Friday, October 29, 2010
The Big Day
After getting up at 2am to get on a bus that leaves they swear-to-Gawd no later than 3:35 am and arrives in D.C at 9am:
*PRE-PRE SHOW -- 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.*
*Video montages/music will play on the Jumbotrons around the venue to
entertain the crowd as they gather.*
*PRESHOW -- 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.*
*12:00 - 12:40 -- THE ROOTS will play for the crowd.*
*12:40 - 12:57 -- Comedian (TBD) will warm-up the audience.*
*12:57 - 1:00 -- Video countdown & intros*
*SHOW -- 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.*
*1:00 - 1:05 SINGING OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM -- Musical guest (TBD)*
*1:05 - 1:20 JON STEWART welcomes the crowd*
*1:20 - 1:30 STEPHEN COLBERT enters*
*1:30 - 1:35 BENEDICTION by actor Don Novello*
*1:35 - 1:40 POEM read by actor Sam Waterson*
*1:40 - 1:50 JEFF TWEEDY & MAVIS STAPLES perform*
*1:50 - 2:15 JON & STEPHEN perform*
*2:15 - 2:20 SHERYL CROW performs*
*2:20 - 2:30 SPEAKERS Guests make brief statements, both LIVE and TAPE
(TBD)*
*2:30 - 2:40 MUSICAL GUEST (TBD)*
*2:40 - 2:40 SANITY & FEAR awards - PRETAPED footage.*
*2:50 - 3:00 JON AND STEPHEN'S FINAL STATEMENTS*
Sooooo Excited!!!!!
After getting up at 2am to get on a bus that leaves they swear-to-Gawd no later than 3:35 am and arrives in D.C at 9am:
*PRE-PRE SHOW -- 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.*
*Video montages/music will play on the Jumbotrons around the venue to
entertain the crowd as they gather.*
*PRESHOW -- 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.*
*12:00 - 12:40 -- THE ROOTS will play for the crowd.*
*12:40 - 12:57 -- Comedian (TBD) will warm-up the audience.*
*12:57 - 1:00 -- Video countdown & intros*
*SHOW -- 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.*
*1:00 - 1:05 SINGING OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM -- Musical guest (TBD)*
*1:05 - 1:20 JON STEWART welcomes the crowd*
*1:20 - 1:30 STEPHEN COLBERT enters*
*1:30 - 1:35 BENEDICTION by actor Don Novello*
*1:35 - 1:40 POEM read by actor Sam Waterson*
*1:40 - 1:50 JEFF TWEEDY & MAVIS STAPLES perform*
*1:50 - 2:15 JON & STEPHEN perform*
*2:15 - 2:20 SHERYL CROW performs*
*2:20 - 2:30 SPEAKERS Guests make brief statements, both LIVE and TAPE
(TBD)*
*2:30 - 2:40 MUSICAL GUEST (TBD)*
*2:40 - 2:40 SANITY & FEAR awards - PRETAPED footage.*
*2:50 - 3:00 JON AND STEPHEN'S FINAL STATEMENTS*
Sooooo Excited!!!!!
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Being a grown up
On the upside - Our new, much needed, much desired office printer arrived! Yay! Happy Snoopy dancing! The other one is ancient and yucky and I hate it. In a perfect world I would be able to take it to a field and beat it to death with a bat. On top of the printer arriving - note I said "arrived" not in use. yet - There was still cake in the break room! and I voted early!
You know what would be cool? Because didn't get raises this year or last year and we won't get raises next year either, but they could give us cake in the break room all the time Take A Break and Eat some Cake!, they won't pay us but they could keep us buzzing on sugar! True, it does have a Marie Antoinette vibe to it, they don't pay us enough to buy bread so feed us cake, but cake is good and my morale goes us as my blood sugar increases. I think it could work.
I voted early, which is always nice. I was going to wait until the day but then I decided to go with the peer pressure and just do it. I like voting on the day because I get a buzz from the crowds, but today there were crowds at early voting so I got the buzz I wanted. I did have to tell a guy to buzz the fuck off before I got into vote though but the whole thing was a little off putting.
