Current Mood: Happy

It looks as if my precious TV will live for yet another day.  After some self diagnostic work by my favorite tv repair guy… a.k.a. Denny, we’ve come to find out the part we need and have it ordered.  (All of 20 bucks.)  So, cross your fingers that all goes well and the part comes quickly.

I signed up for a crop yesterday after getting an invite from Jana.  Both Michelle and Andrea are going to come along with me, so it should be a fun time.  Apparently Michelle is going to Scrap Palace next weekend.  She must have sensed I’d be jealous as she didn’t let me know till today.  Stinker.

I need to go to Meijer today.  Actually I needed to go Monday, but I was sick.  Then I was going to go Tuesday and then something came up.  Wednesday I had the sump pump thing, and yesterday, well I did some running but couldn’t bring myself to make the grocery store one of the stops.  (DO you sense a trend here?)  So now today I really need to go.  Considering it is supposed to get all nasty snowy later, this is something I really should do.  That being said, I haven’t done my list yet, organized my coupons or gotten in the shower and its just after 8am.  Not looking promising…

Nothing else to report really.  I had an apple for a snack yesterday when I really wanted a bowl of ice cream, lol.  That’s my diet progress… apparently I have some self control.

Off to make Dylan his second breakfast before he goes to school.  The kid only eats breakfast it seems…

~j

My day started at 4:30am yesterday with an awful grinding sound which I knew to be the sump pump.  FUN.  (I have a phobia of the hole in which the sump pump sits it, which is an entirely different post.)  Apparently the float thing inside was stuck so the thing wouldn’t shut off.  Denny on his way out beat it back to life but considering that was less than an optimal fix, I had to spent the rest of my morning babysitting it to make sure we didn’t end up flooded.

8:30… man to the rescue!  My Dad came over, told me what I needed, and removed the pump so it would run on the back up. :)  Babysitting over, crisis eliminated.  By 11 or so I had the new pump and my Dad put it in so all was well by the time Denny got home.  Something both he and I appreciated.

This brings me to a point about me, something I inherited from my Dad.  When something isn’t right I want to handle it right then, lol, no matter what time it is.  Sometimes that’s good, and sometimes not so much.  Denny knows this about me, and frankly I don’t think he cares for the trait all that much.

So last night while he was watching the TV it made a fizzle noise and shut itself off.  Denny of course comes upstairs with me to watch tv saying how he missed me. (Which I later find to be a line of crap… he was just migrating to the next working tv.)  So he sits there for a minute and says, “Oh, your tv just died downstairs.”  Nice.  Considering I was all of about 5 minutes from sleep, this is something he probably should have saved for the next morning.  He knew how I’d react… something like that instantly throws me into what do I need to do to fix the situation mode.  Of course considering the time, there isn’t much I can do.  Frustrating for someone like me.  It’s a 52″ tv… thus not something just easily toosed aside to futher add to my frustration.

My friend Michelle has just informed me that stinky things all happen in 3’s… so I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop.  Hopefully today is better.  Ack!

~j

The holidays are over and now I can officially get back to the day to day real world.  I’m happy to do it.  The kids, well, uhh, not so much.  When I woke them yesterday Dylan asked when he could quit school. :P  I’m pleased to say that today went a little more smoothly.

Soooo catch up… Let’s see NYE I spent at the Fox Theater in Detroit with Denny and the Barenaked Ladies.  Fantastic, just fantastic.  The seats I was able to snag during fan club presale were in the fifth row.  *swoon*  The band played for ages and there was a balloon drop at midnight.  It was great, just great!

Earlier in the day we did our annual family bowling event with the Herbert family.  The kids had a good time and the adults all got together and complained about the economy and such.  Good times, lol.  I have no idea who won as all I could think about was Steven Page…. see above.

Hmmm, let’s see what else.  I haven’t scrapbooked anything outside of stuff for Michigan Scrapbooker.  Apparently Denny has taken notice as I caught a “it’s not like you scrapbook anymore” comment come out of his mouth the other day.  Maybe that is a sign I need to get back to it.  I’ll work on it right after I get the motivation to diet.  Believe it or not I need to diet even more than I need to scrapbook, lol.  As much as I know it in my head, someone really should tell the hand that keep forcing the ice cream covered spoons into my mouth.

The holiday season also reconnected me with an old friend, and no it wasn’t the ice cream.  You know who you are… nice talking to you again.

~j