Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Training on Monday Night

After an exasperating day at work....not due to the children but to ONE person who believes that we will jump when she snaps her fingers. Well, I did not budge when she made an insane demand. I think it caught her offguard, especially since I tend to be very timid and pleasing (most of the time anyway.) But enough is enough. I am not a robot, nor do I wish to be.

After school, I zoomed by to visit Mom, who was doing very well. She enjoyed her dinner, and then she and I went to her bedroom so that I could decorate it with Spring theme (now that Valentine's Day is over.) Her chair is supposed to arrive in another two to three weeks. The dealer tried to cheat her out of a new chair by trying to convince us that her used chair was new. It wasn't. It had the other owner's name still printed on it. So now he has to produce a new chair that will be custom made for her.

After my visit with Mom, I then headed towards Leigh's workplace. From there we went to our Amateur Radio meeting, and then we headed towards another meeting room for a SKYWARN training, which lasted about two hours. The meteorologist explained about tornadoes, hurricanes, thunderstorms, and floods. Now, Leigh and I (and the rest of the HAM radio group we belong to) are spotters, which means that we can report potentially extreme weather conditions in our area, and this in turn, can possibly save lives (as it has been doing for the past thirty years) since it gives time for people to evacuate the area if needed.