While I was having the time of my life, I was never so grateful to have an intermission as while it was a beautiful day, the 85 degree weather with no clouds and very little wind, sitting in the stands made it a tad on the HOT side where I was dying to get in some shade and drink some water.   After cooling off a little I went back and sat down and while talking with Paul we felt so sorry for the corp members to be out there in the hot sun wearing their full gear, marching (even running, doing push ups, and squats).  I can’t help but think that doing that all summer long would have to be a great weight loss/ lower ab workout if I had ever seen any.

If you have never been to a DCI Competition you really have no clue what you are missing!  I know most of you have been to high school football games and you are probably thinking it’s a lot like a high school marching band, but honestly they don’t come close to being anything like a drum corp.  It’s like saying a Moped is a Harley Davidson.   There is just no comparison.  I wish I could of video taped some of it for you last night, but the rules are no video taping so I didn’t dare.  But if you YouTube DCI, you will some what get an idea of what it’s like, even though it’s 10 times better in person!   So until then, here are some more pictures from last night. I hope you enjoy them, because I sure do!

Is it or me, or does it seem like there are more and more people blogging?   I love the fact that more people have jumped on this bandwagon, but it’s not just ordinary people that have started blogging.  Companies are now blogging as well!  If you go to a business website, sometimes you will see that they have a link to their companies blog where they can keep you updated on what is going on with the company.

What also is nice when someone specializes in one thing, for example a someone who works in the insurance industry might have a  car insurance blog and they will update what’s going on with the car insurance companies.  By reading that blog, you might find out things you otherwise wouldn’t know.  For example, did you know that Wisconsin now passed a law where you have to have auto insurance and proof of coverage?  Now the only state that does NOT require it is New Hampshire.  

Do you blog at all?  If so, do you have just one thing you blog about?  Or are you like me and tend to blog a little bit about everything?  

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Do you ever look back at things you have done in the past and think wow… who would of known?   That’s how my friend & I feel regarding the “good ol’ days” when we used to go out to the bar every weekend.   While most people think going to the bar would be unhealthy as it’s a lot of drinking & smoking, my friend and I think about how it was also quite the fat burner for us.   Let me guess… you’re looking at my post with a puzzled look, but let me explain!  Most of the time my friend and I would go to the bar (99% of the time it was a country bar) we would spend a majority of the time out on the dance floor doing our line dancing.   Some of those dances were so exhausting that when we would finish the whole dance we felt like we really accomplished something.   Now that bars are smoke free, I can’t help but think how now if we would go it would be as if we were going to an exercise class since you don’t have all the smoke floating around the room.   To bad bars weren’t smoke free back then, just think  how much healthier it would of been for us!

In school it seems like kids tease each other if someone is to fat, to skinny, to smart, to “stupid”, has acne… etc. So what happens when kids get teased about those issues? While some might go on a diet, study more, or maybe do some acne treatments. Some students might go the other way and start feeling depressed and start hating themselves and lord knows will do what.

Now I know adults tease each other time to time in a fun way, but lately at my husbands work it’s getting a little personal now. The guys that have the most seniority at work are now teasing the guys with not as much seniority (15 years) because they (the higher up ones) can get all the overtime they want so no one else can and how all they have to do is sit on a high-lo and don’t have to pick orders.  (My husband works in a Food Warehouse)   Here some guys would love to get some OT now and then to help with their bills, but these guys just hog it all up (even when OT isn’t needed) as they like to just see how much money they can make.  It’s not as if they need it, they just make a game of who can make more.  Instead there are families farther down the seniority line who’s wives have lost their jobs and are desperately wishing they could work some OT, but are unable to get it.   So here they feel bad not being able to get the overtime, but then to hear the higher seniority guys mock them because they can work as much OT as they want and that they don’t have to pick and can just sit on a high-lo reading their books waiting for guys to get done picking is just making matters so much worse.   

Why do people think they need to treat other people this way?!?   Can’t these men just grow up and act like adults?

The Life Insurance one was showing how you could have a $50,000 life insurance policy for only $20 a month.   (I think that was the amounts)   Like they said, what’s $20 a month.. so you don’t go out to eat one night and that would be your $20 a month.  All you need to do is call and they will be more than willing to give you a life insurance quote on how much it would cost for you.  All I know is I’m thankful we already have our life insurance policy in place, it’s just a wonderful piece of mind.

The other commercial that got me thinking was a lady saying how she has a hard time concentrating and can’t stay focused and how she has ADHD.   All I could think of is how Kevin got in trouble at school and at karate for the same thing.  It makes me wonder, could he have ADHD since his Dad did when he was in school.   It got me thinking so much that I did end up writing his teacher to see what she thought as I wanted to see what she thought.  I’m just hoping that I was reading to much into things, but if I wasn’t I would rather know now and help him with it, than find out down the road.

Somehow right now I would rather watch the commercials that don’t make you think.

Here I googled most googled words, but I never did find a website that tells me.  Do you know of one?

I find it’s not only the young people that are addicted to those games, but older people as well.  (Since I’m probably in the older group at the age of 35.. or is that the younger group?  Please say younger! LOL)  What’s also funny is how you can go to other peoples farms, islands or houses and help them and earn more money that way too so you can once again buy more things.

Working, selling, buying.. I guess it’s kinda like the real world huh?  The one good thing about it is if you don’t have the money and you want to buy something, then you can’t buy it!  Maybe if the younger crowd continue to play these games they will use that in the real world and there won’t be as many people way in debt.  Maybe those games aren’t so bad after all?!?

I can honestly say I never knew to get your MBA you would have to do that too!  I wonder if schools have a GMAT prep course they give students now?   Can you tell all I ever got was my associates degree?

Then there was my project where we had to be a  business plan writer.  We had to pretend we wanted to start a business and write up a business plan that would would “take to the bank” (turn into the teacher) so we could “get a loan” (grade).  I’ll never forget I had wrote about how I would open up a hunting & fishing store in Grandville.  Even though I did get a good grade, I seem to remember my teacher thinking that there were already quite a few in the area and that was way before the Gander Mountain opened up.   Now they opened a store like I would of wanted to do and look how good they are doing!  Of course I would never of been able to of had that much inventory since my store would of been way smaller.

Do you ever look through your old homework/school assignments?  If you do, does it bring back lots of memories?