Exceedingly Mundane

I swear it did, I didn’t even see it in my cart, and then it was time to check out. And there was a line. And I couldn’t just give up my space in line to go put it back. Wherever it came from. I’m not even sure what part of Sam’s would even have something like this. I swear.

P.S. Plus, it’s such a practical thing, it can’t be called a splurge or even a happy. A happy is a Sonic shake, Godiva or Ghiradelli chocolates, a DVD, a CD, Bath & Body Works stuff, things like that. Certainly not household storage items.

OK, here’s some thought-provoking, utterly profound (yes, dripping with sarcasm here!), questions for the day. Enjoy!

What is the name of your imaginary friend? I don’t remember having an imaginary friend as a child. In fact, as previously stated, I remember absolutely nothing about my children, except a stray memory here and there. Completely pathetic.

Without peeking, what is under your bed? Two rubbermaid under-the-bed containers and possibly one of Tim’s guns. Would have to look to be sure.

When is the last time you were on stage? Hmmm, how about when I graduated from college and strolled up there to receive my diploma!

What is your favourite shade of red? Burgundy

How many tea parties do you attend a month? None. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a tea party. I did, however, have a cup of herbal tea last night while watching Amazing Race, does that count? 🙂

Well, Tim is home sick today. That happens even less frequently than a blue moon. I can remember maybe one other time in the last 8 years or so that Tim has stayed home from work sick. Poor baby. He says he feels better now (3:30 PM) than he did this morning, so that’s a good sign. I hope he doesn’t have or get this crud that is going around. Gail and Don have had it, and Tim says just about everybody at work has had it. I don’t want it. Please, go away and do not visit our home.

Been busy today. Went and got my hair cut, then ran some errands. I went to Michaels with my obligatory coupon but couldn’t find a single thing that I wanted to spend money on. Gee, I sure wish we would get another craft chain store (oh, Hobby Lobby, oh Joann’s, oh AC Moore, where are you??). It would be so great if one would open up somewhere, like maybe out Lakeland Drive, where everything else is opening up. I saw in the paper yesterday that the new Kohl’s had opened early. Gotta go check that store and the new Lowe’s, which also opened yesterday, out this weekend. Maybe Friday night, if not then, then either Saturday or Sunday.

I digress. I do that a lot!

I also made a big run to Sam’s. Spent tons of money. Got large copious amounts of just a few things. Renewed our membership for another year. 35 bucks, cha-ching. Stopped and picked up Sonic for Tim on the way home for lunch. I was trying so hard to be good. I wanted a burger or chicken sandwich. With Fries. Or Tots. Or Onion Rings. And a cherry limeade. I was good and got a salad. That’s it. Argh, it was just OKAY.

Need to run more errands, but decided to save them for another day. So, I’m catching up on the trivia on hambones, emails, blog surfing, point earning, and various household chores (laundry, dishwasher, cleaning up), etc, for the remainder of the afternoon. We will have a nice dinner and then settle in to watch Lost and Alias. I can’t wait! We’ll have to tape the Idol results show. It always comes in second to Lost.

Well, I haven’t blogged much personal the last day or two because nothing has really been going on. Just staying home, doing the wifely thing and all. But, now I have something mildly irritating to report.

I think I smell a rat.

Or more precisely, Tim discovered a rat tonight. ARGH. We’ve been through this before, for those of you who don’t know. A year or two ago, we had a huge one (maybe more) that was apparently living in our attic. One of them died and we suddenly smelled a stench in a certain part of the house, where he was dead right above in the attic. Anyway, Tim was convinced they were getting into the attic via the chimeny, and its rotting masonite-type facing. I *thought* we had fixed that problem last year when we had vinyl siding put on the house. Tim assured me then that we shouldn’t have rats in the attic any more. And that’s not where he found one, so he was probably right on target with that. He found one, where believe it or not, he has found one before, before the attic incident. Living in our gas grill.

ICK!

They apparently like to nest in our grill in the winter, we had this problem a couple of years ago. The things were trying to build a nest in the base, under the burner, and Tim found it, put out a bunch of rat poison and we haven’t had that problem since. Until tonight. Tim went to grill out some chicken for us, and found a nest in the grill again. Actually, he said he saw the rat, said he was big and fat. HMMPH. I bet, feasting off no telling what around here. He had built a nest out of the expensive landscape fabric we used when we built the deck. We bought a roll of that stuff to cover the edges of the patio, where grass was growing, and where we were building the deck on top of, because we knew that since grass had been there for years, it would probably continue to grow and come up through the deck. So we put a bunch of black landscape fabric out. Tim found a huge wad of it, ripped to shreds, in the bottom of the grill. A nice warm nest. What’s worse, is that last summer I got him a really nice, heavy duty, thick grill cover for his grill. The darn rat chewed several holes in the grill cover to get in and out of the grill to his nest. ARGH. I do hate critters. If its not snakes I’m worried about, then there are frogs jumping around, big black birds in my bird feeders, black cats crawling all over my deck, fence and yard, and now rats all over the place. Heaven help me, why are there so many critters in suburbia? Please, make them go away!

