I don't blog on weekends..

I had a really great, busy weekend. It was full of friends, one wedding, putting up some Christmas lights and dinner with my Mother.

Which one of these things were blog worthy? None probably, but I'm gonna go with the Christmas lights.

My dude has a tree in his front yard that is tall, really tall, taller than his house tall. Majority of the tree is in his front yard, but some of it hangs above the fence into his back yard. This year, he decided he'd like to light it up like a Christmas tree.

The concept, to somehow get the lights to the top of the tree and wrap them around toward the bottom.

The trouble, 1: how do we get the lights all the way to the top? B: wrapping them around the tree with a 6 foot fence blocking us half way around.

We started with 100 feet of lights, two poles, wire, a rock and tape. I'm not very good with measurements, but I'm guessing each pole was about 7 feet long.

He tied the poles together using the wire, then reinforced them with the electrical tape, we now had a pole that was 14 feet, roughly. Then, wire was used to make a hook at one end of the pole. Next, we taped the rock to one end of the string of lights.

Using our home made light-hook-pole, he raised the rock end of the lights as high as he could and tossed it over a branch. My job was to feed the lights and be the "eyes" of the mission.

So, using said pole, we draped the lights around the tree, one branch at a time, till we got to the fence. That's when we had to toss the pole and lights over the fence, go through the house to the back yard, light that side of the tree, toss pole and lights back over fence, and go back to the other side. Repeat, as necessary, till tree is lit. Or, till you run out of lights half way down. Then, go to Wal-Mart, buy over 100 more feet of clear lights with green wire, come back to the house and finish... in the dark, because it's after 5pm, and winter nights in VA get dark early.

By the time we were done, I could not feel my fingers or my nose, but the tree looks fantastic! And they'll be up all year folks, I do not suggest doing this every year. Buy lights that are easily camouflaged, no one will ever know...

Kids say the darndest...

I love kids. Which is why I am trying to become a teacher and will be a nanny in the near future. Yesterday, the boyfriend's daughter had her 8th birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheese. The kids were hilarious! The day started with the three of us at their house having a small cake and opening a couple of presents. Birthday girl couldn't resist, she started picking icing off of the cake and putting her fingers all over it. It was cute. Even cuter when she decided she wanted to share with the neighborhood kids and cut the cake into pieces to distribute throughout the neighborhood. They had no idea her fingers had been all over it.

After the finger-lickin-good cake was gone, we grabbed a neighborhood kid and headed to Chuck-E-Cheese to meet everyone else. There were kids ages 3 - 60 something. The 3 year old was busted trying to take pizza from another kid's table. The birthday girl got sassy, and though her behavior was not humorous to her parents, I found the eye rolling, pre-teenitude amusing. When Chuck-E came out to party with us, one child hid under the table, another hid behind his father, and I think one may have cried. I don't blame them, who likes rats anyway? Kids were running up the skee-ball game to deposit balls into the point... hole... things, and not even putting them in the higher pointed..hole..things. You dig? If you're gonna cheat, cheat right! Chuck-E and his homies were singing holiday music, we ate (our own) over priced pizza and had a delicious birthday cake. It was a good time.

To really mix this blog up, let me go back to earlier in the day. But first, some background info...

I live with a couple in Burke. One of the streets near our house is Coffer Woods. The couple has an ooolllld boxer, her name is Zora. She's a very quiet, good pup who loves attention.

Yesterday morning, before the birthday fun began, my girl Ruth came by the house with her 6 year old daughter. Ruth and I talked for a bit, while her daughter played with the dog. She was kind of hesitant, because the dog is kind of scary looking, but I told her "Oh man, she is so happy you are here, she loves playing with kids!" and so on...

Today, Ruth's daughter said to her "When are we going back to Coffer Woods?" and informed Ruth that she and the doggy are best friends!

I guess I get to meet all these cool kids cause I hang out with cool grown ups. If the grown ups were assholes, would their kids be too?

My exciting life...

Today I:
Woke up at the wee hours of 10:00am
Watched the end of "Rocky" with the male housemate
Drank a pot of coffee
Was visited by dear Ruth and her 6 year old
Talked to Mom about my crazy love life

Eventually I will:
Shower
Meditate
Eat
Facebook for a bit
Wrap birthday presents
Go buy batteries for birthday presents
Attend an 8th birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheese

Ah, this is the life...seriously. The time to do nothing will be gone soon... le sigh.

Here we goooo

Welcome. If you are looking for excitement, intellect, perfect grammar, or deep insight, keep looking. This blog is really, just to amuse myself. Also, my mom is a fan of my writing style and suggested I get one started. She is my mother though, so she's biased. However, this could be fun!

What do I plan to "blog" about you ask? Well, I suppose I will share my opinion on movies I've recently watched, the most current episodes of "Dexter", new recipes I am trying, the stupid things that occur throughout my day and updates on this journey I am beginning.

I'm 26 years old, starting school in January for the first time in 10 years and in March I am moving in with a friend to be her live in nanny.

I will be going to school to get an Associates in Social Sciences-Teacher Education. I want to be a teacher, enter Nanny Nuff (that's me, soon). My friend, Kerry, will be popping out kid #2 in January. Her other child is 12 years old. So, I will be watching baby during the day and going to school at night. It's the perfect set up. She gets affordable child care, I get to live rent free and have nights and weekends off, and I get to play with a baby all day. I know, I know, "it's gonna be hard work bla bla bla babies are bla bla bla attention bla bla crying and changings". I know, and I'm down with all that!

So I guess once school and nannyness starts I will be writing about that, if I have time...

Till then, I will be writing complete nonsense, so you're probably wasting your time reading this crap. Ha.