Posts tagged as:

random

A little of this, a little of that

by Marilyn on November 25, 2008

My left hand is KILLING me today.  Most specifically, it’s my middle and ring finger are the sorest, but it extends all the way down the hand to the wrist.  UGH.  I can’t find my wrist brace either, to stabilize it.  I know this is because of the knitting and I’m afraid I shouldn’t knit today just to give the hand a chance to recover.  This makes me pretty sad, actually.  My little shapeless monstrosity is taking a sort of… life.  And I’d like to “finish” it.  Whatever “it” is.  Maybe my hand will feel better later.  Or maybe I could take some ibuprofen to dull it.  What would you all do?  Am I that big a wimp that my stupid hand muscles can’t even take some simple knitting??

***

We keep missing “How I Met Your Mother”.  It’s right when I’m putting Evie to sleep and Kile is playing Halo… It’s usually 8:30 before at least I make it downstairs (9pm for Kile).  You think I’d learn and just go ahead and set the DVR to record it already.  But our DVR sorta sucks rocks and I hate having to set up any sort of series recording because the stupid thing is completely unable to differentiate between repeats and new programs.  Drives me CRAZY.  (The plus side is that our ability to access OnDemand suddenly resurfaced last night.  Suh-WEET!)

***

Kile is getting paid crazy early this month.  His deposit will go in tonight.  Which is great for the whole Thanksgiving and Christmas shopping thing.  But on the flip side of that is that it’ll be that much harder to make the money stretch the entirety of December, since he only gets paid once a month.  I expect to be scraping the bottom of the barrell come Christmas time.  And, can I just say, I HATE ONLY GETTING PAID ONCE A MONTH.  It is a friggin’ joke, I tell ya.  

***

Speaking of shopping, we have big shopping plans for this weekend.  Not only do we need to buy all our groceries for the month (whimper), but we’re going to do a lot of Christmas shopping too.  And yes, a good portion of that could possibly taking place on Black Friday.  GULP.  I’ve been familiarizing myself with the Black Friday 2008 webpage, checking out the deals on things we know we want to get.  But tell me this:  Why is Toy’s R Us the only store that has a play kitchen on sale on Friday?  That’s just not right.  

Anyhow, it’s entirely possible that I will get eaten alive by crowds.  Pray for me. 

***

We’re going to finish decorating the Christmas tree on Thanksgiving day.  Won’t that be fun?  While food is cooking in the oven, we’ll all put together the trimmings.  The tree is up, mostly so that Liam will become accustomed to it.  So far, so good, he seems to barely notice it now.  Still, I’m not going to be putting too many ornaments down low where he can get to them.  I’m not STUPID, you know. 

***

You all seemed to really enjoy the prehistoric photos I put up last night.  Perhaps I’ll have to go dig up some other gems to scan for “posterity” (and not at all for “humor”, oh no!).  In the meantime, check out my “Way Back Machine” set on Flickr cuz there’s some lovliness there too.

{ 3 comments }

Smatterings

by Marilyn on November 17, 2008

I know this means I’m Officially Lame, but I’m watching Disney’s “Meet the Robinsons” with Liam and I’m finding myself laughing.  A lot.  This is a cute, funny movie!  Very clever.  Hey, if it’s not brain-melting drivel like “Oswald” (my old nemesis), and it makes my kids happy, then I pretty much want to marry it and have it’s babies. 

***

Evie slept in her crib on Saturday night.  As in, I laid her down in there around 8pm and she didn’t wake up until almost 5am.  (!!)  And even then, it wasn’t as if she woke up squalling and freaking out.  It was more of a “fuss”.  But I missed her so badly by that point and had slept so fitfully without her right there next to me, that I hopped up and ran to grab her. Heh. 

We tried it again last night, but shortly after we went to bed I heard her fuss.  I had JUST drowsed off so I was feeling loopy and I went to get her.  I didn’t realize until I got into her room and touched her belly that she had fallen back asleep.  (*cringe*)  Of course, touching her woke her up and she proceeded to freak the frack out so back to bed with us she went.  Ah well.  Live and learn. 

***

We really enjoy “True Blood” and “Entourage” on HBO on Sunday nights.  We missed BOTH last week when we were in Elko, which is a big ol’ bummer.  But last night was awesome.  And I’m so sad that both are ending their season after, like, NEXT WEEK.  What the heck am I going to watch THEN?  BOO!  What the freak is it with these tiny, itty, bitty television seasons??  And how many months until “Lost” comes back, anyhow?? 

***

Mondays kinda suck, don’t they?  I need more caffeine.