OK, here’s the question of the day:

Do you sing in your car (or house or wherever) when you’re alone?

Remember to post your answer in a comment, if you want to play along 😀

At this very moment…

1. Are you craving anything and if so, what? Not at the moment. However, if I crave anything, it’s chocolate.

2. What is the weather outside, and do you wish it would change? Sunny, chilly. Looks a bit windy. Haven’t been out.

3. What two websites do you think you will go to next after you are finished here? Blog-surfing and a scrapbooking site, more than likely.

4. Do you wish you were somewhere else and if so, where? With Tim.

5. Do you wish you were someone else, and if so, who? Somebody’s mother. 🙁

I got this email from my buddy Leslie and thought about forwarding it on out to several people, but decided to post it here instead. 🙂

Subject: Psalm 55:22

This was written by a Hospice of Metro Denver physician …..

I just had one of the most amazing experiences of my life, and wanted to share it with my family and dearest friends: I was driving home from a meeting this evening about 5, stuck in traffic on Colorado Blvd., and the car started to choke and splutter and die – I barely managed to coast, cursing, into a gas station, glad only that I would not be blocking traffic and would have a somewhat warm spot to wait for the tow
truck. It wouldn’t even turn over.

Before I could make the call, I saw a woman walking out of the “quickie mart” building, and it looked like she slipped on some ice and fell into a gas pump, so I got out to see if she was okay. When I got there, it looked more like she had been overcome by sobs than that she had fallen; she was a young woman who looked really haggard with dark circles under her eyes. She dropped something as I helped her up, and I picked it up to give it to her. It was a nickel.

At that moment, everything came into focus for me: the crying woman, the ancient Suburban crammed full of stuff with 3 kids in the back (1 in a car seat), and the gas pump reading $4.95. I asked her if she was okay and if she needed help, and she just kept saying “I don’t want my kids to see me crying,” so we stood on the other side of the pump from her car. She said she was driving to California and that things were very hard for her right now. So I asked, “And you were praying?” That made her back away from me a little, but I assured her I was not a crazy person and said, “He heard you, and He sent me.”

I took out my card and swiped it through the card reader on the pump so she could fill up her car completely, and while it was fueling walked to the next door McDonald’s and bought 2 big bags of food, some gift certificates for more, and a big cup of coffee. She gave the food to the kids in the car, who attacked it like wolves, and we stood by the pump eating fries and talking a little. She told me her name, and that she lived in
Kansas City. Her boyfriend left 2 months ago and she had not been able to make ends meet. She knew she wouldn’t have money to pay rent Jan 1, and finally in desperation had finally called her parents, with whom she hadnot spoken in about 5 years. They lived in California and said she could come live with them and try to get on her feet there. So she packed up everything she owned in the car. She told the kids they were going to California for Christmas, but not that they were going to live there.

I gave her my gloves, a little hug and said a quick prayer with her for safety on the road. As I was walking over to my car, she said, “So, are you like an angel or something?” This definitely made me cry. I said, “Sweetie, at this time of year angels are really busy, so sometimes God uses regular people.” It was so incredible to be a part of someone else’s miracle. And of course, you guessed it, when I got in my car it started right away and got me home with no problem. I’ll put it in the shop tomorrow to check, but I suspect the mechanic won’t find anything wrong. Sometimes the angels fly close enough to you that you can hear the flutter of their wings…

Psalms 55:22 “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.”

Saw this on another blog, pretty good one, so I stole it!

Name the….

1. Total amount of music files on your computer: Well, I have no idea. I have about 5 or 6 CD’s ripped to the drive, plus a few misc mp3 files I have downloaded from various places on the web.

2. The last CD you bought was: Gosh, that I bought, I have no idea. I haven’t bought music in a while. I’ve been buying a lot more DVD’s lately than CD’s.

3. What is the song you last listened to before reading this message? “Please Remember Me” by Tim McGraw

4. Write down 5 songs you often listen to or that mean a lot to you:

These are so hard for me to be decisive and pick. Let’s see…
1. Unanswered Prayers by Garth Brooks
2. Beautiful Tonight by Eric Clapton
3. American Soldier by Toby Keith
4. Faithfully by Journey
5. Any song from the album “Hysteria” by Def Leppard