I walked up to the building, I was going to vote on actual election day because I had a voters guide on my computer that I was going to print out and take with because I like to have a cheat sheet and there are just so many slots and so many run without a party designation and I can't remember all the names I'm supposed to remember. I hadn't printed it out yet.
Fortunately, a helpful woman outside the building did have a voters guide. Thus armed I headed into vote, just to be stopped by some asshole wanting me to vote for Sen. Randall, R.
Jackass - Vote for Randall, He's a Christian!
Me - No thank you.
Jackass - He's Pro-Life!
Me - NO THANK YOU
Jackass - He's a Pro-Life Christian!
Me - I said, NO THANK YOU!
The helpful lady who gave me the voters guide just showed me a mock up of the ballot and gave me the information I needed. She didn't shout at me and wouldn't have said anything if I didn't approach her first. Guess who's candidate I voted for?
I went in and didn't have to wait at all. I had heard there were long lines and waits, not at my early voting location. I did my thing and went to a booth and promptly messed up my ballot. There were just too many races and I was confused by the 10,000 judges. There is an instant run off for one class of judges and I had to pick choice 1,2, and 3 and I marked my ballot wrong. When I ran it through the scan-tron it spit it out and I had to turn in my ruined ballot and go again. I took more time with my guild and got it right the second time.
Voted a straight ticket too. Out of spite.
As I was leaving I complained to the voting place supervisor and she said she had received other complaints about the jerk and mentioned the story in the paper about Randall's Army of Douche Bags that are at all the polling places. Some of them are inside the voting place challenging voters and questioning they can legally vote or not. My guy was outside. I would have busted heads if someone challenged me at the polls. Well, first I would have voted and then I would screamed for a lawyer. But fortunately for all I am too affluent appearing, white, middle aged and female to be a good target for that kind of harassment. Good thing too because I would scream like, well, a middle aged white lady being thwarted. We don't like that.
Oh and I spent the entire morning on the phone with first my insurance company and then the other woman's insurance company getting our accident ironed out. I am the victim yet it was I who spent the morning on hold. It was deeply annoying as the victim I think all I should have to do is lie there and look wain.The woman who hit me didn't have to do a thing, she hadn't even spoken with her insurance company about the incident past telling her agent it happened - She hadn't filed the claim - I had to file it! with her insurance company! Its not even my insurance and I had to do it and talk to all these people and stay on the phone and go over and over what happened. Not fair.
Any my insurance company did nothing because "it would be faster if I handled it myself" , really? Faster for whom? Whose job is this? Me the victim who didn't do anything wrong or my representatives? Who get paid for this kind of crap. Just because I wasn't at fault should mean I don't get service.
I now however have lined up a body shop, a rental car and have a claim number. Next week I take it in and let someone else deal with it all. Oddly, not the woman who hit me.
On the upside - Our new, much needed, much desired office printer arrived! Yay! Happy Snoopy dancing! The other one is ancient and yucky and I hate it. In a perfect world I would be able to take it to a field and beat it to death with a bat. On top of the printer arriving - note I said "arrived" not in use. yet - There was still cake in the break room! and I voted early!
You know what would be cool? Because didn't get raises this year or last year and we won't get raises next year either, but they could give us cake in the break room all the time Take A Break and Eat some Cake!, they won't pay us but they could keep us buzzing on sugar! True, it does have a Marie Antoinette vibe to it, they don't pay us enough to buy bread so feed us cake, but cake is good and my morale goes us as my blood sugar increases. I think it could work.
I voted early, which is always nice. I was going to wait until the day but then I decided to go with the peer pressure and just do it. I like voting on the day because I get a buzz from the crowds, but today there were crowds at early voting so I got the buzz I wanted. I did have to tell a guy to buzz the fuck off before I got into vote though but the whole thing was a little off putting.
I walked up to the building, I was going to vote on actual election day because I had a voters guide on my computer that I was going to print out and take with because I like to have a cheat sheet and there are just so many slots and so many run without a party designation and I can't remember all the names I'm supposed to remember. I hadn't printed it out yet.
Fortunately, a helpful woman outside the building did have a voters guide. Thus armed I headed into vote, just to be stopped by some asshole wanting me to vote for Sen. Randall, R.
