Day 23: Missed Appointment

I woke up and got Lucy ready for day care.  I then made a pot of coffee and had a couple of cups while reading my new book, "The Law of Second Chances" by James Sheehan.  It has been, umm, ok.  I'm not doing very good on selecting new books recently.  It has 3 different story lines, some that I'm more into than others.  I have no idea how they're going to tie them all together, but they better!  I went to get Lucy's medication this morning from CVS and the pharmacist said, "are you aware of the price of the Nasonex?"  I told her no, and she told me a number above $100.  I said, "keep it" and then I called my beautiful wife and she was baffled.  I called the doctor and then sent in a new prescription which I'll pick up on my way to tutoring.  It should be a lot less... should be is the key phrase.  I then went to Mardel's to get tutoring supplies for my new student.  I hope it goes well, it sounds like he just needs some help with confidence.  As long as he works with me, he'll be a ok pal!  I was reading my book when the phone rang.  It was a Wylie number, so I picked up hoping it was a tutoring request from the neighborhood.  It was the eye doctor asking me if I was coming to my appointment!  oops!    I told them I'd need to reschedule because I wasn't going to rush out of the house to get my eyes checked out. My belly started hurting, since I ate a Totinos and some leftovers, so I took a bath.  I was sweating!  I did feel better but I hate that feeling you get after a bath where you are still over heated and then your body has to come down. I'm now waiting for 4:20 to roll around so I can go to tutoring.  I wish it was after dinner time because then I'd stop off at Sonic on the way home and get us some ice cream!  Oh well, maybe I still will, probably not though.  Once I get home, I like to stay home.

Day 16: A Turn to Good

I was supposed to tutor today, with my tutorette returning from vacation.  I pulled up to the house and I rang the door bell.  No answer, I checked around to make sure I was at the right house.  I knocked on the door. Still no answer, I was getting confused.  I called the mom and she immediately apologized, and said she had meant to call me on Sunday to cancel.  So, no tutoring this week, which I was going to do twice.  I'm not too upset about it, because now I can relax on Wednesday and mow the lawn.  It's a holiday week right?!  I then went to Hyundai to get a part replaced.  It was a hour long wait, with a freezer box as the waiting room.  After that, I went and got some Taco Bell which I ate while watching a MLS show I dvr'd.  It was ok, but the Taco Bell was delicious.  I then wrote my entry to HGTV Design Star.  I've been reading a new book, Ghost Music, which is kind of creepy.  I have to tutor tonight, which kind of sucks, but then i'll get to come home and cuddle with my adorable wife!  So long!

Day 11: Appointment Day

Welp, I have contacts now, sorta.  I have a trial pair, for about two weeks.  If they're good, then I'll order a supply, it's going to cost us a little over 200 buckaroos.  I still need a new pair of glasses, so I'll figure that out too.  After my eye appointment, I had a dentist appointment.  I was fearing this, I needed a deep cleaning.  The last time I had a deep cleaning, my teeth hurt for weeks and I spent a considerable amount of time in the chair.  I went in there, paid my 116 I owed them and was seated right away.  I asked the lady how long it would take, 1 hour.  Well, I was done in like 45 minutes, it was relatively painless and they said I didn't need as much as originally expected and refunded me 45 dollars.  What kind of service is that?  I recommended them on our neighborhood Facebook page for their good work.  I need to go back in about a month for a follow up appointment and then hopefully I'll be on a 6 month schedule.  I plan on keeping this schedule too!  I came home, ate a Totinos, and then read a lot of "Under the Dome".  I will have it finished by the end of the week.  The show starts tonight, which I plan on watching!  I just returned from making copies for my tutoring gig I recently got.  I hope this kid isn't a pain the ass.  It only cost me 2.50 to make most of my copies for the next two days of tutoring.  I just hope I have enough stuff to keep him occupied for two hours.  I'm sure I will, with my other tutoring assignment, it flies by in a matter of no time.  I also have the book "Freckle Juice" by Judy Blume to kind of break of the monogamy of reading worksheets.  I hope his parents are cool.  Oh well, I guess I will read for a little bit more and than eat an early dinner.  Until next time, aloha.

