Last night was irritating indeed. I try to have a good mood, but they seem so fleeting these days. Anyway, here's the story. We were registered at Bed, Bath, and Beyond for our wedding. I really liked them - they were always so easy to work with and told us something about the fact that if we get anything that we're not happy with, we can always exchange it or get a refund - the registry acts as a receipt. Well, I should have taken care of this awhile ago, and I know it's been over 6 months since we got married, but I thought I'd just call and check. We received several things things that we registered for and really like, but the writing tends to come off, which is sad, because it's very nice stuff. One of the things was a spice rack. It's the cutest spice rack you'll ever meet and I've been in love with it since we brought it home. But the with just normal use (unless my Canadian hands sweat an excessive amount down here in the south or something), the letters on the jars wear off - some were gone to the point that you couldn't read it at all. So I had been meaning to call them and see if they'll back up their products. So that's what I finally got around to doing last night. The lady on the phone was very pleasant and said yes, they have a no-hassle return policy - we could either exchange it for something else there or get our money back. Sounded too good to be true. Yep, it was. ARG! Sometimes people can be SO obnoxious and annoying. I mean, I was just doing what she told me I could do. So we went to take the spice rack to the store along with a couple other things. There were 3 workers looking at them and one was the lady I talked to. Hmmm... maybe the policy changed in the amount of time it took to drive to the store? Anyway, they weren't really clear on what we could do - the guy went and got another spice rack exactly like the one we brought in and our impression was that we could just exchange it for that one. We asked if it would be possible to look at their others since if we get the same one, the letters will probably just come off again. They didn't know if that would be possible. I'm thinking to myself.... DUH! You said on the phone we could get our money back so what's the different? You hand me the money and I'll get a different one. Or I guess I could take the money and drive to the BB and B in town. Hello Hello Hello. It sounded like they were saying that we could only exchange the spice rack for the same one and then the cheaper stuff we had, we could exchange for something different. So after looking around for awhile, we decided to just change everything even up. The guy thought we could put clear nail polish over the letters to seal them on the spice rack, so we thought we would just do that. Okay, so it was supposed to be easy, right? Wrong, because the cranky little people who work there could not just give us a new spice rack since we had been using the one we brought in for 6 months, apparently - again, different from what they said on the phone. (sorry, this is getting long and it's such a boring story) So the crankiest girl proceeds to open the new spice rack, has ours sitting there, and starts looking through all the ones with the letters that are either gone or faded, and taking the caps off of ours and putting the bad caps on the new spice rack. Now why in the world would you do that? What are they going to do with a new spice rack with half bad lids on all the jars? If we would utter a word, she would glare, hiss, or make it known in some other way that we were to be seen and not heard. Preferably not seen as well would be most optimal. She was some sort of rude. The real drama hit when crank girl discovered that the 2 spice racks did not have the same spices! So she has mixed up all the lids and is left with all these mis-matched jars and now what do you do? So (with the line growing behind us) the other girl decided to just give us the new spice rack. However, now half of our faded letters are on the new spice rack! And the spices were different and I wanted some of my old spices that I use all the time. So we basically made sure we could at least read all the names and had the ones I use all the time and came home with a new spice rack, some brand new lids, some faded lids, some new spices that I didn't have before, and some old ones as well. And feeling demoralized by the mean girl spewing her venom in our direction. It just made be mad - they have always been so nice and we brought in a lot of revenue for those cranky people! All was not lost though, as I can now at least read all the spices in the rack.
In other news - this falls under the "what would you do?" category. Dave and I had an appointment with H & R Block to get our taxes done. We would just do them ourselves but thought that this year with all the moving and different incomes and states and such, it would be easier to have them done for us and we thought it would be a reasonable price. Well, we sat through the whole consultation thing and she entered our info and at the end, the bill for their services is 240! I think it's highway robbery and we could figure out a different way. It costs more because they charge you for each state they do and all that. I dunno. We can pay them 29 bucks for the consultation and then try to do them ourselves. If we can't get the same amount, we can always go back and get our 29 back and pay the full price. We had no clue it would be that much. We do have a $25 off card so that brings it down to 215. But still, seems like a huge rip off to me.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Still around....
