Pretty Much Sums up my Recent Life

When it was new, the clown train seemed like it would be a fun, happy and exciting time. Then, it fell off the rails, the expectations it had were not met, and the rust set in. Now, it's just a scary scary thing to look at that isn't going anywhere.

Taekwondo Video

I put this little video together tonight - it's a little bit long - but still sort of cute. This is Bubba (you'll learn his real name in the video) in his tournament yesterday with a few other pictures thrown in.



Let me know what you think.

Sports Day - Take Two

Wow - what a whirlwind day!

Bubba had a Taekwondo tournament this morning (hubby and I choose not to participate this time.) Bubba did well - I have some awesome video, but I want to edit it all together and that is going to take some time.

Then, Bubba had a baseball game. He didn't hit the ball - but he got an amazing out while playing third base. So, he was really excited. THEN, Prissy had a softball game (which we sort of had to race to because the baseball game ran long.) Prissy had an awesome game and pitched incredibly well (75% of her pitches were over the plate and she struck out 5 of the 6 people she faced) and then had an amazing assist to a first base out. She also got on base both times she was up to bat.

THEN, we had to watch the KU game tonight. Hubby and I both went to KU. That's actually where we met. My parents are still in Kansas so it's near and dear to our hearts. HOW AWESOME THAT THEY BEAT THE SNOT OUT NORTH CAROLINA?? RIGHT??!!!! RIGHT!!!! So, on to the championship game. GO KU!!!!

Just a side note - my physical therapist is a huge Duke fan - he got his degree there and has signed Duke basketball shirts hanging all over the therapy room. I made fun of him a little bit when Duke got ousted so quickly from the NCAA Tournament. Note: Don't make fun of someone that has the capability of causing pain.

Pool Update - Day 0, 1, 2

Progress so far on the pool. They are pulling the permits, but they have started by taking out the trees in the backyard and breaking up the concrete. Here are pictures from Day 0 (before), Day 1 and Day 2:

This is where the pool is going
Day 0


Day 1


Day 2


Here is a look in the other direction

Day 0


Day 1


Day 2


Here is a side shot
Day 0


Day 1


Day 2


And finally, here is one of the porch, it doesn't look any different from Day 1 to Day 2.
Day 0


Day 1 and 2


Anyway, we're making progress. We might actually have a pool in a month or two. :D

Yay!

No Internet tonight

they have started work on our backyard for the pool. I totally have
pictures I was planning to post tonight, but hubby got to the computer
first. And you know that whoever gets there first wins.

I'm a loser tonight. I'll post some pictures tomorrow. They ripped
out the tree and tore up the concrete. We are actually getting a
pool. Yay!!!

Sent from my iPhone

Depressing Day

I went to a funeral today of a really amazing man. It was extremely sad. The death was completely unexpected. I saw a lot of people at the funeral that I didn't want to see. What was the most irritating was that people didn't turn their cell phones off at the funeral. At least 4 cell phones rang during the memorial service.

Why can't people put their phones on vibrate? And after the first one went off, why didn't others think about it and turn their phones off then. I can't tell you how incredibly tasteless it was that during someone eulogizing this really special man - Cunty McCunterson's* phone starts playing Copacabana at full blast. And then silenced and then goes off again a minute later.

Damn I hate people. The only thing that made it a little bit better was seeing the Super-Whore-Ex-Friend-Who-Completely-Fucked-Me-Over with a gigantic fat ass. She was always stick thin and so proud of herself for being so thin. So, sometimes bad deeds come back in the form of what you are. (A gigantic ass in her case.)

* Name completely stolen from Suzanne over at Cuss - it's just totally appropriate for this post.

Unique

A dear friend of mine sent me a whole bunch of these pictures today in an email and I laughed so hard I almost blew yogurt out of my nose.

I love this one because I have tried many times in my life to be unique. I know, I'll spell my name Cyndi instead of Cindy - wait - that is the stripper spelling. Oh, I know - I'll go by Thea instead of Cynthia.

Every time I try to be "unique" I end up the same. Dude - I'm a soccer mom living in the suburbs. How much less unique can a human being get? The closest I come to being unique is that I'm a woman in a technical field. There aren't actually very many women in my field of employment. And even fewer soccer-mom technical women - so I'm unique in that way. There are a couple of soccer dads.

Oddly - I relate much more with my male techno-geeky co-workers than I do with the other suburban soccer moms outside of my chosen profession. Actually, the people that I get along with most are people at work that are male-super-techy-geeky childless or techy-fashionista or home improvement gurus or comic book enjoying gay men and woman (and if you are reading this blog you totally know who you are - and I love you for just continuing to read this trash). Actually, I get along with those that are the most "different" from my suburban soccer mom self.

Wait - I get along with the more cool-unique people in my field.

I have met the few incredibly weird ones that are unique and not so useful. For a while, I had a guy working for me that absolutely could not show up to work on time. He would come up with the most creative excuses. Here is just a sample:

• It was raining and I was afraid my car would hydroplane.
• I couldn't find my toothbrush.
• My friend needs to be tested for hepetitis and I need to take him to the doctor.
• I fell asleep on my keyboard and when I woke up I had weird key impressions on my face.
• I was at my parents house and I got confused about where I was when I woke up.
• My girlfriend broke up with me.

I SWEAR that these were real excuses that this guy made. He had one for almost every day, but these were some of his best.

How sad - what do you think? Is unique a good thing or a bad thing?