This weekend has been a blissful visit to family and relaxation. Amy and i wondered on down to the Knickerbockers (Steve and Vic) to get some family time in as well as “Get the ribbit outta Dodge!” for a little while. Steve and Vic put us up in class and style in one of their guest bedrooms and let us just take it easy.
Saturday we all went to “The 3rd” (one of the many church services held down there in Chattanooga that we really enjoy thanks to the uplifting music and the Pastor Mike Fulbright with his down to earth sermons) and enjoyed an excellent talk by Mike as well as some great music done by Tag Something. Honestly i fell asleep during the last 15-30 minutes of the sermon because of this stupid cancer, which i admitted to afterward while talking with Mike. he understood the reason for it and has been supporting us with prayers and dealing directly with Steve and Vic.
After church Amy and i played a little pool while we waited for Nana, Bampi and Grannie to come on over to join us for lunch. The lunch was awesome with the wonderful food and interesting discussions that always occur with this crazy Knicks. Afterward we sat on the side porch in the sunlight and talked, laughed, slept, and found out the population of the 4 main cities in TN!
Nana, Bampi and Grannie had to leave so i attempted a snooze but couldn’t find sleep so i tossed and turned dreaming up ways to make money. he its a good past time to do on the Sabbath right? dreams of selling my hair for millions came up quite often so i hatched a plan that i will share a bit more with you later.
Saturday evening found Amy, Nana, Vickie and later Jacquie shopping at the mall and Steve teaching me the benifits and finer parts of the TN and GA lottery I have never really explored the sillyness of the lottery and i had a wonderful time talking with Steve about the different aspects about each different type of lotto. a bit of a fact here for ya, both GA and TN lotteries go for the education systems, so being a good teacher that i am i bought a few of the different types of drawings and enjoyed sitting in a gas station getting excited about ping pong balls falling from Heaven to grace us by NOT falling on the numbers we had chosen in Keno. how bout choosing that 4567 in a row for two games, not getting it, then not playing them for the next few games and then those numbers getting choosen. next time Steve choose 4567 for every game just like you had discussed on the ride down . Later that night we met up with the ladies to have dinner at the American Cafe and enjoyed some very unusual conversation which is always adventurous with this bunch.
Sunday i awoke to Vic walking (sounds like a heard of elephants to you and i [we love ya vic]) and the smell of some delicous food that Steve is so famous for his Sunday breakfast. After having a bit of everything i was quickly filled and just sat basking in the pleasureable chit-chat and enjoying the beautiful day.
Headed home just to unpack and then head to school for the evening. We swung in a pet store to get 30 gold fish for the game i was in charge of for the fall festival my school was putting on to raise money for a new roof. my game was a game where the goldfish were the reward as well as part of the game. the contestant would throw a ping pong ball from a measured distance into a mass of cups filled with goldfish. if the ping pong ball landed in a cup, that contestant got that fish. with some of the pre-k to k students i simply had them walk up to the group and drop the ball straight into the cup for the fish which brough smiles to the parents, or frowns from those parents that didn’t want a fish that would be flushed down the toilet in just 2 days while consoling their child and trying to describe to them the aspects about death. We did well for the night with that game bringing in about $60 profit from our fish.
The highlight for me was the fact that my idea that i had thought up Saturday was put into action with the approval of my principle. Since i will be recieving Chemo on Tuesday, the doc said i would more then likely be loosing my hair in a couple of weeks. so for my last hair cut, i was going to let the highest bidder at the festival design or even cut themselves. So after a quick intro by yours truly discussing why i was allowing this insanity that i would have to put up with for at least the next couple of days the auction comensed. so ya wanna know how much my next hair cut is worth? well someone thought that to them it was worth $160! can you believe that? someone is willing to give me a wacky haircut for $160. the money goes to putting on a new roof on the school.
makes sense, i loose my top so the school gets a new one, yup teachers sure do give up a lot!