Monday with Linkin

It's been four weeks since I got fired and this morning I sent off the sixth resume. I got the kids ready for school and then Linkin and I went to give Thomas and Josh a ride. Thomas has to drop him off at Grandma's before he leaves to work, so I offered to help since I have the day off.

Yesterday Thomas came over for shrimp and to get a few hundred pictures I've taken of him, Sony and Josh in the past couple years. Sony didn't get to come because she was with her Mom and Josh had to go to a birthday party, which I guess was totally boring because he soon called asking if he could come to my house. Josh's Mom drove by and pushed him out before we got to see her. I think she was running late on her way to the Snake Mountain Sunday night house party. Anyway, we had a lot of fun.

So this morning I got Thomas to the bus and then Linkin and I went home to play.

For lunch I had a spaghetti omelette and some green Hawaiian Punch. It's delicious Sonha! :)

Linkin had Cheerios...


and then he tried a funyun. He actually liked it.

My AT-AT is #1

My AT-AT photo, that I took back on January 3, 2009, isn't just famous on flickr and TotalFilm.com. Now it also won 1st place on Worth1000!

play time

Spent the day with my kids today. I should be thanking Burke... uh, Saruman... Cypher... Scar... I've been seeing the good that came from his betrayal. Yes, my boss holds a special spot amongst famous movie backstabbers. Enough of him though.

I've actually been enjoying my time with my kids while trying to find new work.

Yesterday and today we've been racing cars, playing with Bakugans and watching cartoons.

Linkin loves watching the cars race.


Linkin had one of those power house messy diapers, so I had to change him into something else.

Then he wanted some Daddy time to play his little game of sticking his slobbery fingers in my mouth.

We played Bejeweled for a bit. He loves watching Becky & I whenever we play.
Then I went on flickr and found out that one of my ATAT photos had been posted on Total Film.com as part of the 50 Coolest Star Wars Flickr Pics. That's cool.

Here's the link to my photo.


After playing for hours Linkin fell asleep and I went outside to enjoy the cold air. Emily came and took my picture. We'll see what happens next.

I was set up

by my boss, who for the last year and a half would ask me how my family was doing and how my world is. My world is a world of rage right now. I worked at Megaplex Theatres for 8 years and this is how it ends. I'm given a ridiculous, outrageous review and then one week later, on the 19th, I'm fired for it and now today, the following Monday he already has a replacement.

This is the only way I know to get rid of my anger. If I'm going to move on I have to get this out of me. I was betrayed. For what? There must be something to gain for him. A big raise this year, because now he was able to save more money by hiring a new guy for half of what I was worth. Plus, by setting me up to be fired he won't have to worry about giving out a severance package. Some say he was intimidated and had to get rid of me to feel more superior.

This whole thing makes me sick.

Really I would like to nominate Jeff for employee of the month for being such a good example to me of what not to be.

For several months he had me wasting my time by designing things he was never going to use. I guess that was supposed to make me angry so I would just quit, except that I don't like to lose. So in the end the only way to get rid of me was to use his imagination to come up with the worst review he could think of. It's just not right and I have been battling with the rage inside of me all weekend.

I'm trying my hardest to remember the lesson I learned Sunday.

"The ability to turn everything into something good appears to be a godly characteristic. Everything, no matter how dire, becomes a victory to the Lord. People who follow the Lord's example cannot be defeated".

To me this is not an easy feat.

One other thing I thought of was a quote from a great movie.

"Life is a storm. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes."

I'm praying I can make it through this storm.

We Love Snow

I think the weather man said we were going to get a light snow fall in the mountains.

The weather man tells good jokes.

So I used this opportunity to take my 127th toy picture.

The kids put their snowsuits on and went out to build a snowman.

They went from this little ball of snow...

to this.

I couldn't believe it when I saw it. It was massive. I grabbed my gloves and helped them build their huge snowman.
Parker jumped off the giant snowball several times
while Emily worked on the second snowball.
Emily got a carrot from Becky while Parker started on another snowman.


We built two. The snow was excellent! Perfect for making snowmen.
The top fell off the second one so it became a short and fat snowman. The kids had a great time.

Happy Birthday Parker!

He got to open one present in the morning before school.

It was the the Resistance figure that he talked about all month long.

He was excited.

After the kids went to school Linkin and I played for a little before I went to the doctor to get my pink eye checked out.
I tried to go into work after he told me it was highly contagious and I should wear a face mask, but they didn't want me there. So I went home and cleaned the house for Parker's Party.
He got these from Gogo.


Parker wasn't interested in having his picture taken 85 times, so I had everybody else hold up what he got.

He loved all his presents except for the clothes he got. Kids find clothes to be the dumbest presents ever and they're immediately thrown to the side with the wrapping paper.

Linkin liked the cars the most.

Parker was really excited for his Marzipan cake.