(Last) Thursday BoyKid tried out for Divine Comedy! We got to watch. Try outs were SO funny to watch. There were a few people that were not very good at all, but most were VERY funny. It was stiff competition. He didn't even make it, and can say with all honesty, BoyKid's song was excellent. If I can ever convince him to YouTube it, I will post it here. Better luck next time!
Friday, I had an appointment with Dr. Bones, the specialist at the U of U. My headaches are still super bad, so he is trying me on a new med, which is so far making me dizzy, nauseous... and feel slightly as if I am having an out of body experience. This disjointed, out of it experience is very disturbing. Hoping it is one of those side effects that starts bad, but then dwindles after awhile. Because UGH.
Then I did a Critters party. A cute group. The adults were as interested in my presentation as the adults. They asked a million questions. They owned a chinchilla themselves and wanted me to check him out after the party, asked for tips on taming him (they could barely pet him and certainly couldn't hold him like I do Baby Fable), wanted to make sure they had the right set up for him (
they did), and asked about getting him fixed and getting him a friend.
Saturday I did some quilling for church ladies. Pretty good ones, I think.
Sunday was 9/11.That was hard. I think of Brady a lot, but it is hard to have everything rehashed all day on TV and on the internet. Anyway, I posted about that a bit already.
Monday I sold some roaches to a boy, probably around 13, and his dad. They were really excited. I was pretty excited too because I recently finished The Cockroach Club part of my site! But the most exciting thing about the day was THE ARRIVAL OF THE MANTIS NYMPHS!!!! 11 teensy tiny mantis babies! They are so so cute!!!So, all week, Padre has been talking about this "Super Secret Surprise" at 5:00. 1st though, I had story time at the museum. We read Zack’s Alligator Goes to School by Shirley Mozelle and made clothespin alligators.
THEN I had a dentist appointment. Bleh.
So, then 5 rolled around and we are headed to Salt Lake! Then Padre starts singing "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" and we pretty much figured out we were going to Mary Poppins the Broadway musical. It was really fun. Before we went to the show we went to dinner at Olive Garden. The Gnocchi soup was very good. When we were done we had left overs, but Rinny had brought a cooler. So we were walking back to the car with our food and there was a homeless guy. I knew my dad would NEVER let us give him money because he might buy drugs or alcohol with it, but I asked if we could give him our left overs. At first he said no, then I said "just a bag of bread sticks?" He said okay and proceeded to take OUT 2 breadsticks of the bag leaving 3. *rolls eyes* REAL generous, Dad. But whatever, better than nothing. BoyKid and I ran back and gave it to the man. When I asked if he wanted some bread, he smiled so big and said "Sure!" Really motivated me to get working on those "Blessing Bags" like I've seen on Pinterest.
My dad is not really selfish. It's just that he feels strongly about HOW he should be generous. Like when he is donating to the poor, he feels like he should ONLY do so through the Church. I think that is a good thing, MOST of the time, but sometimes you should go elsewhere, too. He also believes in taking care of your family first. I agree with that, too, but I think he still acts like we have money... going to expensive plays and out to dinner... when we don't. We are in debt.
ANYWAY, before the show there was this art instillation next to the theater with these weird wobbly things that apparently represented grass. But to me it felt like we were fleas on a dog. I LOVED IT! I took a million pictures.
Finally we actually went in. The play was much better than I thought! They did a lot of very tricky things... very magical. Though that new song about being nice to your toys? SUPER CREEPY!!! One bad thing is that my new pill from Bones is STILL making me really sick and basically feel out of my body, so I had to leave for a bit and miss a song. But over all it was still fun! Very different than the movie though. (Also different from the Simpson's "Sherry Bobbins" which is what BoyKid and I kept remembering instead! Ha!)So then today for Tales for Tots we had the author and illustrator of "Invasion of the Grumpies" to come read their book. It was fun. The book is cute, though a bit wordy for the age group we cater to (though obviously a self-published deal) but clever writing. And they were both really interesting guys. I plan on having them come back again and we bought a copy of their book for the education department. They took a LOT of pictures (you can see them here) They also had the kids draw their own Grumpies to put on the Facebook page. Again, our group was a little young for that, so it was mostly MOMS drawing and then kids scribbling, but we teachers decided to participate. Mine is the one reading the red book. Rinny's is red (It's angry)
Several mantises have not made it, I think we are down to 4 or 5. :( They are so cute, though. I hope SOME of them thrive!
Anyway, that's the news!
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