She Works Hard for Her Money

Okay, maybe not hard but hard enough...

I do have four jobs.

Wasn't that some great shock value? I do have four jobs but a few are pretty easy. I'll start on Sunday.

Sunday: Guitar lessons for two kids from church - $40
Monday: Babysitting 1 little boy for 2 hours then he and his two brothers for another 1 hour - $30
Tuesday: Pick up a girl from school and take her home (takes about 15 minutes) - $15
Wednesday: Hostess/waitress at the Blue Heron Restaurant from 3pm - 9pm ish - $ varies, about $30 in tips alone
Thursday: More waitressing
Friday: More babysitting - $40
Saturday: More waitressing

Trying to manage your time and getting sleep when you're dead - priceless.

At least I'm making enough!

Chicken Pot Pie

Before I got here, the family had an inside joke going about Curry and chicken pot pie. They were eating a restaurant and the waiter was taking their orders. When it came to be Curry's turn, he told the waiter in a sing song voice, "chicken pot pie".

That may not be funny when written so I took a little video...

I didn't know guys could marry dragonflies and then have them fly away with chicken pot pies...

First Day

Today I did my first day of waitressing at the Blue Heron restaurant here in Charles City. It was pretty good, a lot harder than I thought but good. I only dropped one plate, some blue cheese dressing and put in one wrong item. And I got a 20% tip on the tables so it couldn't have been that bad. Or they just felt sorry for me...

Now I am exhausted. At least I don't have school until 10am tomorrow so I don't have to wake up until 7:30am...

Lack of Post-age

Sorry I haven't been posting much. I have been SOOOOOOOO busy with school and work. But no need to worry! I'll try to get some stuff up tomorrow and/or Thrusday for you. I have some great videos of Curry and the County Fair. And I now officially have four jobs! How's that for a teaser?

Coming soon!

Morphine

A New York Times Article about the lack of morphine in poor countries. (If you can't view it then you may have to sign up which is free, easy to do and well worth it.)

This kind of writing is what I want to do. I want to go to places and see the people that are suffering and inform the world about it so that something can be done.

I just don't know how to go about it.

Any suggestions?

Books, Books, Books! On tape...

Because I have an hour long drive to school and then another hour long drive on the way home, I decided to start listening to audio books during the drive.

Luckily, Heritage Library in Providence Forge, about fifteen minutes from Grandmama's and on my way to school, has a very good selection of audio books. I was seriously impressed. They have more audio books in this little library then they do in Escondido in our rather large library.

So I took advantage of it and have been through three books and am on my fourth since last Monday.

I started with A Mt. Vernon Love Story by Mary Higgins Clark

Mary Higgins Clark has done it again! This was different from the murder mysteries, obviously. A very good love story that wasn't completely mushy.

Then The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

I cried. This book was excellent. I have also read For One More Day by Mitch Albom and it was good. Five People was amazing.

Next was The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks

At first, I was freaked out. The story was a little strange. As it on, though, I fell in love. Honestly, I don't think I would have liked this book or even finished it if I hadn't been listening to it. The voices of the characters, especially Zachariah Cashwell, made the story more real and interesting. And the fact that it was based on a true story helped too.

Labor Day Funness

Sorry about the lack of posting for a while. School has been INSANE from day one. I have a lot of reading but its been fun and interesting. Anyway, here's Labor Day!

Grandmama and I went across the road (1 mile) to Aunt Marjorie and Uncle Alex's for a Labor Day Cook Out. Uncle Alex used to own a restaurant so he's a good chef. We had steak, chicken, pork, beans, vegetables, all kinds of good stuff. It was fun watching the kids try to kill each other too. Oh to be a teenager again. NOT! Haha...

First things first, the dogs. Uncle Alex hunts and raises beagles so they have a lot of dogs. LouLou, Moonie and Spidey are the main house dogs right now. Soon all the beagles will be running around the yard. At least they're cute.
LouLou scratching her back.

Spidey

Moonie. He's so cute!

And there's always Buster, Grandmama's dog. He's a cranky old fart but I love him.

The front of the house.

The side where everyone actually goes in.

Curry and his pickle. We (mostly Leslie) ate an entire jar of pickles. Then Curry proceeded to throw the pickle at the girls which led to the next picture.

Charlotte putting Curry in a head lock. Sibling love.

Everybody

Aunt Marjorie, Leslie and their friend Allison

Leslie, Allison and Curry

Allison on Charlotte's shoulders. Those kids are nuts.

We had a great time with great food. I had to go to school earlier in the day but it wasn't so bad and I was home in time for food. I love living close to family. Being able to have them around makes life a lot less stressful and a lot more fun.