Gearing up for Back to School

Ruth got laid off her job this week.  The heating and air company she worked for decided to pull all of their salesmen out of the Lowes stores and go to phone solicitations only.  Ruth wasn't that sad about the layoff but she will miss the paycheck.  In a way she is relieved to not have a work obligation with school starting next week, she can focus on the new school year and the debate team without distractions.

I spent a couple days this week volunteering with the high school PTA getting all students pictures taken and ID's issued.  The high school here is super overcrowded. The sophomore class is something like 1100 students.  They've started building a new high school that will open in two years.

Almost two years ago I started taking over the music room with all my cosplay stuff.  As my collection grew the music stuff got squeezed out more and more until finally the drums were moved to the exercise room and the keyboard to Jared's room.   Jared's spent hours a day all summer practicing drums, guitar, and bass in the exercise room.  As his collection of instruments grew, he started to feel really squeezed in his space. So finally this week Jared moved all the stuff out of the exercise room and declared it his room.  (Sorry Kaitlin, next time you and Ben come you'll have to sleep next to the treadmill.)

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