Laurel and I went by the complex office today to pick up my Pentel order (a half-dozen of my preferred style of retractable-tip pencils found at $2.50 each!). Before finding that in the package room, one of the nice staff found we also had a parcel from Amazon.com ( Read more... )

Random interesting things that have happened in the past few days ( Read more... )

A few days ago, the mail included a big envelope from the Texas Education Agency (TEA). I guessed that it might be Laurel's 2006-2007 Reflections entry, which had been displayed in the state exhibit ( Read more... )

I haven't been reading LJ lately because I've been pretty busy in between being sick. Hopefully today's warmth and sun burned out that lingering cough so I'm not feeling like the weather when the next cold front comes through ( Read more... )

Earlier this month, eilonwy made me a penguin. I retrieved its parcel from the mail today and thought all afternoon about its name.

I pondered and shook my head to make my brain cells rub together faster and sniffed glue ate dinner before I saw multiple exclamation points and it came to me: POKEY!

We get a seemingly endless variety of mail addressed to names that are not ours. Usually they're 'close', like a random first name with either my or Vogon's last name, or are simply mis-sent to someone who has the same street and apartment number as ours on a different street ( Read more... )

The UPS guy just dropped off a package from Amazon.com. After reasurring Vogon that I did not know what it was, I told him to open it in case it was a surprise.

He made excited noises and told me some of it was for Laurel and the rest was for me.

Laurel is reading Sideways Stories from Wayside School RIGHT THIS MINUTE, despite my reminders that ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

We had to resort to putting the TENS unit on my shoulder yesterday to get that knot out that made itself a nuisance over the weekend, but I was feeling *much* better in time to take minutes at my monthly pack committee meeting.

Miscellaneous good things that have happened since then:

• We tried out Firehouse Subs, our new local sub shop since the ( Read more... )

Our regular UPS guy delivered my new tent and sleeping bags today, so Laurel and I are squared away for our first overnight campout next month. The enclosed camp chairs bring our household total to four, meaning we finally have one for each of us and an extra to share. Hooray!

Thanks for the heads-up on the product we chose, discordian.