They want a rodeo and 2 pound steaks.

I know, I've been crappy at posting this week but I'm back with a vengeance.

FRIDAY

Slept in. It was awesome. Then went over to Oldest Sister's house to pick up Mom for the walk. We walked 2 miles for the Mental Health Awareness thing at my practicum site. Got t-shirts and granola bars and all that, it was pretty fun.

Though last week Mom was one of those 80 million people you see hobbling around with a boot so now that the boot was removed I was afraid she was gonna keel over in pain at any moment.

But she made it the whole 2 miles.

And it was her choice to do the 2 miles instead of the campus walk so she can't blame me for anything.

Aside from waiting in line for 2 hours for food that never came it was a good morning.

Long story.

After that I went back to the apartment and took a nap.

For like 10 minutes before Oldest Sister texted and asked if I could pick up Bubby from school.

Another one of those flash forward moments. Do I go inside? Am I supposed to wait in the car? Thankfully 2 minutes after I decided to stay in the car they all walked out so I chose correctly.

After school I took him to his volleyball tournament where they won both games.

It was amusing though because it was a triangular and the other two teams had all these tiny tiny kids and then our team had three 8th grade boys who just dominated.

They served underhand the first game, but it was no mercy overhand for the second game.

I knew a few of the kids from camp, and then ran into a bunch of their parents so we talked for a while.

Since Oldest Sister and my brother-in-law were present - he was the coach - I took off to go do some homework.

SATURDAY

I'm on a bagel kick so I had a french toast bagel for breakfast with some honey nut cream cheese, as mentioned bagel kick so I've got many flavors, and then headed to the home branch for the day. Was interesting because we actually had a crowd as opposed to the work branch which I'm sure was empty for the majority of the day due to our proximity to the game.

Which is why my coworkers hate Husker football. But I love it so I was stoked that we won.

Check this Sportscenter Top 10 moment


After the game I headed out to see the boyfriend. We went out to eat and then went to see The Family.



Scale of Awesome says 8/10, I really liked it. A lot of humor but it ended pretty serious. Really good casting. Michelle Pfeiffer was my favorite, that supermarket thing was hilarious.

Don't piss off that family, seriously.



Song of the Day:

Wrapped up in You - Josh Wyatt cover


he's pretty good.

and i'm out. back to work tomorrow.

Sorry Occifer, We didn't notice the light was red, we were too distracted by cotton candy grapes. No we're not drunk, they do exist.

The sad part is I'm serious, Cotton Candy Grapes, but I don't know that I want my grapes to taste like cotton candy.

But maybe that's just me.

Aww, and see watching this makes me want to watch the show all over again.



Though it's missing the line of all lines "We solve crimes, I blog about it and he forgets his pants. I wouldn't hold out too much hope."


I don't really have much to say for today. Worked 9-6. Spent the majority of it brainstorming for my Ornery Old Men and Million Dollar Crazies booklists.

They are both highly entertaining, though I should focus on the Banned Nonfiction one first as it has a deadline in September.

Now they're trying to make me turn them into booktalks, but as I'm not a fan of public speaking I secretly cheered when all the spots were filled.

Oh, I mean, how sad. I was really rooting for me to make a fool out of myself in front of a bunch of old ladies.

Who I'm sure would be completely supportive and consoling.

Well, depending which group I'm referring to, or so I hear.

Anyway, aside from the booklists I had a polish dog for lunch....and some chips....and that's really all I remember about the workday.

Aside from the whole cotton candy grapes thing.

Which I still can't wrap my brain around.


After work I headed home and got ready for my first online class of the semester. We're only meeting online a couple times a month and doing discussion boards like five weeks out the entire semester and I think I have like 5 major assignments total.

So nice going back to one class at a time instead of that whole 3 classes with homework every night thing.

Which was fine, cause it burned through my 43 credits, but still all I have this semester for homework is Youth Services and then at the end of each month I have to write a summary paper for my practicum.

Which I should really look at the directions for before I go in tomorrow.

That's right people, day 2 tomorrow.


Whoa. Weird noises coming from my vent and now Carter is staring at it ready to pounce.

I hope there's not something in it.

Now he's staring around the ceiling like he's following it around.

Okay, calling maintenance tomorrow.


Where was I?

After being creeped out by the grapes but before being creeped about the mystery noises....

Oh right class, it was fine.

There are like 40 people in the class so an hour of it was spent on introductions - and it's all online so every time someone would speak it always started with "can you guys hear me?"

Then we went over the syllabus so it was very handy to have that interaction even though it's not in person.


Normally Carter's inquisitiveness just leads to someone getting bit but I'm kind of glad he's here in case some sort of creature jumps out of that vent.

He's the man of the house so he's in charge until maintenance gets here.

Perhaps I shall call them tonight instead.


On to the music:

Miss Baltimore Crabs - Michelle Pfeiffer


I'm not quite sure why her character was so proud to hold the title of Miss Baltimore Crabs, as it doesn't sound like something you want to spread around.

Tell people about.

