I'm Back!

I've taken a "few" days off from my blog recently. Between Lex's birthday party this past weekend (which was a great success) and starting my training classes at Safelite, I've just felt really busy.

As I said, the birthday party went really well. We had our whole family of five, both my parents, Lisa's mother and grandmother, and my one of my aunts & uncles at the party. Our theme was "mini" for this party. Our menu consisted of mini-cheeseburgers with "mixi-doodle sauce" (courtesy of Michael Chiarello), mini-bagel pizzas, fruit bowls, and an awesome cheese tray provided by my parents, plus a variety of those 8 oz cans of soda, also provided by my parents. We only furnished little cocktail plates, napkins, and forks, as well as plastic shot glasses for drinks. My father and uncle cheated, choosing to load a regular-sized plate rather than stick with the theme, but they both loved the food so I'll forvie them. My father picked up this great little device to grill 9 mini-burgers at one time, and it was fantastic. Made fixing 18 mini-burgers on the grill really easy, because we could flip 9 of them at one time. I'd recommend it by brand name, but all the packaging was gone.

Lex got a huge amount of "loot". We gave him a singing mailbox (no, I'm sure we won't regret giving him a toy that makes the noise), plus an alligator car, tugboat bath toy, and a new outfit. My parents gave him a car buggy that we push, and a Winnie the Poo spinner. Lisa's family gave him a singing train with alphabet parts, plus a lot of clothes. My aunt and uncle gave him a fantastic gift... Baby Mozart from the Baby Einstein videos, plus 2 Baby Einstein CDs. These are great because they calm him down almost IMMEDIATELY when he's screaming, saving our frayed nerves from further damage.

Took the kids to be dropped off at the other house after that. I'll leave that with only one other statement... I don't begrudge the other biological parent from wanting time with them... but I hate what this split Summer stuff does to Lisa.

Safelite is going well. I seem to be retaining all the information they're throwing at me, but we'll see how well that transfers to the call center when I'm let out on the floor. By an odd coincidence, my neighbor across the street just started there as well. He was in the training class before mine, so he's still in the "training" section taking calls.

Lisa and I have watched John Carpenter's "Apocalypse Trilogy" now, consisting of "The Thing", "Prince of Darkness", and "In the Mouth of Madness". I enjoyed all three movies, and I'm glad to have finally gotten to see all the movies.

We have a stray cat hanging around our house. He (we think its a "he") was very scrawny and emaciated to begin with, but we've been leaving food for "him" and he's started to fill out to a more healthy size. We're hoping eventually to adopt him, but it's slow-going. He still hasn't built up much trust for us, though he is getting better. If we do take him in, we're going to name him based on puns that link back to our other cat, Bella. If "he" really is a "he" we're going to name him Lugosi (Lugi for short). A girl will be named "Donna". Points if you get both jokes.

Ok. I'm out for the night.

End of Demented Rambling.