I did have a post planned, actually

by Marilyn on November 13, 2008

Today, I’ve gotten sucked into one thing and then another and then my blog totally betrayed me by completely LOSING the draft of a post I was slaving away on (it contained many rad photos). And so that is how I’ve made it past 3:30 in the afternoon without getting a post out.

Do you forgive me?

In the meantime, let’s all gripe about slow-loading websites, the fact that our cable box STILL does not let us access OnDemand, that I’ve missed “How I Met Your Mother” for several weeks now (because APPARENTLY the cable box also cannot distinguish between new episodes and repeats), and how much I’m craving hamburgers and fries for dinner.

Tell me: what are YOU craving? And does your cable box give you ad much trouble as ours gives us? Because that crap has GOT to stop.

Reporting from Small Town, USA

by Marilyn on November 10, 2008

I’m writing this on my iPhone, sitting out in the van with the kids while Kile is in the DMV here in Elko trying to take care of a situation that has been brewing for the better part of a year. I’m also hoping that there’s enough of an Edge network signal to post this once I finish.

Cell phone service is criminal out here. Edge is as best you can hope for and I don’t think I’ve had more than three bars worth of signal since we got here. I tried to talk to my parents this morning and the call was dropped no less than 10 times. Whatup, AT&T?? To be fair, the Internet is little better. Though my in laws have wireless DSL, the signal and performance are… spotty. Very frustrating. Don’t get me wrong though. I’m rather glad to gave any signal at all. Having Edge is even better than I expected. But this would definitely be a deal-breaker should we ever consider moving here.

It’s Harry’s birthday today. Nine years old. I don’t think I feel nearly old enough to have a nine year old. We did up a family party last night and he is beyond thrilled with his new iPod Shuffle (which he is now listening to in the “way back” seat). He got some other great gifts too. Only I didn’t take any pictures because I totally forgot and I fail as a mother. Sounds about right.

I saw the big BlogHer announcement this morning. I’m a little sad that the conference is going to be in Chicago this year. Since it is, I don’t think I’ll be able to go. The combined costs of traveling and hotel and conference itself are just too much. We’re going on a big cruise in August and though my parents are pretty much paying for it all, we’ll still need spending money. That doesn’t leave much room for BlogHer. I’m sad because it’ll be the first conference I’ll miss since 2006. And I’ll miss seeing friends and all sorts of other awesome people. So… boo.

Anyhow, we’ll be cooling our heels here for another day and are heading back to Reno tomorrow. And then I’ll have my decrepit laptop back. Yay.

Where’d everybody go??

by Marilyn on May 26, 2008

I don’t want to hear nonsense about it being Memorial Day weekend or anything.  That’s no excuse.  No, I want to know where everyone has gotten off to.  The blogosphere has been mighty quiet the last couple of days and it makes me so sad!  Come play with me!!

***

I posted on the cloth diaper blog today about my Saturday of Good Fortune.  It was The Awesome.  Nothing makes me quite as happy as a good deal does.  Unless it’s packaged in with a good opportunity.  I don’t know if it was just the awesome deals right and left that made Saturday so good, but I just felt so content all day long.  Which, you know, is pretty impressive considering it has been rainy and miserable here all weekend long and for Memorial Day, that’s pretty much just 20 shades of wrong.

***

Despite the rain, we made it out last night to go see “Indiana Jones” at the drive-in last night.  And you know, rain doesn’t necessarily preclude having a good time at the drive-in.  Sure, we had to stay in our cars because it was cold and miserable outside but big deal.  We got to see an awesome movie.  When is that not fun?  We had to run the windshield wipers a lot and the rain did streak the screen a touch, but it wasn’t that bad, actually.  I’m glad we went and I’d do it again in a heartbeat.

And yes, I liked the movie.  No, it wasn’t anything that’s going to win Academy Awards, but were Indiana Jones movies EVER the sort that win awards?  No, they’re just plain fun and that’s what this one is too.  I rather enjoyed the ending and the story was pretty interesting and, COME ON, it’s Indiana Jones!  What’s not to love?

I’m sure the hot buttered popcorn helped, too.

***

Nasty weather aside, I feel like we should grill something to eat for dinner tonight.  Of course, it would be indoors as our grill it out of propane and, you know, the whole RAIN thing.  What should we have?  I’m feeling rather partial to a semi-rare steak at the moment, though I’m sure my husband will prefer hamburgers, or perhaps kabobs or something.  Whatever it is, I fear there may have to be potato or pasta salad to go with it.  Because all of the sudden that sounds DAMN GOOD.

Tell me what you all have been doing with yourselves this long, lovely weekend.   And I hope you’ve all had better weather than we have!