Scouts!

Ladies,

Today I was offered the opportunity to be an assistant leader of a scout troop!  It's a new online virtual troop type thing, and one of my friends from library school will be the primary leader.  It's apparently a pilot program, so having this opportunity offered to me is very exciting!

I need people to be references.  You may need to print out a form, fill it in, scan it in to your computer, and then email it to the program organizer.  Please let me know if any of you are available to be a reference for me!

Thanks!
Alula

Snow

So yesterday we didn't get snow on us but higher up snow has officially fallen welcome the white peaks back.

Hows it going

Well how is everyone doing? I like the new look of the blog very fall and we already have some color changes up here. I'm trying to get photos ready for the festival thing we are enrolled in this next month. I had a job interview at a Karate school as an office manager I don't think I got it but I will call him Monday and find out. Well that's the down and dirty about me. SMILE.

Fuzzy

Breaking out Fall

Ladies,

I'm breaking out a new look for fall!
Please excuse the changing blog templates.

Alula

Amazon Student, Free Shipping!

I'm not sure if any of you knew (or how many of you this currently applies to), but Amazon has a new student membership program going on!  You can read about it here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/student/signup/info

The big point is that you get a FREE Amazon Prime membership for one year (usually costs around $70-80 for this service)--for those of you who don't know what Amazon Prime is, it's unlimited free 3-5 day shipping with no minimum order size, and a discount on 2 day shipping ($3.99 per bundle).

Combining my love of online shopping with my obsession with education, I am on this like a pregnant woman on nacho cheese covered chocolate ice cream.

Alula

No Energy

No I will not be getting married any time in the foreseeable future (if ever). One thing is that I am suffering from just being tired and having no energy. Let me tell you it is no fun forcing myself to do anything all I want to do is lay down and not move. Fortunately the 2 year old in my life doesn't let me get away with it at all. this has been going on for a month and no I am not pregnant ruled that out already. Working on top of a mountain is definitely draining the heat is only surpassed by the pelting rain that hits us every afternoon. I've learned to cut rocks with a saw that is just way to big but good thing I can't cut myself because the blade only cut rock using friction and water. Well that's all that is going on here.

Who's getting Married?

Most of you know how bad I am about keeping up with my cell phone.  So today when I charged it at work I wasn't surprised to see I had new text messages accumulated from over the weekend.  One from Q.  One from...some number not stored.  Normally I would disregard, except for the content from the mystery number:

"Im engaged!"

Ah....CRAP.  Somebody out there cared enough to tell me about their impending lifelong prison sentence--I mean, marital bliss--and I didn't care enough to store the number in my phone.  Crap, crap, crap!  I sent one back: "Congrats!"  Then I set to work trying to figure out who the heck I knew, who wasn't in my phone, who could possibly be getting married.

The only person who came to mind was my brother's ex, the mother of my niece and nephew (she has switched cell phone numbers a few times).  Or maybe Fuzzy, if she changed her number and didn't tell me.  Or maybe DoHP, if she forgot to tell us a few things over the last few months or got drunk in Vegas.  I decided the BroEx was probably who it was, and then started freaking out, because the last 2 times she got married, a pregnancy was involved.  Then my mom texted me back that the number didn't belong to the BroEx, and she didn't receive the text message of fortune, ruling out family.

The search continued....Q could not identify the number, which ruled out quite a few friends..  Mr. B had not received the text, so that ruled out his family.

Then I got home and showed Mr. B the number, and I said, "Who do we know who switched cell numbers recently?"  And he said, "Well, I think my sister did a while back, but it can't be her--why would she text you and not me?"

Well, it's his sister--she got a new cell phone and number and forgot to store his number in it.  Getting married.  To her boyfriend of about two years (eh, maybe a year and a half would be closer).  This probably means another bridesmaid dress in my closet and weekend lost to doing cheesy wedding stuff.

But more importantly, this means I'M FREE.

FREE I TELL YOU!

My mother-in-law is about to be too busy planning a wedding to demand we hang out with her every weekend.  FREE! FREE! FREE!

Eleven of the last 14 weekends spent with the inlaws--NOT ANY MORE!  If I hit the jackpot on this one, she'll get pregnant and then I AM OFF THE HOOK.

Sister in law, I am this happy for me, but moreso, I am happy for you!



FREE!
Alula