brain dump

No pictures today, far too lazy to go upstairs and turn on Alfred's computer. And no post yesterday because I was far too cranky. Luckily that's not a problem today, I was way too busy at work to get cranky. We had a school show up 90 minutes before their tour was scheduled. They had to eat lunch and go to the bathroom, which left them with about 60 minutes to kill. They let the kids run all around the parking lot, playing football and soccer with empty water bottles, they were roaming the museum, driving us crazy. But not shopping. When we go to (finally) start their tour, their guide tells me they want to shop at the end of the tour and that we have to cut their tours short. So they're going to cut out part of the tour that they're paying for to go shopping, rather than utilize the extra hour they had beforehand, because they don't want the kids to have to carry their stuff around. Fools. Oh well, we were their first stop so they spent a decent amount. But that one school made my entire afternoon nuts. I ate my little tupperware container of overcooked pasta for lunch at about 12:30 while on the phone, then had a piece of cold pizza (the one benefit of having them eat lunch at the museum) at about 3:45. Very healthy. But we had a super healthy and delicious dinner, so that made up for it.

Yesterday we had a family with 10 kids and one on the way at the museum. 9 boys, 1 girl. And the newest addition is a boy, too. Poor girl, she's never going to be able to date because all her brothers will scare away any potential boyfriends. They ranged in age from 17 to 2. The parents homeschool them all, too. Alfred and I decided that's what we want to do, we're going to move to 1000 acres somewhere out in the middle of nowhere, pop out a bunch of kids to help with the chores, and live off the land. I'm excited.

Tonight is hopefully the last night that it's going to go below freezing here. It dropped below freezing a couple of times last week, and the last 2 nights. The wind chill yesterday morning was supposedly about 18 degrees. Holy hell! Best of all, our heat wasn't working at the office yesterday morning, and our power was out entirely this morning. Not the best mornings to not have working heat. Luckily I've been wearing 2 pairs of long underwear under my costumes, so I lived to tell the tale. I have to go back outside and cover up my azaleas again soon. Being a gardener is so taxing.