We kicked off the month of March by celebrating the beginning of Lent and Pazcki Day! AKA Fat Tuesday. I did not get to eat one of the fabulous Pazcki donuts from Hamtramck, MI, but I had the closest thing from our local grocery store to celebrate. And our family all swore off desserts and chocolate for the Lenten season, as well as soda(Scott). Plus we all vowed to work on the exercise program more. And there is always Fish Friday!
Congratulations goes out to Scott! He received news that he was accepted into the National Technology Honor Society! Wonderful job. And more meetings. Oh well. Looks good on his resume. Which he is busy working on during English class. At the end of this semester, the Juniors practice interviews in order to prepare for college admissions as well as the real world. It includes writing a resume. Guess they are getting an early start. He is also busy reading "The Great Gatsby" in English class which he likes. He wanted to see the movie, so I had him watch the Robert Redford version. I think it is a bit closer to the book. He also enjoyed the movie and thought it explained the book a bit more which is helpful for quizzes.
He actually had a very good week with his school work. Lots of tests and he did well on all of them. First time getting an A/100% on music theory in guitar! I can read music notes for piano, but the guitar music is a bit more confusing to me. He has to do both. Translate musical notes to the guitar Strings and Frets. I am glad he understands it! And he is busy learning to play a few more Beatles songs. I think his teacher is a big Beatles fan. Although the class doesn't actually play the most popular tunes(signs of a true artiste!). But Scott did just learn "Margaritaville". Now that we can use! Not sure if Scott will continue to study guitar, but for now it is a nice break in between his other classes. And we finally dropped by the Music school to drop off his gift to the owner thanking her for her time for the interview Scott had to do for History class. We were not expecting her to be there, but she was working late in the office, meeting with prospective music school families. So we gave her a quick thank you in person and dropped off the hand painted wooden bell from Ukraine I picked up at the German Christmas village in Baltimore last December. We also spent Saturday morning dropping off bags around the neighborhood for the upcoming Scouting for Food event. The Boy and Girl scouts travel around the neighborhood collecting food for our local County Food bank.
Besides school work, we were trying to look at his weekly schedule in order to give him time to attend some training sessions for work, as well as to download some online training classes that he has to complete. All before the end of April and in time for his yearly work review. I have had to look ahead through summer to put in for Scott's time off work already. He has some events we needed to schedule including upcoming boy scout camping trips, Robotics tournaments, the scheduled ACT and SAT college admissions tests and working Cub Scout Summer camp. This will be Scott's last year in boy scouts as he turns 18 in the Fall. Then if he wants to stay in the Troop to attend camping trips and outings, he can join the Venture scouts. They are enrolled up to 21 yrs old. They just don't worry about badges or earning Eagle. And still the paperwork is an ongoing process! We are currently rechecking dates of when Scott earned all his Eagle required badges as well as an extra 10 badges needed for Eagle, and the dates of his rank advancements. The paperwork just never ends.
Speaking of paperwork, I spent my Sunday afternoon working on my mom's taxes. I keep contacting the previous accountant from West Bloomfield MI because he has not given me the 2015 tax return yet! Not sure what is going on, but I am still waiting. He just keeps telling me it is done, but I haven't seen any results. I really want to move ahead to get Mom's taxes in for 2016. This time with a local accountant. Even our broker has not been able to make any headway with this guy. Just more stress for me!
We did enjoy a visit from Allison over the weekend. She did not have any frisbee games scheduled and was all caught up with her homework, so she decided to pay us a visit. Yeah! She came home on Friday afternoon in time for her to go with me to take Cookie to the vet. Cookie needed a few more vaccinations, and an assessment from the vet who is cleaning her teeth and will be removing a few fatty lumps off her back. Don't want them to turn out to be cancerous. Figured we would remove them while she is under for the dental work. She also helped Scott pass out his Scouting for Food bags. In the evening, Allison and Scott enjoyed their newest obsession in video gaming, the Nintendo switch. They have rediscovered the Zelda video game and they are having a blast. However, Allison got a head start over Scott since he had to work Friday night. And I talked Tom into taking me to see the new Logan movie after dropping Scott off. The theatre was packed and we all seemed to enjoy the film(even though it is a lot more violent than the previous Xmen flicks). I guess that is why there was a cop at the entrance to the theatre checking our tickets. The best part of the movie though was the short Dead Pool film right before. Very funny.
On Saturday night, Allison invited her boyfriend Tyler over for a gaming session with the new system. We decided to turn it into a dinner party, so I stopped into Costco on Saturday afternoon to pick up ribs after dropping Scott off at work. I also picked up my Mom and brought her over to share dinner with us. Unfortunately, Tyler got stuck on a computer work project that night and never made it over. And Allison had to travel back to school on Sunday, so she missed visiting with him(but she did not miss out on her time spent playing the new video game!). Scott was off to work again Sunday afternoon. Tom and I were busy filling Allison's car up with extra food supplies. I even put together a few St Patrick Day goodies for Allison and her roommates on Friday morning, so we packed those up too.
I also spent Sunday afternoon packing for an upcoming trip to Florida! More on that later.
Sending out another Big Happy Birthday to John Potts!(Susan Seitz husband). See you soon!
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