Guess who is up already?

Go ahead, enjoy your sleep. I am at the watch!

Krl and I didn't put a whole lot on our weekend calendar. We wanted to go with the flow. We did however make our jaunt to get her hair cut, buy a few necessities, eat out, and get some groceries!

We went to Wal-Mart for Krl's haircut, so I got busy picking up a few items. Surprisingly, they got her right in. One thing for sure, the girl there understands english. Krl said "short" and that is what she got! It looks nice in a spike-y kind of way.

From there we went to Abuello's. Service was excellent, though the food didn't quite meet expectations. We may have been expecting too much. Isn't that sometimes the case when you have been looking forward to going to a certain restaurant? From there we drove through a local dealerships lot looking at pickups. Not that we are in the market, I was more curious than anything.

Prior to leaving for the seasonal jobsite I had found a truck on the local dealers lot that was an '07. I made an inquiry but no one seemed to know what I was talking about. However, the truck is gone now. Talk about strange, the '09's were already out, so this truck was brand new yet two years old. I put it through Kelly Bluebook and it kept telling me there was a mileage error. Oh well, it was probably the buy of the century.

I talked with Rian yesterday. They are getting new cabinet tops in their kitchen. They were supposed to be done already, but a family illness with their installer put them behind. Crazy thing was Rian took off the old counter tops, including the wood (they had tile), and he removed the sink and cook top. Tuesday evening. The man was supposed to show Wednesday but had a sick kid, then Thursday, but the man caught what his kid had, and then Friday, and he was still sick. By Saturday Rian was about fed up. He was probably a lot nicer than his Dad would have been!

Let's just say the air was cleared and the man worked Saturday and Sunday. The project is moving right along.

It needs to be done by tomorrow night because Holt is having a Polar Express Birthday party! Today is Holt's 3rd birthday and he shares this date with his Mom. Happy Birthday Holt and Erica!

Ollie got off work the other night and ran by Wal-Mart in Angelo to pick up some dog food. She said it was a quick trip in and out, and when she got in her car, the spare key she had been using wouldn't start it. So, she dug through her purse and found her keyless entry key ring, inserted that key and the car roared to life. She went home and in a short while there was someone at the door. She opened it to find a Policeman. He asked for some I.D., and she produced her license. He asked her if she had been to Wal-Mart, she replied affirmatively.

"Do you drive a black Toyota Camry", he asked.

"Yes", Ollie replied.

"It seems that you, and another person both went to Wal-Mart, the same Wal-Mart, and both of you are driving black Toyota Camry's, and somehow you switched cars", he announced.

The other people had discovered the problem, found Ollie's insurance card, returned to Wal-Mart and contacted the Police. The Police ran the registration and got Ollie's address. The other party was good enough to follow the Policeman to Ollie's house so they traded cars back.

Even trade!

In a stranger than strange note, Ollie's car is missing the Camry letters across the back and so was this other person's car.

What are the odds. I don't know about you but I might go and buy a lottery ticket if I was Ollie or the other party. Naw, with their luck they would have to share it!

Ollie's car now sports a sticker in the corner of the back window now.

Man don't these NFL play offs stink. Only one team I was cheering for (o.k. it was half hearted) won to advance to the Conference Championships. I will tell you there have been some hits though! Wow. That is a contact sport.

That may be why I went pro in something other than football!

I spent a little time in the office yesterday, then I helped Krl to stow away Christmas decorations. She has had them down and boxed, I just boxed them in a bigger box and put them in the attic. Our new tree comes with a zip bag that you store it in, in four pieces. When I was putting it in the attic it was touch and go for a while who was going to win, me or the tree! Ultimately I prevailed!

My only other weekend activity was a quick run to the post office. I hadn't been since Monday so I was due! It was packed and I had a not to make a window pickup, so obviously that means another trip to pickup the over flow.

I am hopeful our mail malady has corrected itself. When we left for the seasonal jobsite we filled out a temporary change of address card. BUT, you had to give them an ending date. I was hopeful so I filled in the blank with January 11, 2009. Problem was we got through early and returned home December 19, 2008. Our mail has been in a vicious cycle ( I would compare to a swirling toilet). Some days it was forwarded, some days it was delivered locally, so it has been a real mess.

When I left the seasonal jobsite our post person (We refer to her as the mail lady, which seems to be a play on words) reminded me we needed to do a change of address. When I went in to the post office there, a woman who use to work with me at the seasonal jobsite was the fill in Post Master. I explained what I was doing and she told me I couldn't just forward the mail to my house because I had a forward to the jobsite and it would circle and circle until one of the orders expired. So I had to forward my forwarded mail to the company mail box.

Whew! I can remember when you would just go in and tell them what was going on and it was done. Oh, for the good old days!

Have a day! See ya!

FATHER, I seem to kind of be getting loaded up here. Keep me on task. Help me to be diligent. Help me to be thorough. Help me to remember what is really important! Bless Holt and Erica on this their birthday. May they have many more!