It is graduation season. The graduation invitations have already gone out. (I hope they have at least!) The kids are worrying about final exams or restlessly finishing out the last few days of high school. In honor of graduation, I give you the best advice song ever. It may sound really cheesy but take it to heart kids! Stay young!
Tracking receipts
Now that I'm teaching Zumba, I have to keep track of my related receipts for tax purposes. I wonder if I should use Royal Imaging document scanning and keep them in a virtual file instead of putting them in a folder or something. It would definitely be easier than trying to remember where I put the physical receipts. I'll have to look into the costs for it. It just might be doable.
It's not summer yet!
Despite not officially being summer yet, we are at the beginning of our second heat wave of the year. It is expected to be so hot that some of the area schools are dismissing students early. My daughter's school isn't currently on the list but today is their last full day of school anyway. They only have three half days left after today. While I do love the summer, I like it when it gradually gets warmer. It sucks when it goes from 60 to 90 overnight. (Note to self: Buy cheap sunglasses. The sun glare hurts during the drive to/from work.) If we're lucky, this will be a short heat wave. I'd like it to be over by next weekend. That is the date of our dance recital. Recital sucks when it's a million degrees out. It can get hot again after recital.
School is almost over
Yesterday was Field Day at my daughter's school. She did OK. Our family isn't really the 'jock' type though. One of the other classes seemed to have all the jocks so they pretty much won everything. (There's three classes for each grade.) My daughter had fun and, really, that is all that matters. As an aside, I'd like to mention that sometimes it annoys me that TV stations have moved from analog tv to digital. We have a TV at work but we don't have cable or satellite or anything like that. We used to just use the analog signal. Then we had to get a digital converter box. Now some of the channels randomly pop in and out. Sometimes we'll get a channel, sometimes we won't. It's annoying.
Favorite Friday
I love the Discovery show "How It's Made." I don't watch it nearly as often as I'd like. Mostly because I never remember when it's on. Anyway, today's (late) Favorite Friday is how ball bearings are made. It's pretty interesting. For some reason, these shows always make me think of the episodes of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood where he would go to a factory or something and show the kids the 'behind the scenes' stuff. It's Mr. Rogers for grown-ups!
Full time Zumba dream
I am currently stuck between a rock and a hard place. I would really love to teach Zumba full time. It is so much fun that it doesn't even seem like work. Unfortunately, I can't do that until I can make more money from my classes. I can't teach more classes because I have to keep working full time. I have been looking for a new full time job that will, hopefully, allow me to teach more often but there's a lot of management jobs listed, which isn't what I want. I'm going to keep working hard though. One day I will prevail.
Game review: L.A. Noire
The game is based on the stylistic movies of the 1940s and 50s. Sex, lies, and corruption are everywhere. You play a rookie police officer. It is your job to nab the bad guys. However, not all of the witnesses are honest people. You need to use everything at your disposal, including your intuition, to decide who is lying and who is telling the truth. When you solve enough cases, you get promoted to another area of the precinct, where more difficult cases await.
We are having tons of fun with this game. I didn't think it would be nearly as difficult to figure out when suspects and witnesses are lying. But, like real life, liars aren't always easy to notice. It gives the game something a little extra. You aren't just blindly following a trail. Options change depending on what clues you find or what answers you get. I'm very happy that we decided to pick it up.
Favorite Friday
Have a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend!
So busy!
I'm sorry that I have been so busy the past few weeks. I haven't even had time to do anything worthy of blogging about. My husband picked up L.A. Noire the other day but he hasn't had a chance to play it. That is the plan for this Memorial Day weekend. On top of that, I am about halfway through Liar's Game. I'm not sure I'll have it finished by next week though. I'll definitely be able to give you some opinions on the video game. It's almost summer! Yay!
Favorite Friday
My family did go to see Thor a couple of weeks ago. I thought about writing about it but I didn't have much to say. The movie wasn't awful. It wasn't amazing either. The graphics were good, the acting was decent. I'm ready for The Avengers. That needs to happen faster.