Nerd Score

Ha! I am less of a nerd than Arnold. I don't know whether that is a good thing or a bad thing.

Walking Funny

For the first half of Spring Break, I went down to Florida to visit mom. I had a lot of fun. Saturday we loaded up the truck with tools and headed up to her new house. We had dinner with Bo and Lois. Other than the loud restaurant, that was a blast. Mom and I played what we now call "Flying Scrabble" in the hotel room that night. It was a travel board where the pieces snap in. The only problem was that when you put a piece next to an "already snapped in" piece, the "already snapped in" piece would go flying. We managed not to lose any pieces to the air conditioning unit though.
The next day, Chrys came up and we began to lay the laminate floor in mom's new house. It was a nice material- tongue and groove and looked like a wood floor. We had lunch on her porch with a very interesting lizard who looked like it had zebra stripes. Since the house has no permanent power, we were racing against the clock to finish before the sun went down ( blind floor laying is not a good thing) We didn't beat the sun, but we did decide to finish anyway, so we went to Wal mart and got work lamps. Other than the power strip that we connected to the T-poll everything worked splendidly. Well, if you ignore the fact that we had to cut around grooved base board with a miter saw ( and then we found out that there is a proper tool for such things).
We got the floor done and were already starting to get sore on the way home. It is now four days later and I am still walking funny. Insert inappropriate funny comment here.

Beauty and the Interview

So, life in college is hectic as usual. I had an interview this week for a Civil Engineering firm in VA ( near D.C., eeeeeeeeeeeeewww, but a job is a job). It was with their environmental department. I hope I don't get it or get another offer because I do not like the idea of D.C.

In more exciting news, one of the people I went to Bristol with threw a Disney party. You were supposed to dress as your favorite Disney Character. I decided to go as Mrs. Potts from Beauty and the Beast. She's not my absolute favorite, but the costume seemed simple and I was almost guaranteed that no one else would show up as her. I thought the hard part was going to be the nose, but that took me like 5 minutes to make out of clay. The skirt was easy but tedious. I cheated a lot on sewing technique because I was in a time crunch. The only part I was disappointed with was the hat. I thought that covering a form would be quicker than sewing a hat and stuffing it. I was wrong. I found a strainer at wal-mart that was the right shape. I removed the handle and covered it in fabric ( along with a wooden ball for the top). However, I discovered that it is relatively difficult to sew a ruffle of bias tape on to the edge of a strainer. So I just had to hot glue the tape to the side( no ruffle ;-( ). I was originally going to make my left arm the handle by making a gold sleeve, but with my nose as the spout, I would not be a very functional tea pot. So I made a handle and sewed it to the back of the shirt. It wasn't perfect. Even with the wire in it, it still didn't sit quite right, but it worked.

The party was fun. There was Aladdin, tinker bell, lady and the tramp, some of the 101 dalmations, 2 lilos 2 peter pans along with Wendy, John and Michael, Winnie the Pooh, Cinderella, Sebastian, Tarzan, Mogli, Alice, Friar Tuck, Jiminy Cricket, Rafiki, Woody, The Cheshire Cat, the Queen of Hearts complete with mallet, and Disney Tourists. But the coolest part was that people dressed up as Lumier and Chip from Beauty and the Beast. I had a son and didn't even know it. The party was a blast. A few of the pictures I took are below. Oh, and I happen to have won the costume contest. I got a disney princess notebook, disney princess lipgloss, and disney princess paddle ball.