Jackass - Vote for Randall, He's a Christian!
Me - No thank you.
Jackass - He's Pro-Life!
Me - NO THANK YOU
Jackass - He's a Pro-Life Christian!
Me - I said, NO THANK YOU!
The helpful lady who gave me the voters guide just showed me a mock up of the ballot and gave me the information I needed. She didn't shout at me and wouldn't have said anything if I didn't approach her first. Guess who's candidate I voted for?
I went in and didn't have to wait at all. I had heard there were long lines and waits, not at my early voting location. I did my thing and went to a booth and promptly messed up my ballot. There were just too many races and I was confused by the 10,000 judges. There is an instant run off for one class of judges and I had to pick choice 1,2, and 3 and I marked my ballot wrong. When I ran it through the scan-tron it spit it out and I had to turn in my ruined ballot and go again. I took more time with my guild and got it right the second time.
Voted a straight ticket too. Out of spite.
As I was leaving I complained to the voting place supervisor and she said she had received other complaints about the jerk and mentioned the story in the paper about Randall's Army of Douche Bags that are at all the polling places. Some of them are inside the voting place challenging voters and questioning they can legally vote or not. My guy was outside. I would have busted heads if someone challenged me at the polls. Well, first I would have voted and then I would screamed for a lawyer. But fortunately for all I am too affluent appearing, white, middle aged and female to be a good target for that kind of harassment. Good thing too because I would scream like, well, a middle aged white lady being thwarted. We don't like that.
Oh and I spent the entire morning on the phone with first my insurance company and then the other woman's insurance company getting our accident ironed out. I am the victim yet it was I who spent the morning on hold. It was deeply annoying as the victim I think all I should have to do is lie there and look wain.The woman who hit me didn't have to do a thing, she hadn't even spoken with her insurance company about the incident past telling her agent it happened - She hadn't filed the claim - I had to file it! with her insurance company! Its not even my insurance and I had to do it and talk to all these people and stay on the phone and go over and over what happened. Not fair.
Any my insurance company did nothing because "it would be faster if I handled it myself" , really? Faster for whom? Whose job is this? Me the victim who didn't do anything wrong or my representatives? Who get paid for this kind of crap. Just because I wasn't at fault should mean I don't get service.
I now however have lined up a body shop, a rental car and have a claim number. Next week I take it in and let someone else deal with it all. Oddly, not the woman who hit me.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Customer Disservice
I said very nice things about the people who make Stake N'Rake. I may have spoke too soon.
I had a problem with the product and I went online and found their web site and with a little looking found their Contact Us! link and I sent them an email detailing my problem while lavishly praising their product, their broken product, their product that broke the second time I used it.
In the products defence, I have no idea how long it had sat on the shelf or how many shelves it sat on before I rescued it from Tuesday Morning last spring, but still after one use it snapped? That can't really be normal and does not speak to quality.
I didn't hear back from them as quickly as I had thought I might, so I called them and greased the wheels a bit. A day or so later I got a phone call from a flustered man in Ohio who admitted the roll out of the product had not gone as well as they had expected and from what I understood, they get very few emails from customers praising it or asking for replacement widgets for that matter. Perhaps if the widget had not broken, the few people who did buy it might have told their friends and word of mouth might have made the roll out more successful ans spawned more positive emails. I fear I know what word of mouth was spread about the Stake N' Rake and it was not a positive word. I didn't get into this with the gentleman, but he did promise to send another widget when he got back from a trip. I am beginning to wonder if perhaps he did not die in route.
But. I like the product, the one time I was able to successful use it, it worked great and made a big job very small and very fast. So, with autumn approaching and the leaves turning and falling I need this product to work and work now - which it could if they would do as they told me they would, and send me my widget. Soon. I didn't expect to see it the next day, which would have been very nice but not necessary, but now, weeks later? I am expecting it and not receiving it.
I feel another email is in order.
I said very nice things about the people who make Stake N'Rake. I may have spoke too soon.
I had a problem with the product and I went online and found their web site and with a little looking found their Contact Us! link and I sent them an email detailing my problem while lavishly praising their product, their broken product, their product that broke the second time I used it.
