"Get it off of me!"/Peter has a new job!

Here's two posts in one:

Famous words if you ask me.
So here we are today walking to our car when a dear little friend was found on Peter's pants. He gets into the car and panics:
"What is that? Get it off of me!"
"Hold still."
"It's right there."
"I can't grab it, I don't want to squish it....where did it go?
"It's right there, get it out of the car."
"I'm trying to get it....just don't worry about it, it won't hurt you."
"I'm not driving with THAT in here."
"Oh it's on your shirt, just get out of the car and flick it off."
*Gets out of car, jumps up and down and finally flicks it off. Gets back into car and drives us home, while I am laughing hysterically.
"Honey, it's just a lady bug."
"I don't like bugs on me!"
My poor hubby...I give him the benefit of the doubt that if it was a spider I would've done the same thing, however this was a lady bug! He claims he thought it was a bee at first...but even after he knew it was a lady bug he was still freaking out. He cracks me up :)

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Peter has a new job!

Friday was Peter's last day working for Sony Electronics. He quit his job of five years and is on to bigger and better. Sony has been laying off people recently. A few weeks ago they laid off 65% of the floor above Peter. He's been coming home the last few weeks saying how dismal it has been at Sony. A few months ago, Peter's best friend Greg, told him that his company was hiring people and that Peter should give him his resume. (Greg has tried several times in the past to have Peter join the company he works for, up until now he didn't see a need to change companies) At first Peter thought his job was pretty safe and didn't want to leave a company he had been with for awhile. However, with all the layoffs he was beginning to feel uneasy and fixed up his resume and gave it to Greg. Well a short time later, he had an interview and was offered a job. He turned in his two weeks of notice and on Friday he had to turn in his cell phone. So the number that everyone has for Peter, no longer works. We're supposed to be getting him a phone soon. He will officially start at General Atomics tomorrow. He's thrilled to start a new adventure and working in the same building as his buddy is pretty cool too. He's totally stoked!
*Peter adds: "I hope there's no bugs in the building :)"

Awkward!

Today at work I had an awkward experience with a parent. I was standing watching the kids during dismissal, waiting for the upper elementary teachers to come out so I could go inside. I don't normally go outside on Mondays. While I was out, one of the parents in a car called me over to her car. At which point the conversation goes as follows:
"Have you always been stick thin?"
Me-"Yes"
"Well in that case, Congratulations and when are you due?"
Me-"Um, I'm not pregnant."
"Are you sure?"
Me-Pretty sure.
"Well normally I don't ask unless I know for sure."
Me-(I look down-yup still pretty skinny) "As far as I know, I'm not."
"Oh well that's a little awkward, I hope I haven't offended you."
Me-(thinking-awkward duh! You just called me fat!) "No, I'm fine."
"How old are you?"
Me-27
"Oh you're almost 30. Your metabolism must be slowing down."
Me-(Dude she's saying I'm fat without saying it) "Yeah must be."

So I went back to my classroom and told the other teachers. They were all like, "she said what to you? I can't believe that! You're still super skinny."
Um yeah strange. So I went and weighed myself for giggles. I have gained 3 pounds since graduating college. That's 3 pounds in 4 years, sounds pretty good to me.

So why did this lady think I was pregnant? My only idea is that I often stand with my stomach sticking out. It's kind of my way of balancing. I've done it forever.

Spider in the pants!

Guess who found a spider in their pants today? I'll give you a hint...I was playing on the computer when I heard what sounded like a scream and jumping up and down coming from upstairs. Do you know who it was? Perhaps this older spider story will bring back memories. Did you figure it out?

Peter was changing out of his church clothes and into a pair of pants. He had one leg in, was going for the second leg when a spider scurried out from where his pants were lying. At which point he is convinced there must be more. He screams and jumps up and down while trying to get the pants off, while the terrified spider tries to take cover. He eventually gets the pants off and then starts smacking the spider with the pants.

He came downstairs and announced that we needed to vacuum. He squished the spider and left the remains on the floor.

The Happiest Place on Earth

A is for Adventure...and we're ready for some!

It's a P, really it is!

