5/17/09

I have an answer about the YMCA volunteer thing. The way it was explained to me was that the YMCA's are sort of like a franchise. This explained so much. I am my locations first volunteer and it sounds like they need the help. I think they are sort of creating the system as they go. I'm positive other YMCA's have had volunteer's. If you are in another state don't let my experience stop you from donating your free time. Maybe they will ask me to help out in the process and I can put all of that Six Sigma training to work. I will need to be on my best behavior and watch my sarcasm. I wouldn't want to ruin this for future volunteers. I could just see future volunteers being offered a chance to clean toilets because I was rotten.

The last two weekends Derek and I have gone to the movies. Star Trek, and Angels & Demons, both were entertaining. Which brings me to movie etiquette. Please don't talk during the movie, and if someone asks to you shhh don't start talking again later on in the movie. Next if you would prefer to lay down in your girlfriends lap... maybe you should think about waiting for the movie to come out on DVD and watch it at home. Contrary to your belief that no one cares, your wrong. Leave it at the house. I paid $10 bucks too. You may have picked up that I had a tough time at the movies last night. The movie began and the stranger to my left would not shut up! When I changed seats I would have thought they would have picked up on my not to subtle action. Nope. I guess being 2 seats away from them wasn't enough distance for Derek who had to verbally ask them to shut it. Which was useless because they started talking 5 minutes later. My point being I enjoyed my movie less due to their lack of respect for others. After this blog entry I'm not going to think about it anymore. I have the option to stay at home where I can control the environment. There really wasn't any harm done. I'm just a movie theater snob. I need to let it go.

I want to put a special shout out to Mr. and Mrs. Muller. Thank you so much for the grout gun suggestion. Derek and I are finally making progress on the grouting in our bathroom. We owe you big time.
Our bathroom has about 90% of the tile laid. If you make it to our home we'll show you our semi-finished project. You will see why we are so excited about the grout gun. Before we were using something that is the craftsman version of an iced cake decorating tool. Talk about tough to work with. I was using my entire body weight to squeeze schmootz out. Now Derek can just pull a trigger and the grout is effortlessly oozed into place. We may get this project finished before 2010.