In the products defence, I have no idea how long it had sat on the shelf or how many shelves it sat on before I rescued it from Tuesday Morning last spring, but still after one use it snapped? That can't really be normal and does not speak to quality.
I didn't hear back from them as quickly as I had thought I might, so I called them and greased the wheels a bit. A day or so later I got a phone call from a flustered man in Ohio who admitted the roll out of the product had not gone as well as they had expected and from what I understood, they get very few emails from customers praising it or asking for replacement widgets for that matter. Perhaps if the widget had not broken, the few people who did buy it might have told their friends and word of mouth might have made the roll out more successful ans spawned more positive emails. I fear I know what word of mouth was spread about the Stake N' Rake and it was not a positive word. I didn't get into this with the gentleman, but he did promise to send another widget when he got back from a trip. I am beginning to wonder if perhaps he did not die in route.
But. I like the product, the one time I was able to successful use it, it worked great and made a big job very small and very fast. So, with autumn approaching and the leaves turning and falling I need this product to work and work now - which it could if they would do as they told me they would, and send me my widget. Soon. I didn't expect to see it the next day, which would have been very nice but not necessary, but now, weeks later? I am expecting it and not receiving it.
I feel another email is in order.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Back on the chain gang
Okay. I didn't hear from the insurance company of the woman who hit my car but I did hear from the woman. Her insurance company did speak to her and they told her if the fix was less than $800 it wouldn't effect her insurance and her husband would never find out.
Um. yeah, about that. Um, I don't care if it costs more than $800, I want for her insurance company to call ME and talk to ME about MY car. My smashed car. I'm the innocent party here and I'm less understanding than I was yesterday about her issues with her husband. Her car is okay, mine has a broken jaw and I want it corrected and if it requires plastic surgery so be it. $800 be damned. I have to sell this POS and I want the best possible price and to get that, it has to be appear to be perfect, hey, if it can be perfect for $799 then bravo but...
She has clearly spoken with her insurance, she has the same police report that I have, so they know about me and they have my numbers. All my numbers, so they don't really have any excuse to not call me promptly and by "promptly" I kind of expected first thing business Monday morning, because you know, she smashed my car and I get more annoyed and my car gets more injured every minute my car isn't getting the medical attention it needs - I want to feel loved and cared for here and I don't. I feel neglected and ignored and the longer I feel sad the less sympathy I feel for the husband-lying-to-car-smasher. She needs me to be sympathetic.
Not feeling sympathy right now. My insurance told me the other insurance is supposed to get me a rental car while mine is being fixed and Gawd only knows how long that will take. Days and days maybe.
I'm not feeling appreciated at work either. Today was Employee Appreciation Day!! , but they couldn't call it that because they can't get money for something as trivial as letting their employees know that they are important. They could only get what little money they did by putting it the guise of a Customer Service seminar. With cake.
Earlier in the day we tore down and threw away the Customer Service Week decorations. With glee.
My whole work group boycotted the "seminar" but we did not embargo the cake that was brought back to our building. they sent out a global email letting us know the cake was in the building, I went down to get some and the place was crawling with folks, folks who also didn't go to the "seminar". It was a huge flat cake, a full sized sheet cake and it was almost untouched. It made me feel a little bad for the PTB that no one came to their party. But not much.
Okay. I didn't hear from the insurance company of the woman who hit my car but I did hear from the woman. Her insurance company did speak to her and they told her if the fix was less than $800 it wouldn't effect her insurance and her husband would never find out.
Um. yeah, about that. Um, I don't care if it costs more than $800, I want for her insurance company to call ME and talk to ME about MY car. My smashed car. I'm the innocent party here and I'm less understanding than I was yesterday about her issues with her husband. Her car is okay, mine has a broken jaw and I want it corrected and if it requires plastic surgery so be it. $800 be damned. I have to sell this POS and I want the best possible price and to get that, it has to be appear to be perfect, hey, if it can be perfect for $799 then bravo but...
