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Happy New Year
Happy New Year everyone! What are you plans for tonight?
Hubby has to be to work at 10 p.m., but we usually don’t go out and ring in the new year anyways, so it’s not a big deal. Zoe is spending the night at my mom’s so we can go to an early movie. Any suggestions? I’d like to see Fun with Dick and Jane, but it’s only 85 minutes long! Is that a rip off or what?
I’m totally hungover from a holiday party at my brother’s house last night. All the guests were asked to bring a bottle, or a dish. I think most everyone brought a bottle, and it was my job to open them all …. it was a self-assigned job as the unopened bottles were many, and opened bottles were all empty.
The party started at 7 p.m., and we finally rounded up Zoe at 11 p.m. to go home. It was way past her bedtime, and you could tell because things like ‘how many princess Legos’ she had versus the girl she was playing with was something to cry about. I can’t recall the last time I cried over princess Legos, or if they even had princess Legos when I was a kid.
Today I’m going to the Y to work out and sit in the hot tub. My iPod is back, all my music and podcasts have been put back on it, and I can’t wait to plug the earbuds into my ears. I believe I received a used or refurbished iPod back from Apple. It’s in their warranty that they can do that, so I can’t complain. It came back programmed for a Mac (I have Windows) and it was speaking German. I don’t speak German, so I had to reset it and then change it over to Windows (don’t ask me how, I just followed the instructions that was sent with the German iPod). This is ironic that it was a different language, because something similar happened when I received my original iPod back in June.
My cute little Hi Ho Silver Away! iPod needs a new german name, any suggestions?
Thursday Thirteen …. better late than never, right?
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| Thirteen books that are on my ‘To Be Read’ list
1. The Ghost Writer, John Harwood 2. The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks 3. Anything by Grippando 4. Bergdorf Blondes, Plum Sykes 5. Loaded Dice, James Swain 6. Anything by Carl Hiaasen. I read Skinny Dip and loved it! I couldn’t put it down. 7. The Phoenix Egg, by Richard Bamberg. This book was recommended by someone to me, and it’s been on my list for quite some time. Have you read it? 8. Dan Brown, Deception Point 9. Through the Grinder, Cleo Coyle 10. The Honeymoon, James Patterson 11. Twelve Sharp, Janet Evanovich (not yet released, due for June 20, 2006 ~ MY BIRTHDAY!!!). I can’t get enough of the Stephanie Plum series! Can you? 12. Motor Mouth, Janet Evanovich (also not yet released, due in October 2006). 13. Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown. I’ve already read this book, but I think it’s worth reading again before I see the movie.
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It’s back!
It’s back! It’s back!
Yawn
There’s not much going on over here. The long weekend is over, work is busy, and I’m back to getting up at 5 a.m. so that I can run a few miles. Today I did 4 miles — now it’s 10 p.m., and I’m soooooooo tired.
I sent my iPod back to Apple to get it replaced. It was still under warranty, so there shouldn’t be any problems. In the meantime, I’m going through withdrawal. I need my iPod!!!!!!
Uh oh
This afternoon Hubby, Zoe and I, went over to Hubby’s grandma’s house to pick up his brother and take him to the airport.
Grandma lives on a lake. The livingroom faces the lake, and there are a pair of binoculars on the look-through shelf between the kitchen and the livingroom, which we use to spy on all the people who are out on the lake. Today it was the ice fishers. They were all over the lake.
When I was done watching them, I put the binoculars back on the top shelf, where I’d gotten them from. I was in the livingroom, facing the shelves. Grandma was in the kitchen, at the table, eating dinner, right on the other side of the shelves. I accidentally hit a 10″ tall Wise Man figurine which was on the shelf. It toppled off the shelf, on grandma’s side, just missed her gray permed head, and fell onto the floor.
Uh oh!
(Remember, as I mentioned yesterday, grandma is completely blind.)
Grandma: “What was that?”
Hubby: “Nothing, she knocked a figurine down.”
Grandma: “How did she knock it down?”
Hubby: “She was putting away the binoculars.”
Me: “Did it hit you? Are you okay?”
Grandma: “Did it break? I hope it didn’t break.”
At this point, my brother-in-law comes up from under the table with the figurine, it’s missing the top of it’s hat and a foot.
Hubby: “No. It didn’t break.”
My brother-in-law handed the figurine to my Hubby, who immediately went over to the drawer where the glue is and pulled out the glue. BIL dropped to his hands and knees, searching for the top of the hat.
Grandma: “Are you sure?”
Brother-in-law finds the top of the hat, and assures grandma that it’s not broken.
I handed the piece to Hubby, who immediately glued it on. I whispered to him that he should move the glue away from grandma because she may not be able to see, but she’ll be able to smell the glue right away. He moved away to the other side of the room, instructing me ‘to go find the foot’, and then started to hush our daughter who piped in and said ‘you broke it’. Ugh. Shhhhhhhh!
We found the foot, and carried on our conversations with grandma as if nothing had ever happened. I almost burst out in fits of giggles a few times, and I couldn’t believe how quickly my Hubby and his brother went to work at putting the figurine back together. It was almost as if they’d done it before ……
Especially when Hubby put it back on the shelf in a completely different place from where it was when I knocked it off.
Merry Christmas!
Zoe and the Christmas tree. The kitten, Jasper, put a damper on our decorating this year. I didn’t want to risk any fragile ornaments, so what you are seeing is a grade school-esque paper chain of garland. Jasper is still destroying it, however, I’m not crying over it as I would be my ornaments. Maybe next year they can come back ….
Our annual Christmas photo. This year it was taken with Hubby’s brand new Canon PowerShot A610! Thank you Santa Claus!
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