toast… toast!
How do you burn one side of a piece of toast?
IHOP’s toaster must be in a funk. One side was a nice golden toast color, the other was scorched.
Yuck.
yay for holiday pay…
We decided to volunteer to work the day after t-day. We figured the extra money would be nice, it will help with Christmas shopping.
Aside from the extra money, working on a holiday blows chunks. Mainly because the skeleton crew is relegated to working a twelve hour shift. Bleh.
No, I’d rather not be out shopping with the rest of the nuts out there. The nuts that wake up at 3 or 4 am to be at stores that are opening their doors at 5:00-6:00a.m… I swear places are opening earlier and earlier as the years go by… Pretty soon they’ll be opening at 12:01a.m. the night of Thanksgiving.
Although it was oddly not busy at the new IKEA when we drove by at 9:45a.m… But then maybe IKEA is more of a place to buy for oneself rather than others… I dunno, haven’t been there myself yet.
Anyway… now to find something to entertain myself for another 7 hours.
Let’s see… I have my knitting… I have my Gameboy… and I could probably play around with a template for the EE gallery… hmm. Well, I have buttons to sew onto a sweater for my sister’s baby so I can bring it up to Prescott on Sunday.. I think I’ll start with that. toodle-ooo.
like a ton of bricks…
45 minutes left in my shift, and I suddenly feel like I need a serious, hour-long, nap!
I didn’t have any turkey today, that’s not on the menu until tomorrow.
What the heck??
Thank goodness we don’t have to wake up at 4am tomorrow.
Or the next day, even though we’ll be working then… but not until 10am (yay!!)...
Or Saturday, either (‘cuz we talked the boss into letting us go in at 8am instead of 6 since we volunteered to work a 12 hr shift on Friday!).
I’d pull out my knitting but mgmt is still around, so that’ll have to wait until the car trip home.
Bleh.
odd eating habits…
Josh pokes fun at me for the way I eat certain things.
Like chicken wings, or pistachios.
Or sunflower seeds.
The chicken wings are simply because I don’t eat the skin unless it’s crispy. If it’s even remotely chewy, I may slurp off the sauce, but then the skin gets torn away with my fingers so I can get the meat sans skin.
As for pistachios or sunflower seeds…
Most people (like Josh) pop a small handful of (sunflower) seeds in their mouth, suck the salt off, crack the seeds with their teeth, remove the seed inside their mouths & spit the shell out.
I do things differently, for a couple of reasons.
The first being, I’m just not talented enough to separate the seed from the shell inside my mouth. I’ve tried before, and half the time I end up chewing on shell instead of seed. Yuck.
The second, and main reason, is that I’ve found bugs inside the seeds.
Not live, of course, but I don’t care. I’m not eating bugs.
So, I put maybe two or three seeds at a time in my mouth for the salt, then, one at a time, split them with my front teeth, then the seed goes to my fingers & I open the shell with my fingers. That way, I can look at the seed inside, make sure it’s untouched by creepy crawlies (regardless of whether the creepy crawlies are roasted or not.. bugs are bugs), and decide if it’s ok to eat. See a bug? Toss the seed. No bugs? Ok to eat.
Same thing with pistachios.
So I’m a little weird about how I eat some food. Big deal. I just don’t fancy the idea of eating a bug. And I can’t stand non-crispy chicken skins, or beef or bacon fat… bacon must be crispy!! It absolutely must!!. I actually almost gag if I get any beef fat in a bite of steak. (I’m talking the chunks of fat that are left on some cuts of steak… eeeewww!!!)
There was even a time when I refused to eat pork of any kind, including bacon, and not because of some weird religious beliefs, either. That started after biology class my freshman year of high school, when we dissected a piglet. I couldn’t eat pork for several years after that, because I’d always picture that poor little baby piggy and having to cut it open and take out its parts to identify them. Bleh. It wasn’t necessarily gross as there was no blood, which in a way kind of helped since it almost made it seem fake, but we still knew. We knew it was still a real piggy.
But anyway…
My pickiness about food, particularly when I was younger, earned me a nickname I wasn’t too fond of.
“Picky Niki”
Mock me if you wish, but I’m perfectly happy knowing I’m not willingly consuming bugs in sunflower seeds.
farewell, big spider friend…
I did get a screenshot, but it’s on my other computer.
We found out that Blizzard is shutting down the beta and wiping the characters today. Bah. Guess we’ll have to find something else to do this weekend. Ah well. I guess I can try to get a lot of knitting done so I’ll have those hats finished by the time we go up to my parents place on the Sunday after Thanksgiving… It is a little nippy up in Prescott so I think (hope) the kids will appreciate the hats. 😊
And yes, I am posting at almost 4:30am in the morning. Sick, isn’t it? This is what we have to do for our day shift at work. Up by 4:00a (me) or 4:30 (josh), out the door by 5:00am. At work by like, 5:50ish. Bleh. We can hardly wait until its over and we can try to pick another shift to move to. Something more, us.
Preferably swings, but we’re contemplating graveyards again. Shit, even that shift is preferable over this one.
Well, off to go push Josh out of bed. Then off to another, joyous, day to work.
Did you detect the sarcasm there? Joyous. Shyeah. Not in a million years. The only thing joyous about it at this point is the paycheck. Puh.
the garage door opener with a mind of its own…
So. About our garage door opener.
Yes, well, it likes to not stay closed after we hit the clicker to close it. It gets ALL the way closed, the bottom of the door will touch the cement…
And then it will suddenly reverse and start opening again.
Hit clicker, door goes into closing motion again. Bottom of door touches cement. Reverses direction & opens again.
Rinse. Repeat. Rinse. Repeat.
If we’re outside in the car waiting to leave, this gets very freaking annoying.
