Road Trippin’
Posted by Dana on Jul 5, 2008
I’ve been road tripping for three days helping my baby sis move into her new digs at college. Her bedroom is nice now that we’ve sterilized the hell out of it. (Viva bleach wipes!) It’s also in a great location right in the middle of everything she needs. I thought I’d miss her terribly on my drive back home but I had a great companion and we took turns driving. The time flew by!
More to come later this afternoon, I promise.
Happy 4th of July!
Posted by Dana on Jul 4, 2008
I’m wishing all my fellow Americans a Happy 4th of July with an image of the Happiest Place on Earth. One of these days I’m going to have to give in to my Disney craving. I just wish I wasn’t a zillion dollars to get into the park.
Um. Ooops.
Posted by Dana on Jun 30, 2008
I wasn’t going to blog again because I’m supposed to be packing. But of course, genius that I am I managed to put a grilled cheese sandwhich on the grill, forget about it and then remember just as the fire alarm reminded me of my foray into culinary bliss.
I think it might be my punishment for fantasizing about carbs and dairy.
It’s 9:30 am and I can safely say the residents of my building are awake courtesy of my cooking. Oops.
SPAM
Posted by Dana on Jun 30, 2008
I’ve literally had 56 spam messages posted to my blog in the past two days. And those are the ones that actually got through the “security.” I’m always so stumped by spammers. Do they actually think people care enough to post on their links? Do they actually think I’m going to let them infect my blog with crap? I don’t think so.
I’ll be offline for the next couple days. I’m helping my sister move (awwww) so it will be interesting to see how many SPAM messages are posted when I get back. Spammers suck!
Camping Anyone?
Posted by Dana on Jun 27, 2008
I don’t know about you but this is one surprise I’m more then willing to live without. Wildlife World, Arizona
TT- 13 Things I didn’t know
Posted by Dana on Jun 26, 2008
I know that an apple a day keeps the doctor away but does anyone have any advice for housework? I finally got around to Spring Cleaning. (Yes, I know we are now officially in summer, that should give you an idea).
My problem is that I am not one of those dust-it-off-put-it-away people. At my house I take everything out of cabinets, closets and drawers and organize like crazy. I throw stuff away, give stuff away, or put it away. Rather cathartic when I’m finished but just annying when I’m first getting started.
How is it going, you ask? Today I went back to the Thursday Thirteen format because I actually have 13 things to blog about. I’m calling it: Thirteen Things I didn’t know I had…
13) 14 tubes of Chapstick-12 medicated, a peppermint one and a pomagranite one. I like chapstick I didn’t know I liked it THAT much though.
12) 6 pairs of eyebrow tweezers. The good kind- You would think with that many tweezers I must have bushman eyebrows right? Not true. I actually have very normal eyebrows but I’m obsessive about stray hairs and if I’m about to go to a meeting and suddenly find one I’ve been known to stop off and buy a pair. Now I have a couple pairs I can put in my car and purse. Hey convenient!
11) 65 Hair rubberbands- Yes. Sixty-five. They’re all the no tangle ones but I can honestly say I didn’t know I had that many. I found them EVERYWHERE. In every drawer, in every cabinet, in my bathroom, my purse, all over the place. I hope this means they breed in secret because for about 6 months last year I couldn’t find one to save my life. I’m a ponytail girl so the breeding thing would be awesome.
10) Multiple copies of the same book- Okay this isn’t exactly a surprise, kinda. I have a handful of authors I really enjoy. Then when I see their books on sale in the bargain bin for $0.50 I always pick one up so I can give it to another reader. I just never expected to have this many spares at the same time. Clearly I need to offload some material!
9) 8 rolls of packing tape (all different stages of use)- If the folks at your post office are anywhere near as stingy as mine, they won’t even let you borrow an inch of scotch tape but buying tape there is so expensive! So if I need a roll I swing by Staples before I hit the P.O. Is that weird?
CDS. Old ones by the hundreds- I have something like 10 billion itunes (mostly duplicates I’m too lazy to clean out) but I can’t bring myself to throw out my old burned CDs in case when Armageddon is over itunes dies. At least I’ll have CD backup.
7) My fuzzy slippers- I bought them years ago and had them. Then I lost them. Now I have them again! WOOT!
6) Writing paper, notebooks, scratch pads- Everything from post its to reporters notebooks I’ve got it ALL. I’m thinking I might have to cull the heard though, I’m trying to do a lot more writing online so I have digital backup in email on thumb drive.
5) Receipts- These seem to breed too, unfortunately. Remember my New Year’s resolution in April that I wouldn’t leave all my accounting until the last minute. I’ve been better about it but I’m still finding old receipts from 2008 I need to save. Pain.In.The.Butt.
4) Discount cards, punch cards and coupons- I discovered punch cards for stores that went out of business months ago! I discovered over a dozen coupons for Bed Bath and Beyond (where I rarely shop). Heck, I even discovered coupons for Lego Land (I’ve never been). I think I might have missed the memo where you don’t acutlaly save money unless you USE the coupon. Whodathunkit?
3) CD sleeves- I have a couple (read as 200). These are actually very practical. What happens when I suddenly need to put each CD in a sleeve? Forget that I have about 30 CDs in my car and none of them have sleeves and are probably getting scratched as I type. I still have those sleeves just in case.
2) Wrapping paper and gift bags and bows, oh my!- I’m always stunned by how much this stuff costs so I try to grab the good stuff when it goes on sale. Then my family raids my stash, or I do and pieces migrate all over my apartment. Very annoying.
1) Pictures- Remember back in the day before digital cameras we had to print film immediately or risk losing the finished roles in the great film abyss? I have tons of pictures I really need to cull them and stick them in albums. I’ve been saying that for about 10 years now. One of these days I’ll get around to it.
How about you? What do you tend to have WAAAY too many of?
Pearls
Posted by Dana on Jun 25, 2008
My pearl of wisdom for the day is update your credit card contact info annually. Or you might discover that the card you’ve had for over 10 years still lists you cell # from three phones ago.
Don’t ask me how I know that.
I don’t get it
Posted by Dana on Jun 24, 2008
I’m sitting here in the Honda service department waiting for the guys to finish making my man Pierce all happy and healthy again. {{{Pierce}}} Why am I sitting here for three hours? Becuase I never remember to plan these things in advance and make sure I have rides. Rats!
As always, I’m sitting here in the waiting room only this time the TV is so damn loud I can’t even hear them call people’s names. Ironically, the guy next to me just tried to turn off the TV and now there is no picture but the sound is still going strong. WTF?
Lovely.
Feeling sheepish
Posted by Dana on Jun 23, 2008
Well, it’s obvious to me that sociologists (um, I think that’s the right ologist but I might be wrong) were totally correct when they said technology is the universal equalizer. When you’re on your computer you don’t know who you’re chatting with unless they choose to share an image. And even then you’re not always sure they are who they say they are.
There is another aspect to this universal equalizing principle, though. Computers are yet another I.Q. test. Now I’m not talking about Einstein’s theory of relativity, I’m talking about oh hell, where did I leave my keys?
I spent the weekend at my parents house and couldn’t blog because I couldn’t remember my blog password. Then I lost my keys. And found them again. But I still couldn’t remember my blog password. 87 tries later I decided I didn’t want to reset it since I wasn’t going to remember the new one either. So I waited until I got home to post.
I failed my tech test. I feel just a little silly.
Guest Blogging at OCC
Posted by Dana on Jun 21, 2008
I forgot my password so I’m late posting that I blogged at OCCRWA. Click on the picture to see what I have to say!