She has clearly spoken with her insurance, she has the same police report that I have, so they know about me and they have my numbers. All my numbers, so they don't really have any excuse to not call me promptly and by "promptly" I kind of expected first thing business Monday morning, because you know, she smashed my car and I get more annoyed and my car gets more injured every minute my car isn't getting the medical attention it needs - I want to feel loved and cared for here and I don't. I feel neglected and ignored and the longer I feel sad the less sympathy I feel for the husband-lying-to-car-smasher. She needs me to be sympathetic.
Not feeling sympathy right now. My insurance told me the other insurance is supposed to get me a rental car while mine is being fixed and Gawd only knows how long that will take. Days and days maybe.
I'm not feeling appreciated at work either. Today was Employee Appreciation Day!! , but they couldn't call it that because they can't get money for something as trivial as letting their employees know that they are important. They could only get what little money they did by putting it the guise of a Customer Service seminar. With cake.
Earlier in the day we tore down and threw away the Customer Service Week decorations. With glee.
My whole work group boycotted the "seminar" but we did not embargo the cake that was brought back to our building. they sent out a global email letting us know the cake was in the building, I went down to get some and the place was crawling with folks, folks who also didn't go to the "seminar". It was a huge flat cake, a full sized sheet cake and it was almost untouched. It made me feel a little bad for the PTB that no one came to their party. But not much.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Weekender
Damn what a weekend.
All over the land pigs grew wings. The Rangers are going to the world series because they beat the Yankees, the Yankees are not going to the world series because they got beat by the Rangers .
The Texas Rangers beat the New York Yankees. And now the Rangers and not the Yankees are going to the World Series, where they are going to play the San Fransisco Giants - Where no one cares who wins because the pigs grew wings in the first place. I don't care who wins, I mean it would be nice , but the miracle has all ready happened. The Rangers beat the Yankees and now the Rangers and not the Yankees are going to the World Series. The Texas Rangers are playing in the World Series.
And then on Saturday night I went to the fair. There are two sets of pictures, the nice pictures and the "interesting" pictures. The nice pictures are posted, the more um, "interesting" ones are below.
And then on Sunday Minnie go hit in a McDonalds parking lot. I'm fine, she has a black eye.
Damn what a weekend.
All over the land pigs grew wings. The Rangers are going to the world series because they beat the Yankees, the Yankees are not going to the world series because they got beat by the Rangers .
The Texas Rangers beat the New York Yankees. And now the Rangers and not the Yankees are going to the World Series, where they are going to play the San Fransisco Giants - Where no one cares who wins because the pigs grew wings in the first place. I don't care who wins, I mean it would be nice , but the miracle has all ready happened. The Rangers beat the Yankees and now the Rangers and not the Yankees are going to the World Series. The Texas Rangers are playing in the World Series.
And then on Saturday night I went to the fair. There are two sets of pictures, the nice pictures and the "interesting" pictures. The nice pictures are posted, the more um, "interesting" ones are below.
And then on Sunday Minnie go hit in a McDonalds parking lot. I'm fine, she has a black eye.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Hurmph
Well that was annoying. I decided I wanted a hard copy of the picture for the Christmas card. I'm spending all this time and thought on the picture frame and I don't have an actual copy of the picture - I think I need one, I know what it looks like on the screen but I really don't know what it looks like and its important to me. I have learned to deal with virtual pictures, I have adjusted my world view to allow for "images" instead of pictures, but I don't really like them. If its really important its really important to have a hard copy of it.
Also, a hard copy in hand makes it easier to try out frames -which will be great, when I have frames to try it out with. Thus far I have not been successful on that front. Stupid Halloween. But still, its like rehearsal. I do all ready know that ecru is a good color and bright red is a bad color. Pine green is good, stripes are bad in any combination and anything I really like is going to be way outside my price range.
But, back to the getting a hard copy issue. I decided to save some time and upload the image to Wallgreens.com - I've had good experience with that in the past and I like that it saves a trip to the store and a CD - so this is good. It makes me feel like I'm being efficient and green. The site however can be less then user friendly and getting pictures uploaded is a bear without high speed. I upload a image and it it took for freaking ever and then the site made me jump through hoop after hoop just to get checked out - all for a .21 purchase! They at least had the good grace to no suggest a I put it on my card. So, I waited through the upload, I jumped through the hoops, I got to the page that said pick up your order at X location at X time. I said Sure and I made myself dinner, walked the dog, took the trash out and then set out with the dog to X location.
