Archive for June 25th, 2009
Where did it go?
How is it Thursday already!? Where did the week go?
I don’t have a lot of time so this will be short:
Road Trip
I will be heading to Athens this weekend! I wish it were the one in Greece, but it’s not – I’m going to Athens, GA. Jody and I are going to an auction near Athens for his father who can’t go because he will be flying. Since it is so close to Athens, a city that I have never been to, I’ve convinced Jody to stay one night so that I can say I’ve been to Athens – really, that’s my main reason for wanting to go. I’m sure I’m one of only a handful of Georgia natives that has never been to the home of the Bulldogs. So now I have to get up at 3am on Saturday to drive up there, sit in the sun for hours while Jody bids on some stuff for his dad, then we head to Athens for the afternoon and come back home Sunday.
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False Alarm
You will all be happy to know that my smoke detectors work very well. They will still go off even if there is no power source! Amazing! I know this because I was rudely awakened at 2am yesterday by the really annoying ‘Your battery is low and I’m going to make the loudest most obnoxious beeping sound every few seconds until you do something’ indicator. This noise was so loud, I assumed it was the smoke detector that is right outside my bedroom door – the one that is 14 feet up on the wall. I can’t reach that, so I just closed the door, turned on my iPod, and unsuccessfully tried to go back to sleep.
When I finally got out of bed at 5-something and tried to get it to shut up, I found out it’s not the one above my door, it’s the one in the hall outside my office, which can easily be reached if I stand on a chair. So I suffered through the noise for 3 hours when I could have turned it off – great! So I took out the battery….still beeping. Damn. So I took it off the wall and spent about 10 minutes trying to unplug it. Finally got it unplugged. Still beeping! So I angrily threw it into a closet under some stuff and went about my business. I think it finally died sometime yesterday.
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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Christmas is in exactly 6 months. Yes, I just mentioned Christmas. Last year, I waited too late and didn’t do a few things that I wanted to do, like make some Christmas cards. Well, I’m not letting that happen this year. I’m already trying to plan my cards and have a few ideas in mind.
I also need to start knitting for a Fall Festival that I may be attending in October as a vendor! This would be my first time doing anything like this, so I’m already nervous about it. A great part about selling online is I can’t hear anyone’s comments – good or bad – about my items. And I will be heartbroken if I leave at the end of the day with everything I brought with me. I’m trying to advance my knitting skills by branching out and using circular needles, and next I want to attempt double-pointed needles again. Some of you may remember the disaster known as Sheldon the Turtle…. he never came to be because he required double-pointed needles, and those things are hard to use! But I will learn how to use them…I will….
