor attendant…..her job sucked last night.
Work well I got some applications done over the weekend and already rejection emails are rolling in. Not the way I wanted to start the morning but at least they are responding. By the end of the week if I don’t have something lined up I am going to call the warehouse I used to work for and see if they have any openings. Although I despised that job I left on good terms. It’s a 2nd shift job, I would get health benefits, and be able to have a 401K again. So there are benefits and the job isn’t particularly difficult. The hours just suck. And I hope they have openings. The company creates electrical supplies and the warehouse ships them out. Given the time of year if they have openings they will have overtime too so that would be another benefit.
So that is where I am. I need to go hop in the shower and head on out. If you are one of my Twitter peeps I won’t be on Twitter while at the office due to the fact that I got rid of Twitter from the computer there. But I will be on later tonight!
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