Playing hookie

Don't tell, but today I played hookie for the afternoon. This week I was summoned to Jury Duty and my group number got called in this morning so I went through the whole process of jury selection and I ended up not getting chosen. I was done by 11:30 a.m. and while I should have gone in to work for a half a day, I decided to take advantage of my paid jury duty leave and spend the afternoon with my two favorite people. :) As Iwas getting home Anna was waking up from her nap so I fed her and then the three of us went out to a lunch of pizza and salad. The company was great and the food was scrumptious! Dane is now at football practice and Anna and I spent a couple of hours horsing around at house and playing together. She is now down for her afternoon nap. She is such a riot! I attached a video of her and I just think she is so funny...they way she's so wobbly when crawling, how she gets so excited to see me and wants to just crawl all over me. I love that girl to pieces! I don't know if anyone else will get a kick out of the video like I did, but I thought I'd share anyways. :)



Jury duty was an interesting process. I'm actually a little bummed that I didn't get selected...I would have like to experience the whole day. I ended up being in District Court instead of Superior Court, so these cases weren't as "big". The guy on trial in this case was someone who got pulled over last year for suspected driving under the influence. He was pleading "not guilty". I'll admit that it probably would have been a tough one for me to be impartial about...I have a hard time showing any leniency for drunk driving. There were about 23 jurors sitting in the room and the judge asked us all some questions first and then both attorneys had their turn. The state was being represented by a younger gal who seemed like she was just getting started in her career. Then the defense attorney was a complete prick. He was straight out of a movie where he makes everyone feel intimidated and like they have to second guess what they're saying. He was an older guy that has probably been doing this for years and more than likely eats poor, young budding attorneys for lunch. I felt bad for the young girl. Anyway, I guess I'll never know how it turns out because I didn't get chosen as one of the six jurors. Oh well...it gives me a nice afternoon off when it's in the low-mid 80's out today! Whoo hoo!



Well, I'm going to try to upload this darn video and then take a nap while my bear is napping...my poor, tired eyes are feeling very droopy all of the sudden and this couch is feeling oh so snuggly. :)

p.s. There's been about two hours that have lapsed since I wrote this and published it, just to clear up any time indiscrepancies. :)