This last week was spring break for me. I enjoyed relaxing, sleeping in until 8:30 for most of the days and overall doing whatever I wanted. Thursday and Friday Peter took off work and we headed to Disneyland with Peter's mom and sister. We had a ton of fun! It's hard to do Disneyland in one day, so we took two. We did most of our favorite rides and left the night around 9 absolutely exhausted. From here we walked a few blocks to our hotel. Friday morning, we walked back to the park and went to California Adventure. We were a bit disappointed. A lot of the park was under construction, they're redoing a lot of it to make it look more Disney related. They took the mickey ears off of the big roller coaster and put it on the ferris wheel instead. And took the sun off the ferris wheel and put that on the roller coaster. Really I don't see the point for the switch. They're also redoing the entire front part of the park. So the big letters are going to disappear and so will the golden gate bridge and the mountains. I'm quite bummed by that. What really needs to change in the park is there needs to be more rides. It will never do as well as Disneyland does, it just isn't big enough.

Here's some fun and relaxing rides we went on. The Winnie the Pooh ride.

The story book ride....AAAAHH! We're getting swallowed by a whale!The Matterhorn Bobsleds
The Jungle Crusie
We have to tell you that we had the best Jungle Cruise driver. He was absolutely histerical! He had us laughing the entire time. Some of his jokes, we were the only ones to get. At one point he said he could translate Swahili, he then starts singing, "Just a city girl, living in a lonely world, took the midnight train going anywhere." Us O's started singing along. We apparently were the only ones that recognized Journey. Another time he told us to get our cameras ready for the perfect shot. He then sits down and poses. Not many people saw what he was doing, but those of us that did, started laughing. He was great!

Our favorite ride though, happened to be at CA Adventure. The new Toy Story Midway Mania is soooo much fun! We rode that ride three or four times. We waited in the longest line for that ride and it was well worth it. At soon as the park was open we nearly walked right onto the ride. We all had so much fun we got back into line again and waited about 20 minutes. Then we left and did some other rides. When we came back later the line was about 40 minutes. We did this last and ended on a good note. Then we headed back to the hotel. Peter and I walked and Laurel and Diana waited to be picked up. We were all very sore when we finally got to sit down and relax.

Some picture moments at CA Adventure include...Me in front of some of my favorite
BEAR characters.

A super cute couple in front of a Beaver

Yes we had a ton of fun!

WE HATE HOA's

Last night Peter checked the mail and came back annoyed. Our stupid HOA has sent us another nasty letter. Our first violation was when we drilled into the stucco to hang our wind chime. Mind you the letter described our wind chime in detail...like someone had a set of binoculars or something and were trying to figure out how we were in violation of the rules. It's a little creepy if you ask me.

Peter: "Stupid HOA."

So we took down our wooden elephant wind chime for a little while, then got a chain from Home Depot and drilled into the wood that's about two feet higher in the same location. We hung the chain and then connected the wind chime to the chain. Ta Da problem solved!

Peter: "Stupid HOA."

So that brings us back to last night and our second nasty letter from the stupid HOA. It said that we were in violation of yet another stupid rule. "It was noted on a recent property inspection that the plants on the balcony hanging from the common area and from the stucco wall need to be removed. You may not be aware that this is in non-compliance with your Association's governing documents." Now let us first announce that our plants are in window boxes and they are hanging on the stucco wall, they are not drilled into the stucco. Not to mention that the plants have been like this for nearly two years and when we first got the nasty note about the wind chime, the plants were up at that time and nobody bothered to tell us then that we were in violation. So am I a little peeved....YES!!!! STUPID HOA!!!!!!!!!

Peter: "Stupid HOA."

So they want me to remove my window boxes...um sure, fine, I'll comply only because I don't want to be fined....However, I have married an engineer and boy am I glad...We're going to build little tables for our boxes to sit on, so they will be able to stay in their exact location. HA! Take that HOA!

Peter: "*&%$$$#@!!!*%#@! HOA!"

Mind you this is the same organization we pay a monthly fee to. Glad to know the money is going to good use :P

This is a G rated blog...we had to edit it a bit before posting.