Kate, my parents give us annual memberships in the local Natural History Museum. Bonus is that they are partners with several hundred other museums and zoos around the country, so we get reduced/free admission all over the place. You might see if your zoo has something like that and find out what other museums/science/discovery centers you can get free/reduced admit to with the membership. It's been great to have so many free option to get out of the house, and not feel like you have to spend hours upon hours to get your money's worth.
My brother has (reduced, due to above) membership in the Bham zoo and they go all the time when the weather is nice, and have since the boys were still in the lumpy infant stage. It's nice to be able to go out somewhere 'free' (it's already paid for...) whether as an Event or spur of the moment. And even if it is for 20 minutes that the kids want to play in the fountain, see just the alligators and eat half a burger. Or when Tyler MUST go to the McWane center and all he wants to do is go down the 3 floor slide eighty-million times. That would be...annoying if you had to pay an admission fee for just that.
Yeah, when we had memberships at the NOLA zoo and aquarium, the best part was knowing we could duck in for half an hour if that was all the time we had and enjoy that instead of feeling like we needed to see everything every visit (especially since the aquarium was also an excellent place to go for air conditioning...)
Jilli,
I like your wishful thinking, but the show might not hit DVD. the ratings are BAD.
Glad not to be famous this week. They are dropping like flies.now Maria Tallchief. [link]
I like your wishful thinking, but the show might not hit DVD. the ratings are BAD.
Well damn. I know Cleolinda is amused by it.
Ruh-roh, I had some anger management issues at staff meeting today. There were at least three conversations going on at once as I was trying to explain to a new staff person (who doesn't read her emails, so it's not like I could send her a link to the document and to ask me if she had any questions about inputting data) the spreadsheet I'd created to track volunteer metrics, and another coworker, who has absolutely nothing to do with volunteers or their data, butted in with goofy mocking comments and derailed what I was trying to explain. In the end, all I heard coming about of her mouth was "what you are saying is not worthwhile, shut up". So I stopped talking and let the other conversations continue. Which would have been fine, except I was so offended (another reason I stopped talking, lest I put my foot in my mouth) that I snapped my pencil in half. Agression!fail.
I tried tracking her down during a quiet moment before the end of the day to apologize, but she'd disappeared, and I can't explain why my mood today was so foul that what my mother calls my "artist temper" reared it's ugly head. Can I be PMSing at the end of my cycle?
The buyer whose offer we decided not to accept as too low has come back - after about 3 weeks - with an offer we think we can accept. She must *really* want our house.
We'll lose a bunch of money, but I am pretty ready to be done with homeownership at a distance. And me having a job means we should be able to rebuild our down payment savings within a year or two I think.
This makes the fact that we just filed our taxes and need to send the Feds a large check much easier to bear.
How is that okay?
It's not, we're all hoping she quits soon, because she is constantly declaring how various aspects of her job aren't her job. And if the header of the email doesn't contain info regarding what she does consider her job, and is not from a person that she considers relevant to the topic, she simply doesn't read it. She believes that she should have six weeks of vacation, too.
So, basically, confronting her at staff meetings in front of nine other witnesses is the only way to pin her feet to the floor, because requesting fifteen minutes of her time to discuss something gets me an exasperated eyeroll and "I'm so swamped with grant-writing and the annual gala and they want ME to stuff the envelopes, I don't have time for this!"
That doesn't sound like a person who will quit soon, that sounds like a person who will not pass the 3-month probationary review.