And they didn't have it.
I asked if it was under say, my first name, but no, not under it either. The guy even showed me my purchase history on his computer and lo and behold, nothing since September 10th , Hmm. I left in somewhat of a huff. Dogger however, was very happy with the car trip and enjoys visits to parking lots.
Well that was annoying. I decided I wanted a hard copy of the picture for the Christmas card. I'm spending all this time and thought on the picture frame and I don't have an actual copy of the picture - I think I need one, I know what it looks like on the screen but I really don't know what it looks like and its important to me. I have learned to deal with virtual pictures, I have adjusted my world view to allow for "images" instead of pictures, but I don't really like them. If its really important its really important to have a hard copy of it.
Also, a hard copy in hand makes it easier to try out frames -which will be great, when I have frames to try it out with. Thus far I have not been successful on that front. Stupid Halloween. But still, its like rehearsal. I do all ready know that ecru is a good color and bright red is a bad color. Pine green is good, stripes are bad in any combination and anything I really like is going to be way outside my price range.
But, back to the getting a hard copy issue. I decided to save some time and upload the image to Wallgreens.com - I've had good experience with that in the past and I like that it saves a trip to the store and a CD - so this is good. It makes me feel like I'm being efficient and green. The site however can be less then user friendly and getting pictures uploaded is a bear without high speed. I upload a image and it it took for freaking ever and then the site made me jump through hoop after hoop just to get checked out - all for a .21 purchase! They at least had the good grace to no suggest a I put it on my card. So, I waited through the upload, I jumped through the hoops, I got to the page that said pick up your order at X location at X time. I said Sure and I made myself dinner, walked the dog, took the trash out and then set out with the dog to X location.
And they didn't have it.
I asked if it was under say, my first name, but no, not under it either. The guy even showed me my purchase history on his computer and lo and behold, nothing since September 10th , Hmm. I left in somewhat of a huff. Dogger however, was very happy with the car trip and enjoys visits to parking lots.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Game on
Okay. I think the less we speak of that the better. We're just going to pretend that it was all a very bad dream and we're going to move on from there. Freaking Yankees! Hateful lowlifes. Grrrrr. Why are they standing in our way? I mean come on all ready! be good sports and do the right thing. Lay down and let us through.
Anyway. I now have two Christmas gifts in my hands all ready and now I feel so empowered that I feel ready to go get the rest of them! All at once! In one fell swoop! I will have all my shopping finished by the middle of November and I will not step foot in a mall!
For sure.
What I really need to do now is lock down the photo cards frames I'm going to use for this years picture, I should first though get a hard copy of it so I can make sure what I want to do is going to work anyway. I may be needlessly complicating the whole process unnecessarily. I got a tip that they have a good selection at Tuesday Morning and I am feeling good that as soon as this whole pesky Halloween thing is over the Christmas stuff is going to land hard all over the land and I'll be able to get something really nice - or even better, maybe the unknown card company will send me a catalogue with my one true card love in it.
And I have to really make dog cookie production a priority because I don't want to get down to a crunch with that job because then it becomes a lot less fun . I was very good about the cookies for the Mutt Strut but that was only three kinds and I'm going to need a lot more than for my ever burgeoning list this year but never fear, I have time and I will get it done before the holidays.
That's going to be my mantra until its all over never fear, I have time and I will get it done before the holidays
Okay. I think the less we speak of that the better. We're just going to pretend that it was all a very bad dream and we're going to move on from there. Freaking Yankees! Hateful lowlifes. Grrrrr. Why are they standing in our way? I mean come on all ready! be good sports and do the right thing. Lay down and let us through.
Anyway. I now have two Christmas gifts in my hands all ready and now I feel so empowered that I feel ready to go get the rest of them! All at once! In one fell swoop! I will have all my shopping finished by the middle of November and I will not step foot in a mall!
For sure.
