Calm Before the Storm

It is a quiet Tuesday evening (quiet now because Matthew stopped screaming and Caitlyn stopped whining), within the next half hour or so Kathy will return home with Stephanie and Arnild in tow. Then in a mere 16 hours later Gretchen, Gordon, Melody, Jon, Lynn, Megan, Robin, Bryan, Shawn, Erika and Jackson will also arrive.

We are gearing up for a rip roaring good time. A simple layout/breakdown of the plans:

Wednesday: Dinner (spaghetti) at Dad's in Canoga Park
Thursday: Seaworld San Diego
Friday: Dockweiler Beach (fire pits!)
Saturday: Lazy day by the Hotel pool, Pizza at a park and then dessert at the Soda Fountain with Dad.
Sunday: Hiking at Placerita Canyon to spread mom's ashes.
Monday: The Gerth/Franks/Mizgala contingent leaves (minus Megan, she figures into my later plans). Los Angeles Zoo.
Tuesday: The Zynda contingent leaves and Me and Megan head to Vegas.
Thursday: The Winters contingent leaves
Friday: Megan and I return to LA.

Busy busy busy!

Any and all are welcomed to join!

Send me an email and I will give you more detailed information

Senility or Stupidity

We all know Caitlyn thinks I am old, now I am just trying to prove her right.

When I got the email about working this next convention, I immediately put the dates on my Yahoo calendar which automatically updates to my phone and then I went into the kitchen and wrote it on the family calendar on the fridge.

Good right?

A few days ago Marisa IM'd me asking if I was working this weekend or next aqnd I said I think I am working both but let me double check. I looked again at the email and realized I had marked the wrong days on the calendar in the kitchen, I started the assignment on Sunday and should have written Saturday. So I replied to her yes, I am working in Los Angeles this weekend and Las Vegas next. Then I went to the kitchen and corrected what I had thought to write wrong.

This morning I got up (I went out late last night, more on that another time) and got ready for work, reopened the email to find where I was to meet my supervisor and who exactly it would be. WHA? HUH? I had it right the first time, SUNDAY is May 31 not SATURDAY. Even writing it on the stupid calendar I didn't realize that the 31st was Sunday and that I had it right the first time.

Ugh

Sid the Science Kid

I had no idea who this was, but when I received an email asking me to review the Earth Day episode, I figured what the heck, Caity will watch and tell me how it is.



She watched it 4 times in a ROW! She knew who he was, apparantly she has watched him on PBS before (grandma tends to watch more Noggin than PBS).



The Earth Day episode is "The Dirt on Dirt" and it shows Sid trying to figure out how dirt gets so dirty. He and his friends figure out the importance of dirt and how it helps flowers and such grow and that it is filled with so many things and even has Bugs and Worms (eeeew!).



Sid is a production of the Jim Henson Company and is shown on your local PBS station (here in LA it is KCET). The paperwork says SId is geared towards ages 3 - 6 and they hit it on the nose, Caitlyn is 3 1/2 and she truly loved it. However she said "I like Sid but I don't like Science. And not for nothun but these kids are cute as heck. I love the character's look like puppets but are animated.


Be sure to have your little ones watch this episode on April 22 on your local PBS channel.

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