JOBS and BUGS

I decided to do another quick update with out pictures.  It's not quite as fun with out the pictures, but sometimes you just have to write.  I don't always get pictures of everything I do around here.  So I signed up at a temp agency to do some temp/sub nursing in the schools.  I told them I would do any kind of temp work too.  They find subs for teachers and lunch ladies etc.  So I got my first call as a lunch lady in the Pass Christian High school.  I had to wear scrubs which I actually own.  I did not have the royal blue they wanted and so thought  I would pick a pair up at the Dollar General along with my hair net(so cute, not).  Unfortunately they only carry scrubs in a 2xl, 3xl, and up.   I decided to go with some black ones I already had.  So my first day on the job I met some nice ladies.  Mrs. Long-beach, Mrs. Boss Lady (that's what they called her because she was the Boss, I'm not sure what her whole name was, Mrs. Alma or Dedeaux, and Mrs. Mama (actually I don't think that was her name, but I could not make out for the life of me what they were calling her).  Mrs. Long-beach spoke very fast, well I'm not sure about fast, but it sounded like a totally different language to me so I just mainly smiled when I didn't understand what she was saying.  It is not polite to say "What?" when you don't understand someone here and when you say "Excuse Me?"  they get all confused and it's just not worth all the explaining.  Anyways the proper thing to say is "Ma'am?" but I always forget to say that so that is why I'm just always smiling.  Mrs. Long-beach asked me where I was from and I said Idaho.  Which she replied with "You da Ho!"  It was pretty funny and I don't think I'll ever be able to say I-Da-Ho innocently any longer.  It was a very busy job thank goodness.  A lot like the stuff you do at home, but a lot more sterile.  So actually it was perfect for me like being in a Hospital Sterile environment and then like being in my own kitchen too.  It was fun to meet some new people and just learn what it is like to be a lunch lady.  The one lady I worked with told me her son had been killed at age 20 when his fiend ran into a train. So sad, I even started to cry, which made her cry.  Oh man I hate when that happens.  Back to the story.....I liked seeing all the high school kids and smiling and say good morning when I handed them their breakfast.  I was the dishwasher for lunch so I didn't get to see the kids at lunch.  I would say my least favorite part was when they said, "OK its lunch time!"  Then they gave me a plate and told me to dish up some of the Cafeteria food for myself.  I'm not a big fan of cafeteria food, but I didn't want to be rude and not eat it, so I loaded up with my fried fish sandwich, some broccoli with that nasty cheese dip sauce on it, and some beans with all sorts of stuff in it.  They did have some cantaloupe which was good.  The ladies said I was a good worker and they were going to ask for me to come back.  Mrs. Long-beach said she liked my personality too, which I was glad about because I was still trying to figure out what she was saying most of the time.  My kids thought it was cool that I was the lunch lady and Halle was sad that I was not her lunch lady.  I don't think I would want to be a lunch lady long term, but it was an O.K job for a day!  I think I'll stick to nursing.

On another note the bugs out here in Mississippi are horrible, and they love me!  I decided maybe I should grow the hairs out on my legs to stop them from biting me.  They never bite Brent.  He said they get stuck in his leg hairs.  I don't like having hairy legs so I gave up growing my leg hairs out.  Hopefully I'll build up some type of immunity.  I looked up the benefits of mosquito and gnat bites, sure that there were some.......NOPE, not a single benefit!  I asked the ladies at the school if they were just bad right now and they  said "Oh no they're going to get much worse, this is just the beginning!"  I then proceeded to tell them about Las Vegas and how there are not any bugs in Vegas (at least mosquitos)  they were shocked, they thought everywhere had bugs like here.  I found this funny poem that describes Mississippi perfectly!

Bless this house, oh Lord, we cry. 

Please keep it cool in mid-July. 

Bless the walls where termites dine 

While ants and roaches march in time. 

Bless our yard where spiders pass 

Fire ant castles in the grass. 

Bless the garage, a home to please 

Carpenter beetles, ticks and fleas. 

Bless the love bugs, two by two, 

The gnats and mosquitoes that feed on you. 

Millions of creatures that fly or crawl, 

In MISSISSIPPI, Lord, you've put them all! 

But this is home, and here we'll stay, 

So thank you Lord, for insect spray.

Well I'm not sure if this is really home to us yet or maybe ever.  I asked Kara Kelton and Halle "if we had to move away from here would you be sad?"  I got a resounding "NO"  Kara said, "I would be so happy to move from here, I pray every night that we will leave move away and I wont have to go to that school ever again."  Halle said, "I want to go back to I-Da-Ho!!!"  Kelton said, "I would go anywhere even New York, even though they don't have a Republican as governer, and it might be scary walking home from school too."  Kara chimed in with"and it is very loud too."  I don't know where these kids come up with some of these things.  I don't even know where Kelton finds out that New York does not have a Republican Governer or who told him he wouldn't want to live somewhere that has a demacratic governer.  Kelton did say he would miss the house and the rope swing and being able to ride his bike to the bay, but he wouldn't miss the school.   I asked him what would make the school better and he said, "3 MORE RECESSES!"  Kara chimed in again with, "and being able to sit by who you want to during lunch and being able to talk while you eat your lunch, and not getting in trouble for little things, although I don't really mind walking the line at recess because I just pretend I'm in this really cool place like Disneyland or the Beach and then it is kind of fun!"

The did say also that they like that it is strict and that the teacher don't allow the kids to be silly in line.

Later I overheard Kara and Kelton pretending.  They were naming off all the teachers who could go to recess and those teachers who would have to miss recess for being bad.  Kind of funny.  

One more thing.  My little Halle came home from school and said, "Mom I got an N!"  I said, "What for and she said, "Not good!"  I was actually meaning what subject.  I did call her teacher and she said she did not have an N, but they were taking a rather long test and she thought Halle might me worried that she did not do well.  Halle does get mixed up sometimes I know.  This morning she told me Barack Obama died.  She told me her teacher told her that.