The garage called later tonight. The repair amount is much more reasonable than I expected, so I said go right ahead, thanks! Yes, that good news allowed me to rationalize continuing to drive The Bomb for a few more months.
Friday, February 24, 2006
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
1. What time did you get up this morning? 4:45 am
2. Diamonds or pearls? Neither , I don't like jewelry.
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Steve Carell in The 40 year Old Virgin .
4. What is your favorite TV shows? Arrested Development, too bad it just went off the air, it was fantastic!
5. What do you usually have for breakfast? tea
6. What is your middle name ? Starr
7. Favorite Cuisine? Chinese or vietnamese fried rice, chow mein. lo mein, etc !
8. What foods do you dislike? Yeah, Liver!
9. What is your favorite chip flavor? plain 10. What is your favorite CD at the moment? Rollins Band : Get Some Go Again
11. What kind of car do you drive? My 1995 Saturn just died in my driveway, so I'm not driving anything today!
12. Favorite sandwich? Tuna !
13. What characteristic do you detest? tantrum throwing, arrogance 14. Favorite item of clothing? Sweat suit.
15. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would it be? Bergen, Norway.
16. What color is your bathroom? White and light blue.
17. Favorite brand of clothing? Express .
18. Where would you retire to? St. Paul .
19. What was your most memorable birthday? 12th, we made a 8mm home movie that day, I still have it on video!
20. Favorite sport to watch? none .
21. Farthest place you are sending this? across the hall.
22. Who do you least expect to send this back to you? Everyone.
23. Person you expect to send it back first? No one.
24. Goal you have for yourself? Run even just ONE K !!! I am so out of shape!.
25. Are you a morning person or a night person? Morning.
26. When is your birthday? November.
27. Have no idea where this question went to??? I don't understand the question. 28. What is your shoe size? 7 1/2
29. Pets? 1 dog.
30. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with us? In December and January I researched my family tree and got emails from relatives I never met!
31. What did you want to be when you were little? movie star !
32. What are you today? Tired and crabby and worried how I will get my car fixed or get a new one..
33. What is your favorite candy? Good and Plenty.
34. What is your favorite flower? Lilacs.
35. What is a date on the calendar you are looking forward to? March 22, I have 3 days off with my kids then !
36. If you could have one wish what would it be? For my 2 kids to go to college when they're big, and win 100% paid scholarships !
2. Diamonds or pearls? Neither , I don't like jewelry.
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Steve Carell in The 40 year Old Virgin .
4. What is your favorite TV shows? Arrested Development, too bad it just went off the air, it was fantastic!
5. What do you usually have for breakfast? tea
6. What is your middle name ? Starr
7. Favorite Cuisine? Chinese or vietnamese fried rice, chow mein. lo mein, etc !
8. What foods do you dislike? Yeah, Liver!
9. What is your favorite chip flavor? plain 10. What is your favorite CD at the moment? Rollins Band : Get Some Go Again
11. What kind of car do you drive? My 1995 Saturn just died in my driveway, so I'm not driving anything today!
12. Favorite sandwich? Tuna !
13. What characteristic do you detest? tantrum throwing, arrogance 14. Favorite item of clothing? Sweat suit.
15. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would it be? Bergen, Norway.
16. What color is your bathroom? White and light blue.
17. Favorite brand of clothing? Express .
18. Where would you retire to? St. Paul .
19. What was your most memorable birthday? 12th, we made a 8mm home movie that day, I still have it on video!
20. Favorite sport to watch? none .
21. Farthest place you are sending this? across the hall.
22. Who do you least expect to send this back to you? Everyone.
23. Person you expect to send it back first? No one.
24. Goal you have for yourself? Run even just ONE K !!! I am so out of shape!.
25. Are you a morning person or a night person? Morning.
26. When is your birthday? November.
27. Have no idea where this question went to??? I don't understand the question. 28. What is your shoe size? 7 1/2
29. Pets? 1 dog.
30. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with us? In December and January I researched my family tree and got emails from relatives I never met!
31. What did you want to be when you were little? movie star !
32. What are you today? Tired and crabby and worried how I will get my car fixed or get a new one..
33. What is your favorite candy? Good and Plenty.
34. What is your favorite flower? Lilacs.
35. What is a date on the calendar you are looking forward to? March 22, I have 3 days off with my kids then !
36. If you could have one wish what would it be? For my 2 kids to go to college when they're big, and win 100% paid scholarships !
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Someone asked my list of "bobbins" or what I would call "pet peeves".
Obviously I could write volumes, but here was my list today:
My phone ringing between the hours of 9 pm to 9 am.
Voice mails from someone who just throught up something for me to do for them.
School fund raisers. "You're only giving me fifteen dollars? I need one thousand dollars! I want to win the bike!"
Misleading headlines "CHENEY SHOOTS SOMEONE!" Turns out to be with buck-shot. Big deal.
Microsoft word screwing up my capital letters. People who make me have to hear what day of the week it is when it's not even relevent! Me: Good Morning Scott. Scott: Sigh. It's Wednesday.
Miserable tv comedies about charming married couples where the wife is always clever, and the husband is always forgetful and lazy that last for 6 years, I can't even name any, they're all the same; when great shows like Arrested Development barely last a year or two.
Eyeball-searing perfume.
Dog hair.
Women's Entertainment television network aka "The Crying Channel." I'm a woman. They have yet to show anything that I would watch.
Cars. Car-dependent society. They bug me.
My male friends' new girlfriends. They're never good enough in my opinion. I dread being introduced to them.
