It's Friday!

Seems like the weeks have been flying by, which is a good thing. I'm wearing the "car salesman" Hawaiian shirt today (pale yellow with sage green leaves and darker yellow palm trees) - it's one of my favorites, but maybe just slightly tacky. Sharon actually was surprised that I didn't put John in a Hawaiian shirt this morning (he has two) - he participated last week :) What does your Hawaiian shirt look like?

This weekend looks to be beautiful, which is a GREAT thing. I think Sharon is attending an event in Roanoke tomorrow, so perhaps the little monster and I will take a good bike ride.

I'm a little nervous - Sharon is conduction a spring retreat for all of her band kids this weekend (grades 6-12) and has invited various industry "professionals" to come and present seminars, workshops, and masterclasses. She has musicians from the Roanoke Symphony, ensembles from Radford University and Virginia Tech, and students from both universities coming - and me. I was asked early on, at the suggestion of a Tech professor, to give a seminar on leadership. Those who know me know that I love to talk and be in front of people, doing such on many previous occasions. However, I've never had to put a 90-minute seminar together before for young students, so it should be interesting - wish me luck! If you have any important leadership ideas or tips, feel free to email them to me!

Felix Felicis...please!

For the non-Harry Potter nerds out there, that would be a bottle of luck potion, of which I am in dire need right now. I can't remember a more stressful or unlucky period in my recent (or total) memory.

Let's see.....both personal and work computers got hit with the conflicker worm and I've had to reformat both. I've got a cat who is spraying all over the house. I've got a rat in the basement that is uncatchable. I've got a 2-year old lawnmower that won't start. I've got a high school reunion to plan that I don't have time to devote to. On top of all of this, I have a job for which I haven't been paid now for 1 MONTH.

I've eluded to it before, but I am in a dire search for a new job. I'm still employed (apparently for free), but the recession has hit us extremely hard, and the company is running on fumes. I've been getting my paychecks typically two weeks late, and now I'm due two checks. Pretty hard to deal with when you have a little one and you live check to check as it is. The really bad thing is that there are virtually NO open jobs out there right now. I might have to resort to pulling out my CDL and cruising around on the BT again!

So, I don't mean to be a Debbie Downer here, but like many others in this crisis, I could use some extra prayers right now. Hopefully something will break soon!

And hopefully that rat will meet his swift death.

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Uhhh.....hmm....

Sharon had given me several candy bars on my birthday, and a "Hershey's Skor" bar was one of them. I've never had one before.

I was waiting for the bus this morning, and was looking through the ingredients list (don't know why, so don't ask). In the ingredients list for "milk chocolate" is "nonfat milk," immediately followed by "milk fat."

Umm....I'm sure there is a scientific reason for this, but.....what?!