Ah, big prototype builds. In some ways I love them. For the hours, I hate them. The newness of the product is neat. Being able to watch something come together is so cool. And the office supplies that we find are needed at the very beginning makes it somewhat worth while. It's like starting school all over except now my school supplies are LOADS of Sharpies (thin, thick, chisel, metallic), paint pens, super sticky post-its, and lots of little paper flags. Plus the new binders and dividers. Yes, I love freshly sharpened pencils and new crayons. And I orders some stampers that we needed. If I pretend just a little, it's like my own craft project!
So, 31 is here. I had a good day. Birthday celebrating started over the weekend. It wasn't intended to totally be like that though - but it was. I had TEC meetings Friday and Saturday (we are going to have such an awesome team for #37!!) and then got a phone call - Mom had 2 tickets to box seats for Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban! I called my birthday month buddy Stephanie and after we ate dinner with our DH's and kids, we went on over to the concert. It was good and nice to just be able to sit and watch. I love seats at concerts and I really like when I can just clap and don't have to stand up. I'm just too old, picky, spoiled, whatever, to have to beg for my own space. I like a seat. We left early after hearing our favorite Keith Urban songs so Stephanie could get home to Baby Emily. Apparently after Beca and Elijah (who is 5) cleared the Horman house of the inevitable bears (and maybe wolves), Steve asked them to do something in another room. Beca answered with a defeated "Come on Elijah" and probably an eye-roll. She's getting disturbingly good at eye-rolls. And sarcastic commentary. no idea where that comes from. Oh, and my cousin's hair twirling pattern. I only do it in the car but Beca will start twirling just like Stacy does - I think they've only seen each other 2 or 3 times in Beca's whole life.
Sunday meant Sunday School - we talked about sheep and how Jesus is our shepherd. Now we have the necessary Cotton ball sheep on the fridge. Beca spent the rest of the day with Oma. Steve and I finally cleaned up the cardboard in the garage - sad to say the cardboard castle had to make its exit, all in little cut up pieces and then tossed into the cardboard recycling bin at the dump. While I slept (desperately needed napping), Steve took advantage of the boost of energy from some meds and did a bunch of work on the cars and put the last 2 shutters on the house. It has never had shutters by the smallest window on the house and now I can't imagine it without them! For dinner, we headed to an Italian event hosted by the Senior High Youth Group at church. It was a good dinner but the coolest part was leaving the building to a dark sky with sunshine and a double rainbow! Then we had cupcakes at my mom's - she and Beca had blown up balloons, decorated cards, and the princess herself put the sprinkles on the cupcakes. It was quite a busy day.
Monday was first build day - we'll be doing this for 10 weeks and I already feel like a new pair of shoes is in order. There are no chairs on the floor. We managed to build some small things so there was some level of victory.
My birthday was fun - Beca called me first thing in the morning to sing Happy Birthday - she was so sad I had already left for work and had to call me to sing! Such a sweet girl! Cynthia brought cupcakes and I brought the cupcakes from my mom for work! Plus, I had lunch at Cheesecake Factory with the other engineers who celebrate April birthdays. It was great - especially the lovely take home bag with a cheesecake and whipped cream tucked in that darling cheesecake case. Dinner was at the Loop, watching the sky fall out. Steve had gotten me a chocolate and vanilla birthday cake - perfect for those with complete indecision. Most importantly, it was a Blue Moon cake. YUM!! Beca ate the icing but not the cake. And since she had gone poopy in the potty, she had called Steve and left him a message that she had done so - now we have that little tid-bit saved for the eventual embarrassment that will be a late teens celebration of some sort! But that also meant a dress today. Usually, I leave a little later than this morning so Beca had to make another phone call today and that was to call Mommy to say that she had gotten out of bed and gotten Daddy so she could go poopy all on her own. Gotta love the phone for that kind of announcement. Sadly, this morning had our entire team in the facility before 7am. Ugh! Today did bring another storm through and one of the brightest rainbows I have ever seen - of course only while driving where it was not safe enough to take a picture.
So, that just means my 40 hours is up tomorrow morning. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean I get to go home. It just means I get to find a new Sharpie color to love tomorrow.
No comments:
Post a Comment