A Camping we will go

It's Monday but already I am planning for Friday. This isn't the usual ugh Monday wish it was Friday planning. This is leaving for a camping trip gotta make lists and find things and pack things planning. Twice a year we go camping as a family with Zack's Cub Scout Pack, not a long trip just Friday through Sunday but this IS our family vacation, this is all we get so we really get into it. I am actually getting a little bummed out since next year will be Zack's last year in Scouts and that means only a few more trips. This time we are going to Firestone Boy Scout reservation somewhere inland. I am not sure what there will be to do there but it doesn't really matter we always have a good time anyway. So this week we have lots to do before shove off Friday. Zack and I are building Camp chairs for a badge and for fun so we have to finish those tonight so they are ready to take with us this weekend. I also have stuff to do around the house since I won't be around next weekend, and on top of that we have the usual stuff like Cub Scout meeting Thursday night, gotta get food for the snakes since they are out ( boy I wish there was a pet store closer to our house) And work and school and everything else that life throws at you. But I really just wish boring work would be over so that I could get to everything else.

Friends and rants

So today one of the guys here at work was talking about going to Vegas, since it isn't to far people around here do weekend trips all the time I guess. Well I mentioned that I had never been there and they were like you have to go. The only problem with that is that that is a place I would want to go with friends and well I just don't have any of those at least here in the area. Heck Heather I think you are the only person who reads this blog so your it my only friend. This year I told Taryn that for Mother's day I wanted a match.com membership. So sad I have no life I need to go online to find people. I was thinking of trying an experiment and just stop talking at work just to see how long until someone actually noticed. Wow this is depressing rambling please don't read any more. I should just stop writing all together but I have an hour left of work and absolutely nothing to do and I am a bit depressed about my life and wishing I was back in Columbus now that the weathers not to bad. Fair weather Friend as far as C-bus goes but there you have it my rant for today.

Seige Weapons and other Cub Scout stuff

The next few weeks are my busy ones of the month. We have a den meeting tonight where the boys will be working with another parent on their science badge. I almost hope that they skim through it so we can cancel the second meeting this month, then again I know they will do a half ass job of it anyway and I saw some really cool Myth Buster experiments that we could do at home to cover this badge. Next week we will have our Pack meeting which is always rather loud and long. It is fun cause we get to see some friends but otherwise uneventful. And the week after that is our second monthly den meeting if we need it. And the day after that is our Spring camping trip which I am really looking forward to. There are only a half dozen family that usually come but we have all kind of bonded over it and have a great time where ever we go. This trip we go to Firestone which is a boyscout camp, we haven't been there before so it should be interesting.
Next big thing for us at least is the June meetings that I am in charge of. The First meeting will be the building and learning meeting, as part of our Craftsman Badge and Engineering Badge we will be building a Catapult. **insert evil laugh here*** the Second meeting will be all about fun. We will be launching our catapult and having our end of year party. Hopefully the boys will have a great time.

Friday..

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So can you tell that I am sooo ready to have it Friday and start my weekend. Ugh this week has been nuts, I had to pick up Zack early from school on Monday 1/2 day at work for me, and it just through the whole week off. You see I rarely take time off at the beginning of the week unless it is a long weekend so when I came back Tuesday too much had already happened for it to be only Tuesday. You would think that at least by Wednesday i would have gotten the timing right again but no I didn't sleep well this week and my Back has been hurting so everything was just weird. But today has finally come and though it is going soo slow that I should be getting younger while I wait for the work day to be over, I am happy that I can see the end.
Next week my little girl turns 15 yikes 6 months from now she can get her drivers permit. We are spreading out the celebration this year. Saturday we are going to a Movie and then Dinner at Chilli's, Monday night I have to make her a cookie cake to take to school Tuesday, Tuesday the actual DAY we are having a special dinner and I will make her a cake, and Friday I get paid so we will be going out next weekend to get her present. An IPhone, I know what? an I phone for a 15 year old? but she is really responsible and has taken good care of her current phone, we are timed for an up grade and she will be putting some of her other Birthday money towards the cost. Also we looked at the other smart phones and with the I phone you can get free WI-FI and not have to pay the extra monthly fee for access, the other phones don't seem to have this.

But back to me this weekend I am going to play with my Scroll Saw, paint the bathroom and relax. I just hope it doesn't go by in a blink.

Single Sucks

First I have to say that I like living in California but I really haven't started much of a life out here and it has been 5 years. I started to make a few friends at my work but the only one that took off ended up being a girl who refused to grow up, I know that I am not the most mature acting person around but I know when to act your age. So that kind of fizzled and it has been a couple years now since then. I really don't have anything in common with any of the people I work with and the way things are out here people live all over the place and commute hours to get to work. Other than that I really don't interact with anyone except people in the kids scouts and soccer. But again most of them are married and a lot more stuffy than me. I have long said that making friends once you are out of the school faze is difficult as they tend to be at jobs and once that job connection is gone so is the friend ship. Oh well... But that takes me to my other problem. Dating as in I don't, I haven't met anyone interesting in well a few years and then it wasn't serious or at least he wasn't. I really don't want to be alone anymore I actually told Taryn that what I would like for Mother's day is a Match.com membership. Hey it worked for my brother. But again I don't know, I suck at making friends, I really suck at dating and I just want what seems to be so easy for everyone else. Sometimes I wonder if I should have stayed in Columbus but then I think that there wasn't anything there for me either.

Speckles my boy

So this week has been weird, or chaotic. Monday was well Monday nothing good nothing bad just Monday in all it's blah glory. I was on call for Jury Duty which means every night for a week you have to call this number and see if you have to go in. If you are called you are in for 1 day or one trial. So last week I tried to be smart and get things done at work so if I did have to go in I wouldn't be in trouble when I got back. So Monday I had nothing to do at work. By the time I could call that night I had decided that I wanted to go in for Jury Duty had to be better than trying to seem busy for an entire day or two. I lucked out and did get called but mine was a one day event so back to work on Wednesday still not much to do but return calls from Tuesday. Thursday started out another slow day but 2 hours into the work day I get a call from Zack's school. He had a rash all over his upper body and his face was flushed. Now anyone who knows what Parvo is knows that schools don't mess around with unidentified spots so I had to pick him up, which when you take the bus to work is not easy, take him to the doctor to find out it was an allergic reaction to something ( Still don't know what) and pump him full of Benedryl for a few days. Today I am back at work, I was really efficient last week cause I still don't have anything to do and so that explains why I am blogging at 11am on a Friday. The kids have today off for Cesar Chavez day, I really don't know what he did other than give my kids another day off but they don't mind and it gives Zack time to itch in peace. The spots are still going strong I hope they go away soon but I figure I will be picking up calamine lotion on the way home and maybe even oatmeal bath.