Sunday, February 24, 2008

Rowdy Busch Wins!!!!

Yesterday was the best day!!!!!! Amy & I went to the Speedway in Fontana for our Saturday of NASCAR Racing. The weather has been wet this week - so I went prepared with ponchos. We got there about 9:30 am and I don't think Amy stopped laughing the whole time. She wasn't quite prepared for the experience. She's often remarked that we are becoming a little "trashy" because we like "Trick My Truck" and watch NASCAR. I think her mind was more at ease after yesterday's visit to the track. We walked around the speedway. I bought a Kyle Busch shirt. We saw the Speed TV stage, rented our scanner so we could listen to the crews and drivers talk and climbed to our seats. I thought the hike with Dad in the Uintahs was bad. I need to train to climb the bleachers. Our seats were awesome!!!! We were on the exit from Pit row and it was great! We saw the Nationwide drivers practice first. Then was the Craftsman Truck Race. It was cool. The trucks are loud and go fast!!! The best part of the race was watching Kyle Busch drive. He is an amazing driver. He ran away with the race. After the race we saw about 30 minutes of Cup practice and then it started to rain. Amy and I put on our ponchos and stayed put. We could do that because our ponchos smelled better than Dad's ponchos did. We waited and waited. We had a second race to watch. It rained harder and then stopped. They started drying the track and had it mostly dry until it started raining again. Amy was getting cold and neither of us wanted to get sick - so we threw in the towel at 5 and came home. Just as we got home NASCAR called off the race - so at least we didn't miss it by coming home. I had a great time. Probably the best day I've had in a long time. I really want to take a road trip to Vegas to see them race next weekend, but I have to go to the yucky Single Adult Conference. But that's a topic for another post. We took a few pictures, but we took our regular cameras not digital - so when we get them back we'll post them!
Mel

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

NASCAR


THE NASCAR SEASON HAS STARTED!!!!! I'm so happy! I think Amy overdosed on NASCAR because she was sick. The Speed Channel had over 100 hours from Speed Weeks during the past two weeks and it was always on in the house. (She even watched it when I was at school). This weekend we are going to the Truck and Nationwide Race on Saturday at California Speedway. We are going to rent a scanner, go to the Speed Channel stage, look for cool things to buy and watch cars go really, really fast! I don't know who Amy is going to cheer for but one of my guys is racing in both races. Go Kyle!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday, February 15, 2008

Amy is Sick

I'm sick. I'm super sick. I can't just get a head cold that lasts a few days and goes away, no, not me. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to go all the way! So I'm ALL THE WAY SICK! I woke up Tuesday with a sore throat (which I haven't had since I had my tonsils out) and head cold fog. I slept a ful 8 hours Tuesday night, and then woke up Wednesday feeling worse. Wednesday night I couldn't sleep. Thursday I woke up went to work, and by 9 am was coughing up flecks of blood. I told you, when I get sick, I get sick. I left work and drove straight to the doctors office. I was diagnose with NOTHING. Flu test was negative, chest X-ray was negative. Only clear stuff coming out my nose. So..... here I sit at home. Confined to my house for three days with three medicines and Melody to take care of me. She's good at it, thank goodness. I'm still not sleeping well. Coughing like crazy, and my head is still full of GUNK! I'm also counting down the hours until my next cough syrup with codine dosage.

When Melody got home from school today I said I was bored. She said I should post about how sick I am. So here's my post. Hope everyone is well!

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Mircrosoft

Tonight I hate microsoft - It's not my brother-in-law's fault (unless it's his code that isn't working) - but for three days I've been trying to install Microsoft Money. It goes through the whole process and at the very end tells me I can't install it. I've gone through all the troubleshooting steps - all of them - and when I've given up my choice of support is to call (the wait was 60 minutes) or send an email (live chat was not available). So I went through the steps for email but I can't email without Microsoft charging me money because I can't get some number from my software (maybe because I can't install it!)I don't know how much money I have or if I could even pay for help because when I tried to install money the first time, it uninstalled my previous version!

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

MI-5


I just have to say that I have Britishized our house. I make Amy watch the BBC too much. If we aren't watching BBC America we are watching some other BBC program on DVD. I got into BBC America long ago with Changing Rooms (the original Trading Spaces), Ground Force (landscaping), The original The Office, and now I'm watching You Are What You Eat, How Clean Is Your House, etc. Our favorite BBC program is MI-5 which was called Spooks in Britain. MI-5 is about the security service of Britain. They are the internal James Bonds. I don't know if I like it because I wanted to be a spy (thanks to Mr. Royce who led me to spy novels in High School English) or because I think Matthew Mcfayden (Pride & Prejudice 2005) is cute! But on my sick day this week I went to Barnes and Noble and bought Season 1 on DVD. We can't watch them when Amy has to do work because it distracts her. We watch Holmes on Homes instead.

Friday, February 1, 2008

Logical Conclusions

I just finished the third week of my new semester. About half of my students are the same from last semester, but my Geography classes are new. Two days ago I was standing in front of my most troublesome duo in my smallest class and learned that students are clueless. One of them was reading what he had to do with his parent signature - - "Return to Ms. Smith by January 24, 2008." He turns to the student next to him and askes (very seriously) "Who's Ms. Smith?" The other kid says "I don't know". So I ask in an effort to get them to make a logical conclusion "What class is it for?" "This one" "So who might Ms. Smith be?" "I don't know" - then they looked around the room and saw the three or four locations that provide my name to my students and finally got it. Ah - the mind of a 14 year old.