It Gets Better

I’ve been on-line dating for over a month now… and it does get better!

Okay, when I say “it gets better”, I don’t mean that all of the sudden I’ve found the secret formula to attract the right guy, but I say “it gets better” in that I have so much more to share with y’all!

What’s your number babe

For real?

And the transition right to “well, let’s hang out then”.

I sent back a page of my schedule that ended with basically, it’s a month before I’ll have any free time.  And I fully expected that to be the end of him.

It wasn’t.

The guy went on to ask me 5,000,000,000 questions.

I’m not even exaggerating!

But, it gets better!

A few days later he messages me again… and very obviously isn’t paying a bit of attention.

Good to know?  Good to know?  What part of I was sick was good to know?  I don’t even have an answer for that one!

Yeah, no.  I just can’t even.

But wait – it gets better.

Enter a new beau.  And he falls under the category of “Did you just say that?”  I mean, I can’t tell you how long I stared at his message in disbelief.  It’s not so much whether or not you have religious beliefs, it was just the disrespect he has towards those that do.  Take a look. 

I sent back to him that I found that comment out of line and didn’t want that attitude in my life.  To which he responded “Ok”.

See – I told you it got better!!! I don’t think you can top these!  But, rest assured, my fingers are in top form for taking screen shots just in case someone comes along who can top these!!

Speaking of top form – I do have a race this weekend.  A 5k for the college my son attends, the alumni put it on every year, and I’m happy to be able to participate! I am not racing this one, I’m just having fun with it, so I hope to take lots of pictures – the school had a poster making day – and I can’t wait to see what they came up with! I’ve been staying at my parents house this week, and they say that hills make you stronger – but I swear the hills in my parents neighborhood are out to kill me.

 

Happy Easter 2014

Hi everyone!  I can see that you all have been up to no good, and I’m pretty impressed with that!

Friday I was off work, but due to the bad weather Texas has this winter, Mr. T had school.  As much as I missed him, it was so nice to have the house to myself and I cleaned!  I cleaned everything!

And it felt GOOD!

We’ve been so busy lately that my regular cleaning schedule fell by the wayside and it really did feel good to catch up and make my house sparkle!

I went and grabbed some take out for my dinner, because Mr. T wasn’t coming home.  I don’t get near enough random nights alone, but Friday Mr. T stayed after school for a basketball game, in the official capacity of School Mascot minus the suit.  I’m still not sure what he did at the game, but he had fun! After the game the cheerleaders had a lock-in at the school.

Yes, my son spent the night with a dozen girls.

🙂

I picked him up at 7 am Saturday morning and ran him back home to shower and help me load the car.  We had 8 am rehearsal at church for the Easter performance, and then we went out to breakfast and then headed into town for the Youth Group Car Wash fundraiser and spent the rest of the day washing and vacuuming cars to raise money for youth camp.

Wonderful group of kids!  And the adults aren’t that bad either!

Mr. T “cleaning” off the top of the truck… also known as spraying  anyone he can! 

After spending all day there, we headed to Grammy and Papa’s house – they have hired Mr. T to do their yard for the summer, and he’s just about as excited as they come!  He’s wanted a job for almost a year now, and he is devastated that no one will hire a 15 year old! But, his grandparents have come through and he’ll be working hard for his paycheck!

Once that was done, we hung out for a bit, mainly because we were too tired to even get back in the car, but also because my sister and her kids were over!

Joshua, Bella and I taking a selfie!

Everyone discovering the camera is more fun.

Really Aunt Kate, we can handle the camera!

Mr. T having fun with baby Bella.

Joshua learning the art of the photo-bomb!

Eventually Mr. T and I made it home and went to bed early.  Because we were up even earlier the next day to attend the Sunrise Service at our church.  Afterwards there was a potluck breakfast for all of us early risers… I cheated and stopped and bought donuts for the table.  And they were good! 🙂

Here is a shot I got of Mr. T.  It’s not very good, but I was at the back of the room up in the sound room balcony.  My part was just voice work, and even then I was totally nervous – but Mr. T, he was spectacular, as usual!

Eventually we made it back home and my dad was generous enough to swing by and pick up the towels we had borrowed for the car wash that I finished folding that afternoon.

Of course, I had made them a loaf of homemade artisan bread as a thank-you, but I’m sure that didn’t have anything to do with it! 🙂

And now, I need a weekend to recover from my weekend!

Box of Hats

What a weekend!  Let me add a disclaimer to start the post: I don’t have anyone’s permission to share this but am doing so anyway!  This goes for all of the pictures I’m going to include!

I’m working on learning how to make bread.  And I’m super glad that I never sold or donated this electric knife!

We had Easter early this weekend.  Mom bought tie dye egg coloring kit.  Oh yeah – it was awesome!  No, I didn’t get any pictures of the eggs we created, and no, we didn’t actually hunt any of the eggs.  I’m not sure why we colored them, but I know we did have fun!

We did go to a local Farmers Market.  Bella thought grilled cheese was just the most awesome food ever!

This is Bella’s brother Joshua.  He’s just too cute not to include!

This is my new car.  It’s pretty awesome.

I also painted the work bench in my garage!  I had a coupon for a free 8 oz sample jar of paint, so Mr. T and I hit Lowe’s and I told him to pick a color.  We got home and I had a blast cleaning off the top and painting!  Right now, the top is as clean as it’s ever been! LOL.  Give me time and I’ll have more projects stacked on top of it again!

Mr. T and I went to church Sunday, and stayed after because he and I are both performing in the Easter service.

I say performing – I’m not really. Mr. T and several other wonderful people are performing – I am a narrator. I am reading. I can read.

After our table read, we were looking through the closet of clothes to see what costumes everyone would wear. And, well, we found a box of hats.

Pretty much I was loving my crown and made sure to get my crown in the picture and failed to actually get my face in there!

I hope that the rest of you had a wonderful weekend – and here is to a great week ahead!