February already?

I can't believe how fast 2009 is going. I made it through the first week of February and I am very proud of it. My schedule at work the first week of the month is always the hardest because I am closing 15 stores and doing financial statements for all 15 of them. It is a lot of work but there were a lot of things that went right this month to make it smoother. So instead of pulling 14 hours days for 5 days, I only had to pull 12 hours 2 days and then 10 hours 2 days and a simple 8 hours the last day. Of course most of those days I then had to come home and do homework but it really wasn't so bad. I am now studying finance on my saturday classes till February the 14th and then I change subjects again. The nice thing about this class is that although there are 7 quizzes and 7 tests, I get to take them at home in my PJ's with an open book. The first two chapters were really boring to me but on the third chapter we started applying it more to business and I am finding it interesting so it is much easier. I am done with four of the quizzes and tests and right now my average is 85 so I just have three more to go and I am done.
On Friday, Bruce and I went to Roy's for sushi. I had this craving for it and Bruce had taken me to work so that he could use my car to go to a business meeting. Since he had to come over to Tampa to pick me up we decided to turn it into a date night. We decided to eat at the sushi bar so that we could watch the kitchen.
Yesterday was filled with school, homework and catching up on Top Chef, Scrubs and finally getting to watch Loving Leah (Mike thanks so much for letting me know about it, of course I cried with in the first five minutes! You are truly the best brother. Now you can roll your eyes. Don't worry I didn't make Bruce watch it. He fell asleep on the couch while we were watching something else and so while he slept I enjoyed it.)
Today it is more homework, housework, grocery shopping and then preparing some meals for the week. I am going to try a sweet potato and garlic soup so if it turns out good I will be sharing that!

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Every year for Halloween, my work goes crazy with decorations and invites every one's children to come trick or treating. This year they did a contest with the winners getting money to do a group event. They are into building team spirit. At first our row was going to do Candyland but in walking around the week before Halloween, we found someone else was already doing that. So at the last minute we changed our minds and did Charley and the chocolate factory. We did chocolate falls with the river running down our aisle and incorporated different aspects from both the old and new movies into our aisle.

The chocolate falls and rivers is brown felt (cheap material). For our falls, we added tulle for more dimension, fake snow for foam and brown balloons for the bubbles at the bottom. The green along the edges is green paper.

Since this is a place of work for our TV we used an extra computer to complete our Wonka vision.

For the golden egg room, of course an Easter egg spray painted gold and gold wrapping paper with some pictures completed the look.

For our lollipops we found these paper plates that already had the circles on them. Lucky us! We also made mushrooms. The stems were a flower vase and the top was a plastic mixing bowl covered in tissue paper upside down. For our lickable wall paper, we found candy wrapping paper and simply taped candy onto the wall still in the wrapper in case a child took it. We also had a tree that we hung bubble gum on. I know we did so many more things. It turned out great and the kids loved it. We won second place so all the hard work was worth it.

Oh and of course we had a Willy Wonka and Oompa Loompas! We also won for best group costumes so overall we rocked Outback!