Time was that Columbus Day was a so what holiday...at least as far as i can remember...so when did it become the big shop today and save big day, like just about every other holiday?
Yesterday while reading somethign online, I saw a ad for Harvest Festival in Ventura CA, which was this last weekend.. Do we really need to bring the kids to Harvest Festival in October to meet Santa Claus??? Why is it every year someone thinks we need to move up "Start shopping for Christmas" by a month? At this rate, in a few years the Christmas shopping season will start in September..."BIG post Labor Day Christmas Shopping event!"..oh wait, that happened this year also,huh?
Post vacation note>>>why is it that every time i go on vacation, i gain about 5 pounds, even when I am not eating any more than usual??It must be all the time sitting in the car that does it. Thank goodness for stretch jeans!
Since my current employer is a government agency, they are closed today, and i have a paid holiday, so i took the car over to have them look at the brakes, and to do a front end alignment. When they said the front brakes need new rotors, I said OK. When they said they were 159 each, my HB alert went off "Honey, if they say it needs rotors, thats OK, but make sure they don't overcharge you...the dealership says they are $68 each" Hmmm..so the repair shop wants to play dumb blonde overcharge huh? "Oh, my husband says they are like $70 each, so you must have meant to say they were $159 a pair, right? Otherwise my husband says to not get them." The guy looked at me, then place a phone call"to the warehouse, to check" and amazingly said, Oh they are 159 a pair...oh,ok...I really get kind of upset when people think I must be stupid...I had something on a much smaller scale happen on vacation...
In Oregon, we rented a DVD to watch one night, and the thing wouldn't play, and then the tv went out..we played with it for a little while, and then HB called the desk, and a guy came to fix it...he pulled the Tv out of the wardrobe cabinet thingy, and switched around some wires, and then said it was fixed...which is was..and then said we must have done something to it!!!! HB told him the remote quit working, and he looked at me and said "when someone tries to reprogram the remote, thats what happens" HB said to him that was not what happened, and thanks for coming to fix it...after the kid left, HB calmed me down reminding me that the kid has no idea who we are or what we know about stuff...I just get a little miffed that people assume so much. Sometimes when i am out having lunch, like with my friends, I think who would guess these women are project managers or database group adminstrators??? My friend Char dresses mostly like me, almost too casual for work, but not sloppy...Jeans, a sweater, you know...
OK, now back to cleaning the house...My brotherinlaw took the week off while we were gone, and stayed home...and when i got home, he had not done any dishes, the washer had the same dishes in it as when we left, the floor was dirty, the cat had coughed up fur balls in the family room, living room, and my office, and of course there is our lauundry to finish...til later, see ya!
Gross Trivia
Roots of the Scandinavian toast, sköl.
Answer: The familiar Scandinavian toast sköl derives from scole, the drinking bowl shaped like the upper half of a human skull. Originally, these bowls were fashioned from the actual skulls of enemy killed in battle.
What is Cenosillicaphobia the fear of?
Answer: Fear of an empty glass
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