If we’re in the house and this happens, I hit the button on the wall and it may finally decide to behave and STAY down. We take the clickers into the house right now because our garage is still a mess from when we cleared the sides for the termite exterminators, and we are parking our cars outside. So, as soon as we are inside the garage, we use the clicker to close it.
Anyway… I’m beginning to think maybe the batteries in the clickers may be on their last legs, as it doesn’t matter which one we use. The only odd thing is, it seems to happen more often when I use the clicker than when Josh does. Might just be coincidence, but who knows.
Maybe I should pop one of those open and find out what kind of battery they need (we have two of them), and get them replaced, then see if it still happens after that. It has been almost five years since we bought the house, and the garage door opener has been here since then as well… Yeah, maybe I’ll do that today.
SQUEEEEEE-SQUEEEEE!!!!
That’s what we woke up to. No, not our regular alarm clock, but an alarm of a different kind.
Yes folks, that was the sound of all of the smoke alarms in our house freaking out all at once. We’re pretty sure it was all of them, because as soon as the one in our bedroom freaked out, I was up & out of bed and opening the door, and heard the delayed echo of the others chiming in. (we were already sort of awake from the alarm clock, I just hit snooze alot on our days off) Also, the cats were in the hallway, waiting for us to wake up & leave the bedroom (our bedroom door is always closed, the kitties aren’t allowed in there), and there is a smoke alarm in the hallway. They were pretty freaked out, too, because it’s right above their heads, and while the rest of the rooms in the house are vaulted ceilings, the hallway isn’t. So, there is less air space for the sound of that alarm to spread out, and as a result, it sounds, much, much louder in the hallway.
But they only sang their chorus once, and then it was overwith. I went around the house checking rooms (feeling door handles for heat, of course. Except I forgot to do that when I left our bedroom in such a hurry) for signs of smoke. There was none, so we figured there may have been a brown-out, since sometimes they all screech after power is restored (they take their main power from the house and batteries are their backup).
No smoke, and we’re not sure about brown-out. There was no long power loss because all of our clocks are still set correctly, and the desktop computers are still on. Veeery strange.
It also wasn’t one of them crying out for a battery replacement, because that’s a very different sound. That is just a single, loud, “BEEEP!!” And about a minute later, it repeats itself. “BEEEEP!!” And continues until you open the battery compartment.
This was different.
Nothing like waking up to an alarm that’s about 10 times louder than your alarm clock, and sets your heart racing a million times a minute.
I just hope this doesn’t start happening more often. We’re having enough trouble with our garage door opener, we don’t need a mystery with our smoke alarms, too.
lofty ideas…
As I sit here on my last day of work for the week, with five hours to go, I am perusing Stockstash.com in search of images. Images that I think I may want to use for designing skins for my site.
I had the fleeting thought of setting a goal to create one new design each month, one that fits with that month’s “personality”, (i.e., December = Christmas, January = winter, August = summer/hot, etc.), but I don’t know if I’d be able to stick to it.
So I’ll take it by baby-steps. If I redesign for a particular month, cool. If not, no big whoop.
I’m starting with January, and so far have found some pretty neat winter scenes, with snow, even! So what if we don’t get much of that in Phoenix, or that I don’t particularly care to be around snow, but it certainly looks pretty.
I think I have enough of those, so, on to February. Roses, chocolates… Let’s see what I can find. 😊
hooray for free turkeys!
Our local grocery store, Basha’s, does a “free turkey” thing every year before Thanksgiving.. If you spend between $250 - $399 between Oct 6 - Nov 9, you can get a free 10-14 lb Jennie-O Turkey (frozen), or a free Frozen Honeysuckle White Bone-in Turkey Breast, or $7.00 Off any Butterball Turkey….
If you spend over $400 (in the same time span as above), you can get a free 16-22lb Jennie-O Turkey (frozen), or a a free frozen Honeysuckle White Bone-in Turkey Breast, or $10.00 off any Butterball Turkey.
We go for the free Jennie-O turkey rather than the partial turkey or coupon.
Last year we were eligible for the 10-14lb turkey.
This year we’ve hit the mark for the 16-22lb turkey..
Yay, free large turkey!
Of course, we’re probably going to have someone else cook it, as I can’t cook a turkey worth a damn. Ends up dryer than a bone.
Hey, Ma! Want a free turkey to cook for T-day this year?! 😉
run. run as fast as you can…
Too bad it takes several years and a whole lotta red tape to immigrate to another country.
The thought to move to, oh, Canada or England has crossed my mind as I look at the stats in Ohio.
(and no, the above “oh, Canada” was not a poke at their national song. I didn’t even realize it came out that way when I wrote it until I re-read it… it is meant as “for instance”.)
Ok, so because Kerry conceded, OH auto-magically gives up and hands over the EVs to Bush. Oh goody. Who cares about the provisional voters and absentee voters. Probably wouldn’t have made a difference, anyway.
Frankly, I think if it weren’t for the EC, there would be little question who won. By a margin of
Three million is a LOT of people. That’s more than the population of Phoenix and its ‘burbs. Even if there was a question of “there are still provisional & absentee votes to count!”, it still wouldn’t add up to four million. For instance, with Ohio’s missing provisional & absentee votes, which account for approximately 150,000 votes, even being optimistic there may only be 50% of those voting for Kerry, which would still leave Bush in the lead. Because his lead is at about 130,000.
This just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Especially if much of the rest of the world was hoping to be rid of Bush and his administration.
So much for saving face this election. So, rest of the world? Carry on with the smearing of the U.S., because obviously we could care less if our leader makes us look like a bunch of assholes, since the majority of us voted to keep him in office.
All I can say is, I voted for Kerry. Can I flee the country now?
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