March Madness

“I love basketball.  Is this March Madness?” -Kathy
 “Nope, that happens in…March.” -Jim
 
We are really into March Madness.  I've been filling out a bracket since birth, but we're especially involved because my work is giving away some sweet prizes for the bracket winners.  We're talking cash here.  It would be pretty awesome to get a pay check before I even work there, but I'm in 53rd place currently.  It's right about now that I'm regretting the lack of research I did when filling out my bracket. Ha ha.

Anyway, when did it become March?  Here’s what we’ve been up to:

·         Trekking through school and attempting to care about it.

·         Turning in a grad school application (Scott’s, not mine).

·         Weeding the tulips.  All 12 bulbs survived.  I am shocked after last year’s flower endeavor...

Last Year: Actual Photo

This Year: Actual Photo

·         Wrapping up WIB.  It’s weird to see this end for me after 3 years of work, but it’s ending with a bang.  Our last event was basically the equivalent of Women’s Conference in the Tanner Building. :)

·         Maintenance on the cars.  This time, the SAAB’s oil change only took 2 trips to Autozone, my least favorite store in the whole world.  Progress.

·         Winning a prize in a raffle.  Thinking about selling said prize for cash.

·         Making pulled pork, which I will now refer to as Root Beer Stew.  It was nothing like stew, but yeah—you cook it in root beer.  Weird, but good.

·         Teaching the sunbeams about things like plants and animals.  Yesterday’s lesson consisted of the kids telling me “silly jokes” like this: “Why did the cow cross the road?”  “Because he had an orange on his head!”  This resulted in roaring laughter from the kiddos until one stopped and said, “Wait, that’s not funny.”  I expect great things out of that boy.

I'm a Poor Paper Salesman

I’ve handed out a lot of fliers in my day.  Last week I handed them out yet again for our Women in Business event coming up (which is going to be epic by the way—400 people signed up!).  Anyway, amidst all of our advertising, I noticed many interesting things when it comes to distributing paper. 

First, some kids act like it is the biggest burden to a flier.  C’mon people, you can throw it away in a few minutes.  Just make the poor person standing outside in the cold happy, and take their paper.

Second, some kids don’t even find out what I’m trying to offer before turning up their noses.  I could be handing out 100 dollar bills, and they’d still say, “Not interested,” without even looking at the paper in my hand.

Finally, the kids with headphones all think they are invisible or that they have some force field.  Well, guess what kids, I can still see you and I will still interrupt your brisk pace and averted eyes to hand you a flier.  Let’s just come to terms with this.

Ok, done with the flier rant.  I just have a tender spot in my heart for flier-hander-outers.  I've designed, printed, and distributed many times.  Have a heart, take the flier, and then recycle if you must.

In other news, Scott took a string cheese to eat on the way to church and forgot it was hanging out of his white shirt pocket until half way through Sacrament Meeting.  Haha.

After Graduation...

Big news from the Foley household: I finally accepted a job offer!  I’ll be working as a tax analyst for Tax Hawk, which is a tax software company located in Provo.  A lot of thought and consideration went into this choice, and I am thrilled to work there.  Goodbye school.  It’s been fun.

Lately we’ve been discussing what we’re going to do, now that I’m bringing in a little more bacon.  Here are the best things we came up with:

    1.       We can save up for an awesome vacation (any location suggestions?)

    2.       Maybe we can turn our heater up a degree or two at night (Bring on 65!)

    3.       We could buy steak or maybe even Oreos (Those items are usually too expensive to make it onto my grocery list.)

    4.       We could crank up the house payment

    5.       We could replace my fender

    6.       We could request payment in one-dollar bills and use one of the rooms in the basement to swim in them

    7.       We could put blinds in our kitchen (As much as I enjoy looking at our lush backyard…)

    8.       We can get as many cavities as we want

    9.       We could become Sharks on Shark Tank! (You know, just in case someone comes in asking for thirty bucks)

Most likely, the bank will just be able to give out more loans now that I’m joining the workforce.  Oh well, it’s fun to dream right!?