"They say it's your birthday..."
"... Happy birthday to meeee."
It's official: I'm older than dirt. Fifty-six today, Sunday. At least it's going to be warm again, though it sure didn't feel very warm Saturday. News said it was 80, but it wasn't no 80 degrees in my back yard. No way. I put on cropped pants and nearly froze to death. Okay, so I exaggerate. Sue me.
Tomorrow I am planning to make potato salad to have with dinner, which I expect will be BBQ'd veggie burgers. Yummm. Can you tell I am tired of frozen entrees? I also have to make a trip up to Starbuck's to get my free birthday beverage. Last year I kept putting it off and missed out. What's the point of registering your S'buck's card of you're not going to take advantage of its benefits?
I also have to make some banana bread as the bananas that I bought green ripened faster than I thought they would. So I put them in the fridge hoping they will hold until Monday. Actually I'll probably make muffin tops; I'm taking them for snacks at the yard sale we are having on July 30, and they will be easier to eat on the run, as it were. The weather is supposed to stay nice, so if other year's profits hold true, we should have a successful day. It's important that we do well, as we are down one major fund raiser this year. Last spring we voted to not sell pre-made pizzas again, just at the time when the crusts were getting to be palatable! Oh well. We will be selling coffee for $10 a pound, $2.50 of which is profit for us. I just doubt we can sell enough coffee to make much of a difference. Does anyone have an idea for a fund raiser? I'll consider them all.
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To change the subject - I have two Netflix movies here that I haven't watched in a month. hat this is telling me is that it is time to cancel my Netflix and save that $15 or whatever goes on my charge card each month. I choose not to stream because I use a Linux OS, and having to re-boot into Windows is, frankly, a pain in the ass in this world of instant gratification that we live in. (It takes all of, maybe, four minutes!). But that seems an eternity. Better to do it to download books from the library, then run them through a video decrypter program that DH put on my laptop; that way I get to keep them, as MP3s, and the library downloads return when the week or weeks are up. HA.I have moved a few over to my little Sansei MP3 player, but I haven't been sitting out on the patio much yet this Summer, ao I haven't been using it. Instead of those damned ear-buds, which fit in my left ear, but not in my right, I would have to use headphones - unless... Unless... I get a small speaker for the player. That would be a better solution, I think.
Speaking of books, I finished Anthropology of an American Girl, and am about to start Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. I ordered Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon because it's not available at the library and it's 800 pages long. It was recommended by a fellow blogger who reads prodigiously; it's about a witch trial - but not the same old Salem trials story. In this one the magistrate apparently has a conscience. We'll see.
I need to fill out my request to the NMSS for two U! batteries for my scooter. They cost $90 each at Discount Medical. Perhaps a little less online - but that would take more time, so I will suck it up and send in my app. on Monday. Then I need to check Craig's list for a trunk lift or some such to enable me to take my wheels with me. I do carry my manual w/c in the back seat, but I no longer have the balance to get it in or out by myself. Luckily, it's light enough that at sorority events, I can get someone to do that for me.
[As I write this I am watching The Shawshank Redemption. I had forgotten how much I like that film. And Morgan Freeman is the perfect narrator.]
Anyway, I need to get something to drink, and then head off to bed pretty soon. I don't want to sleep my birthday away.
It's official: I'm older than dirt. Fifty-six today, Sunday. At least it's going to be warm again, though it sure didn't feel very warm Saturday. News said it was 80, but it wasn't no 80 degrees in my back yard. No way. I put on cropped pants and nearly froze to death. Okay, so I exaggerate. Sue me.
Tomorrow I am planning to make potato salad to have with dinner, which I expect will be BBQ'd veggie burgers. Yummm. Can you tell I am tired of frozen entrees? I also have to make a trip up to Starbuck's to get my free birthday beverage. Last year I kept putting it off and missed out. What's the point of registering your S'buck's card of you're not going to take advantage of its benefits?
I also have to make some banana bread as the bananas that I bought green ripened faster than I thought they would. So I put them in the fridge hoping they will hold until Monday. Actually I'll probably make muffin tops; I'm taking them for snacks at the yard sale we are having on July 30, and they will be easier to eat on the run, as it were. The weather is supposed to stay nice, so if other year's profits hold true, we should have a successful day. It's important that we do well, as we are down one major fund raiser this year. Last spring we voted to not sell pre-made pizzas again, just at the time when the crusts were getting to be palatable! Oh well. We will be selling coffee for $10 a pound, $2.50 of which is profit for us. I just doubt we can sell enough coffee to make much of a difference. Does anyone have an idea for a fund raiser? I'll consider them all.
****
To change the subject - I have two Netflix movies here that I haven't watched in a month. hat this is telling me is that it is time to cancel my Netflix and save that $15 or whatever goes on my charge card each month. I choose not to stream because I use a Linux OS, and having to re-boot into Windows is, frankly, a pain in the ass in this world of instant gratification that we live in. (It takes all of, maybe, four minutes!). But that seems an eternity. Better to do it to download books from the library, then run them through a video decrypter program that DH put on my laptop; that way I get to keep them, as MP3s, and the library downloads return when the week or weeks are up. HA.I have moved a few over to my little Sansei MP3 player, but I haven't been sitting out on the patio much yet this Summer, ao I haven't been using it. Instead of those damned ear-buds, which fit in my left ear, but not in my right, I would have to use headphones - unless... Unless... I get a small speaker for the player. That would be a better solution, I think.
Speaking of books, I finished Anthropology of an American Girl, and am about to start Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. I ordered Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon because it's not available at the library and it's 800 pages long. It was recommended by a fellow blogger who reads prodigiously; it's about a witch trial - but not the same old Salem trials story. In this one the magistrate apparently has a conscience. We'll see.
I need to fill out my request to the NMSS for two U! batteries for my scooter. They cost $90 each at Discount Medical. Perhaps a little less online - but that would take more time, so I will suck it up and send in my app. on Monday. Then I need to check Craig's list for a trunk lift or some such to enable me to take my wheels with me. I do carry my manual w/c in the back seat, but I no longer have the balance to get it in or out by myself. Luckily, it's light enough that at sorority events, I can get someone to do that for me.
[As I write this I am watching The Shawshank Redemption. I had forgotten how much I like that film. And Morgan Freeman is the perfect narrator.]
Anyway, I need to get something to drink, and then head off to bed pretty soon. I don't want to sleep my birthday away.
Good Night, TTYL, and Be Well,
PS. Now if that wasn't an exercise in discursive writing, I don't know what is!! Sheez!
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