Well, the job at East didn’t work out. If only I had passed my CSET a little bit earlier. It’s ok, there will be other possibilities. I’ve got been June 20th when I found out about my test and the beginning of school to find another job. Here’s for hoping!

On a happier note, Stacie and I bought a refrigerator. Freakin’ exciting huh? haha. It’s funny how what you find fun and exciting changes as you age. When I was 7 ninja turtles ruled, but now that I’m 23 a new refrigerator is cool. Gotta love that.

Today I took and passed my CSET, but for a few hours prior to that I was sitting at McDonald’s studying. Let me suggest to you, that if you are ever bored, go sit at a McDonald’s. The people and events you will see or both annoying and hilarious at the same time.

Lonely Babies

Most normal and intelligent mothers do NOT leave their babies alone, especially in a public place such as McDonald’s. However, today I witnessed two women leave their THREE babies alone.

While this was slightly annoying, it became quite amusing. Two children had salt shakers, which they were banging on the table and licking and having a great time. The third kid however had a pepper shaker. When he turned red and starting crying from licking the pepper shaker, my annoyance towards the mothers turned to amusement. I have a feeling that kid will be eating paint chips when he’s older.

The Math Whiz

A little while after the babies left, a guy/girl couple came in, roughly 18 years old. They proceeded to order their food and then found a nearby table. The conversation I overheard was quite funny. The girl had the health information sheet for McDonald’s and was reading it. And I quote:

Girl: "Chicken Selects have 1240 calories. That’s like your daily quotient of food. The 10 piece Chicken Selects are death."

While she was funny, her boyfriend was the math whiz. I assume the girl had only partially eaten her hamburger when she turned to him and said:

Girl: What’s 2/3 of 460?
Guy: 90?
Girl: Wow, you can do math in your head?

Hurry, go to McDonald’s, now.

Denise, my sister, has posted a new haiku poem on her myspace. You should really go read it, it’s quite amazing. And don’t forget to post a comment so she knows you looked.

I don’t want to restart Windows right now! I know I let you install a stupid automatic update for me, and I understand I need to restart for it to work, but LEAVE ME ALONE! I don’t need a dialog box to pop-up every 5 minutes reminding me that I can restart now, or restart later. I clicked LATER! Not 5 minutues later, but later like when I feel like it later! I am perfectly capable of going to the start menu, selecting turn off, and clicking restart! GO AWAY, gosh.

The end is in sight. This is officially my last super duper ultimately crazy week. I finished off my last week of school stuff to do, but I’ve got a bunch more this week. Time for another list!

1) EDP 302 Final
2) Study for CSET: Geometry (Wednesday)
3) Study for CSET: Geometry (Thursday)
4) Study for CSET: Geometry (Friday)
5) Interview at East for a job
6) Take CSET: Geometry at Cypress High School

Well, it’s all over. I’m confident I passed the CSET, and I’ve yet to hear about the job at East. Not getting my hopes up, but I’ve got until school starts to get a job, so we shall see!

Our painting went all day on Saturday, and the downstairs is almost finished. Our main wall is now a beautiful blue, and the remaining walls are waiting to be painted. A few more pictures are in the gallery here.

I’ve been busy starting the makeover for our new townhouse. There were a few paint decisions the previous owners had made that we didn’t particularly like, so we’ve decided to put our own "style" into the place. I’ve primed the entire downstairs, and I’d like to have that all finished by this weekend. Then we can start on the upstairs! I’ve added a few pictures to the gallery, but I’m sure more will follow.

Finally, one hour later, I successfully cut one toenail off my dog. I think we’ve been approaching it completely the wrong way.

Before we would try and hold the dog and cut her nails, and the more she struggled, the harder we would hold her, leading to even more struggling. Eventually just seeing the nail clippers has made her turn into a super freakazoid. I’ve been worried lately about her dew claws because they’ve gotten way too long. Dew claws are the 5th claw on their front legs that don’t touch the floor, and if they get too long, they can curl back and pierce their pad. It was really important that I figure out a way to have her let me cut it!

For the last hour we sat on my bed, and I decided the nail cutting process must be as painless as possible. For the first 15 mins I just sat there and held her paw in one hand and scratched on the head with the other. If she started to struggle, I didn’t fight her, but waited for her to calm down, then started over. Eventually I got the clippers and just set them on my lap, and did more soothing. Then I started running the clippers over her back and the side of her face just letting her get used to it. When I’d put the clippers by her paw I’d keep telling her she was a good girl, but if she freaked out or fought I didn’t fight her. I just let her calm down and we’d start over again.

After a long while she was calm enough that I had one hand holding her paw, toenail at the ready, and my other hand was holding the clippers and stroking her neck. When I was within one inch of her nail and still calm, I was able to clip her dew claw! Of course she freaked out from that, but I proceeded to praise her and give her a dog treat followed by 10 mins of playing. The biggest thing is not freaking her out and not fighting her. She has to learn it’s not that big of a deal.