Archive for September, 2007
ugh
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007that restaurant tonight on Kitchen Nightmares……guh.
last night was Curriculum Night at Otto’s school. I signed up to go in once a week and read with the kids (it’ll only involve minor tweakage of my work schedule). I also volunteered to help at the planetarium field trip. (Hey, I like the planetarium.)
take your aim, what a frame!
Monday, September 24th, 2007Otto’s first Saturday of league bowling was on Saturday. It went well; he’s going to be one of the youngest kids (if not the youngest).
The first two Saturdays they just bowl to set their personal average. Then Peg (who runs the alley) creates the teams. She mixes gender and age, [...]
do yourself a favor
Friday, September 21st, 2007go here.
download everything.
enjoy sweet mashupy goodness.
(is it just me or does everyone use “We Love You” by the Rolling Stones in their mashups? not that I’m complaining.)
and Dad- I hated the USDA because we have clients who got a mortgage through the Rural Division and we had to jump through hoops to get a payoff [...]
the guy at the info desk hated me, I’m sure
Friday, September 21st, 2007Me, at Barnes & Noble this evening:
“Hi, I’m looking for a book. I don’t remember what it’s called, but the author’s first name is Tom. The main character has amnesia, and he gets a big money settlement, and he populates an apartment building with people and makes them re-enact certain events? I’d [...]
so, to sum up
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007I have a cold, I hate the USDA, the guy on Kitchen Nightmares was a total ass.
conquistadors WHO TOOK THEIR SHARE
Monday, September 17th, 2007Otto starts his bowling league on Saturday. We were kind of wondering what to do about the bowling shoe situation – while buying him shoes is expensive, renting them every week would be even more. I dinked around the web a bit to try and find them in his size (kid 13) but they all [...]
FINALLY
Sunday, September 16th, 2007Lithium (the 90’s alternative station on Sirius radio) finally played the Nine Inch Nails song I referenced in this entry. It’s “Dead Souls”.
boomety boom boom
Saturday, September 15th, 2007We had the window open slightly last night, and about 7am this morning I awoke to BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM. I couldn’t tell what it was – wasn’t thunder, wasn’t transformers going off (I’d heard that during the 1991 Ice Storm) – it was weird.
Turns out it was this.
We watched Fatherland tonight. [...]
honesty is the best policy
Thursday, September 13th, 2007I really do not want to admit this. Some things are just better kept private, under wraps. You say things on the Internet, they come back to haunt you. It always happens. But yet I foolishly plow along.
so
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007I finally got around to watching that Britney Spears VMA brou-ha-ha.
1. If Britney Spears is fat, I’d hate to hear what people say about me.
2. I could probably put more effort into a dance routine than she.
3. Man, that song is annoying.
an hour a day. tops.
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007Otto missed the bus today. Nobody’s fault in particular; we all just kinda slacked off a little too much and as he was finishing tying his sneakers I saw the bus pull away from the stop. Oops. Fortunately I was able to drive him to school and then drive to work.
He has a birthday part [...]
okay, that was amusing
Monday, September 10th, 2007I’m sitting inside at my computer. I just sneezed and our next door neighbor (outside, on the opposite side of the property from where I’m sitting) said “bless you!”
I thanked him, and he said “you’re welcome!”
heh
Friday, September 7th, 2007I’m a left-handed, tattooed knitter. I WIN.
library musings
Thursday, September 6th, 2007So the big hooptydoo (or one of them, anyway) in our town is the library situation. There’s West Whitneyville and East Whitneyville. Both have libraries. Both libraries suck. There was a proposal to combine the two sucky libraries into one big new bright shiny happy non-sucky library in the middle. [...]
well…
Thursday, September 6th, 2007the bus dropped that kid off down the street at about 3:20. That’s a bit of progress, I s’pose.
gah
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007So Otto is supposed to be dropped off, across the street, at 3:30pm. So I mosey over across the street about that time.
Ten minutes later, I see his bus coming – from the wrong direction. It blows past the stop, and stops further down to let a kid off. I proceed to [...]
OMFG (#2 in a series of at least 13, hopefully)
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Otto gets home from FIRST GRADE in about half an hour.
so
Monday, September 3rd, 2007I *tried* posting a message on Friday saying I was going to visit the Connecticut Contingent, but it wouldn’t let me publish it.
So yeah, I was in the Nutmeg State this weekend. It was fun, as it always is, except I now have an obsession with “Wind It Up” by Gwen Stefani (more songs [...]