Life has felt either very boring lately or if there was excitement, I didn't feel like blogging about it. Ah well, I shall give you some random tid bits of what is going on around here in no particular order of importance:
* In our little luxury condo, the florescent lights in the laundry room have been burned out for quite awhile. Dave has been the one to carry the laundry over there and get it going and switch then I would fold and such. Invariably, it's been evening till we get around to doing it, which means it's pitch black in there. So he always unplugs a lamp from our apartment, throws it on top of the clothes, and goes to stick the laundry in. Then he unplugs one of the washing machines and plugs in the lamp so he can see to do the laundry. Maybe that's a very boring tid bit, but I find it so funny and annoying at the same time. HELLLLOOOO!! (He probably finds it more annoying than I do. haha)
* Dave had a crazy busy week last week with school. Now he has 3 days off for Mardi Gras. So we are looking at a 5 day weekend! WHOOO HOOO!!!! I got the house all spic and span yesterday so we wouldn't have to worry about that this weekend and could just enjoy it.
* Speaking of Mardi Gras, we went to a parade here in town last night. It was fun - we met some really chatty folks. It was way too much standing and walking for my liking, but it was good to be out and about. There were 4 girls who looked to be about 11 - 12 standing in front of us. Oh my! Girls that age are just scary, that's all I have to say about that. And since screaming, jumping up and down, and trying to get things thrown at me isn't really my style, I got hit on the head multiple times with flying beads and plastic cups. It was fun, but plenty of Mardi Gras celebrations for the 2 of us.
* The weather is so absolutely gorgeous here right now. We are both very sad that we can't go biking together right now. Even walking isn't that pleasant, so it's hard to be out and enjoying it (I can walk fine, but the dumb shoe they want me to wear is like walking on a cement shoe). I'm bracing myself and trying not to think about June and July when it will be way too hot to ride bike. = (
* I have a job offer on the table that I'm about 98% sure I'm going to take. I'll tell you about it when I actually have the job. = )
* Dave and I watched "The Great Debaters" last Friday night. We both really liked it and would recommend it for grown ups out there who are looking for a good movie. It's clean and all, but I wouldn't show it to your kids unless you want them disturbed and want to answer questions about lynchings and things like that. It's a true story though and we thought it was worth watching.
* Do you want to hear about our Valentines Day? So many have been writing about the fun fabulous days they had. I'll try to give you the very short version so as not to bore you to tears and such. I had such high expectations for this day. I was going to make a fabulous dinner for my babycakes. This is, after all, the first v.day that we've actually been in the same state. So, I would get lots of work done ahead of time, then I would do some work in the afternoon, we would watch some sweet, sappy movie, I would decorate the table in an absolutely beautiful way, we would have a nice leisurely lateish dinner, the day would be laid back and fun and relaxing... Ahhhh, it's nice to dream. Here's reality. We slept in, had an um... "discussion" which required some time, but we were able to salvage the day at that point and move on. I was feeling pretty gross on this day - SO tired, just had no energy and felt bla. And I hadn't started enough ahead of time, so there was all this work to do. Dave was feeling bad that he hadn't put enough thought into the day, so in order to appease his aching conscience (I'm always thinkin of him you know) I graciously suggested that he could help me with supper, if it would help him feel better. So away we chopped and mixed and stirred and what not. It was taking FOREVER! My feet were killing me, both the broken and non-broken ones, I was so tired, had no energy, and had the emotional fortitude of a 3 year old. All day things kept going wrong and I would just about loose it. Dumb little things, like I would spill and drop things and make a mess and it would feel like the end of the world as we know it. I was trying to get everything prepared so we would still have time to watch our sweet romantic movie before supper. Well, like I said, it was taking forever, Dave eventually petered out and fell asleep, and then, the last straw - I was trying to make this desert and