Cleaning out

My parents are getting the upstairs of their house re-carpeted this week, so they asked me to come over and go through some of the stuff that was on the floor of the closet in my old room. Let me tell you... I found some gems.

The Fish Head! This "famous" Thollander fish head has been given out every Christmas by my brother Matt to a very special family member. He couldn't find it this past Christmas. Well today I found it in a box in the closet- it still had the frosting on it from where he hid it inside a ginger bread house the year before.

I found several fantastic samples of my writing from elementary school. I was seven when I wrote this:
"I have three bruthers. sumtimes there mean but sumtimes there not mean. there names are Matt, Jon, and Joel.

"I get up at 7:00 and I go to bed at 7:00. Sometimes I sleep good but some times I sleep bad. I like to go to sleep. I'm good at gowing to sleep!"

 I do remember LOVING to go to bed. I would get mad at my parents if we got back past my bedtime.

Now this was an impressive (and gross) find. 21 year old hair. It's now in the trash.

Lisa Tullo's Bible from our high school Bible class that I apparently stole from her.

And this gem! Remember her??? Gosh I cannot remember her name- help me out!

There is a lot left to go through in coming weeks....I'm excited.

I've posted about this before...

But there's a guy who does amazing chalk art on the downtown mall. "Sam Welty" is his name (or so says his signature). Well today I took a group of folks from work downtown and we saw him working on his next piece! He had finished one on foster care and was working on Stephen Colbert. I went up to him with my folks and asked if he was indeed Sam Welty. He confirmed and I told him I loved his work- I felt like I was meeting a celebrity! He was really nice and even gave some chalk to one of my clients to draw with. Here is his work to enjoy: