Sun Spot

Remember CKXL AM 1140?

Can you sing the jingle?

Do you "Drive Decent"?

Do you remember all the controversy about Drive Decent(ly)?  Sheesh.

Priorities

This was an "interesting" weekend.

Saturday morning I was off, so did MORE Instructional in my hotel.  It was a KILLER!

Then after teaching all afternoon, I went to Longhorn Steakhouse for a delish steak, baked sweet potato and a green salad.  YUM.  Back to the hotel, fell asleep planning to take full advantage of the time change, get up at my usual time (6:30 - which would then be 5:30) and do another round of MORE Instructional. 

However, at 11:40, the fire alarm went off. 

 

 I was in that "dead to the world" state so I honestly didn't know what was happening.  I woke up, thought, great, the fire alarm.  Got out of bed - luckily I had folded all my clothes neatly and put them on the other side of the bed - I was NOT going out in my undies!!!!!  As I was trying to dress, I thought "maybe this is that tinitis thing people talk about - maybe this is just MY ears!"  There were no lights blinking, nothing to indicate it was an alarm, just this high pitched squealing that felt like it was originating in my skull!  I honestly thought it was ME!  I was in a total panic wondering how I would survive and be able to teach with this mind-numbing shreak going on in my head!

Then I walked into the living room and noticed it was a little quieter... so decided it was the fire alarm.  (And the closer I got to the door, I realized I could hear the claxon going off in the hall...)

Went back into the bedroom and grabbed my laptop and chords and stuffed it all back into it's case.  I decided if the hotel burned down, I could get new clothes, but I was NOT going to replace my laptop (and all my pictures on there...)  Oh yah, and I took the time to pick out and put on a different sweater, cuz if the hotel burned down, I would still have to teach on Sunday and didn't want to wear the same thing two days in a row.  See?  I really was NOT thinking straight! 

Grabbed the laptop case, my purse, my room key and my leather jacket, cuz earlier it was raining and CHILLY, and headed to the door.

Then I remembered.  I brought my CD case with all my T-Tapp dvds in it!  NO WAY I WAS LETTING THOSE BURN!  So back into my room to rescue those! 

Finally I left the room, hit the stairs next to my room - down and out.

Now - here's the kicker.

I'm was a firefighter.  I know better.  I know you GET OUT immediately!  It's not the fire that kills you, it's the smoke!  And the invisible gases from the carpet, upholstery, etc...  But I was 1) half asleep and the shrill alarm honestly made it imposssible to think and 2) protecting my MOST IMPORTANT stuff.  My life, my laptop and my T-Tapp!  LOL 

When I got to the parking lot, I called Rod (in Flagstaff - having a snowball fight with my Jimbo... first snow of the year) and said "you remember when we were firemen and got called to Holiday Inn Oceanfront all the time and had to rouste people from their rooms and make them go stand in the parking lot while we checked out the hotel?   Yah, now I know how they felt..."  I guess what goes around really does come around, eh?  But now I understand why they all acted like complete idiots.  And I feel badly for wanting to bash them over the head...  (just kidding... about the head bashing, not about the feeling bad...)

Anyhow.  It was a false alarm.  So finally, back up to bed.  At least it wasn't snowing in South Florida!  (And it had stopped raining... it was actually kind of nice out there!)

At 1:30 my "neighbors" woke me up - yelling obscenities and slamming doors.  (I don't stay at Motel 6 for crying out loud!)  And then at 1:40 - the fire alarm went off AGAIN!!!!!  I got up and was half dressed (I already left my computer & dvds in the truck) when it turned off - so back to bed.

Needless to say - there was no workout Sunday morning.  I was GRATEFUL for that extra hour to sleep!

Hope YOUR weekend was GREAT!

CUTE SAYINGS

One of the blogs I follow was talking about cute things little kids say.  And it reminded me.....

Every day when the kids and I were driving into town, we would drive over the overpass above I-95.  As we drove over it, I would point north and say "that way is Daddy's Shop".  Then I would point south and say "that way is Miami".  This went on for weeks.

Then one day I decided to see if they were paying attention. 

I pointed north and said "what's that way?"  A chorus of "Daddy's Shop" filled the van.

Then I pointed south and asked again "what's that way?" 

"MOMMY'S AMMY!"

Happy Halloween!

Darn.  You can hardly see it.

It is a picture of the Wicked Witch of the West.

Says:

The ultimate Chick Flick.

2 Women.

Trying to kill each other over shoes.

Happy Candy Collecting!  (Or giving out)  (or hiding in your bedroom and eating the entire stash by yourself since nobody ever comes all the way out to the country anyway... ahem)

No More Pool

You remember what our yard looked like...

Ok, it was a little frosty in this picture - but this is our yard.    Well, this WAS our yard...


And then Rod and Kyle got busy.

And that's all that is left of our pool.  The end of an era.  (And a money sucker...)

It's Fall - which means POOL!

Our pool table is in the "Dog Room" (ok, it's the old 2-car garage the previous owner closed in...)  In the summertime it is HOT and smells like dog.  In the wintertime it is COLD and smells like dog.  Enticing, eh?  LOL  But at least in the winter you can plug in a heater (or put on a sweat shirt) and spray a little Febreeze...  In the summer, it's just miserable. 

So... we only clear all the junk off in the fall. 

Yesterday Kyle did the honors.  (And bleached the floor so it smells like BLEACH flavored dog...)  We played our first few games last night.  Now, mind you, we didn't even play once last winter, so it's been awhile.  Rod and Jim are SHARKS.  While Kyle and I are newbs who just play for the fun of it.  And by the end of the season we are pretty evenly matched.  (although he tends to be better than me, but sometimes I amaze us all with a FANTASTIC (accidental) shot...)

He won the first game.  Easily.  (Like all my balls were still on the table except the 2 he accidentally hit in FOR me...)  He won the 2nd game.  Then he lost the 3rd game (I didn't "win" he hit the 8 ball in accidentally...)  Then I WON the 4th game!!!!!  I hit my last ball in the pocket!  Then I hit the 8 ball in the pocket!  On PURPOSE!  And then the (stupid) white ball bounced off the wall, careened across the table, and plopped right in the opposite pocket.  And I lost the game.  Sheesh.

Let the season begin!

UPDATE:
The guys dropped their load of HAND GRANADES and ROCKET LAUNCHERS, picked up a  much more innocent load in Chicago, and are heading HOME!  Should be in Orlando between 2 and 4 tomorrow morning and then it's MALABAR!  Can't wait to see them!

New Pasture

Rod has been super busy this week...  He's "on vacation" which means he's busy fixing everything he can think of.  Amazing what he can accomplish in a week!

CJ

Andy

Buddy

Trimming the tops off some of the posts

The boys are SUPER happy!