Alot About Little

It is 2:30 in the afternoon. In the last 4 1/2 hours I have had 3 different people tell me/ ask me if I knew I had "dirt" on my forehead.


I am so going to get a shirt for next year that says "It's Ash Wednesday".

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Last night the girl and I stopped at the drug store on the way home to get a gallon of milk and a piece of poster board she needed for school today. The lady in front of us in line was a very, very, very large person. She was pulling an oxygen tank behind her and buying a pack of cigarettes. She paid with all dimes. 10 cents at a time she counted it all out. (I'm thinking if you need oxygen and robbed your piggy bank to support your habit its time to stop). Then, she dropped a dime and penny on the ground.

Me: K, why don't you pick those up for her. ( I will give the woman the benefit of the doubt that she didn't hear me)

Woman: HEY! THOSE ARE MINE! (Yes, she was yelling)

Me: I asked her to pick them up for you, she wasn't going to keep them.

Woman: GIVE THEM TO ME! (Still yelling)

Me: (Absolutely stunned beyond belief at this point), K, put them back (on the ground)

Woman: Hey wait! I can't bend over and pick them up.

Me: I guess you should have thought of that before. She was only trying to be helpful.

Woman: I didn't know, I thought she was trying to steal from me.

Me: Thinking, WTF? 11 cents, call the cops, quick!

K: (Stuttering in a small voice) "I am sorry"

Me: Oh no sweetie, you have no reason to be sorry. You did nothing wrong. Thank you for trying to help.

We then proceded to check out, as the woman was still standing there guarding her life savings laying on the floor.

As we walked out I heard her ask the clerk if he would pick the money up for her.

I hope more than anything he told her "No".

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We leave Sunday, before the sun comes up to a very tropical destination, for a week long business trip. We received the hotel and resturant information for the resort we are staying at (I will tell you where it was when we get back) last night. In great big letters it said "No opened toed shoes in resturants". Well thanks for the heads up. Who doesn't take sandles and flip flops to a place like this? So, sometime bewteen now and Sunday at 3:30 a.m. I have to find the time to go and find shoes to go with the "casual evening attire" we have wear to be worthy to eat.

A lot about little

Well here we are again. I have been consumed with doctors visits, talking to insurance adjusters, and those little copper coins with Honest Abe on them.

As the little copper coins go- the girl's school, MHD, does a coin drive every Christmas season for the needy families in the area of the school. Because it tis the season we take the coins to a machine that counts them for us and turns them into cash dollars and in turn, those lovely cash dollars are turned into gift certificates to our local grocery stores. Any hoo, do you know how heavy $2000.00 worth of pennies are? Even more so with a screwy back. Its nice to have friends in the right places sometimes. Regardless, it teaches the kids about giving and doing for others. If we can teach them this, they are ahead of the game in my book.

The good hands people are my new best friends. They have been very helpful to us trying to work out everything from the little accident on Monday. I went this morning to have the truck looked at and now have a lovely check to get the ball rolling to get the truck returned to its former glory. I am so very thankful that I was in my big girl truck and not a little tin can car. It could have been so much worse.

Doctors, doctors and more doctors. Monday after the accident I was already feeling pretty stiff so we went to Ur*gent Care. I was given the nector of the gods as far as pain medicine and muslce relaxers go and sent on my way to have x-rays taken. Of course every thing was closed. Well by luck of the draw, I was already going to the x-ray lab Tuesday morning. I figured I would kill 2 birds with one stone! Ha those birds say to me as they poop on those plans. I was there 4 hours! Good thing boss man is so understanding. Yesterday I was off to my primary care doc to get the x-ray results. Long story short, soft tissue damage, muscle something or other, Monday we will start some physical therapy to see if we can at least get the muscles to relax a little better. There is more doctor stuff to talk about but maybe later. I just don't want to think about that right now as well.

I have lots of new pictures to add to Flickr. I brought the cord with me to work but not the camera. (My mind is a busy place these days) It may take me awhile to get them uploaded at that point! I promise you, you have never see a cuter little sassy pants in go-go boots than you will see here once I get the pictures up. She is the silver lining in the gray cloud I seem to have floating over my head these days.

Suggestions?

Oh great internet. How I need your help. The girl is having her fall party at school on Friday and I need to bring food for 30 ten year olds. Here's the situation. IT HAS TO BE HEALTHY! As in, No Sugar! No cookies, no cupcakes, no candy! I have a list of suggestions, such as cabbage wedges and asparagas spears- I don't know about you, but that screams PAR-TAY to me if anything does.

Not only does it have to be healthy, but I do have an image among the troops to maintain! We can't have them thinking that Katers mom is a big ol dweeb. (Chances are they already think this, but lets not give them a chance to add any fuel to the fire). ;).

So with that be said what are some snacks that you consider healthy that your kids love? Keep in mind we are fairly limited as it can not be prepared at home (store bought only) and it can't be too messy. (Parent teacher conferences that afternoon). Please, please, please let me know what you think, I need all the help I can get! By the way, any one know of 100% juice that comes in kid size packaging that doesn't taste like dishwater?

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