onlyaymie
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
This weekend...
Saturday we finally got our track lighting up. Yay! It looks great. Makes me want to do the whole house with track. That is, unfortunately, prohibitively expensive. I have basically decided that when we sell the house (unless I am feeling lazy about it by then) we will take all the kitchen lights with us, and just buy cheap lights to put up. I want to keep the pretty ones. Plus, most people replace lights anyway, when you think about it.
That reminds me, I need to get glass put in the cabinet door. I was waiting until the track was up so the glass would not have the chance to be shattered during track installation. Wow. I can't believe it.
Just when I thought we were done searching for furniture, we are at it again. I may not have mentioned the sofa quest. It was long and arduous and finally ended in the purchase of a chofa and love seat last weekend. The chofa idea is just too too clever.
Anyway, we were going to continue using our occasional tables we had for the living room (our $35 specials). But I was putting felt on the bottom of the legs of my favorite, and got to looking at it. To my great sadness, I saw what looked like powder post beetle holes. After that, I couldn't bear to keep it. Sigh. That is the second thing from the auction that had the symptoms too - the first was a pair of chairs. And on the chairs, we didn't notice it until I had done all the work of taking the upholstery off the first one. That sucked. Anyway, so now we are on the quest for occasional tables. I may have to give in to my husband's desire for a cocktail table. I hate cocktail tables.
I am totally slammed at work right now. This was my 5 o'clock break. Back to the salt mines for me!
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Willy Wonka
So, I thought I had this original thought - I've been seeing the previews and interviews for the upcoming Willy Wonka release. And I thought, "am I the only one who notices that Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka has a resemblance to Michael Jackson?"
Apparently I am not the only one, as I found several articles saying the same thing when I googled willy wonka, johnny depp, michael jackson.
Oh well.
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Sad today
Today is one of those days when I just feel very sad, but for no particular reason. I know there are people with real problems in the world who have much more reason to feel sad than I do, but since sad has an inexaustible supply, I don't worry too much about hogging someone else's share of sad. When I was younger, I fancied I was the only one with occasional unexplained sadness. Now I am older and realize that I am not special - there are plenty of other sad people too. So now I can also be sad about being not particularly special. Ok, that last sentence was a joke. Sad days for me seem to correlate highly with how much I liked what I ate. Today for lunch I had yogurt. I am currently having a snack on Reduced Fat Toastchee. I didn't have the yogurt so much for diet purposes as because there was nothing at home to bring and I didn't want to buy something. The Toastchee is for fun - I love Toastchee. When I was on Weight Watchers, losing weight also had some correlation to less sad days. Weight Watchers is hard work. It was at least easy to go to the meetings when I worked at a place that had meetings at work. After leaving, I just couldn't make it to meetings anymore.
It looks like it may rain again. Geez. I remember when summers used to be dry for weeks. I know the rain is better, but I feel like I should start building a boat.
Friday, July 08, 2005
Back to the mechanic...again
Funny how the world moves so quickly...until you have car trouble, that is. This morning I went out to go to work, and the Explorer wouldn't start. It wouldn't even really make any noise. Having just got a new battery 2 weeks ago, I was dumbfounded. And being that it was 9 AM on a weekday morning, I was dumbfounded. There is no one around to jump you off at that time of day, and it is hard to flag someone down when your car is sitting in your driveway. I think I weirded one guy in a jeep out, he was driving by, and I was standing outside looking at him wondering if I could get him to stop - he waved at me. It was then I realized how obviously I was looking at him. I called the shop I go to, which is only like a mile away, but they couldn't spare someone to come jump me off. So I called AAA. They recommended a tow truck, since the Explorer didn't show any signs of starting.
The truck took over an hour to arrive, which I guess isn't too bad. I got to ride in the cab to the shop. By that time it was 11. They had to push it into the garage at the shop because they couldn't start it. Turns out my starter is bad. Yay.
Now it is fixed, but I am at home. I could walk over there, but it is hot outside. I am not going in to work anyway now, I'm working from home. So better to wait, I think.
