Keagan

I was hoping to put on a little video of Keagan but I guess for now it will just be a link.

http://www.youtube.com/?v=4LOkfEdFviY

Keagan & Ronda

Last Monday I FINALLY got to meet Keagan and see Ronda again! They got to my house around 9pm and boy did Keagan and I get off to a rough start. I was a little nervous going into tuesday as he cried every time I heald him. But we perservered and turns out he was probably just a little upset from the whole drive down...being in the carseat for some 15-16 hours over 2 days.


The first picture is Keagan in his wedding outfit. This was a trip of many firsts for him. First wedding, first vacation, first time meeting me and the family, first time in California. But thank goodness it wasnt a bunch of lasts! Oh...the wedding was for a friend of Rondas...from childhood.

Here we are getting in a little R & R.



The Activity Gym!

This is day one....that explains the look of worry on his face as he looks at me. =)

RAIN!!!!

Well the beautiful weather is gone...just in time for Ronda and Keagan to visit me! This is what I get after all the bragging I did of our beautiful 80 degree weather and burning sunshine. As the weatherman said the other night "temperatures are dropping and get ready for the winter we have been waiting for...temps will drop down to the 60s tomorrow and expect a drizzle on Saturday" and aparently a drizzle on Friday night as I was faced with a 45min traffic commute on the way home from work today. Ug.

So not too much going on here. I am counting down the days until I get to meet Keagan for the first time, they will be here monday night. Work has been going well. One of our managers is steping down. This makes 4 in 8 months with myself and probably Meghan to follow in late June. Our General Manager will be back on Monday having completed his 3 month training in just under 2. So nothing too exciting...probably why I havent blogged in so long.

Beautiful Day

If today wasn't a beautiful day then I don't know what is!

I rolled out of bed at 1045am to go for a jog with Amberlee. I made sure to put on my pants and almost grabbed a sweatshirt when I saw Amberlee had hers. This is around the time I walked out into the blinding sun and 85 degree weather that heated the So Cal Valley today. Needless to say we might need to plan future jogs at an eariler hour when its cooler. After our jog we opted for the iced coffee and Amberlee was finally able to catch up on last weeks episode of The OC. After this Amberlee was off to the Beach and I had my reading for class. So I spread out a blanket outside and for the next few hours tried to absorb this sunshine that I will desperatly be missing next year.

I then as you can see decided to wander around the backyard and take random pictures. The first one is my favorite tree out back and then there is of couse one of the orange trees coveted mostly be Hershey and Emmy who drool for just a slice of that orange goodness.

The beauty of my day sorta continued into the night. This is a picture of the smoke from the Anaheim Hills fire, which has been shedding ash on everything from the umbrellas at work to my car parked in the driveway. The smoke gave us an amazing pinkish grey sunset but as it got darker it started to look a little gloomy like in this picture.

Nothing exciting to report about class. We just learned/reviewed about Amphetamines and a little about the Downers.

And then there was nothing.

So for the past few days or perhaps its already been a week, I have been trying to think up something exciting to blog about. No sucess really...so I thought I could just babble.

I never thought I would say this but work is boring. This is a far cry from a complaint...but it just is. I open now on Wednesdays and we barely broke $1000.00 in sales from 11am-4pm. Now for those of you unfamiliar with how slow that really is...lets see the average person probably spends about $15 on food and drink. Most people coming to our resturant are in families so typically we will see a family of 4. Your now looking at around $45 a family (kids meals are cheaper). That means there were probably around 22 families to come in a 5 hour time period...putting us at an average of 4 families an hour!!!! Thats slow enough to make a person talking to herself in the bar while having a glass of wine seem like your watching the Superbowl....and was it ever.

So besides work I finally started class last week. These will be the last 2 at good ol CSUDH and the last two academic classes for my program. I am taking Perspectives of Drug abuse and some diet class....or wait....its Treatment of Eating Disorders. Ive only been to two classes for each but am finding them to be amoung my favorite so far. I have the same teacher for both, a retired LAPD police officer who retired as a homicide dective. If he doesnt have great stories, no one does. I have been excited for my eating disorders class all along because its really something that I was never able to understand mostly because I don't really know all that much about them. I really became hooked on that class on the first day when my teacher tells us he is teaching the class so that we can help those people because he just can't do it anymore. Its scary to hear the director of an impatient psych hospital and drug rehab center say he cant treat a certain addiction. So I am both excited and scared to learn more about these disorders so I can hopefully be able to walk through them with someone.

So thats me right now...I know I know very exciting. Ill try and make some things happen here soon. Good luck Summer! (She leaves for New York in a couple days to do her art thing).