Thursday: short track

Here's why short track is my favorite winter event this year:

Announcer: and they're off!

Announcer: as they round the first corner we see the #1 guy in last place. That's a great place for him to be right now.

(Amanda: seriously? Last place is best?)

Announcer: two laps to go! #1 better make a move soon!

Announcer: and look at #1 now! He passed two people on the outside and one on the inside! #1 wins!!

(Amanda: wow. Just wow.)

And then I watched the relay. That was crazy too. People were everywhere, although it wasn't very exciting because two teams wiped out in the beginning.

Wednesday: things ahappenin'

Today was an eventful day!

We received the golden toliet that is going around church. The deal is that you can buy insurance up front to not get the toilet or pay $10 to have it removed. The proceeds go the youth group who are raising money for the 30 hours famine. Yay! I was hoping that we would get it at some point.

I also picked up my quilt. Here is a picture of the back.

I made a vet appointment for Flurry because she's been treating one of her paws a little funny. I'm now glad I did because she was limping a lot more today than we've seen her do in the past.

Finally, I covered up the white paint splatters on our red wall. It looks so much better and really for not that much work. I'm eying a few other places that could maybe use some similar treatment. I also found out that there is still a ton of dust on the high mantles and wall. There is now a bit less dust but I wouldn't call it clean. The remaining dust is rather invisible though, and that's all I really care about.

Tuesday: last night

Amanda: I read my book.

Ben: You did? (When did you have time??)

Amanda: yeah, the front cover.

Sunday: Olympics and quilt2

Today I watched a lot of Olympics. However, it is actually rather hard for me to just sit and watch them because there are too many commercials and random commentaries. So I moved a lot of my housework to the living room (such as laundry sorting). I really enjoyed the moguls and short track the most I think.

I also started cutting some of the pieces for the next quilt, as it is something I can easily do while watching Olympics.

Flurry wants Penny to know that she is doing rigorous testing to make sure the quilt will be up to cat-napping standards.

Friday: school buses

Today we had to do some errands, and we ended up going near the schools just as they were getting out. There were buses everywhere. We ended up behind one. It stopped, two kids got off, crossed the road, and went into their respective houses. We go again. Ten feet later the bus stops, one kid gets off, crosses the road, and goes into his house.

Seriously? I guess I don't understand this new fad with stopping in front of every single house. I can understand wanting to have a bus stop in sight of your house or maybe for elementary schools, but I really feel that older kids should all be able to get out and walk the ten extra feet. Bus stops were good places for meeting kids in the neighborhood (SARAH VANDERBILT WERE ARE YOU NOW?!?) and getting a little exercise and I'm a little sad that they're disappearing.

Thursday: snowplow

Today was Ben's day to work from home. It works well...I usually go in a little earlier. Today I got up and looked out the window. The snow didn't look too bad on the driveway, but I thought I'd shovel the end to keep it clean. Just as I start shoveling the snowplow went by on the other side of the road. I thought "oh great, it'll probably come around on this side right after I finish shoveling and bring that terrible heavy stuff with it." Soon afterwards I get to the end of the driveway and realize that the snow had drifted. It was up to my knees. Sigh. I start shoveling, rather sure that I've already shoveled this snow twice yesterday. I reach the end of the driveway and realize that there is still two feet of this knee-high snow. Then I hear a rumble in the background. The snowplow is coming back! I was so happy. It didn't even put a lot of bad snow in front of the driveway and took away most of the snow that was still left away.

Three cheers for the snowplow driver!

Tuesday: power

Tonight our power went out. It's the first time since we've been here that it has gone out while we were at home. It was almost fun. :) Then we went out to Bible Study and the roads were really bad. We probably should have canceled. One of these days we'll figure out when to cancel and when not to. The roads going home were still bad, but not quite so bad. At least we didn't have to dodge any pickup trucks perpendicular to the highway or people deciding to walk right in front of us like we did on the way there. :s