it, what I would call flopped, although Dave insisted it tasted wonderfully. But it was the consistency of sludge. That did it. I'll spare you the details, but the mother of all meltdowns ensued. I mean, what in the world is my problem? It's not like I have a lot on my plate right now, and I can't even pull together a nice supper? Dave woke up and wondered what to do with me and rest of the evening. Well, once I could summon the strength, we managed to finish supper and the table was somewhat pretty, just not as pretty as I had hoped. So we ate supper and weren't done until after 9. About the sweet romantic movie, Dave was stuck on this old Cary Grant movie we had gotten from the library. I asked if it was sweet and romantic and he said, "Well, they get married at the end!" (BAD BAD SIGN!!) So we proceeded to watched a movie of deranged family members with sweet little old ladies murdering people and storing them in the basement. But it didn't matter because I was SOUND asleep by 9:30 and didn't really wake up till after midnight when Dave was doing dishes like a nice husband. I had slept so long and hard that I couldn't sleep when I went to bed, so I got up and watched Pinky and the Brain and old game shows till around 3. Thus concludes our wonderful, perfect, sweet valentines day. Next year, we're going OUT!
* The above bullet point was going to be short. oops.
* Here's some random quotes for you.
D: (smelling the OLD jar of jam, always concerned about pinching pennies) It doesn't smell TOOOO bad, I guess I could have some....
R: (Who quit eating the jam months ago) We can BUY more JAM! It's not THAT expensive! It's way cheaper than food poisoning! (okay, so it hit us funny at the time)
In reference to the less than desirable desert that made one of us cry a lot, (said very cheerfully) "A surprise is something you got and didn't know you wanted!"
"Yeah, sometimes, unless it's brain cancer or something like that!" (Just trying to keep it real)
* I have a bad habit of taking showers that are way too hot and then feeling like I'm going to pass out afterwards. But it's so nice in the moment that I find it hard to make the water cooler. Anyone else? no?
* In reference to the aforementioned job, I'm finding it so ironic right now, how we have to get jobs to pay off this education we got in order to get a job that would pay off the education that would allow us to get a job that would pay off the education that we needed to get a job that would ... well anyway... you get the idea. It seems like such a funny cycle to me right now. I am glad I went to school, but it's just odd. Then once you get the job you need/want, you are excited to have money, but are too busy working all the time to have time to actually do anything fun with the money, other than paying off the .... I won't start.
* This might be the end of this bulleted message.
* I'll try to post some pictures soon.
* I hope you're all having a fabulous weekend.
* This weekend is MUCH better than the last one for me, so far anyway.
* good bye and God bless
* In our little luxury condo, the florescent lights in the laundry room have been burned out for quite awhile. Dave has been the one to carry the laundry over there and get it going and switch then I would fold and such. Invariably, it's been evening till we get around to doing it, which means it's pitch black in there. So he always unplugs a lamp from our apartment, throws it on top of the clothes, and goes to stick the laundry in. Then he unplugs one of the washing machines and plugs in the lamp so he can see to do the laundry. Maybe that's a very boring tid bit, but I find it so funny and annoying at the same time. HELLLLOOOO!! (He probably finds it more annoying than I do. haha)
* Dave had a crazy busy week last week with school. Now he has 3 days off for Mardi Gras. So we are looking at a 5 day weekend! WHOOO HOOO!!!! I got the house all spic and span yesterday so we wouldn't have to worry about that this weekend and could just enjoy it.
* Speaking of Mardi Gras, we went to a parade here in town last night. It was fun - we met some really chatty folks. It was way too much standing and walking for my liking, but it was good to be out and about. There were 4 girls who looked to be about 11 - 12 standing in front of us. Oh my! Girls that age are just scary, that's all I have to say about that. And since screaming, jumping up and down, and trying to get things thrown at me isn't really my style, I got hit on the head multiple times with flying beads and plastic cups. It was fun, but plenty of Mardi Gras celebrations for the 2 of us.