What I really need to do now is lock down the photo cards frames I'm going to use for this years picture, I should first though get a hard copy of it so I can make sure what I want to do is going to work anyway. I may be needlessly complicating the whole process unnecessarily. I got a tip that they have a good selection at Tuesday Morning and I am feeling good that as soon as this whole pesky Halloween thing is over the Christmas stuff is going to land hard all over the land and I'll be able to get something really nice - or even better, maybe the unknown card company will send me a catalogue with my one true card love in it.
And I have to really make dog cookie production a priority because I don't want to get down to a crunch with that job because then it becomes a lot less fun . I was very good about the cookies for the Mutt Strut but that was only three kinds and I'm going to need a lot more than for my ever burgeoning list this year but never fear, I have time and I will get it done before the holidays.
That's going to be my mantra until its all over never fear, I have time and I will get it done before the holidays
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Go Rangers! Wooo-zzzzz
I didn't go to the fair again. Instead I fed the dog and fell sleep. Really, really productive, great use of my time. Go me. I didn't walk the dog or make a proper dinner or change clothes or do any of the other 1000 things I need to do every night to make every day run smoother. I'm thinking I need more caffeine or maybe I should not have stayed up to watch the Rangers beat the Yankees 8-0 in the 9th, they may have contributed to my exhaustion problem.
I was so hungry after work I had to stop at McDonald's and get a Happy Meal because I just could not imagine being able to survive the amount of time it would take me to make dinner myself. The meal made it possible for me to take Dogger out to pee and then fed her and take the pumpkins out of my car. Then I crashed in front of the TV.
The pumpkins in question:
yes, I know its not a great picture. But it does illustrate that I have three pumpkins in various colors and sizes. There's an orange one, a green one and a white one. It seems to pay to wait to get your pumpkins because I know they were more expensive the last time I was there. The really huge, true objects of my affection are still too expensive. I'm hopeing as we get closer to the actual day that they will come down in price. I was a good little shopper with the three I got this time around, I bought them from three different vender's, which no doubt pissed off the vender's but I wanted to spread the joy, albeit $4 a time.
I also really kind of wanted to go to the fair but it wasn't going to happen. I think I need to start planning earlier or jsut decide that I'm going to spend the weekend there and leave it be. I should really be spending my time sorting out the house and cleaning it ahead of being away from it for the Rally in DC on the 30th. There are so many things I should be doing but am not. Or I might be just pressuring myself unnecessary.
I do know that I'm going to need to rent a back end loader or really, being more realistic, one of those little Bobcat things to get the space cleaned out. I've gotten really lazy about using the room as a staging area and it isn't a staging area, its a guest bedroom and I'm going to have guests and they might want to be able to accsess the bed at some point.
I didn't go to the fair again. Instead I fed the dog and fell sleep. Really, really productive, great use of my time. Go me. I didn't walk the dog or make a proper dinner or change clothes or do any of the other 1000 things I need to do every night to make every day run smoother. I'm thinking I need more caffeine or maybe I should not have stayed up to watch the Rangers beat the Yankees 8-0 in the 9th, they may have contributed to my exhaustion problem.
I was so hungry after work I had to stop at McDonald's and get a Happy Meal because I just could not imagine being able to survive the amount of time it would take me to make dinner myself. The meal made it possible for me to take Dogger out to pee and then fed her and take the pumpkins out of my car. Then I crashed in front of the TV.
The pumpkins in question:
yes, I know its not a great picture. But it does illustrate that I have three pumpkins in various colors and sizes. There's an orange one, a green one and a white one. It seems to pay to wait to get your pumpkins because I know they were more expensive the last time I was there. The really huge, true objects of my affection are still too expensive. I'm hopeing as we get closer to the actual day that they will come down in price. I was a good little shopper with the three I got this time around, I bought them from three different vender's, which no doubt pissed off the vender's but I wanted to spread the joy, albeit $4 a time.
I also really kind of wanted to go to the fair but it wasn't going to happen. I think I need to start planning earlier or jsut decide that I'm going to spend the weekend there and leave it be. I should really be spending my time sorting out the house and cleaning it ahead of being away from it for the Rally in DC on the 30th. There are so many things I should be doing but am not. Or I might be just pressuring myself unnecessary.