Employment interviewers to don't call back to say you didn't get the job. I remember when it used to happen to me. Now I see it happen to my husband all the time.
Sodapop . I hate that I love it in almost all its forms.
News stories about how all our nation's youths are starving themselves and worshipping the goddess "ana", right next to a news story about how all our nation's youth are obese.
News stories about how all our nations youth are over-extended with parentally enforced activites such as sports, right next to news stories about how all our nations youth are entirely ignored and neglected by self-absorbed, workaholic parents .
Bugs. Hate 'em.
Obviously I could write volumes, but here was my list today:
My phone ringing between the hours of 9 pm to 9 am.
Voice mails from someone who just throught up something for me to do for them.
School fund raisers. "You're only giving me fifteen dollars? I need one thousand dollars! I want to win the bike!"
Misleading headlines "CHENEY SHOOTS SOMEONE!" Turns out to be with buck-shot. Big deal.
Microsoft word screwing up my capital letters. People who make me have to hear what day of the week it is when it's not even relevent! Me: Good Morning Scott. Scott: Sigh. It's Wednesday.
Miserable tv comedies about charming married couples where the wife is always clever, and the husband is always forgetful and lazy that last for 6 years, I can't even name any, they're all the same; when great shows like Arrested Development barely last a year or two.
Eyeball-searing perfume.
Dog hair.
Women's Entertainment television network aka "The Crying Channel." I'm a woman. They have yet to show anything that I would watch.
Cars. Car-dependent society. They bug me.
My male friends' new girlfriends. They're never good enough in my opinion. I dread being introduced to them.
Employment interviewers to don't call back to say you didn't get the job. I remember when it used to happen to me. Now I see it happen to my husband all the time.
Sodapop . I hate that I love it in almost all its forms.
News stories about how all our nation's youths are starving themselves and worshipping the goddess "ana", right next to a news story about how all our nation's youth are obese.
News stories about how all our nations youth are over-extended with parentally enforced activites such as sports, right next to news stories about how all our nations youth are entirely ignored and neglected by self-absorbed, workaholic parents .
Bugs. Hate 'em.
Someone asked me my top favorite movies. I limited it to films I could watch again, no matter how much I enjoyed watching them once:
East is East (Manchester, England)
Napoleon Dynamite (Idaho)
Smoke Signals (Idaho)
Bye Bye Birdie (Paul Lynde)
Rock and Roll High School (The Ramones)
Repo Man (Generic Food)
Antonia's Line (Holland)
Amelie (Paris)
Elling (Norway)
Star Wars a New Hope (The real one)
Escape to Witch Mountain (Disney)
Lord Love a Duck (Roddy McDowall)
Drop Dead Fred (Rik Mayall)
The Cleats of Imminent Doom (short film)
The Aristocats (Disney)
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
It' s official. As a family we can't fit in all our activities. So I have quit my English as a Second Language volunteer job, for now, so I can take my 6 year old son to Scouts, because my husband is being assigned to work on a lot of week nights. I'm sure I'll be able to start again next fall. Hopefully my husband will have found a more appropriate job by then, with regular business hours.
Work's ok for me. Still working in the call center. No big trips planned for me. I had to miss 3 days of work last week. Two weeks ago my husband got a stomache flu, then strep. Then last week, my 6 year old son got a cold for 2 days, then my 12 year old daughter got it on Friday! Somehow, luckily, I never caught anything!
About a month ago, I sent a letter to a name and address I found on yahoo white pages. I searched the state of California for people with my great-granfather's unusual last name. I did that because I never really knew what happended to my grandmother's only brother. I vaguely remembered her mentioning that he had moved to California and had grandchildren, but I never met any of them. On yahoo, I not only found someone with his last name, I found my grandmother's brother's full name still listed! So I wrote him.
Last week I got an email from my second-cousin! Although my great-uncle's name is still listed in the phone book, it is because his widow keeps the phone in his name. She gave my letter to her grand daughter, very near to my age, and my second-cousin sent me an email reply! It's been so fun. We've been exchanging pictures and anecdotes. She met my grandma and uncle but I never met her grandpa. Our great granmother lived until I was 12 but my second-cousin never met her. We both had visits in the late 70's from our grandparents' cousins from Bergen Norway. It's just been great to hear from her.
My son's 7th birthday is in a week and a half!
Work's ok for me. Still working in the call center. No big trips planned for me. I had to miss 3 days of work last week. Two weeks ago my husband got a stomache flu, then strep. Then last week, my 6 year old son got a cold for 2 days, then my 12 year old daughter got it on Friday! Somehow, luckily, I never caught anything!
About a month ago, I sent a letter to a name and address I found on yahoo white pages. I searched the state of California for people with my great-granfather's unusual last name. I did that because I never really knew what happended to my grandmother's only brother. I vaguely remembered her mentioning that he had moved to California and had grandchildren, but I never met any of them. On yahoo, I not only found someone with his last name, I found my grandmother's brother's full name still listed! So I wrote him.
Last week I got an email from my second-cousin! Although my great-uncle's name is still listed in the phone book, it is because his widow keeps the phone in his name. She gave my letter to her grand daughter, very near to my age, and my second-cousin sent me an email reply! It's been so fun. We've been exchanging pictures and anecdotes. She met my grandma and uncle but I never met her grandpa. Our great granmother lived until I was 12 but my second-cousin never met her. We both had visits in the late 70's from our grandparents' cousins from Bergen Norway. It's just been great to hear from her.
My son's 7th birthday is in a week and a half!