* The weather is so absolutely gorgeous here right now. We are both very sad that we can't go biking together right now. Even walking isn't that pleasant, so it's hard to be out and enjoying it (I can walk fine, but the dumb shoe they want me to wear is like walking on a cement shoe). I'm bracing myself and trying not to think about June and July when it will be way too hot to ride bike. = (
* I have a job offer on the table that I'm about 98% sure I'm going to take. I'll tell you about it when I actually have the job. = )
* Dave and I watched "The Great Debaters" last Friday night. We both really liked it and would recommend it for grown ups out there who are looking for a good movie. It's clean and all, but I wouldn't show it to your kids unless you want them disturbed and want to answer questions about lynchings and things like that. It's a true story though and we thought it was worth watching.
* Do you want to hear about our Valentines Day? So many have been writing about the fun fabulous days they had. I'll try to give you the very short version so as not to bore you to tears and such. I had such high expectations for this day. I was going to make a fabulous dinner for my babycakes. This is, after all, the first v.day that we've actually been in the same state. So, I would get lots of work done ahead of time, then I would do some work in the afternoon, we would watch some sweet, sappy movie, I would decorate the table in an absolutely beautiful way, we would have a nice leisurely lateish dinner, the day would be laid back and fun and relaxing... Ahhhh, it's nice to dream. Here's reality. We slept in, had an um... "discussion" which required some time, but we were able to salvage the day at that point and move on. I was feeling pretty gross on this day - SO tired, just had no energy and felt bla. And I hadn't started enough ahead of time, so there was all this work to do. Dave was feeling bad that he hadn't put enough thought into the day, so in order to appease his aching conscience (I'm always thinkin of him you know) I graciously suggested that he could help me with supper, if it would help him feel better. So away we chopped and mixed and stirred and what not. It was taking FOREVER! My feet were killing me, both the broken and non-broken ones, I was so tired, had no energy, and had the emotional fortitude of a 3 year old. All day things kept going wrong and I would just about loose it. Dumb little things, like I would spill and drop things and make a mess and it would feel like the end of the world as we know it. I was trying to get everything prepared so we would still have time to watch our sweet romantic movie before supper. Well, like I said, it was taking forever, Dave eventually petered out and fell asleep, and then, the last straw - I was trying to make this desert and it, what I would call flopped, although Dave insisted it tasted wonderfully. But it was the consistency of sludge. That did it. I'll spare you the details, but the mother of all meltdowns ensued. I mean, what in the world is my problem? It's not like I have a lot on my plate right now, and I can't even pull together a nice supper? Dave woke up and wondered what to do with me and rest of the evening. Well, once I could summon the strength, we managed to finish supper and the table was somewhat pretty, just not as pretty as I had hoped. So we ate supper and weren't done until after 9. About the sweet romantic movie, Dave was stuck on this old Cary Grant movie we had gotten from the library. I asked if it was sweet and romantic and he said, "Well, they get married at the end!" (BAD BAD SIGN!!) So we proceeded to watched a movie of deranged family members with sweet little old ladies murdering people and storing them in the basement. But it didn't matter because I was SOUND asleep by 9:30 and didn't really wake up till after midnight when Dave was doing dishes like a nice husband. I had slept so long and hard that I couldn't sleep when I went to bed, so I got up and watched Pinky and the Brain and old game shows till around 3. Thus concludes our wonderful, perfect, sweet valentines day. Next year, we're going OUT!
* The above bullet point was going to be short. oops.
* Here's some random quotes for you.
D: (smelling the OLD jar of jam, always concerned about pinching pennies) It doesn't smell TOOOO bad, I guess I could have some....
R: (Who quit eating the jam months ago) We can BUY more JAM! It's not THAT expensive! It's way cheaper than food poisoning! (okay, so it hit us funny at the time)
In reference to the less than desirable desert that made one of us cry a lot, (said very cheerfully) "A surprise is something you got and didn't know you wanted!"
