I'm bad at using gift cards. I've dig through my wallet several times in the past year and piled all my gift cards up and went to each website, one by one, to find the value of each card. The I try to use the cards... food-specific cards are the easiest to use. Store cards (especially Target, for some reason) stay in my wallet for years. And those ( Read more... )

Weekend getaway to Wisconsin was great! We saw a good play, stayed at a nice hotel, ate some good food and played bingo... and I won $300! I'm glad we've made it a summer tradition to go to APT. We took the backstage tour on this visit and it was quite interesting. The costume storage is HUGE and the new indoor theater is awesome. Pictures: hereAnd ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I went to the lab and gave them a bunch of my blood so they can tell me all about my cholesterol levels and liver and kidneys and something called an A1C, which will tell me how my glucose levels have been for the last 3 months or so. I should have the results of all these tests at my doctor's appointment on Thursday. Being diabetic has ( Read more... )

Camp is going well. I'm taking lots of pictures, again, but we haven't made any decisions about where to put them, yet. If any go online publicly, I'll be sure to post a link. I bought a timbuk2 backpack to help alleviate some near-constant back pain. It's a great bag and quite comfortable. I still love my big messenger bag, but I'll save it for ( Read more... )

'Tween season is ending. Camp orientation/training started today. Got a a good relaxing week in Wisconsin complete with Bingo, lots of Uno, a round of Mini adventure golf, a few boat rides, lots of good eating and a fair amount of laying around doing nothing. There are pictures. There will be yelp reviews, soon ( Read more... )

We were invited down to the southern end of Illinois for Memorial Day weekend by our friend Deborah. Her grandparents live down there on a lake that's heated by a coal power plant (though supposedly, the lake is there to cool the plant). It was a fun trip, full of large meals and the expected lake activities: boat rides, swimming, watercrafts. They ( Read more... )

Sundays at the front desk are really boring. Common activities include: Reading a week's worth of Boing Boing and BBGadgets. Checking the balances on all the gift cards in my wallet. Trying to update my wishlists. Posting a twitter message, if I remember. Browsing old friends' social networking profiles to see if anything awesome is going on... ( Read more... )

• made it through a Friday the 13th without once thinking about it.
• watched my first blu-ray movie.
• used soap that sounds too much like food.
• replaced the battery in my car. Three years isn't too bad for a battery, right?
• prepped the new staff and ourselves for the next season of work.

My car's thermometer read -5 this morning. I'm pretty sure that's the lowest I've ever seen it display. I dunno if it was really that cold, but it was impressive. Winter's starting off strong. I'm kinda glad I don't need to go out to work, every morning, during this season. I think most of my shopping is done. I went kinda big for the family, so I' ( Read more... )

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