The Bertana-English Dictionary

Funny thing at work before I was done for the week was a job posting came of of my exact job on a different program and the persons applying needed to be 2 pay grades above my current level. I sent an email with the job listing link to my section manager and said well this is interesting...what do I need to do to convince folks to promote me that way. He misread it completely and thought I was going to apply. (head desk) and then when I was logging off my department manager asked for some interesting info especially how much budget I control (which is a significant amount). so we shall see what happens with that. :P

so Friday I did all of the errands. The Plate were easy on the Rav but I need the title (which is in Tucson) to get mom's name removed. I had forgotten that detail (le sigh) so next year. I dropped off a whole load of stuff at good will that filled the back of teh van. I hit the first bank on the list and that was forever to get a $200 check out of the IRA. I will definitely be moving that to my other finance stuff cause they were a PITA bank, very nice people, but lax security and just weird vibes. Then I went to the main bank my other accounts are at and that was super easy and they were able to print me a new debit card onsite. And set up everything I needed to automatically start the distributions on the IRAs. Like easy peasey. I then I hit lunch from Taco Johns, Ace Hardware, and Hy-Vee before coming home.

Saturday we got up a bit late cause there was a doozy of a storm at 1am. I had to run around closing windows and the bathroom window wouldn't crank back in. (its had an issue for years but yeah) so I had to take the screen off to pull in in manually cause I was not going out int he pouring rain and the lightning. I then was up cause my anxiety kept telling me something else was wrong and I had to check things...so I slept poorly. But we got up and out of the house mid morning to Madison SD. We hit up a nice little college bar called The office, shopped at an antique store and then hit up a place from my childhood Prairie Village. We were too late to see/ride the steam powered carousel but we did manage to get rides on some of the railroad stuff. And boy howdy did we get a personalized tour of the train shop including on all of them and underneath them. There was a family reunion on site and they took a long time to load folsk on the small rail doodlebug cars cause their main conductor who runs the big trains was out sick. But Benton got curious and went to look and got invited in and we met Sonny who was amazing and volunteers there and is on the board for the center. We had a great time and got to ride around the site on the worker cars twice. The whole premise of the site is saving historical buildings and places from the surrounding areas in the county so the history is kept. Its really cool and my ownly regret other than not seeing the restored carousel is we forgot sunscreen and I was a bit crispy. When we left the farm it was raining so I didn't think it was going to get that bright but oh well. We had a good time, the we got pop and the boys got ice cream for the drive home. It was took late to go to costco but we got home and I showered and slathered on moisturizer. Sunday I got up early and managed to hit costco and another grochery run to be ready for the family when they got there in the afternoon. I managed to get home, get things put away and into some projects including making a mulberry cobbler. The family arrived and we had burgers on the grill. Even tried some from hyvee that are bratwurst burgers and those got a cheer from the crew.

More tomorrow but I did finish the follwoing things:
1) book 16 and started book 17 Slaying Monsters for the Feebleminded
2) I finished spinning the kona, plied the dinosaur fiber I had spun, and started in out the white sparkly stuff
3) found fabric for aprons and made 2
4) fixed mel's janky worn tunic from 8 years ago, and patched my one middle dress
5) have been working on socks from my trip to Virginia a while ago.