Bad, bad, bad.

Tell people about.

Even sadder is that that is the sane version of Amanda Bynes.

Legitimate pre-midnight post, holy crap tag in use.

Stupid SpongeRobert, get in the hole!

This weekend was huge.

I'm exhausted.

I feel old.

Though I was told this morning by my nephew that since I'm not married I'm not a grown up.

So I've got that going for me.

We asked him what about Laverna - my 96-year-old great aunt - cause she's not married and he says that she must not be a grown up either.


Okay so yesterday was Tee it up for Tuition the annual golf tournament fundraiser for my old high school. 2G dominated.

This year we were at a different course with almost double the amount of teams.

Which is both good and bad.

It's good because it means more money for the school but bad because it means we had to wait at each and every hole.

And when we get stuck waiting Pastor gets bored and hits balls into cornfields.

Which is why I brought my bag full of throwaways.

Huzzah.

I, myself, stuck with my colored balls.

I hate Spongebob with a passion so I enjoy smacking the crap out of the ones with his face on them.

And hit one into a water hazard on purpose to send him back to his stupid pineapple under the sea.

I started with a box of 8 I finished with 2.

We par-red out. We were one up at one point and then the last whole put us even.

It was a lot of fun. We're really goofy and not really in it to win it - mostly because the winning team this year golfed a 15 under par. So yeah, a bit off of that. We just want to beat Hillman.

That is literally our only goal and this year we tied him.

Since we are the loudest and goofiest ones there this is what you may have overheard if you were present.

Quotes of the Day:

"Now you know what it's like to ride in a cart with her."
"Hey, I didn't throw you out last year."

"Here's your snake cake."

"Fly by the seat of your phone."

"Blow a gasket if you have to!"
"I didn't know I had one but I will."

"Port-a-John."

"The guy with the girl name."

"Thanksgiving! Lutheran Church. We need more exclamation points at our church."

"SpongeRobert!"


This is our 4th year though year 1 was before I started the blog so I only have years 2: Our Drinking Team Has a Golfing Problem and 3: Bob of Sponge, Won't You Come? Won't You Come?

As you can see not much has changed.

The new course was nice, but not so nice was the fight that broke out over dinner - seriously? between one of the golfers on the other team and a random drunk dude - the long wait for prizes and then the 2 hour drive back.

So we're saying, move it back! Move it back!

Or closer at least.

Or start it earlier. 2 is way too late, because of all the waiting we didn't get back to the clubhouse until 7:15. Dinner didn't get over until 8, we left halfway through the prizes - mostly because there was nothing good left but also because it was 8:30 and we had a 2 hour drive left.

If they started at 9 we could just do an lunch eating thing and it would be much cooler.

I'd be in for that.

We'll see if they think it went well as it is ultimately their decision.



So that was golf.

Today was softball.

I love playing with "Who's Steve?" We're like a dysfunctional family but it works for us.

We put the fun in dysfunctional.

We've been playing together so long that we don't even worry about assigning positions cause we play the same spots every year.

Batting order we switch up though.

The batting order 5 years ago is where our name originated. In case you were wondering why someone would name their team "Who's Steve?"

Pastor was new and his wife - who also plays - wrote up the order. Since she calls him by his actual name and not "Pastor" she wrote "Steve". When Becky was reading off the list she was like "Mike, Becky, Steve - Who's Steve?" "Um, Pastor." And it stuck.

Now we're gonna have team t-shirts made. And they're gonna be awesome.

This is just a warmup for our fall season so we don't really care that we lost.

I don't know what happened, we started off really strong but came up short.

Couple of errors but really the other team was just as good. Lot of back and forth.

But that's okay, we'll get revenge on labor day as they will be on our turf.

Huzzah for the 2nd Annual WELS Softball Area Tournament.

They came last year as well, Unhook the Plow, we lost the first but smashed them down like the hand of God in the second so it evened out. Then called ourselves the Champions cause we could.

We should get a trophy for this year.

Remind me of that closer to the tournament.

Anyway, it was a lot of fun, I like playing with my brother and the rest of the crazy gang.

As is tradition I slid and broke open my leg. Not as bad as previous years - and at least this year's slide was intentional, as opposed to last year's...I don't even know what to call it - read the link above for the description of that slow motion fluke.

So I got my leg all wrapped up in my gauze pads that I have in bulk cause I know I'll need them each and every year whether intentional or not so intentional.

And my big fat cat is staring at me saying, hey, it's time for sleep so guess I should stop rambling and put the laptop down so he can fall asleep on my stomach as usual.



Songs of the Weekend:

Black Hold Sun - Soundgarden


cause I always sing "Bob of sponge, won't you come?" when I golf.


Raise Your Glass - Pink


i'm posting this version because i like watching michelle pfeiffer's character attempt to dance.

awesomeness.

it took me until this exact moment to realize that they were in hairspray together.

woops.

to be fair her character in that was the polar opposite of her character in this.

and i don't really pay attention to his credits.

though he does have some nice dance moves.