fun summer classes

for my english class we get to have vocab quizes weekly. Well the teacher gets into all the rules of the vocab. First there are thirteen matching ones each week. but you can't get over ten points on the quiz unless you know off the top of your head what the bonus words mean. Even if you get all thirteen right on matching you can't get over ten. If you don't know what a word means and you fill out all thirteen they will come off of your ten points. Then if you decide you know nine only but fill out both bonus questions and miss one then you still only get nine because you missed the one. Then if the test falls on a lunar wednesday, and you are wearing white, you must fill out your test in black ink. If it happens that we are scheduled to take the test during a solar eclipse, we must be finished while the eclipse is happening and wearing sunglasses and write in pencil. If there happens to be a fire during the exercise we need to decide if that test is our lowest test and it will be droppped from the grading, or if we would like to fill out the rest of the test and hand it in before the teacher leaves the classroom. All in all this is what I got-He tried to create a vocab quiz game and tragically failed.

interesting fact

There is an eagle project going on in our ward and I volunteered to buy a few backpacks for the project. Well I went to go to Old Navy to search for backpacks and there are several options for women. When I clicked to Mens and looked for a backpack there are none. Apperently men aren't supposed to use backpacks. A few cargo pants options is all they have available for us. I thought about getting a pair of cargo pants and cutting them in half instead but I don't think that will work out quite like they wanted it to.

Furniture browsing

I was looking at furniture today as we are wanting a new couch pretty bad. I came across the Metro sectional. It sounds like it is garanteed to get along and work out good for everyone.

Useless info

So today I was sitting here at my desk and took a roll out of a plastic bag. I noticed this clear bag had been carefully designed with a white box on the front of the clear plastic where you could write the date and contents of the bag. I could understand writing a date but why would you waste time writing the contents on a clear see through bag. I can imagine someone picking it up and saying it looks like my sandwich for lunch but wait let me check and see what the contents of this bag are. Oh it says the contents are spaghetti and meatballs that must be the wifes.

problems with yogurt

There might be a few things that people haven't noticed about yogurt. Maybe just some simple observations on my part. The more expensive the yogurt, the more messy it is. For example when you buy your kids the fancy gogurts and you go to open them up they always squirt a little yogurt out, this morning that little bit hit me in the left eye. Luckily I won't have to wear a pirate patch. Also there are the ones like yoplait that have the silver sometime pink for breast cancer tops that you have to peel off. You would think since these aren't in a bendable package that they wouldn't be pressurized at all to keep there form but they always fling out staining strawberry or blotched blueberry on days I am in a nice and clean white shirt. The cheap ones don't want to spend the money on aluminum top sealers when plastic is so much cheaper. I don't know why I even care as I only eat yogurt when I want to mix it up with homemade granola.

We went over to see the family last night at a little monthly gathering. My wife's birthday cake had a piece already taken out of it. The game my sister was dying to play turned out to be a prophet/apostle match game she had made for her primary. It was a real hit. My brother in law bought a new connector for his xbox. I bought his old one from him. Last night we got netflix set up to watch videos right on the xbox. Its pretty cool they had teenage mutant ninja turtles two and my boy loved it. As they ran around fighting bad guys my boy said theres me every time leonardo appeared on the screen. With stake conference as well I didn't have to have any of the weird moments at church where people avoid me becasue I am going to ask them about their home teaching. Instead I got to sit in the primary room with the other parents that had impatient children and ate smarties and did puzzles with my kids, amongst listening.
There is one great idea that I got from now on every time someone comes and asks if they can sit right next to me at lets say a stake priesthood session, and I have to be put in an ackward situation for around tow hours, then I am going to see if I can return the favor. Like when they go to lean forward I will start rubbing their back. I figure as long as I have to feel ackward I should make sure they have to as well.

