Week-End Update

• Imagine my joy yesterday when I read that Detroit is the 8th worst skin city. Weather, health care, stress all contributed to the rankings.
• Our television gave up the ghost in early May. Checkered and I independently declared that we would wait ALL summer and then some before we would consider buying another one. We meant it!
• Our new t.v. came home Friday night.
• I may just throw up if one of us says again, "Look at that beautiful picture."
• My first son continues his Boy Scout merit badge requirement of spending 30 days recording which birds eat from our bird feeder. I've never been a bird-watcher, but this has been kind of fun.
• The kids sorted through their left-over school supplies over the week-end. The oldest brought home NOTHING. She threw away everything while at school. The youngest brought home 5000 pounds of broken crayons. He said all his intact crayons had been stolen. The middle kids brought home full garbage bags of papers which we enjoyed sending to the recycling container.
• I was always the student who brought home all those papers.
• Wallpaper removal project resumes today after a brief hiatus imposed by the arrival of my children's summer break.
• One of our many unemployed friends says the worst part of job searching is how many employers don't even acknowledge that he has applied to work for them or do not contact him at all after an interview. He says he would much prefer a rude, "No," to listening to the sound of nothing.
• I haven' t seen my younger sister in two years. She and her kids will be in Kentucky this week-end visiting my parents.
• Guess where I'm headed Friday? :)