Say something random about you (Part 5)

Wow, from dilapidated to posh! Beautiful wood. That's an impressive difference.

Suffering from kid's end of school year activities, show offs and awards and such. I'm glad I only have one kid.

This school year ends the first week of June. The alarm clock will get a rest for a while. Probably getting close to retirement. I'll be on the lookout for a new alarm clock. Right now I'm looking for a large quiet table fan. The last one died, and it's current replacement sounds like a leaf blower on tornado setting.

Our bed frame is cherry wood and the raw planks were a little pink. It's stained light cherry and clear coated, but it's nothing like the original pink. Too bad raw wood doesn't stand up to wear and tear.

Heartbreaking. I can't even begin to imagine.

Two miracles.....heartwarming.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50147264n

Thanks for the uplifting story, D!

[pout]Why the hell can't I get some kind of decent internet out here? Every time I try to access the forum my internet freezes and I get frustrated and end up shutting down my computer. The only decent internet I get is when I'm at work and when I'm at work I can't get any privacy whatsoever to access the internet to begin with.[/pout]

Which brings me to why I haven't been here to post in a while. Seriously, this is ridiculous. We need CHARTER out here. This tethering BS/satellite crap "internet" isn't going to do.

Seriously PO'd and frustrated to no end.

I know how frustrating it is, Donna. Hang in there, girl. We miss ya.

Kid had a cold with fever and aches for 2 days. Then it left, thank God.

Tornadoes are really nasty. We have huge catastrophes every year from them in "tornado alley". We should ban tornadoes.

This question popped into my head while watching news reports about the latest tornado hits: Do Acts of God happen to people who don't believe in God?


Donna, my husband has a little black box (he calls it a hockey puck) that gives us our own mobile hotspot for laptops and such when we're not at home. We use Verizon. I'm sure other cell providers have their own mobile hotspot devices, too. If your cell phone works well at home, maybe this thing will give you better internet connection than all the stuff you have now.

Start the petition to ban tornados, Julie. I'll sign.

That's what I'm doing right now, Julie. I'm using my cell as a hotspot, but it's touch and go. I'd switch to another cell provider if I wasn't under a contract right now. AT&T is stronger out here. But I have to stick with T Mobile for another 1 1/2 years or so because I had to get another cellphone last fall.

They have DSL but it's like $200 just to have it installed and I don't have that kind of money.

On another note, I'm on vacation this coming week. I need it....

Hope everyone's doing okay.

I hate those plans you practically sign your life away for. I hope they improve your coverage. And happy vacation.

Severe storm rolled in early morning. Rolling thunders. High wind. Then an extremely bright flash coupled with an extremely loud ear-piercing crack and house-shaking rumbling thunder scared me wide awake. Good thing whatever it hit didn't catch fire.

Hurricane season officially started. Thrilled.

What's a good, reliable way (that actually works) to remove:
1. 8-hour old fabric paint
2. washed and dried non-watersoluble glue
from fabric, i.e. expensive school uniform.

I love my kid's school. My big problem recently is their "art" projects outside of the art room. They wear art smocks in the art room, but not in the regular classrooms. I spent a large chunk of Mother's Day scraping and washing and scraping and washing and scraping, etc. a 2"x8" patch of dryer-dried on non-watersoluble glue off a uniform skirt, from the glue used to make a Mother's Day present for me. I'd gladly forego the gift if it results in me not having to spend part of my Mother's Day trying to remove that glue. The chunks came off. I gave up on whatever lives between the threads.

Today I got a few fingerprints' worth of bright green fabric paint on the outside of the a navy skirt and a handprint's worth of same paint on the inside which looks like white spots on the outside. Yup, had been scraping and washing for the last hour or so. Still green (and white).

I hate school projects that involve non-watersoluble material, and cake frostings and other foods with generous amounts of food coloring.

All of you are such go-getters that I feel ashamed that all I seem to manage is a 40 hour work week and falling asleep in front of the TV.

