That's Mrs. Crabbypants, Thank you very much

Despite the many wonderful things going on this weekend, I still managed to be a crank for a far-too large chunk of it. I don't know what was up with me, but I was kindof cranky this weekend. Apologies to anyone who had to deal with my crabbiness. Especially my husband, who is far too good to me even when I am cranky. I was cranky at scrapbooking on Friday, although I got better once I actually started scrapbooking. And most of my pages turned out well. The only one that was really bad I think I'm going to change. Even Eric didn't like it and he is usually very supportive of my pages and usually likes them. I was cranky at part of my friend's wedding, but not to anybody, and it was mostly because it was hot and I was tired. The wedding itself was great though, the bride was beautiful, everything was very nice, and the reception was fun even though we didn't stay too late. Plus, they had make your own ice cream sundaes instead of cake which was very cool. And they had out some games to play before the reception started which was also a very cool idea. Today I was cranky for part of the day too, even though I got to sleep in until 9 and visit a little with my sister and brother-in-law from Chicago. Most of today's crankiness was because of all the un-fun stuff we had to take care of. And since one of those things involved our rent going up, it's sortof understandable that I wasn't too happy. On the plus side, we got a ton of stuff done today. We even got a lot of fruit on sale at Cub, and Charlotte did great overnight at my parent's house, and she loves playing with everyone so that makes me happy. So this weekend was sortof a roller coaster of highs and lows, good and bad, crankiness and happiness, but overall I think I would still have to say it was pretty good because everything except me being cranky was good, and I only have myself to blame for being crabby.

Why I Love My Job

1. I have a fire extinguisher. That says a lot right there.
2. My supervisor is really nice and supportive.
3. The rest of the staff is also very nice and supportive and I'm at a place where they definitely want me to succeed.
4. The parents/leaders I've met have been great, and I haven't had problems getting adults to come to my events.
5. The youth I've met seem very excited to have a youth minister and for the most part seem excited to come to events. Hopefully once they start being more faith oriented and less recreational they'll still want to come. (Don't get me wrong, there will be plenty of fun/recreation, but it will be a lot more centered on God once the school year starts and actual youth group starts.)
6. I have a huge office, with a couch. It's in the basement, where it's nice and cold (I actually wore a sweater on one of the 100+ degree days, that's how cold it is) but it's mine and I have pictures and everything in it.
7. It's close to home (let's face it, it's always nice when your drive is only 15 minutes).
8. I get to use my theology degree and my love and passion for God/the Catholic faith to help bring other people closer to Christ and hopefully get them excited about their faith.
9. Prayer counts for a lot.
10. People expect and want me to talk about God.

See how good my job is?

Hot Tub Time Machine

Over the past couple of days I watched the move "Hot Tub Time Machine" (almost every movie takes multiple days to get through now that I have a child). From the previews, and the title, I thought it would be a ridiculous but funny/entertaining movie. What it was, was crude, crass, and disgusting. It was basically your basic time travel to the past movie, but since that's been done so many times, apparently the makers of this movie decided to distinguish this one not just by making the time machine a hot tub, but by making this the crudest, most disgusting, foul-language filled movie they could. I'm not entirely sure they could have fit in more curse words. And the plot was just ridiculous. It was a bunch of 40 year old losers and the loser nephew of one of the characters (who was 20). None of the characters had any redeeming qualities, and there wasn't any depth to the characters. Which, ok, isn't that big of a deal considering this is your run of the mill comedy, but still, instead of coming up with a humorous plot line or even funny one-liners, they filled it with bad sex jokes/innuendos/activities that instead of being funny were just gross and obnoxious. And seriously, make the characters less likeable why don't you. It's really too bad, because I normally like John Cusack, but is this really the kind of movie he needs to make now? That's just sad.

This was such a bad movie. I can't believe this is what movie writers/creators need to come up with nowadays to sell movies. Honestly, with how much movies cost to make and see, you'd think there would be better stuff showing. But nope, this is the crap that makes it. This, and movies based on books and video games (or sometimes real life stories, or more likely based on books that are based on real life stories). I don't remember the last original movie I saw that wasn't made before 2000 (that wasn't same lame-o comedy). I was looking forward to the 3rd Transformers movie, but not so much after hearing some reviews/getting a better idea of the plot of it. That, and the fact that they had to get a new female lead is pretty lame. Still, I have to belive it's better than Hot Tub Time Machine.

Empty Nest Syndrome

All of my birds have left. We saw the last 2 fly away yesterday. No idea when the cowbird left, and the 4th bird jumped ship a few days earlier and kindof half hobbled/half flew away on the ground, so hopefully it survived. I am very happy they are all gone and at least 1/2 of the eggs survived, not too bad all things considered. And now I can water my plant without worrying about drowning the birds or having them jump out on top of me. Just in time too--we're actually starting to get decent sized strawberries. Yum!