"Yeah, sometimes, unless it's brain cancer or something like that!" (Just trying to keep it real)
* I have a bad habit of taking showers that are way too hot and then feeling like I'm going to pass out afterwards. But it's so nice in the moment that I find it hard to make the water cooler. Anyone else? no?
* In reference to the aforementioned job, I'm finding it so ironic right now, how we have to get jobs to pay off this education we got in order to get a job that would pay off the education that would allow us to get a job that would pay off the education that we needed to get a job that would ... well anyway... you get the idea. It seems like such a funny cycle to me right now. I am glad I went to school, but it's just odd. Then once you get the job you need/want, you are excited to have money, but are too busy working all the time to have time to actually do anything fun with the money, other than paying off the .... I won't start.
* This might be the end of this bulleted message.
* I'll try to post some pictures soon.
* I hope you're all having a fabulous weekend.
* This weekend is MUCH better than the last one for me, so far anyway.
* good bye and God bless
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
25 things....
So, there's this thing that's all the rage right now on facebook - writing down 25 random facts about yourself and tagging others to do the same. I was tagged apparently, but got mad at facebook because it was being really obnoxious, so I thought I'd do it here instead for you my most faithful and true friends. Or something. So I've been meaning to do it forever, but for some reason, blogging has just seemed like more of a chore than a delight lately. But oh well, I shall persevere and get it done and then I can cross it off my list which will be delightful, even if the actual blogging is not. I shall pepper this with current events around here, since 25 is a crazy high number. Okay, it's late, I'll try....
1) I love lists. I love crossing things off lists.
2) I HATE mice and bugs.
3) Following that theme, today one of my worse fears was nearly realized. I'm embarrassed to admit that I often fear that some dangerous creature is lurking in the toilet and well, yeah.... so anyway, today I went into the bathroom with the intention of using the facilities. All of a sudden I heard something SWIMMING. I looked in the toilet and nearly collapsed in a heap right on the spot. The THING resembled THIS but was way way way bigger than any of these pictures. I ran for the bug killer and sprayed nearly a half gallon in the water and flushed him away. He had very demon like qualities about him. I then sprayed the other toilet and then the entire infected bathroom just for good measure. Then I sat on the couch and waited for Dave to get home. I know all day tomorrow I will be tortured with the images in my mind.
4) I have been married a half year as of yesterday.
5) Last Friday I went back to the doctor and he said I could walk on my foot. (Good thing since I already had been) but he also told me I shouldn't drive for another month. I don't think I'm going to listen, but we'll see.
6) Open bottles in showers drive me crazy. Even when I'm a guest in some one's home, I close them. I have to because they ask me to. Actually, they demand that I do.
7) I tend to always revert to blog colors that are some combination of blue and red. I was determined to find something different this time, so these might be here for awhile. What do you think?
8) One time myself and some friends laid down in the middle of the street, right outside the waterfront restaurant. good old Red Lake!
9) A week ago today I gave my husband a haircut in a hurry right before he left for school. We HIGHLY discourage this practice. = ( Thankfully, hair grows!!
10) One day last week, Dave and I ate grilled PB and honey for supper. It was yummy. I had never had that, only grilled PB and jelly because Rhonda told me to.
11) I enjoy vacuuming and folding laundry. The rest, not so much.
12) At a young age, I had a fairly over-developed conscience. I would feel very guilty about things, large and small.
13) Once when I was at a friend's house, we were goofing around and I very meanly sprayed her older sister with the sprinkler I was holding and got her all wet. Her mom came out and thought my friend had done it and told her to apologize. She said she didn't do it. I felt guilty about this for YEARS. I think I might be over it now. I wonder if any of them remember that story....
14) When I was young, I got a big kick out of telling adults who didn't know our family well, that I have brothers that are 5 months apart. When they would tell me that's not possible, I would emphatically state.... UH HUH!! UH HUH!!!!
