That was my reasoning, Theo.

This temp agency I signed up with has a bunch of instructional courses available online, too, I'll be exploring those next.

I've clearly been spending too much time unemployed and short on disposable income -- I can't remember the last time I stayed at a hotel. Based on vague memory, though, the first thing I'd do is kick off my shoes, and either collapse on the bed or go look out the window.

That sound fascinating, Connie. I'll check them out.

Timelies all!

Got all my errands done yesterday. One of the Jiffy Lube guys managed to break off the door handle on the rear passenger side door. They've ordered a replacement part, so I'll have to go back when it comes in. Sheesh...

Yikes, Sheryl. How does that even happen??

We had a super social day yesterday, which was awesome, but now we're all tired and sloungy and the house is a mess. It was a really fun day, though. First we spent the morning cleaning the house and running errands, then we had our friends with tiny twin babies come over for a few hours, and then after they left we had a couple hours to tidy again and make dinner, then we had four friends over for dinner. It's a nice feeling to have friends here that we've known for a while now, people who knew us when we had just moved to town, before we got married, before we had a baby. It helps me to remember that we actually have some history in this town now, and a nice little community of friends that we've put some time into building up.

I'm sitting behind a nursing screen at church just outside the sanctuary. This older couple is on the other side and I don't think they know I'm here. The wife is scolding her husband for not waiting for her. It sounds like an argument they've been having for years. Neither is upset; it's just odd to hear someone's unguarded conversation like that.

This doesn't really need it's own post but I am just so crabby this morning. Frisco's choir sang in church. He wouldn't wear the dress shoes I bought him which isn't shocking but is annoying and a waste of money. And he didn't want to sing and he just stood up there looking around. He sang a little at the end but still he didn't really participate. And then he had a total freak out because he thought the snacks were all gone but they weren't. So that was for nothing and he got his snacks just fine.

I don't want to be mad at him but he wears me out. All morning he was rude and disrespectful. Some days it would just be nice to be able to hit an off switch for a while.

Kids are hard. I'm sorry Frisco had a bad morning and stressed you out, Stephanie.

Meanwhile, for the first time in my life, I woke up early and rested after DST spring forward. Very confusing.

I wonder if I can get a new nurse just because this one is eternally disorganised. She's never shown up on time, not once, and I'm flipping a coin on whether she changed her clocks or not. I don't want to be her personal assistant. But how are her patients who need stuff like clockwork (instead of just for pain relief) handling her?

Oh ita !. What a pain. I think asking for a new nurse is perfectly reasonable.

So, yesterday we had the forecast of over a foot of snow but woke up in the morning to nothing on the ground yet, so we drove to north Denver for CJ's karate tournament. Our pre-snow plan had been to do tournament stuff and then race down to Colorado Springs to see Jeff Dunham. With no weather issues and decent traffic, it would have been a tight squeeze but possible. We kept watching the forecast, looking out the windows, checking with Stephanie and finally decided to leave tournament a bit early and make the drive.

It was slow going, but not too bad. We were on one stretch of road that didn't have blowing snow, no apparent ice, and the Jeep started fishtailing, turning sideways to traffic one way, then the other, then completely backwards (oh look, a semi), and then finally onto the soft shoulder of the road, facing the right way. K-Bug was driving and handled it as well as a person could. As we settled and realized we hadn't hit a thing and were all ok, another car pulled off to check on us. After we all caught our breath, K-Bug pulled back on the road and the other car followed us for a while to make sure we were ok.

We made it to Jeff Dunham about 15 minutes after the time of the ticket, but they had delayed the start of the show a bit. We were in the arena as the lights went down and made it to our 5th row seats just as he took the stage. He was fantastic. SO glad we made the trip. I haven't laughed that hard in a LONG time. The drive back was much less eventful, just slow and steady as the roads were much icier this time.