YEAH For Eilish.

I'm setting at Coffee Zone pondering the start of another work week. At least the coffee is good. For those who were concerned, Eilish qualified for the state gymnastics meet this weekend. She also placed on vault. Now we can go to the rest of the meets this season and just have fun. It sounds like, from the little details that I have been given, she had a good time. She was pretty tired when she got home. Luckily, Elora and Rowen burned a lot of energy at Bonkers so they were all pretty mellow the rest of the evening. Well, I gotta go to work and play nice with the customers. I'll post more later.

Peace and Good Day,
Marty

10% Real Meat, 90% Fillers.

I am suffering from writers block again. I keep thinking that I need to set down and write something, but then I tell myself that I don't really have anything to say. There is no earth shattering news that everyone is waiting to read. The world is still turning on it's axis and life goes on. One of these days I'll set down and write one of those long winded, tear jerking posts that spreads around the web like wildfire. Not today.

I have to have Eilish at the gym by 8:30 am so that she can ride the bus, with the rest of the team, to their next meet at South East Missouri State University. They are going to watch the college girls compete after lunch and then their meet is scheduled for Saturday evening and Sunday morning. The Level 5 group is Sunday morning. I decided not to go just to see how she competes without the added pressure of Dad watching. We'll see.

I think I'm going to take Elora and Rowen to Bonkers Saturday afternoon so that they can go "bonkers" without wrecking our house. I've told Elora that this "treat" is dependent on her doing some work on her room in the morning hours.

I've decided that Elora definitely has a better understanding of math for her age than Eilish had at the same age. I was helping her with her math homework the other night and one of the problems required her to do some counting evaluations of different groups. Instead of counting each individual piece. She was counting them by 4s, ex. 4, 8, 12, and then adding on the three remaining pieces. This is a multiplication technique that Eilish's class was working on at the beginning of the school year. Pretty cool, don't you think.

I've downloaded the Skype software and after some shopping tomorrow to buy a microphone, I'll be ready to give it a try. Skype is an online phone service that allows you to talk to anyone else who has the who has Skype for free no matter where they are. I'll be hitting people up to join so don't be surprised if you get an email about it. If you already use Skype let me know so I can add you to my contact list. I've also added a Skype status bar to this blog.

I'm falling asleep as I write this, which doesn't bod well for this post winning a Pulitzer, so I better wrap this up and turn in. I hope everyone is doing well and I'll try to write more soon.

Peace and Good Dreams,
Marty

Brain Age = 42

Congradulations Are In Order!!

I now know why I haven't heard from Sue lately. She has been out joining the ranks of the self employed. She will be opening an antique store on April 1st in Carson City. The building to the left will "house" this new endeavour and is, of course, located on Main Street. I know this is a long held dream for Sue and her mother to have an Antique Store and I wish them good luck.

Peace and Good Cheers,
Marty

I'm Not Sure If This Is A Compliment Or Not?

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Milord Earl Marty the Imaginary of Piddletrenthide on the Carpet Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

"Nice Start" To A Long Weekend.

I gotta call at 11:30 yesterday while I was at work. It was Eilish calling from school to tell me that they were releasing school at 1pm due to the ice storm moving into the area. So I had to make a mad dash to find somebody to finish my shift. I left work just as the first wave of the ice moved in.

Now to prove that Murphy's Law is always in play, last night was the only night that we had made plans for. Mizzou Gymnastics was having their "Pink Out" for breast cancer last night.


We braved the weather, dodged the sliding cars, and headed off to the Hearns Center to see Mizzou compete against the Fighting Illini and to get our "Pink Out" t-shirts. Mizzou is ranked 18th in the nation and they won last night by three points.

After the meet, it only took us twenty minutes to chip the ice off the van and thirty minutes to make our way home at twenty miles an hour. We got home just in time to go to bed. Yeah.

Eilish's gymnastics practice was cancelled this morning so i let them sleep in until about 9am. We're now getting ready to go do some grocery shopping before the second wave of ice slides into town this afternoon. Boo.

According to the weather man we may be spending most of our three day weekend at home. I'm already getting cabin fever. It sounds like I will have plenty of time to blog this weekend.

Peace and Good Cheers,
Marty

Brain Age = 44

What Is Your Brain Age?

Because as everyone knows that I have absolutely nothing to do, I signed up to participate on one of the visionary groups for the growth of Columbia. The group I signed up for is the Arts and Culture group. I have no idea what this is going to in tell. I think this will be a good way for me to meet some like minded people in the community. The first meeting is Jan 17th. Should be interesting.

On a different note, Sue and Gary gave me a gift card for Christmas and I want to show everyone what I got. I bought a Nintendo DS Lite (onyx). I'll spare everyone the details of how cool this thing is and just say, "it's way cool".
I also bought this game called Brain Age. I swiped the following description from Amazon.com:

Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day is a fun, rewarding form of entertainment everyone can enjoy. Inspired by cutting-edge neuroscience, it's a full set of reading and mathematic exercises that stimulate the brain. At the start, you'll take a series of tests and get a score that determines how old your brain is. This is your "Brain Age" -- by performing daily exercises just minutes a day over weeks and months, the better you'll get and the lower your Brain Age will get.

So for those who are curious my Brain Age today is 60. This is before coffee and my daily training with the game. My Brain Age yesterday was 50. Laugh it up, It's not as easy as you think.

Peace and Good Cheers,
Marty

Look What I Found On The Internet.

I found this bracelet on the web and decided the girls needed one.

The Memorial prayer is told with the combination of
Sterling Silver Charms & Glass Beads on the bracelet.
The prayer goes like this:

"Do not stand at my grave and weep,I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond's gilt on snow. I am the sunlight on the ripened grain, I am the gentle autumn's rain. When you awaken in the morning's hush I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there,
I did not die."

The prayer reminded me the book,
The Next Place by Warren Hanson.

Peace and Good Cheers,
Marty