15) There is a chance I was slightly obnoxious as a child.
16) I also got a big kick out of telling people that there was a guy at my church who was my "step-dad, step-mom's, first husband's, brother's adopted son." (Refer to # 15.) But I learned it from my brother.
17) While we're on the topic, also when I was young, I was plagued with questions such as, "How in the world do the stop lights just know when the cars are going to start going and then change?" and "Why can't you just write checks to yourself to keep doubling your money until you're a millionaire?"
18) I have terrible reading comprehension and often read the same thing several times before I absorb it. Conversely, I have always enjoyed writing. This got to be a very odd combination in college when I would write things and then read them and not be able to figure out the deep concepts I had just written. This really did happen once. I'm not sure if it was a sign of superior writing ability though.
19) There is a trend in my family of the women marring younger guys. Of my 6 sibs, this is the case with all but one of them. I kept the trend alive by finding someone one day younger than myself.
20) Tonight I watched a lady win a million bucks on Millionaire and all her life lines were gone by the 16,000 question. It was FUN! It was a run-run though, so not quite as cool.
21) Social injustice and injustice in general really bothers me. There are so many different opinions about what actually constitutes these things though... hmmmmm......
22) I've been to Canada, the US, Russia, Madagascar, Israel, the Netherlands, Belgium, and some random airports. I want to go somewhere else now - like maybe tour Europe and visit Israel again, then swing down to Madagascar again, then go to Australia and New Zealand. If I would save 5 bucks a week, I could maybe go in 3089.
23) I get situational insomnia in the worst sort of way. Thankfully, I think I've been able to make up for most of the sleep I lost while I was engaged.
24) I have been under the surgeons knife 3 times.
25) We pause for great excitement for making it to the end. I hope I have not bored you to tears. And finally, here's my last fun fact: I have CDO. It's sort of like OCD, but with the letters in alphabetical order, AS THEY SHOULD BE! (okay, that's not even remotely original with me. I found it very amusing though and wanted to share.)
26) Oh, I have one more. I have this odd loyalty to the "first" of something. It's hard to explain. Like in Warsaw, we lived really close to a Walgreens and we used to hang out there a lot and knew most of the workers (not by name, but ya know). Now, it's hard for me to go to CVS. I can do it, I just don't prefer it. I feel like I'm being disloyal. And it's like that with the first of anything I see, use, read, watch, whatever - I get stuck on that one thing just because it came first and have a hard time switching. I don't know how odd this is for sure.
1) I love lists. I love crossing things off lists.
2) I HATE mice and bugs.
3) Following that theme, today one of my worse fears was nearly realized. I'm embarrassed to admit that I often fear that some dangerous creature is lurking in the toilet and well, yeah.... so anyway, today I went into the bathroom with the intention of using the facilities. All of a sudden I heard something SWIMMING. I looked in the toilet and nearly collapsed in a heap right on the spot. The THING resembled THIS but was way way way bigger than any of these pictures. I ran for the bug killer and sprayed nearly a half gallon in the water and flushed him away. He had very demon like qualities about him. I then sprayed the other toilet and then the entire infected bathroom just for good measure. Then I sat on the couch and waited for Dave to get home. I know all day tomorrow I will be tortured with the images in my mind.
4) I have been married a half year as of yesterday.
5) Last Friday I went back to the doctor and he said I could walk on my foot. (Good thing since I already had been) but he also told me I shouldn't drive for another month. I don't think I'm going to listen, but we'll see.
6) Open bottles in showers drive me crazy. Even when I'm a guest in some one's home, I close them. I have to because they ask me to. Actually, they demand that I do.
7) I tend to always revert to blog colors that are some combination of blue and red. I was determined to find something different this time, so these might be here for awhile. What do you think?
8) One time myself and some friends laid down in the middle of the street, right outside the waterfront restaurant. good old Red Lake!
