The Sun'll Come Out Tomorrow

And it brutally shone on me all day today, too! I had to do a health fair, outside, in August, in Houston Texas today from 8am-noon. I love the heat, but damn. I also spoke Spanish almost the entire time I was there too. I got me some good breakfast and lunch on the company dime though, in retaliation. I earned it in sweat today.

There's been a lot going on, which is evidenced by the dearth of blog posts. I just have been so busy at both jobs that I have not had time to post anything. From grant-writing and deadlines, to being busy interviewing for Bob's replacement, to my just being out of the office so much on comp time and vacation, the days have flown. But here's the highlights:

• The Circus last Friday!!! Send in the clowns! What's better than Ringling Brothers? And it was the baby's first time, ever. We went early and got to walk amongst the animals. She got a free ticket from the Summer Reading Club and I got a discounted one. Next year when we have more $ we are moving down from the cheap seats! I bought her a (gulp) $12 dollar snowcone, but I couldn't resist b/c it came in a nice plastic white tiger cup that she can reuse and reuse. God, I love the circus. My dad does too and he took me several times, even when I was into my twenties, heh heh.
  
• I have new hair. Also last Friday, after S picked us up from the circus (he can't ever go due to his clown fear) we went to the Galleria and I needed a haircut, bad. I told the dude to do something fun in the front and he gave me chunky bangs. Then he put a cool red hair extension in the side and I just had to buy it. The baby saw me and wanted one too so I bought her a pink one! Pic's later, blah blah blah.
  
• Got my blood glucose tested on Saturday at yet another health fair I had to work (it's the high season for health fairs) and although I have rampant diabetes on both sides of my family AND had eaten a whole bagel and muffins that morning, my blood registered a low and healthy 67. Yay!
  
• Patrol on Sunday was eh. I rode with a nice young deputy I'd never ridden with before and it was almost time for me go to home when a shots fired call dropped. We were standing in the substation at the time, testing DNA off a bloody broken pane of glass when the call dropped and I watched my partner and the other deputy in the room TAKE OFF RUNNING. I'd never seen this happen before and I was a little stunned and so he had to yell at me to "Come on!" so I ran too and man, my boots are hard to run in. In the end it turned out to be nothing very major (an older man shot out his window at his son "supposedly" thinking it was a burglar) but the adrenaline was pumping there for awhile!!!
  
• Monday night S and the baby came with me to my monthly sheriff's meeting and that was fun. Afterwards we ate at the Hard Rock cafe with Mudflap, et al.
  
• Tuesday I did my last skin care class of the summer and I am now DONE! Back down to working only 3 jobs. I sure wish those bums would pay me though, they have not paid me for the past 6 classes yet. I'm going raise my rates next year at least another $10 to get back at them.
  

This is the last weekend of our entire month with the baby. I'm so glad she's getting older b/c every year she's a little easier to deal with. S can go back to hitting his job search hard starting next week again. In the meantime, we're still scraping by though I got some good news recently that will definitely help our situation.

This weekend I'm most looking forward to sleeping late and reading my many, many books!