Category: This and That
Would someone get the lights
On occasion I have mentioned my truck, and some of the problems that I’m having with it. The major problems that currently exist are no heat, no air, no defrost, and a leak in some gasket (maybe the head gasket if I remember correctly, it fouls the spark plugs and causes one heck of a [...]
Dream store
I had a dream last night that I was shipping in a giant superstore. It was the superstore to end all superstores. It was like Walmart meets Home Depot meets Shop Rite. Each department was a store within itself, and all stores met within the middle. Each department represented a different room of the house. [...]
Road trip
Me and my youngest are taking a little road trip today. We’re going out to Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, in Philly. He’s going to have a procedure called an ABR which stands for auditory brainstem response. Hopefully this will tell us more on any hearing issues present. He hasn’t been allowed food since he went [...]
Easter plans
I host Easter dinner for my family every year. We were talking this morning and I reminded hubby that Easter is almost here (it’s in less than a month) and we’ve got some stuff we’ve got to get done before then. We’re hoping to get the living room wall finished up. Hubby picked up some [...]
An ode to oysters
I was surfing and wound up on the Be Oyster Aware website learning about Gulf oysters. The site promotes oyster safety awareness and educates visitors about vibrio vulnificus, a dangerous bacterial infection it is possible to get if certain oysters are eaten, and it’s symptoms and treatment. informs visitors. There’s a section on how oysters [...]
Snow day
Well as it turns out my older son didn’t need to worry about missing school and not having perfect attendance. It snowed during the night, not blizzard snow but enough to make things messy for us. When I left here at 5:30am to go to work the roads hadn’t been plowed, sanded or salted and [...]
Nascar drivers from Missouri
Here’s a random thought. If I were on a vacation in Missouri and was traveling through Branson golf would be the furthest thing from my mind. You see, Missouri is the home state of two of my favorite Nascar drivers. Jamie McMurray is from Joplin and Rusty Wallace is from Fenton. It would be interesting [...]
Boys to the left
No update on the asking out, his friend was over until basketball practice. After practice hubby and I went to the Verizon cell store and out for dinner, then I had to take my son to a female friend’s birthday party that he was invited to a couple of weeks ago. They were celebrating her [...]
Spur of the moment window shopping
Have you ever decided to just go out and do some window shopping for an upcoming major purchase? I have. I’ve even ended up going spur of the moment window shopping for unplanned purchases just to get out. Lately I’ve started seeing more of those directbuy commercials on television again and I don’t quite get [...]
One of two things isn’t working here
I’m not 100% sure which – the tv or the Tivo. See, the tv in our bedroom is pretty old and actually needs to warm up for 5-10 minutes or it makes all sorts of noises and the picture will cut in and out. That tv is connected to a Tivo, as well as a [...]
Penelope
Not everyone automatically likes themselves. As a teenager I did not like myself, because I was very different from other kids. I graduated high school at fifteen. So I was different from my classmates because I was much younger. I was different from kids my own age because I was not in the same grade [...]
El Exigente getting ready to strike again
Each year on at least one or two occasions my Mom receives a mysterious gifting from someone who signs himself as El Exigente. Of course, we know it is my Uncle having some fun. Well, the fun is starting early this year as Valentine’s Day is this coming week. While at work the other day [...]
The few, the proud, the stolen
Late last week I heard a report on the local news that a laptop belonging to the health insurance provider Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield had been stolen. On it was the personal information of 300,000 or more of its subscribers. As it turns out, I am one of the 300,000. Now I have lots [...]
What to do?
My middle younger brother has asked us if he can take my older son on a skiing snowboarding weekend. My son has done neither, but picks up new things pretty quickly. He’d like to go. I’m a bit hesitant to say yes. One of the things I am most worried about is the distance from [...]
I’ve got my dining room back
For Christmas I got my hubby a bass guitar rack tuner. For the past two weeks all of hubby’s components have been in the house all over the dining room. Apparently they all had to be rearranged, and some needed different cables because of the addition of a new piece. I didn’t know when hubby [...]