9) A week ago today I gave my husband a haircut in a hurry right before he left for school. We HIGHLY discourage this practice. = ( Thankfully, hair grows!!
10) One day last week, Dave and I ate grilled PB and honey for supper. It was yummy. I had never had that, only grilled PB and jelly because Rhonda told me to.
11) I enjoy vacuuming and folding laundry. The rest, not so much.
12) At a young age, I had a fairly over-developed conscience. I would feel very guilty about things, large and small.
13) Once when I was at a friend's house, we were goofing around and I very meanly sprayed her older sister with the sprinkler I was holding and got her all wet. Her mom came out and thought my friend had done it and told her to apologize. She said she didn't do it. I felt guilty about this for YEARS. I think I might be over it now. I wonder if any of them remember that story....
14) When I was young, I got a big kick out of telling adults who didn't know our family well, that I have brothers that are 5 months apart. When they would tell me that's not possible, I would emphatically state.... UH HUH!! UH HUH!!!!
15) There is a chance I was slightly obnoxious as a child.
16) I also got a big kick out of telling people that there was a guy at my church who was my "step-dad, step-mom's, first husband's, brother's adopted son." (Refer to # 15.) But I learned it from my brother.
17) While we're on the topic, also when I was young, I was plagued with questions such as, "How in the world do the stop lights just know when the cars are going to start going and then change?" and "Why can't you just write checks to yourself to keep doubling your money until you're a millionaire?"
18) I have terrible reading comprehension and often read the same thing several times before I absorb it. Conversely, I have always enjoyed writing. This got to be a very odd combination in college when I would write things and then read them and not be able to figure out the deep concepts I had just written. This really did happen once. I'm not sure if it was a sign of superior writing ability though.
19) There is a trend in my family of the women marring younger guys. Of my 6 sibs, this is the case with all but one of them. I kept the trend alive by finding someone one day younger than myself.
20) Tonight I watched a lady win a million bucks on Millionaire and all her life lines were gone by the 16,000 question. It was FUN! It was a run-run though, so not quite as cool.
21) Social injustice and injustice in general really bothers me. There are so many different opinions about what actually constitutes these things though... hmmmmm......
22) I've been to Canada, the US, Russia, Madagascar, Israel, the Netherlands, Belgium, and some random airports. I want to go somewhere else now - like maybe tour Europe and visit Israel again, then swing down to Madagascar again, then go to Australia and New Zealand. If I would save 5 bucks a week, I could maybe go in 3089.
23) I get situational insomnia in the worst sort of way. Thankfully, I think I've been able to make up for most of the sleep I lost while I was engaged.
24) I have been under the surgeons knife 3 times.
25) We pause for great excitement for making it to the end. I hope I have not bored you to tears. And finally, here's my last fun fact: I have CDO. It's sort of like OCD, but with the letters in alphabetical order, AS THEY SHOULD BE! (okay, that's not even remotely original with me. I found it very amusing though and wanted to share.)
26) Oh, I have one more. I have this odd loyalty to the "first" of something. It's hard to explain. Like in Warsaw, we lived really close to a Walgreens and we used to hang out there a lot and knew most of the workers (not by name, but ya know). Now, it's hard for me to go to CVS. I can do it, I just don't prefer it. I feel like I'm being disloyal. And it's like that with the first of anything I see, use, read, watch, whatever - I get stuck on that one thing just because it came first and have a hard time switching. I don't know how odd this is for sure.
Friday, February 06, 2009
We can all do our part!
PLEASE watch this video! It's only about a minute and a half. Such a great idea and something so easy to do!!
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Home Sweet Home
Here's a few pictures of the homestead. Here's the pretty, much smaller desk with a few more things on the walls. 
And this is what the guest room looks like now. It's much more spacious and homey. And it's looking for some more guests. 
And I was randomly looking for some more pics to post and found this one of my ouchie - not too exciting. It used to get pretty black and blue up to the toezies, but it doesn't do that anymore. 
