Pentathlon April 18, 2008

Here's the best team ever! Together they won best overall team, best mile run and best Regulation Drill team with 100%. James ran the mile in 6 minutes and 22 seconds. It was fun to be at the awards ceremony which was short and sweet. I did feel bad for one team that got absolutely no awards for anything but a round of applause for showing up. James said he didn't feel bad for them cuz they were jerks at the last competition. OH... and while this Pentathlon competition was at East High (woo-hoo), Zach Effron was no where to be found. ;>

No more Dial-up!

For about two weeks I've been on dial-up. My little wireless adapter got fried just before time to do electronic billing for Medicaid. The only way to get the new adapter here faster was to pay mega-bucks for one locally or mega-bucks to get one shipped over-night. I decided to deal with the dial up (hey, I'm getting paid to sit and wait for dial-up to grind away) but it's been a long two weeks.

Let there be LIGHT!

I went out and spent my birthday money from Roxanne today. I've been working on a cross-stitch for quite some time now and don't have much done. I could see just fine when I started it but now (say 5 years later) I've got to have glasses and lots of light to even see the 14 count stitches. Geez. I've been sick the last few days and have gotten quite a bit done, it just doesn't look like it. Then I ran out of one color floss (and umph) so had time to reflect on how great it would be to have a lamp over me instead of every light in the house on. I also remembered a 40% off coupon I had at Joann's so today, off I went and got a lamp similar to this one. I looked online but Joann's site didn't have the exact one I got, nor the one I was telling Hillary about that had stuff at the end of gooseneck arms and looked like a critter out of Star Wars! Happy Birthday to me (thanks Roxanne)!

Snore Fest

I have not been sleeping well for about a month. Ever since we got this sleep number bed, my DH has been enjoying laying on his right side. For a long time he just did that while awake reading. This last month he's been falling asleep on his right side and staying that way all night, facing me and snoring in my ear. This has resulted in me waking up many nights in the middle of the night and not being able to sleep because the snoring is vibrating my head! I grew up with a snoring dad and my bedroom was under my parents room so I heard most snores loud and clear but being a sound sleeper, it didn't bother me. Usually DHs snoring doesn't bother me either... I just tune it out as usual but now that he's facing me, and I've got sinus allergies going on, it's a killer. This last week has been real bad because DH has had a bad chest cold and the snoring that comes out of him could probably bring down a city if we marched around it several times first! Needless to say, I'm one tired mommy-mo. I am very grateful I'm not losing sleep over 4 little pukaino children tho!

Scores

James got 3rd place in the Individual, the 4-Man kicked butt, they took 2nd place with the Exhibition with Arms and 2nd place over all. Plus, at Guard this weekend, he won a nice red polo shirt for being the best at drill (the left, left, left right left, stuff).