Day after Fathers Day

What a difference a day makes. Fathers Day is definitely over...any leeway I may have received yesterday has been withdrawn today; tempers appear to be short. That's all I'll say.

I forgot to mention yesterday that the articles did print in both papers over the weekend. Grace and I made the front page of the Daily Herald; a cute picture of us kissing before taking her to VBS. This article was really nice! It seemed more well developed, better written and just a much better article than the one in the News-Sun. No offense to the News-Sun, I just liked the writing the author of the Daily Herald article did better. Now I know why we subscribe!

The video is up on the News-Sun website now and it's really good. Julie's giving me a hard time about what I say, but it's a nice video.

So this morning we waited for "A" to come over, but she didn't so I called her Dad and he reminded us that she has summer school in the mornings. So that's why she wasn't here first thing this morning. I guess that'll be for the next 6 weeks. After she did come home we went out to eat lunch because Grace didn't want to leave the house in the morning to go to the grocery store. Then we stopped to pick up some pictures we had printed and came back home. Grace and "A" played for the rest of the afternoon and her friend from across the street came over to play later.

That's about it for today, nothing exciting. Her friend from across the street's Mom made it home safely yesterday from her home country where she had been last week for work and for a short vacation also. Tomorrow will be the test for both Grace and I as we have to be at gymnastics by 8:00am in Antioch. At least it rained a little today and hopefully that cold front they've been promising is whats coming through because I'm ready for cooler weather!

Fathers Day

Today was Fathers Day and we make the rounds to see my Dad and Julie's Dad every year. Julie made us cinnamon rolls for breakfast--mmmm, so good! Then we went to church, haven't been there in so long - ha, ha! After that we came back home to finish a few things up; I'm trying to finish recording the recital to DVD for everyone that needs a copy. I wanted to finish up one copy of each show for Julie's Dad since he wasn't well enough to go to the recital this year. So after I was done with that we ran over there.

While we were there I helped my BIL set up his DirecTV boxes that he ordered over eBay. We ended up having to order some new access cards for each of his boxes because the ones that came with them were still registered to the previous owner. I don't know, I guess it makes sense but at the same time it doesn't because you just change it to be registered to my BIL. But I know they deal with fraud every day with people trying to steal their service without paying for it and so they have these procedures in place to stop or at least limit that as much as possible. Neither of us was upset, it just seems like a little too much - too many hoops.

So we got that done except it obviously doesn't work yet as we have to wait for the new access cards to come in the mail. We then were into dinner time and stayed for dinner (darn, how could that have happened :->). It was really good; MIL made a standing rib roast with nice fluffy mashed potatoes and really tasty gravy, mmmmmm! I sure ate good on Fathers Day!

After that we headed over to my Dad's house and my sister and BIL were there. So that was really nice for us all to be together for a few hours. We don't get to see each other as often as we should, especially for how close we live to each other. We were watching a show on the Discovery Channel called "Man vs. Wild" and the host was in the everglades and was showing you how to survive and to find your way out. It was pretty engaging and very interesting. After that we came home and got Grace to bed. I was then continuing to work on the recital videos and to try and get new music onto Julie's MP3 player. She doesn't have an iPod and for some reason, it doesn't ever seem to work as easily as my iPod does as far as transferring music onto it. But I'm pretty sure I uninstalled the application that has been causing the problem and hopefully this won't happen any more. What's crazy is I used to love this application - Musicmatch Jukebox; It's just become too buggy.

Pre-Fathers Day

It's Fathers Day weekend if you will and I kind of took the day off. I'll have to make up for it tomorrow. It's just so darn hot outside; 94° with 77% humidity. It's rough to be outside in that weather. I did get up and get Julie's oil changed today, but even that I couldn't get right. Here I assumed (think of the definition of assume) I had everything I needed to change her oil and actually I had none. I had to go to Wal-Mart and get the oil filter and go to Pep Boys (Pimp Girls is what I like to call it) and get some oil. So after I wasted all that time the temperature was already up to 86° but at least the car was still in the shade. So I got her oil changed and didn't spill a drop on our newly sealed driveway. Took a test drive and all seems fine; no leaks upon return either.

So after that I just kind of did a small cleaning of the garage; eg: I threw a few things out that I didn't need. I emptied the old oil drain pan out into my recycling jug to take to the oil recycling place, put all the old oil filters on wire mesh to drain the oil out of them so I can throw them away. They have to drain for 24 hours before you can throw them out in the garbage. So tomorrow I can throw all of them away and be rid of more garbage from the garage. Interesting that garbage and garage only differ by one letter... So you can also gather from all of this that I bought a new oil drain pan today and used that with the oil change I did today. I'll empty that one into the recycling jug tomorrow after that oil filter is done draining into the oil drain pan.

The article I was in was printed in the News-Sun today. It was pretty good...not entirely accurate to what I said, but overall a good article. We bought two copies of the paper and my Dad called and said he had heard from someone else that I was in the paper and since he was out of town to buy him a copy. So I went out later and got another copy. I think the other article will be in the Daily Herald tomorrow.

Alright, I just looked at their website and the article is up already. I just skimmed it, but what I read was really good. A very cool article.

Anyway, most of the afternoon I spent in front of my computer doing various things. And then Julie had a Stampin' Up workshop tonight that unfortunately only one person came too. She's starting to lose confidence in herself to do this since no one ever seems to show up to her classes. I hope she'll hang in there for at least another year, she's good at it and really enjoys it and she needs things she enjoys in her life.

I checked the Regal Cinemas website tonight to check when their free movies for the summer start and what do you know - they start this week! So Grace and I will have to go this week. The two movies this week are "March of the Penguins" and "Barnyard." I'll have to put these on the SAHD's group site to see if anyone else is interested.

Alright, I've got to get some sleep, tomorrow is already here.