Thursday: salads

I don't really like salad.

There, I said it. I feel kind of ashamed of it because I feel as though I should like salad. We had a salad for dinner tonight and it wasn't bad. I will buy it periodically so that we have something different for dinner, but it usually takes us a few days to get ready to eat it. And I put a lot of good things on it, so it ends up ok.

I usually think about telling people at restaurants that I don't want a salad but often feel peer-pressured into getting it. I'm not sure who's peer-pressuring me though.

(This is a salad from Texas Roadhouse, image from here. Texas Roadhouse does have one of the better salads around. It might be the egg.)

Wednesday: hmm

Hmm. I guess the biggest news of today is that part 2a of my program revamp is working. I'm really excited about it because I think it will save a lot of time and that the operators will like it a lot better than the current program. I won't bore you with the details though, because they are kind of boring.

Flurry has stopped being as cuddly. :( She's still friendly though.

Tuesday: a Tuesday

Today is a Tuesday. Ha. I'm rather tired. I think it's because it is getting dark earlier. I feel like I go through this transition every year. This year it seems odd because it's already the end of September. Ben and I both feel like it should still be the beginning of September, but I guess that is what vacation will do.

Bible Study tonight was good. There was a video and it was a little weird because our pastor preached almost the same thing on Sunday...even some of the examples were the same. I'm not really sure how I feel about that. But it was nice to have discussion times throughout the video. The last question actually sparked a lot of discussion. One of the themes of the video was that there is a movement now-a-days that whatever someone believes is true for them and that is OK. I realized this means we can tell people that they're wrong but they have to tolerate our opinion without making us mad. The movement could backfire on them. (Hopefully that makes sense...it might be better if you had seen the video.)

Monday: back to work

Well, it was our first day back at work. Bummer. But I guess if we didn't work we wouldn't be able to enjoy our vacations as much. Maybe. At least, that's what I'll tell myself.

I think I get to be in a corporate "woo-hoo! engineering is great" video. We'll see how it turns out. Maybe I won't have to see it...that would probably be best.

Sunday: pop

While in St. Lucia I started drinking Coke. Usually I'm not really a fan of it, but after a few glasses we realized it was made with real sugar and not high-fructose corn syrup. The can I had on the airplane on the trip home was disgusting after the delicious stuff I had come to enjoy.

Needless to say, we went to Wegmans today to see what they had in the way of real sugar in pop. We found some throwback Pepsi and got some of that, along with some Jones soda. For some reason I thought that Coke was doing a throwback thing too, but I guess I was wrong. :( Well, I can hope that they do it in the future.

Saturday: shopping

Today I had to return some library books and get groceries. (After being gone for so long there isn't much in the house to eat.) First I stopped at the library. They were having a book sale!! I love the book sales that the library has because there are always a lot of books. This one was by donation only too, so they were inexpensive. I think I came away with as many books as I returned. Most of them are just fluffy easy reads, but I did manage to snag "A Prayer for Owen Meany".

Then I went to the grocery store. Usually when I go, especially when I go by myself and am not in a rush, the bill tends to be higher than normal. I think it is because I remember all the weird and expensive things that we need. Like medicine and cleaning supplies. Anyway, I had filled up the cart (how did those donuts get in there?!?) and it came out at a reasonable price. I was excited.

Vacation day 15: a few last things

So during the month of fun, we had several guides on the different things that we did. I was wondering which would really be the best guide to be. So I rated them in order of 1 to 5 (with 1 being the worst and 5 the best).

For the fun category, it is how much fun the guide would have doing the activity everyday. The best two were the ones where you might see different things each day. Sky diving was next because of the adrenaline rush. The last two seem like they would just be the same thing over and over.

The ease of dealing with people category is how bad things can get if you have a bad customer...scuba was the worst because if something goes wrong while you're down at the sea floor it seems like there could be some serious problems. (Sky-diving doesn't have that because the guide is completely in control. The passenger can do whatever and it won't really affect anything.)

....................Fun.Ease of dealing with people.Pay.Total

Helicopter pilot:....1...5...........................5...11

Tandem sky-diver:....3...3...........................4...10

Scuba diver:.........5...1...........................3...9

Horseback rider:.....2...2...........................1...5

Zip-liner (jungle):..4...4...........................2...10

And the results show...helicopter pilot is the best! However, I also rated it as least fun, so personally I might end up doing sky-diving or zip-lining.

Here are the things we ended up taking home with us. (Betsy, we saw a bottle of banana ketchup in the airport and grabbed it. We didn't have a chance to try any.) The hardened coral was washed up on the beach from our kayaking trip.

Flurry was still rather cuddly today. Tonight however she really wanted water from the sink. She was mewing up the wall...here she is wondering why I'm going back upstairs instead of to the bathroom.