Day 6: Verizon

My day was event filled, but probably boring to read!  With that being said, read what I did all day!  I woke up and finished a paper for my Masters course.  I then started on my other blog HGTV Design Star, which I would finish later in the day.  I took a shower and went to tutor the girl I'm working with this summer.  After I tutored, I went to Verizon to get a digital adapter so I could finally fulfill Serena's 7 year dream.  She has always wanted a TV for when she is working out. First I got her one for the elliptical, that we got rid of it a few years back.  We took that TV and put it in our bedroom.  We have had this treadmill sitting in our office since before Lucy was born, and it is hard to get on there just with music.  Well, we have a TV and stations to watch as we run/walk, mainly walk right now.  I'm so out of shape, but that's a different story.  Any who, I went to Taco Bell and ate that and put together the TV and what not.  I had to get it activated, which I did through the online help on Verizon.  I finished my other paper for my Masters class and then I worked out.  It was exhausting, but I went on there for 30 minutes, at a 4.  I'm not sure what that is, but I didn't need to run but I had to walk fast.  The incline kept going up, then it'd go all the way down, then it'd go back up.  I was sweating.  That's a good sign right?  I went to Wal-Mart too, but who cares about that?

On a fun note, Quinn, my brother, tweeted out our blog to David Bromstad, the Design Star host and former winner.  He tweeted back.

@realiTVrecap spot on my friend!
— david bromstad (@bromco) June 17, 2013

How cool is that?  Pretty dang cool if you ask me.  I have the one retweet if you were wondering.

Day 1: First Day of Summer

Well, I was actually kind of productive today.  Lu goes to daycare on Monday and Wednesday, so Serena took her in for me.  I slept in until about 7 o'clock.  That is when you know you have kids, when sleeping in is until 7 o'clock.  I guess, or you have kids and a job normally.  I will let you know later this summer what my sleep-in time goes to!  Or is it too?  Who cares, it's summer! No, no, grammar does matter, it doesn't matter what time of year it is.  Anyways, I slept in until 7 and made some coffee. I then sat down and wrote my blog for Quinn's blog, Reali-TV Recap, which was about the new season of HGTV's Design Star.  I got into HGTV again this weekend, and that show caught my attention.  I wrote the blog, ate a cereal bar, and then took a shower.

After my shower, I had my first tutoring gig of the summer.  I've never tutored on my own before, but it was pretty pain free and it was for decent money.  I then went up to school to collect all of our classroom pets, I say all of ours, but really it was my 3 pets and a teammates 1 pet.  I took them to the Outdoor Learning Center where they'll be taken care of until next school year.  They wanted to know if I wanted to keep the same toads, and I said yes!  We found one of them on our playground so he's kind of special to me.  Rick and Carl, what TV show did I get that from?  After I dropped the kids off, I went to Taco Bell for my first fast food of the summer.

I ate my Taco Bell and watched three episodes of Workaholics.  Man, life is easy as a teacher in the summer, but it will get boring so I need to enjoy days like today.  After I finished eating, I sat down and wrote my article review for my Master's class.  I don't have a printer at home, so I needed to finish it today so Serena could print it out at work.  How many people actually own a printer anymore?  We need to, and will have one, but not yet.  I vacuumed our family room after that and then steam cleaned it.  That water was so murky and gross, but our floors look better.  Amazing what a 2-year-old and a dog will do to your floor.  I'm sure Serena and I did nothing to it. :)

I appreciate days like today, but tomorrow will be completely different with Lu.  I think we're going to a library in one of the neighboring cities to get out of the house.  It's too hot to go outside and Serena wants to wait to use the pool for the first time until she is there with us.  No pool this week!  I'm now patiently waiting for my wife and kid to come home where it'll be tons of fun.  Maybe.  Until tomorrow, bye.