Category: Daily Life

Wahoo! Submitted a cover letter and resume to a local insurance company that specifically asked for ColdFusion!

Ran to Kinko’s for more boxes. They’ll have even more this evening if we want them.

Went to Cingular and paid $128 cell phone bill. Stared at phones, drooled, dilerated, left without a new phone.

Went to United Printing and got more boxes. One of Noah’s scout buddy’s (Will) Dad (Jeff) runs the business!

Returned home. Working on cover letter. My cover letters suck.

A New Day!

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This Morning

Woke at 6:06! Whoa! Rushed upstairs to get the kids moving and prodded Tommy into getting dressed and doing math work. Ticked Sarah off by making her look at her day planner ( “I thought I only had to do that on Monday’s!” ); trying to instill time management skills in her is going to be a royal pain ( “I don’t check things off. I erase them when I’m done. If I don’t erase them, well, I KNOW I’ve done it.” ) Quizzed Noah briefly on his spelling words.

Carpooler wasn’t ready either. Talked to Noah and Sarah in the car asking “so what do you do at your friends’ houses when you spend the night.” Sarah gives a brief answer followed quickly by “can we turn on the radio.”

Amy certainly has a lot to say this morning.

Last Night/Afternoon

Picked Tommy up at school. I called him at 3:08 to tell him that I was on my way and he should not get on the bus. 15 minutes later I arrive at the school and he is still in the classroom unattended. The lady at the front desk was even taken back.

Tommy and I drove to the West Knoxville Travel Bug Hotel to find that the brandnew logbook has indeed disappeared. I hate vandals.

I then when to a cloth store and got permission for us to put out a box for Project Linus.

Tommy and I made it to STAR where he did very well.

On our return we stopped at Michael’s and dropped off a letter for the management to see if we can leave a Project Linus box there. Then we went to Joanne’s Etc and got permission to leave a box there.

For dinner we went to Rafferty’s and ordered 3 racks of ribs to go. While they were preparing it, Tommy and I drove around. He declared “Let’s go in Fantasy World!” (thinking it was a magic store) so I explained that it was a place that sold ladies underwear and dirty books and he changed his tune to “Let’s put them out of business” so we had a brief discussion on captialism, morals and right from wrong. In the end he said, “ok. I just won’t shop there” which was a great conclusion for him to draw. We went to Lowe’s and looked at plumbing snakes and flowers. Happened to drive past a strip club on the way and because of Tommy’s over reaction to the adult store and “not liking girls” I used it as an example to explain “it’s ok to like girls. Some guys pay money to see girls take their clothes off” and left it brief not wanting to go into details except to mention that its very expensive. We picked up our ribs, headed to Weigel’s for 2 gallons of milk, then home to enjoy a great meal.

Evening was battling with Tommy to actually complete some work. Then Cathy and I watched some Kingdom Hospital and fell into a deep sleep.

  

Cover letter drafted. Baby awoken. Cover letter and resume will be sent tonight.

Reassembled plumbing with Amy’s help. It still backed up. I need to rent a more serious 2″ snake (50.8mm) OR call in a plumber. Hmm…

I need to get dressed for errands.

Blast. Baby awakes. I’m so close! I need a few more minutes.

Made a new business contact and impressed by referring him to a friend of mine (friend thankful). Good karma all around.

Sent updated resume to both recruiters and new business contact.

Cleaned sink. Now ready to reassemble pipes.

Cooked BLTs…did I wash my hands?

Still can’t get ms word working on this machine. Where’s that software?!

Just snaked the pipes in the upstairs bathroom. I hope it was sufficient. I’d really like to go in with a rented one that would do a better job. I may schedule that for a weekend once a year and just snake all the pipes.

Before I can reassemble the pipes I have one more length of pipe I want to clean out. Long blonde hair all over the place…hmmm.. I suspect I’ll be snaking the pipes frequently for the next couple of decades.