While rummaging through my change purse for vending machine money I found a 1960 quarter! It’s silver (mostly anyway), and it makes a different sounding ping when it hits my desk. Cool! I’m guessing this one came out of the change machine at the laundromat I was at last weekend (needed to wash sleeping bags). It’s in pretty good condition too.
Day 3.75
26 Jul 2012 Leave a comment
Busy week, day 3.75. I’ve consumed, perhaps, more caffeine in these past few days that I had in the 3.75 months prior. I will pay for this. Bodily rebellion is imminent. For now I’m depending on bribery. Bribing my taste buds anyway. This means I had tostadas for dinner three days in a row now. The family had mostly real food, but I went for melty cheese. And V8 juice, ’cause yeah.
Enough to Power
24 Jul 2012 Leave a comment
in Tea, Uncategorized
I think I had enough caffeine yesterday to power a small cow. I don’t normally do that because, in coffee, caffeine can do things to my body that I generally like to avoid. But sometimes I bend the rules. I was busy and tired and had to get stuff done! There was coffee, soda pop and tea! My body may rebel today. I’m treating it to a morning of half-herbal tea and V8 juice (not in the same cup). Hopefully, that will help.
Overheard at home …
19 Jun 2012 Leave a comment
From the mouth of my nine year old:
“Yeah, I forgot, but I can’t go back in time!”
Sigh. And giggle.
This Right Here
07 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
This is why I hate novocain. The numbness up the side of my head. The pins & needles, cold & tingly feeling. The drooling and accidental spurting of tea down my shirt. I would rather all my cavities be drilled without, than put up with this. So, for cavities — no novocain. Really. This has been the way i’ve had it done since I was a kid. I have a hard time with the idea of getting a needle stuck in my gums. Have you ever accidentally poked yourself in the gums with a broken Dorito? Yeah that. Dealing with a few brief moments of pain on my tooth is way better than several hours of this nonsense. Today, however, I have a deeply cracked tooth which necessitates a crown. And for that I will put up with this novocain stuff, but I am not enjoying it one bit.
Did I mention the headaches as it wears off? Yeah, yuck.
Roses are #
15 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
Roses are red. My new earrings are violet.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Cleaning through old stuff and I found …
03 Dec 2011 Leave a comment
I found I had a box of The Matrix action figures that I’d forgotten about. They’re pretty cool! And I’m trying to figure out if I should take them out of their original packaging and set them up or just leave them for now. I’ll probably leave them for now. I also found my Darth Vader head filled full of original Star Wars action figures. (So THAT’s where I put them.)
I found the onesie my daughter was wearing when she first learned to crawl. It has been so long since she was so small and yet it seems like just yesterday. Sigh. In her case she’d been mobile long before she could crawl by rolling virtually EVERYWHERE. Her only snag was that she would get stuck in corners and that would made her scream. So she didn’t crawl particularly early because she was already fairly mobile via roll power. But I vividly remember her learning to crawl as she had to navigate through a door to get to a bright yellow Tupperware toy. Rolling through doorways was a little tricky too. Ah, the power of necessity. She rocked! (Literally.) And, finally, she crawled. We cheered loudly! Is there anything better for a parent? On the planet? Her crawling quickly transitioned to walking at about 10 months old. Crawling so quickly passé. And low to the floor. All the big people walk! Cute. Smart. Coordinated girl. Getting everywhere possible. Nothing would stop her. Our floodline of child-proof zone moved higher. And I don’t really think that’s ever stopped.
Also found today — our cat’s, perhaps, all time favorite toy. It’s a piece of denim tied to a sturdy string which is then tied to a wee section of fishing pole. Our beefy, handsome kitty is a rescued cat and his original foster family sent him to us with this little toy. He loves it! I handed it to my daughter and said, “here, you might like this. It’s a cat toy.” As she LOVES our kitties. She quickly played. Our cat, Fletcher, played and there was much joy. For Fletcher it was much like finding an old toy from one’s childhood. (That feeling alone is why my Dearth Vader Head full o’ action figures is so … ) Fletchie played and played and played. He’s had more kitten play in him in the past hour than he’s probably had in the past 8+ years combined. (Maybe.) Truly, there’s a look in his eyes like a crazed teen. Oh, to be young.
Righty tighty, lefty loosey. Oh and summer’s almost over.
12 Sep 2011 Leave a comment
I have a hard time remembering which way to turn a screw in order to tighten or loosen it (depending on my particular goals at the time). I am not sure why most folks find the saying, “righty tighty, lefty loosy,” to be such a big help because it depends entirely upon one’s starting point on the circle that is the head of a screw. If you start at the top, you might indeed tighten by turning to the right, but if you start at the bottom, you’ll tighten by turning to the left. Why would you ever start at the bottom, don’t people always start at the top? Well, no. I for one like to get to the bottom of things, so I may just as easily start at the bottom as top. And if using a screw driver to get into tight places, I am MUCH more likely to have the handle pointing out towards me which means, again, starting at the bottom an “turning left” to tighten.
I have a much easier time remembering “clock to lock” to tighten screws. Starting top or bottom clockwise is still clockwise. It came in handy after the August 23rd earthquake we experienced in northern Virginia. I wanted to make sure the pipes were tight (I’d found they’ed worked their way loose once before.)
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