A Smorgasboard of Info :-)

I hope everyone had a good Christmas!  Ours was pretty good.  We spent the afternoon with a family from church and ate lunch with them and played pool and card games.  Then that night we went to see the movie The Tourist with Johnny Depp, and it was pretty good.  Tim said it was predictable but I didn't figure out the twist until the very end.
Last week Fox was premiering a new show that starts in January called Million Dollar Money Drop.  It was really interesting!  They had a couple on and gave them 1 million dollars in cash, in $20,000 bundles.  It's literally sitting in a pile right in front of them.  All they have to do is answer 7 multiple choice questions to keep it, and they have to risk all of the money on each question.  Once they are given the question, they have a certain amount of time to place the money on the platform of the answer they think is correct, and they can spread out the money and place it on more than one answer if they're not sure but they have to leave one answer choice blank.  Then the platforms of the wrong answers drop and they lose whatever money they put on those platforms.  Tim thinks we would do well on that show, so we looked up how to be cast for it, and we emailed our info.  They are finished casting for the first season, but if they get picked up for a second season, then they'll look at the entries.  The website said you have to live within driving distance of Los Angeles, but Tim told them how we drove cross-continent to move, and that we would be willing to drive to L.A. if necessary to be on the show! :-)  Maybe if the show is popular, by the second season they'll allow people from all over the country. :-)
Today was a very productive day.  I got my fingerprints and clearances for the school district.  I saw on the website for the Reading School District (which is different from the district I had an interview with a couple of weeks ago) they are looking for part time and full time instructional assistants.  After winter break I'm going to call and ask if their assistants get benefits and apply if they do.  We shall see.
Tim met with Shelley this morning and was told his official installation Sunday will be January 23rd, and Tim will be preaching.  A while ago Tim was ordained as a Christian minister by a general company he found on the Internet, but he told Shelley he would really like to be ordained by an actual church, so I think they are going to ordain him on that day as well.
I'm excited about New Year's Eve this year because we are in the Eastern Time Zone, so I get to see the big ball in New York drop LIVE!!!  One year I missed it completely because I was confused about the time change. 
I have registered and will be taking the 7 - 12 Math Content Knowledge test for the Praxis II on March 12.  I will really need to study hard for this one because it has Calculus, Trig, Discrete Math, and Matrix Algebra on it, all of which I have not seen or used in a really long time.  Tim says he can help me...hopefully I'll pass!  And then I can get my teacher certification in Pennsylvania and maybe getting a teaching job for next year.
Well, time to start dinner...yes, I'm cooking dinner!!!  Just spaghetti and meatballs...nothing special. :-)