I do know that I'm going to need to rent a back end loader or really, being more realistic, one of those little Bobcat things to get the space cleaned out. I've gotten really lazy about using the room as a staging area and it isn't a staging area, its a guest bedroom and I'm going to have guests and they might want to be able to accsess the bed at some point.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Martha $tewart
I was going to go to the fair. I had eaten, the dog had eaten and I was just about to take her for her walk. I could leave for the fair while it was still light. But then I thought that maybe I might want to think it out a little more, I know all ready I'm going to be there this weekend, probably a lot, but at the same time, its going to be a mad house being the last weekend and do I really want to be be around that many people?
Monday night would be all but deserted, I would have the whole place to myself, which is a big plus but do I really want to be the only one there? And do I really want to go now? I could I could just drive down there and go but that doesn't give me nearly enough time to over think the whole thing. I need to over think and this wouldn't give me enough time to do that as completely as I need to. I'm not sure that maybe Tuesday might be not be better as my TV doesn't come on until 10pm and that would give me a reason to keep it moving and stay on a schedule.
But you know, It's a little over cast and I don't want to be there in the rain and there are things I need to do around the house and I can all ready tell I'm not going to spontaneously do anything and if I'm out gallivanting around at the fair I really will not be putting laundry away or picking up or being useful in any way.
I'm not at the fair and I am still not putting anything away or being useful. But at least I'm at home not doing anything instead of hiding from my responsibilities at the fair, I'm really thinking that if I go say Tuesday instead it will be better. I can get my ticket online and not wait around in the dark, I can't imagine that Tuesday is any bigger of a draw than Monday.
Instead of doing housework I looked for photo cards online. I got a tip that Kmart all ready has their Christmas stuff out and in that stuff is Martha Stewart Christmas cards. I'm in the market for something ecru and tasteful this year and no one is as tasteful and ecru than Martha Stewart. I couldn't find Martha for Kmart cards online but I did find Martha for Martha cards online and she certainly is the queen of tasteful ecru Christmas cards - and I was really shocked by what Martha for Martha wants for her cards and the four piddly little photo cards she carries are not what I was looking for either. I'm hopeing her Martha for Kmart cards are a little less pricey and I can work with the Kmart level of tasteful.
I was going to go to the fair. I had eaten, the dog had eaten and I was just about to take her for her walk. I could leave for the fair while it was still light. But then I thought that maybe I might want to think it out a little more, I know all ready I'm going to be there this weekend, probably a lot, but at the same time, its going to be a mad house being the last weekend and do I really want to be be around that many people?
Monday night would be all but deserted, I would have the whole place to myself, which is a big plus but do I really want to be the only one there? And do I really want to go now? I could I could just drive down there and go but that doesn't give me nearly enough time to over think the whole thing. I need to over think and this wouldn't give me enough time to do that as completely as I need to. I'm not sure that maybe Tuesday might be not be better as my TV doesn't come on until 10pm and that would give me a reason to keep it moving and stay on a schedule.
But you know, It's a little over cast and I don't want to be there in the rain and there are things I need to do around the house and I can all ready tell I'm not going to spontaneously do anything and if I'm out gallivanting around at the fair I really will not be putting laundry away or picking up or being useful in any way.
I'm not at the fair and I am still not putting anything away or being useful. But at least I'm at home not doing anything instead of hiding from my responsibilities at the fair, I'm really thinking that if I go say Tuesday instead it will be better. I can get my ticket online and not wait around in the dark, I can't imagine that Tuesday is any bigger of a draw than Monday.
Instead of doing housework I looked for photo cards online. I got a tip that Kmart all ready has their Christmas stuff out and in that stuff is Martha Stewart Christmas cards. I'm in the market for something ecru and tasteful this year and no one is as tasteful and ecru than Martha Stewart. I couldn't find Martha for Kmart cards online but I did find Martha for Martha cards online and she certainly is the queen of tasteful ecru Christmas cards - and I was really shocked by what Martha for Martha wants for her cards and the four piddly little photo cards she carries are not what I was looking for either. I'm hopeing her Martha for Kmart cards are a little less pricey and I can work with the Kmart level of tasteful.
Monday, October 18, 2010
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