Smash Bonus

On New Years eve I got out of work and I went to pick up some Smashburgers on the way home from work.
First of all I want to say that they are one of the best places I have ever eaten. The people are really friendly and personable and secondly their food is awesome. I normally get the classic smashburgers in the half pound with the smash fries as a side that have a light coating of olive oil with thyme, rosemary and sea salt on them.
So I get there order them and had been sitting down for about 5 minutes when one of the kids comes out and says Victor I am sorry they are going to be slightly longer than normal they started to make 1/3 lb burgers for your order instead of half pound burgers. Its only 3 in the afternoon and I am in no rush and I said oh no worries. Thanks for catching the mistake. Well when they go bring me the burgers for the house, they gave me two coupons for free sandwiches. It was an awesome bonus. That night my wife ordered some food from Chilis, and we went out to the other smashburger to grab a couple more burgers before the new year when we were going meat free again. when we got home and ate it was awesome. I never felt so full in all my life. I ate ribs from chilis with the chipotle honey rub that were perfect. I had the smashed potatoe with bacon on top, I ate a chicken smashburger and I ate another regular smashburger and to top it off, I drank I giant Dr. Pepper. I put in my belly about 8 pounds of food that day and about 6 pounds of soda.
The worst thing about going vegetarian is is not going into smashburger. It is so unlike most of the places you eat where the food is good but the service sucks or the service is great because they know their food sucks.
I might make an exception quarterly instead of waiting clear until my anniversary to go out and get a nice little treat.
It was a really nice idea of my wife to get some ribs. That is the kind of surprise I could handle all the time.

The new classes

We were told that we would be getting a new class for Primary this year. Our new class is the nursery. It is really kind of nice because I get to spend all of the Sabbath with my wife and kids as they are both participating in nursery with us. Yesterday we had six kids and it was pretty nice. I get through sacrament and then, I play with toys, we get to eat snacks and then color pictures and we get to get out at noon so we still have the rest of the day. It really is a good fit for us. I have progressive gotten better places each year at church. The only thing I am waiting to hear is that I have been called to the library. That is if they left us out of nursery it is a pretty good fit and I could handle that for a few years.

Always be your sidekick.

My son has a new habit. Whatever toy he is into at the moment I am called by one name and he is the other. I have been playing Lego Batman on the xbox 360 and he has been watching and saying, "You're Batman-I'm Robin." I smile and say, "Yes" and he happily tells me to "punch the bad guys." When he get out his transformers he says "you're Optimus Prime and I am Bumblebee. Lets kill Megatron." I gladly accept and pick up Optimus and start shooting his cannon at the Megatron across the room. Later on as he comes upstairs in his full Buzz Lightyear costume he says, "hey Woody." I reply "hey Buzz have you seen my boots" he says "no" and I say "good cause there's a snake in my boots."
It has been kind of fun always being a super hero or the main character and my son always wanting to be my sidekick. I think when I was a kid I always thought of myself as the good guy and my dad as the bad guy.
Well we get up to go to church and they just start the sacrament and are getting it passed when my boy says "I love you Batman" out nice and loud. I smile and whisper "I love you too." He says "I love you Batman" again and I smile a little as I start to blush. Then he shouts out "I love you Batman" at this point embarrassed I take him and say in his ear "I love you Robin, can we please not let anyone know our identities and just be able to take the sacrament in peace." He was good for the rest of church but as soon as we got out the back door of the church he said "Carry Me Batman!"
This morning he also didn't want to call me dad or be acknowledged by his first name, he wanted us to still be Batman and Robin. I really can't wait to see which one I will be when I get home tonight.

New Years Eve

My wife got tired and for the first time ever my kids had both fallen asleep before 10 o'clock. I tried to go in and see if my wife wanted to get up before midnight to celebrate but she said she was too tired. I went up stairs to watch teh ball drop and was surprised to see Dick Clark is still alive and hosting the show while obviously being scenile. It looked like they had an energy drink tube connected right into his left arm just to keep him awake long enough to close the show.
After I had set my watch to teh exact time for the year, I went down stairs and thought there will probably be a day that I will have longed to be able to go to bed but instead need to wait up for my teenagers to come home

We let the kids tell us what they wanted and tried to make sure they got everything they told. As my son opened up his transformers and was so excited I thought briefly back to my childhood and remembered when I opened a giant teenage mutant ninja turtle doll. It was one of the best years ever as I got exactly which one I wanted for Christmas. I vowed I would never throw away their toys like my dad did because I left them on the floor. I also put thir toy box right by the tv to help me because its easier to throw it in the toy box right there then it would be to pick it up and take it to the garbage can.