*My husband stayed home today because last night. when he uh. tried to leap over a snow bank, and flipped over (it was almost funny-the kids were looking outside the window and said "hey Mom, there's some kind of animal out there," and it was my poor husband crawling out of the bank covered in snow) he lost the car keys. So he could not look for them (or leave the house) until the sun came up, and by then he was late, so he took a personal day. At first I was starting to think we were suffering from some type of denomic bad luck, but after he found the keys, I started to think my Guardian Angel took them so we could have a much needed day off.
*We decided to take the kids to see Cheaper By The Dozen. No the driveway was not open, but we had a pathway plowed. and it was a balmy 27 degrees today, so getting down the driveway was no sweat. It was actually fun because my husband insisted on pulling Fastolph, Gorbulas and myself in the tobagan and the older two played in the snow the whole way.
*We went to the Apple store which is like Scary Geek Central and bought a new keyboard because Rosey Posey spilled tea on the keyboard last night. Every email I attempted to draft this morning was sans the 'm' key so all my letters read as if I had a stuffed nose. Man is that store a rip off. I also need a new adaptor plug which was $79 bucks, that will have to wait. My husband managed to tape this one up to keep it working, but if I suddenly drop off line again, it is because I still refused to spend that $79 bucks. Then the Sales guy asked why we did not have the warranty and my husband was like "because it is a lot of money." The Geeky guy was like "it's only like $30 a year." Only? Does he make enough selling computers to raise four kids and spend $350 on a warranty?It is amazing how the older I get, the cheaper I get.
*We went to the second of two places labled "The Amish Store" in the area. The first is a bulk goods shop, this was more of a general store, which did not have much. The owner however is my next door neighbors mother and it was nice to chat with her a bit. I mentioned I was upset because I have yet to meet her daughter because of the snow between us, and she told me her daughter has expressed the same sentiment.
*I have been renting Sho-Gun from Netflix.com. I remember loving it as a child, but truthfully all I really remember is how lovely Lady Mariko was and how I wanted to be like her. Now that I am watching it again I am struck by how 1.it's like all late 70's early 80's. I mean like everything else in that time period, it's all narrated by like Orson Welles and stuff. 2.It's all anti-Catholic (or it is so far). Lots of stuff about Catholics occupying Japan for money and stuff, and lots of Jesuits calling the hero, the Protestant Anjin-San a heretic who will burn in hell. How annoying.
Sorry to hear about your 'm' key. You really do need one of those. (I, myself, have almost totally forgotten how to use the right shift after last summer's spill on the iMac keyboard knocked it out of commission. But an 'm?' You gotta have an 'm'.... :) )
If the geeky guy is fortunate, he'll marry a geeky girl and raise up some nice geeky kids that are good at improvising stuff and working with duct tape and other at-hand items. And he'll get a realistic grip on finances. (Does this sound like I'm drawing on personal experience? Hmmm.) Have never been to the Apple store, though my son does have a lovely shirt that my daughter got there. Nice. And it bleaches well.
One more thing....hope your dh dried off the keys before he stuck them in the ignition. I had a bit of a problem the other night after a similar problem. (Though my dh wasn't attempting anything as ambitious as yours when he dropped the keys in the snow.)
Ahhh, how refreshing to hear of Jesuits preaching the truth about the consequences of heresy! Even in fiction it must have been nice to hear.
I first read it when I was a dippy agnostic of 19. I loved Mariko, too--loved her defiant adultery with Anjin-san and hated her husband Buntaro.
Poor Buntaro--if Mariko had been nicer and godlier, she could have had a much more pleasant life with him!
But one wonderful line: when Mariko and Anjin-san communicate, they speak Latin, and nobody around them understands. Once in danger, he said, "Thou art beautiful and thou art brave."
I loved that!
But when I reread it a few years ago, I was awfully disappointed in Mariko as a Christian role model!
But Kiri-San--she's still the action! ;-)
Have never been to the Apple store, though my son does have a lovely shirt that my daughter got there. Nice. And it bleaches well.
The one at crossgates Mall is scary. All the employees look like some David Cross offspring and get very excited whenever you talk Apples, which I know is there job, but I suppose, they must get a nice commission or something.
Sales Guy in 1/'03: What kind of computer do you have?
Us:Uh, a Powerbook G-4...
Sales guy:Dude, sweet!
Sales Guy 1'04: What kind of computer do you ave?
Us: Uh, a Powerbook G-4
Sales guy: contorts face slightly How long have you had that?
During that first trip, one of the guys was putting on this presentation about their I-Photos. He was so animated, he was jumping up and down with his microphone talking about graphics and the only ones sitting there were my Fastolph and Posco. This guy was like breaking a sweat.
Anyway, maybe my Apple store is scarier than most, but when you walk in you feel you have stepped out of your own dimension and entered Dimension Apple or something.
and your thoughts on Cheaper by the Dozen?
Oh, I thought it was fun. No major plot, and had my husband not forewarned me that it had nothing to do with the play, I would have been dissappointed. But I think Steve Martin is a very funny man (watch Bringing Down Da House) and I enjoy that added to large family humour. It was the only time I had my brood out where I didn't feel like I was getting strange stares.