It's been a busy week and a half, so sit back and get ready to do some reading.
Work is still going well, learning something new each and every day. I have a book that I'm supposed to be reading and its very dry reading at best so its taking me a little longer than it should, hopefully I'm just in a section that doesn't flow that well and things will pick up. Otherwise, I love it! The work itself is a lot of fun, taking something that's all broken and beat up, and making it look like new again is just awesome. I think the best part about it is showing the people their finished product and hearing "geez, I cant even tell where the damage was"...good, that's what we like to hear. It's even more satisfying when you go into some of the houses that cost upwards of 750K plus and hear the snotty people that live there say that too :) Not that I have anything against snotty people, they are usually the ones w/ the money to be able to afford to move and therefore get their furniture damaged to put food on my families table, so...viva la snotty people!
In anticipation of having Tucson open for business soon, I decided it was time to go out and get myself a work truck. I originally wanted an F-150, mostly for selfish reasons (I love the look of them), but in the end, economically it just didn't make any sense to pay that much money for something I would only be using for work, so I ended up with a Dodge Ram Crew Cab. I took longer for the dealership to wash it and fill it with gas than it did to do the paperwork part, apparently they only have like 2 guys that do the detailing work...no where near enough, especially when your the busiest Dodge dealership in town. Anyway, while I was waiting for the truck to get washed, they were having a drawing for some prizes, so I decided to throw my name in the box to try and win something....I was totally expecting to get something like a free oil change or something, boy was I surprised 20 minutes later when they called my name and asked for me to come up to the front desk to collect my "prize". Turns out I won a 5.1 Megapixel Digital Camera (Samsung s500) and a 256 MB memory card to go with it, also, they threw in a free car wash, and the oil change! I couldn't believe it, works out great cause now I don't have to worry about getting a new camera for work! So, using the new camera, I took these pictures of the truck.
Last Saturday we went to Elliots first ever Major League baseball game. The Arizona Diamondbacks were hosting the Los Angeles Dodgers. Not even thinking (big shock) I figured it would be ok to take Elliot. The game started at 6:40 pm. Not such a bad time really, but when you consider he usually starts his bedtime routine around 7:30, it wasn't the best move I've ever made. He got tired and cranky towards the end, in fact, we decided to leave after the 9th inning when it was tied at 3 all. The night before they had gone 15 innings, not something we figured would be good to do w/ Elliot there. He fell asleep at the end of the game, but everytime the crowd cheered, it woke him up and startled him. So off we went, worked out great really cause just as we hit the sidewalk to head back to the truck, we heard them announce that the Dodgers had scored a run, turned out to be the game winner so we didn't miss much. Got out of the parking lot well ahead of everyone else and were on our way home, which was a screaming match for most of it.
We had some good seats though, Fridays has a restaurant out in left field, and they have seats you can get out on their balcony. Its a pretty good deal really, the seats were 65 bucks each, but then they give you 50% of that cost towards the purchase of food. So, we each got 32.50 to spend on food, more than enough for appetizer, dinner, and dessert. So that's what we did. This was our view of the field from our seats:
Elliot and his poppa at his first baseball game:
The bullpen right below our seats, not once during the game did anyone actually warm up...wonder if that had anything to do with them losing?
Uncle Mike and Elliot:
Grandma and Grandpa Grimm fighting over who
gets to hold Elliot:
Grandma won:
It was a fun weekend, long, but fun. Dad had some off the wall jobs scheduled for today and tomorrow, so no worky worky for me. We took today to run some errands and open a new bank account. Tomorrow morning I'm going to get the windows tinted on the truck, after getting the Jetta done, its a necessity, makes it so much more tolerable to get into the hot car when the windows are tinted, its amazing how much difference it makes. Tomorrow I'll be running some picture frames back to a customer and that will pretty much be the end of my day. That's enough typing for now, Elliot is down for a nap, so its peace and quiet time now....for the next 15 minutes anyway :) Friday is moving day, so as soon as we have internet back up, I'll get some pictures of the new house posted, inside and out, cant wait to get moved in!!!!!
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