Nay, the steps look lovely. I hope they aren't quite as slick as they look.

Julie, I can't believe the idiots at school are giving kids non-soluble craft materials. Have you tried Goop ? I used it to take latex paint out of my hair the last time I painted the bathroom. If worse comes to worse----get yourself a couple of navy markers and color the spots.

I'm feeling old this week. Last Sat. all of the mail in mailbox was about Medicare, AARP, and have I made my "final arrangements".

I'll look up Goop.

Some places on the internet suggest hairspray. Did that. Kinda melts the paint, won't come off, but melted into the threads and less colorful. Now I have shiney sort of slightly off-colored spots. Nothing really noticeable so I'm done.

They have Field Day on the day before last school day. It's a day for the teachers to finish grading and turn in final grades while the PE teachers and parent volunteers keep the kids from grievous injuries. This year each grade wears grade specific shirt colors and there's a decoration contest. Some of the class moms decided they should decorate the shirts as a class for team spirit or some such nonsense. They generously brought colored tapes, duct tapes, and puffy fabric paint, yes, the kind that air-dries on permanently. They didn't ask the parents to send any uniform protection so my kid refused to take one when I offered, thinking there will be art smocks.

When I volunteered for art stuff, I always watched them closely and made sure whatever got on them or their clothes were removed immediately. Kids never left my projects with stuff on their clothes. I assumed others do the same. Well, silly me.

I do have a life that doesn't involve my kid. Really, I do.

I don't know if I would join AARP. They want money, and I don't see any AARP discount on video games or non-medical electronics.

I can't make my final arrangements yet. I don't know how and where I want my carcass disposed of. Embalmed, not embalmed, cremated, taxidermied, or Soylent Green.

Don't know where the iron is at the moment. I thought about that too. Used it on some wax once. Got shiny clothes. Bleh.

I asked the kid, and found out they weren't even given paper towels.

Originally AARP stood for American Association of Retired Persons. In 1999 the organization became just AARP, pronounced a-a-r-p, and the letters don't stand for anything. They have info and discounts for grown ups and grown up stuff like finances, health stuff, travel stuff, retirement stuff, etc.

It doesn't look too bad. Looks like old dirt. I can live with it. Probably will wear out with subsequent washings. At least the kid isn't cutting up the hem edges with scissors for fun anymore.

Need to find the iron. I did have paper towels below fabric and between it and iron that one time. Ran out of patience. Salt? I'll keep that in mind.

I take it you mean Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. I tried to read it once and got bogged down by the Latin. Tried to read Foucoult's Pendulum also by Eco, but because I've read Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, I kept having deja vu of Brown's *cough* "version" and it was disturbing enough for me to stop reading. Totally ruined Pendulum for me. I should try again. Haven't read anything by Brown in a long time.

I quit reading Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol about midway. The chapters were short and went back and forth between 3 main characters' activities. Felt a lot like a TV show or movie (gee I wonder...) that tries to show 3 people doing different things at the same time, like
A is waking up in bed, A yawns <cut>
B drives in his taxi, comes to a red light and stops <cut>
C paces holding her cranky baby, baby cries <cut>
A gets up and walks to the bathroom, closes the door <cut>
B turns left at the light and sees a woman calling for a taxi <cut>
C paces some more, then sits in a rocking chair <cut>
A puts toothpaste on his toothbrush and brushes his teeth <cut>
B pulls up to the woman and she gets in <cut>
C rocks the rocking chair and baby cries <cut>
etc.

The style isn't bad when presented visually, but it's horrible reading for me. What I ended up doing was reading a chapter about A, then skipping to the next chapter about A, and so on until I got to a reasonable end of scene, then went back to where I left off with B, read the B chapters to some decent cut off point, then went back to C, etc. It got too irritating so I quit.

Hum----Was that the movie with Shawn Connery as a monk? Good movie. Never tried the book. My medieval reading is more in the "Brother Cadfael" style.