We had a great time visiting with Don and Marilyn last night and this morning. Now the house is all clean and in order and we're not getting ready for company. What do we do with ourselves? Ah well, that's all for now I guess.
And this is what the guest room looks like now. It's much more spacious and homey. And it's looking for some more guests. 
And I was randomly looking for some more pics to post and found this one of my ouchie - not too exciting. It used to get pretty black and blue up to the toezies, but it doesn't do that anymore. 
We had a great time visiting with Don and Marilyn last night and this morning. Now the house is all clean and in order and we're not getting ready for company. What do we do with ourselves? Ah well, that's all for now I guess.
Sunday, February 01, 2009
food art and other random ramblings
Hi all - I've been meaning to post for awhile and haven't gotten around to it. Now it's midnight on Saturday night. I should be sleeping. Dave is working on math and has to strike while the brain is hot (or something like that), so I thought now would be a perfect time to blog. Tomorrow morning I'll probably think differently, but oh well. First, a small photo display... Last Saturday I guess it was - Dave had bought lots of bananas and knowing that some would probably go bad, I got in the mood for this. And then I had all sorts of fun being decorative. So we took pictures. Dave thought the pattern was very mathematical and totally tubular. (side note - best to eat most of it the day of. even though I soaked the bananas in lemon juice, by day 3 or so - GROSS! Dave of course didn't mind the slimy nasty stuff, so I'd eat around the bananas and save those for him - I just want to be a blessing ya know)
Here we have a pizza. How thrilling that I posted a picture of our pizza for all to see and drool over. Actually, at the time, we were SO hungry and this looked so good, that we had to take a couple pictures. Hooray for papa murphy's. Probably most of my Canadian readers are unfamiliar with this place. They make everything fresh right there and then you go home and bake it. They are very very good. And we have coupons - 7.99 for one of these - no way I could make it for that. And where else can you get zucchini on your pizza? It was very very tasty. Oh, and we make it last for 2 meals meaning 2 bucks each for supper. Am I just trying to justify buying a pizza? I dunno... anyway, there you have it. 
Um, what can I say? He does odd things and I entertain myself by taking pictures of them when possible. 
Okay, enough pictures. I'll try to gab a bit. Today we received a roll top desk from some friends of ours who were wanting to get rid of it. It's really nice and we like it a lot. The only thing is that the (big, huge, um.... not entirely attractive) computer monitor won't come close to fitting on it. Upon further inspection, it does not appear to be designed for a computer so much. Anyway, we're making it work, but things look a little um... full, shall we say. But I like it a lot better than having part of a huge desk out in the living space. I'll post some pics later when I get some stuff on the walls. But it was fun to organize it and all that. The big huge desk that was in the guest room is gone, to make room for the big huge dresser that was in our room, which was moved to make way for the big huge dresser that Mike brought from Red Lake. So now the computer and such is in the living room (actually, the space between the living room and "dining room" I guess would be more accurate, and the guest room is looking more bedroomy. Anyway, I just realized that I'm blathering on and on about things that are probably very boring to the average reader. Let me know when you move your furniture, okay!!?? We're getting things ready for company again this coming week. Don and Marilyn (for you red lakers) are coming through on Tuesday and I'm looking forward to visiting with them. We've been trying to get everything in order and made a lot of progress today, but things are still in somewhat disarray. Dave is much looking forward to the superbowl tomorrow. Hopefully we'll get some work done before that (the most restful, Sabbathy kind of work). A really really really odd thing is that I'm almost in some very small way looking forward to the superbowl as well. ACK! I don't know what's happening. When I fear I've become too American, I remind myself how much I would rather be watching the Stanley Cup than the Superbowl. ummmmmm...... oh, here's something overheard lately:
me showing dave an old gratuation picture: "This picture was actually entered in a photo contest."
Dave: "Really? How come?"
Much back peddling and sputtering commenced - it was quite fun.
Okay, I think I'll leave you now. It's getting later and later. funny how that happens.
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