That was interesting...

Today I got to do something that was a once in a lifetime opportunity. My work gave us the chance to go to a town hall meeting with Senator John McCain. Best part it was paid! So we got bused down to the Sheraton this afternoon and he spoke for about 30 minutes and then answered questions. I don't remember everything that was said, but I was impressed with his answers and pretty much agreed with him. I liked that he called out someone who made an ignorant remark; and he was pretty funny.

I will say that it can inspire you to want to be better educated about the issues and make sure to exercise your right to vote. If you don't, you don't have a right to complain!

Best song of the week: Brand New Key by Melanie
If you don't listen to these songs, you really have to check this one out. It will make you want to ride a bike!

More Pictures!

My Pimped out bike! Love it!

My new bell

John's bike

Oww!

Today was the day of the big bike ride. We got to the park about 730 and got registered and our t-shirts. It was really cool, they had all these businesses giving out free food and goods. Then we hung out with Stephanie and Bart, Monica and Lance, Beth and Brian, Teri, Trudy, and Daphne. So we had a fun little group. The ride didn't seem like 12 miles, but my butt sure hurts tonight!

After the ride we went for breakfast at Crackers, probably the best breakfast place around! Then we ran to the bike shop and pimped out the bikes a bit. I'll have to load pictures, but it's not going to happen tonight. I got a new bike bell, new pedals, and a new waterbottle holder. John got pedals, a seat, and a bottle holder.

Then we decided to do dinner with Stephanie and Bart while we watched Favre lose the game for Minnesota. Very good day overall.

Friday was Beauty and the Beast. I loved it. It actually stays pretty close to the movie and the music is great. Chip was making his broadway debut and he was 7 years old and SO cute. I almost cried at the end.

That's the most exciting parts of our weekend. I think I'm off to take an ibuprofen and go to bed!

Song of the week: Beauty and the Beast by Angela Lansbury! of course :-)

The circle of life

It's finally Friday Eve! Super excited about that. Tomorrow should be pretty relaxed at work since I pretty much finished all my work Wednesday.

Tonight we get to go find our bike helmets for Tour de Tempe, which reminded me I needed to print the registration forms, which leads me to say, I love wireless printing! It's so nice to sit here and print something and be able to grab it when I want.

Which leads me to, I have been asked for a second round interview for a new position at work. I'm pretty excited about it. It's a telecommuting position which would give me back two hours of my day and it should be a pay raise! So I'm not going to hold my breath but I am excited.

Which leads me back to Friday Eve! And that is the circle of life.

Life Won't Wait by Ozzy Osbourne

That's my song of the week.

I haven't posted in a while as it's been not the best few weeks and been pretty busy. John has been working alot with their Rocktoberfest. Sales have been slow and that's not good. But nothing we can do about it I guess.

I am just about done with this class and I've decided that the instructor is absolutely not reading a damn bit of my work. Which may be why I'm enjoying the class so much. After this class 10 more!!

We have a busy week coming up. We have tickets to Beauty and the Beast Friday night, that I'm really excited about. I haven't seen it since American Heritage tour in .....9th grade? 8th grade? 7th grade? Mom, help here?

Then we're doing the Tempe bike thingy. All I know is it's 12 miles and we haven't rode in awhile. After it we're going to go to the State fair and gorge ourselves on all the fried food.

On another note, I need John's paystubs, which have been held hostage since he left Tri-City. So since Dave was all "buddy buddy" I figured, I could act back and just tell him I was coming to pick them up. He told me that we can't have them until John pays his "bill". There is no bill to pay, he's such a jackass and so full of crap. So, I emailed the labor board and here is their response:

• The only reference in the Arizona State wage payment statute that pertains to paystubs is found in ARS 23-351(D) attached for your reference where it states, “When an employee’s wages are paid by deposit in a financial institution he shall be furnished with a statement of his earnings and withholdings.”  There is no other requirement in the statute to provide such statement if the wages are not paid by deposit in a financial institution.

Well, since we were getting direct deposit, I take that to mean he HAS to give us the paystubs. So I told him that he can't keep them from us and if I have to involve an attorney to get them, I will go after him for the costs involved. He said he'll send them to me tomorrow, so we'll see.  

LOL

So I was texting the name of my blog to my sister-in-law and my phone thought it should be http://www.mischief.blogspot.com/ instead of http://www.rischlife.blogspot.com/. Perhaps that would have been a more appropriate name.......

I wish I were a dog

Here's my boys doing what they do best. Sleeping. They sleep everywhere all the time. I definitely want to be a dog in my next life.

Another week gone by

It has been a pretty uneventful week. We're busy planning our Halloween costumes at work and I need to get busy finding my pumpkin pattern to top last year. Yes, it will be Twilight related.

• We're at 33 days till Cheryl comes to visit. Very excited about that.
• 63 more weeks of school till I'm done with my Masters, very excited about that also.
• My parents have officially decided they are coming for Thanksgiving, very excited.
• I have decided that I WILL make at least one trip home in the next year, very excited about that.

That about sums up all the exciting things we have going on in the near future. It should be an uneventful weekend filled with lots of homework.

Song of the Week: Bulletproof by La Roux

On a more serious note

It has been a weird week, which probably means it's almost that time of the month. Sorry, TMI, but I am beginning to understand the influx of these emotions. We were driving the other day and there was a car broke down in the middle of the road. It was a middle age white guy. Everyone is driving by him, no one stopping. Until! A family on their way to or from church in their Sunday best, stops and the husband and son get out to help while the wife moves over to get their car out of the way. What struck me most about this was that they were black. I know, it's not the 1960s with the whole racial war going on, but they were the ONLY people who stopped! And in their nice clothes too! And I thought, I still believe in humanity. There are good people out there.

Well, fast forward to tonight. Out of nowhere I got an email on an account I don't use very often and I was trying to place the name of who it was from. Then I realized, it was John's EX boss. He had my email from when I donated to his MS bike ride. He was sending out some newsletter something or other. Well I looked for a link to remove myself and it said just to reply to the email; which I did just stating "Please remove me from the mailing list". Well, I quickly received an email back saying "No problem, tell John we said hi". Let the anger begin. I don't want anything from this person, I don't want any acknowledgement let alone a fake goodwill greeting. And the thoughts that filled my head were that he thinks I am so bitter that I can't support MS because of the work issue. NOT TRUE I pick and choose where I donate and how as I see fit. And I don't have to defend that to anyone, but what makes me mad is the fact that THAT was the thought I had. The most mean, awful thought (which may or may not be true) was the first thing I thought HE would think. Hatred is vicious and I hate (pun intended) that I let that person inject that into me tonight.

Finally!

It has finally started to cool down alittle where it is nice to ride the motorcycle. It was still a little warm on the way home today but it was ok. We met Stephanie and Bart for breakfast at our favorite breakfast restaurant Crackers. (Crap Jena, I forgot the camera!!)  Of course breakfast was fun because we ALWAYS have fun with Steph and Bart. I am jealous she's leaving for NY on Tuesday though....

It has been an uneventful weekend pretty much just doing homework and cleaning. I bleached the rest of the kitchen counters. I have pictures I'll post when I get around to downloading all the pictures. We had a pretty cool storm last night with lots of lightning and wind and rain.

I'm sitting here watching Edward's eyes roll into the back of his head as he instantly falls asleep and I kindof wish I could be a dog....