Sheep Guarding Llama

I am a bit behind with updates again so I am going to post today and fill in the stuff that is missing over the next few days. I haven’t been sitting in the living room with my laptop much this week and that is when I get most of my work done on the site.

Phil and Kate came down this morning and we all went to Cornerstone Baptist here in Geneseo.

Phil helped me move a couch from my aunt and uncle’s house in Leicester over to our place. We are using the couch in the basement for watching movies. We don’t have enough furniture for the basement right now so we have to make due with something for the time being.

While we were watching some television tonight, we noticed a couple of young mice running around and playing in the dining room. They were jumping on each other and chasing each other around and squealing. I have never heard mice be so brazen with three people standing there staring at them. So, I had to get the mouse cubes out again. This infestation will never end. We can’t figure out how they are getting into the house. But they seem to just keep coming in over and over again.

Most everyone took off around 11:00 this morning. Jeremy had to get home and Josh and Phil had to get up to the city to help Chris and Shanda move to their new apartment. Min and I went back to bed after having only had two hours of sleep, more or less, last night. Boy were we tired today. We didn’t really end up getting out of bed until about 3:30 when we got up and headed over to my dad’s house to have some dinner and watch a movie with the family.

We all had Chinese for dinner and then we watched Radio with Ed Harris and Cuba Gooding, Jr. It was a really good movie. It is especially cool that it takes place in Anderson, SC because I spend so much time there.

Min and I decided to go out tonight so we drove up to the city and got some dinner at Denny’s up on the Ridge (we had been hoping for crepes at IHOP but they close too early) and then we went to Hoyt’s at Greece-Ridge to see Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen with Lindsay Lohan. I was a weird movie and not as good as we had been hoping. It was okay but nothing special. Not up to par with Freaky Friday at all.

Tonight is the big game. Eight players, two teams and ten hours of AoE2! Whoo-hoo. The players and some of their women are getting food at the Omega Grill at 5:30 before the real games begin. It is going to be a really big night. We are borrowing fast computers from Nate and my dad so that we have enough fast computers for everyone. It should be a lot of fun. Min is able to play tonight because her boss is out of town and her schedule at work got changed so she had last night and tonight off. She is really excited about a whole week off from the Conesus Lake Hotel.

Min and I didn’t get to bed until 4:30 in the morning because Min had been up working the last several night and wasn’t tired until then. So she was up doing some knitting and I worked on a computer for Linda, our neighbor. We got to bed and just two hours later at 6:30, the phone rang. Dalton Elementary wanted Min to come in and sub for them. So she got out of bed on just two hours of sleep and got ready and headed down to Dalton. It is her very first day of subbing and she is getting to do elementary special ed on just two hours of sleep!

I caught another mouse down in the basement this morning. This mouse was smart and actually managed to hide the mouse trap on me. He moved the trap underneath a desk. It was really weird coming down to check the trap and having it missing. It took me a few minutes to figure out where it had gone to.

I did my STAR Exemption paperwork this morning and go them into the town assessor’s office. That should reduce my taxes next year by as much as $1,000. That is pretty cool. I am happy about that. I have heard a rumor that my Energy Star will get me another $500. Cory Weiss stopped by this morning and drove me around to take care of my errands and then we grabbed a quick lunch at McDonald’s. I have to keep my strength up for the game tonight. Andy was still sleeping when we got back.

Josh, Joanna, Jeremy, Min and I went out to the Omega Grill for some dinner before the game. Andy and Tony had dinner in Avon. Everyone but Art was at the house and ready to play by 8:00. We had seven players and ended up going very late, until 6:30 am!! Boy were we all exausted by the time we were done.

Today is President’s Day and there isn’t much work to be done so I am pretty much taking the day off. Min has to work tonight and for the next two days. Her schedule got changed at work just for this week.

I spent most of the day playing AoE2. It isn’t very often that I get to do that during the day so it was a nice change.

Well, I fell a couple of days behind but it is a holiday weekend (President’s Day and Valentine’s Day) so I have an excuse. I have also been waiting until we could make the official announcement…

JOSH AND JOANNA ARE ENGAGED!!!

We found out the other night while we were having dinner over at their place but not everyone had been told yet so we had been waiting until today to announce it on the site. They are planning on having the wedding in September 2005.

Phil and Kate Ayers made it down this morning to join us at church. It is nice having them come down to meet us since it pushes us to actually get ready and make it to church on time. Which we did. Quite early, actually.

After church we went down to Perry to get some lunch at the Silver Lake Family Restaurant. Ellie was working, we see her just about every week. She lives just above the restaurant there in town.

The Ayers were going up to have dinner with Josh and Joanna this evening so they took off right after lunch. Min and I went down to Leicester to visit with my grandmother. She is on oxygen now. She has lung problems that developed from being a teacher and breathing chalk dust for many years. Apparently they have recently discovered that chalk dust can be as bad as tobacco smoke for the lungs. Dad came down and visited too. He stayed for a while after we had taken off.

We came home and Min rusted us up some grub and we watched some of Gilligan’s Island while we ate and then we watched Open Range, which Dad got recently and thought was really good. He was really impressed with it because they actually made a good drama that barely needed to even be rated PG which is awfully nice for a change. There are some good people in this movie. Costner, Duvall, Benning and one of the kids, Diego Luna, from Y Tu Mama Tambien.

This is the official announcement, the game is on for this Friday. We are expecting eight again. Same eight as a few weeks ago. Art, Andy, Jeremy, Tony, Min, Phil, Josh and I. Min’s schedule is changed for this week so she is working Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday so she will be able to play all night on Friday. And Phil isn’t working in Canandaigua anymore so he is able to play the full night too. So it should be a pretty serious game. I think we are shooting to start around 5:30 and Josh is the only one that I think can’t be there until later. Maybe we will be able to convince Eric to fill in for him for a little while until he gets there since Eric isn’t allowed to stay late but he needs to get some practice in because he has yet to play a big game.