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Sunday, September 07, 2008

Happy Birthday Christopher

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Christopher, Happy Birthday to you.

Since your turning 8 this year, I thought about getting you the coolest gift. I couldn't afford it, but I thought about it. So here ya go. Happy Birthday Bud, have fun. Love Grandpa and Grandma.

Previous Post Updates

I thought that I would give some updates on some of the stuff I have blogged about.
Racing starts again September 20th. Chad is excited. I don't know for sure what Anthony will do because he usually works on Saturdays. It wasn't going to be a problem for him because the races were scheduled at night and he would be off in time to go, but they changed it to day racing. Hopefully he can get off to go, we'll see.


A while ago, I posted a picture with the title "Pakistani Pauley". Pauley is real, but he is not from Pakistan (surprise, surprise). He works at Saitta Trudeau as a salesman, and provides the business office with much needed laughter. He will be leaving soon, and I'm hoping to get some of his comic relief on video before he goes on to bigger and brighter things in Laughlin, Nevada. That's all I'm going to say for now. If I'm able to get it, you'll see what I'm talking about.

The infamous weed-tree. OK, so I know I'm not getting much support on this, but I seriously doubt it's a tree. Chad is a little nervous about it too, because he is already setting it up to say I killed it when it dies this winter (like weeds do). This has been the conversation about it lately (several times now):

C: I know it's a tree.
T: It's not Chad, it's a weed.
C: I know your gonna kill it.
T: Why would I want to kill it?
C: Because then you could say "see, it wasn't a tree"
T: No Chad, your trying to set it up so when it dies, I can be blamed.
C: No, it's a tree. I know your gonna kill it.
T: Whatever.
C: Yeah, whatever.

Tiffany has trees in her back yard, that I will admit, look similar to Chad's weed-tree. But there are very distinct differences. One being; hers is a tree, Chads is a weed. Hers has wood, Chads has stalk. Her branches are brown, Chads are purple (what kind of tree has purple branches?). Check out the pictures I took (a little proof).





So, Chad says Tiff's trees have fur because of where they live. That they know it's going to be winter there soon, so they have to get ready for it. Ours don't have the fur because we live in the desert and they don't need it. I'm not making this up....it's really what he said. I think he was just teasing me, but he really did say it.
So, on to School. I didn't start this semester. I didn't get my placement testing and essay writing done soon enough to start this August. The day of my essay, they told me that all of the Internet English classes were filled up and I didn't really want to do a live class right now, so I'll just wait until the next semester in January. Anyway, I didn't hear from them about which class they were going to put me in. I'm kind of nervous about what they thought about my essay though because it was pretty bad. They gave choices about what to write about. Something like, "Why do you want to go to college?", "Write about a favorite teacher you had.", "How will you balance your college schedule with your life?" Well, I don't really have a good answer about going to college, and I don't really know how I'll balance my schedule until I try, and if you know me, you know my school history, so I don't really have a favorite teacher. So, I used CJ's Mr. Monson. The only problem with that was I couldn't remember what I wrote and couldn't duplicate it very well. I'm sure it was really bad. Even my punctuation, which I'm not very good at anyway. They probably looked at it and said "Wow, that's bad. We don't have an English class that starts at the beginning basics. Don't call her maybe she'll go away." Too bad...so sad. I won't. Maybe I could anonymously send them a link to my blog, then they could get a better sample of my writing and let me in. hahaha.
That's pretty much all the updates I have. Except for what we did today at Christopher's Birthday. I'll save that for later.