Wild and planted!

One day I was drivin down the street and as I usually do my eyes are just taking everything in. I noticed this sign in the middle of the median and decided to take a look at what it said. I have not seen a sign like this in the median.

To my surprise it is a sign that reads "Wildflower Planting Area".

Huh?

Wildflower Planting Area?

I dunno, the fact that wild and planting on the same sign just caught me funny I guess.

Wonderful vacation

Well we have made it back from Florida in one piece safe and sound. Well Caden now has Pink eye along with an ear infection, so I guess that is the only blemish on our trip.

Ya wanta know one of the greatest things about this vacation and how it fits in with my new job at a Jr. High School? No not that I get a week off for spring break, which by the way is pretty awesome as I stated previously, or summer vacation. I am no longer stressed while on vacation.

I had been in sales for 8 years before taking this position. When in sales you have clients that are your responsibility to continue to sell and maintain. So when I was out of the office I always worried about the office back home. Who called? How much have I sold for the week? Are my clients being taken care of? Are my clients correct ads running in this weeks edition? are my colleagues checking my e-mail and voicemail for all sales?

I had lost clients due to one or all of these factors in the past. So now that I am out of sales I did not have to worry about any of that, I could actually enjoy the entire time outside of work. How sweet it is.

Well here are a few pictures from our trip, enjoy!

Caden & I in front of sign welcoming us to Florida. I want to get a picture of Caden in front of a sign for every place he visits. Just like in a past post in front of a sign for Arkansas.

Caden with his Grandparents, my parents by the way.

Caden's first swim! OK he did not actually swim, but he still had fun.

Caden and I with the Atlantic Ocean in the background. As we looked to the ocean I whispered in his ear that later this year we will prayerfully be on the other side of that ocean in Nigeria. It was a windy day as you can tell by my shirt filling up with cool air.

Such a great traveler! This is him on the plane with a plane on him during our flight home.

Booted out of work

Wow, never thought I would enjoy my employer kicking me out the door. Never thought that it would happen like this. It's not that I have been told to just leave but then told to not come back for a week on top of that. Never thought I would enjoy this day.

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What a wonderful feeling.

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Spring Break! Florida here we come.

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Well now that I am working in the public sector, a school, I have now just entered a week off. A week I did not have to actually ask off for. I did not think I would enjoy those words again, who would have thunk?

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How many years has it been since I actually enjoyed this week? 16, wow have I been out of school for that long? Yikes. That means my 20 High School reunion is next year in 2009.

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Gettin old am I.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Wanted to share a few photos with you of our little guy this past weekend. Some of ya don't know that here in the Dallas area it snowed 2 times last week. OK last week Tuesday it snowed like an inch or two in some area's. At our home it was just a trace and it was gone by the time we woke up.

Thursday all the kids where I work were praying for a day off due to more snow over night. Well it did snow and where we live it accumulate about an inch maybe. But a few miles north of here they got about three inches and about a few more miles north of that they got 6-9 inches of snow. Did you read that and comprehend that? I said 6-9 inches of snow, to just north of Dallas, Texas.

So on Saturday we went up to where they had all of the snow at my wifes grandparents and cousins farm. There was still a good patch of snow left so I had to take the boy out to enjoy, here are a few pics and a short video.



Our little Bub angel, perfect form!

Ahh this stuff is soft! Nice and comfy.

See daddy, no yellow snow here

Just posing for the camera

Oh no not again!

SPORTSNETDAILY
Colorado Rockies face mediation over 'Ladies Night'Promotion discriminated by gender, Civil Rights Division concludes
Posted: March 04, 200810:41 pm Eastern© 2008 WorldNetDaily
The Colorado Rockies have been ordered into mediation by state authorities after a man complained that he was denied a free "Ladies Night" game pass because of his gender.

The ruling comes from the Colorado Civil Rights Division, which concluded that the man, Stephen Horner, had a valid concern and it needs to be addressed, according to a report from KDVR-Television in Denver.

Horner reported he attended a Major League Baseball game with the Rockies in Denver in 2007 when employees of the team were handing out free vouchers to a future game – to women only. He said he asked for a voucher but was told he couldn't have one because he is a man.

He complained, but got no results, he claimed in a subsequent gender discrimination complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division.

"I felt like I got a bad deal," he told the station. "My rights were genuinely denied."

state agreed in the division's notice of "Probable Cause," which ordered mediation in the dispute. The Rockies, who can appeal the decision, withheld comment because team officials felt it was premature to talk about whether such "Ladies Night" promotions will be dropped.

Team officials earlier reported it was their intent to give the vouchers to anyone who asked.
According to a report in the Rocky Mountain News, the state Civil Rights Commission also earlier voiced support for Horner when he complained of having to pay a higher cover charge when bars and restaurants featured "Ladies Nights."

"Ladies night promotions are an illegal practice and the commission urges public establishments to immediately cease and desist such practices," the commission wrote in his ruling.

Such promotions, the commission said, are inappropriate even though they are "dissimilar to other, more pernicious types of public accommodation violations."

"Why should I pay $5 [while women are admitted free] just because I'm a guy," Horner told the newspaper at the time. "Women are growing up these days feeling they are entitled to favors. I believe that this entitlement mentality is counterproductive to the social goals of an egalitarian society."

He's generated more than a dozen court cases over "Ladies Night" promotions in bars, and has lost several cases that ended up before judges.

But now comes the state opinion on his complaint that no organization would hand out coupons to just one racial or religious group, and genders should be treated the same way.

Toebee's Fume:
Yet again some guy out there feeling slighted that someone got something FREE and he did not. (Click here for page to my first writing about similar story, scroll way down)

OK who here reading this does not realize that a sporting event is typically a guys thing? This is a nice way of trying to get new peeps, especially the ladies (all the ladies in the house say HEY!), the park decided to give them a free ticket. A give away that might just get them back to the park to spend money.

This guy is most likely already a fan and would come back on his own anyways and pay the cash.

So if we went back into his life and took a look, how many of you think he took advantage of something free for being who he is? My guess is YES! We all have come away with things because of who we are.

Restaurants have "Kids eat FREE days", ballparks with gifts for the kids entering the park, breakfast in the office for only his department and so on a so forth.

This is just too much, I am sorry especially if you cannot live with the fact that we are not entitled to everything. He talks about the entitlement mentality when I think he has a worse case of it. The women entering the park did not ask for the froe ticket as he did. They were just simply given a gift to say thanks for coming and please do come back again.

No foul there.

Something

Has it been a month since I last wrote? Well not exactly, it has been a while but it falls a few days short of a month. Last November I left my Sales Job (best thing I have done in a while) where on breaks I could up date my blog a few days a week. Since then I took a day within a School here in the suburbs of Dallas. They block such things so students cannot get to such sites. When I get home my Blog is not the first thing on my mind.

Plus where I know work does not have as much drama as my last job, OK I never wrote about all of the drama which would have filled my blog completely. I just never wanted to relive the pain that was some of the ladies in my last office.

Right now I am the ISS (In School Suspension) person within this school here in the area. It has been an interesting job so far since I have never worked within a school before. Coming from Sales to a job to school, a Hr. High school at that! Then put on top of that the trouble makers in Jr. High makes some of the days to be very very eventful. The funny part is that I am now in the know of all the incidents that happen @ School. Who would have thought!

In my Jr. High days I was always the loner and outcast. Now I walk thru the halls and actually have some of the so called "cool" students say hey to me. Kinda cool especially from my past of when I was in Jr. High. I guess it is a testiment to growth in my life.

I have more to learn and need to learn more about myself.