Thanksgiving!!!

I had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I got to sleep in late, and then I had dinner with my family in the early afternoon. It was delicious! Then, I went to the Cowboys football game with my Dad and Bro Terry. It was a great game. I felt sorry for the other team, the Seahawks. They received quite a whipping. We left during the 4th quarter when the score was 31 to 9. The halftime show was pretty awesome. We got to see the Jonas Brothers perform live. Too bad the stadium dropped a background right between us and the stage. We got to see them walk up the stairs onto the stage, but we only saw the performance on the TV's. The acoustics in the stadium are horrible!!! It was like someone was playing their songs on 5 different radios at once, with different time delays on each radio, and all the radios are buried under 10 feet of dirty laundry. I couldn't even recognize the first song. The second song was "Burning Up." I was glad we were able to leave a little bit early so we didn't get stuck in traffic.

11-24-08

Last week when I went in to get my allergy shot, I got to talking with the lady at the front counter. She said they might be hiring! I am really hoping they are hiring and I am able to get a job there. They have such good people there. It is a big practice, and I think I would learn a lot, but I probably wouldn't get to spend time with patients like i was able to at Dr. Henry's. The name of the person I need to talk to is Elaine. But she was out last week, and she is out again this week. grrr... it is hard to get a job when the person you need to talk to is out of town. Another interesting thing happened on Saturday. (Saturday was a really boring day, FYI. I spent 12 hours working on a school project! UG!!!) Anyway, Saturday evening I got a call from this guy, John, who says he is my boss. I am like, "um... no... sorry, you are not my boss. I don't have a boss right now..." and then he is like, "I AM your boss. You are on my payroll. That's how I know your name and have your phone number." Then I was like, "You must have the wrong number..." thinking to myself how creepy it was that a guy I don't know would call me up on a Saturday evening and insist I work for him, and it must be some sort of scam. After I hung up the phone, I realized I actually know John. He's not my boss (because I don't have a boss) and I don't know him well, but I do know that his little boy Eric goes to my karate school and that John owns a huge graphic design company. So then I was a little sad. If I had played my cards right, I might have gotten a job this Saturday. He called me and insisted I was on his payroll. I think if this thing at the allergist's office doesn't work out, maybe I will call John back, but I haven't decided yet. This week is really busy, but I have a lot of stuff to look forward to. Yay! Fios internet! Yay! Cowboys Game! I just have to get past the first half of this week. I accidentally skipped a step on this art project that is due on Wednesday, so tomorrow I will have to go back down to Dallas and visit the museum at SMU (the Meadows) again. It is a great little museum, but I have a lot of other things I want to work on instead, and I would prefer going with friends than all by myself. Again.

Welcome to my Blog

Welcome to my blog. For my first blog, I will paste a copy of what I wrote for my Texas Tattler last Sunday... Thursday I went to the museum at SMU for art class. It was a lot better than I thought it would be. It had quite a few famous paintings that I never would have thought a little museum would have. I have to go back later this week. I didn’t finish my project. I got there late because of some traffic (my friends promised me it was a 20 min drive at the most… it took me 50 min to get there). But everyone was late, so no one got in trouble, and everyone is planning on going back. I gave a presentation earlier that day for art class. Something went wrong with my computer, and my powerpoint didn’t save right, and so I had to give my presentation using the rough draft instead of the final copy. That was stressful and not too fun, but I think it turned out okay. I had the final copy printed out with notes, so I was able to describe what was missing, and turn it into the teacher at the end. English we have a group project coming up. I have a good group and I think it will go well. In BCIS I have to give a presentation on identity theft tomorrow. I hope my powerpoint saves this time. That would be sad.

Saturday I taught karate. Normally there are 8 to 15 kids, and I have 2 assistants, and I had a nice game plan of what to do for class, given those numbers. This time, one of my assistants called in sick, and there were 19 people, of all ranks and ages. That makes things really challenging because you have to teach each person to their level. So I had to totally change my plans. I was a little bit sad because my new plan didn’t have much variety to it. But after class several people came up to me and said it was a really fun class. I thought back on the class, and realized that everyone was involved the whole class period, having fun, and really well behaved. Especially this one kid, who normally has a lot of behavior problems, but he was doing so well at staying focused on Saturday. I was proud of him. It made me think that maybe I didn’t do too bad of a job. Yay! The roadshow was pretty good this year.

Earlier this week I had a strange dream. I dreamed we were having a family reunion at my house, but no one had arrived yet except for Bruce, Julie, and Grandma and Grandpa Sant. I was in the upstairs bathroom washing my hands when all of the sudden something flies through the window (there is no window in that bathroom) almost hits me in the head and sticks to the wall. I dry my hands and then go pull it off the wall and see that it is a book. It is a really poorly-made Dr Seuss book. The cover is really thick cardstock that was covered in a layer of thin fake black leather that is just duct-taped to it, and then the picture and title are like iron-on transfers that someone put on the fake leather. It was titled, “Obama’s Plan for America .” I thought that was odd, so I opened it up and read it. It was a shortened version of “Green Eggs and Ham” (REALLY shortened… like only 5 pages long), but all of the pictures were from “There’s a Wocket in my Pocket.” It went something like this, “(Dr Seuss creature): Would you, could you in a box? Would you could you with a fox? (Obama): Yes! We Can!”

At the very end there was a really pixilated picture of a clock so you couldn’t tell what time it was, and a weather map of the US with all of the temperatures left blank. I was really disappointed (I don’t know what I was expecting, but I was disappointed). On the very last page, a puppy popped out! A book was “sent” to every house in America with a free puppy at the end. It was a cute puppy. I took the book and the puppy downstairs and showed everyone. Mom wasn’t going to let me keep the puppy because we already had a golden retriever (we don’t really own a golden retriever) until she realized that every person in America got a puppy, and so the animal shelters were going to already be full. She still wasn’t very happy about the puppy. No one else cared about the puppy because they were too concerned with the book. I thought the book was stupid and disappointing, but it was really worrying everyone else.