Middle America's Worldview

Raining down on Saturday. Thursday the heat index hit 110 degrees. Then Friday was supposed to be hottest of the year. However, cooler weather is upon us this Saturday morning.

Friday I was on support and it was actually busy. Normally it consists of a couple of recycles here and there. But for whatever reason, it wasn't as simple. It did make the day go faster though. I also received my review Friday and the review was very positive. So, I am glad of that. It was only 2 months behind. My supervisor had her evaluation as well and it was 6 months behind.

Friday evening, I went to help my brother move some of his furniture, ECT. During this same time, our slumber party hit off with about 8 other kids, totaling nine with ours. There were 7 6-yr old girls and two boys. I have to gripe just a bit on the moving. I arrived there after work and his wife was gone with the truck. I tried to get some boxes in my van to get going but he wanted to wait upon her return to see what they wanted to move. She came back in 15 minutes with one box of diapers. She plopped on the couch saying they needed to get some food for the kids (he has 2 little ones) after the first load. I asked my brother why she didn't get the food along with the diapers and his reply was she didn't think about it. I asked what could we move? Of course the answer was the boxes. so I filled the van (Ford Windstar) up with as much as I can put in it, as well as his truck with a large chair, ECT. We unloaded and came back. Then she left again with the van. She was gone nearly 50 minutes to get a Wendy burger and some fries. Of course we had the two little ones. I filled the van back up during this time and asked my bro for the key to unload while we waited for the truck. You guessed it. "I don't have the key, she does." I hate to gripe but they are the most unorganized movers. I feel for my brother because, from what I can perceive, I am not really impressed with his mate. But it's his life and choice. The heaviest item was the fridge. Once we finally were able to get it out the door, we were not manly enough to get it in the truck. Man, it was heavy. I called upon my friend (the one kicking off 4H), who was at my house kind of waiting on me to assist. Fortunately he did and we were able to haul it over to the other apartment. I am feeling it this morning.

I didn't make it back to the house till nearly 9 p.m. and the slumber party was still going on strong. My wife was exhausted already and her helper was remained sitting on the couch leafing through an LTD catalog. Around 9:40 p.m. a couple of moms came and picked up their kiddos. That brought it down to 4 girls and 2 boys. A bit more do-able. We finally put them down and started a movie. They crashed a bit after 11 p.m. We only had two wakeups during the night with the smallest boy.

We are hoping to go watch movies today. My wife still wants to take our daughter to 'Princess Diaries 2' while I watch 'Yu GI GO' with our son. I have a hard time keeping 'Pokeman and Digimon' apart and fear this will only add to it. : )

Site update: I have added 'On Donkey's mind' to my blog list of viewing. He happened to find my blog and posted. I checked it out find it thorough and worth looking at. Thanks Donkey.