It's Walmart - what do you expect?

True Story from someone in Little Rock...
We had a 'going away' party yesterday for a lady at our Little Rock claim office. One of the supervisors called a Wal-Mart and ordered the cake.
He told them to write:
'Best Wishes Suzanne' and underneath that write 'We will miss you'.
As the picture shows, it didn't quite turn out right. It was too funny not to keep it.

October Poets:

To say last night was interesting would be an understatement. We had two challenges for this month. One was to do a poem about crickets. The Senior Center, like any public building gets fumigated and this time of year a lot of crickets come in and of course, end up dead. The head of the center sweeps them up every morning, so challenged our group to write a poem about crickets. What amazed me was how many different poems could be written around a cricket! We accepted the challenge and came through. We were even left a little box for inspiration (you'll see it in the pictures below).

The second challenge was to write a scary poem. I'm afraid we didn't follow through as well on this one, but we did have some who did and did a great job. Some managed to combine both a cricket and a scary poem in one. Multi-tasking poetry (smile).

As the night moved on I realized bringing in candy might not have been such a good idea. Adults on sugar can get just as crazy as kids on sugar. (smile). We did have fun and at the end each shared a little about themselves. It's nice to get to know each other on more than just a poetic base, but to learn where we come from and a bit of background. Thanks Jamar for making that suggestion.

Next month Meghan will host a Poetry Slam. I'll be sending out details next week, so watch your emails. Slams are a lot of fun, so even if you don't want to participate come and watch...you may even end up being a judge!

Our challenge for next month was given by Meghan and she wants everyone to write about hay bales. So for those of you who have never seen a hay bale it's time to google! There were some who hadn't.

Here's hoping the muse is kind to everyone and we have more quality poetry next month!

Our poets last night were: Jamar White, Meghan Robb, Aaron Johnson, Colette Jones, Beth Langley, Marie Grady (stock photo), and myself. Our guests were Kwan Johnson and Cynthia Harris and or course, The Cricket!

If anyone would like to put a voice the name and face check out Beth's myspace page.

Do you know the way....

Last night after Jeopardy, and yes I am such an addict I even watched the Kids Week and am proud to announce I am smarter than a 5th grader, Keith put on a football game. The teams were Hawaii and San Jose (college football). Keith was for Hawaii becuse they were 6-0 to that point. I said I was for San Jose and he said, do you know the way to San Jose? I looked at him and said, "of course not! you know I don't have any sense of direction" and reminded him of the card I sent my dad last Father's Day. On the outside it said "thanks for trying to keep me headed in the right direction" and inside it said "but I still don't know north from south or those other two directions." He looked at me and said, "nooo, I meant are you for them because of that song." Oh well, yeah.

Now not too long ago in the distant past Hawaii was known as the Rainbows and they had these cute little rainbows on their helmets. I took it as a bad omen for San Jose when, due to a rainstorm prior to the game, a rainbow appeared over the stadium. But Hawaii had changed their name to the Warriors so maybe, just maybe it was a sign for San Jose.

As the game progressed San Jose pulled ahead by two then three touchdowns and it was their game. Except Hawaii remembered their 6-0 and that they wanted to make it a 7-0 and in the fourth quarter tied the score to 35-35 and the game went into overtime. San Jose chose to receive and Hawaii chose to make a touchdown. The ball is now San Jose's and yes! they're going to answer back with their own touchdown. Well, they would have if some rude Hawaii player hadn't intercepted the ball in the end zone! End score Hawaii 42 San Jose 35.

What surprised me most though wasn't the game, or the score, or even the end zone interception. It was the hair! I have never seen so much long hair on a football field! One guy had really frizzy hair that went all the way down his back! So, I ask my husband are they allowed to grab the hair to make a tackle? I mean, it seems if you put it out there than dangnabit it should be up for grabs. He didn't know, but I never saw another player grab any hair. I thought jocks were a clean cut crowd. What also surprised me was how many fat players were out there. Long hair and fat bodies. Hmmmmmm....

My husbands big complaint about the game? It was so cold there the cheerleaders were all bundled up!