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TKD brown belt testing

This weekend is the end of yet another testing cycle. I didn't get pictures of the actual testing. I was enjoying just watching them too much and simply forgot about pictures. I do have some silent video of them practicing out in the hallway while we were waiting for the previous group to finish. I need to get an editing program so I can add music and fancy 'em up!

The first one is the brown belt form. They started it back-to-back with the idea that when your finished you should once again be back-to-back.

This second one is practicing their 3 steps sparring. Jared missed one of his blocks there...oops! They ended up not even doing it during testing.

And in other news......we had a surprise visitor at 4am yesterday morning! We went to bed thinking we'd be getting some rain from 'ol Humberto but nothing at all to be concerned about so I'm sure you can imagine our surprise when he came knocking on my door at 4 in the morning. Yikes! I woke up when the power went out and opened to door just to check on the weather and thought "Gee, it seems aweful fierce out there for just a tropical storm." It wasn't but about 15 minutes later that one of James' coworkers called and we found out it was actually a hurricane. We were one of the lucky ones. We were without power only about 6 hours. There are some at what is now almost 48 hours later that are still without power. It was a very interesting night, to say the least. We have branches down and piddling things like that so we'll be working to get the storm debris cleared this weekend.

electric

I'm spoiled. I absolutely can NOT live without electricity. That is almost entirely because I just do not want to do so. Now, if I choose to go camping in the mountains where there is now, well, that was my choice and I can live with that. Besides, it is usually COOL in the mountains. But, if I don't choose to live without? Don't you dare!

So, came the situation last night. It was 9pm. Things were wrapping up for the evening. James was watching something or 'nother on tv. I was just about to leave a response on a blog. Snap! In an instant everything was off. In an instant we were back in post-Rita conditions. No electricity. No water. No a/c. Primitive. We stumbled about for a bit to locate and get the candles lit. The next step was a call to the electric company.

It quickly became stifling in the house and the asthma kicked in so we went for a ride about town. We were lucky. It *only took 2 hours to get power.


In other news, Jen got back home on Sunday in time for an appointment on Monday to get her contacts. No go. It turned out she had the beginnings of an eye infection so we had to reschedule. We'll get that done sooner or later!

We received Jen's school registration packet in the mail. Wow! It's already that time? Gee Whiz, where did the summer go? I need to get busy with the school clothes hunt. It takes forever for Jen. The boys? Ha! Just buy them some tees and jeans from Steve & Barry's and they are over the moon.

It is birthday week around here! Jeffrey's, PawPaw TJ's, Aunt Judy, Uncle Shannon, Auntie Terri... Fun! Fun! Fun!

fun!

Jen is off enjoying a little r&r with her Grandma in Austin so it was just 4 of us this weekend. I say Jen was enjoying her r&r.....well, she did manage to call us about, oh, say, 10 times a day. This child is such the homebody! I have no idea how she will manage to leave here for college next year. I have a sneaky suspicion that she will be attending a college closer to home.

With an open day and only the younger boys with us, we went out prowling in search of some fun yesterday. Several ideas were tossed around and eventually we drove by the theater. Have no interest in Harry Potter. The Simpsons? Jeff can now quote my 'they make my skin crawl' speech. Needless to say, I can't stand it. There was just nothing I wanted to see except one show I'd been wanting to watch, Live Free, Die Hard. All I can say is, if you like on-the-edge-of-your-seat, all out action, this is the movie for you! I was left wondering how a body can survive so much, realistically speaking, but great movie.

I ended up having to compromise on the mouse situation. James insists no sticky trap. No spring trap. Nothing mean or inhumane. (Here kitty, kitty, kitty.....) So I found a little plastic, self-closing trap that I managed to talk him into. If another is ever caught in there, I will be letting *him discard of it, however. He can drive to Timbuktu to find a suitable home for the critter.

I'm thinking I need to start a taekwondo themed scrapbook. Therefore, I am in need of some tkd graphics, stickers, cutouts, whatever. I've had alot of difficulty finding any anywhere. I need some good scrapbooking sites to search and to bookmark. I welcome linkies! :)

eek!

"It's raining. It's pouring. The old man... "

Anyway, we have dark clouds and drenching rain so I shouldn't be surprised. You see, all the little creatures want to get out of the rain, too!

I went into the garage to check on the laundry and was just 'la la la' doing my own thing when I heard a noise. "Pluup!" Huh? I thought. What could that be? It sounded like water dripping into a bucket of water. Then I heard it again. "Pluup!" After hearing it several more times I decided I needed to investigate. search. search. search... Until I looked into a small plastic container and SCREAMED! There was maybe an inch of water in there and a mouse! Yikes! He about gave me a heart attack!

The problem next was what to do with it. I couldn't decide what to do. I knew if Jen was home she'd find a place out in a field somewhere and release it. My thoughts tend to me more like kill it so it doesn't come back to *my house. I called James. He said to release it outside. ugh My thoughts were more like, toss it in the toilet and flush it away. What to do? I couldn't decide. I knew if I were to tell James and Jen that I killed it I would have to listen to their opinions on how mean I am.

I spent some time thinking it over.

I still couldn't decide.

Hmmm....

What to do?






Finally, I took it far, far away so I would never see it again and let it free.

So much for my dilemma for the day...
God Bless that poor little mouse and my he never frighten another unsuspecting housewife!